Leo Valdez X Reader

Chapter 35 (Y/n)

The green explosion had sent me flying, and when I finally landed, it was apparent I was not in Canada. 

I was sitting in the darkness, gods know where. I swung my hand, my sword materializing in my palm, and the glow cast just enough light to see that I was in a hallway.

"L-Leo?" 

My voice echoed through the darkness.

Was I dead?

"Liam? Harley? Melog?...Will? Nico?"

 Nothing.

Okay, I was definitely dead.

"Anyone?" 

A shiver ran up through my spine; I knew this place. 

Somehow, the explosion had sent me through an entrance into the labyrinth. 

I turned around, and behind me was solid stone; the only way for me to go was forward. So that's what I did. 

Step after agonizing step, I moved my feet in front of each other, further into the darkness. I could feel the labyrinth shifting beneath my body. 

I guess the two times I'd been here, I'd just been too busy trying to survive. But this time, I realized what Dionysis had warned me about was true; this place was out to get me. 

The second I would feel even the slightest cold draft that could lead to my friends down a tunnel, it would snap shut before I could reach it. Like it was corralling a wild animal, and I was the poor tiger.

Every turn seemed to lead me the same way, like a circle-changing environment with every corner I rounded. Sometimes, I could feel the water seeping through my sneakers; at others, the air was so dry it looked like even the walls were sweating. 

At one point, I turned a corner and got a face full of sand as it poured out from some hole in the ceiling, blocking the rest of my tunnel.

 It felt like I was getting farther away from my friends when I spied on an upcoming room. It was pitch black, so I stuck to the sides, one hand trailing the wall as I walked around. 

I could smell water but not hear it; maybe a still pond? 

My foot suddenly caught on something, and I landed on a pile of sticks, clattering and cracking beneath my weight. I looked up to see that the glow from my sword on the ground had illuminated what I had landed on. 

A stripped bone skeleton was before me, its hollow eye sockets staring aimlessly down the center of my face. Pieces of what I assumed to be clothing hung off its bones. 

I screamed and scrambled off the thing's lap, slicing open the palm of my hand as I landed on my blade.

"Oh, dear! Are you alright?" 

I froze. 

There was something familiar about that voice; I turned to see two women standing before me.

It hit me that I'd seen their features before in Liam's reflection. 

One had beautiful dark eyes and midnight black hair.

"Can I fix it for you?" she asked, though it seemed more like she was asking the second lady for permission than me. 

Her body was draped in a silky white dress that hung off her shoulders, a slit on the side overlooking her legs. 

The other lady was sterner, with blue eyes and hair the colour of olives. She wore a rather shapeless dress with armour strapped over it. 

The green-haired lady nodded, and the one with the black hair slowly made her way over to me; she gently clasped my hand between her own, and in a second, the cut vanished from my skin, leaving a quickly fading scar.