Chapter VII

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I was the first to wake up. As I sat up and rubbed my eyes, I had expected to wake Calypso. However, since she was asleep across from me and she didn't wake up. I thought about waking her up, so we could get started on the day. Jesus, I thought. All we've done for the past day and a half is sleep! We haven't done anything! I shook my head and decided I'd let her sleep in. I quietly threw off my covers and got out of bed, leaving her alone. As I got out of bed, Calypso rolled over onto her side, facing away from me. I grabbed me dirty clothes from the night before and grinned, thinking about the "party" we had. Gods, she had been so tight. I walked into my room and put my dirty tunic into my dirty clothes basket. After I had gotten dressed in a fresh tunic, I walked outside and looked around the farm area. I looked over at the chicken pen and decided I'd start the day with feeding them.

I started out with throwing seeds at the chickens. As always, I got some humor from watching a few fight over just one seed. I love it when they do that. I just remembered that I had killed one of my bots out here the other day. I sighed in frusteration, realizing that I had never cleaned up the mess. I decided that I should probably do that. I walked back over to the spot that I had done it at. I looked down at the mess. The bot had been bleeding golden oil, that's how I powered it. It had been bleeding all over the sand a bit after I left it. I decided I might as well take it back to the crafting workshop thing I had built a year or so back. Speaking of workshops, a painful thought came to my mind. It was a simple concept that Calypso and I had briefly talked about while I was marooned here, like before I became a permenant inhabitant of Ogygia. Leo and Calypso's Autoshop Repair. Or was it Leo and Calypso's Auto and Repair? No, it was Leo and Calypso's Auto Repair and Hot Cedar! Wasn't it? No, that's not it either. Blast it all, what was it? I sighed in defeat, realizing damn well that I didn't remember after all. I grabbed the bot's arms and began to drag it back to the shop. I hadn't really realized how heavy it was. I dragged the bot by it's arms and stopped every once and a while. My Gods, this thing is so heavy it's not even funny. I finally got the bot back into my workshop, sweating from the hard work. "Ok, let's get this sucker onto the bench." I said. I slipped my arms under the bot's legs and back. I lifted it up and immediately fell over. "Jesus! This thing is heavy as Hades itself!" I said. I got back up, as I brushed the dust off of myself.

"What the Hades is this? How can I lift this by myself?" I asked. I attempted to lift it again, only to fail again. "Maybe I should consider working out!" I said, after recovering. I took one last desperate attempt and some how managed to get the defective bot up onto the work bench. "Oh, finally. Jeez, I thought that I'd never be able to get this guy up here." I said, as I walked over to a table in the corner of the room and grabbed my tool belt and fastened onto the lower half of my tunic. I walked back over to the work bench and pulled a screwdriver from my belt. I started to unscrew the screws on the bot's face plate, which protected the gears and machinery beneath. I placed each and every screw that was taken out on a metal tray to my left. I eventually removed the face plate and also placed that on the metal tray. I took a look at the bot's machinery and gears. I don't see how they would have memory problems... I thought to myself. I reached into my belt and pulled out a magnifying glass. I watched as the screwdriver disappated, as if it had never existed. That was the problem here with the belt. It only allowed certain tools and items to be present at once and sometimes it varied. I think it has something to do with weird time flow and magical activity on Ogygia. I can tell you that much.

I looked at the bot's head with the magnifying glass, but didn't see anything. "Damn." I said, as I put the magnifying glass down on the table. "Nothing." I walked over and grabbed my leather work gloves and slipped them on. I have a feeling that things are about to get dirty. No, not like that. Get your head out of the gutter. Hey, me? Leo Valdez? I can joke sometimes, can't I? I walked back over to the bot and sighed. "I'm going to have to take you guys apart and rebuild you. I'll have to update their software. Also, I have to manufacture more of the gold oil." I said to myself. That's when I noticed something shining from within the bot's head. "Hey..." I muttered in surprise, as I grabbed the magnifying glass. "Hot damn!" I exclaimed as soon as I saw it. "That has to be the problem!" I put the magnifying glass down and started to moved the gears and wires around, so I could see what I thought to be the problem. "Bingo! That has to be it!" I said, in an excited tone. "What is the problem?" I heard Calypso's voice. I jumped a little bit, before realizing that she was right next to me.

"Jesus." I said, as I recovered. "Honey, come look at this!" Calypso walked over to me and looked into the magnifying glass to where I was looking at. "What is that?" she asked me, before looking back up at me, looking into my eyes. I had to use all of my will power just to refrain from leaning over and kissing her. "That is the uh, bot's memory CPU chip. And I believe it's the reason that the gardening bot's been malfunctioning lately." Calypso continued to look at me. "Why would you think that is the problem?" she asked. "Because, it's not in it's slot all the way." I said, as I went back to looking through the magnifying glass. "If I can get it into it's slot, than I may actually be able to get them to work properly." Calypso didn't respond for a few seconds. "You're a genius." she said at last. I looked up at her, to see her with a longing look in her eyes. "You know damn well that I'm a genius, Babe." I said. She blushed, or at least I thought I saw her blush. "Babe? You've never called me 'babe' before." she said, as she stepped closer. "Do you like it when I call you 'babe', Babe?" I asked, as I stepped closer to her. "Maybe I do." she said, as she stared up into my eyes.

I couldn't take it anymore. "Come here." I said in gruff voice, as I grabbed her by the waist and pulled her closer to me. I kissed her almost immediately and in response, she wrapped her arms around my neck. We continued to kiss until we were rudely interrupted. "Well," a voice said. I immediately pulled away from her, pulling a screwdriver from my belt to defend ourselves with. "it looks like you two have settled in just fine. Calypso my girl, I need to talk to you." I stared at Hermes, who looked at Calypso, disregarding my existence. "Hey, if you're going to talk to Calypso, my Calypso, than I have a right to be involved!" I exclaimed at Hermes. Hermes looked at me, giving me an evil look. He lifted his arm and pointed his index finger at me. My limbs locked and I was just lifted off of my feet. Literally. I rose off of the wooden floor of the workshop and the top of my head lightly brushed the ceiling. "This does not concern you, boy." Hermes said. "Put him down!" Calypso cried, jumping up and down, only to just barely touch my knees.

Yeah! Put me down! I wanted to say, but I couldn't even speak, let alone move. "He didn't even do anything!" Calypso protested. Hermes let out an angry sigh and dropped me on my ass. "Ow!" I said. "Son of a b-" I started to speak, but Hermes cut me off. "Watch your language boy!" he said. "Can I be involved in this discussion?" I asked. "No!" Hermes said in an angry tone. Calypso looked at him with an angry tone. "Can he please be a part of the discussion?" she asked. Hermes let out an angry growl. "Fine." he said. Hermes walked outside to the beach. "Come Calypso and boy. We have much to discuss." I let out an angry growl at being called boy, but I followed them, eager to see what this was about. We all walked down to the shoreline and Hermes began to speak. "The Olympian Council have been talking for the past couple weeks." Hermes said. "What are you doing here?" I asked. "Um, I'm an Olympian God. I may go where I wish to go." he said. "Duh."

"No, I mean you gave me a week, Lord Hermes." I said. "Never trust a God." Hermes said. "What are you doing here?" I asked. He looked at me, sporting an evil grin. "Oh, you better be joking!" Hermes exclaimed, as he walked up to me. "Let's see if this rings a bell." He cleared his throat. "Little pig, little pig, let me in!" he said. Um, what is that supposed to mean? "Yeah, that rings a bell, I guess. Although, I'd probably tell that to Calypso at night." I said. Calypso looked at me, raising an eyebrow. "Leo? What do you mean?" she asked. I winked at her, a mischievous glint in my eyes. Calypso frowned and slugged me in the arm. And trust me, it hurt. "Cute." Hermes said, in a sarcastic tone. "But the point is that I can come and go when I want. And that I have a message." I sighed. "What's the-" Hermes started to laugh. "Hey, boy? Shut up." he said. I let out a growl of anger. "What's the message?" Calypso asked in a tone that suggested she was annoyed with Hermes like I was. "The message is that the Olympian Council and I have been trying to decide what to do with you." he said.

"We've thought about you punishing you for falling in love, since your punishment was to fall in love and watch them leave. And this one didn't leave." Hermes turned to look at me with an evil look. "Or, we could punish you dear boy, by forcing the love of your life to fade from existence, just like out dear Pan did some years back." I gulped back tears. "Oh, Hades. We couldn't decide on either. So, I'm supposed to give you two choices." he said. "First choice, is that you lose your immortality and you and your boy will be able to leave this island. Second choice, you loose your immortality and you and your boy can stay on this island for your entire lives. You can also have visitors, as it wouldn't be a phantom island anymore. Or, if you want, we could make this island impossible for mortals to find. And there would be a list of approved guests that could come and go from Ogygia." I itched my head. "Well, there is a third choice for you, Calypso. You could uh, leave this island and come to live on Olympus as my immortal wife." Hermes said. "You'd be with someone better than this wall flower." I was burning with anger at this point. I got up from where I was sitting down and slugged Hermes in the jaw.

Hermes staggered backwards a little bit, before walking up to me, towering over me, at least half a foot taller than me. I tried to back up and it surprised me that Calypso got in front of me, as if she was protecting me. "No! No!" he said. He walked up to Calypso and pushed her away from me. "Not any of that shit flies with a God!" Hermes said in an angry voice. "I have to make sure you are punished. And I have to make sure that you understand that you can't do this." I felt myself lift off of the sand and before I knew it, Hermes had willed my body to slam into a tree. I hit the tree on my side and crumbled to the sand. "Leo!" she called, as I heard her run up to me. "I'm fine, really." I lied, as it felt like my ribs had shattered. "I choose the second choice. Now get off of my island, you monster." Calypso said, as I heard her begin to cry. "As you wish. You are now mortal." Hermes said, before snapping his fingers. "One last thing Leo Valdez. I am a very patient God. It could be years from now, but you will pay for assualting me. And mark my words, when I come back, I'll bring all of my friends with me. Good day." And with that, out of the corner of my eye, I saw him disappear in a flash of white.

I let out a groan as I got up from the sand and stood up straight next to Calypso. I looked at her, to see she looked entirely different. Either that, or she was so much more beautiful that I didn't recognize her. At first, it looked as if her entire body was glowing pure white. Eventually the white faded and I saw the new Calypso. She was beautiful. Her immortal glow was gone, but that was just the tip of the iceberg. She still had the same dark almond eyes, the same caramel-colored hair. Well, actually her hair sometimes looked like a dark shade of blonde, or a light brunette, but that isn't the point. The point is, is that my heart felt like it was pounding a million miles per minute. It felt like it, but in reality, my heart was beating at a steady rate. She looked like she was my age, maybe a year and a half older than me. She had a perfect tan, her body looked amazing, it was as if I was seeing her the first time. I couldn't even describe how beautiful she was, she looked even more so than ever before. "Oh my Gods." I said, as I stared into her eyes. "What?" she asked. "What is it?" I stepped forward and put my hands on her waist, causing her to blush.

"You are so beautiful!" I exclaimed at last, as I kissed her with as much passion I could. She returned the kiss with just as much passion, as she wrapped her arms around my back. My heart was pounding now, unlike before. My heart was pounding, yes. But, I was perfectly fine otherwise. Hermes had slammed me into a tree just minutes ago, but now I felt fine. I felt as if I were in Elysium. I felt healed. We continued to kiss like that for what felt like hours. She finally pulled away, leaving us both gasping for air. She held my cheeks and my hands remained on her waist. "W-what was that for?" she asked, after she had finally caught her breath. "You look even more beautiful than ever before, Calypso." I said, as my heart rate slowly began to steady once more. "It's as if becoming mortal has made you even more beautiful than before." We just stared into each other's eyes. I stared into her enchanting her eyes. Her dark almond enchanting eyes. "I need you." I whispered, as I kissed her once more. We may have gone farther than that, but frankly I was still tired from last night, and I doubted she wanted to go again.

After several minutes of just kissing and taking breaks, then returning to kissing, we just stood there, holding each other and touching noses. Eventually we went back to the cave and Calypso began to make breakfest, as I watched from the table, giving her the eyes of a love sick puppy. Every once and a while, she would look back at me, see the love sick look I was giving her and then, she'd blush, before turning around and going back to making breakfest. She made a sort of humming sound as she made breakfest, and it practically made my love sick look worse. Or better, which ever one is appropriate. Eventually she sat down at the table across from me, after putting a bowl of oatmeal in front of me. We ate in silence for a while, me eating like I was starving, seeing that we hadn't eaten in at least a day. "We need to talk Leo." Calypso said, finally breaking the silence. "About what, Baby?" I said, as I met her eyes. She immediately blushed and looked away. "You don't have to do that." I said. "Do what?" she asked, as she looked back at me. "You don't have to blush when I call you Babe, Baby or anything else. No one is here with us. You don't have to ashamed." I said.

"Oh, I'm not ashamed. It's just, it's just, it's j-j-" she began to stutter, so I interrupted her. "It's just what, honey?" I asked her. She blushed again, a little lighter than last time, before she spoke. "I don't know." she said. I sighed. "Well, on that happy note, what did we need to talk about?" I asked. "We need to talk about the fact that we won't be alone on this island for much longer." My heart began to beat faster and sweat beaded up on forehead. Is she saying that she's pregnant? "I'm not pregnant." she said, as if she had read my thoughts. "I understand that is probably what it sounded like, but I promise that is not what I meant." I let out a sigh of relief. "What did you mean, than?" I asked. "The Lord Hermes said that the island was open to a list of pre-approved mortals." Calypso asked. "And you want to discuss who could come here and who could not." I said. "Yes." she said. "Very well." I said, as I put my spoon down and smiled at her. "Who did you have in mind?" I asked. "Oh, I don't know. Your friends, Percy Jackson-" she had began reeling off a list, but I stopped her once she said Percy's name. "No, forget it. This discussion is over."

"But-" she started to speak, but I interrupted. "No buts! I realize this may be your island, but I am the man of the island." I said. "It's not my island Leo, it's ours." she said. "No, Ogygia is rightfully your island. I shouldn't even have stayed here for so many years. I abandoned the prophecy I was a part of, just to stay here and fall in love with you." I said. "Not that I regretted any of it. I love being here with you." Calypso looked happy. "I'm flattered Leo, but I'm being serious. Percy is a-" I growled in anger. "Percy is an ass!" I exclaimed, slamming my fist down onto the table. "I hate him for what he did to you! He denied your offer of staying here with you, decided to go on his stupid quest with his stupid friends! I decided to stay here with you, because you my dear, are enchanting! I could hardly resist kissing you everytime I saw you before we were in a relationship." I went back to eating. "But we have something on this island! This place is a sanctuary! It's a safe haven from the outside world!" Calypso protested. "For the last time, no!" I said. "Please? Leo?" she asked. "For me?" She looked at me, as she fluttered her eyelids.

I stared back at her, my eyes narrowing. She continued to give me that look, she started to look love sick, just like I had been towards her minutes ago. I sighed. "How do we contact them?" I asked. She smiled at last. "If Ogygia is no longer a phantom island, than maybe that means we can send one of those Iris-Messages that you and your demigod friends always send to each other." Calypso said. I let out an angry sigh, knowing damn well I had lost. We had a stash of Golden Drachmas for emergencies only. "Go prep a water source to create a rainbow. I'll go get a Golden Drachma." I said in a glum tone. "Yes!" Calypso exclaimed, as she got up from the table and ran from the cave. I let out an angry sigh, as I reclined a little bit in my chair.

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My dream that night was, horrific to say the least. I had my hands and feet bound by rope, my hands bound behind my back. I was knelt on both of my knees, kneeling in the sand. All of my other friends were kneeling on the shoreline. Percy was there, I was there, Calypso was there, a guy who looked like me was there, Piper and Jason were there, everyone was there. There was one guy I didn't recognize, he was standing right in front of me, and this guy really stood out from all of us. He was in full combat armor, from head to toe. The combat armor was gray and the guy had bleached blonde hair. In his hands, he held what looked like a wooden club, that was covered in blood and what looked like small pieces of meat. "Hi. You're Leo, right?" the guy asked in a filtered voice. "I'm Scar." That's when I noticed that someone was on the ground and it looked like the person's head had been beaten badly. Beaten to the point of no recognition whatsoever. I felt sick to my stomach and if I weren't dreaming, I probably would have thrown up.

A/N: Well... what a way to end the chapter. So, what do you think Leo's nightmare meant? In the next chapter, it will be revealed what happened with the Iris-Message. So, thanks for reading, I hoped you enjoyed and please don't forget to follow, favorite and/or drop a review! I'm gonna go though, so have a good day, and bye!

In The Next Chapter of Ogygia Is My Home: Percy get's a message from Leo while at Camp Half-Blood. Meanwhile, Leo wakes up a few days later with a hangover.