13th Olympian A Dragon war

Leo's older brother

      Festus flew with Michael close behind. An endless pine wood forest below. Michael's amber eyes darted around.
"Sooo," Michael said trying to lighten the mood, " you've guys been on quest before, right?"
"Yeah," Leo said, "this your first quest?"
Michael thought back to when he was on the run. " sure, I guess you can say that."

After hours of flying, it was starting to get dark. They set down camp somewhere in Pennsylvania. Leo set a fire and started cooking.
"Hey, where's Festus?" Piper asked.
"I'll go find him." Michael offered, really he just wanted an excuse to leave and think.
He walked through the forest and found Festus sitting at the edge of a cliff.
"Umm, hello." Michael said uncertainly. Festus turned around.
"Oh, it's you." Festus said. Michael sat down next to him.
"What are you thinking about." He asked.
"My life before..."
"Before what?"
"Nothing." Festus said quickly, turning away. He stared at him and attempted to read his mind (literally), and to his surprise he could. The world looked like he was seeing through someone else's eyes. There was a thin tan women with sandy colored hair and brown eyes, hugging us. Then the scene changed and we ran into a Victorian style kitchen with an older woman cooking, she turned around and smiled 'Hi sweetie' she said with a thick British accent. Then we we're in a dark room, I looked down at our hand and it burst into flames, We yelped in pain and closed our fist when it opened again there was a nasty burn.
The next memory I couldn't really see because it was all blurry, I could make out a man standing in the doorway and a woman's voice said ' I'm sorry hon she's gone.' Next there was a wall of orange and yellow, We were curled in a ball crying from sadness and pain. Then we were in a dark room with Hephaestus standing in front of us with a look of concern, than happy as he hugged us he cried ' you're OK, you're alive!"
I opened my eyes and Festus was glaring at me.
"Did you just read my mind?"
"Yeah, what was that."
He looked down. " I wasn't always like this, I lived as a normal demigod with a human mother. But I was born with the fire ability, like Leo, but unlike Leo I wasn't immune to fire, I could get burned. In 1666 my grandma died, we were really close and I was crushed."
"So you caused the London fire." I said putting the pieces together.
"It was an accident." Festus protested. "I couldn't control it. But because I wasn't immune to fire, I got burnt to a crisp. Except I didn't die instead my dad found what little of me remained, built this robotic dragon to keep me alive."
"And your dad is Hephaestus." I asked. He nodded.
"that makes you and Leo half brothers." He nodded again. We stood in silence for a moment, then I got up. "Well you're a little brother is looking for you." I said.
Festus smiled and followed me back to camp.