Oh would you look it that. I finally updated! :D Sorry I couldn't get around to updating earlier. I had a lot of work to do and the weather was pretty bad as well. Well not so much here...

ANYWAY, here is the next chapter (part 1) on Leo's POV. There is not much action in this chapter BUT I do promise tons of action in part 2. This is kinda like an introduction as to what's coming up. Here it is! Enjoy...

Leo II

Leo had concluded that he just hadn't been awesome enough. It was a dark and gloomy day, typical for a horror story, and fitting for what had just happened. He stood there, with all his friends, looking at what used to be Coach Hedge. Gods, he had been annoying, like Leo, but no one deserved to die the way he did, and Leo blamed himself for that. Maybe if I had used one of Archimedes' inventions then maybe, or if I had stopped him to get the key, he thought, but even he knew that the chances were slim.

After the key had been secured, it hadn't been that hard to kill off the rest of the monsters, also considering the fact that some of them had just run away. Then Jason, Thalia, Nico, Rachel, Hazel, Frank and Grover had rushed to the Parthenon to save the Coach but they were too late as well.

They all had no words to say. They had lost so much in the past weeks, and were not ready to give someone up again.

"This isn't right." Said Jason. "None of this is. Where are the gods when we are actually in trouble?" Leo could hear thunder in the distance and hoped that Jason or Thalia didn't fry them.

Nico walked over and placed a hand over where the Satyr's sapling had been planted and muttered a few words, then he joined their friends again as they all stared at the ground.

Leo was the one to break the silence. He didn't want to keep mourning his losses and mistakes. "Well that was really tragic and I hope he, uh, finds peace as a tree, but we have got to get going now"

"Uh, yeah let's get out of here before more monsters come" said Frank, actually agreeing with Leo.

He began to walk back to exit the Parthenon but stopped immediately after he heard the sound of someone clapping. Great! Who was it now?

They all looked at each other as if they thought that someone within them was clapping but soon realized that the source of the noise was behind them. They all looked at once.

Standing about 5 feet from the doorway was a tall man who looked about 40. He had long curly hair, wore a white cotton shirt and had an awesome looking beard. Like the guy from 300. The man looked familiar to Leo but he couldn't tell where he had seen this man. Leo sensed that he should have known who this guy was.

"VERY well played younglings" said the man. He appeared to show no fear of Leo and his friends as he walked closer to them, a small grin on his face. He looked like a crazed murderer.

"Very clever of you, falling into the Vitruvius trap." Said the man, "A shame none of you have a talent for architecture…except for the girl, but she isn't here is she?"

Leo gasped as he finally realised who this man could possibly be. The long curly hair, the Vitruvius trap, the roman look, the talk about all this architecture. Oh gods, thought Leo, It can't be him…can it?

"You're Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, one of the most famed architects and engineer to have lived in Rome said Leo. Everyone looked at him with a surprised look. Even Leo was surprised at himself. He wasn't usually the smart one…but he had seen this guy somewhere.

So Gaea had played another card against them by bringing this man back from the dead.

"Well at least someone knows their facts." Said Vitruvius who was looking amusingly at Leo as if he was a hamster that wouldn't run on his wheel. "It feels so good to be back, and making traps. Oh the work Gaea has given me! You idiotic friend had no chance! Why, I should have made a more punishable trap for how stupid the goat was!" said Vitruvius rubbing his chin.

At this point, it seemed like Thalia had heard enough because with balled fists she walked over to Vitruvius and smacked his face, but the engineer just began to laugh. Great. Was everyone who was crazy working for Gaea?

This man was even more annoying than any other person Leo had dealt with…even himself!

Thalia pulled out her dagger that she had earned from the hunters and was about to slice off the guys throat as she had heard enough but Leo stepped in.

Leo had no clue why he wanted to spare the man. Did a guy like that really deserve to live? If they killed him off right now, would they be just as evil as any other monster? On the battlefield, you never had a choice. You just tell what you are told because the enemy is "evil", but was killing someone like this, the right thing to do?

"No!" shouted Leo. Thalia looked at him with an angered expression, but with that expression, Leo also noticed a face he had never seen her make. It was guilt.

"I mean, maybe we could use him on the ship…like for all the inventions or something, and as much as I would wanna slaughter this guy, would that be the right thing to do?" said Leo.

Piper seemed to catch on to what Leo was thinking because she stepped up and agreed with Leo as well. That was a first.

"Leo's right, Thalia, we could use him or at least he could tell us some information. Killing him here, like this, isn't worth it" said Piper.

Thalia grit her teeth and looked around, seeing that everyone else was in favor of actually sparing the man. Then slowly, very slowly she lowered her sword although she still held on to Vitruvius's collar.

"Fine! You want to keep him alive? That's cool, but he stays with me." Said Thalia.

Leo knew that would be a bad idea but he agreed. Once Thalia made up her mind, it was kind of impossible to make her listen.

"Alright, get this guy on the ship, and check him if he has any weapons" said Jason, beginning to walk towards where the Argo II was parked.

Thalia searched the architect and as predicted, the guy was clean. But Leo had to wonder, why this guy would show up without any intention to fight, and not object when being taken away. Nevertheless, Leo didn't see how this guy could harm them now so he decided to go along with the plan.

So they all began walking towards his ship and Leo couldn't help noticing that Thalia took one final look towards where Coach Hedge had died, and then glared at Vitruvius. Leo did not notice the single tear falling down, staining her eye liner.

Oh man, what a day? But all of that was finally over, they had arrived at the Argo II and Leo had decided to take a little break from constantly driving his ship, and to work on some of his new inventions.

As for now, he was still working on a method on contacting Annabeth and Percy. He had had several ideas as to how to contact his friends. Yes, friends. He said it. Even Annabeth, the girl who freaked him out the most, was a…friend.

The rest of the "crew" had practically taken the day off and where all fast asleep, except for Thalia who was keeping watch on Vitruvius in Annabeth's room.

He had tried to come up with a mix of Grover's empathy link and iris-messaging to create a new form of communication. Also, Nico had given a lot of help by showing Leo how Nico called spirits from the dead. Freaky, but cool.

So here he was, with oil and grime on his face, creating a portal/mirror to contact his friends. But one thing constantly bugged him in his mind. He couldn't get the face out of his eyes. The very face. The horrible face of terror Leo had seen as Coach Gleeson Hedge had died.

Leo had seen hundreds of people die, but unless they mean anything to you, you honestly don't care who lives and who dies. A single death is a tragedy; a million dead is just a statistic. It's just how we live. But what Leo had seen was just so horrible. And living with the fact that because of his actions, a person had died was just horrible.

Leo was just about to weld another handle together on the mirror when he heard a scream coming from…Annabeth's room and then yelling but he couldn't make out whose the voice was. Leo's eyes widened. No! This couldn't be happening. He flared up the alarm and raced towards her room. The same very room where Thalia and Vitruvius had been.

As he ran, everything seemed to go into slow motion. His heart was pounding against his rib cage. Sweat beaded his forehead. He even farted, but he didn't care. He should have seen this coming. How could he have not noticed!

After so much life had been lost today, Leo's mind thought of a whole bunch of evil things that could have happened. But his mind could have never come up with the even more sinister truth he discovered once he entered the room.

The whole area was a mess as if someone had mixed everything together in a giant blender. The door had a crack in it, the walls where scorched, and there was blood on the floor. Thalia and Vitruvius were missing and Leo had no clue where they had gone.

Then he saw something even more sinister.

On Annabeth's mirror, written in black said:

Good night.

The words echoed in Leo's mind. Images of the coach raced through his head.

And on the ground, right in front of the mirror, was Coach Hedge's hat.

OOOOOOHH, so someone kidnapped someone (if that even makes sense)...but we don't know yet. Well I hope you enjoyed this chapter. If you did, then why not give it a review,favorite or follow? The next part of the chapter will be uploaded as soon as I'm done. Trust me, I want to move on as quick as you guys do but unfortunately, it take hours to right and only a couple minutes to read :( But I enjoy it :)

So I hope you liked it!

Virtuvius was an actual Roman architect and as always, all the characters I pick are from actual mythology and well...wikipedia :D

And until next time, GOOODBYE and stay safe with the bad weather...