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Book of the Day: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. Have i done this book? I don't know... But it was really good. If you look at the cover, it looks, like SUPER FREAKY, but it really isn't. It KINDA is, but not really. The pictures are freakishly cool in a creepy exorcist kind of way. I don't know how to explain it... but everyone should read this! IT IS EXTREMELY good, it is about some kids with some pretty cool powers, and the people who are trying to kill them, and the guy who can save them named Jacob. It is a historical(Maybe)/Mystery/horror/romance...*****5stars!

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Chapter 51

Leo

Panacea was something else. Leo just wished Piper would shut up about 'him and her'. It was one kiss, and a lot of working. Nothing else had happened between them. But still, Piper was forced to embrace her inner Aphroditeness and beg for more information about them.

Panacea was just… wow. Leo had never met a girl like her. Sure, he had always had minor crushes. Reyna was awesome, and so was Calypso. Thalia was cool, and McKenzie was pretty awesome too. But Panacea was just like him. They had the same interests and dislikes. Gods, it was like love at first crashed ship.

That morning, Leo had barely slept. He was haunted by the fact that he and the others had had to leave all of those goddesses and spirits alone to fend for themselves. He wasn't completely sure that they were going to be able to hold against them. The other army had to have thousands of monsters and goddesses, plus a crazy earth goddess and an insane giant that wanted all of them dead.

So, Leo had gone to sleep for maybe an hour, half an hour? Throughout his short rest, he was a witness to the destruction of good coven's civilization. The daemons set fire to the tunnels, and Trivia set fire to their forces. Panacea helped the injured, and then angrily injured the opposing forces. He had tried to yell, "Oh yeah, bitches, take that!" But in the midst of all of the chaos, his statement had sounded more like, "Yo nah, crutches, hate hat!" And he was pretty sure he was the only one who could hear himself. None of the goddesses seemed to notice, but to his surprise, Panacea turned in his direction and winked.

Mania mocked all of them. "This is what the Olympians have to offer, huh?" she had asked. As she had said that, she had clapped her hands together twice. Fissures in the ground opened up, and an earthquake rumbled through the valley all the way to the mountains in the distance. Little mounds of dirt appeared in the ground, and bones came out of there, and then connected together once there was a set of all the vital one.

Ate would wave her hands, and someone in front of her would fall to the ground, screaming a writhing in pain, begging her to stop. One of the Oreads she did it to was Christy, who shrieked in despair and anguish.

Melinoe had ghosts coming out of the simplest things. A rock, for instance, apparently could have two to three ghosts inside of it. "My shades will destroy all of you!" she kept threatening. Leo didn't see what a ghost, or a shade as she had called it, could do much damage. It wasn't like they could grab things. Their hands would just pass right through it. But when a flamethrower materialized out of the air, the shade that looked like something you would kill in Call of Duty, picked it up and screamed a battle cry. Before Leo could blink, flames were everywhere, obscuring his vision.

Even though Leo was a fire user, this terrified him. He was sure that if had actually been there, this fire would have burned him. Calypso stared at the fires, crying softly but putting up quite a fight. Pax looked up into the sky and prayed, "Father Jupiter, help us!"

As she said it, clouds rolled in, and rain started to downpour. The rain washed away the dead corpses, and the fire was put out. A triumphant look fell over her face. "We are unbreakable!" she screamed. "We have prepared for this for years!"

And maybe Leo would have seen more, but he too was being washed away in the stream of water. His footing was gone, and he was at the mercy of the water. But there was something different about this. Jupiter wasn't controlling this cloud above him. There was something evil about it. It was Eurymedon.

Leo was swept into the forest, and then he sunk into the ground, trying to reach onto something, anything to help him.

And then he was in Rome. Monsters were everywhere. They were chanting. A voice rose from the pit. "Ignorant demigods," he sneered. "Face the facts. You will never win this war. We have too many resources. Say goodbye to your Camps, Son of Hephaestus."

Leo had about a hundred snide ADHD induced comments that he was ready to spit back at him. But then he woke up.

He had somehow managed to get to his mattress. He was sitting straight up and breathing hard. He looked at the bronze watch Fama had given him. It was three in the morning. But Leo couldn't go back to sleep, not after what he had seen. He got up and walked into their makeshift bathroom. He looked like a pile of crap.

"Eh, no big deal," he said to himself, running a hand through his curly black hair. He put on his tool belt just in case anything happened. He went up onto the deck and laid on his back, staring into the sky.

And that was how Piper found him later that day. When she saw the look on his face, hers darkened.

"What happened?" she demanded.

Leo described the dream as best as he could. The monsters, the fighting, the fire. The fact that he couldn't help anyone. It was almost too much for him.

Piper gulped. "That's NOT good. We have to get to Rome."

Leo nodded in agreement. But Piper seemed to have something else on her mind. She bit her lip and asked, "So, you and Panacea."

It went downhill from there.

The fight went on for about an hour. Curses and names were yelled at from both of them. Leo just wanted people staying out of his personal life. So if she was going to make fun of his and pester him about it, he was going to do the same thing to her.

Note to self: Never joke with Piper about Jason. She DOES NOT appreciate it. Especially when you bring Reyna into it.

The jabs and yelling stopped when Jason came up. His eyes darted between them both. He looked as if he had had a troubled morning too. "What is going on with you two?" he wondered. Leo let out a huff and marched away from everyone, needing to cool off. He went to the cooler, which served as their kitchen. It was a fairly large cooler. He grabbed some Rice Krispie's and one percent milk. Next to the cooler was a small plastic cabinet, something that you would get a Wal-Mart. He grabbed a bowl and fork out of it, because they had no spoons. Then he leaned up against the pole that had the flags and sails on it, the one that started with an 'M' or something.

He watched as Beauty Que-, sorry, Pageant Princess, got some Cocoa Pebbles and sat down against the side of the ship looking at the fluffy white clouds above them. Leo had learned not to trust anything. Those clouds could turn into man eating bunnies at any minute. Leo kept one hand on his breath mints so he could be precautionary.

About a minute later, Frank and Hazel came up, holding hands and making fun of each other in really bad French. Even Piper couldn't understand them. It was actually kind of funny.

After they all had started eating their various cereals, Jason came back up with Annabeth and Percy. They all looked really worried. Leo watched as they tried to make an Iris Message. They were unsuccessful. Leo realized that, judging from the continuous mention of the Camps, Jason probably had the same dream he'd had.

Annabeth soon stomped over to him, and Leo gulped down a load of cereal nervously. She did not look happy.

Once she reached him, she grabbed him by the first and lifted him to his feet. Leo's hands went slack, and cereal spilt all over him. Piper started giggling, but Leo was unable to shoot her a mad look. "Leo, how fast can this ship go?" she demanded.

"Um, I don't know," admitted Leo. Even though he was the Supreme Commander, he never paid attention to things like that. "This is pretty much as fast as it can go." Well, at least he thought.

"Make it go faster!"

"Okay ma'am," he said. He tried to salute, but was not capable. Annabeth then pushed him away. He landed hard on the deck, and she walked away murmuring.

Leo sat up and rubbed his head. He could already tell that there would be a bruise, and it hurt like crap. Piper was laughing her butt of now, but she stopped when she saw the way Jason was looking at her and Leo.

"So, when are you two gonna tell me what you were fighting about?"

Leo and Piper groaned, and Jason suddenly looked very happy.

"We're still fighting," snapped Piper, scooting over to Leo and punching him lightly on the arm. "Isn't that right?"

Leo smiled. "Totally," he agreed playfully, and Piper smiled back at him.

"Well, I'm glad that is settled!" said Jason. "Let's not fight until it is necessary, okay?"

Leo rolled his eyes. He got up and wiped some milk off of him and noticed that he now had a giant wet spot on the front of his pants. He blushed hard, and everyone laughed, except Percy, who looked as worried as his girlfriend and was also pacing.

"Well, if you don't mind, I think I may go and change my pants. I think I have one more pair in the storage." While they had finished building the ship, Leo had made sure that they had everything they needed. He had gotten lots of armor and weapons, plus toiletries and a spare change of clothes for all of them.

He quickly climbed down the ladder to get to the storage room. It had everything. From maces to lances, swords to spears, javelins to knives, bows and arrows to guns, it was pretty awesome. Fawkes was down there, sitting on a perch, eating what seemed to be a bagel. In the corner, Leo had labeled two section; Men and Girls. Hazel had told him that that sounded stupid, considering Leo was definitely not a man yet, but he didn't really care. Each side had stacks of clothing. Leo quickly grabbed himself a pair of jeans, made sure the door was shut, and changed.

That's when heard the multiple thumps.

They came from above him. Leo looked, up, expecting to see something falling through the ceiling. Nothing did. Even Fawkes had his head tilted to the side, confused.

Leo went out of the room and looked up again. He could still see sunlight, so Nyx wasn't doing anything. "Guys?" he called. No response. He tried again. Nothing.

That's when he started panicking.

He scrambled to the ladder and hulled himself up. Oh gods, he thought. What happened? What happened?

Once he reached the deck, he looked around. All of them were still there, but on the ground. Sleeping.

"Yeah, great time to take a nap," Leo said, but then he noticed that they weren't sleeping. Not exactly. Their eyes were shut, but they were twitching and jerking.

"Hey, wa-" Leo's words choked in his mouth. He fell to his knees, clawing at his throat. He couldn't speak, he could breathe. Something was terribly wrong, he should've seen it coming.

As Leo blacked out, he could feel his heart beat slowing down. He was on his back my then, trying to hack and convulsing. He looked up, and he swore that he could see Eurymedon, the ugly beast himself, standing above him, cackling like a mad man. The giant repeated the prophecy as if it were some nursery rhyme. Then Leo saw no more.

But he was alive. He was standing in a black tunnel, and he felt fine.

"Well, if this is death, than it ain't so bad," he said to no one.

Then he saw a bright light, and a mysterious force pushed him toward it. It grew brighter and brighter until there was only him and whiteness.

I thought death was going to be more than this, he sighed inwardly.

But it was not death, because even as he thought that, the light cleared up, replaced by fog, and Leo was in a dream, a vision of sorts. He was watching, but even he was not really there. Leo could see straight through his own flesh.

Just as Leo saw the people he was with, and where they were, Leo somehow knew exactly where he was…

The day Percy was kidnapped by Hera.


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