Leo's POV:

I walked around Camp Half-Blood, feeling like I owned the place, though I was bored out of my life.

I had nothing to do. Plus, Niori wasn't there to craft stuff with me since she was on guarding duty. And if that wasn't enough, simply all of my friends were, or gone on that mission with those Santa elves, or in the other Camp in Rome. Only Calypso, my girlfriend was still at Camp, but she was busy talking to Chiron, or something like that.

It hurt to think I had come back only a few weeks before from almost dying, expecting lots of hugs and possibly kisses, but the only kiss I got was an uppercut from all the campers. Andd not to mention Chiron had told me my friends had gone on a quest without me!

I mean, I knew I was the seventh wheel of the lot, but I thought that would change when Calypso and I got together!

I smirked at the thought of her: she may have not liked me at the beginning, but it turned out, we were really good together.

"Leo!" a familiar female voice yelled from behind me.

I turned around, with my lips spread out into a smirk, just to see my beautiful partner, Calypso, with her long blonde hair flowing behind her as she ran toward me.

"Sup'?" I asked her right as she arrived in front of me, panting and her breathing short.

She looked up at me from her bent position as she took a deep breath. As she talked, her words were separated by hiccups.

"Chiron- told-me-to get you-to-the Big-House." she panted between almost every single word.

I frowned at her, noticing her red, yet cute face.

"Wow, you must have really run a lot, must have been eager to see me, am I right?" I pointed out, realizing how out of breath she seemed.

She glared at me bemused, rolling her eyes at the same time. Even I couldn't do that! I would have cracked a joke right there, but Cal' seemed a little bit on the edge of shouting at me right there.

"That's just because I looked for you all around Camp, can't you stand still for just a few seconds?" she asked me, recovering from her sporty jog.

"Nah, ADHD, remember? Plus, Super McShizzle Supreme never stands still! Only he can pull off looking cool while running!" I told her heroically, pumping my fist in the air.

She rolled her eyes at me, once again.

"Sure Valdez, sure." she told me with a raised eyebrow. "We need to go now, so if Super McShizzle Supreme is okay with it, I'll be ruining your style by running next to you."

"Nothing can ruin the style of the Valdezinator! Though it would be nice if you could stand a little bit farther from me, so- you know- you don't ruin my style." I winked at her frowny face. She was glaring at me.

I heard her groan behind me, but I just kept going.

Plus, my stupid ADHD mind kept wandering around my little head and asking itself why I was called to the Big House.

What did Chiron want from me?

Was I in trouble because of the time where I set his wheelchair on fire or something?

Though I decided to keep chill and keep running with my handsome hair blowing beautifully over my face. You may ask yourself how I could say that about myself. Well, a bad boy's gotta have a big self-esteem to be cool, right?

Right?

"I don't know if you really see exactly the location of the Big House, but you have to turn right, you idiot." Cal' called from behind me.

I came to a stop, suddenly feeling stupid.

"Well, I did it on purpose for you to feel good!" I lied, walking over to the right path to see the Big House present itself right in front of me.

"Of course you did. I'm just a damsel in distress, trying to run away from humiliation." I could almost feel Calypso smiling.

I nodded at her.

"You got it!" I finger-gunned her.

Suddenly, a tall Centaur walked, -or should I say trotted-, toward us, my half-sister, Niori, at his side, along with three guys who -I'm not going to lie-, were kind of good-looking. But of course, nothinf could beat my looks. The strangers seemed a little disoriented.

"Nah, you wouldn't even be able to find yourself out of a paper-bag." Niori told me, smirking.

I gasped at her, clutching my chest in pure shock.

"How dare you say that to the most awesome person in the world of demi-gods?!" I yelped at her.

Niori just shrugged at me amusingly and turned to the guys next to her.

"Hey, this is Dex, Fitz and Tam." she told me, though the boys didn't seem to know what we were talking about, especially the one with those ridiculous silver bangs.

I couldn't help but study them, trying to engrave them in my memory, knowing they were special; they just had a certain aura, similar to the one of Demi-Gods, but it wasn't exactly the same. I didn't know how I could glimpse the difference.

The first one, Dex apparently, had hair as red as strawberries, and his eyes were a certain purple, probably periwinkle.

The next one, introduced as Fitz, was in a tense position, as he ruffled his brown hair with a large hand. His teal eyes looked filled with fear, and his forehead was twisted in a frown.

Though the one who had silver bangs was the one who attracted my attention: he was literally Nico's twin! Sure, he looked a little better and the son of Hades had deeper battle scars of lack of sleep, but their attitude looked the same.

"Hey guys, the name's Leo, though you can also call me 'Super fried McShizzle Supreme'!" I told them, stoke a heroic poss, so that everyone snorted. Everyone except... the newcomers.

"Oel s'eh, flesmih gnicudortni tsuj s'eh." Chiron told them in Giberish.

I furrowed my eyebrows at the lot of them.

"Why are you talking in a weird language? Is this a joke or something? Did I somehow forget how to speak English? Or did you teach them Gibberish instead of Latin?" I snapped my fingers at every guess.

"Nah, they're just not from here." Niori told me, adjusting her short hair.

I frowned even more.

"What do they speak then?" I asked.

At that moment, Chiron finally decided to speak.

"The Enlightened language." he told me.

Fitz's POV:

I tried to grasp the meaning of the conversation, but I only understood bits and pieces of what they were saying.

Curse me and the fact that I hadn't gone to the Forbidden Cities in an eternity! When I had been searching for Sophie, I could have a conversation with a stranger without even stuttering, but it was all gone now, and I wished I could understand the people in front of me, and maybe even talk to them.

The half-horse guy next to us, Chiron apparently, spoke the Enlightened language as well, which was kind of suspicious. I looked up to the Centaur; he and Mr. Forkle could have been best friends. The way they spoke so calmly in horrifying situations, and how they looked like they didn't tell people things made them so alike, I wouldn't even be surprised if Chiron would take off his horse body and his beard while saying 'Hey, I'm Mr. Forkle's other twin!'.

"Hey, so when are you going to explain stuff to us, like why are we here, instead of our destination?" I asked the Horse-Dude.

Chiron turned to me, in the way my father smiled. As if he were about to say 'ThErE's No ReAsOn To WoRrY'. I was getting kind of sick of that saying after all these years.

"You have to discover that on your own. Though you must be tired, in the meantime-" I tuned him out as he spoke in English, directing his words to the girl, Niori, another blonde person, and the boy with brown hair and tanned skin, Leo.

I smiled as the boy nodded and gave Chiron a cheesy salute. His attitude somehow reminded me of Keefe. He seemed the type to joke around, and pull pranks on people, though the look in his eye said he had had a hard time in life.

He led us outside of the opening we were standing in with the blonde girl by his side, to walk onto a path. I looked over at Dex, to see he was blushing crimson as he spoke to Niori, who seemed to have the same shade of color on her cheeks.

I smiled at the both of them: they were cute together. I felt happy for Dex, he looked as joyful as ever, with his dimples showing. Dex was finally finding someone, though I still couldn't get over Sophie. Unless the Chandelier counted. Speaking of...

"Excuse. Me. Is. There. Chandelier. Somewhere?" I asked Leo, trying my best to speak in this unfamiliar languages. To stop myself from stuttering, I marked pauses between each word.

Leo grinned at me, probably laughing at my awful accent.

"Yes. Mate." he answered, imitating the movements of a robot.

(A/N: I think my English friends rubbed off on me, UGHHHHH, help!)

I rolled my eyes at him, knowing I was ridiculous.

"Where?" I asked him.

"In the Big House, why?" the girl beside Leo asked.

I jumped at her.

"You speak the Enlightened Language?" I asked her, feeling it was much easier to speak.

She shrugged at me.

"Yeah, I'm a few centuries old, and I spent a lot of time on this island. I had time to learn a few languages." she explained, though her voice was a little hesitant.

"EsaelP! tuo tfel leef I, egaugnal rehtona ni gnikaeps, hoaw, hoaw, hoaw!" Leo told us, his hands both extended toward us as if he were trying to stop us.

He was going too fast, how was I supposed to understand?

We suddenly arrived in front of a large cabin.

"This. Is. Where. You. Will. Be. Staying." Leo told the three of us slowly.

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A/N:

I also had a question: Which of the three worlds do you prefer: the 6 people at Litterlock School, the others at Camp, or the ones who stayed in the Lost Cities?

It's so hard to juggle between all of them, though I can manage!

But, there's also something I wanted to say:

I'm thinking of discontinuing this story, because I have another idea for a Sokeefe fanfiction AU, and I'm getting kind of sick of this. I don't really have any ideas, and I have a lot going on right now, with the homework and THE 4 STORIES I'm co-authoring on. So, I don't know.

It's really sad to do this but...

BAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA

Did I get you? I don't think so, because this was super obvious XD

I will NEVER discontinue ANY of my stories! Like, EVER!

And I have SO MANY ideas for this story, I'm not going to stop there!

I spent my whole primary in a Montessori School (you can search it up on Internet!) and one of the rules were:

Finish a work before starting another!

And it is engraved in my memory forever! Except when I HAVE to on a test or something!

Though it's true I have an idea for a Sokeefe fanfic AU, I'll be writing it after this book. Is that okay?

Okay, bye!

~Ellie

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