Everyone knew Leo Valdez was crazy with creating stuff. He just had to be occupied with making something (unless he was eating or sleeping. Or maybe training). So it was no surprise when he one day found himself with nothing to do and Annabeth left her laptop unattended.

Until then, the only way for demigods to go online was 1. The special heavily celestial bronze plated room in the big house (what a waste of material) 2. The Argo II dashboard (the huge mass of Olympian material shielded the signals) and 3. Annabeth's laptop from Daedalus (the guy alone knows how its Wi-Fi works). And then Annabeth left it lying around (what the hell was she thinking) and Leo picked it up. No points for guessing what he did with it. Next thing Tartarus knew, Leo had alloyed some of whatever Olympian material he could find into the core chip of a stolen MacBook Air (supplied by the Stolls, who got it from Elysium knows where), plated a few main wires and was typing away happily.

But the Stolls had to give Leo a modem too, which, after plating, gave Leo unlimited wireless access. And the first thing Leo looked up was the urban dictionary. Naturally, he looked up the word 'ship', which was fine until the second entry.

"Hey Jennifer!" he yelled to some random passing Aphrodite girl, "Does 'ship' really refer to a romantic pairing, derived from 'relationship'?"

"Duh," Jennifer replied. "There are ship names too, like, um, Percabeth."

"Percy and Annabeth?" Leo asked.

"Obviously," Jennifer replied, rolling her eyes. "It's a combination of their names. Cabin Ten totally ships them. Even your friend Piper, although she doesn't use ship names, so you wouldn't know."

She started to walk off, apparently with better things to do than explain "shipping" to a love idiot, but Leo called out to her, "Hey, wait! You're with that Carlos guy from Hermes Cabin, right? So you guys are Carlifer!"

Jennifer looked around in case anyone heard (excited Leo's voice was loud). "It's Carnifer," she replied with a red face, "though Carlifer works as well." Then she walked away for good.


"Leo, I swear, if you say one more word about Percabeth, I will run you through," Percy muttered to during joint archery practice. "You're starting to sound like Silena Beauregard when she got high." He grimaced a little at the mention of the former Aphrodite Head Counselor but recovered when the Stolls walked by yelling at him.

"Hey Perce, where's you're girlfriend?" Travis shouted, waving madly.

"Yeah, I hope you don't break up, Percabeth is such a nice ship," Connor quipped, grinning and giving Leo thumbs-up. Leo winked back.

"See?" he said, turning to Percy. "You guys are so famous for being together. Not to mention staking out in the Argo stables…" he trailed off as Percy fired an arrow too hard and broke the bowstring.


"Will you please don't mention that if it's Reyna contacting me later?" Jason pleaded with a red face, pulling away from Piper. "It's going to get us all impaled."

"And I think her metal dogs react to ship names as to lies," Piper commented.

"Oh come on! Jasper is one of the few ship names that are proper names!" Leo ranted on. "Actually, it's the only one, since Harmony is actually a variant of Harmione and I don't ship it."

Jason went redder and redder. "You'll be the death of me," he muttered, then more seriously, "You really want Reyna after my blood?"

"Am I sensing some Jeyna here?"

"Girlfriend present!"

"You know she almost gave up on you and tried to go with Percy. That's Preyna for you."

"I heard that!" Percy yelled further down the lake. Jeesh. Where did HE come from?

"Since you're so interested in Reyna's affiliations, you two should be Leona," Piper said, flushing redder than Jason. "Or Leyna, if you insist on rhyming, like some of the other girls." Oh hell no, Leo thought, that's scary.

"Speaking of which," Piper went on, "you haven't seen that fanfiction page they've started since you gave out those chips and wires, have you?"

"Actually, I have."


"Psst! Leo!"

"Huh?"

"Thanks again for the computer chips," Jennifer whispered to Leo as she passed his table on the way to make her offerings. "I can finally use that notebook Stoll sold me, and Chloe says the fanfiction site is a success. Even mortals have started posting. You should really see all those updates. Oh, and look up those mortal blogs on Tumblr while you're at it."

"No problem," Leo whispered back as Jennifer hurried away. He made a mental note to check out the fanfictions

"I learnt a lot of things off the internet and owe it all to you," Carlos whispered as he passed Leo, hurrying after Jennifer.

"She should be replying to me about that demigod video chat lines you proposed soon," Butch from Iris Cabin muttered to him as he took the long route back to his Cabin table. Wow! Demigod Internet was a success!

Travis Stoll was using 'Tratie' to flirt with Katie Gardner (who apparently didn't mind). Annabeth was shooting Leo death glares. Either Percy or Piper had told her about what happened to her laptop and he avoided eye contact. Mitchell was suggesting to Jake Mason about a 'Charlena' tribute form the next table while Piper frowned at Leo. Your mom would love it, he mouthed to her.

Moments later and pink note hit him on the back of his head. It's Hazel and Frank contacting later, it read in Piper's handwriting. DO NOT mention Frazel to them. You know how Hazel has problems clicking with modern ways, especially stuff like this. And don't bring up Thalico if you know what's good for you.

Killjoy, Leo wrote back. If you don't nag I'll post a Reyna/Octavian fic for you. He tossed the note back and craned his neck to look at table 13. Nico di Angelo was not sitting there. Oh darn, Leo thought. He's at Camp Jupiter.


'"Dear fanfiction,

100 stories with Me and Reyna?! Why would I want to date someone who's gonna kill me?!

Sincerely,

Leo Valdez

P.S. She's kinda good looking though."

Author: FlamingV_II'

"You asked for it," Jake told Leo, looking down at him from his bunk and laughing. "Letting the Aphrodite girls set that up."


first of all, if anyone's pen name is FlamingV_II, it's purely a coincidence and I apologise.
next, the Carlos and Jennifer is Carlos and (the) Jennifer(s) from BTR. I thought the Jennifers are typical Aphroditeans and i think theCarlifer/Carnifer is really funny
lastly, I know Reyna/Octavian is weird but honestly, I can see it happening

-hbMx, who just bought a Mac from Connor Stoll for 10 drachmas (it's considerably cheap, but i had to give him a hex card too)