A Love Retreat

The small island came into view, from the large garden, to the small cave where Calypso lived, to the soft sand dunes by the shore. In other words it looked like home.

"You ready?" Percy asked from beside me.

"Psh, I've been ready for two years!" I said with a triumphant fist pump.

"You want me to go down with you?" Jason asked from the other side of me.

"Nah, I wanna go see her alone."

"Are you sure, Leo?" Hazel asked.

"Yeah, Leo," Frank said from beside her, "What if there's something... dangerous on the island."

"It's okay," I said, wanting them to get off my back, "I'll be perfectly fine!"

"Okay," Hazel said, still looking unsure.

I turned back to the rail to see Ogygia slowly getting bigger.

Once I got off the ship I turned around and gave my friends one last thumbs up. Truthfully I kinda was nervous. I hadn't seen Calypso in two whole years! I was running all the worst case scenarios in my head: if she didn't remember me, if she left the island already, if we were on the wrong island... that would be bad. But I knew what land I was on because it felt like the happiest, yet saddest land you could ever step foot on.

I first looked in her garden. She wasn't there, but I stood there sniffing in the freshly scented air around me. It was beautiful. I walked over to the fountain I had fixed on my first visit here. It was yet again broken.

Call me weird, but I felt the need to fix the fountain again, probably because I was a child of Hefestus. I mean, when something's Broken, all of a sudden I have to make it perfect again.

Yeah, I'm definitely weird.

I exited the garden and went to the cave Calypso lived in to find that, yet again she wasn't there. That didn't dim my spirits because I still had plenty of places to look, and plenty of time.

I went to the hill that I often sat on when I last went to Ogygia. It had a nice stream flowing by it and hedges along the stream.

I heard a noise, and some why I felt insecure, so I dove into the bushes by the stream.

I felt so stupid in those bushes. You defeat the earth goddess herself, but your afraid of a little noise? I stayed in the bushes, though because I didn't want to randomly pop out of a bush and find myself eye to eye with Calypso Herself.

I heard the noise getting closer and closer until it sounded like it was right in front of me. I peaked a bit out of the bushes to find a figure: Calypso.

I started to step out of the hedge until I realized something.

There were two figures.