Chapter 3
Leo's POV (From This Point On, The POVs Will Change Like The Books)
Leo was really starting to doubt Percy's intelligence. Whilst dating Annabeth had taught him a lot of general knowledge, it seemed he hadn't learned anything in regards to common sense. When Carter says he can't hold a barrier and the Son of freaking death himself says things are bad it's usually a good indicator things are going awry.
Still Percy was either very brave, very stupid, overly confident or a combination of the three. Annabeth would kill him when she saw him, presuming the emo down there didn't.
Leo had to think fast, in fact he'd always had to think fast. The unspoken rule among demigods "Think fast or die". Luckily for the group of his friends fighting the mysterious enemy Leo hadn't taken Chiron's advice (Or were they orders, to be honest most orders given to him were taken as advice).
He'd flat out told Frank, Hazel, Annabeth, Piper and himself that they weren't leaving the camp for that quest. Well Chiron was both wrong and right. He was right they weren't leaving camp for that quest, but they were leaving to help their friends.
It was lucky they had. Leo and his 'subordinates' as he'd dubbed his friends, (Which had earnt him a smack from all those aboard) were flying the Argo II after the Percy and the rest of them. When he noticed they'd stopped in an alley. From up on the Argo the group had a great view of what was happening.
It wasn't exactly reassuring. First that woman (Who was apparently mortal, which Leo found hard to believe) had turned and opened fire on what she should have seen as four harmless teens. Next that dude had completely darkened their view of the battle ground with that ability. (Jason and Hazel had assured him that neither of them had that ability from Zeus or Hades). Then the new demigods were injured and then finally out of nowhere a near perfect embodiment of evil itself appears.
Carter's magic wasn't holding, Nico couldn't summon any more monsters, Percy was charging the dude and his demonic backpack head on and Jason was trying to help by providing lighting shocks to the woman with the guns. Still it wasn't enough, the demonic backpack was more powerful than all of them combined.
Still Leo had devised a plan. They were armed to the teeth with five more extraordinary demigods on a flying Greek warship. So Leo did what he was good at. He blew shit up.
First he tried raining down molten lava onto the dude with the backpack (Ryunosuke, Leo thought his name was). When all that had done was mildly annoy the dude, Annabeth had sent in the strike team to assist and collect the innocents whilst Leo stood on the Ballista and armed an explosive jar of Greek fire at the dude.
By this time the two baddies must have noticed their flying ship, if not all of Tokyo. Leo grabbed his intercom (Which happened to be controlled by a Wii remote) and sent their new found "friends" a message.
"Hey you in the coat, Lay down that sword. You're outnumbered, overpowered and in case you hadn't notice flanked by a giant, flying, Greek warship filled with other demigods. If you even want to live long enough to rearrange that backpack you'll do as your told, pronto," Leo finished. By the time he'd packed away the intercom, Carter had cast a spell floating the injured to the Argo II and was boarding with Jason, who had been thoroughly conked out with all the use of his powers.
Ryunosuke looked up amused at him, like this was all one big game. "So you think a bunch of teens with abilities and a helicopter can stop me. I'm calling your bluff, Leo Valdez," He finished whilst picking up the sword he'd laid down, albeit slowly.
"If you really think you stand a chance you'll be declaring war on the Port Mafia. That's the one thing no one has ever done and survived. By all means do so though, I like a chal-" Before Ryunosuke could finish his speech Leo had slung a jar of Greek fire at him. Ever since Gaia and Hera had appeared to him as old ladies that randomly knew his name he always attacked anyone who knew his name without him knowing them.
"I don't know how you know my name, but I don't give a flying Zeus about your Port Mafia. You leave now or you're officially declaring war on Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter. Even the gods couldn't beat us. I suggest you leave,"
Even as Leo said the words he doubted them, He wondered who this dude was and how he had such an overpowered godly parent. He'd never seen someone who could survive and assault from Percy or Jason let alone all of the crew of the Argo, and if Leo was honest with himself it scared him.
"I will leave, but not because you scare or frighten me, Leo, but because I will be back. And when I do return, I will kill you and all your friends and dismantle this ship before your very eyes," With his creepy promise made he went to leave. Leo wasn't having it.
"Oh no you don't, loser." Leo said as he armed Festus with one of the special nets, direct from Poseidon himself as a gift to Percy for all he'd done. Poseidon had told them the net would hold anything. He remembered the day they'd got the net from Poseidon. "Giants, Gods, Titans, demigods. Anything that can be captured, will be unable to escape this net". He recounted to them, He said he'd used it once to trap Zeus, so Leo had high hopes.
He shot the net directly at the Ryunosuke guy. 'Got you now' Leo had thought, and he had. The net had gone over him and sealed into the ground. But then the backpack started laughing and cut … the net. "Impossible, Poseidon himself gave us that net…" Leo remembered how the new demigod had told them to run from the guy, even willing to die for them to escape. He must have known this guy was disturbing.
"RETREAT!" Leo bellowed running around ringing all the warning bells, sirens and alarms he'd installed for this precise moments. "Everyone onto the Argo."
He looked down to see even Percy had come to his senses and was backing away, attempting to cover the others in case they came back for a surprise attack. Once Leo had seen Percy had climbed aboard, he gunned it.
Leo didn't like to consider himself as someone who ran away from fights too much, But when that fight was against a dude who could take on eight heroes and break a gods net, well Leo was brave not stupid. Thankfully so were the crew, they'd all escaped with only some minor injuries.
"Good thing Carter's here to do his healing, he's better than all the Apollo campers. And if we were trusting Hedge's healing, well let's just say we wouldn't be fighting as well as we do" Annabeth said, trying to lighten the mood, which she succeeded in doing.
"Right then everybody to the war room," Percy said preparing a plan of attack.
Once there all of the heroes had decided to elect Percy as the leader for this council. (After Jason, Percy and Carter's vie for leadership in the war room, Annabeth had decided they would each take turns and if someone didn't want the leadership for that particular mission they could pass it along. "We know this guy said he was a member of the Port Mafia, whatever that is. At any rate that's our best bet, Leo had Festus scan for where their hideout might be and he deduced it was… at the Port. So we start there, any objections?"
When Percy saw everyone was fine with the plan he stood up. "Alright then let's go show this guy why he shouldn't have picked a fight with us."
They all stood up charged with enthusiastic energy. Ready for whatever challenges the crew would face once there.
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