Hey Guys! Sorry for the late update I need to review for my last tests and then Summer Vacation at my school. Thank you for the support and the reviews. Some of you are asking when will Percy meet Annabeth again well...soon. Sorry I can't spoil the story, but the ball is near so soon. Here's the next chapter:

Chapter 6: The Life of Leo Valdez(Leo's POV)

The first thing that I saw is darkness then suddenly I saw a man with strong arms carrying me while escaping from a mob of people. There was a cry of a baby but I don't know where it came from, I tried to look at the face of the man carrying me but I can't see his him like whe I focus at his face it seems a blur. After running it seems that he couldn't outrun the mob so he found an abandoned house and placed me there. As he slowly leaves me the cry of the baby got louder and louder. Where did that came from? After a few minutes the house was a blaze I don't know where did the fire came from but it spread out really fast still with the cry. After a while there was a person who carried me we left the burning house. Then I heard:

"LEO!"

I opened my eyes and I saw I was locked up in a cell. I tried to find who called me and I saw Jason in a cell just across mine. Leo clenched his fist, he hated that dream he always dreamt of that he just didn't know what it means. Leo was suppose to ask Jason something then suddenly someone came in and opened their cells and cuffed their hands. It was one of the guards that he punched, he said:

"The King wants to talk to the five of you, regarding the incident last night."

A lot of guards are keeping an eye at me and we enter a room. I saw Percy, Frank and Nico standing in front of the King. The King ordered the guards to leave except one.

"Mind to explain what happened?" he said

Percy explain everything including hs weird necklace he left the fact that I went on fire. The guard whispered something to the King and the KIng nodded and te guard came to me and said:

"Where's the flamethrower you stole?"

I didn't stole a flamethrower,"I didn't stole anything."

"Then where did the fire came from? It's impossible that it came from your body."

That widened King Hepheastus' eyes. He asked the guard to leave and he obeyed the King's order. The King came near me and he just stared at me and said:

"Show me."

"Uh, what?"

He just stared at me and started to attacked me with fire from his hands. I saw Jason came but it was too late, my eyes widen and I just covered my face then all I saw was orange. I thought maybe I'll die in this inferno but what surprised me is that I saw the group and the king stared me surprisingly.

"You should be dead or burned."

He came near me, I thought that he will strangle me but he took my hand and he applied bandaids to my wounds. After a while he left and came back with my tool kit in his hands.

"Why?" I said

"It seems that Apollo sent all of you, it explains his seal at the boy's necklace and it seems that I'm next."

"Yeah, your right."

He looked at me directly,"What's your name my boy?"

"Leo. Leo Valdez."

He smiled at me and he took my hand,"Mind to tell me something about you?"

"About me?"

"Yes."

He feed us and welcomed us in his kingdom, he always smile at me and I liked it for a reason I do not know. After all of the touring and stuff King Hephaestus said that we should rest first and he lead us to our respective guest rooms. In a few minutes the rest of the group barged into my room and locked it. Percy faced me and asked:

"I just remembered how did you became you, the question of the King is very interesting and all of us are interested too. Do you mind telling us the story?"

I felt uncomfortable, they already knew that Percy saved me from my abusive family and they treated me as an alien. They never cared for me, they were selfish and cruel and just evil.

"Fine ask me anything."

"I want to know your childhood, we want to help you Leo." Jason said

I sighed heavily,"Fine, if you insist. This is my story."

-FLASHBACK-

When I was six I started to do my chores, the usual clean the whole house, do the laundrey, get water from the well, feed the house dog, wash the dishes and of course try my hardest not to hit my stupid stepbrother or else. I woke up six in the morning everyday just to finish my chores in a day. I started to mop the dining room after I mop the other parts of the house so I could finish and have some rest. Then someone said:

"Hey look at here, it's stupid Leo." I rose my head and I saw Daniel my good for nothing stepbrother.

"What do you want?"

"I think you missed a spot." he said then he let go of his glass of water and it hit the floor.

"What's that noise?!" a voice shouted, his came and Daniel shouted,"Dad he did it!"

Mr Walker started dragging me out of the house and he started beating me. He had strong arms, I was so afraid of him that tears streaming down on my face while he still beating me with darns and damns. After a minute I was full of bruises and cuts at my whole body and he said:

"No dinner for 3 days! Do you know how expensive that glass was?!"

As Mr Walker started to get back at the house I coughed and some blood came from my mouth. I got up and continue with my chores and I done it in half a day. I started to wash my wounds and put some bandaid, after that I got out and walk around the Sky Kingdom and I found some kids in the park. I came near them and said:

"Do you want to play?"

Then the parents of the children came and said:

"You, go home and go away from us."

I came closer,"But, I just want to play with them."

The old lady looked at me angrily and pushed me hard,"Don't ever come near us again.", and they left me all alone.

As they were leaving I clenched my fist, why are they all like that? Always judging and always pushing me away. Is there something different about me or maybe I'm not from this world? Why do I get to deserve this treatment, it's always you can have power and whatever you want when you have money. From the day I was born I was already labeled. I got up and loiter around town for a while then I realized that I was supposed to be home in this hour, I ran to the house and there an angry Mr Walker is standing. His face was scary but I breath slowly and I tried to imagine him in a pink tutu with a red rose in his mouth, I smirked under my breath and luckily he didn't heard me. I was face to face with him and he asked:

"Where have you been?"

"Um, a walk?"

He punched me in the face,"If you got injured it is my responsibility to pay your bills and we end up bankrupt!

I got up and said,"Sorry, Sir."

I walked in at the house and Mrs Walker said that I should get started to wash the dishes and I did. I endured that pain for six years so I'm still the same as I turned twelve, with the same chores.

I got out of the house and got the clothes that are dry and started to fold them, after a while someone called me and it's Daniel. He said that he wants to play with me, I thought that it's an act but I tagged along. After a while Daniel and I met a few children who appears to be Daniel's friends.

"Uh, what are we up to?" Daniel is also twelve like me.

"Nothing just fire."

"Fire?"

He smiled at me,"Don't be a coward Leo. It's just fire."

We were up all night and playing with fire, we were running and suddenly Daniel tripped with a lighted match in his hand so Daniel set a house on fire. After a while the Sky Kingdom soldiers came and asked who set the house on fire because it is own by Lady Charlotte, a rich woman and they blame in on me. I was objecting but all of Daniel's friends blamed me so I ended up to Mr and Mrs Walker and they need to pay and Mr Walker got so mad at me that I was beaten again and he just threw me out if the street. He said that I was a freak and nobody will appreciate me as a person. I got mad at him, all of them has no right to do that. I screamed at him and suddenly fire came at my whole body. Mr Walker was shocked and he yelled at me:

"You are a freak and a monster! Nobody will ever except you!"

"Shut up! All of you! Why does everybody treated me like this?! I didn't do anything wrong?"

The fire got large at my whole body then someone hit me with a pipe at my back, it was Daniel. I started to feel my body losing power and half concious at the ground. In time the soldiers took me and locked me up in a cell. After a minute of laying on the floor I heard someone calling me so I stood up and saw a boy with black hair and green eyes.

"You look tough, what's your name?"

"Leo Valdez, you?"

"Percy Jackson. You want to go to camp it'll be fun and a lot of people."

"Why so suddenly, we barely knew each other."

"I think that you are not bad, the look on your eyes tell me that you are tired of this life just full of bad things so let's start fresh. Let's go Leo, Let's go to a place where we can escape this world and have fun."

I was stunned he could say that by looking at me, and he trusts me. A place where I can escape this and have fun, I like it. I said sure and he smiled at me widely.

"Okay how do we escaped?" I said while working on the locks

Percy just smiled and opened his cell like a guard forgot to lock his cell,"Okay, your turn."

He was supposed to unlocked the gate but I opened it first by a sharp piece of glass just scattered on my cell. Percy looked impressed and said:

"You got potential, come on I'll introduced to you my two best friends, Nico and Jason. Don't worry all of us are nice."

It's the first time I realize that maybe there are still good people in this world.

That's a wrap everyone, I'm sorry that I kind of do not add Percabeth to past chapters but I promise you that there will be Percabeth or other couples coming your way after one or two chapters. REVIEW PLEASE, thanks. Question: Who's your favorite character in the two series(HoO and PJatO) only answer one. Thanks!