When Leo woke up he expected to still be in the dark alley with a bloody head and badly injured but instead he was in a huge room. It was very girly but peaceful , the wall paint was a light pink, the carpet of the floor was white and flowers were everywhere. he noticed their was an empty bed with stuffed animals next to him. He was 99.9% sure he was in a little girls room. He sat up and felt a huge pain in his head, he groaned and placed a hand on his bloody head, the blood had dried up and Leo was just glad that he wasn't the male version of bloody mary. He stood up and saw there was a door as he headed for it he heard mumbles. Leo scanned the room and saw a glass of water he quickly drank it and placed the cup on the door and leaned into it so his ear was resting on the bottom of the cup.
"Hephaestus, you didn't have to do this" a young voice spoke. Leo stiffined at the name of his absent father.
"Nonsense Calypso, he disobeyed me! i told him what would happen but he still didn't listen to me and saw that pedophile of a teacher!" Leo now knew that Calypso and Hephaestus was talking about Leo.
"Nico isn't that bad" Calypso said in a timid voice.
"Nico? the pedophile's name is Nico?"
"Yes, Hephaestus" she answered quietly
"As in Di Angelo?"
"Yes do you know him?"
Hephaestus sighed and heard him sit down on a chair "His father, Hades, and I were enemies. Before I met Esperanza I dated a lovely woman named Maria" he said it dreamily, remembering the memories then his tone darkened "He stole her in a blink of an eye and the next thing I knew Maria called me announcing she's pregnant with Hades child"
Leo flinched and the information. 'Basically my dad was in love with my boyfriends mom' He thought 'thats not weird at all'
"One thing led to another and i made the biggest mistake in my life" Hephaestus said with a sigh
"You killed Maria?"
"No"
"Hades?"
"Calypso let me finish" Hephaestus said and sighed "It was 8 years ago…"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FlashBack~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hephaestus P.O.V
I had just finished a project, It's a time machine, of course I hadn't tried it out yet but i'm going to very soon. I need to go back in time and stop Maria from ever meeting Hades, That way i get the happy ending I never got with Maria. But first, I need to devise a plan on how i'm going to get Maria and Hades to never meet.
I entered my house, Leo was in soccer practice and Esperanza was with him. The peaceful quietness is a great way to start the plan.
Percy's P.O.V
"Bianca!" I called out as I 'manly' skipped through the sidewalk. Bianca and I were going to the park, of course we had to go through a street and it isn't such a bright idea to go here based on what Mr.I'm-so-perfect-that-i-look-like-a-blonde-superman and Mr. You're-My-Best-friend-but-I-don't-trust-you.
Bianca raced to me "No fair! you cheated!" We were racing and I had threw a rock at her feet causing her to trip. She still had a scar on her cheek, but she didn't look to seriously injured.
I shrugged "You still love me!" I said in a sing-song voice.
She pouted and mumbled "Actually Nico does"
"What was that"
her head shot up and she blushed "what?"
"Did you just say that Nico loves me?"
She blushed darker and pinned me to a house "Tell anyone or hurt his feelings i'll break your face"
I nodded, no words coming out. that was a shocker, i've noticed Nico's interest in boys but i thought he would've liked Jason. But having a boy like you.. At that moment i felt like the king of the world.
She released me and i sighed in relief. "C'mon Seaweed brain let's go to the park."
I nodded and we walked until I noticed a cool machine. i pulled Bianca's sleeve "Look Bianca!" I pointed to the machine
she looked at it with amazed eyes "What do you think it is?" she asked
"A time machine!" I said and ran towards it, Bianca chased me laughing "Let's try it!" she declared.
I grinned i was about to climb to the drivers seat until she pushed me off I glared at her and she stuck her tongue "Ladies first!" she declared
I laughed as she strapped the seat belt around her waist. "How do you turn it on?" she asked.
I scanned the time machine that and looked behind the seat and saw a blue bottom that said 'Detonate' "Hey Bianca?"
"Yea, seaweed brain?"
"What does De-to-nate mean?" I asked.
"I don't know" she answered.
"Well it's blue so it has to mean good right?" i asked
"Wait Per-" before she could speak I pressed the button, the whole thing exploded. I was pushed back about three feet away. I groaned as I felt the fresh cuts and bruises on my arms,legs, and face. I lifted my chin up and saw the time machine wasn't their. Neither was Bianca.
Hephaestus P.O.V
As I was plotting and writing notes I heard something loud and smell smoke. It sounded like something exploded….the time machine! I raced to my front yard hoping I was wrong but sadly I was right. The grass on my lawn burned off and where my time machine used to be was replaced with fire. A young boy, with cuts and bruises sat there crying.
I walked to him and put a hand on his shoulder "Hey, young boy, what happened"
He looked at me with his sea green eyes and started crying more and then he stumbled on talking "M-M-My F-Friend and i-i was w-walking and we saw your machine and We wanted to try it then we looked for how to turn it on a b-button said 'Detonate' W-we didn't know what it meant b-but it w-was b-b-b-blue and i thought i-it was good then all of a sudden, it e-e-e-exploded!" He sobbed again and then starting rocking himself and started chanting "I failed Nico"
When he was done chanting he stood up and ran away, i followed him just to make sure he was okay. I stopped chasing him when he stopped running, he stopped face to face with a boy about his age, with black hair and dark brown eyes.
"Percy!" The boy chirped "You're back!" He looked around ( I had to hide behind a tree for they wouldn't see me) then his smile dropped "Where's Bianca?" he asked with hopeful eyes.
the boy, Percy, looked at his shoes and told him the story. when he finished the boy looked at him, his eyes filled with hatred and anger "But..you promised you'd keep her safe" He mumbled
" I know Nico i'm -"
He spoke again louder "You promised!" He raised his fist to Percy's face and punched him. Percy fell unconscious to the ground
I came out of my hiding spot and tried talking to the boy saying it wasn't Percy's fault but he looked up at me with Dangerous, Hateful eyes, like he was capable of killing anyone. I took me a while to realize he cared alot about this girl. She couldnt be his crush or anything by the way he looked at Percy, maybe it's a relative like a sister or cousin... sister
This boy actully lookes like Maria and Hades. He has
Maria's olive skin tone and Hades dark eyes, This child was Maria's and Hades'. And if he was the child of Maria Hades he had to be the second, Maria told me she was pregnant with a girl and then a boy. The girl that died was Nico's sister.
Oh no.
Maria's daughter died, all because of my obsession to win back Maria's heart and try to make her never meet Hades'.
I killed an innocent child.
I killed Maria's child.
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Everything was silent until Hephaestus spoke up "That's the MAIN reason why I don't want my son with that demon"
"I'll go check up on Leo." Calypso said.
"Very well then, Calypso. I shall go back to my shop and return first thing in the morning. Tell Leo i'm sorry" He said and walked away
Leo putted the glass cup down on the table and waited until Calypso walked in the room.
"Leo.. you're aw-" Before she could speak Leo grabbed both her arms "Calypso you've got to help me escape and go back to Nico"
All Calypso did was nod.
