A/N: Alright, so sorry to all of you about the super long break, I was, and still am reading the new book by Christopher Paolini, so I'm basically forcing myself to write this right now, to be fair to all of you. So thank all of you for your reviews, and I hope you'll enjoy this chapter, because it's gonna be in my personal favorite character's POV, Leo. Now on to the story.

Disclaimer: *The British are coming! The British are coming! Oh wait…it's just few gnomes riding rabbits.* *Walks up to nearest rabbit* *Well aren't you just adorable! Hey, let go off that! No! No! That isn't supposed to go there!* *Incoherent yells* *What are you talking about!* *More incoherent yells* *Fine! Fine, I'll say it.* *Pained sobs* I don't own PJO or HoO.

Leo I

…Other brothers can't deny

That when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist

And a round…

To say Leo was getting a little off task was an understatement. He had been standing at the wheel for about three hours now, singing every song he could think of to himself. He knew that he should be paying better attention to the task before him, but his ADHD was acting up, and he had seen that he either had to do this or think back to all the hotties he had seen at Camp Jupiter. He done that for about ten minutes when he started remembering all the slaps he had gotten because he'd made an innocent comment concerning a donkey he had seen, and he starting worrying that he'd end up curled in a ball, again, because of it. For some reason that didn't really appeal to him right then. He knew he had a third option, but he really didn't want to turn to that one, so he just kept singing.

"'So, Fellas! Yeah! Fellas! Yeah! Has your girlfriend got the butt! Hell yeah! Tell 'em to shake it!" Leo started loudly singing.

"Leo?" someone asked.

"Shake it! Shake it! Shake it!" he continued, not having heard the voice.

"Leo? Leo!" they yelled again.

"Shake that healthy butt! Baby got back!" Leo sang, then he felt someone smacking him upside the head. "Ow!" he exclaimed, while turning around. He saw Percy walking away from him looking at Piper.

"Next time you need to get his attention, just call me. It seems like he needs a little wake up call every once and a while anyway," Percy told her before heading back down into the bowels of the ship.

Leo turned back around, and grumbled a few things about the son of the sea god. The ship gave a lurch and Leo slammed his head into the steering wheel. "Alright, sorry, sheesh," he said to the air.

He heard Piper chuckle behind him. He turned around again to see him standing a few feet behind him. "How's it going, Lug Nut?" she asked.

He raised an eyebrow at her. "Lug Nut?" he asked.

She shrugged. "What? I'm working on it. Would you prefer I call you Repair Boy for the rest of your life?" she asked again.

Leo shook his head, turned around, and grumbled a few choose words abou the beauty queen behind him. He felt a sharp pain on the back of his head, which was knocked into the wheel again by the force of the push.

"What the hell?" he exclaimed again, quickly turning around, looking for the source of the push. He saw a small, pure-white bird glaring at him. "Oh dear lord!" he exclaimed. "Fine, I'm sorry! Just stop hitting me guys! Gods, can't even grumble to myself anymore, can I?" he said.

Piper chuckled again. "Maybe you should stop being so grumpy, then our parents would leave you alone." Leo gave a noncommittal grunt in response. "You really are grumpy, aren't you?" she marveled.

He looked at her. "You try getting knocked out of your very enjoyable singing, of a song that is a gift to humanity, might I add, by the son of the sea god, and see how happy you are afterward." Piper chuckled again, and Leo felt his annoyance melting away.

"Well, if you're feeling a little less put out because Percy didn't enjoy your fantastic taste in music, will you answer my question? How's it going?" she asked, again.

Leo rolled his eyes. "It's going fine, I guess. It's kinda hard to tell, because once you're completely out of sight of land, the sea doesn't change much, unless you hit a storm," he answered.

Piper nodded. "It could be worse," she said, "We could be dealing with a monster, or worse, Gaea, right now, so I suggest you just enjoy the reprieve."

Leo looked at her. "Way to jinx us, beauty queen!" he exclaimed. "Now I bet some giant ouster comes up and tries to eat us."

"I'm pretty sure there's no giant ousters in Greek mythology," Piper answered him.

"Yeah, I bet you would've said the same thing about talking, water controlling monkeys, too," he retorted. She snorted.

They stood in silence for a minute before Piper said, "If you're getting bored of driving the ship, I'm sure Percy would be more than willing to take over for a while."

Leo pursed his lips. "I don't know," he said, cautiously, "I mean he never got to work with it. The Argo II might not respond to him right."

"You know what Annabeth told him he could do with a pirate ship, I'm sure he'll be able to handle an Ancient Greek trireme just as well," she looked at Leo for a second, before her voice gained a musical lilt to it. "You need rest anyway. Come on Leo, it'll be fine."

Leo smiled at her vaguely, and then said, "Well, I guess you're right. It's not like he can break it or anything." Piper nodded and Leo raised his voice, saying, "Percy!" He came up to the deck, looking curious. "Can you take over steering the ship for a while?" Percy hesitated a moment, then shrugged and took the wheel.

Leo looked at him for a moment, and saw that he looked to be at complete ease as he stood at the wheel. Percy turned to him, seeming a little surprised that Leo was still there and said, "It's cool man, I've got this. The ship isn't any hard to control than the Queen Anne's Revenge had been, it's just got a few more gadgets," Leo snorted at that, but he still hesitated. "Listen," Percy told him, "either you walk down those stairs to your room, or I'll throw you down there." Leo chuckled slightly and headed down the steps.

He headed into the room that he was sharing with Jason, and laid on his full bed. He laid back for a moment, trying to get to sleep, but eventually gave up, and instead turned on the T.V.

He was surprised to see that it wasn't play one of the shows from Hephaestus TV, but actually South Park (Sorry, I realize that's random, but it just seems like a show Leo would watch, plus I have a funny thing planned for it in this chapter.). Leo thought about changing the channel for a minute, but then decided that he might as wellwatch it. He ended up laughing pretty quickly after Kenny died, because for some reason, it was funny when it happened to the little cartoon character, even though it was way less funny when he and his friends were close to dying.

Before Leo knew it, an hour, and then two had passed. He looked at the clock on the nightstand and started when he saw that he'd been watching TV for four hours. Stupid ADHD, he thought, Always screwing with my head. I swear, if I ever find the God of ADHD, I'm gonna punch him right in the ovary (Again, sorry. That just seems like something Leo would say to me, and a couple of my friends and I make that joke sometimes.). Leo stood up and headed back up toward the deck to see that everyone else was already there.

"What's up, guys?" he asked. "Are you all throwing me a surprise party?" he exclaimed. Piper looked at him like he was insane, while Hazel giggled silently, and Percy and Jason just shook their heads with small smiles on their faces.

"No, Leo," Frank told him, "We're looking at that." He pointed toward the sea where there was a large shadow under the surface.

"What is it?" Leo asked, serious now. He gulped. "Could it be that monster your dad was talking about?" he asked, directing the question at Percy.

He shrugged. "Maybe, but I doubt it," he said, and then added. "It's big, but it doesn't seem big enough to mess with my dad."

The waves increased in size around the ship, which Leo took to mean that either Poseidon agreed, or he was having a seizure. Leo decided to go with the first choice.

"Well, I guess that's great, but can you tell your dad to knock off the rocking, 'cause, if he doesn't, I'll be hella sick," Leo said.

Jason frowned. "What did you say, Leo?" he asked.

"Make the shaking stop!" he exclaimed, as the waves increased in size.

Percy smiled, then murmured something, and the waves shrank. "Took you long enough," he muttered, and water arced out of the sea and hit him in the face. "Really!" he yelled, moving to the center of the deck. "You know Poseidon, you're being hella gay!" he yelled. The boat shook again.

"Dad!" Percy yelled. "Stop!" The shaking stopped again, but the water seemed darker, like the sea god was still a miffed.

"You know Percy your dad is hella crazy," Leo said, and water hit him in the face again, causing him to curse.

"Leo, why do you keep saying that?" Jason asked.

"What?" he asked, confused.

"Hella," Jason answered, sounding a little annoyed.

"'Cause I want to," Leo answered.

"Well stop," Jason said.

"No," Leo answered.

"Yes."

"No."

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!" Jason yelled, drawing his gladius.

"Jason, calm down, you're being hella crazy," Leo said.

"Leo if you say that again…" Jason threatened.

"I wouldn't have to say it if you weren't acting so hella crazy right now," Leo said, enjoying himself.

"Leo if you say that again, I'm gonna throw you over the edge of this boat," Jason growled.

"Just stop being so hel—," Leo started to say, but was then interrupted by a loud screeching sound.

He looked over and saw something that made his heart skip a beat. Rising out of the water about twenty feet in front of the Argo was a massive lobster. It was a nasty, snot gray and over a huindred feet long. Both of its pincers were easily ten feet long and looked razor sharp, and it was staring at them with angry, black eyes. But worst of all, it was racing toward the Argo at highway speeds.

It smashed into the front of the ship, forcing it back and sending all of them toppling. Leo smacked his head on the floor of the deck, he saw bright yellow stars, and thought he might have even seen a little canary circling his head. He curled in to a ball and waited for his eyes to stop vibrating. It took a moment, but when they did, he stood up groggily, expecting to see bits of the lobster stuck on the front of his ship. That isn't what he saw.

Luckily the ship was fine, save a few chips falling off some of the bronze plating at the prow, but the lobster seemed pretty fine too. Apparently, Leo wasn't the first person to have gotten up, because Jason and Percy were slashing vigorously at the claws that came slamming at them. Each time they swung at the claws, they made contact, but the creatures shell was obviously too strong for them to get through because the blades would glance harmlessly off its carapace.

"Leo!" Annabeth yelled at him, causing him to look back. He saw her charging at the lobster, glaring at him the whole way. "Don't just stand there! Help!"

It took a moment for Leo to register her words but when he did, he stuck his hand in the tool belt around his waist, asking it for a hammer. He came out with a large hammer that old European blacksmiths would've used. He looked at it for a fraction of a second, and then yelled charging toward the monster. By then all of his friends had gotten up and were charging toward the monster. They all reached it quickly and started slashing, or banging, at it, but none of their attacks made so much as a scratch on the monsters hard shell.

They stayed that way for minutes, attacking the monster ineffectively, before Annabeth swore and said, "It's no good! We're gonna have to try using our powers! Piper do what you can to distract it, and Leo, Jason, and Percy, kill the damn thing!"

They all jumped back from the monster, Piper yelling at it to distract it. Leo couldn't make out what she said, but it seemed to work because the monster stop attacking them for a moment and looked around itself. Leo conjured up fire in his hands and sent a smoking blast of it at the beats, while Jason yelled and a thunderbolt hit the creature, and Percy twisted his hand, causing a waterspout to come out of the sea and smash into the monster. None of the attacks even fazed the monstrosity.

Percy swore. "How do we kill this thing?" he yelled.

"Maybe if we had a big bowl of melted butter!" Jason said.

Leo stiffened, an idea coming to him. "That's it!" he exclaimed, and the other two looked at him. "Percy can you raise that thing into the air in a bubble?" Leo asked.

Percy's eyebrows knit together. "Probably, but why?"

"Cause we're going to make boiled lobster!" Leo said excitedly. Percy grinned, glancing at Jason, who gave a similar reaction.

"Leo, you're a genius," he said. Percy turned away then and raised his arms, his eyes closed. A huge bubble of water rose up out of the sea, the lobster in the center of it, squeling in surprise. Leo raised his own arms, bright red flames coming to life around them. He sent a searing blast of continuous flames toward the bubble, forcing them to stop under it and foce their heat into the water. It started to steam and slowly, small bubbles of air began to rise toward the top. The lobster screeched in pain. Leo fell to one knee, as did Percy, and his flames turned from red to bright orange.

"Jason!" he yelled. "Stoke the flames!"

Jason nodded, and raised his arms. A blast of air rushed toward the flames under the bubble, and they grew in size. Soon the bubble was boiling vigorously, the lobster screeching bloody murder. Then, with one more, ear piercing screeching, the lobster fell silent, and stopped jerking in the bubble.

Leo let his arms drop, the flames stopped blasting toward the monster, even as Percy lowered his arms, causing the bubble to drop back into the seam and Jason dropped his, causing the wind to stop blowing. They all walked toward the monsters shell, which had turned bright red due to the boiling. As they watched, its eyes dissolved into dust, and more dust started to come out of the cracks between the creatures segments as it dissolved inside.

"Uhg," Leo groaned, staring at the particles of dust, "that is hella nasty.'

"Leo, seriously, stop," Jason said.

Leo looked at him. "You know Jason, I was wrong. You're not hella crazy, you're just hella gay."

Jason sighed and looked at Leo. "That's it, man," he said, "you're going over the edge."

Okay, and this marks the end of this chapter. Hope you all enjoyed it.