Okay… First of all, good job on the 27000+ views! Thanks for reading to the point of Chapter 41! And secondly, I think I'll wait for a few more contest entries to come in before announcing the winner due to the lack of response. It will be there eventually, just not yet. Okay, on to the story~

The Adventures of a Lovesick Idiot: The Queen Must Rise

Leo had set the ship in direct course for Greece. It was almost one o'clock. In the morning! At the rate that they were going, they would be at Gaia's resting place within the day. Percy was out on the decks willing the ship to go at thrice the speed than it normally would. If it weren't for him, they would never make it to Athens by the deadline of the Feast of Spes. In fact, if they weren't lucky enough to rescue him on the day that they had, they would've been in a LOT of trouble.

"Don't you just love how Gaia's side is so organised and they have this whole master-plan about killing all of us while we don't even know what we're going to do when we get to Athens?" Hazel enlightened the group. She scooped a pink, mini marshmallow out of her steaming mug of hot chocolate and popped it in her mouth.

Piper's eyes widened.
"Wait, we don't have a plan?! I just thought that you guys weren't telling me or something, but you legit don't have a plan at all?!"

Jason attempted to calm his girlfriend down. She was on the verge of hyperventilating.
"Leo," he urged, "Tell her out secret plan." He put a slight emphasis on the 'secret', signalling Leo to quickly fabricate a plan.

"That's right," he assured, "It's um… a uh… secret plan."

Piper heavily laced her voice with Charmspeak.
"Okay then, tell me your secret plan."

Leo winced, he tried to fight against his urge to tell the truth. He realised that if he failed, not only would Piper be a wreck, but Jason would also be in deep trouble. He did not want to anger a child of Jupiter but Charmspeak just made it soooo tempting! And then he remembered his own personal plan, involving suicide. He decided on telling her that they didn't have an official plan but he did have… a private one…
"Actually, we do-"

Jason misunderstood and thought Leo was about to admit to having no plot at all so he forcefully clamped down his lips.

"Mmph… Mmm, hm!" he cried.

"That's right, Leo," Jason said, patting Leo very hard on the back. "It's a SECRET plan. SECRET."

"Yeah right," Piper snorted, "I may be related to Drew but I'm not an airhead."

Calypso suspiciously eyed the bronze sphere. If Leo didn't believe what she had said about Ignus, she wouldn't care about how long it took to build the device, she'd smash it open like a melon.

It unfolded into a holographic projector and showed Leo with a grim face.
"Look, right now, I'm conflicted," he started.

She groaned. Calypso honestly couldn't believe that he still couldn't decide whether to listen to his usually trustworthy girlfriend or a guy he just had a chat with for two seconds of his life.

"But after factoring how trustworthy you normally are and the fact that he just appeared out of nowhere, I guess you're probably right. And all your anger is also probably a sign that you're not lying. Do you know why I don't go around calling Percy your boyfriend?! It's because Percy doesn't randomly come up to me and go, "OMG, you like, stay away from Calypso because, I'm like her boyfriend," except without that accent but you know what I mean! Oh and this time, please, please, PLEASE tell me what you were about to tell me but you didn't at the end of your last message. Cheers, bye~!"

Calypso frowned. She had no idea how to respond to that. He was being nice! Yet he still kind of doubted her faith…

"I was going to tell you last time, that I figured out my elemental powers! I can control the earth although that does mean that share Gaia's sphere of power… It has both ups and downs. And uh, Leo, just know that I'm not lying to you about Ignus. I honestly don't think of him as anything other than a leech stuck to the bottom of my foot. Let's just say that I'm pretty glad that you chose to believe me."

She then wrinkled her nose because his exact words were 'I guess you're probably right'. Probably?! Probably?! So just for good measure, she added,
"Kind of. Bye, hope you beat my grandma soon." She pressed the little button on the side to end the recording.

Gaia cackled like a stereotypical evil witch. What the stupid demigods didn't know was that her resurrection only required the spilled blood of a male and female demigod. No one said that the blood had to be from the seven. The blood would preferably be from strong demigods and Gaia would be preferably risen on the 1st of August just a taunt for the demigods.

To be honest, resurrecting wasn't that hard. All she really had to do was recruit two of her stronger monsters to locate demigods with a really powerful aura. It wasn't difficult at all!

She was waiting patiently in her throne and was prepared to wait all day… because she was scarfing down dozens of Monster doughnuts. This was the first time that she had been conscious in a real, solid body for millenniums and she was hungry as hell. And because all monsters got a 50% discount from Monster Doughnut, so it was quite a bargain.

"Gaia, the demigodssssssss are due to arrive at 4pm today," Kelli hissed.

Gaia sighed in pleasure. Those imbeciles could take as long as they wanted. After all, every minute that they were delayed was just another minute to eat yet another doughnut.

Thanks for reading! I now have this planner so I know exactly how this story is going to go and I have written down all the important events and which chapter they're meant to go into. But… I realised that the events took a lot less words to write than what I expected so I panicked and started writing ahead of my planner. Gaia wasn't meant to appear until Chapter 42! :'( Oh well… Please fave, follow and review to show your appreciation~!

BRING ON THE FLAMES, COS UNCLE LEO'S HERE!