Hiya guys, it's me Katie and it's my first fanfic and I hope you enjoy this chapter xxxx
Sorry about the OOC but oh well, =D enjoy!
Disclaimer, I do not own PJO or HoO but me and Gina do own the plot xx
Piper's POV
Piper paced around her cabin worried. It had been what, 12 hours now? She checked her watch, yep 12 hours and 3 minutes. She sat down on her bed and covered her face in her hands and thought about the last few hours.
She was sat at the Aphrodite table eating s'mores and laughing with her cabin mates as they sang a random campfire song about weapons in battle.
Then the whole Hephaestus cabin walked in, lead by Nyssa and Jake – that was weird, why wasn't Leo leading them – their heads down, not happy, joking or talking about the creations they had made like they usually were but instead they looked sad and worried and not making a sound as they gave their offerings to the gods.
The campfire went quiet as they noticed that something was wrong, the fire went from bright orange to blue. Nyssa and Jake didn't sit down but walked to where Chiron was sat at the head table. He looked up from his s'more noticing the sudden silence; he noticed the glum look on the Cabin 9's faces and his grin faded.
"He's missing" Nyssa said so quietly it was a surprise that Chiron heard.
She looked terrible, her face was covered in grease and grime, and her eyes looked sad and worried. Her hair was a mess or knots a tangles and her red bandana was falling out of her hair. Her clothes looked no better, yeah they never were crisp clean or freshly ironed like Piper's fellow cabin mates but they looked extra greasy and crumpled today, like she'd been looking for something that couldn't be found – which, by the tone of her voice, she probably had.
"And who would this be?" Chiron asked, concerned by the worry on their faces.
"L-L-L" She paused and took a deep breath in as if to calm herself so she could go on.
"Leo" She replied her head down as everyone around the pavilion gasped.
Chiron shifted in his chair as if suddenly uncomfortable.
"How did this happen? When was the last time you saw him?"
"I don't know how it happened, the last we saw him was when he went to bed, he was reading his book then went down to his room, we only heard him once or twice during the night – probably taking in his sleep, but we heard nothing else of him. But then he didn't turn up for breakfast and, and..." She stopped herself as if it were hard to go on, usually Nyssa was tough and didn't let anything get her down but Leo's disappearance seemed too much for her to handle. Jake took over for her.
Jake looked no better than Nyssa, his hair was so covered in oil and grease that it looked almost black and it was stuck up in every direction. His clothes looked terrible, the Aphrodite cabin would be so ashamed, they looked as if he hadn't taken them off for a week and his trousers had a huge rip down one leg.
"Well," he continued. "We haven't seen him since last night, and we have no idea how he got out of his underground room because the only way is out and up but his bed is still down there. And we can't get in there at all, it is like the gears have gotten stuck somehow, it's like they have been frozen together..." his voice trailed off.
Chiron thought about this, there were few murmurs around the cabin around the campfire but other than that it was silent.
"It seems we need a quest."
Piper stood up from her bunk, she had to pack for the quest. She was so worried about it, they had only managed to survive the last quest because of Leo but he was definitely wasn't coming on this quest. She also worried about the prophecy Rachel had given after the quest was granted, it had spooked her out almost as much as Leo's disappearance, if it was correct... no, she didn't even want to think about it.
Thanks for reading xx Again sorry about the OOC =S
Gina will be writing next I will get her to post as soon as she can !
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