Chapter IX

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Leo

"Oooohhhhh." Calypso moaned, her voice full of pleasure as she rode me as slow as she could. My head was pounding with a headache as she rode me. The headache wasn't too much of pain, but I was still fully aware that I was no doubt hungover. Was Calypso hungover? I didn't have a clue if she was feeling any effects. Meanwhile, I was on cloud nine without a care in the world. Of course, with a headache that wasn't making the experience fully enjoyable. Calypso must have grown inpatient, because she started to pick up the pace. "Not s-so f-f-fast!" I groaned in pain, as my headache worsened. "S-s-sorry!" Calypso moaned, even though part of me told me she wasn't sorry. I grasped her hips and began to help her move. "G-g-go fast. But t-try not to go too fast." I groaned. She nodded, as she picked up her pace a little more. After a few more minutes of this, she began to moan louder and louder. "Leo! I can't hold it in, I can't! I'm going to, I'm going-" she arched her back and let out a long moan, or more of a scream. "Ahhhhhhh!" she moaned. And then, she climaxed.

Percy

It had been a few days since I had spoken to Hank and to be frank, I was getting frusterated. I needed to talk to Leo. So, at dawn today, I woke up and went down to the canoe lake, that was covered in mist. I wasn't really expecting anything to happen, but it was worth trying. I threw a golden drachma into the lake. "Oh Isis, Goddess of Rainbow, please accept my offering." I said. The waves in the lake didn't grow or shrink. Simply nothing happened. "Show me Leo Valdez." I said. Nothing happened. I shrugged. "It was worth a shot." I said, as I turned around to walk away. I was not even that far away from the lake, when I heard a voice. "Foolish hangover! How dare you strike the son of Hephaestus?!" I turned around to see that a window had opened above the water and I saw Leo, shirtless and wearing white cotton pants, sitting on a bed, holding an icepack to his head. "Show off." I said, as I walked back up to the lake. Leo looked up. "Percy!" he said, grinning just a little bit. "Have you got that chip yet?" I shook my head. "No. Hank is stubborn and refuses to hand it over. He has a price." I said.

"That ass-" Leo began to speak, but eventually stopped speaking. "What's his price?" I sighed. "He said you left him everything to that store house. Codes, keys, blueprints, files, all kinds of stuff." I said. Leo nodded. "I did." he aid. "But, he says that you never gave him the code to the giant vault down there. And he says if I want that chip, that I'm going to help him crack the code to the vault." I said. "Damn it! Hank was always greedy! I'm surprised he hasn't stole anything yet!" Leo said. "Look, Percy. You can't let him in that vault! It's contents are still in production! They haven't even been tested yet!" I looked at him with a serious look. "Leo, what's in the vault that has Hank so worked up?" I asked. "He doesn't know! And you won't know either! You don't need to know! Just get that chip from him! I think you may need to force him to hand it over." Leo said. "And? How do I do that?" I asked. "I don't know! Just think of s-" Leo was speaking, but he didn't get the chance to finish, as our connection had dissolved, leaving me confused.

I knew who I needed to talk to. He was a son of Hermes. No, not that son of Hermes. He's dead. And I kinda wish he wasn't. I need his advice right now. I need to talk to Connor Stoll. I ran off to the Hermes cabin and put my head against the door, to check to see if anyone was awake yet. I did hear noise on the inside. So, I knocked. I waited for a answer. The door finally opened. Connor Stoll opened the door. "Connor, I need to talk to you." I said. Connor grinned. "Cool. Let's talk. Outside." Connor said, as he stepped outside. "What's up?" I cleared my throat. "You were the only one I could contact. I need equipment, for breaking and entering." I said. Connor's eyebrows raised. "Percy! I didn't expect that you would be the kind of demigod for this." he said, before grinning. "You know what? I think I have just the thing. Follow me." He walked off and I followed him. He took me to the back of the cabin, to a shack of somekind. He took a necklace with a key on it and unlocked the door, before pushing it open. We walked into the shack and Connor turned on the light. On a table, there was a heap of tangled equipment. "Utility harness, high tech jumpsuit, you name it, it's all here." Connor said. "Cool." I said. "What can it do?"

"Well, I'm glad you asked. It can make you pretty much as light as a feather, making making noise a thing of the past. It has a advanced stealth system. Night vision, enhanced strengh is granted to the wearer, you name it, it's here." Connor said, looking back at me. "I'll take it. Do you have like a mask for me to use?" I asked. "Yeah." Connor replied, as he grabbed black ski mask from a shelf. "Take it all. Just take it." Connor said. "One more thing, press this button-" he pointed to a button on the wrist that looked like a lightning bolt. "-the right glove has a built-in taser in a sense." Connor finished his sentence and just looked at me for a second. "What is it for?" he finally asked, as he crossed his arms. "Let's just say I asked for something and they were unwilling to give it to me. Now, I'm going to take it."

Leo

I had gotten dressed and was sitting on the bed, finally with an icepack against my head. Calypso was now in the shower, after our morning, um, never mind. I had just gotten off of the Iris-Message with Percy and I was frusterated. "Hank was always a greedy fuck. I have no idea why I ever chose him to keep watch over the secret storehouse." I said. "But since I was cabin counselar, he was my obvious pick, on the account that he was the kept track of the cabin's inventory." Why in Hades did I choose him? Percy is going to have to take drastic measures in order to get that GPS chip. This must be a nightmare for him. I laid back down on the bed that had not been made yet. "How am I gonna get them all over here?" I asked myself. I drifted on into thought and had just laid there for so long, that I eventually started to fall asleep. I had probably laid there kind of asleep for about five or so minutes, before I snapped out of it. "So, have you talked to Percy again lately?" Calypso asked, her question coming out from nowhere.

I laid there for a few seconds, after I grunted and opened my eyes. I stared up at the cave ceiling for a few seconds before I spoke. "What?" I finally asked, confused of what was going on. "I asked if you have heard from Percy yet." Calypso repeated. I looked over to where she was speaking from and saw that she had her back to me, as she was getting dressed after getting out of the shower. "Um, yeah, actually. After we uh, you know, and after you had gotten into the shower, he called me via Iris-Message." I replied. I looked back up at the ceiling after I spoke. "What did he say?" she asked. "Oh, he uh, said that he and his friends would come to visit within a week." I said. "Really?" Calypso asked, sounding surprised. "It was that simple?" I gritted my teeth out of irration. "No, it wasn't that simple!" I exclaimed. "They thought I was dead for the last two years, and me calling them out of the blue really shook them up!"

She didn't speak at all for a few seconds and I was scared that I had hurt her feelings. I was about to open my mouth to apologize, when she spoke again. "I'm sorry to hear that." she said. "So, I suppose it's not going to be easy for them to get out here to us?" I shook my head, knowing that she didn't see it. "No, it's not going to be easy at all." I said. "Well, what's the problem?" she asked. "The problem is that they need a lot of stuff to get out here. They need a GPS Locater chip, they need the Argo II, they need all sorts of stuff!" I said. "What's a GPS Locater Chip? What's the Argo II?" she asked. Damn it. I knew she was going to ask about that. "A GPS Locater Chip, or a GPS, is a piece of modern technology that helps people find places around the world. Places like New York, France, Germany, just to name a few." I said. "And the Argo II, is the very ship that we were traveling on, when Khione, the Ice Goddess, blew me off of the ship and that's how I ended up here."

"And how you destroyed my dining table?" Calypso asked, laughing. "Are you really still mad about that?" I asked, chuckling a little bit. "No." Calypso asked, as she laid down beside me. "I can't stay mad at you for long, if at all." I wrapped my arms around her and she returned the favor by snuggling up against me. "Are there anymore problems with them getting here?" she asked. "Yes, unfortunately. If anything were ever to happen to me, I employed one of my siblings from the Hephaestus Cabin to keep track of the inventory in the storehouse beneath Bunker Nine, where I keep all of my mechanical creations and such." I said. "And Percy informs me that he is a greedy little jerk." Calypso shifted a bit in my arms. "Why is he greedy?" she asked. "I left him all of the codes to everything in that storehouse. Cases, cabinets, chests. Everything. Except the code to a vault that he has just been dying to get into." I said. Calypso hesitated for a second. "Can I ask what is in that vault, as you call it?" she asked.

"You may." I said. "You are my lover and may even be my wife one day. Of course you may ask." Calypso was silent for a few seconds. "So, what is in the vault?" she asked. "There are multiple sets of high tech power armor in that vault." I said. "High tech power armor?" she asked. "I understand you don't know what that is. It's a suit that enhances the wearer's strength, speed, it has a built in heating system, that monitors the wearer's body heat and will adjust to meet their needs. Built in motion-tracker and a cloaking device." I stopped talking, so I could catch my breath. "How is it powered? I mean, I know how electricity works. Hermes spoke about it and I watched your father work here so long ago, installing the plumbing and such. That can't be easily powered, all of that." she said. "It's not easily powered." I said. "The twin sons of Hermes that I know, Connor and Travis Stoll, they created a previous version of the armor."

"So, how is that one powered?" she asked. "It has a utility harness, that contains a pretty big battery that powers all of their armor's functions. I 'borrowed' one of their suits and dismantled both it and the harness for my research." I said. "Without the harness, their suit might as well be a fashion statement." I felt her shift once again. "And your suit?" she asked. "I reverse engineered their battery. That and my suit doesn't need the harness." I said. "It's powered by a smaller, more simpler version of their battery, with melted Imperial Gold supplied by the Stoll twins, they smuggled it into camp." I said. "The melted gold boosts the battery's power." Calypso didn't speak for a few seconds. "It can do that?" she asked. "Yes. It surprised me. But I tested it myself and it worked." I said. "How big is the utility harness you mentioned that the first version of the suit uses?" she asked. "It covers the entire suit." I said. "It clips onto the back of the torso, and attaches to all of the users limbs. The suit is dead weight without that harness. Of course, my prototype eliminates the need for such a tool."

Calypso was silent. "Why does Hank want it?" she finally asked. "I don't know. And he doesn't even know that there is armor." I said. "And like I said, he is greedy. I should of known that he would do this." Calypso spoke again. "What is Percy going to do about it?" I sighed. "I don't know. When we were speaking, before we could figure out a solution, our connection dissolved. So, I guess he's on his own on this one." I said. "How can you even say that?" Calypso asked. "Aren't you going to help him?" I sighed in anger. "Calypso, he's going to have to contact me if he wants help. And I don't really want him to come here." I said. "But why? Percy is nice!" she said. "Nice? Calypso, he fucking left you here when you offered him to stay here!" I said. "He had a life to return to! A quest to complete!" she said in return, as she rolled off of me and onto her back next to me. "And what did I do? I decided to stay here and abandoned my quest!" I said.

"Percy didn't have a choice! You did!" she retorted. "Wait, wait, wait! Hold on a second! We were both being threatened by Titans!" I said. "Yeah, but I think that Kronos is more threatening than Gaea ever was." Calypso replied. "Whatever." I said. I yawned and rolled over. "I'm going back to sleep. This hangover is killing me." I replied. "Do you want me to lay with you?" Calypso asked, as I felt her press herself up against my back, tempting me to say yes. "No." I said. "You need to get started on the day. I'm not going anywhere until this headache dies down." I felt Calypso getting up. "Of course, your highness." she said, hissing the last word. I could tell she wasn't upset, but if she were hungover, she wouldn't want to get up either. I yawned as she left the room. I closed my eyes and begged sleep to come. Sure hope Percy is having better luck than I am...

Percy

"How does the suit feel?" Nico asked, as he and Jason helped me get the power harness on. "It feels heavy." I said, as they strapped the harness to arms and wrists. "Well, once we get this thing powered up, it should feel lighter." Jason said, as they began to strap the harness to my legs and ankles. It took about a minute for them to power up the harness and they were right, it did feel lighter after that. "Connor told me that the harness provides the user enhanced strength." I said. "Really?" Nico asked. "Do you have anything in here you can test it on?" I looked around my cabin and saw the table that had been breaking down for the last couple years. I grinned and walked up to it. I made my hand into a fist and slugged the table as hard as I could. The wood practically exploded into smaller pieces. "Holy shit!" Jason exclaimed, as he laughed. "That suit is badass!" Nico replied. I nodded. "So, what's next?" Jason and Nico asked in unison. I grinned as I grabbed my ski mask. "What's next?" I asked. I slipped on the ski mask. "I'm going to go have a nice chat with Hank."

Leo

I had finally found the strength to stand up. I got up from the bed and immediately felt sick to my stomach. I resisted the urge to lay back down and walked out of the room. "Calypso." I called out in a hoarse tone, as I grabbed the wall for balance. "Calypso!" I lost my balance and fell over. "Calyps-" I began to say her name again, when I began coughing. "Caly-" I tried again and this time I retched. I felt like I was going to vomit, but there was a bit of a problem. Sure, the vomit came up, but it was stuck in my throat. I panicked, and started coughing, but to no avail. I got up, and slowly made my way to the cave entrance. I tried to walk outside and ended up falling. I tried to vomit again, but I ended up beginning to choke. On top of that, it was difficult to breathe, if I could breath at all.

I'm choking on my own vomit. Glorious. I began to crawl in the sand, towards the gardens where Calyspo was standing, when she finally noticed me. "Leo!" she exclaimed, as she ran over to me. "Can't breathe." I was barely able to choke out, as I continued to choke. "Your airway is blocked!" Calypso said, as she rolled me onto my side. She started to slap my back, and the vomit trapped in my throat slowly started to drain through my mouth. I was able to breathe again, but only through my nose. I don't know what was going on, but this hangover wasn't the cause of it. Before I could say anything or do anything, I just passed out.

A/N: Well, it was a long time coming, but that was the next chapter. What did you think? Anything that I should have added? I could update this chapter later on down the road! I forgot to add the "next time" entry to the last chapter. But no worries! It won't happen anymore! And I'll fix that little error later. So, I hope you all enjoyed this chapter. If you did, please favorite and follow the story. If you want to submit input, than you can do that by PMing me or posting a review. So, have a wonderful day and, bye.

In The Next Chapter of Ogygia Is My Home: Percy interrogates Hank in order to get the GPS chip. Meanwhile, back on Ogygia, Leo learns that he has contracted a deadly virus.