A/N Here's the next chapter...I'm hopping to catch up. This is dedicated to eshelfish for the great comment, It really made my day!
LEO SWORE UNDER HIS BREATH as the spider tugged Piper and Frank underwater. A few feet away his friends were in a state of panic. Percy had slipped under the water but had returned only a few moments later shaking his head in dismay. They were long gone. It was all Leo’s fault. He was a traitor, he had told Gaia were to find them and he had powered down the defenses. Because of him two of his best friends would die.
Despite the loss of Piper and Frank, Leo tore down the steps and burst into the engine room. He quickly moved to the back of the colossal heart of the Argo II. Here was the reason he had betrayed his friends. There stood a still image of his mother covering against a workbench, the workshop around her burning. Burning with Leo’s fire. This was the one thing that Leo had always blamed himself for and the one thing he felt the most guilty about. Guilty enough to lead Piper and Frank. He prepared himself; he only had one shot at this.
“Gaia,” he murmured, “I have done what you asked now take me to my mother.”
Suddenly, the images started moving, the flames were now racing quickly towards his mother. He closed his eyes and plunged into the workshop.
He stumbled towards his mother, disorientated form the smoke that was filling up his lungs fast. He grabbed his mother’s hand but straightaway a wall of fire burst into life in front of him. He used his body as a shield and pulled his mother to safety. A smile passed across his face, his mother would live.
“Go mum.” He yelled as the fire advanced towards them.
His mother dived towards the portal and was immediately repelled backwards. Thrice, more she tried to cross into the engine room and thrice more she failed.
“Gaia! Let my mother go!” Leo yelled. An answer came from a figure that stood at the heart of the flames.
“I said you could rescue your mother…I said nothing about allowing her to pass through the portal.”
Leo’s mother glowered at the figure and then turned back to face Leo.
“Mijo, you must go.” She murmured
“No mum, I won’t leave you.” He whispered. His mother smiled.
“No Mijo, you won’t.”
With that she tackled Leo and sent him flying through the portal and into the engine room.
Leo crashed into a TV screen and fell back. His left leg snapped and he knew it was broken. He lay, half conscious, staring through the portal and into his mother’s eyes. She had slumped against a wall as the fire raced towards her but she did not take her eyes of Leo. Then she tapped out in Morse code I love you again and again until the fire engulfed her.
Leo sobbed into the floor. The image had frozen right at the point when the flames had surrounded his mother. He closed his eyes; he could no longer look at the portal. It seemed like his mother had died all over again. He would never see her again. He heard footsteps behind him; Percy and Annabeth had emerged from behind him. Percy rushed over to him checking his leg and asking him numerous questions that he could not here over his sobs and the hum of the engine. Annabeth, however, did not rush to him but inspected the screens on the walls. She scanned the information until she found the defenses section. She saw that hey were all powered off. She glanced at the image of his mother’s death and put two and two together like only she could. She screamed and hauled him up by the scruff of the neck and pinned him to the wall.
“What did you do?” She yelled at the top of her voice. “You soled us out…you as good as gave them to Gaia.”
Leo nodded dejectedly. WHAM! Annabeth’s fist slammed into his face. Blood clouded his vision. His nose was broken and he had a cut in his forehead. He could just make out Percy holding back Annabeth who had murder in her eyes. But Leo didn’t mind. Leo wanted to die; he wanted to be with his mother. His vision blurred and he passed out
A/N Thanks for reading, please check out my original story EYES OF FIRE. It's based on greek mythology but not in the conventional sense. It is from the point of view of someone who fought on the side of the Titans in the first titan war (It has nothing to do with Percy Jackson). Thanks, next chapter will be Annabeth and will feature the returm of Porphyrion.
