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XXVI

Leo

Before anyone could say anything, Piper replied, "No."

ASS raised his eyebrows. Or tried to. It looked more like a mutated toad when he did it.

"Excuse me?" He replied coolly, though Leo figured that he was probably hiding an explosion of anger.

"No. I will not hand over the blade," Piper said with equal calmness. She had a dangerous light in her eyes like when Connor soaked her bed with makeup and she charmspeaked him to walk around stark naked.

"In which case, I might have to blow up your friends." ASS said, inspecting his tiny blob of keratin on his finger, which Leo supposed you could call a nail.

"Umm, actually, do you mind if we discuss this?" Piper asked sweetly.

"Of course not! Go ahead!" The warrior, subdued by charmspeak left them.

"What do we do?" She hissed as soon as he left.

"Piper," Jason said. "There's nothing we can do. Just give him the dagger. I'm sure we'll find another weapon for you."

"This isn't just any blade!" She whisper-screamed. "It rightfully belongs to me! And besides, I've been seeing things in the- Never mind."

Leo interrupted, "What have you been seeing?"

Piper paled. "I'll tell you later. But we can't just give it to him! It's our only like to Percy and Annabeth." She said horridly.

Nico fidgeted his finger. "You've been seeing them, haven't you?"

Piper hesitated. "Yes. But I'll tell you all later! What do we do?"

Leo was already working out a plan in his head. His plan wasn't as magnificent as something Annabeth could come up with, but as a son of Hephaestus, he could see that Ajax's ship, as magnificent as it looked, was actually barely supporting itself. The way it sailed, the uneven deck.

"I've got an idea. Do you all trust me?" Leo asked.

"No!" Everyone replied at the same time. ASS came over. "Do we have this figured out?" He asked, putting his hand on Piper's shoulder, who stiffened.

She replied, dripping with charmspeak, "Not yet. Give us a couple more minutes, will you dear?"

"Sure," ASS replied in a monotone and left.

"What's your plan?" Frank asked skeptically.

"We need to get to the lower deck. Then I can cause some ruckus and hopefully we can get out of here."

Frank replied irritably, "And how do you suppose we get down to the lower level?" This guy was just waiting for an excuse to make Leo look bad.

"I'm working on that part," Leo replied with the same irritation. "I'm not Annabeth, you know."

"You said you had the plan already worked out," Frank pointed out.

"Oh I'm sorry," Leo replied with sarcasm. "I meant to say, I only h-"

"Leo! Enough! You too, Frank." Piper stepped in between them. "I'll find us a way to get us downstairs. Lord ASS!" She called.

He came over, smiling. "Well, what's our decision?"

"Lord Ajax, I have decided to give you the knife, a-"

"What?" Leo hissed in Piper's ear. She ignored him and continued, "but you only deserve the best. May we trouble you if we head down to the armory and have our mechanic," she gestured to Leo, who was beginning to understand her, "make sure it is in perfect condition, lord?"

This girl was GOOD.

"Of course not!" Ajax smiled. He waved us downstairs. Just like that.

Leo frowned. "He's not even going to put guards on us?"

"Hurry, that guy is hard to charmspeak." He could see the beginnings of sweat forming on her forehead.

Leo raced down the stairs, the rest of the demigods behind. The lower deck was slightly lit, with many beams supporting the top deck. The armory was on the other end. "So… what's the idea?" Nico asked. He seemed unconvinced, but in a more… sensible way, you could say.

"This ship is on the verge of collapse. I should be able to bring down some of the top deck and cause some ruckus without looking suspicious to those dudes." Leo pointed at the 2 ghostly guards flanking the entrance to the armory.

He began slowly sauntering down, tapping the beams with his hammer here, unscrewing a screw slightly there. Too any regular person, it would look like he was just fooling around. But although he wasn't like a child of Athena, Leo had experience in engineering and some knowledge in physics and began running some numbers through his head.

After a couple more tinkers, he pretended to drop the hammer- and it hit a beam. "Careful, th-"A guard started but then the entire ship suddenly groaned.

The guard flickered nervously and looked up just to see half of the entire upper deck fall on him. He disappeared instantly as Leo and the seven started coughing and backed up from the debris and smoke. "Let's get out of here!" Leo shouted

The dashed for the stairs as more beams snapped and pieces of the floor began caving in.

They made it to the stairs and sprinted up. Just as Leo, who was last made it, they collapsed inward. "Get to the ship!" Jason shouted somewhere. The ship was starting to list to port, and if they didn't get the Argo II out, it would smash into the ship. Leo grabbed a small razor saw from his tool belt and cut the mooring lines as everyone leaped aboard and dashed for the helm.

Ajax's ship snapped clean in half as Leo throttled the engine and lowered the sails. "All Hellfire elements, this is Hellfire lead! Open fire! Open fire on the triremes!" Leo screamed into the radio as one of ASS's ships opened fire and barely missed the helm.

IN the distance, many booms sounded. Several seconds later, water began flying up and ships began lighting on fire as the demigods fired Greek Fire ballista bolts.

Leo drifted the Argo II around the snapped lead ship, past Ajax who was treading water and shouting insults at them. Jason silenced him by electrocuting him with a lightning bolt. "Get us out of here, Leo!" He shouted and ducked as another projectile soared overhead.

Coach Hedge was firing the scorpion ballista at the head of the ship, while the others manned the other weapons throughout the deck.

Another enemy ship to Leo's left exploded as he hit afterburner, using the Archimedes Sphere installed in the engine room to send a massive amount of electricity through the system.

The sky was beginning to fill and smell like smoke. The afterburner took effect at this point, rocketing the ship forward to 45 knots an hour and within the minute, they were back with the fleet. Leo inspected the damage to it.

He counted 3 shipwrecks, and multiple heavily damaged boats. One of them flashed a green light at them, signaling no dead, though several wounded, but that was to be expected.

"This is head to all Hellfire elements. Hit the throttle, raise the sails. We are headed to Greece. Next stop- Marathon Plains!" Leo said.

A bunch of transmissions came in as the different lower ranking leaders affirmed the order and within minutes, they were on the move again.

But Leo had forgotten something. He realized it just as several booms sounded in the distance. The mortals were back. And they were angry.

Ok, guys so I've decided I'll probably update once, maybe twice a week. Usually every Wednesday.

Still trying to get used to Word 2010….

Quote of the chapter- Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Song of the chapter- Titanium by David Guetta ft Sia.

Entertainment of the chapter- Mass Effect 3. I know I already mentioned this game, but it was so great I just had to say it again. But if you must, Borderlands 2.

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