Leo's POV:

I'M BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER. Oh wait you all probably want to know what happened and not just me proclaiming I'm back...

Once Hazel came back she took the helm and said she'd take us along our path ahead. Idk but whatever that path is I hope it means we live because ever since Percy, Annabeth and Thalia went down, well let's just say every direction seemed like death.

I feel bad too. Though Annabeth did request we take the statue and the Tapestries I feel like we should have made sure everyone was on board first and it's my fault for that because I was at the helm controlling the ropes to hoist up the ivory and gold Athena statue. Which now takes up a significant portion of the hull stretching from the engine room to the infirmary and filling almost all of the horse stalls.

We just barely have enough room to squeeze through and access the engine room and infirmary. WHY DID PERICLES ORDER SUCH A LARGE ATHENA? LIKE COULD HE HAVE WENT WITH THE MODEL TEN FEET SMALLER, I'm sure Athena wouldn't have minded that much...right.

Even as I thought it , I could tell the goddess wouldn't have liked it as much if it were smaller, after all the gods do like the flare and extravagant of larger and shinier.

Though the statue was mocking me. They said, that this statue can be used as a weapon in the coming battle with the giants, however I sense no mechanical components in it. To me it's just one dam big statue covered in ivory and gold with a radiation of magical power. Beckendorf says it works on magic and I asked if he could tell how to activate. He looked at me like I was crazy.

"What I wasn't going to activate it in here" I defended

Beckendorf sighed, "how to activate the statue has been lost to even the children of Athena herself and half of her kids are completely obsessed with it."

"So what I'm hearing is we have a weapon that we don't know how to use nor activate, nor what it does" I said

"Welcome to the life of a demigod" Beckendorf joked, however there was much sadness behind his tone, as if there were many things that the gods known but haven't told us even if it would help us in a time of need.

"Get some rest Leo" Beckendorf stated, "you've retrieved the sphere of Archimedes and have piloted the Argo for the past few hours."

I took what my brother said to heart, grabbed a pillow and blanket and feel asleep in the engine room. Hoping that the proximity to the statue would help me understand it.

Dream Leo: YAY I GET TO MAKE MY DEBUTE...hahahaha I'm gonna go with... Nightmares

Me: is it me or is dream Leo more adhd...and crazy

You know you just gotta love demigod dreams when they drop you off in a dark room with a creepy voice of your enemy as your only company...I swear it's like the god of dreams hates us or wants to help us in the most entertaining to him way possible. Either way I don't like the dream god. Now the sleep god on the other hand. He's great and an example of all the good this world has to offer.

So bleh bleh bleh we will fail. Enemy will succeed. You know standard enemy boasting shit and putting the hero down at the same time...I swear it's like there's a villain 101 class and the whole monologue things is a requirement to being a villain.

Anyways I didn't really pay attention to Gaea. In all truthfulness her monologue was the least memorable part of my dream, and that's saying something because your enemy talking to you should be memorable...I think. Oh well not my problem she's not as memorable as the other shit.

After her monologue spew was over the scene shifted and I could sense a presence of danger invade my mind and a direction from which it was coming. The worse part was the scene was the all to familiar workshop of my mom that I may or may not have burnt down and accidentally killed my mom. Still don't know now if that was Gaia's or Hera's manipulations, or maybe even some monster. The memory is all to blurry of that specific day but I remember her workshop at least.

So where was I...Oh yes running from this scary presence in my dream.l eventually I ran out of the shop and it turned to camp only this wasn't camp that I want to see. The camp was on fire, dead littered the ground both Greek and Roman, I couldn't tell if they died fighting each other or together or maybe even both. All I knew is that there was a lot of dead campers and the camp was burning to ash, and the scary feeling was still following me.

I continued running and eventually got to the camps boarder tree which for some reason I wasn't told or remember was named after Thalia. However as I came to the tree the statue of Athena was there at the edge and instead of the hill trip down it was a cliff and a cave on top as my only two options out.

"Which will you choose" statue asked me. "Well it doesn't really matter you'll die any way"

"What do you mean by that"

"The one chasing you is almost here" the statue said. "A shame he can't die to fire"

"What are you talking about most anything can be killed by Greek fire" I argued

"Not this one" statue said again

"Well I mean maybe you could survive a while if you're immune to fire but it will still kill you eventually and it will hurt" I argued

The statue just laughed. "Well choose or die here. That's always an option too" statue said as I feel the presence coming up the hill.

I was starting to feel overwhelmed with the presence and feeling of danger and decided I wouldn't die...well dream me might but not real me...so I woke up.

Dream Leo: NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO...don't leave me alone pwease

I woke up to Jason shaking me awake. "Uh dude why are you"

I noticed I was cuddling the Nike statue. "Uhh when I have nightmares I latch onto something to cuddle" I mumbled out. Thankfully Jason didn't comment on that.

"Ok" he said. "Your siblings have taken the helm, Clarisse has taken her siblings to rest and the legionaries are on deck guarding with coach. The rest of the seven are heading to a meeting. So uh. Get there soon" Jason said then left me to detangle myself from the statue of Nike that the statue of Athena was holding. Statue inception.

When I left the engine room I caught a glimpse of the Apollo cabin passed out in the infirmary. I hope that everyone's ok...then again they might just sleep there for a sense of familiarity and convenience. I knew if I was allowed I'd probably sleep in the forge at camp, or in the engine room here every night.

"So what's happening" I asked entering the meeting room which was also the food hall.

"Well the hunt still refuses to leave Percy's room" Jason said

"Bianca leaves to get them food" Nico countered.

"So they won't help us" I asked

"No" Piper said. Though she rubbed her arm shoulder location when she answered.

"She tried charmspeaking them to help" Jason whispered to me. Now I was impressed because they could not only resist but also ignore Piper's charmspeak which was better than Drew's and maybe even better than Silena's now.

"Will patched me up good" she said. Though some around the table looked guilty like they suggested asking her to try charmspeaking the hunt. I learnt my lesson with them after I flirted with Zoë twice. Don't mess with the hunters when they have already made up their minds.

"In other news" Hazel started, "we made it through the passage way Hecate told me about.

"You trusted a goddess that turned against us in the second titan war" Jason asked

"Well technically speaking she was born a titaness and had good reason to side against your father" Nico countered

"Point Nico" I blurted out allowing the intrusive thoughts to win out. Ok they usually win out but I'm not complaining.

"So where are we heading next" Frank asked only to be answered with the sounds of battle.

We rushed up on the deck to see everyone tied up and two hairy dwarves going through our stuff not bolted down.

An: pretty much everything happens the same as it does in canon up the point in the tower

Time skip: SO I BRING YOU TO WHEN LEO CONFRONTS THEM IN THE TOWER

Finally after literally jerry rigging a flash bomb with common grocery store items and climbing many flights of stairs. I finally catch up to the two thieving dwarves. I swear they'd get along great with the Stolls. Thank every immortal in existence that they didn't meet.

Now don't ask me how but I tricked the two into setting off the flash bomb which allowed me to trap them and tie them upside down.

When they came too the world was upside down and I began questioning them on all this stuff. Of course Jason interrupts with a poorly timed but would have been otherwise epic entrance.

"Dude we got to work on your timing. Your father would be so disappointed at that entrance" I told Jason and the two upside down dwarves nodded in agreement.

"Well I had to find you first" Jason defended

"How did you do that" one of the dwarves asked

"Oh I just followed where the smoke and sounds of explosions where coming from" Jason replied

I sighed and started going through all the stolen stuff. The dwarves begging not to have it all taken away and for us not to tell a god about where we found this book in Latin...at least Jason says it's latin though I can't tell if he's messing with me or not.

"Please don't take all our shinies" the dwarves begged as we sifted through the last of the stuff

"Ok how bout this. We take the things belonging to our crew back the book and this astrolabe. But you have to go steal Apollo's sacred cows from Hermes" I said

The two dwarves looked at each-other and stated deal. Then they disappeared. Now why do I want them to steal apollos cows from Hermes because it would be hilarious. Apollo would go to Hermes demanding them back and Hermes wouldn't have them and have to explain he was out thieveried when stealing Apollo's cows. Plus it wouldn't irritate the hunt I think. Irritating them now would be horrible for my health.