A/N: Super sneaky chapter before next Monday because honestly you guys are flippin' AWESOME. Really glad you're all reading, hope you like this one as much as the first :)

Shy x.

CHAPTER TWO

The first time Jason learned about Ogygia and why his best friend had suddenly gone off the deep end, it was evening and Annabeth had pulled them all along with three simple words. Leo needs help.

Jason felt little anxiety about being in the woods at night. The air was cool, the night still. For him, Hazel and Frank, it was a perfect night for breaking curfew to go meet up in their best friend's underground bunker to reveal why he'd been acting like a lunatic since they'd arrived back in New York.

For the Greeks, it was unnerving.

"I think I'd be more comfortable with a nice ominous growl every now and then." Percy grumbled, Riptide clutched in his hand in pen form. "It's too quiet."

"Maybe a few evil hisses?" Annabeth proposed, warily.

"Agreed." Piper muttered, letting her hand slid into Jason's. He squeezed it in return and smiled back at her, the way she looked with the bright moonlight spilling into her kaleidoscope eyes.

"Chiron says ever since Gaea went under, the monsters have been shaken." Jason repeated what he'd heard with a tiny smirk. "I'm sure they'll be back to maiming and growling soon."

"C'mon, it's just up ahead." Hazel pressed, shivering slightly. "I can feel all the metal."

The six demigods crossed the stream that twirled through the woods and came to the limestone cliff where a familiar dark haired figure paced back and forth, his hands deep in his tool belt, no doubt fiddling with something.

Jason had to admit that of all of them, Leo probably had the worst case of ADHD he'd ever seen.

"Leo, man, are you okay?" Frank called, still uncomfortable with the fire starter whose head whipped up upon hearing his voice like he'd been zapped.

"I'm- well, actually I'm not fine exactly, although I could be worse, I mean I could be buried in a mountain of dirt or torn to pieces by giants-" Leo babbled and his feet began to pace again like he couldn't help himself.

Piper frowned, stepping forward to grab his elbow as he passed. "Leo, just tell us what's wrong. You've been...distracted," she chose her words carefully. "Since we came back."

You also haven't looked any of us in the eye for a week. Jason wanted to add, though Piper seemed to have noted the same thing. His girlfriend carefully lifted Leo's gaunt looking face to hers and gasped like she'd been shocked by the same electricity Leo had.

"What? What's wrong?" Percy asked, twitching slightly.

"Oh Leo…" Piper breathed, staring into his eyes. "You- but how-?"

"I dunno, it's like one minute I didn't even- and then I did- and then I had to leave…man, why is this so screwed up?" he complained, scratching his head.

"Mind filling the rest of us in?" Jason asked, trying not to sound too pushy though the suspense was killing them.

Leo sighed, looking over the group with a gaze that was both distracted and slightly sad. "I-I'm trying to rebuild Festus."

"Alright…" Hazel drawled, eyebrow raised.

"But why?" Annabeth said in an echoing tone. "I mean, I know you were…friends…?"

"You've got plenty of time to rebuild the dragon." Frank stepped forward, confused.

"No, I really don't." Leo muttered, shoulders tensed like he was carrying something heavy. "She's waiting for me."

There was a pause that made the silent woods feel like they were screaming.

"Excuse me, who's waiting?" Percy vocalised the question all but Leo and Piper seemed to be wrestling with.

Nothing prepared Jason for the ferocious anger in his friend's normally laughing face when he glared at Percy. "Calypso. Calypso's waiting."

"So let me get this straight." Hazel huffed, brow furrowed as she swung around the metal work stool inside Bunker Nine. "Khione, goddess of snow and all around psycho bitch-"

"That's putting it mildly." Piper muttered with a raised brow. Jason had to agree.

"-launched you into the atmosphere-"

"I don't know how you two do it." Leo told Jason and Frank under his breath. "Flying is not Leo-friendly."

"-you survived because of the ball-"

Annabeth broke in here, looking putout as she looked over the bronze ball in question. "Sphere. It's a sphere."

"-and when you landed you were on Ohgeea-?"

"Ogygia." Percy, Leo and Annabeth corrected in unison. Leo threw a look that could have cut glass toward the former who had the decency to look sheepish.

"-which is the resting place of a goddess called Calypso? That you fell in love with?" Hazel finished, sceptically.

"It's her curse." Percy said, casting his gaze downwards with shame. "The gods send her heroes she can't help but fall in love with. But they always have to leave and Calypso can never leave the island. So she's always heart broken."

To Jason, he admitted it sounded like a horribly cruel torture. This girl lived in peace and quiet, untouched by the events of the world, her needs taken care of by unseen air spirits and yet, the thought of having to see Piper leave him, having to see dozens of Pipers leave him over the course of thousands of years-

His stomach gave a sick drop at the idea.

"No thanks to you." Leo scowled back at the son of Poseidon.

Percy grimaced but argued nevertheless. "I had to save Olympus!"

"Settle down, boys." Piper interjected, calmingly. There was a slight edge to her voice, laced in charmspeak.

"So you fell in love with her?" the quiet question came from Frank who had been working on his praetor duties for the last week and was getting the hang of his new leadership. Jason privately thought the son of Mars was doing a better job of it than he thought. Frank Zhang was a natural leader, with a quiet but growing confidence.

"Yeah." Leo scuffed the ground with his sneaker, feeling around in his pocket for the white crystal, which he raised, hesitantly, for the group. "I took this when I left and I found Odysseys' astrolabe from Bologna and I think- I think I can make it work with Festus' new system."

"Leo," Annabeth said, looking sympathetic. "No one can find Ogygia twice. It's part of the curse."

"Well it shouldn't be!" Leo suddenly roared, standing up with his hands ablaze. "She has to sit on that beach for thousands of years and watch every guy she's ever helped sail away on their own grand adventures! She just has to watch them leave, knowing they'll never be back."

"Leo-" Jason tried to calm him but Leo was already off, moving with frenetic energy around the workshop, grabbing pieces of bronze here, tools there, wires from all over the places.

"And why? Because she loved her dad? Because she tried to support her family? It's not fair!" he bellowed, slamming his fists down on the metal worktable. Breathing hard, he looked down and found the metal had curved under the force of his heat, a pair of deep impressions visible in the warped bench. It cooled every ounce of tension in his body to see himself so out of control.

Hazel stepped forward, fearless even in the face of Leo's fury and hugged her old friend's descendant tightly. "If you think you can get back to her, then we'll help you however we can." She promised, casting her eyes over his shoulder at the group pointedly.

Jason coughed, still somewhat stunned by this turn of events but nonetheless committed. "Of course. Of course we'll help."

"So what's first?" Annabeth asked, chin raised and a milder version of Leo's determination spread across her face. By her side, Percy looked just as devoted, perhaps even more so with an edge of shame to his stance.

Leo sighed and moved toward a huge curtain covered structure towards the back of the bunker. With a slight Leo-ish flare, he pulled the curtain off, revealing the skeletal structure of an enormous, familiar dragon. "First? I need to make him fly."