Thanks to those kind people who reviewed and left suggestions, I want to apologise for any spelling or grammatical errors, I'll have them sorted out soon enough, but for now please enjoy Chapter 3!

Leo.

Oh the joys of being Leo Valdez. Finally something makes sense, but it's still so confusing. See even that didn't sound right! Why was his life like this? He brushed his teeth every night, fixed his friends broken things, used his fire powers responsibly and only went for beautiful girls out of his league, but then there was the beautiful, way out of his league Piper McLean. Oh yes, that girl ruined him, she made his head spin every time he walked past her, he got jealous when he saw her with Jason or when she helped Nico. He had most likely fallen head over heels for her again , but alas, she will never feel the same way. Thanks Tia.

Oh stop moping Valdez and get up!

He ordered himself and he got up quite reluctantly.

"Stupid Tia Callida." He grumbled when he made his way to breakfast. As usual he was first there, so he sat down and started drumming his fingers against the table, but he soon got tired of that and started eating without the others, when he was finished Jason, Hazel and Frank came down the hall chatting happily, stopping only to greet him, Leo greeted back and walked up to the deck of the ship, he headed to starboard to check on Festus, when he heard Piper shout,"No, Nico you have to pull harder!"

"I am!" Nico shouted in reply.

"Ooh, this I gotta see!" Leo said more to himself and made his way to the other direction, where Piper was giving Nico instructions on flying a kite on the elevated backside of the deck, he stopped at the bottom of the stairs, Ok Valdez, you're probably gonna get a whack upside the head, but it's worth it.

"Oh can I have a go too?" He announced loudly, scaring the hades out of her.

"Leo!" She exclaimed turning looking down at him.

"Piper!" He countered.

"Stop mocking me!" He could see the smile on her face, clear as daylight.

"Stop mocking me!"

"Leo!"

"Piper!"Then came the wierd part, a strong wind with a slight perfumed smell, knocked Nico's kite out of the air and right into Piper, she stumbled and tipped right over the railing, fortunately Leo was standing very close, so he was able to catch her when she fell.

"Piper! You'll give me a heart attack!"Leo said grinning down at her.

"I think I nearly gave myself one. Thanks for catching me." She said sheepishly.

"Anything for you Beauty Queen." He said setting her down.

"Little help here?" Nico called.

Leo and Piper glanced at each other and then rushed up to where Nico was.

"Nico, hahaha!"Leo couldn't help himself, Nico was completely tangled in the kite line.

After Piper, Leo and Nico had laughed themselves dizzy, they all tried their best to get Nico untangled, twenty minutes later all three of them were lying happily on the deck of the Argo II, free of any kite lines and such,"Guys, do you ever wonder, what would have happened if we weren't demigods?"Piper asked and it was silent for a while. Leo knew he would still have his mom and none of this would have ever happened, but that seemed too deep so he answered instead,"Well I wouldn't have had any problems with a certain Beauty Queen, now would I?"

"And I would have been spared of a certain Repair boy!"

"And I would have been an old man." Nico said standing up and walking back to the railings.

Piper and Leo swallowed the rest of their comebacks.

"Hey, guys come look here, quickly!"Nico said, a note of urgency in his voice.

Leo and Piper were up in an instant and went to see what was so special. Leo looked to where Nico was pointing and saw it when it came nearer, it was a girl floating on a piece of wood.

"Nico, go get the rope ladder from the hidden door by the control panel, be quick. Piper, go get the others here so they can help him pull us up."

"Us?" She asked confused.

"Well someone's gotta get her." Leo said taking off his shirt and his tool belt, he felt Piper's eyes on him and couldn't help the smirk forming on his lips, yeah Jason, Percy and Frank weren't the only ones with killer abs. Then he dived down the side of the Argo II and swam towards the unconscious girl, he didn't have time to examine her, live now look later. He took her around the waist and swam back to the now immobile Argo II where a rope ladder was swaying in the hooked his one foot onto the ladder and did the same with his arm, he used the other arm to hold on to the girl.

"OK GUYS YOU CAN PULL US UP!" he shouted up and immediately they began to move upwards, Leo took this time to examine the girl, she had long blonde hair and a beautiful face, she was wearing a dress and that was all he had time for because just then they reached the top.

"Take her."Leo said lifting the girl the best he could, so Jason or Frank could take her. When they did, Leo climbed over the railings himself, unfortunately he tripped, rolled over and came up standing saying:"Did anybody just see that? Cause I am NOT doing that again!"

"She's waking up!"Jason said and Leo walked over, to see what was happening. The girl was trying to sit up, so Leo helped her. She opened her eyes, they were green as sparkling emeralds.

"What is your name?" He asked politely.

"Lamia." She said with the sweetest voice he'd ever heard.

"How'd you get in the ocean Lamia?" Hazel asked kindly.

"I escaped from a smuggler ship." She replied.

"Well then, feel free to stay with us as long as you like."Leo said automatically.

"Thank you sir." She said.

"Call me Leo and this is Frank, Hazel, Nico, Jason and Piper." He gestured to each of them in turn, but when he got to Piper she was giving him a hurt look and Lamia a look of - was that jealousy? Ooh this could be good.

"Lamia let me go show you where you'll be staying. Piper do you think she could borrow something to wear from you?"He intentionally didn't call her by a nickname and asked her. Oh, he was evil.

"Yes." She said looking a little friendlier than before, so I picked up my button-up shirt from the ground and draped it over Lamia's shoulders and walked with her and Piper to Piper's room.

"You don't have to come in Leo."Piper said over friendly.

"Don't worry I'm going to stay outside." Leo said smiling brightly because he was seriously enjoying himself. Then Piper smacked the door in his face.

About ten minutes later they came out of the room, Lamia was wearing a pair of Piper's denim shorts and a washed out lime green tank top.

"You look beautiful!" He exclaimed and he meant it, the girl was very beautiful.

"Thank you." She said and blushed.

"Madame, follow me and I shall show you the awesomeness that is the Argo II." Leo said bowing slightly, he held his hand out for her to take and she did.

After he showed Lamia the ship, it was already dark and like usual they headed to the dining hall, where the rest were Leo and Lamia sat down. Leo instantly started munching on a taco, but Lamia didn't eat."Hey, Lams why aren't you eating?"He asked her.

"Oh, I feel a bit queasy."She said and he accepted it.

"Guys, we're still up for the campfire tonight right?" Jason asked, it had sort of become tradition, since they all missed camp.

They all agreed and two hours later they were all on the upper deck huddled around a small campfire. They were sitting Leo, Lamia, Hazel, Frank, Piper, Jason, Nico.

After they sang a few songs and told a few stories, Piper asked,"Lamia, tell us a bit about yourself?"

"I grew up in an orphanage. I am a daughter of Hecate and was supposed to be shipped off with others to the Earth Mother, but I managed to escape." She said in that beautiful sweet voice of hers, the other boys were staring at her too.

"You poor dear." Piper said,"Well I'm tired and I want to go to bed, night guys, night Jason." She said and kissed Jason, though oddly enough he knew it was supposed to infuriate him, but something told him you don't care Leo and he believed it. Soon everyone had left, leaving only him and Lamia.

"Thank you for saving me." She said and kissed him. Ok so that should have been full on awkward, but that same something was telling him you're enjoying it and once again he believed it. Little did he know then Piper was hiding behind the main mast, not believing what her eyes were showing her.

Hey guys! :D I want to give a big thank you to LadyRiverwolf for helping me with the plot of the story and also to all you awesome reviewers! And don't be scared to review again! I could use some suggestions or flames :) Oh yes and Lamia, won't be staying long and she isn't actually made up by me, you will find out what I mean about that in the next chappie ;)

~Daizels