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Chapter: Chleo's Gift
~Penelope's POV~

Penelope had thought that after getting attacked by a giant automaton, her day couldn't really get any worse.
But it did. Much, much worse.
When Talos had raised his fist to give her and Jason the death blow, all Penelope had been able to think of was how she would die without having sorted things out with Leo.
This hurt more than the wounds on her body, and tears obscured her vision of the metal fist racing
towards them. Seconds before impact however, something miraculous had happened.
A second before they were crushed, something huge, green and scaly had crushed into Talos's arm,
knocking it off course so that it smashed into a boulder a few feet away.
Penelope was too shocked for a second to move, but then realised they'd been given an impossible
chance.
"Jason!" she yelled, shaking the boy next to her, who thankfully was conscious again. "We need to move!" Jason nodded grimly and they scrambled painfully a few yards back.
Penelope feared they would be smashed any second now, but Talos seemed to be distracted, swatting at something on top of his head, like an annoying fly.
With a yell, Penelope realised the something was actually Leo, who was now climbing inside the
machine's head. He had come for her. He was saving her life again.
A wave of gratitude washed over her, but was erased again the next second by incredible worry.
What if he got hurt, fiddling around in Talos's head, and it would be all because of her.
"Pen, over here!" a voice suddenly called, and she looked to her right to see Frank stumbling out of the trees, back to normal again.
"Frank!" she called, running over to the big guy. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine. We need to get outta here! Where's Percy?"
"Over there!" she pointed over to the boulder where she'd half hidden Percy.
Jason was back on his feet as well, holding his hand out as if to summon lightning again.
"No, don't!" Penelope slapped his hand down, getting a little shock. "Leo's in there!"
"What?!" Jason yelled, starting forward.
"He's trying to turn that thing off, I think" Frank explained, having hurried over to where Percy lay.
Talos continued to roar behind them, clutching at his head, smoke pouring out his ears.
"We don't have long!" Penelope cried, fearfully watching the giant.
"Jason, can you take Percy and fly back to the Argo? Get the ship ready to take off, we might need to make a quick escape. Frank, you and me are going to get Leo out of there okay?"
The boys nodded, and Jason grabbed Percy and flew up into the air. His face was drawn with exhaustion and worry, and for a second he hesitated, watching the giant blunder around.
"GO!" both Frank and Penelope cried, and he turned around in mid-air, heading back the way they'd come.
"Frank, we need to get up there!" Penelope pointed at Talos's head.
Just then the automaton started to sink to his knees, the red light in his eyes fading.
Frank yelled happily "He did it!" transforming into an eagle and giving a happy cry.
But something was wrong. Something was very, very wrong.
Instead of simply shutting down, the metal giant started to smoke even more, tongues of fire licking the side of its head.
There were bangs and rumbles, and a split second before it did, Penelope knew what was going to happen.
A huge explosion went off inside the machine's head, and a gigantic ball of flames shot into the sky, accompanied by hundreds of bits of scrap metal.
"LEO!" Penelope cried, shielding her face from the shards of celestial bronze.
Through the smoke she could see Leo flying through the air, limp as a rag.
"Frank! We need to catch him!"
With a jump she got onto Frank's back and they shot into the air, dodging burning metal bits as best as they could.
Leo had already started to fall, and for a moment Penelope feared they wouldn't reach him in time.
But Frank sped forward, and with a thump caught Leo on his back.
Quickly, Pen wrapped her arms around his body to keep him from falling off. They soared away into the sky, heading straight towards the Argo II.
Her heart stopped when she looked down at Leo. His face was covered in ash and scratched to bits.
His eyes were opened only a slit, and his head lolled from side to side.
What frightened her most were the burn marks on his hands and arms. Leo didn't get burn marks.
"Frank, hurry" Penelope chocked out, clutching Leo tightly to her.
Please, Leo, please be okay.

They hurtled onto the deck and barely avoided crashing into the mast. Hazel and Piper were already there, and the moment they landed Penelope started screaming for Coach Hedge.
"Help! Coach, you need to help him!"
The satyr came hurrying up the stairs, a grim look in his eyes.
With surprising calm he said "Zhang, get him downstairs. Sickbay. Now."
Frank, who had turned back into himself, scooped Leo up and hastened down the stairs.
Penelope staggered to her feet, thinking of nothing else except to follow.
It would be her fault if Leo died, she had called him, and she had voted for going into that valley in the first place.
"Hey, it's okay" Piper hugged her, talking soothingly. But even her friend's charmspeak wouldn't calm Pen down.
"I..I said I didn't know if we're okay" she sobbed.
"You need to take a deep breath" Hazel said, stroking her arm. "Before you go down."
Penelope nodded. She knew her friends were right but she was so afraid.
Still, she steadied her breathing, and when Piper nodded, raced down into sickbay.
"How is he?`" she demanded, sinking to her knees beside Leo's bed. His face was deathly pale, there were cuts and bruises all over his body and worst, the horrible burn marks on his arms that shone an angry red.
"He almost drained himself using his powers like that." Coach Hedge said gravely, mixing little herbs into a cup.
"What do you mean?" Penelope said, unable to tare her gaze from Leo's face.
"Leo must have broken through the barrier caused by that liquid" Annabeth, who was sitting next to Percy's bed, explained. "It would have taken an immense heat to melt that giant's circuits, which I guess Leo did. Using a power excessively like that...It's not good."
There was fear in the blonde girl's eyes, and Penelope felt like a cold hand had gripped her heart.
"He'll be okay though, won't he? There's still ambrosia and nectar and..." she looked pleadingly at Coach Hedge.
"I don't know if he'll be okay. When a demigod almost drains himself using his powers, the body is so weakened it couldn't handle ambrosia. And without that...well, it's not looking good " the satyr's voice turned gruff "I should've come! I would've taken that monster down!"
Oh gods. He might die. He might not make it.
Horrible scenarios filled Pen's head, each one worse than the one before.

"Isn't there anything you can do?" her voice sounded broken.
"It would need powerful magic" Coach Hedge grumbled, obviously distressed "And we don't have that kind here."
Penelope cursed herself. Here she was, a child of Hecate, the freaking goddess of magic and she wasn't even able to cast a spell to help her friend. If only she was as good as her siblings, as good as Cal, or even better Chleo. Chleo...
She gasped and jumped up.
How could she have forgotten?
"What is it?" Annabeth asked, but Penelope had already raced out of the room, up the hall and crashed through the door of her cabin. Flinging everything out of her draws, she finally found the little bag she was looking for and sprinted back to the sick room.
"Here" she gasped, holding the bag out to Coach Hedge.
The satyr eyed it mistrustfully "What's this?"
Penelope was almost too excited to speak, so she got the object out of the bag and showed it to Annabeth and Coach.
Annabeth took in a sharp breath, and leaned in closer. "Is that..?"
"Yes" Penelope nodded "Amazonite"
"Amaz- what?" Percy said, making them all jump as none of them had realised he'd woken up.
"Amazonite." Annabeth explained, her eyes wide in wonder. "It's a powerful healing stone, named after the river Amazon, which shapes each stone into unique forms. This one" she held it up, and stroked the smooth surface, where two tiny golden torches were engraved "This one is probably the most famous of all. The legend says Hecate used it to cure her first demigod child, when that child used its powers to defeat a terrible monster that was threatening the goddess herself. She succeeded, but almost died in the process, so Hecate took this stone and healed her. The rumour is that the stone will heal almost anything, but that it can only be used again one more time."
Now the daughter of Athena looked at Penelope in wonder "How did you get it?"
"Chleo." Penelope explained. "She gave it to me the morning we sailed for Camp Jupiter. Apparently it used to belong to a sister of ours, one she told me I reminded her of a lot. She" here Penelope found her voice broke slightly "she said I was more powerful than any of them, and that I
might need it."
Annabeth slapped her head. "Of course! I wanted to ask you about what Chleo gave you, but I forgot! Which sister did she mean though?"
But Pen shook her head, "Later, okay?"
"Sure. Sorry." Annabeth turned to Coach Hedge. "Do you know how to use it?"
The satyr, to both their surprise, nodded. "That story's famous among us satyrs. Not really a lot to the process though. Here, give it to me."
He held out his hand and Penelope carefully placed their best hope to heal Leo into his palm.
Coach slipped of the remaining shred that once was Leo's shirt of the boy and placed the Amazonite exactly in the middle of his chest.
Then he started to say a few words in a strange language Penelope did not recognize, but which reminded her of growing trees and little saplings.
The silence that followed Coach Hedge's incantation was so intense, you could have heard a feather drop. They all held their breath as they waited whether or not the stone would work.
And then, slowly, the Amazonite started to glow, a soft golden light, and waves of it washed all over Leo's body. Before their eyes, his scars and bruises healed and the burn marks became faint and pink. With each wave, Penelope felt her heart lift. Please, let this work.
After a final golden wave, the stone turned black, making the golden engraving glow brightly in contrast.
Carefully, Coach Hedge removed the gem and handed it back to Penelope, who pocketed it.
"Did it work?" Annabeth asked, and the satyr took a moment before he answered.
"Can't say. Should've, but ya never know with magic. I guess it's safe now to feed him ambrosia though."
"I'll do it." Penelope said, and Coach nodded, offering her his seat. She sat down and took Leo's hand, which was still limp but warm.
"Give him some every now and then." the satyr told Pen, who took the ambrosia he was holding out. "And eat some of it yourself."
"Percy, can you get up?" Annabeth asked her boyfriend, who stood up and walked over.
"We'll leave you alone for a bit." Annabeth smiled, and kissed Penelope's cheek, who threw her a look of thanks, and the three left the room.
When she was alone with Leo, Penelope whispered "Thank you, Mum. Thanks Chleo."
Sitting by Leo's side, Penelope felt grateful, even though she wouldn't know if Leo was really okay until he woke up.
But at least this had made her realise something. It didn't matter what Aphrodite had told her, she shouldn't have been scared by it. The only thing she cared about at the moment was that her friends
were safe. From now, she would chose her own fate. Whatever that might be.
And as she sat there, gazing down at the face so dear to her, she got the feeling that she might not have to look far to find it.