A/N: Hi peepsmicles! I'm sorry I haven't updated in awhile. Thanks to all of you who reviewed, because I'm getting a lot of positive and optimistic support and it makes my day. If you haven't checked it out yet, I wrote a one-shot for Divergent, Forever After Divergent. Again, sorry I haven't updated in awhile; life got in the way. Let's get back to this story, though!

POV: Leo

Disclaimer: I own nothing but the plot. And Amanda's character.

Chapter 7: I'm in So Much Trouble

We'd been on Festus' back for nearly weeks now, searching for Camp Half-Blood. Now, we'd finally found it, and my best buddy in the entire world was breaking down. We were going to crash-land. Calypso, who was sitting behind me, had her arms wrapped around my waist tightly.

I patted the side of the enormous dragon's head and screamed over the roaring wind. "Festus! Is there anything you can do to prevent the crash? Can you slow down?"

I heard a series of clicking and whirring noises, but they sounded like they were screeching against metal and were broken. I couldn't understand what my dragon was saying through Creak and Squeak, and we were surely going to crash. My hands flew through his machinery, pulling up wires and pushing gears back into place, but it was all to no avail. We were going to land, and it sure as Hades wasn't going to be pretty.

I squeezed my eyes shut, a couple tears flying out, and grabbed Calypso's hands, which were gripping each other across my stomach, placing them in my warm ones. We accelerated even more, gaining speed as we neared the earth. And then, suddenly, we slowed down. I opened my eyes and saw fields of rich red strawberries beneath us, and a U-shape of cabins in the distance. Oh, well. At least we'll die where we belong, I thought. Then Festus started gaining speed again just as suddenly as he'd lost it, and we hurtled towards the strawberry fields. I felt myself almost gently lifted off of his back, Calypso with me, and enveloped in his flaming bronze wings. He was protecting us, saving us. Even though he knew, and he definitely knew, that he was going to… well, die, if that's what machines do.

The shuddering impact made me see red behind my closed eyelids. And then, it was over. Festus' wings retracted from around us, and I sat up, coughing from the dust and smoke that surrounded me. There was a crowd of people huddling around us already, and it had only been… what? Five seconds since we'd crashed?

I stood up, brushing off my shoulders, and shook Calypso awake; she sat up and leaned on me. Then, we heard a familiar voice. "What's going on now?" Percy pushed his way to the front of the crowd, followed by Annabeth and two unfamiliar but really gods darn hot people. He looked shocked when he saw me. "Leo?!"

"Hey, my peeps. Too long it's been." I stood up and spread my arms out, only to be immediately attacked by Annabeth screaming at me. Then Percy noticed Calypso, and totally freaked out. I didn't blame him. He'd washed up on the shores of Ogygia, and she'd fallen for him, and he'd had to leave her. Of course he was reacting like he was going to faint.

Suddenly, a ginger-brown-haired girl stepped out of the crowd, shouting, "Hello? What is going on here?" It struck me that she looked a lot like Calypso, except a bit smaller and with hazel-green eyes.

"Amanda? Mandy?" Calypso whispered, her arm hugging my waist. I looked down at her; she looked startled. Then, all of the sudden, Calypso ran out of my arms and hugged the other girl, Amanda, with so much force I thought her circulation would be cut off.

The other girl looked surprised for just a second, and then she was hugging Calypso with the same amount of force. Haha, I thought, watching this, making an internal joke to myself. Newton's third law, clearly demonstrated here, ladies and gentlemen. Each action always has an equal and opposite reaction. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw the bronze-haired unfamiliar dude snigger, barely holding in his laugh as if he'd heard my joke. As if. Finally, Calypso and Amanda broke apart, and I walked up to them.

"Hey, Calypso. Would you mind explaining to me and everyone else here what is going on?" She immediately rewound her long, muscular arm around my waist, and looked up at me.

"Leo, this is my sister. Amanda. How are you still here? It's been centuries!"

"The same way you are. I was imprisoned because my father was Atlas, but I didn't have the paradise that you did on Ogygia. Not even close. I suffered in a living hell, kept alive in some way or another, but I didn't age; I didn't worsen; I couldn't get sick. I couldn't die. And now I'm glad I didn't. I found you again."

Calypso looked up at me again, sensing my confusion. "She's my twin sister," she explained.

WHAT?!

"It seems like there's a lot to discuss," Annabeth said, finally breaking the silence. "And, just because you two don't know, I want to introduce you to Edward and Bella Cullen, two vampires from a… coven? Is that it?" At first I thought she was joking, but then I could see how serious she was. Vampires?! That was just… fantasy. Then again, that's coming from a person who's half Greek god. Whoa. Strange things.

"We were just speaking to them and a couple other members of their coven. If you want to join us, feel free to. It seems like there is a lot that needs to be clarified." Annabeth pointedly looking at me, and I inwardly shuddered, hoping the vicious blonde demigod didn't kill me. Then she looked up, addressing the crowd. "Ok, people. Get back to where you were. Amanda, Calypso, Valdez, Edward, Bella. Come with us. Let's get back to our conversation about the coven and your vampire lifestyle. Then Leo can explain how he didn't die. And Calypso and Amanda can explain each other."

"But what about Festus?" I whined. He'd been my constant companion; he was always there for me. Gods, he'd resurrected me. And now I wasn't there for him. But with the look that Annabeth gave me, I supposed that I should get my butt over there and follow her if I valued my guts.