AN: I feel like this chapter is the worst so far. I guess I might not have caught Leo's personality? I'm not sure why I feel like I'm in a gloom. Anyways, I'm back! This story is slow coming really. I have to put thought into every chapter, so I can weave a great tale. This is the shortest chapter in this story so far, so sorry about that. This took me three weeks to write. I felt like I couldn't make it right, plus I needed time. With Christmas coming I've been kind of avoiding things. Hope you enjoy!

Leo knew going into the forest alone was bad. For one thing there were psycho monsters who wanted to eat him for lunch. For another reason there were psycho monsters who wanted to eat him for lunch! Leo wasn't ready to become a monsters taco. He looked around the forest for any sign of a way back to camp. Leo found absolutely nothing. He felt like slapping himself. Of course there wouldn't be a trail back to camp, that defeat the whole purpose! We would have things coming to kill us everyday!

In the distance he heard a loud roar. Leo, being the manly boy he was, screamed like a little girl. The monster was obviously a hell-hound, and it must have been huge. He tried to run the way he cam, but ran into a problem,. He didn't remember which way he had come from. He spun in a circle trying to remember anything familiar from the way he came. There was no such luck.

"Oh come on! Could this day get any worse!" Leo screamed as loud as he could. He was hoping maybe it was loud enough for the people all the way back in camp to hear. He had a bad feeling that wasn't going to be that easy. His guess was that camp was at least five miles away from where he was standing. It wasn't possible for them to hear him from that distance.

He heard laughing from behind him. "He's going to be hell-hound food if he continues going the way he is. I bet he's going to be eaten with in ten minutes. Lilly are you in?" He hears someone whisper. He turned around to see a bunch of girls coming out of trees and plants.

"I say five, but he probably won't make it that far either." A girl, he thought was Lilly, came out of, well a lily.

"You do I know I can hear you soon to be animal food." Leo told them.

"How dare you! We are loved by animals! They wouldn't dare eat our homes." Lilly shouted at him. 'We are one with the creatures of this earth!"

"Since when are humans not creatures?" Leo laughed.

The other plants looked behind him and smiled. "You might want to run for it if you want to live to see us again. It has not been a pleasure meeting you human demigod. Maybe one day you'll learn, but that would mean you would live through this. That is not likely."

Leo bolted through the forest when he remembered a time when he was eleven.

Leo had run away, again, from a foster home. He was camping out in the woods behind the family's house. It wasn't the happiest place in the world, but it was better than that nut house. The people there had him locked in his room for seven hours a day, and that didn't count for when he was sleeping. This couple didn't want children, they wanted the money they got from it.

Leo never got a chance to anything in that hell of a house. For one thing he had nothing in his room. An ADHD kid can't live in a room of eighteen hours a day with nothing to do, it just wasn't possible. Leo wanted to build something to occupy his attention for at least few hours.

Now Leo was free. He had broken his window silently, which is harden to do then it looks, and ran across the lawn to the woods. He knew by sun rise they would call the police reporting their "child" being missing. The police would pull his records and find that he had a pattern of running away and the fact that he killed his mother. They'd come looking for him, and they'd find him a month from now far away from this place.

He picked his bag that he had stuffed with snacks from the kitchen before he was forced back into his room. Granola bars looked better than what he would find in the neighbors dumpsters. Trust Leo to know that.

He heard police sirens coming down the road that led to the house. He knew the first place they would look was in the woods. It seemed to be the place most kids hid in when they bolted from their homes. Leo picked himself up and headed in the opposite direction of the blaring sound. His only wish was to get enough distance from the cops as possible. He was never going to go back to those sick people again.

He was out of the woods in minutes. He wasn't close to being out of breath, so he continued. He ran down roads and through alleys. He was pretty sure he saw someone in a dumpster, but he couldn't be sure.

Then he tripped.

He was back at Camp Half-Blood with in the hour. He was aware of the fact that he shouldn't be alive. He knew that all could have gone for worse if he had do one thing differently.

Jason walked up to him followed by a worried Piper. "Where have you been? We couldn't find you anywhere !Do you know how freaked we were? You disappeared without telling anyone?"

"I was lost in the woods."