Chapter 16: Leo

I was the first dmigod at the pine. I looked down at what I was wearing. I had simple jeans and a white T-shirt (It said Team Leo) on with the jacket Calypso had made me. I wore black jordans. I sat on a neary rock and waited. My tool belt made it hard so, I took it off and put it in my red backpack. Soon, I saw a girl walking towwards me with two guys, one taller than the other. As she neared, I realized that it was Amber, Alex, and Percy. She came up to me and kissed my cheek. She sat in my lap and I kissed the top if her head, holding her. Alex and Percy looked at each other uneasily. I looked at them and they immideateley smiled at me.
"Whay are you looking at me like that," I asked "You look like the demented Chip and Dale." They looked at each other again, then back at me. Amber looked at them, they looked at her. Sometimes I think Poseidon kids understand each other like they understand fish and horses. I felt left out of Poseidon kid telepathy. Amber looked angry, Alex looked like he was caught in-between, and Percy looked like his self. His overprotective water-boy self. "Care to let me in on the telepathy?" I asked. They looked at each other again. Amber made a puppy dog face.
"Why would we tell him!?" Alex half-shouted, half-questioned. Percy hit the back of his head. "Oops."
"Uh, hello?" I said "I'm standing right here."
"Great going, Alex." Percy complained. "Now we have to tell him."
"Tell him -I mean- me what."
"About a dream we shared." Alex claped a hand over his lound mouth.
"What dream?" I asked. Percy groaned and he looked at me.
"Alex and I had a dream about you, Leo Valdez, dying again." Percy said "But, knowing you, you'd probably come back to life like last time."
"You've died before?" Amber asked, concerned.
"Long story," I said, waving my hand at the thought of telling her about Calypso.
"Man, maybe you should tell her about Calypso." Alex said.
"Who's she?" Amber asked. "Wait, isn't that a type of music?"
"My ex-girlfriend." Percy said. I looked at Amber.
"Should I bother?" She asked.
"When it comes to Percy, always." I said. Amber stood up and walked right up to Percy and slapped him. "She naver kissed YOU, man. She kissed me-"
"On the CHEEK." Percy cut in.
"Who kissed you?" Amber crossed her arms and waited. "Tell me everything."
"It's too long of a story." I awkwardly scratched the back of my head.
"I've got time." She started tapping her foot.
"Fine." I said and motioned for her to sit on my lap again. She sat. "I want you to know that it's al over with me and her before I start. Though, we were never an item."
"What?" Percy said. "As I remember, you were lovesick until you got her off the island." I blushed.
"Maybe. But, that is no more." I said. "Now, the story. Calypso is a daughter of Atlas. Imprisoned on an island for helping the Titan in the first war. Random men and boys randomly landed on the island and she's cursed to fall in love with all of them even though they all had a lover already and had to leave. aa magic raft appears to take the person once they say that they want to leave, never able to come back. First some pirate, then Oddyseus, then Percy, then me. First, she was playing hard to get when I started calling her Sunshine." Amber huffed and crossed her arms at this. "Then, she started warming up to me. I kept burning the clothes she would make for me so, she invented flame-proof cloth and clothes just for me. She finally fell in love with me and when the raft appeared, she kissed me. Sorta in a friend way but accidentaly on the lips. It meant something to me for the longest time. Until I met you. I promised on the River Styx that I'd come back for her and I did. I was lovesick for her. I finally found a way to get to her. I died. I used the only death cure, the Physician's cure and lived, finding myself on Ogygia. I took her to the mortal world. She had given up her immortality. One day at camp, she fell in love with someone, a girl from the Aphrodite Cabin (A/N: Sorry!). they went on a date and it broke her spell and she immideately grew old and died. And that's the story of what happens when you're a couple googlionhe (A/N: the numbeer one followed by a hundred zeros, google is named after that, cuz it suposedley has googlion answers to anything you search) years old and you decide your curse by falling in love with someone that didn't fall on your island." Amber's jaw dropped and I closed it. "You mended my broken heart with your hot face and curves. Your smarts and talents. Your personality is way better than Calypso's, who didn't even know what Google is. She was like: 'What's a Google.' I was freaked out." Amber went serious and looked confused.
"What IS a Google?" Amber asked and not being able to keep a straight face, broke out laughing. I started laughing, too, along with Alex and Percy.

Soon, we saw more figures coming towardes the tree. I was able to make out Annabeth, who was walking with Chiron, his horse shape giving away who he was. Clarrisse was easily recognized from her shape and the way Coach Hedge (he and his wife adopted her) had his hand on her shoulder and his other arm around his wife, Millie, who was holding little Chuck. I spotted Hazel and Frank hand in hand walking with Nico and Will. Lizzy ran up to Alex and threw her arms around his neck. She kissed his cheek like, fifty-million times. Amber pointed at a silly couple running up the hill. Jason and Piper we're running, pushing each other as they ran. Finally, everyone was on the hill. Even the Argo II was casting a shadow from above us.
"As you all know," Chiron began "The Argo II only has eight rooms. So, in result, I have decided that, just this once the couples may sleep in their own rooms together. Protector Gleeson Hedge with be chaperoning with Mrs. Millie Hedge and Chuckie. They will be listening at night and day for any, ah, activity. Now, each of you go contact your mortal parent about the quest. Leo, help Amber and Alex."
"C'mon," I said "Let's go to the Poseidon cabin." I lead them to the Cabin Three and pulled out a drachma once we reached the Iris fountain. I threw it in. "Oh, Goddess Iris, accept my offering and show me..."
"Ilectra Swenson of Manhattan." Amber supplied.
"Ilectra Swenson of Manhattan." I repeated and the inside big penthouse appeared in the water, looking at a leather sofa facing away from a view on New York City. A older (46?) woman jumped onto the sofa happilly.
"Timo, you returned my IM already?" Her smile turned into a frown. "Amber? Alex? Amazingly handsome young man who is 1) holding my daughter's hand and 2) that I have never before seen in my life?"
"Uh... Hi, mom." Amber said. "Any chance you've had any affairs with a Greek God?"