So, since Artemisapollo's Leo is about to die via his wife's hands, lets take a break and check up on my Leo.

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Three: Searching

"Oh gods, your mother is going to kill me!"

Tulio Valdez had never seen his father so stressed. Leo worked a hectic schedule with long hours, endless requests and jobs, and hobby building in between. Not to mention he had to be the father of four children, two of which would be going to college in three years, and the main provider of a family of six. But, in the fifteen years Tulio had been with him, Leo had never been this frantic about anything.

Of course, Tulio had never seen his father actually lose a child before, so...

"Papi, calm down." The legacy placed his hand on his father's shoulder. Leo was sitting on the porch to the Hephaestus Cabin, pulling on his hair in his stressful state. "You're gonna be the first bald Valdez ever if you keep this up."

Normally, a joke would have cheered Leo right up; he'd be the one making the joke more often than not. But this was a situation involving his youngest boy and his favorite girl. If he couldn't find them by the time his wife got home, not only would she kill him, he would be in eternal sorrow if he never found out what had happened to Espie.

Tulio sighed and looked away from his panicked father for a moment. Rachel Elizabeth Dare was walking past them, covered in clay and paint. She looked rather annoyed.

"Rachel, have you seen Espie?" Tulio called to the Oracle.

Rachel turned. She shook her head. "I told her two hours ago to get me a bag of ribbons from the attic in the Big House. Simple, right? Somehow she's mucked it up. My inspiration's gone, now. I was just heading to the Big House now to go kick her."

Leo shot up like a bullet. "Mind if we come with? I didn't think to check there!"

Rachel shrugged. "I guess not. Why? Is something wrong?"

Tulio explained that they couldn't find Espie or Zac anywhere as they walked over to the Big House. Rachel calmed considerably when she noticed Leo was about to lose his mind.

"I'm sure they're fine, Leo," Rachel said. "They can't be too far away."

Tulio didn't mention his twin-link. It was like one of his limbs was missing. Without Espie around, Tulio felt incomplete and way more insecure than usual.

They all ascended the stairs and went up to the attic. No one was inside. Footprints in the dust suggested people had been in there earlier, but there were no footprints that suggested they had left. A bronze dolphin was sitting next to a box labeled 1994. On the other side of the same box was a pile of stuff.

Rachel went over to the box and dug around. "Huh, it's not here," she murmured. "I could have sworn..." She glanced to the side and smacked herself. "Of course! The bag of ribbons was in the box labeled 1949 not 1994. No wonder she took so long to begin with!"

Leo started rifling through everything, looking for any hints of why Espie and Zac never left. "Maybe they're in here somewhere," he muttered. "They must have set something off, if they have my luck."

Tulio watched where he stepped, for fear his siblings were somehow made tiny. "Check the pile Espie made. Maybe something there made them disappear."

Rachel and Leo began picking apart the pile of stuff. Leo looked like he wanted to pocket some of the stuff he picked up, but Rachel warned him that some of these items were cursed. "They could activate if you hold them for too long," she said.

Tulio picked up a mirror and examined it. There was an inscription on it. When he read it aloud, Rachel froze.

"Was that in here?" she asked.

Tulio shrugged. "I guess. There's no tag or anything."

The Oracle groaned. "I think I know what happened. Espie must have looked in the mirror with Zac nearby. That mirror teleports the person to a reflection-type world. An alternate universe, so to speak. The universe it sends the user to is a reflection world where the person does not originally exist."

"How do you know this?" Tulio asked. "Is there an encyclopedia on cursed artifacts?"

"Probably in the Athena Cabin," Leo said.

"Because I went to a world that didn't have Rachel Elizabeth Dare a few weeks ago," Rachel informed them. "It was weird. There wasn't any Oracle, and there wasn't a second Great Prophecy, but somehow seven other demigods defeated Gaea. Anyway, the only way to get back here is to find this mirror in that world, or at least a shard of the mirror if it's broken."

"So, either we wait for gods know how long for my kids to figure it out," Leo began. "Or Tulio and I go and get them and find this mirror there."

"I like the second idea," Tulio said. "But, how will we get the right universe?"

"Easy." Rachel pointed at Tulio. "You look into the mirror and grab Leo's hand. You and Espie are twins. If Espie went to a world without her, you would go to the same place, because it would be without you, too, by default."

"But what if it took her to a universe where I was the only one born, like I never had a twin?"

"Just try not to think of it like that." She shoved the mirror closer to his face. Tulio wasn't really very self-conscious about the way he looked, much like Leo. Grungy, covered in grease, sweaty...a mechanic's reflection through-and-through.

A bright light invaded Tulio's vision suddenly, so he instinctively reached out to grab his father. He clamped on to Leo's arm just in time, before the light vanished and they found themselves outside in the middle of New York. Tulio no longer felt like he was missing a limb.

"Espie is here," he said.

Leo looked around, confused. "Where? I don't see her."

"Not 'here' here." Tulio rolled his eyes. "She's here in this world, though. I can feel her again."

"Can you find her?"

"Um...I can't exactly pinpoint her with this link. It's just a feeling. I can try to sense where she is, but it might take a while."

Leo nodded. "Let's just head in a general direction and see what you can do."

"Leo! Charlie!"

Leo and Tulio turned around to see Percy Jackson running towards them from the opposite side of the street. He was panting hard. "Hey, guys..." he took a big gulp of air. "You seen Lou? She said she felt something off and literally ran from Camp to here. Tried to follow..." he sighed in agony. "Never again..."

Leo looked at Percy with a confused look.

"What?" Percy asked. "Dude, I know I'm not the prettiest guy after a run or workout, but...is there something on my face? Behind me?"

Leo shook his head. "Um...who's Lou?"

Percy paused, then laughed a bit. "Good one, Leo. 'Who's Lou?' Like you wouldn't know my own sister is your wife."

Tulio blinked. "You have a sister?"

"And she's my wife?" Leo shouted. "What are you talking about?"

Percy narrowed his eyes. "Wait...what are you talking about?"

A/N: Woo, everyone's in the same universe! And we meet Artemisapollo's Percy! But wait...it seems there's a case of mistaken identity! Tune in next time to find out how Espie, Zac, and AA's Leo are faring! Hopefully Lou hasn't torn Leo limb from limb.