The Seven Childhood Oneshots

Hello everyone! This is Clearcloud. Sorry it has been so long since I have done this story, I have had a lot of stuff to do. But this is the day you have all been waiting for...

Drum roll please! *drums*

LEO!

I promise you, it will be worth it. ;)

Thanks for reviewing: owlhuntress and ThunderWolf7226. Thanks so much and I might do Nico, Will and Reyna.

Well, sit back, relax, and enjoy!

Leo

Leo Valdez was eight years old and running away. Aunt Rosa was cruel. Even after her sister had died, she believed that her sobrino was a little devil. Leo sat down. He was just so tired. This was his first runaway, and he expected many more.

He started to sob. His mother. That stupid earthen lady had forced him to... he couldn't think about it. He tried to pull himself together.

He tapped the ground. I love you. The Morse code for that phrase was so special to him, so dear to his heart, that it was a part of him.

Leo shakily took a deep breath. he got up and started running again. He passed a lot of things - an abandoned grocery store, a few apartment buildings, and a tech store that looked like it had been in a fire. He had never been to this part of Dallas before. There was an eerie silence. Then a sound. Tap, tap. Tap tap tap.

Follow. Leo carefully approached the doorway. His eyes glanced around at everything, darting around. His legs seemed to sink in the debris and ashes, as if making sure he didn't make it to wherever he was going. Then another, Tap, tap. Tap tap tap. Then a voice, Do not go... He knew it was that earthen woman's voice. Tap, tap. Tap tap tap.

They were arguing. Leo couldn't be manipulated by voices, though. He trusted code.

He followed the taps to the back of the room. There was one last tap and only the sound of Leo's breathing remained. Then he noticed a television screen. Even better, there were three wires, red, yellow, and blue, sticking unharmed out of it.

"Score," he breathed to himself. Above the TV, there was a damaged sign saying, " - stus TV."

Leo cocked his head and then grinned. "Must have been a news station or something!" He hastily got to work, fixing the wires, knowing instinctively which wires went where and how to get it stable. When he got to the part where you actually turn it on, he saw a metal he had never seen before. It was bronze in coloring, and tougher to move. But after a little budging, he got it to click into place.

"There." Light flickered to life on the screen and gears sizzled and popped. Leo saw himself on the screen, as scrappy and disheveled as ever, but thinner and his hair was much longer than he remembered it to be. Anyway, he started to talk like he was a newscaster and started telling the weather.

"Welcome, folks, to Stus TV! I'm Leo Valdez, your host, and today is Wednesday, September 18th. It's a gloomy day, cloudy with T-storms to come later and a scorching hot temperature of 97 degrees Fahrenheit!Oh, and breaking news..." He was bringing life to a horrible place filled with horrible memories.

Meanwhile, in New York, at the Empire State Building, on the 600th floor, the Olympians were lazily sitting in their thrones.

Zeus grumbled, "You there! Cyclops." He pointed. "Tear down that television. It was disabled years ago." Hephaestus stood to protest, but suddenly the TV flickered to life.

On the screen was a ratty boy who looked about eight or nine, totally goofing off.

Hera whispered, "That is my little hero."

The boy's father tapped, Follow.

Well, hope you enjoyed and be sure to review!

MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU (sorry I missed the May fourth)

-Clearcloud