Leo and Calypso joined Nico, Hedge, and the others as the table. Hedge told them about what had been going on the last couple of months. Leo was particularly interested in the journey that Nico, Hedge, and Reyna had taken to bring the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood. In return Leo told his story of traveling to Ogygia and how he managed to survive the final battle with Gaea.

Jason and Piper were the first ones to show up. The few clouds that were in the sky darkened and lightning flashed in the area as they came charging into the clearing on the back of Jason's horse.

Leo watched them as they climbed down from the horse and the horse disappeared. They looked around for a moment and caught sight of him watching them. They stared at each other for a moment. To Leo it seemed as if they had seen a ghost.

"Well?" He called over after a moment. "You going to come over here and say hello or are you going to stand there like a couple of Midas's statues?"

They started to run over and Leo met them halfway. Piper got to him first and threw her arms around him.

"Leo!" She cried with her voice cracking a bit. She pulled back and looked at him in the eyes. "I didn't know what to think when we got the message from Chiron that you were back. But here you are."

"Leo!" Jason cheered and slapped him on his back before joining in on the hug. "How in the world did you survive that explosion? Even Festus survived!"

"How come it has taken you so long to get back to us?" Piper asked.

"Yeah where have you been?" Jason chimed in. "You have been gone a long time!"

"Well it's not like I planned to be gone for so long!" Leo replied defensively. Course for me it has only felt like a week."

"In the end it doesn't matter," Piper replied. "The important thing is that you are back with us now." She pulled him into another hug and Leo started to feel tears stinging his eyes.

"Did you ever doubt that I wouldn't make it?"

She answered by slapping him in the face.

Percy and Annabeth showed up at the Mess Hall not long after as Dinner was starting to approach. Percy was the first one who made it to Leo. He grabbed him by the shoulders and started to shake him.

"Where have you been?" He yelled. "Of all the hair brained schemes that I have heard of yours has to be the stupidest one!" He was shaking Leo so hard that Leo thought his eye balls were going to pop out of the sockets.

"Yeah like you have never been involved in any hair brained schemes," Annabeth said as she pulled Percy away from Leo.

"At least mine don't include making people believe that I am dead," Percy argued.

"Excuse me, Seaweed Brain? I remember you blowing up a volcano and giving everyone the impression that you were dead for a period of time."

"I…shut up," he responded and everyone laughed.

"It's good to have you back, Leo," Annabeth said and gave him a hug. "How did you survive?"

"That appears to be the question of the day my friend," Leo answered. "All of which will be explained soon. First there is someone that I want you two to meet." He turned and gestured to Calypso. "This my friends is Calypso…though I guess Percy has already met her…" He had forgotten that Percy had been stuck on Ogygia for a time a couple of years ago.

"Yeah…hey Calypso…," Percy said sheepishly.

"Hey Percy…" Calypso responded.

"Look I'm really sorry. I was an idiot and forgot about you…I was a terrible friend."

"Yes you were…but it's ok…it's in the past now. I forgive you."

"Hi, Calypso," Annabeth said. "I'm Annabeth. Founding member of the Percy is an idiot club. I have come to talk to you about joining."

After all that was taken care of things went well. The remaining campers showed up at the Mess Hall for dinner and a celebration was held for Leo returning and for Calypso finally being free after being stuck on that island for so long.

Once everyone had eaten Leo was requested, or more forced, to stand up and tell everyone the story of how he survived the battle with Gaea and what he had been up to since. So he did. As he talked everyone paid close attention to what he was saying. Never had so many people given him so much attention without him being trouble or having first done something incredibly stupid.

When he finished his tale he sat down and Chiron got up and spoke about how happy he was that Leo had returned to them and that all the mess surrounding Gaea could now be put behind them as they looked forward to a bright future.

Everyone cheered and started to talk amongst themselves when Percy stood up in the front.

"Hey!" He yelled and raised his hands to get everyone's attention. "I have one more thing to add before we move on! Leo will you please come up here?"

Not sure what to expect Leo moved up to the front and stood before Percy.

"As you may know Leo at the end of each summer we create a bead to add to our necklaces. Every year we try to choose a design on the bead to represent something big that happened during the summer. Since you are a live and not barbeque we want to present you with that bead. And we got you a new necklace since yours was…destroyed."

Percy reached forward and in his hand was a small leather necklace that had a small bead on it. Leo took it and inspected the bead closely. The background design was yellow, orange, and red which gave the appearance of fire. In the center was the head of a metal dragon which looked exactly like Festus.

"We chose this design to honor you…since without you we wouldn't have gotten far on the quest…we wanted to make sure that we and everyone else at Camp Half-Blood never forgot what you did."

Leo didn't know what to say. He looked down at the bead and back up to Percy. He couldn't stop the tears in his eyes from starting to stream down his cheeks as a lump in his throat formed.

Percy put a hand on his shoulder and smiled at him.

"Welcome home, Leo."