Leo

Leo was sitting on the beach looking out at the water and taking in everything, going over what has happened and listening to the sounds of the waves rolling in and out; just relaxing. Then out of nowhere he was bumped into by a shirtless Festus and a panicking Will that was chasing Festus.

Leo, getting up after being knocked over, asked, "Whoa, what's the rush?" Honestly, he was kind of mad at being pushed over like that but he figured there was a point.

"We got a major problem Big House now," Will answered, shoving Leo toward the big house.

Leo halted in his tracks, stopping Will's shoving. "Okay. First, what's going on?" He was still trying to get his center of gravity back.

"No time to explain here." Will grabbed Leo's wrist, not caring about his opinion, and started to drag him. Leo tried to fight back but couldn't stop Will from dragging him along, and before he knew it he was at the Big House with Will, followed by Festus.

"Chiron! Chiron! Where are you, Chiron?" Will screamed. Leo didn't understand what was so important that he had to be dragged to the Big House; couldn't they have calmly walked instead?

"Will, calm down and just tell me what the matter is." Leo was practically begging, but Will wouldn't stop trying to find Chiron, and so Leo turned. "Festus, do you know?"

Festus shook his head. "I wish I did."

Will was still in his frantic screaming fit when he was cut off by Chiron bellowing, "What is it?"

"Chiron, thank the gods, look at this." Will grabbed the shirtless Festus, then turned him around and pointed to a small golden dragon tattoo on the left bottom side of his back, next to his waistline. It had some wording underneath that Leo thought was Greek but it was too small for him to tell. Leo was sort of annoyed he got dragged to the Big House because of some tattoo.

Chiron ran his fingers across the tattoo. "Craeton's Curse... what does this mean?" He looked to Festus and then Will, obviously intrigued. "Do you know?"

"He hasn't told me yet," Festus replied. He spoke it in a monotone voice but Leo thought his faced looked annoyed.

Chiron turned his attention to Will and Will said, "Let me start from the beginning. So when I was giving him an examination the first day he was here I noticed it but I had no idea what it meant so I asked Festus to stay in the infirmary just in case it was a sickness or something." He seemed calm but he was talking quickly.

"Point, Will," Chiron demanded. He was curious but he wanted to know what was making Will so frantic.

"Right, right. Well, anyway, after the examination I went to the Athena cabin and asked the kids there if they knew anything about it. Lucky for me one of them did."

"So what is it then? I think we are all dying to know." Leo thought a joke might lighten things up, but he had mainly said it to berate at Will.

Will continued, not caring that Leo had said anything. "Well, basically there is this story, about this demigod named Craeton. He was the son of Hermes, and he was sneaky, like way beyond sneaky. Even though he was a demigod he had never been attacked by a monster because he could always sneak away from them, or he hid until they gave up. Then one day he prayed to his dad and said something along the lines of, 'I'm way better than you, I should be a god not you.' Obviously this angered Hermes so he put a curse on Craeton." At that word Leo begin to worry. A curse? Since when was a curse ever a good thing? To add to that, why was Festus cursed?

Festus jumped up and started to pace, his little body shivering at the thought of having a curse. "A curse! I have a curse! What kind of curse? Is it a bad curse, a good one? Will I die, will I-"

"Hang on and I'll explain," Will said, then grabbed Festus and held him in a hug, Leo didn't understand it but when Will done this he got mad. "Basically the curse acts as a homing device for monsters, sort of like if a demigod uses a cellphone, but all the time."

"Well that would explain the increase of monsters around the border..." Chiron looked concerned but steady. "But I can't say I know what we should do. If we keep him here things could get dangerous for all of the campers... but we can't just kick him out." Leo was glad he said this, but just like Chiron he was at a lost as well.

"Maybe we should have a meeting with the counselors..." Will was calmer now.

"That may be best." Chiron didn't seem satisfied, as his hooves sort of tapped the ground with impatience.

"Okay, got it." Will said this, then ran out the door.

Leo couldn't stand letting Will do everything when it was Festus that had the curse – he just wanted to do something, anything to help. "What should I do?" Leo asked.

Chiron looked at Festus then Leo, "You and Festus should stay here while we wait for the others to arrive." Leo didn't like Chiron's response but he only nodded before he sat down. "Leo, now that you've returned technically you resume your position as head counselor of the Hephaestus cabin." Leo hadn't thought of that so he decided it was best just to wait there and tap the table or something. Even though it was the best thing for him to do, he couldn't stand sitting there looking at the worried look on Festus's face.

As he waited Leo tried to keep his mind off of what might happen to Festus, so he was looking around the room and noticed that there were four more chairs from when he was last a counselor, making twenty-four chairs around the ping pong table. Four more chairs? He wondered what god or goddess they had built cabins to. Even though this should've kept his attention Leo couldn't help but let his mind wonder back to what they would decide to do with Festus. Will they decide that it isn't worth keeping him here, that they should just throw him out and hope for the best? As soon as the thought crossed his mind Leo decided that no matter what happened he would stick with Festus. When he decided that he remembered Calypso, and she would stick with him, right? Calypso would stay with him, right? She would understand that what he was doing was best, right?

Before Leo could think on it more two people ran through the door talking, "Okay, so if you could steal a machine gun, or a landmine which would you choose?" It was Connor and Travis Stoll, walking in without a care in the world. Like always.

As they walked in they noticed Festus and Leo but carried on with their conversation. "Land mind, duh. If someone's going to shoot you, you see it coming and expect it. Now a landmine on the other hand you have no idea about! One day you're just walking along, and all the sudden BOOM." They both laughed as they took their seats around the ping pong table.

Leo didn't bother saying anything to them. What would he say? 'Hey guys, it's been a year now I've been dead but can we skip the big reunion because my dragon sort of has a curse'? Yeah, that would go over well. So he sat there listening to their conversation that went from would you steal that or this to would you rather die this way or that way.

Before Leo knew it the counselors were coming in right and left, first Miranda, then Clarisse, then Annabeth and Piper, who were bumping into each other and laughing. Soon the room was full of conversation, not of what this meeting was about. There was still obvious confusion to that. Next entered Butch, who he still couldn't believe was the son of Isis, then Clovis, who looked ready to pass out, and after that Lou Ellen. The ping pong table was so cramped already and there was still three chairs left. He wasn't sure when but he had missed a few of the other counselors come in. As he was trying to figure out who he had missed the last three walked in, Percy and Nico with Will right behind them; they seemed to be having a light conversation about who knew what.

As soon as the two sat down Chiron started talking, "Now I know there is confusion about what this meeting is for but I assure you it is the utmost importance." A few chuckled at his use of utmost. "Will, if you would fill everyone in on the situation from since Leo appeared."

Will stood and began to tell the story. "Well basically Leo appeared and I took him to the Big House with Nico, 'cause you know we thought he was dead, and I just figured Chiron would like to see for himself." Nobody looked very surprised; there were a few head nods but that was all though, "Well after I heard about Festus turning from a dragon to a human, my doctor side kicked in, and I just had to do a full examination," Leo was pretty sure he saw Nico scowl at that. "And when I was examining Festus I saw a tattoo on his lower back that had the words Creaton's Curse written in Greek so I thought this might be important but I had no idea myself so I asked the Athena kids leader herself." He said the last part gesturing toward Annabeth, she took her queue and explained what the curse was and its origin. After she was done explaining those whose mouths weren't on the floor were staring at Festus with awe and fear.

"Well is there a cure?" It was Percy, and he was talking to everyone but looking at Leo.

Leo wished he knew. "If there is a cure I bet it's next to impossible to get." Clarisse wasn't looking at anyone; it looked like she didn't want to say it but was the only one willing.

Annabeth was thinking hard about it. "I've never read anything about it having a cure." She paused, not wanting to give false hope. "But that doesn't mean anything."

Nico spoke up. "So, are we going to have a quest to find a cure that we don't even know exists?" Everyone was silent; no one wanted to admit it but he was right.

"For the time being I think we should focus on keeping him safe." This time it was Lou Ellen who spoke. A few of the others nodded in agreement

The room that was so full of laughter only minutes ago was now serious and tense, trying to be logical but still fare. "Is it safe enough to keep him here?" Will questioned.

Leo noticed Piper giving him a look of concern, and he nodded to her in a way that said 'I'm fine'. She nodded back in a way that said 'I understand' then said, "Maybe not, but could we move them somewhere safer until we can find something about a cure or how to fix it." She looked back at Leo and gave him a glance that said, 'I'm on your side, don't worry'.

"What about Camp Juipter? It'd be a lot safer there then it would here." Percy said this, and somehow the air got a little thicker.

Clarisse spoke again, "Yeah, that's true. But how would we get the little monster beacon there?" They all seemed to be thinking of an effective way of accomplishing that task. "And it's not like we can just bring him over to their Camp and say, 'Hey, hope you don't mind but we kind of need you guys to protect this kid who attracts monsters'." Leo didn't like this fact but she was right.

Butch decided to throw something in, "We could call the Preators through Iris and ask. I'm sure if we explained things they would at least consider it." Clover seemed to have nodded off earlier, and Leo noticed that his head jolted up after Butch had finished.

Connor said, "I say we call them while he's on the way, and say, like, 'Hey, we're bringing someone you need to protect, so thanks'." Travis nodded in agreement.

"Do you two want a war?" Annabeth was glaring at them, "Again." The two backed off the idea and the others laughed at their easy retreat.

Things were silent while everyone was considering all the options; a few minutes passed and it was still silent so Leo decided to say something, "Why don't we call then go from there?" Everyone turned toward him. "I mean if they say yes, then we can decide whether or not to call a quest from there." They all stared at him for a moment before nodding, and a few of them leaned back in their chair.

"Well, I guess that's that. Butch, let's get a connection up to the Preators." The over sized rainbow kid got up to do his job while everyone else sat and waited.

A/N

After this chapter I think that I'm going to start on different POV. I have an idea of who, but I could change my mind.

Also when I started writing this I thought this is going to be nothing but romance and a little bit of the other stuff, but now that I've gotten kind of farther, and I've decided on some more of the plot, the story will have romance but it will also have a lot of chapters like this.

And just one more thing, in the previous chapter I said that there wouldn't be very much of other ships like Soleangelo or Percabeth or you know anything like that but I think that there will be, just you know a normal amount, maybe a sex scene or two, lol.

Well I hope you enjoyed and can't wait for the upcoming chapters.

Oh yeah there are going to be more summaries on the first chapter along with Leo's, they're basically going to be just POV summaries.

I am adding them on the first chapter because there isn't enough room on the summary part(When I add them I'll put it in a A/N)