"You think you can fix this?" Leo asked the officially woken up, and hyperactive Skye.

"Yep! I'm sure." She lifted up her hands, as if she wanted him to pick her up. Rolling his eyes, he swung her round and placed Skye on his shoulder. Biting her lip, she grabbed a hammer and the nails, and began to put all the metal pieces together.

They were trying to fix Festus. Without the missing parts, it was nearly impossible, but Leo wasn't going to give up so easily. "Hang on there, Festus, buddy."

Festus creaked. Well, it was more like a metallic snort. Leo translated,

Where am I meant to hang onto, then?

Leo gave an annoyed look at his metal dragon friend; Skye laughed at his comment.

"Quit with the sarcasm, dragon,"

Then frowning slightly, Leo turned to his sister. "You understand him?"

Skye nodded eagerly. "Of course. It's a Hephestus thing, right?"

Shrugging, he replied, "I guess so."

The rest of it was in silence, except Buford walking around and knocking into Leo every few minutes to give them something. This usually ended in Leo nearly tripping, knocking something over, like a spanner. This would bounce of two walls, Festus, the door, and knock out an innocent demi-god who was passing the cabin. That bad.

As Skye quietly leaned on Leo, he remembered last night with Nico and Reyna.

Reyna tried to calm a very ADHD son of Hades, and daughter of Hephestus, both who decided it was a good idea to start blowing up things. "NICO! SKYE! CALM DOWN OR NO MORE CHOCOLATE!"

They both shut up. Slowly, he backed away from the angry praetor, carrying Skye on his hip and ran away. Leo laughed, as he sat against the wall.

Absent-mindedly, he fiddled with his hammer from his tool-belt, as he watched, very entertained. Reyna noticed, and sat down next to him. She hadn't killed him yet, so Leo took that as a good sign.

"You really want to fix your dragon, don't you? What was his name...?" Reyna asked.

"Festus."

"You named your dragon, Happy?!"

"Err, yes."

She face-palmed and shook her head. "You almost seem hurried? What? Got someone waiting for you?" She teased, although she was joking. Leo should have been surprised, Reyna, joking.

But hurt filled up inside him, and he smile was snatched of his face and his brown eyes wandered off somewhere.

Reyna stopped. "Leo?"

Suddenly, Nico burst in through the door, Skye asleep in his chest. His dark black hair fell onto his eyes; he looked still the same, just slightly more happier.

"Hi. Please don't kill me."

Grinning a tiny bit, he lowered himself next to the pair. However, he began to frown when he saw the expressions on their faces.

"Guys...?"

"Who did you meet?" Reyna asked, although it sounded praetor-ish, as if it was an order. A curious and surprised look spread across Nico's face.

Leo's voice cracked slightly, "I... I will tell you, just not now. Someone, okay? I need to build Festus. He's my friend anyway."

Recognition and understanding crossed Reyna face. She nodded.

Nico, still curious, asked, "Why do you need to rebuilt only Festus? And how do you rebuilt him anyway?"

"Well..." Leo started, "In short words, I need Festus because he's amazing and has many powers and is ... different. I guess, I need, like a control disk, but... there was only one... and it's broken. They are really rare to find... I guess we just have to replace it with something which is quite similar. But, problem is, nothing is that powerful. Except for a new control disk. Which is virtually impossible to find in this century." He finished.

Nico leaned back, frowning, with a look on his face that resemble trying to remember something. You know, when something is right at the back of your head, but you can't reach it?

Shaking his head, he landed back into reality. "I don't know much about mechanics... unless they have something to do with ghosts or the underworld. " He smiled sadly.

A hand landed on their shoulders. Reyna. "Come on. All three of you. You should go back. It's getting late. Nico, you have enough energy to shadow travel? Are you kidding me, you better have. You drank enough coffee. " She pulled them both up. Nico handed Skye to Leo.

"Bye, then."

She gave a slight wave, before Leo grabbed Nico's arm and they entered into darkness.

BAM!

They landed somewhere next to the cabins in Camp Half-Blood. Nico suddenly collapsed.

"Please tell me you can walk to your cabin? ...Never mind." Leo groaned.

Sighing, he grabbed Nico and carried him on his left shoulder, whilst Skye was on his right. As he stepped into the Hades cabin, Skye woke up with the commotion.

"Huh?" Her dark curls were spread all over face as she slipped from out underneath Leo's arms.

Immediately, he dropped Nico onto the bed, and he snored lightly in his sleep. Just before they left, Skye kissed Nico on the cheek- he smiled in sleep, before exhaustedly turning over. Skye grabbed Leo's hand as they walked out of the cabin.

It wasn't very dark; demi-gods were still training. Without warning, they both knocked into Jason and Piper.

"Dude." Jason started. "Where in Hades were you?"

Leo shrugged, as Piper pulled his hand and dragged all of them to the training area.

Therefore, the trio and Skye spent the rest of the day sparring.

Nico woke up and yawned. He wondered what time it was; the sun was high in the sky.

Gods, it was the afternoon. He had overslept! Nico remembered last night and smiled; but something nagged in his brain. Ignoring it completely, he walked to the bathroom.

When he walked out, he closed the door. The cold metal almost burned and stung against his skin.

Metal... metal...mechanics...Leo...Festus.

Festus!

Overlooking the fact he was still in his pyjamas and he looked a mess, he ran out of his cabin. He received a few strange looks, and a weirdly a few swooning glances, but completely avoided them. On the way, he knocked into Percy and Annabeth.

"Nico...?"

"Sorry!" He yelled back, as he accidentally nearly flattened them. They glanced at each other and just started at him.

Abruptly, he rushed into the Hephestus cabin. Leo jumped and Skye dropped her tools. Festus creaked in annoyance.

"Nico, what is it?"

He gasped for breath.

"I can help you... with the someone..."

"Help with what?"

Nico fixed his gaze on them.

"I know how you can rebuilt Festus."