"Dang it!" swore, Leo. "It's been two days hiking through streets, I'm sick of people giving us nasty looks whenever we ask them about "a noseless freakazoid" also all three of us stink, so please" he looked at Percy, who was giving him a look, "Ok maybe you don't stink because of your super power facilities, but what about us? I' ready for a standing shower from you. Spray me with water but give me a break to wash up!" Leo said exasperated.

They had been on the move from Camp Half-Blood for almost two days now, trying to figure out the location of the so called Noseless-Kronos guy. At present they were standing near a Café Bar.

"You sure about the standing shower from me?" Percy asked smirking with mischief at Leo.

"More than sure" answered Leo, his back towards Percy; as he inspected the Café area.

Percy winked at Nico who was rolling his eyes at them both; then he closed his eyes concentrating and summoned icy cold water. Opening his eyes;

"Hey dude, Leo" he called. Leo turned towards Percy with a frown on with face…..

And SPLASH!

Leo gasped, his jaws hanging lose; he stared at Percy with a startled expression.

"Yo-You ser-riously di-did it" he didn't ask it as a question but said it like a statement.

Percy grinned at him,

"You want me to dry you using my counter-wetting talent?" he asked with an amused expression on his face.

Leo could take any amount of sass from Percy because he could sass right back, but this one…

"Oh well, fire always evaporates water" he thought, and then he set himself on fire.

His clothes dried within a minute. He thanked Hephaestus, for the fireproof clothes he had sent them on his last birthday. Then he turned towards Percy with a smirk and started saying;

"There! You see-" but right then the awesome effect of cold water decided to show itself and;

Aaaanchooo! Leo sneezed, his eyes watering.

"Awwww…..let me dry out the water from your hair. Trust me! Or you won't even remember you name after that kind of few more sneezes," said Percy moving towards Leo with a sly grin on his face.

"He is the only one I can actually mess around with" thought Percy, "My better half."

"Trust you?" exclaimed Leo, "You could crack better jokes, how do I trust a guy who wets me with freezing cold water, while my back is turned towards him, huh?" Leo asked with mock anger in his voice.

Percy stared at him wide eyed and his voice dripping with sarcasm he said,

"I didn't know giving you what you need is called: Breaking Trust."

Before Leo could say anything Percy simply placed his hand on Leo's head;

"May you live happily forever; my blessings are with you," he said, and at the same time he used his super talent and dried up Leo's hair.

Leo rolled his eyes and started walking away from Percy,

"Guys, let's go eat something from the rusty Café" he called out as he walked away.

"Yeah, we are following you Mr. Sizzler" replied Percy.

Nico was walking along side of Percy, shaking his head;

"You guys have a sick sense of humor, your humor has no-" Nico stopped trying to find the right word, but Percy completed his sentence before he could;

"Words to describe," he winked at him with a big plastered grin of his face and started jogging to catch up with Leo.

They reached a Park kind of area which was on the way to the Café, there were several tables arranged with chairs for public use. Leo sat down on one of the benches and others followed suit.

"Oh man! I'm so tired, Nico will you-" Leo stopped mid-sentence, because he had heard something; a noise like something banging against something.

"Do you hear that?" Leo asked looking at them.

"Hear what Valdez? Your stomach grumbling? I have been listening to it since-"

Leo cut of Percy, he looked very serious now,

"No, not my stomach. It's something else like-"

The sound came again and this time all of them heard it,

Percy looked alert,

"it's coming from-"

"Under the chair" confirmed Nico.

Leo rose slowly from his chair,

"I think it is from under your chair Nico" he said in a low whisper.

Nico nodded. "Yeah I can feel it, but the thing is, it's not familiar, it is something weird" he replied.

Percy glanced under Nico's chair as he was sitting opposite to him;

"It's a er-box," he said confused.

"A box?" asked Nico.

"Yeah, it looks so" said Leo who now had his nerves under control, after all what harm would a box do them.

"But it has life in it" said Nico still on his chair.

"hmm….then there is only one way to find out" said Percy and moved towards the box; picking it up he opened it and moved away.

Something moved out from it,

"Wha-"began Nico, but a yell from Leo cut him off.

Leo was yelling at something to his right. Nico saw Percy jogging towards Leo, concern on his face. Nico too got down from his chair and started moving fast towards Leo.

"You left her to die; I blame you for her death Leo! I blame you! It is your fault that she is not with us! Yours! You could have done something…..but NO! You just went OFF! WHY? WHAT KIND OF FRIEND ARE YOU? I HATE YOU! LEAVE ME AND MY FRIENDS GET AWAY WE ALL HATE YOU FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE! NEVER COUNT YOURSELF AS A FRIEND AMONG US! I REGRET EVERY MOMENT I SPENT WITH YOU. YOU ARE NOTHING BUT THE THIRD WHEEL…WHICH YOU ALWAYS HAVE BEEN. Let's go guys" Calypso turned away from Leo, hatred and regret all over her features and all the rest of Leo's friends- Frank, Hazel, Jason, Piper, even Percy and Nico moved towards the dead body of Annabeth; all of them with pure hate all over their faces.

Leo stood white faced, his knees shaking like Jell-O. He felt like screaming, telling them that he was not what they thought. "Third Wheel" those two words kept echoing in his head. His fear of losing his friends and Calypso was over powering him. Even Percy and Nico were there-his sub-consciousness snapped; somewhere in his brain he could remember him sitting with Percy and- But suddenly he felt like the scene was changing in front of him, it just dissolved into a blur.

Percy had been watching Leo along with the scene that was playing in front of Leo. Leo looked paralyzed with fear. When Leo looked like he was about to pass out Percy pulled him sideways and saw the scene in front of him dissolve into a blur and another one formed. Before he actually got totally into the scene he heard Leo gasp and Nico pouring water into his mouth.

"Wha- what was that?" he heard Leo ask Nico. But Percy didn't wait to find the reply because he was already focused on the scene in front of him.

"You are the one who has caused all this destruction" the voice in his head whispered; "Now watch as all you have sowed gets destroyed and wiped out from your life." The voice in his head boomed with laughter, he recognized it as a mixed voice of Kronos and Gaia.

Percy sat there strapped to a chair with tight cords which wasn't budging an inch no matter how he tried. All around him a was blood: Blood of his friends. He screamt at them to go and save themselves, but they couldn't hear him. He saw one of his friends from the Hermes Cabin die, He saw Chiron dying after being shot by his very own arrow. Percy yelled in agony, tears filling his eyes what he saw next made all the hair on him stand on ends.

There stood Annabeth screaming for help as two Cyclopes tied her using a rope while an Empousa was squeezing her throat. Percy closed his eyes and reached for his only hope: Water. He couldn't find it for miles, but he did find one about 4 miles from where he was tied. He had never tried moving water from this great distance, but right now he would do anything to save his friends. He closed his eyes tighter, concentrating but right then he heard a scream and at once he knew whose it was: Annabeth.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" he screamt, he felt like he was in hell, for what reason he didn't know, because the worst of his fears were coming true; his friends dead, Annabeth lying on the ground like a wringed and lifeless doll. While he was still in pain and agony e felt he whole earth shake, he raised his head, and to his horror he realized that the whole place was underwater. "You have done it, Hero" said the voice in his head with mock innocence, "You have submerged more than half the world underwater" the voice cackled. That is when Percy realized he was having problem in breathing, because he had been screaming.

But he never stopped screaming, his voice echoing all around the place. He screamt until a hand on his shoulder shook him, calling out to him.

"Go away! Leave me! Now what else do you have to torture me with? GO AWAY!" Percy yelled.

"No. No listen it's gone, see, it's gone, it was just a Boggart" said a strange but comforting voice. "You know it's just one of the creatures that makes you see your worst fears, this one was powerful one, but we killed it. It's ok now. Look up."

Percy slowly put his head up and saw that he was in a green area-

"Wait a minute…..I was-" he started, but then he stopped and looked in the direction from which he thought he had heard the voice.

"Who are you?" he asked to the two teenagers-one red-headed and one dark haired both having some kind on stick in their hands; he uncapped Riptide, and he was on his feet in a flash.

"Percy stop!" it was Nico u caught hold of Percy; "they just helped you, I don't know how but they just killed that thing-Bogdart or whatever it was."

Percy was shivering inwards, he noticed Leo looked somewhat like him,

"Okay, I guess we need some explanation about it all, so we may as well sit down on these dam chairs," said Percy trying to sound normal; he sat down motion the two new comers to join.

They all settled down, and then the red haired boy looked at them and cleared his;

"Hi, I'm Ron and this" he said pointing towards the dark haired boy "is my friend Harry."

"Nice to meet you, and thanks for saving my life." said Percy nodding towards both of them."And I'm Percy and these are my friends Nico and Leo" he said pointing at each of them. They both smiled and nodded.

Leo who seemed to have recovered from his shock and fear, looked up at them and asked;

"How did u kill that thing? And what was that about fear and whatever?"

"It was a creature called the Boggart, it takes the form of your worst fear. So whatever you saw in it was actually what you fear the most." The boy named Harry answered.

Leo shivered remembering, it was like living through your nightmares right into Hell.

"And how we killed it was a spell and laughter," said Ron, who looked a bit uneasy.

Leo and Percy sat more straight and alert, but they looked amazed;

"Seriously dude?" said Leo, "How in Hades can you kill that terrifying monster with you laughter and some Abracadabra spell?"

"And that too in like seconds?" asked Nico, who seemed disappointed that he hadn't managed to kill it himself.

"Well, isn't that what Wizards do?" said Harry, looking a bit amused himself.

"WIZARDS?" all three of them said together.

"You mean wizards exist?" asked Nico baffled.

"You are looking at two of them" said Harry who couldn't help smiling.

"And we used Riddikulus not Abracadabra for killing it."

"Well, it sure sounds ridiculous" said Leo with a grin, which made them all laugh.

" Bloody Hell! so you are telling us that you fight monsters?" exclaimed Ron.

"I could react the same to you magic skills" said Percy with a grin.

They had been explaining about each other's world, both the sides were amazed about the others' world.

"But you said you came here from London. What brings you here?" asked Leo curiously.

Both Harry and Ron looked a bit hesitant but slowly Harry started,

"There was once a wizard who turned bad, and went on to the dark side. We killed him, but he seems to have survived somehow, we are in search of him so we have come all the way here searching for him, because we got information that he has combined with some new power and is more powerful than before and he-"

"Whoa! Whoa! Hold on" said Percy raising his hand then he looked at others his eyes shinning and the other two looked back at him.

"We sure have hit a jackpot" said Leo, it felt like a new fire of hope had ignited in his eyes.

"Maybe we do have chances of winning now" said Nico.

"What are you guys talking about?" asked Ron, looking from one to another. He was confused.

"This is like the best thing that has happened in the past two days" said Percy, trying to explain, "It so happens that we to have been looking for something of that sort, but the only difference is that we didn't know what the other power was, but now we do. From what you have said I'm more than sure that you too are here for killing him aren't you?"

"uh—yeah, but may we know what is the other half? I mean Voldemort is a wizard so what has he combined with? A demigod like you?" Ron asked.

"Demigod?" Leo laughed a bit, "demigods are easier to defeat but what he has combined with is a Titan-Lord."

Both Harry and Ron's eyes widened,

"Bu-but we have read about Greek gods and Titans, they are powerful, killing a wizard is one thing but a Titan? Has it been done before?" asked Harry trying to conceal the panic from his voice.

"About the powerful part you are not wrong, and just so you know this god which your wizard villain has combined with is the Titan of time, named Kronos,so he can control you,….you know slow down time" said Nico.

"Not only that, he has other talents too" said Leo with a smirk.

"What are they?" Ron asked looking a bit sick.

Percy caught Leo's eye and saw the mischief in them and said;

"Oh- it's nothing to worry about. It's just that even though he is all powerful he still has some extra talents such as dumb-wit-"

"Crappy ideas" added Leo.

"No sense of humor" said Percy with a grin.

"And believes that he can defeat us" said Leo with the same grin on his face.

"And mind you he has a terrible clothing style" added Nico dryly.

They all started laughing, Ron and Harry seemed to like these three and vice versa.

"Voldemort may not have that bad a clothing style, but he sure is noseless" said Ron between his laughter.

Percy made a face;

"So finally it's revealed: "Truth of the Lost Nose" and they all dubbed over laughing.

When the laughter died down, Nico said;

"No matter what we think of them, we must not underestimate them. Who knows Kronos must have finally learnt something after being defeated so many times."

"I would be glad if he has learnt not to lose, but the fact that he is planning on fighting again just shows that he is still the same snob" said Percy.

"Last time I missed the fun" said Leo his eyes glinting, "but this time I will give him his fare share of fire."

Harry and Ron exchanged glances,

"We don't know about fun, but we will try to have some" said Harry, and smiled.

It getting dark, as slowly the sun started sinking towards the horizon.

"I think we must sleep somewhere today, for tomorrow will be a long day" said Percy.

They all nodded in agreement.

"But where do we go?" asked Ron.

"Let's make some use of the Café" said Leo, pointing towards it.

They all got up with a new hope and walked together towards the Café to sleep the night and strike the day.