p style="text-align: center;"span style="text-decoration: underline;"strongChapter 9 : I will never le you down/strong/span/p
p style="text-align: center;"span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Leo's P.O.V/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"After Percy seriously injured Ryan, I nudged Calypso and whispered, "Hey, can I do something rash to Ryan?" Calypso smirked, which made her look really beautiful with those almond shaped eyes and the twinkle in her eyes./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Be my guest," she punched me, hard on the shoulder which was her sign of good luck for me. I got up and walked towards Ryan./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"He was groaning in pain, massaging his jaw and whining like a 5 year old kid. Everyone turned their heads towards me as I shouted, "Hey Ryan! How's it like being kicked and punched by Aqua Boy?"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"At this, Percy shouted out, "VALDEZ!" But I ignored him./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I lit my hand on fire and cocked my eyebrow up while grinning. Those who were sitting near Ryan immediately backed away./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I placed my hand near Ryan's face waiting for the reaction./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"The reaction?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Ryan shrieking like a little girl as the amazing Supreme Commander of Argo ll lit his hand on fire./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Everyone laughed at Ryan's reaction as his dad, Ares, came up to Ryan and boomed, " I, Ares the amazing warrior in this universe,"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Cue the snorts and rolling of eyes./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Hereby disown Ryan Penelope as my son!" Once everyone heard Ryan's surname, we all doubled over in laughter while clutching our stomachs./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Wiping away my tears I chuckled out, "Ryan Penelope? Penelope? Penelope! Oh gods, no wonder you never said your surname to anyone," but he couldn't hear anything since Ares disowned him and he was no longer a demigod./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"His body disappeared in a mist and this white mist thingy carried all the way out of the throne room, going through the streets of Olympus./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Immediately, everyone cheered and Ryan's ex siblings instantly clashed their weapons together and yelled insults about Ryan./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Finally, everyone settled down and Apollo was grumbling something like, 'No one every keeps quiet...' "Before I was so rudely interrupted," at this Apollo shot Ares and me a glare, which I just shrugged at./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Our next contestant or should I say contestants... Are Leo Valdez and Calypso!" Apollo gave me an evil grin which I happily returned./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Calypso got out of her seat and walked towards me, her ponytail swaying and her lips in a pouting shape. "Shall we, milady?" I bowed down and offered my hand./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"She slapped my head as I yowled in pain. "I'm not a princess Flame Boy." She rolled her eyes./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I cheesily replied, "You are a princess to me..." At this she blushed before regaining her posture and once again, whacked me on the chest./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"By the time I was rubbing my chest, Calypso was already up on the stage, hands on her hips and boys drooling over her./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"As I walked towards the stage, I lit my hand on fire every time somebody looked at Calypso. Once I got onto the stage, Calypso smirked, "Are you jealous?" I pouted and she giggled at my face./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Her laughter was music to my ears. I held her hand and we stood in the middle of the stage, light shining in our eyes./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""What would you both like to do?" Apollo flashed us a grin. I quickly answered, "Singing and Dancing!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"At this Calypso frowned and I was worried./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Did I pick the wrong choice? Maybe Calypso didn't like performing in front of a crowd?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"She spoke into the microphone, "We would like to sing, I Will Never Let You Down by Rita Ora ." Apollo whistled before starting the beat of the music./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"As the music started, I instantly started dancing, doing the occasional back flips, cartwheels, somersaults and handstands./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"As the lyrics came, I took the extra microphone and sang along with Calypso's sweet, beautiful and gentle voice. "When you say you'd had enough, and you might just give it up. Oh oh oh, I will never let you down!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I held Calypso's soft hand and gazed lovingly into her eyes. This song fitted us perfectly. When she thought she lost me, I came back to her and kept my promise cause I would and will never let her down./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"-FLASHBACK-/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Calypso's P.O.V/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family:
'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I watched as the makeshift boat sailed away from the island, so far till it was a tiny dot in the horizon./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Once I saw the boat disappear from my sight, I collapsed onto the white sand, crumpling my white dress. I yelled out a cry of anguish, frustration and sadness before burying me head into my knees and started crying./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Tear after tear fell from my cheeks as I thought about every single male that stepped foot onto this island. They were all so kind to me and I fell in love with every single one of them but out of all of them, I think I loved Leo the most./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Leo Valdez./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Thinking about him sent a sharp pain through my heart. He was unlike any other hero who landed on this island. He may not have been as handsome or as buff as the others but he stole my heart./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"He was the sweetest, funniest and kindest hero I had ever met. He cared for me, not only for my beauty but for my other qualities. He saw the true me./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Wiping my tears, I got up and went back into my house. Turning my head one last time to look at the ocean, I whispered, "I love you Valdez."/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"-Few days later-/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"The moon's rays shone on the shore of my island and through my window. It was night time and the whistling of leaves could be heard./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I climbed into my bed and thought of Leo, praying he was alright. Soon, I fell into a deep sleep and had a dream./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I was on the shore of my island. Everything was the same, except I saw myself ordering my servants to pack all my things into many luggage bags./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Wait a minute, myself?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I looked down and saw that I was invisible, a mere ghost-like Calypso version. Curiosity got the better of me as I inched closer to dream Calypso./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Dream Calypso was excited. There was a sparkle in her almond shaped eyes, she was tapping her fingers against her thighs and was wearing a flowing white dress with a golden belt./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"What had me so excited? As I neared Dream Calypso, she suddenly turned around and stared deeply into my eyes, as if she could see me./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Suddenly, Dream Calypso's eyes turned a shade of dark murky green and a different voice came out of Dream Calypso's mouth./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Hello Daughter of Atlas," a strange voice came out of Dream Calypso's mouth./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Mustering up my courage, I asked, "Who are you and why are you in my dream?"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"A soft tired laughter could be heard as the voice said, "I am Lady Styx and as for why I am in your dream, it is because Leo Valdez has sworn on my name."/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I immediately bowed at Lady Styx's feet, at which she told me to rise. I was puzzled, what could've Leo done to get Lady Styx in my dream?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"She seemed to have read my mind. Sighing, she answered, "Leo Valdez had sworn on my name, swearing that he would find a way to get back to your island and get you off of here."/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""But that's impossible!" I blurted out before clamping my mouth shut with me hands, worried for my life as I disrespected Lady Styx./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Leo Valdez has defeated the impossible tasks, has he not? But I am not here to discuss about Leo Valdez's achievements." She eyed me while placing her hand on my invisible shoulder./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""I'm here to talk about you getting ready."/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""What do you mean Lady Styx?"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"She studied my eyes and massaged her head. "Leo Valdez will be coming back to your island in two hours after you wake up. You better get ready Daughter of Atlas. I bid you farewell. Morpheus doesn't like primordials or gods contacting mere mortals for too long in a dream. Good luck."/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Before I could ask her any questions, she gave me a wink before light started shining in my eyes and I woke up. I sat on the edge of my bed, thinking if I should trust Lady Styx's words or not./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I decided to trust her, besides what's the worst that could happen?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I quickly got up and began ordering my invisible servants around, telling them to pack all my things./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"What if Lady Styx's words were true? Was Leo really coming back?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"These thoughts kept running wild in my head as I bustled about my 'house', taking everything I needed./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I told my servants to place my luggage on the shore of the beach as I changed out of my clothes, to a white dress that was torn at the bottom and at the sleeves. I tied my hair into a side braid and as I stepped onto the shore, with all my bags ready, I peered into the light blue sky./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"White clouds dotted the clear blue sky and the water from the ocean crashed onto the shore. Breathing in some fresh air, I looked up and saw a dot in the sky./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Wait, what?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I squinted my eyes and finally saw what was in the sky. It was a golden dragon and riding the dragon was a guy./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"A guy with a soot covered face, messy curly hair and an unforgettable grin plastered on his face./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Leo Valdez was actually here./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"As he crashed right at my feet, he spat out some sand and gave me a mischievous grin with a twinkle in his eyes./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I missed that grin so much./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"-FLASHBACK END-/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"-FLASHBACK-/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Leo's P.O.V/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Let's get this straight. I was having a really great New Year's Eve Day before the monsters came./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I know I'm hot, to everyone and everything, even monsters but they just HAD to interrupt a kiss between Calypso and me, hadn't they?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I lit my hand on fire and threw fireball after fireball at the monsters. I turned around, to make sure Calypso was okay, only to find herself fending herself quite well with a celestial bronze spear quite well./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Wait, a celestial bronze spear?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I shook my head, telling myself to focus on the enemy at hand but I heard a piercing scream through the air./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Calypso!" I shouted as I quickly killed the monsters in my way, only to find a Cyclops holding Calypso by the throat./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color:
#545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Let. Her. Go." I growled as I got a celestial bronze hammer out of my tool belt./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"A Cyclops? No problem, just gotta remember not to use fire./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Suddenly, a whole group of monsters, about 15 to 20 appeared from behind the trees. "What in Hades?" I couldn't believe it, I thought I would die a heroic death, like saving a doughnut from being crushed on by a car, not being killed by monsters./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Leo Valdez, aren't you the one who killed Gaia?" The Cyclops snarled and gripped Calypso's neck harder till it turned pale white./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Let go of her!" I roared as two monsters held me back from charging towards him. I met Calypso's eyes. She had only seen the world for 2 months and now she was going to die because of me./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Like how my mum died./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Blinking back tears, I suddenly had an idea. "Take my life in exchange for hers..." I whispered./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"The Cyclops frowned and told me to speak up./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""You can torture me, kill me, put me in a cage, anything you want to do to me as long as you release her!" I screamed out./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"The Cyclops chuckled, turning his head towards me, he studied my eyes. "What makes you think we will take that offer? We have BOTH of you in our hands!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"He laughed as the monsters behind him roared their approval. "My friends are coming," I immediately replied. "You know, the rest of the seven plus their dragon, the mighty Fetsus!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Instantly, all the monsters paled and started murmuring uncertainly amongst themselves./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""SILENCE!" The Cyclops roared but had a hint of uncertainty in his voice./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""What makes you think this demigod is telling the truth! They lie ALL THE TIME!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Murmurs of agreement were heard as the monsters started chanting, "DEMIGODS LIE! DEMIGODS LIE! DEMIGODS LIE!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Calypso looked at me, confused and pale. I winked at her but deep inside, I hoped my plan will work. I broke out of the monsters grasp and immediately started slamming my hammer against the ground, creating a Morse code message./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"The monsters laughed at me, thinking what was I doing until their laughter faltered as they heard a loud roar in the sky./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Captain, what wasssss that?" A dracnae (Is that how you spell it?) asked as she furrowed her eyebrows./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Fetsus came into view, bronze wings flapping and breathing out fire from his mouth. "BOOYEAH!" I shouted as I threw the hammer against the Cyclops hand, allowing Calypso to be free./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Once she was free, we stood back to back. Wielding her spear, she blew a strand of hair away from her face. Our eyes met and we started attacking all the monsters. New found power surged through me, with a bronze dragon and a fierce beautiful girlfriend, how could we not win?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"-FLASHABCK END-/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Leo's P.O.V/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"As the song ended, I saw Calypso's flashback and couldn't help but kiss her deeply on the lips./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"When we broke apart from our kiss, I noticed Calypso sniffling and tears dripping down her face. "Thank you for never letting me down Flame Boy," Calypso muttered as she buried her head in my shoulder while I drew circles on her back, telling her how much she meant to me./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"After our little 'couple' time, we turned round to face the audience who were actually cheering for us the whole time when we were in our own world./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Apollo flashed us back to our seats and settled the audience down, wanting to announce the next couple contestants./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""May I now present..." Apollo announced as he spread his arms out./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br /p
p style="text-align: center;"span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Leo's P.O.V/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"After Percy seriously injured Ryan, I nudged Calypso and whispered, "Hey, can I do something rash to Ryan?" Calypso smirked, which made her look really beautiful with those almond shaped eyes and the twinkle in her eyes./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Be my guest," she punched me, hard on the shoulder which was her sign of good luck for me. I got up and walked towards Ryan./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"He was groaning in pain, massaging his jaw and whining like a 5 year old kid. Everyone turned their heads towards me as I shouted, "Hey Ryan! How's it like being kicked and punched by Aqua Boy?"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"At this, Percy shouted out, "VALDEZ!" But I ignored him./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I lit my hand on fire and cocked my eyebrow up while grinning. Those who were sitting near Ryan immediately backed away./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I placed my hand near Ryan's face waiting for the reaction./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"The reaction?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Ryan shrieking like a little girl as the amazing Supreme Commander of Argo ll lit his hand on fire./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Everyone laughed at Ryan's reaction as his dad, Ares, came up to Ryan and boomed, " I, Ares the amazing warrior in this universe,"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Cue the snorts and rolling of eyes./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Hereby disown Ryan Penelope as my son!" Once everyone heard Ryan's surname, we all doubled over in laughter while clutching our stomachs./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Wiping away my tears I chuckled out, "Ryan Penelope? Penelope? Penelope! Oh gods, no wonder you never said your surname to anyone," but he couldn't hear anything since Ares disowned him and he was no longer a demigod./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"His body disappeared in a mist and this white mist thingy carried all the way out of the throne room, going through the streets of Olympus./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Immediately, everyone cheered and Ryan's ex siblings instantly clashed their weapons together and yelled insults about Ryan./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Finally, everyone settled down and Apollo was grumbling something like, 'No one every keeps quiet...' "Before I was so rudely interrupted," at this Apollo shot Ares and me a glare, which I just shrugged at./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Our next contestant or should I say contestants... Are Leo Valdez and Calypso!" Apollo gave me an evil grin which I happily returned./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Calypso got out of her seat and walked towards me, her ponytail swaying and her lips in a pouting shape. "Shall we, milady?" I bowed down and offered my hand./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"She slapped my head as I yowled in pain. "I'm not a princess Flame Boy." She rolled her eyes./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I cheesily replied, "You are a princess to me..." At this she blushed before regaining her posture and once again, whacked me on the chest./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"By the time I was rubbing my chest, Calypso was already up on the stage, hands on her hips and boys drooling over her./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"As I walked towards the stage, I lit my hand on fire every time somebody looked at Calypso. Once I got onto the stage, Calypso smirked, "Are you jealous?" I pouted and she giggled at my face./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Her laughter was music to my ears. I held her hand and we stood in the middle of the stage, light shining in our eyes./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""What would you both like to do?" Apollo flashed us a grin. I quickly answered, "Singing and Dancing!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"At this Calypso frowned and I was worried./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Did I pick the wrong choice? Maybe Calypso didn't like performing in front of a crowd?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"She spoke into the microphone, "We would like to sing, I Will Never Let You Down by Rita Ora ." Apollo whistled before starting the beat of the music./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"As the music started, I instantly started dancing, doing the occasional back flips, cartwheels, somersaults and handstands./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"As the lyrics came, I took the extra microphone and sang along with Calypso's sweet, beautiful and gentle voice. "When you say you'd had enough, and you might just give it up. Oh oh oh, I will never let you down!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I held Calypso's soft hand and gazed lovingly into her eyes. This song fitted us perfectly. When she thought she lost me, I came back to her and kept my promise cause I would and will never let her down./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"-FLASHBACK-/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Calypso's P.O.V/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family:
'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I watched as the makeshift boat sailed away from the island, so far till it was a tiny dot in the horizon./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Once I saw the boat disappear from my sight, I collapsed onto the white sand, crumpling my white dress. I yelled out a cry of anguish, frustration and sadness before burying me head into my knees and started crying./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Tear after tear fell from my cheeks as I thought about every single male that stepped foot onto this island. They were all so kind to me and I fell in love with every single one of them but out of all of them, I think I loved Leo the most./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Leo Valdez./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Thinking about him sent a sharp pain through my heart. He was unlike any other hero who landed on this island. He may not have been as handsome or as buff as the others but he stole my heart./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"He was the sweetest, funniest and kindest hero I had ever met. He cared for me, not only for my beauty but for my other qualities. He saw the true me./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Wiping my tears, I got up and went back into my house. Turning my head one last time to look at the ocean, I whispered, "I love you Valdez."/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"-Few days later-/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"The moon's rays shone on the shore of my island and through my window. It was night time and the whistling of leaves could be heard./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I climbed into my bed and thought of Leo, praying he was alright. Soon, I fell into a deep sleep and had a dream./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I was on the shore of my island. Everything was the same, except I saw myself ordering my servants to pack all my things into many luggage bags./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Wait a minute, myself?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I looked down and saw that I was invisible, a mere ghost-like Calypso version. Curiosity got the better of me as I inched closer to dream Calypso./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Dream Calypso was excited. There was a sparkle in her almond shaped eyes, she was tapping her fingers against her thighs and was wearing a flowing white dress with a golden belt./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"What had me so excited? As I neared Dream Calypso, she suddenly turned around and stared deeply into my eyes, as if she could see me./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Suddenly, Dream Calypso's eyes turned a shade of dark murky green and a different voice came out of Dream Calypso's mouth./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Hello Daughter of Atlas," a strange voice came out of Dream Calypso's mouth./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Mustering up my courage, I asked, "Who are you and why are you in my dream?"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"A soft tired laughter could be heard as the voice said, "I am Lady Styx and as for why I am in your dream, it is because Leo Valdez has sworn on my name."/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I immediately bowed at Lady Styx's feet, at which she told me to rise. I was puzzled, what could've Leo done to get Lady Styx in my dream?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"She seemed to have read my mind. Sighing, she answered, "Leo Valdez had sworn on my name, swearing that he would find a way to get back to your island and get you off of here."/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""But that's impossible!" I blurted out before clamping my mouth shut with me hands, worried for my life as I disrespected Lady Styx./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Leo Valdez has defeated the impossible tasks, has he not? But I am not here to discuss about Leo Valdez's achievements." She eyed me while placing her hand on my invisible shoulder./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""I'm here to talk about you getting ready."/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""What do you mean Lady Styx?"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"She studied my eyes and massaged her head. "Leo Valdez will be coming back to your island in two hours after you wake up. You better get ready Daughter of Atlas. I bid you farewell. Morpheus doesn't like primordials or gods contacting mere mortals for too long in a dream. Good luck."/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Before I could ask her any questions, she gave me a wink before light started shining in my eyes and I woke up. I sat on the edge of my bed, thinking if I should trust Lady Styx's words or not./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I decided to trust her, besides what's the worst that could happen?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I quickly got up and began ordering my invisible servants around, telling them to pack all my things./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"What if Lady Styx's words were true? Was Leo really coming back?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"These thoughts kept running wild in my head as I bustled about my 'house', taking everything I needed./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I told my servants to place my luggage on the shore of the beach as I changed out of my clothes, to a white dress that was torn at the bottom and at the sleeves. I tied my hair into a side braid and as I stepped onto the shore, with all my bags ready, I peered into the light blue sky./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"White clouds dotted the clear blue sky and the water from the ocean crashed onto the shore. Breathing in some fresh air, I looked up and saw a dot in the sky./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Wait, what?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I squinted my eyes and finally saw what was in the sky. It was a golden dragon and riding the dragon was a guy./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"A guy with a soot covered face, messy curly hair and an unforgettable grin plastered on his face./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Leo Valdez was actually here./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"As he crashed right at my feet, he spat out some sand and gave me a mischievous grin with a twinkle in his eyes./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I missed that grin so much./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"-FLASHBACK END-/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"-FLASHBACK-/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Leo's P.O.V/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Let's get this straight. I was having a really great New Year's Eve Day before the monsters came./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I know I'm hot, to everyone and everything, even monsters but they just HAD to interrupt a kiss between Calypso and me, hadn't they?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I lit my hand on fire and threw fireball after fireball at the monsters. I turned around, to make sure Calypso was okay, only to find herself fending herself quite well with a celestial bronze spear quite well./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Wait, a celestial bronze spear?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"I shook my head, telling myself to focus on the enemy at hand but I heard a piercing scream through the air./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Calypso!" I shouted as I quickly killed the monsters in my way, only to find a Cyclops holding Calypso by the throat./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color:
#545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Let. Her. Go." I growled as I got a celestial bronze hammer out of my tool belt./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"A Cyclops? No problem, just gotta remember not to use fire./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Suddenly, a whole group of monsters, about 15 to 20 appeared from behind the trees. "What in Hades?" I couldn't believe it, I thought I would die a heroic death, like saving a doughnut from being crushed on by a car, not being killed by monsters./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Leo Valdez, aren't you the one who killed Gaia?" The Cyclops snarled and gripped Calypso's neck harder till it turned pale white./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Let go of her!" I roared as two monsters held me back from charging towards him. I met Calypso's eyes. She had only seen the world for 2 months and now she was going to die because of me./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Like how my mum died./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Blinking back tears, I suddenly had an idea. "Take my life in exchange for hers..." I whispered./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"The Cyclops frowned and told me to speak up./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""You can torture me, kill me, put me in a cage, anything you want to do to me as long as you release her!" I screamed out./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"The Cyclops chuckled, turning his head towards me, he studied my eyes. "What makes you think we will take that offer? We have BOTH of you in our hands!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"He laughed as the monsters behind him roared their approval. "My friends are coming," I immediately replied. "You know, the rest of the seven plus their dragon, the mighty Fetsus!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Instantly, all the monsters paled and started murmuring uncertainly amongst themselves./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""SILENCE!" The Cyclops roared but had a hint of uncertainty in his voice./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""What makes you think this demigod is telling the truth! They lie ALL THE TIME!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Murmurs of agreement were heard as the monsters started chanting, "DEMIGODS LIE! DEMIGODS LIE! DEMIGODS LIE!"/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Calypso looked at me, confused and pale. I winked at her but deep inside, I hoped my plan will work. I broke out of the monsters grasp and immediately started slamming my hammer against the ground, creating a Morse code message./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding:
0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"The monsters laughed at me, thinking what was I doing until their laughter faltered as they heard a loud roar in the sky./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""Captain, what wasssss that?" A dracnae (Is that how you spell it?) asked as she furrowed her eyebrows./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Fetsus came into view, bronze wings flapping and breathing out fire from his mouth. "BOOYEAH!" I shouted as I threw the hammer against the Cyclops hand, allowing Calypso to be free./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Once she was free, we stood back to back. Wielding her spear, she blew a strand of hair away from her face. Our eyes met and we started attacking all the monsters. New found power surged through me, with a bronze dragon and a fierce beautiful girlfriend, how could we not win?/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"-FLASHABCK END-/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Leo's P.O.V/spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"As the song ended, I saw Calypso's flashback and couldn't help but kiss her deeply on the lips./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"When we broke apart from our kiss, I noticed Calypso sniffling and tears dripping down her face. "Thank you for never letting me down Flame Boy," Calypso muttered as she buried her head in my shoulder while I drew circles on her back, telling her how much she meant to me./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"After our little 'couple' time, we turned round to face the audience who were actually cheering for us the whole time when we were in our own world./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);"Apollo flashed us back to our seats and settled the audience down, wanting to announce the next couple contestants./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /span style="color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);""May I now present..." Apollo announced as he spread his arms out./spanbr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #545454; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.9);" /br /p