A Quest Of Los Dioses-The Land Far Away (Leo Valdez)

Leo closed his eyes and a strange feeling like he was falling consumed him and for a heartbeat nothing seemed to be underneath his feet and panick sliced through him then with a comfoting thud he landed on something hard and cold.

Leo stood up quickly, his heart beat thumping hard in his chest, what on earth was that?

Leo looked round then froze as he relised what he'd fallen on was something like a marble floor and he was facing the olympion gods....

Shit!

Leo gulped and took a hesitant step forward and slowly kneeled before Zues knowing one way to get into a gods good books was showing them the respect they deserve...or the respect they thought they deserved, in Zeus's case...

As predicted Leo caught a slight smile on Zeus's face before it became stony again then Zeus rumbled his voice almost as loud as thunder "Why have you interuped us Demigod?"

Leo noted Zues hadn't threatoned him yet, must be a good sign...

Leo glanced at his father who looked slightly more relaxed then he had done, Leo took this as another good sign as Leo said well aware what he said next was defiantly going to change
Zeus's opinion of him.

Still kneeling Leo held his nerves as he said "I came to ask a.....request"

Zues's eyes narrowed and all the gods attention was on him now, Ares and Possidion stopped whispering quitly to each other and Athena and Apollo who seemed to be having an argument finally gave him their fall attention.

Leo could feel the tension rise in the room and Ares gave a snort of disbelief.

He could praticly hear them all thinking who does this stupid demigod think he is? Why would he dare to ask Zeus the king of gods of anything?

Zues said cooly "Oh?"

Leo could feel Zeus's cold and stomy eyes on him, his probably thinking if he should zap me with a lightning bolt or not Leo thought panicking slightly but he didn't show his nerves at all.

His face expresionless as Leo hesiantly stood up.

Leo took a deep breath then said looking Zues straight in his eyes, his voice strong and confident "I wish for me to find Calypso again and you to free Calypso from her curse"

Shock went through Zeus's eyes and all the gods seemed to freeze.

Out of the corner of his eyes he saw his father stiffen near him.

Bet you didn't expect that Leo thought bitterly.

Zeus said coldly finally getting over his shock "Calypso serves her punishmt for-"

Leo felt his blood boiling and his skin heat up as he snapped "For what? Because she's a titan? Because her father's a titan? None of that is her dam fault! She's never ever gone agaist any of you!"

Again shock went through the hall, they'd never had anyone mortal talk to them like that before, apart from pehaps, Percy Jackson.

Zues brandished his master lightning bolt threatonly and boomed "And I ask myself why havent blasted you from the sky yet boy"

Then to Leo's relief Hespeastus interupted with a simple statement "I agree with him"

Everyone stared at Leo's father, Athena acused "You only agree with him because he is your son!"

Hespeastus shook his head and said "No, I have met the titan girl many times as has Hermes to deliver messages and she is a very polite, charming, sweet young immortle"

Evryone looked at Hermes who licked his lips nervously as said "His telling the truth" Suddenly his staff came alive and Leo watched amazed as the staute snakes on the staff started to talk to each other as one said "Yes she was quite sweet wasn't she?"

The other snake replied though slightly miffed "Yes but she didn't bring me back a rat though"

"No one brings you back rats, when are you going to let that go?"

"Never, there must be someone who will bring me back a rat"

"You are so-"

Hermes interupted the bickering snakes looking embarrised as he said "Now thats enouth now"

The snakes seemingly in the mist of their argument turned back to decorations on the staff.

The other gods seemed to treat this as a normal acorrance but Leo couldn't stop himself from gaping.

Zeus's voice pulled him out of his gaping, his voice slightly mocking "Who else thinks I should free this girl because this demigod wish's it so?"

Someone who Leo least expected it stepped forward "I do, partly"

Aphrodite?

Athena asked her "Partly, why partly?"

Aphrodite looked like she was beaming and said to Leo smiling happily "Why do you want to break Calypso's curse Leo?"

Leo felt himself turning red and Aphrodite laughed out loud, her laugh like chimes in the wind. Aphrodite giggled "I didn't even have to interfeare, a perfect love tradgery, her stuck on an island with him endlessly searching for her, with no hope in finding her"

Hermes sighed "What are you talking about?"

Aprodite giggled clapping her hands together "Ask why he wants to free her, ask him"

Posidion gave her a look that suggested he was questioning her sanity as he asked Leo "Why do you want to free her Leo?"

Leo relised Poseidon was the only god kind enough to actually call him by his name but he'd also asked the most scary question that Leo had to answer in his life.

He'd never told anyone about Calypso, about his feelings for her, Leo know for the best friend code you were meant to tell your best mate before anyone else if you'd fallen in love with someone and now none of his friends knew but a bunch of the most powerful gods ever where going to know?

His life couldn't get any better....

Leo tried to form the words he needed to say "B-because I...."
"Because I-I"

The word Love seemed difficult to force out. Half of him didn't want to admit it. Leo Valdez who'd flirt with every hot girl he saw was now in love?

The other half was afraid to admit it, what if it wasn't love? What if it was just a crush? Or worse, what if Calypso had forgotten about him and was fantasying about some other lost hero?

That very thought made Leo's hands curl into fists and the urge to punch something became increasingly difficult to ignore.

Then he remembered her sparkling eyes, her adorable laugh, her wonderful smile, he wanted that smile to be on her face all the time and Leo wanted it to be him that put that smile on her face.

Dam he was whipped....

Leo gulped and said his voice suddenly not stuttering as much "I want her free because I love her"

There were a number of reactions to this.

Ares snorted, Zeus raised his eyebrows. Athena didn't look that impressed either however Aphrodite cowed loudly, Poseidon smiled faintly while Hermes looked like he didn't know what to think. But his father smiled proudly at his son and Leo couldn't have asked for a better reaction.

His father'a smile made him feel giddy but he didn't let it show.

Hephaestus said quickly "How about we have some sort of vote on this?"

Aphrodite said suddenly looking slightly evil "You seemed to be forgetting the curse that surrounds Calypso Hephaestus, none of us can simply undo it"

Leo felt he was having a heart attack, what the...?

Aphrodite said softly "He must win her love, a perfect love story, a quest of daring and nerve, to prove he really is her, how do you put it? Her night in shining armour"

Zeus asked her "What are you suggesting?"

Hephaestus seemed to work it out quite quickly "No! He can't do that, you can't possibly-"

Aphrodite looked at Leo, ignoring Hephaestus and she said softly "A Quest of the gods or as your mother would say young demigod, A Quest Of Los Dioses"

The gods whispered to each other as soon as Aphrodite said it.

Zeus boomed "It is a quest of an old Prophecy that no one has ever completed, unlike any other Prophecy it was not created by us or the fates. No one knows who created it, all we know if that when the quest is complete the reward will better than anything you could imagine"

Leo said slowly "So if I complete this quest then I may be able to break the curse on Calypso?"

Aphrodite said smiling "Perhaps"

Leo said with confusion "But none of you know?"

Aphrodite giggled "That's the fun isn't it? Not knowing? A Demigod trying to complete this quest believing that the reward will worth it, maybe the reward will be able to recall love ones from the grave? Maybe it'll grant you one wish? Maybe it'll save a dying friend? Maybe it'll make you invincible? Who knows? But maybe...Just maybe it'll free Calypso from her curse"

Leo felt like he was suffocating, would this quest be worth it? Could he finally go and see Calypso again? Could she truly be freed from this quest.

Hephaestus snapped angrily "It is not an option, you can't let him-"

Why was his father so against this? He got it would be dangerous, he'd been on plenty of dangerous quests before, he was one of the seven for god sake! Leo asked her "Is there no other way?'

Zeus thundered "There is no other way, decide quick boy, you are wasting are time"

Posidion said slowly "Maybe we shouldn't be so hasty, Leo should know the risk in-'

Ares laughed cruelly " What's the fun in that? Come on Hero! Choose"

Ares sneered the word Hero.

Maybe that's what made Leo choose so quickly that and thinking of Calypso, all alone on her island...waiting...

Leo felt a rush of anger and determination as he snapped, before his father could protest "I'll do it!"

Ares smirked broadly and his fathers expression turned to horror then a overwhelming sadness.

Suddenly a feeling of falling gripped him and he closed his eyes, when he opened then he was siting on the grass, in the clearing.

Hephaestus was with him "Why did you choose to do that!" His father growled.

Leo backed up, feeling hid fathers powerful voice echo inside his head, rattling his brain.

Leo said quickly "I've done plenty of quests before, I don't see why-"

Hephaestus snapped bitterly "My family conveniently forgot to tell you about this quest young one, you think your the only one who's tried to complete it?"

Leo said suddenly feeling uneasy "What do you mean?"

Hephaestus suddenly looked sad, so very sad? He was looking at Leo like he would be picking flowers for Leo's funeral very soon.

Hephaestus said hauntingly "Over these thousands, maybe millions of years, over 900 demigods have tried to complete this quest and...none have ever come back"

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