Chapter 9
Leo's POV
Man, Percy's sister was sister was HOT, and this was coming from me, the awesome fire phoenix (A nick-name I surely deserved). But I played it cool with her if I do say so myself, I mean sure, I tripped a few times, and whenever I was near her i could feel my cheeks get red, but isn't that love? I bet she had NO idea I had feelings towards her. I mean, I was playing it so cool that even I had to remind myself a few times. That's me, Mr. Cool, well; I guess I'm actually Mr. HOT. Ha!
I was shot back to reality when Piper yelled "Hey, repair boy! You gonna help us?" I looked around me and noticed that a battle was going on around me. Whoa, when did this start? I thought. Guess my ADHD was getting the best of me. Sam was right next to me, fighting with a bandit-type mask. I got out my hammer out of my tool belt and summoned some fire, determined to impress her. Sam looked over and did a double take "W-What?" she said. I laughed a little because of her expression. "I'll explain later. Right now, there are some Cyclopes that need their butt kicked!"
The battle went on and Sam and I found ourselves closer and closer. Finally we were back to back, slashing and dodging the Cyclopes blows, like we've done it all our lives. My fire didn't work on them since they were immune to it but my awesomeness did confuse them. I looked around at the battle raging all around me. Percy and Annabeth were back to back fighting together in such synch that even if I didn't know them, I could tell that they're boyfriend and girlfriend. They slashed and dodged. Percy with his Roman and Greek style; Annabeth going invisible once and a while.
I quickly made some easy machines that slashed and spat water out at the cyclops, which confused them to no end, they were easy to make, and Sam was a perfect guarder type thing. Well I think she's perfect at EVERYTHING. But being Mr. Coo- HOT. I wasn't gonna let HER know this.
"Would you please hurry up?" She asked, breathless, I looked up at her; apparently me making thirty machines didn't impress her. Unless she was playing hard to get, what a pro.
I swung my hammer up and knocked down a Cyclops that was coming up behind her, she turned around just quick enough to see it explode in a pile of dust, or feel it or whatever. The mask had no eye holes in it I just noticed. She smiled at me, "Thanks." she said
"Hey! How can you see in that thing?" I asked while back to back with her fighting off Cyclopes that had managed to get through my wave of machines.
"I don't!" She shouted back.
"Huh?" Whoa, if she was fighting blind, she had some pretty good senses. This girl just kept on impressing me. We went on fighting like this until almost all the Cyclopes were gone."You're going to have to give me the blue prints for that!" She laughed but it stopped abruptly and turned into a strangled gasp. And then I heard a cry of pain from behind me. I turn to see Sam holding her arm delicately. Blood stained her fingers, staining her skin a sickly color. And to make matters worse, another Cyclopes was advancing towards her. I had just enough time to scream her name before the monster was on top of her. All my anger seeped out of me, and in one smooth motion I swung my hammer and the Cyclopes combusted into dust.
Just then, we heard a final roar and then everything was dead silent. Well, except for Atlas screaming, but we all had learned ignore that. Everyone looked exhausted. Annabeth and Percy were leaning on each other. Jason and Piper were breathing hard and looking ready to drop. I knelt on the ground to keep my balance and cradled Sam's head in my lap. "Hey, Annabeth! We need some nectar!" Percy looked over, surprise registered on his face, and he came sprinting over to her.
"What happened to her?" He questioned trying to keep his cool.
"Cyclops got her" Atlas laughed manically, we all turned towards him, he was sitting on a log, with some popcorn.
"She's going to get more hurt than that! All of you are! Because you see, the poem is correct, it's starting and now, there's nothing you can do about it!" He started to laugh again, but when he noticed there were no more Cyclops to help him he gulped and shot us a frightened look.
"What do you mean poem? Do you mean prophecy?" Annabeth asked.
"Yeah, and where'd you get that popcorn?" I asked striding over and popping a piece in my mouth. They all glared at me.
"What?" I asked mouthful "It's never too late to have some deliciousness you know!" Annabeth rolled her eyes and reached into her backpack to get some tape for Sam's wound.
"Not a good time Leo."
"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever." Annabeth and Piper started to care for Sam, I saw Jason sulking all by himself and I walked over, getting another handful of popcorn out of Atlas's box.
"Hey dude, what's up?" He looked at me with puppy dog eyes.
"I-I can't believe that Sa-"
"Dude! I know, isn't she cute!" Jason glared at me.
"Whoa, dude! I'm only stating the obvious!" I said as Jason still glared at me. His gaze was unwavering. Almost like he practiced it in front of a mirror.
"Hey, man, you're freaking me out. I know you can't stop staring at this loveliness, but you know you just have to contain yourself, man." He rolled his eyes and started staring at Piper. Wait, No. His eyes were going in between Sam and Piper, like trying to figure out which one is better. Then it hit me, they used to know each other!
"Jason," He looked at me, "Time to fess up man." He sighed,
"If I tell you, do you swear on the river of Styx you won't tell anyone? ESPECIALLY Piper or Sam?"
"Well-"
"Please?"
"Okay, okay, I swear on the river of Styx not to tell anybody." Jason nodded, I was glad he didn't try to get me to swear on the glory o' Rome again, it was starting to give me a minor migraine, and he knew it.
"Well, when I was six years old, three years after I came into Camp Jupiter," He got the far off look in his eye, I sat down, ready to hear his story about Camp, he never really talked about what happened at Camp before he was fourteen, and I certainly wasn't going to say anything stupid to mess it up, not that I EVER say ANYTHING stupid, all of it is mad brilliance, all I have to do is get other people to understand that.
"More monsters than ever were attacking the boundaries, I'll tell you I led a pretty hard life, and then this girl who was also six who had also lived in a bad territory became my friend. We were best friends people soon thought we were brother and sister we were around each other so much, nobody really respected her though because she was Nept- I mean Poseidon's daughter, but everyone of course respected me. So I guess we evened each other out, when we were younger we didn't have to worry about going on the hunts or anything like that, but then we turned ten, and were going to go on our first hunting trip, Sam didn't want to go, but I pressured her into it, we both went as partners, not able to bring our weapons with us, that was part of the test, we had to be able to do it ourselves." He breathed in sharply, the hard memories coming back into his head, his OVERLY BIG HEAD; Jason gets to do everything, being best friends with this chick? Lucky.
"Leo, are you even listening?" His electric blue eyes bore into me; I snapped back into reality and nodded.
"While we were on the Hunt," He begun again, "A wild boar came charging us. It was HUGE!" Jason said motioning with his arms, "I guess the Greek heroine killed it one time... What was her name again?" He looked at me expectantly.
"Don't look at me! I fall asleep in Greek Mythology 101!"
"That's the sound I hear in the back of the room then!"
"Hey! I do not snore!"
"Um... yes, yes you do, or else you would know what her name is!" His eyes brightened, "Atlanta!" exclaimed Jason,
"Who's that chick?"
"She's the one that Meleager was killed because he wanted her to keep the boar that they killed. Which brings me back to my story."
"Make it quick, man. I have to go talk with that fine lady over there!" I said nodding in the direction of Sam.
"Okay, Okay, so anyways... we were attacked by the Calydonian Boar. She couldn't bring herself to hurt it. She said it has a beating heart just like you, Jason! Would you want someone to kill you? She kept saying to me"
"The boar charged, and she was still talking to me. It almost killed her. But she still refused to kill any living thing. That's why her dad, Neptune, gave her that mask. So, she wouldn't have to see the things that she was killing... she could just, i guess, sense them."
"Wow, is that why she looked like a bandit?"
"Umm, yea..."
"Dude! I thought she was going to rob me or something!" Jason gave me a weird look, and then chuckled. His eyes got sad again though,
"That was when... I" He stuttered and stopped putting his hands on his face, I noticed his face was red "That was when I started to... You know... like her, I quickly stepped in front of her and killed the boar, I had no choice! It was going to hurt her! I turned back around to talk to her, but she was gone, she ran off and I had to follow her, when I found her again, she was crying and she told me she never wanted to talk to me again, that I was just like everyone else, who thought that her opinion didn't matter." He sat up and leaned against the back of a stump, blowing his blonde hair out of his face. I was shocked,
"You mean you liked her?" I asked not able to keep the frustration out of my voice. He looked at me, and then turned to look at Piper.
"I don't know Leo, everything is messed up now."
"Especially you" I muttered. He laughed out loud for the first time at one of my jokes ever since we got here.
"Thanks man, for understanding" He said standing up and brushing off his pants.
"Where are you going?" I asked him, standing too, not even caring that I probably had some dirt in my hair.
"I need to talk to Pi-" Just then I heard a scream, Sam and Annabeth's scream.
Dun Dun DUNNN!
