A Frozen Heart - Leo Valdez

1-The Plan

Hi Everyone! This is my first fanfiction for the Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus series. I really hope you like it and tell me what you think in the comments and if I should continue it? This fanfic takes place inbetween The House Of Hades and Blood Of Olypmus. It's basically like a 25 days before Gaea is suppose to rise completely. So yeah:) Thanks for reading!

“Chaselynn,” My mother, Khione, called. “Please come here, we have much to discuss.”

I groan and roll out of my bed. Recently, I have been claimed as the daughter of ice and snow. Yeah I didn’t believe it at first either. But after I accidentally froze my science teacher in the 8th grade, I started to think it’s a possible chance. Shortly after that incident, Khione herself came to me and took me to her home in Quebec. I have been staying here ever since... Locked in the basement until I learn to control my powers.

As I reach out to open the door, the doorknob instantly freezes. I curse to myself. Yep, still haven’t learned to control them.

I run up a couple flight of stairs until I reach the 3rd level, which my mom has all to herself. I knock on the door and she tells me to come in.

“Hello, my dear,” She is standing in the middle of the room, her long black hair is pulled into a doughnut bun on the top of her head, and her brown eyes are staring intensively at me. I know that look too well. I’m in trouble. “Sit down please.”

I look around the room but there is no furniture. Truth be told, I’ve never been in my mother’s room before.  Khione notices this and waves her hand in a circler motion, instantly a couch made of snow appears. I sit down and she comes and sits next to me. She places a hand on my shoulder and looks deep into my eyes.

“Now Chaselynn, you have been here for quite some time, yes?” I nod. “ Well now, remember how I told you about Gaea and her army trying to save the world from those bad Gods?” I nod again.

I remember how Khione explained it. She told me there were other people in the world like me, demigods, but with a different godly parent. They formed these camps, camps that trained them to kill everything that was good like Giants and Titans. Khione said some of the gods and goddesses are really bad and they destroy the world and train their kids to do the same. She also told me how Gaea, the earth, is trying to make a comeback. She is trying to take back what was once hers, and make it a better place. A place with only good people and monsters. Khione told me how demigods can’t be trusted, and if I ever seen one, I should kill them because demigods are on the gods side, and the gods side is bad. My mother doesn’t like to consider me  a demigod because I support Gaea. We both support Gaea.

“Well, the demigods are still trying to defeat her. Gaea need a way to break up these seven demigods that are the biggest leaders of the gods side. They are the biggest enemy, they are trying to stop all the giants from rising and they recently closed the doors of death!” I gasp at this.

“No mother, tell me that’s not true! The doors of death cannot be closed! That means Gaea’s army will stop coming in, the good side might now lose!” Once I said the word lose, I instantly regarded it. In response I get a cold hard slap across my face. My left cheek starts to pound and burn, I bring my hand up and touch my face, using my powers to sooth the boiling pain.

“We will not lose!” She spits in my face. “Not if you do exactly as I say.”

“Okay…” I whisper.

The goddess smiles coldly. “I spoke with Gaea this morning,” My eyes instantly light up. How lucky of my mother to speak to the hero of our generation! “She has a proposition for us.”

“What is it?” I ask.

“She wants to send you to camp half blood.”

My eyebrows knit together, “But I thought that place was bad?”

My mother rolls her eyes, “The place is bad, but she wants to send you there to break the camp apart. Break the seven apart. Turn demigod on demigod, make sure there will be no possible way for Gaea to lose.”

I smile slightly, “I will not fail Gaea. Who are these seven I always hear about?”

The goddess sighs as if she hates to speak the names. “ There is Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon. Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena. Jason Grace, son of Jupiter. Piper Mclean, daughter of Aphrodite. Hazel Levesque, Frank Zhang son of Mars, and Leo Valdez son of Hephaestus.”

I gasp at the last name, “The god of fire? Should I be worried?”

Khione shakes her head. “No my dear, but Leo Valdez is very important in this plan…”

I tilt my head to the side and start to twist my long red hair. “How so?”

“How about we discuss the real plan at dinner time?”

“Why can’t-“

Khione’s eyes turn white as snow, “Dinner time!” She yells.

I rush out the room as fast as I can all the way back to my own room. Khione has a short temper, thankfully I haven’t seen her when she has been really mad. I have heard stories though. Just last week Boreas told me that a thousand years ago, a mortal Khione was in love with betrayed her. Khione got so angry, she screamed and thus, the two poles of the world were formed.

I enter my bathroom and began to get ready. Khione likes me to look perfect for dinner for some odd reason.

I get into the shower and turn the water on freezing, the cold always helps me feel at peace. It also makes me very energized. Ice cold water trails down my body and as soon as it falls off my skin, it turns into a small ice droplet. Soon I am standing in complete ice up to my ankles.

After my shower, I change into a plain white dress that stops a few inches below my knees. I then put on a pair of sparkly white shoes and walk into the bathroom. After awhile of staring at my hair in the mirror I decide to curl it, which is actually very hard for me since my hair is naturally straight and never likes to cooperate with me.

I dig through my drawers and finally find my curling iron. Once it heats up I began to curl my hair. Having red hair, always made me the subject of bullying when I was a kid. They use to tell me I had no soul and I was a ginger. When I asked what a ginger was, they told me it was a person with red hair and freckles. Except I don’t even have freckles… Idiots.

I groan in frustration as my curls began to fall and turn back straight. Why is it that they keep on doing this? Somebody really needs to invent freeze hairspray! Wait a minute… A devious smile crosses my face as I take the curling iron and curl a piece of hair. Once I release my heating tool, I hurry and use my powers to freeze the curly piece of hair. I smile as I see how well it stays. Perfect.

Once my hair is all twirled into locks, I apply some foundation to my pale skin. Staying in an ice kingdom all day is not really an ideal place to get a tan, so I’m like a ghost… But tanner than my mom. I then add some eyeliner and mascara which makes my blue eyes pop.

Once I believe I look decent, I walk up the  stairs to the dining room. Khione, Boreas, Zethes and Calais are already sitting down at the large rectangular table. I go and sit across from my mom.

We eat in silence for a couple of minutes.

“Chase, you look very lovely tonight.” Boreas says.

I smile, “Thank you.”  

A few more minutes pass and Khione hasn’t even looked at me. The anticipation is starting to kill me, I need to know my entire plan! I break the silence, “Mom, please just tell me the whole plan!”

The goddess slowly looks up from her plate and straight at me. Her face is emotionless at first then she slightly smiles. “I was wondering when you were going to ask me that.”

“So will you tell me?”

Khione nods, “ Ah yes, child,” She clears her throat. “The cabins at camp half blood are separated by godly parents, which means each demigod is placed in a cabin by whoever their parent is. The demigods know who their parent is by a symbol appearing over their head. If no symbol appears, they go into the Hermes cabin until it does.”

“Will you be putting a symbol over my head?”

The goddess shakes her head as if I asked a stupid question. “Nobody can know I am your mother. Gaea and I came up with a scheme. We’re going to place another godly symbol over your head. It will take a lot of power, but we will do it.”

“Won’t this god realize I’m not their child?”

“No. Some gods have so many kids, they don’t even remember having them.”

“Oh, okay. So what cabin will I be ending up in?”

Khione smiles, “To complete this mission, you have to strike at the heart of the camp.”

“What god is that?” I asks.

“Who’s the goddess of love?” She says smiling and raising her left eyebrow.

“Aphrodite!? You’re putting me in the cabin full of beauty queens?” I half scream. There is no way I will be able to last a day in a cabin full of life size dolls! Aphrodite kids are so full of themselves it's sickning. I bet all they do all day is put on makeup and stare into mirrors.

Khione looks at me as if I’m stupid. “The daughters of Aphrodite can be pretty catty. If you can convince them it will be fun to screw with other hearts or flirt with each other’s boyfriends, another war can break out.”

“Oh… I see. What else will I be doing? Like with the seven?”

The goddess smiles evilly. “That part will be the most fun of all. Firstly, you will flirt with Jason Grace. Jason is dating Piper. Make sure the word gets out that you two have been talking. Break Percy and Annabeth apart. Trick Hazel into being the one that burns Franks lifeline. Oh and make Leo Valdez fall for you then crush his heart into a million pieces.”