Hey everyone! Sorry I haven't updated in a while. I was busy with my other fanfic, The Vow of Eternal Maidenhood. Please read it if you have the chance.
Just so you guy know, I have a Wattpad account and I posted this story there so please don't think that someone is copy-writing me. My penname there is exactly the same as it is here but I doesn't suggest you read it from there because I prefer more and I love you guys more too! . 3 Besides, this fanfic on Wattpad is still on Chapter 4… =.=
The Adventures of a Lovesick Idiot: Wattpad, eMortal and Wikipedia
Leo was an impatient person. After discovering that Calypso was no longer on Ogygia, he had grown very, very anxious.
'Am I supposed to find her?' he thought, 'Or is she supposed to come with me?'
Was Leo meant to play the knight in shining armour and go search for her? 'Wait, no that's stupid,' he thought, 'I don't even know where she is.' He kept on trying to reassure himself that it wasn't required of him to venture out for her.
'On one hand,' Leo thought and held out an outstretched palm, 'As a male I'm expected to go be heroic and stuff.' He did the same thing for his other hand, 'And on the other, Calypso's very independent so she might be offended if I go look for her.'
Leo started moving his hands up and down alternatively.
Left hand up, right hand down… left hand down, right hand up, left hand up…
Soon, the ADHD demigod was moving his hands constantly up and down without any reason. To any ordinary passer-by, it would seem like he was juggling with non-existent balls.
It took him a while, but he realised what he was doing and stopped. Leo's hands dropped back to his side.
'Calypso will take it badly if I try to rescue her. It will go against her feministic-ism-ness (I know this isn't a real word but let's be honest, this is Leo we're talking about) views,' he decided.
Leo sat into his comfortable armchair and reached for the cup holders. As opposed to the kinds of things that normal people put into cups (dunno, cups maybe?), Leo preferred to keep chocolate covered sugar frosted macadamia nuts. Chocolate covered sugar frosted macadamia nuts were one of his favourite foods, apart from lemonade and beef stew of course. He grabbed a decent handful of nuts and shoved a few into his mouth.
Leo savoured the taste of chocolate and sugar. It was like a solid form of adrenalin to his brain. 'Food always helps me think better,' he thought.
Putting the rest of the handful into his mouth, he reconsidered his dilemma. The diabetes-inducing snack crunched under his teeth probably forming a few cavities on the way.
'It's my job,' he told himself, 'I'll help her but I won't help her.' And he relaxed in his armchair with that comforting thought.
Ignus blinked confused. It wasn't possible. After his wife Aquam (Latin for water), the minor goddess of water had divorced with him, no other goddess, nymph or even dryad on Olympus had even batted an eye in his direction.
His wife had caught him cheating on her. The news of his treachery and unfaithfulness spread like wildfire through Mount Olympus. 'It was quite a shame that I was caught…' the god lectured himself, 'Why couldn't I have been more subtle?'
Calypso had seemed so lovey-dovey and clingy back on Ogygia, she had been the only girl left that even seemed to care about him at all.
The daughter of the Titans had seemed like the only available chance left. And now she had rejected him. 'Quite blatantly and rudely might I add,' he thought.
He lolled his head to the side and reconsidered his open options. He could pursue Calypso until she fell victim to his charms, or… he could open an online eMortals dating account (Get it? Immortals? eHarmony? eMortals?)
Ignus jumped onto a nearby laptop that the hotel had on loan for their paying customers and typed letters into the search engine.
It had taken the 'young' god many, many years to perfect the art of what modern day people called Googling. He scoured and dug for every single piece of dirt he could find on Calypso, and most importantly, her love life.
"Ah… A woman portrayed as a seductress…" he read off the screen. He read a couple more incriminating lines out loud before tilting the lid down to touch the keyboard (Let's all pretend that there's some kind of info there that will be used later in the plot) "Thank you Wikipedia. Now, I have all the information I need. Leo Valdez, you're going down (Let's be honest, there is a lot of Caleo info on Wiki…)
Leo had decided on an answer. He could track Calypso down with one of the Archimedes spheres, enter the correct code for visual communication and assist her with her journey towards the Argo II. Personally, he himself thought that it was a very good spur of the moment idea. Leo patted himself on the shoulder and ate a few more pieces of confectionery as a reward.
"I'm a genius!" he told himself. Running into the corner of his room, he grabbed one the metal contraptions and punched in a unique four-digit code while praying that he had put in the correct one.
Leo recorded a video message into the golden sphere that would be ready to play as soon as it was received by the intended one. He wanted Calypso to know of how everything was going and the conditions of everything aboard the Argo II.
He sat in front of it and talked to the camera as if it were Calypso herself only without her replies. When he was done with his message, Leo punched in another code (Don't worry you'll find out what the message is when Calypso receives it).
The top hemisphere of the ball folded itself into a pair of rotors. The propeller began spinning, lifting the heavy metal sphere a few inches into the air. They turned even faster and lifted up a foot higher (I changed the measurements to make more sense and be more proportionate). It tilted left and right before flying out of Leo's window into the unknown - going into the pitch black sky outside.
"Go find Calypso," he whispered.
Sorry for taking so long to update. I don't know why but I haven't been getting any ideas recently. In order to scrape this chapter together, I actually had to sit down and write a brief overview of the chapter and assign a certain number of words onto each part of the chapter. I was so tiring… Hope you liked it! Review, fave and follow to show your appreciation and to encourage me to write faster.
Sorry if it sounds cheesy or if I sound like I'm trying to get more stats, but I'm serious. Because of my continuous Writer's Block, please also review and give me suggestions for my story, because I'm seriously stuck right now…
BRING ON THE FLAMES, COS UNCLE LEO'S HERE!