Long time, no see?

Sorry! For those of you who haven't read it, I've been working a lot harder on my other story, "An Oath To Keep". 24 chapters don't happen in a night. Sorry if your life depends on this story, and you died from this huge delay!

Thanks for all the reviews, and I made a really long chapter! I hope you like it, and it makes you cry, lol. This isn't as sad as the other chapters, in my opinion.

Thanks!

-teamleo4(the win!)

Calypso

"Are you sure?" He asked again, staring at Calypso intently. His eyes never left her face. He was a ghostly pale, but yet still beautiful. It was still him, and that's all that she needed.

"Yeah, yeah," she mumbled into his shirt. He kept pulling them over to a nearby couch. He slowly pushed on her shoulders, making her sit down. He quickly sat beside her.

She kept her head buried into his shirt, and he held her close to him.

She gasped out a few words between sobs. "What happened to you?" He winced, and Calypso noticed, looking up at him. "What did she do to you?"

He put on a brave smile, but it quickly faltered. "It doesn't matter. Did she hurt you?"

She laughed dryly. "I am dead, aren't I?"

Leo nodded. "I mean, did she torture you?"

"No." Her eyes filled with horror. "She tortured you?"

It wasn't much of a question. Leo nodded again.

Calypso pulled him back into a hug. "What did she do?" She whispered slowly.

"It doesn't matter right now. What matters is that we're together. That I was able to keep my promise."

She slowly nodded, and recited, "An oath to keep with a final breath. You kept that promise by dying for me." She closed her eyes, trying to fight back tears. She had to be strong.

"I think you're right."

She sighed, and opened her eyes. "I'm sorry for everything."

He looked at her, surprised. "How is it your fault?"

"If I never saw you-"

"How can you blame yourself for that? That's Gaea's fault!"

She didn't respond, thinking back to one of her last memories. . .

She was in her cave, back on the island. The ground shook under her, as she leaned on the wall.

Gaea's voice rumbled through the dirt. I told you you could have been spared. You could have lived. But you disobeyed me. Now you must pay.

The ground in front of her grew. It seemed to bubble, almost, until it was the size of a person. It started growing features. It turned into Gaea, but unlike all the other dreams, her eyes were now open.

I have risen in the old Mount Olympus. The gods and their spawn will soon be destroyed. But now that includes you. Gaea smiled, staring through Calypso, as if analyzing everything about her.

Calypso had grown use to Gaea's aura of power, but now it was a hundred times stronger. She stumbled back, trying to get away.

The ground shook again, but this time in the center of it all was Gaea. She slowly pointed her finger at Calypso. She froze when Gaea's mouth opened. "You will pay for your decisions." The ground cracked around Calypso, but she was frozen in place. The dirt gave way, and instead of more dirt being under it, it was darkness. She fell through, and she couldn't even scream.

She woke up between two brick walls, with metal bins and black bags surrounding her. The smell was horrible. She covered her nose, and got up shakily.

She had no idea where she was. One minute, she was having a dream, the next, she had been teleported to some other part of the world. If she could call her island part of the world.

The ground trembled beneath her. She slowly walked into the road. She slowly walked towards the opening, but as she got close she heard a siren. She backed back up, almost tripping over one of the black bags.

She placed her hand on one of the walls, steadying herself. She warily took a step back towards the opening as the sirens continued. She peered back out, and got her first glimpse of the real world.

A road laid in front of her, cobblestone. Like ones she had seen before. She took another careful step onto it, but that hesitant step seemed to cause a chain reaction.

Down the road, it looked like something huge was tunneling under the earth. It took up the whole street, knocking large metal objects into the air like they were flies. And worse still, it was coming straight for her.

She screamed and dove back into the alley, running further into it. She turned right at an intersection, and kept running.

She didn't know what that was, but she could assume it wasn't a regular part of the real world, as she could already hear screams in the distance.

She stopped when she had ran a few alleyways away. She caught her breath, putting her hands on her knees. She knew she had to keep moving. Gaea was destroying the real world, and she wouldn't stop because Calypso was standing there. In fact, Gaea would plow right through her.

She saw another large opening ahead, and started running towards it. She peaked out, ready to run the opposite way if any trouble was coming.

Nothing was there.

She quickly ran out, and down the road. She heard screams coming from behind her, and was tempted to go back and try and help. But she knew Gaea was probably watching her. If she went back, she would worsen the chance of survivors.

She barely noticed where she was going. She barely registered the fact that there was fighting ahead until she was already in it. She looked around, seeing monsters all over the place. They had swords, and were fighting a group of people.

A monster lunged at her. She couldn't register the details, only that it was vaguely humanoid. She closed her eyes, waiting for death to come.

"No!" She heard a scream in the distance. She recognized it. She must be dead. Because there was no way she would ever hear that voice again. She hadn't felt the impact though. How death could be that painless, more painless than any moment in her life, seemed impossible. Maybe the gods were finally being nice to her. Only took them until the end of the world.

Dust exploded over her. She opened her eyes, to see sand blowing away from her, and a man standing in front of her.

"You need to leave-Calypso? What-" He asked, but his questioning was cut off short. Another monster lunged at the pair, and they both had to dodge. This time it was a centaur.

The black-haired man lunged at the centaur, and slashed his sword down. The monster exploded into dust as well.

Breathing heavily, Percy turned back to her. "What are you doing here?"

She didn't respond. More like, she couldn't. She stared at him, still crouching on the cobblestone street.

He held his hand out to her. "Whatever the reason, you need to get out of here!"

Ignoring his hand, she pushed herself up and turned away from him, fighting tears. She wasn't going to cry over a man who had left her years ago.

"Percy, I need some help over here!"

But she was going to cry over him.

"One second, Leo!" Oh gods, the Fates really do hate me. "Calypso, what are you doing here?" Percy asked again.

She ignored him again, looking past him towards the boy fighting off an empousai. He was on fire, wielding a hammer.

She had a flashback of Leo saying that he was on a quest with Percy, but it never really hit her until now.

"I don't know," she whispered. "Where am I?"

"Athens," he replied quickly. "I need to go help. Just, wait here."

"I've got to go help him." Percy tried to follow her gaze. "Who, Leo?"

She pushed past him, running towards the flaming boy, who was now taking on a Cyclops. She reached down at just the right time to grab a dagger from beside a dust pile, and threw it at the Cyclops. It hit the monster directly in the eye (she had no idea how it did), and it disintegrated.

The boy turned slowly around. "Thanks, Percy, I hate Cyclopes. Resistant to fire-" He cut off, staring at the new arrival. "Calypso?"

"How do you two know each other?" Percy had followed her over.

Calypso didn't look back at him. Leo's fire had stuttered to a stop, and as soon as it did she flung herself into his arms. He was still gaping.

Tears were already streaming down her face.

"Holy Hephaestus-"

"You mean 'bronze bulls'?" she asked, smiling through the tears.

"Either way-"

"What's going on?" Percy asked.

Leo looked over her shoulder. "Not important, we need to keep moving."

Percy was still confused, but he nodded. "We need to meet up with the rest of the group. They're down the street a ways now. We need to find Piper and Jason." Calypso looked around to see that the others had already moved on.

Leo looked back at her, smiling slightly, but there was pain in his eyes. "Sorry I didn't get to be the hero and come back, but-"

"That's fine," she whispered, her face still wet. "I like saving you a lot better."

"Leo!" Hazel's shout brought her back to reality.

A few figures were heading towards them, but it seemed like the whole room's attention was focused on them.

The rest of the seven, minus Piper and Jason, were a few feet away from them. Leo stood up, and surprisingly, walked over to Frank first.

"Sorry, man." Frank looked at him questioningly. "If I hadn't let Piper and Jason out of my sight-"

"Leo, you can't blame yourself!" Hazel scolded him. "We all were busy," she added quietly, looking at the floor.

"Did someone say 'Leo'?" A voice called out from the crowd. The crew turned toward the sound.

A huge group of people, over half the room, started coming towards them. And they swarmed Percy and Annabeth, not noticing Leo at all.

Leo looked over at Calypso, smiling. "Ready to meet my friends?"

Good, bad? Thanks for reading, and please review! Wanted to make a really long chapter for my comeback, lol.

-teamleo4(the win!/the heartbreak!)