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I'm cringing right now.

Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians or Heros of Olympus. Those belong to Rick Riordan.

LEO

THE BRONZE DRAGON GLINTED IN THE SUNLIGHT.

As Leo gave commands to Festus, he couldn't help but notice the wonderful girl leaning against his back. He swiveled around in his position to stare at her. She was so pretty with her amber hair glittering in the wind, looking amazing in the simplest of things. She was wearing a green t-shirt and blue jeans, and hugging his waist while she slept to ensure that she wouldn't fall off.

Leo hoped that Zeus wouldn't shoot him down from the sky going, "KABAM! You free an immortal girl? Death to you!"

He chuckled at the thought. Calypso must have felt the vibration from his chest, because she sat up, yawned, and stretched her arms, hearing her bones cracking from lack of use.

"Hey, Sunshine." Leo whispered.

"Morning, Leo." she replied. "Where are we now?"

The fact that Leo didn't know was amusing to him. They had fixed up Festus, with the help of Hephaestus of course, and planned to cruise back to Camp Half-Blood in style.

Calypso stared at him until his lopsided grin made her burst into laughter, at which he couldn't help but smile at.

Oh how I love that laugh!, he thought to himself. He checked the GPS built into the neck of the Dragon and said, "Almost there, Sunshine. Time to introduce you to Uncle Leo's friends."

She punched him lightly in the arm at his attempt at something humorous. Leo had been waiting for this exact moment since they had started flying. He swung underneath the belly of Festus and rode upside down, his legs snugly wrapped around the dragon's midsection. He grinned as she looked under and gasped with disbelief. He swung himself back up with a cross-armed Calypso.

"Leo!" Calypso cried. "You could've gotten yourself killed! And you would have splatted on to the rooftops of some poor mortal's house!"

"I've been practicing that trick for weeks!" he replied with a grin which she responded with a playful frown.

Only Calypso could do that, Leo thought. Only she could make a playful frown.

"—gotten killed!" she flamed. Haha, flamed, if only.

"What, Sunshine?" he said absentmindedly. "Don't like my tricks?"

He suspected he was about to get a big long lecture about the dangers of doing that, but her inevitable oncoming tangent was interrupted by the scenery of flourishing strawberry fields and elegant Greek pavilions.

"WHO'S BACK FROM THE DEAD?" Leo shouted over the winds why slowly descending down towards the camp.

"WHO DIED AND CAME BACK? THAT'S RIGHT. MR SUPERSIZED McSHIZZLE LEO VALDEZ! UNCLE LEO IS IN DA HOUSE!" he yelled as loud as he possibly could. Leo turned around to see Calypso looking embarrassed, the whispering of blush creeping across her cheeks.

He looked down at the crowd of demigods that had gathered below. Leo would try to keep the interaction of Calypso and Percy to an ultimate low to avoid awkwardness. He wanted to spend as much time as possible with her. On the dragon—Festus ride?—Calypso had also told him that she had had a maybe-quite-not-so-small skirmish with Mr. D.

When he descended, both stepped off lightly and bowed.

"Welcome back, Liam Valdeydez and... girl." Mr. D announced with a wave of his hand. If he could, he would be shooting daggers out of his eyes. He said girl like it was the most horrible thing on earth. Maybe it was... no. Calypso was a good thing. Hopefully she would stay in his cabin, so they could talk and help each other. But the thing that Leo loved most about Calypso was that he would no longer be a seventh wheel.

"There is no time for the formalities, so Liam, take the girl." Mr. D. sneered." To your horrible excuse of a bunker, and she is to be kept there. For now."

Leo sighed. He forgot to mention that the thing Dionysus loved most was to make everyone else's life a living hell.

"On the other hand, UNCLE LEO IS BACK." Leo shouted." And he's cooking up some awesome toys for all the little children." he said in a sassy sports announcer type of way. The demigods cheered. He could spot Jason and Piper in the background, holding hands and smiling like crazy. Percy and Annabeth were cuddling and looked like they could take on the world. But Frank and Hazel, were where they? Did they get killed? Were they ok? Leo wanted to scream. By not screaming and mentally slapping himself. He felt a hand on his shoulder. Leo whipped around and saw it was that... that... that boy! Nico di Angelo was patting him on the shoulder! Death Breath and Flame Boy seen together. How could this end well.

He could see the Stoll brother's camera flashing as Nico pulled his deathly pale hand away. Travis sighed in defeat as he flicked his hand and the camera disappeared.

"How's it going Leo!" Percy walked over and clapped him on the back. A good person would say hi to Calypso. Percy stayed silent. The son of Poseidon was so rude! He kinda just waved and was like, Eh, I got Annabeth, what's that gotta do with me?

"Where's Hazel and Frank?" Leo said nonchalantly. Or at least he tried to. It came out more like,"Where's-Hazel-and-Frank?"

"Slow down Repair boy." Piper coaxed with a little charmspeak as she walked over. "They're fine, those two are at the Roman camp, they'll be back tomorrow."

"Thank goodness!" Leo cried exasperated. He twirled his hand in funny motions and one adorable kid, dirty with smudges, wheeled in a fluffy brown recliner, which Leo collapsed back into.

"Thanks Mac!" Leo said high-fiving him. "I've been waiting to use this child. I hired Mac here," Mac bowed in turn."to bring my recliner when I use the signal. Thanks! 15 more minutes of free time!" Leo dropped his head and came up with a grin.

Mac put on a really big smile, jumped with ecstasy, and ran off to his group of friends.

"Ah-hemm..." Piper interrupted. "While you've been, I don't know, rescuing girls from now deserted islands, we've been worried sick!"

"Haha Beauty Queen, you look like you've been having the time of your life without me." Leo put a sad pout on his face and Calypso took his hand. She squeezed him reminding him she was there too. Leo tried to steal a quick kiss, but Calypso batted his hand away playfully.

"Well guys, this is Calypso, Calypso, meet Percy and Annabeth," Leo announced as Calypso looked scornfully at the two."These other two lovebirds are Jason and Piper. Meet'em, greet'em, and most definitely don't kill them. Please." He looked over at the Titan's daughter with puppy dog eyes and she giggled.

She's never giggled before., Leo noted. Hmm.

A shape made a frantic motion in front of his eyes, making him lose his train of thought. He focused again, leaving his thoughts for another time.

"Hello?!" Jason waved his hand in front of him. "Stop staring at Calypso and get back to the conversation!"

"Fine, Superman."

"Shut up, Repair Boy."

"Boys!" Annabeth shouted. "Cut it out!"

"Yes ma'am." they said simultaneously. Annabeth could be scary.

"At least I have man in my nickname." Jason muttered under his breath. He received a punch on the arm and Jason clutched at it, his face contorted with mock pain. Leo and Calypso walked away, hand in hand, while Annabeth was lecturing in a dangerously low voice, meaning that she was probably telling Percy about how he should not hit on other girls, especially in her presence. On the other hand, Jason had said he was going to Camp Jupiter next week and Leo and Calypso were apparently supposed to go with him.

Leo was supposed to go to help Jason fulfill his favor to Kym-o-what's-the-rest-of-her-name about making trading cards. Jason stared long and hard at them while Piper was quietly lecturing him and tugging his hand. Jason did not look happy, and stared longingly at the couple walking away.

As Leo led Calypso back to the cabin, they ran into Rachel.

"What's up, Flame Boy? Finally back from the thought-to-be-dead part of the world?" she teased good-naturedly.

She turned, now facing his rescuee. "You must be Calypso!" Rachel said cheerily.

"Yes. I am new here, and I don't know many people other that Leo's friends." Calypso replied sadly.

"I'll be your friend. As long as you don't mind me being a mortal, I mean, Titan's daughter and all, on an island for so long, you probably hate most mortal boys, so why not girls?" Rachel rambled. "And you probably don't know about hamburgers and French fries and all those sweet or salty-"

"It's fine, Rachel is it?" Calypso soothed. "I would like a friend to teach me things while I'm new here. Thank you. You know-"

"Ah-em." Leo cleared his throat particularly loudly."I'm here too, and Calypso and I need to get going. I want to show her the camp and Bunker 9."

"I'll just tag along then!" Rachel replied with a spring in her step. She hooked her arm with Calypso.

He wasn't happy that the friendly red-head was coming along on her tour, but if it made Calypso happy, it made him happy.

A/N: Any feed back is appreciated since this is my first story. I expect to have the next chapter up Wednesday.

Until next chapter,

~FTC