Hey guys!
Please have fun reading the latest chapter!
If you find the time, could you please also read my best friend's fanfic: The Misadventures of a Bald Emo?
I do not own PJO, coz I'm probably just not awesome enough… :(
The Adventures of a Lovesick Idiot: Buford gets the Girl
Leo scowled. The rest of the quest had decided to let him clean the entire ship without magic or robots. It was torture but Leo was only doing it for quality time with Calypso. The stupid things he did for love… It was official: Leo was pathetic.
Currently, Leo was stuck in the Engine Room doing repairs on the engine (that Buford happened to have a mega crush on).
He was thinking to himself. 'Oh gee, my table has a more stable relationship than I do.'
It was truly a sad, sad life…
Leo polished the pipes connected to the enchanted furnace. The sooner he could prove himself, the sooner he could talk to Calypso.
People out there were wrong. Long distance relationships weren't that bad even if the girl was in a different dimension.
Leo was now in Hazel's room. He wasn't very sure if it was appropriate for him to be cleaning a girl's room. What if he found something like a secret diary or underwear or even WIGS?! What if Hazel was secretly bald and wore wigs to cover it up?!
This is what happens inside the mind of an ADHD and dyslexic kid.
Leo's focus strayed further away from cleaning the room and more into randomness.
If he ever got interrogated by people maybe someone could invent a mind-reading helmet. And then when they read his mind, he'll be all like: 'Rainbows, unicorns, tacos, ponies, laptops, cookies, dandelions, THIS BOY IS ON FIRE, etc'
Maybe he could invent a mind-reading hat…
Leo vigorously shook himself out of it and concentrated on cleaning the room. He got a duster out of his utility belt and started dusting the walls when he noticed the notice board. There was a picture of Sammy pinned up against the felt with pretty, multi-coloured pushpins.
Leo examined his great grandfather's curly, black hair and his crazy, goofy grin. Sammy was so much funnier than Leo. He was wearing a striped cap and a tacky, blue T-shirt. 'So that's who I got my fashion sense from,' Leo thought sarcastically.
'Well, on with the cleaning!'
"Am I done yet? Have I proved myself?" Leo asked hopefully. It had taken more than three days to clean the entire ship and Leo hoped that it had paid off.
"Uh… No… We just got you to clean the ship because:
1) The ship's filthy and
2) No one else wants to do it."
"So I wasted three and a half days of my precious on doing something that didn't need to be done?!" Leo exclaimed.
"Oh no, no, no," Piper corrected while shaking her head, "The ship really did need cleaning."
"You said I could go back to my room if I proved myself! It's not fair!" Leo whined like a child.
"Uh," Jason said awkwardly while scratching his head, "By proving yourself, we meant something like destroying an epic monster…"
Leo bit his lip to hold back any snarky comments. 'If the rest of the quest wants me to slay a monster, then so be it,' Leo thought heroically. He sighed and headed to the control room.
Calypso was in the "man cave" that Leo had left behind. It held fragments of memories. She looked at the navigational device that they had built together. Sadly, it never had a chance to be used when the raft arrived.
Right now, the magical defences of Ogygia were unstable and could crumble at any moment which meant that there had to be cracks or openings in the force shield. 'If I could adjust the device, maybe I could track down all the wisps of magical energy…' Calypso thought to herself. And in no time, Calypso's mind was running off like an evil genius'.
Her hands flew across the wires of the navigational device in hopes of reprogramming the machine to recognise traces of magical activity of the shield.
'And then once I can see where the shield is crumbling, I'll be capable to travel between the two dimensions. And then I'll somehow find Leo. On second thoughts, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it… Provided that there actually is a bridge.'
Let's not get this wrong people, reprogramming a navigational device is actually very hard work (contrary to popular belief) so please do not try this at home unless of course, you're an evil genius too...
"Let's get this party started," Calypso told herself.
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BRING ON THE FLAMES, COS UNCLE LEO'S HERE!