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Sorry it's taken me so long to update my story, I've just had a lot on my mind lately. (Sobbing) I have a life, too, you know! (More sobbing)

I'm kidding, I'm kidding, but I hve had a busy schedule lately, so sorry!

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Chapter 7

Leo

Leo had never experienced something like this before.

One minute, he had been flung against the railing, and the next, his precious ship was being attacked by flying pigs with orange hair!

And then he'd realized he could see the ship in the distance.

And then he realized he was hanging from a leg of one of the pigs.

Leo panicked at first, but then he'd gotten his head together and climbed on top of the pig and had started riding.

At this point, he had jumped from pig to pig about ten times, and now he was riding a pig with a broken foot.

He saw another lightning bolt jolt through the sky, and he steered his squealing pig away from it.

Another bolt shook the sky and flashed in front of them, and Leo's pig freaked out and started squealing and flying in circles.

Leo realized this pig was to traumatized to move anymore.

"Goodbye, Senor Pigington. You were a good steed," Leo said, and he stood as carefully as he could on Senor Pigington's back and looked around for another pig to ride.

And then he saw a pig wiz past him, and he realized that the pig kept opening and closing its jaw, like it was laughing.

That pig will be mine! Leo thought and when it began to wiz past again, Leo leapt of Senor Pigington and grabbed the back of The Laughing Pig.

"I will name you," Leo said as he pulled himself up onto the pig's back, "Laughing Pig. I'll call you LP for short."

He steered the pig toward the ship's deck, and suddenly another lightning bolt struck right in front of their path.

But, instead of freaking out like all the other pigs, LP just continued to open and close its mouth and flew around the spot the bolt had just pierced through.

Leo looked down and saw someone gasp from the deck, and he saw Hazel glancing up at him, pointing to him and looking back at Jason and Piper, her mouth moving furiously.

He waved to them and smiled gleefully.

Another lightning bolt sparked right next them, but LP just drifted in the opposite direction and opened and closed its mouth over and over again.

"GUYS, DON'T SHOOT AT ME!" Leo shouted down to them.

Leo watched as Hazel and Piper talked to each for a minute. It seemed that Hazel was yelling something to Piper, and Piper didn't seem to quite understand, but then suddenly Hazel ran for the edge of the ship, climbed up on the rail, and jumped off.

Frank screamed, and Leo could hear it from up in the clouds: "HAZEL! NO!"

Leo watched, horrified, as Hazel wrapped her arms around the back of a flying pig passing by.

Leo steered LP down to her as best as possible, and when he pulled up slightly far away from her, he shouted, "Don't put you knee into its side! It will lurch forward and you will fall off!"

"Okay!" Hazel called to him.

But, of course, as Hazel tried to pull herself up onto its back, she accidently dug her knee into its side.

It squealed and lurched forward, and Hazel slipped off with a short scream.

Leo sent LP spiraling like a torpedo after her.

He flew under her, and he grabbed Hazel and leveled out, flying back into the sky.

He pulled her close to him, and realized he was holding her around the waist. (AN: Remember when this happened in my version of MoA? Not with the pigs, but with the ladder?)

Then he realized how close their faces were.

There was an awkward silence between them, and Hazel turned away first.

Leo cleared his throat, and then pulled Hazel onto LP in front of him. He whispered in her ear, "Hold onto his neck and steer him by tapping the sides of his neck or the top of his head."

Leo wrapped his arms around her waist as she asked, "What does that do?"

"Left side of his neck makes him turn to the left. Right side of his neck makes him turn to left, but the top of his head makes him go down. He levels himself out, it's okay." Leo said.

Hazel nodded, and some of her curly brown hair pushed itself in his face. It smelled like soap and sweat.

Suddenly, LP jerked to left, away from the ship, and Hazel squeaked slightly and muttered, "No, no, go the other way!"

Leo traced his hands down her arm until their arms were lined up. He held her hands in his and steered Laughing Pig through Hazel.

They whizzed past the ship's deck and Jason shouted, "Lead him down onto the deck!"

As they did a full circle around the ship, Leo tapped LP on the top of the head, and he did a barrel roll down the deck, making Leo cheer.

He could barely hear Hazel mutter, "I think I'm going to be sick!"

LP pulled up on the deck and clattered to a stop. Hazel got off and stumbled around the deck, looking dizzy.

Frank ran up and caught her just as she fell.

Jason came over to them, holding his shoulder, and Piper came behind him, asking him, "Are you sure you're okay?"

"I'll be okay, Piper, I promise," he said, and then he looked down at LP.

He didn't seem to be laughing anymore.

Leo hopped off his piggy friend and rubbed his neck nervously. "Why are you staring at him like that?"

"Because he broke my shoulder!" Jason said, rather loudly.

"What? No! LP wouldn't do that!" Leo said, stepping in between Jason and his pig.

"No offense, Leo," Frank said, and Leo looked over at him, "but you've only known the pig for, like, a minute."

"LP?" Piper asked.

"Laughing Pig," Leo replied, glaring at Frank.

"And why do you think he's laughing, Leo?!" Jason asked, annoyed.

Leo opened his mouth to answer, but Jason answered his own question. "Because he just finished slamming me into the deck and breaking my shoulder!"

He was shocked to find his friendly steed accused with such a crime. "Is that true, LP?"

LP opened his mouth and closed it again, then looked away.

Leo felt betrayed. "So…what do we do about him?"

"We compare him to the dead one and see what they're made of," Jason said sternly, staring at LP with disdain.

Leo thought Jason could have spit on him right then, but then he looked up and Leo and said, "Take him to the stables. You can say your goodbyes on the way. Keep the door closed, and make sure you lock it."

Leo nodded reluctantly. "What can I lead him with?"

"Your hands," Jason replied.

"I'll…I'll check the ship," Hazel muttered.

"Oh, so you flip a switch and talk to Festus and suddenly you're a ship captain?" Leo asked playfully.

"Festus seems to like me, so maybe he'll help," Hazel replied, and walked off to the deck to play with Leo's Wii Remotes.

And Leo sighed and herded his piggy pig down to the stables.

Aw...when I wrote this part it made me feel like Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askiban when he told them Buckbeak had been sentenced to death when he's skipping stones in the lake...what will happen to Laughing Pig?

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