A Love Retreat

By: Regan McKay
I do not own any of the characters used in this story, they are Rick Riordan's characters... But I wish I owned Nico...

Chapter 1
Leo's POV:

I stood at the helm of my greatest creation, the ArgoII, tapping my fingers on the railing nervously as I always did. Being a Demigod made me have ADHD, so I usually was unable to pay attention to things for a very long time, but right now I was extremely focused on my one true hope in life: to find my love again.

I have been searching for Calypso for two years. Wait two years? Had it really been that long since my friends and I defeated Gaea? Since I built the ArgoII? Since I made the biggest promise of my life? Since I fell in Love...

I looked over at my bronze dragon, Festus. He used to be a full sized Dragon built by my brothers and sisters centuries ago, but thanks to my careless self it was now only a head.

I heard people approaching from below deck, they had probably just woke up. I turned to find my friends, Jason and Piper, walking towards me holding hands.

I gave them a toothy grin, "Hey guys!"

"Hi," they yawned back tiredly.
"Leo," Jason said, "Why don't you get some sleep?"

"Yeah, Leo, you've been up for three days, you need some rest," Piper said taking a step closer to me.

"Nah, guys, I'm good,"

"No, Leo," Piper said putting charm-speak in her voice, "Go downstairs and get some sleep."

Having to do so I went down on the lower deck and tried to sleep, but every time I closed my eyes my mind drifted off to the way her body moved beside mine, the way she looked when she smiled, the way her yes darkened when she cried...

So I ignored the heavy bags under my eyes and started fiddling with my tools, and ended up making a small replica of the ArgoII.

"Ugh!" I yelled and crushed the small ship under my hand. Then I heard a knock on my door.

"Uh, Leo?" Hazel said through the door.

"Come in," I yelled, "I'm not naked or anything"

Slowly the door opened and Hazel stepped in. "What's that?" she said pointing at the crushed mess of my ship below my hand.

I could feel my face turning red, "Uh, nothing... what do you need?"

"Oh, I just heard something from your room and I was just making sure you didn't set the room on fire again."

"Well my room's still in tact," I said while rubbing my hands together.

"Oh yeah," Hazel said, as if remembering something, "And Percy called a meeting up top."

"Okay I'll be up in a minute," and with that Hazel left the room leaving Leo alone to think about why Percy would call a meeting.

"Okay everyone," Percy said as I walked into the room, "I wanted to call this meeting because I found something that could mean a lot to this quest."

Now that got me excited, "Really!" I said, my eyes bulging out of my head, "What! What is it!"

"Be patient, I came up with a speech for this," I groaned and he shot me a glare. He pulled out a large piece of paper and squinted at it, probably because of his dyslexia, "I have fi-o-u-nd,"

"Sound it out," Annabeth said from beside him.

Finally I couldn't take it any more and ripped the paper out of his hands and tore it to shreds, "GET ON WITH IT!"

Percy looked offended, but gave a sigh and said, "Fine, fine, but I could have made this experience a lot more interesting," I rolled my eyes, this guy was really bugging me right now, "Okay, so I kinda stole Frank's piece of wood," he gave a sideways look to a confused looking Frank, and I couldn't help but give a small laugh, "Anyways, I was looking at the pouch that it was in that, you know, Calypso made, and I turned it inside-out and found two numbers: 57, 34 and I think those could be Ogygia's location on the map."

"Percy, that's genius!" Annabeth said obviously surprised her boyfriend could come up with a smart idea.

I was speechless, then I got excited, "Ogygia here we come!"