United As The Ten- Part One Of The Conclusion To The United Series

Chapter Seven

Max's POV:

Ogygia. That's where I landed.

It's a beautiful place. Exotic birds fly everywhere and there are gorgeous gardens in a few places. The invisible servants here weren't hostile to me. Apparently, after I crash-landed in a coma, they healed all my wounds and took care of me, which I'm extremely grateful for. It took me a couple of days to recover from the coma after I woke up, but I'm much better.

Now, I'm ready to leave. Hopefully I can just fly out of here and leave with my flight legacy. Maybe my Garde-demigod fate will cut me some slack.

I hear running footsteps from behind me and I turn around and there's nothing there. At least, I think it's nothing. Then I notice the orange backpack at my feet, right in front of two obvious footprints in the warm sand. I pick up the backpack, open it and see food, water, a compass, and extra clothes. I smile at the invisible servant as I zip up the backpack and sling it over my shoulders.

"Thank you, for everything. I won't forget this, I promise," I pledge to the invisible servant. I can't tell if he's smiling or not, but it doesn't matter. Before I turn around and leave, though, I ask one last question to him

"Do-Do you like being here? As an invisible servant?" I question him. After a few moments, there's writing in the sand. It spells out NO. I purse my lip, thinking this over.

"I'll try to get you out. All of you," I tell the servant. Then, without another word, I turn to the bright blue ocean and lift myself into the air with my flight legacy and fly straight to wherever, turning myself invisible. I fly almost as fast as I did when I heard the cry of help from Florida with Eight, Nine, Marina, Six, and Five, and, thank the gods, I leave the island with no problem. I sigh in relief and laugh in happiness. I can see Percy again, I can see Conrad, One, Reyna, and Nico again.

I can see Leo again.

Gods, they must be so worried about me. I wonder what's going on in the penthouse right now. Are they looking for me? Are they upset?

I miss them. A lot. I've only been awake for a few days but I still miss them. I can't go on without them. I really want to see them again.

I can't wait to see them again.

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After a few hours of flying around, the wind rushing past me, the ocean below me, and the smile never leaving my face, I finally see land. Making sure I'm still invisible, I fly down to it and after planting my feet on the ground again, I look around. There are old buildings around me, architecture that Annabeth would love. Many houses that are made of stone, brick (hehe sorry Jason), and clay with colorfully painted doors and windows surround me. It's dark outside, all the lights are out, and as far as I can see or hear, no one but me is outside.

I swiftly duck behind a white brick house near me, and, double-checking if the coast is clear, turn myself visible once again. I look down at my clothes. My leather jacket, my camp shirt, and blue jeans. The invisible servants provided me with other clothes to wear over the past two days in Ogygia but after my old clothes were cleaned, I put them back on. I don't know why, I just feel really attached to any camp shirt- Camp Jupiter or Camp Half-Blood- and my black leather jacket. I've had my jacket ever since someone very close to me gave it to me as a gift and I've barely taken it off since. I've had it since I was twelve years old, after the incident in London when I came back. But, thinking back to who gave it to me now, I'm not so sure I want to continue wearing it as much.

I brush it off and look at my surroundings. I'm not sure where this place is exactly, but it feels like home. I feel like I can spawn a huge hurricane by myself here. I feel like I can live forever.

Then I realize that my demigod scent must be really strong if I feel so powerful here. I have to find a good place to camp for the night, not in plain sight, but far away from the mortals. I have to find out where is here exactly, so I can go back to Chicago.

I wander the streets, making sure my Voron sword is still tucked safely in my brown leather sheath on me. I'm really surprised nothing happened to the sword during the explosion in Chicago. I mean, it was a pretty big one considering it was able to blast me all the way to Ogygia.

I bite my lip and reach into my pocket, where my sapphire once was. It fell out during the explosion and now I probably won't see it again. That was the last thing I had from Lorien besides the other Lorics and my legacies- the last thing from my mother- and now it's gone.

I sigh and continue down the road I've been walking on. The village I'm in is really nice and comfortable. It seems so peaceful. Hopefully that peace will last, especially now that I'm here. Everything seems to go wrong when I'm around. It's the curse of the Garde-demigod.

After what seems like hours of trying to find a good place to crash and trying to figure out where I am, I look around me again and spot something that catches my eye. It's a small flag hanging off the wall of a clay house. It has nine horizontal blue and white stripes with a white cross on a blue field in the top left corner. It's the flag of a country- the flag of Greece.

I'm in Greece. No wonder I feel so powerful here. The roots of the gods are here. I look around the big village I'm in with renewed respect. I know that there must be a lot of monsters here, since it's Greece, and that my scent is strong here, but I can't help but admire it.

I let out a little happy chuckle and know that I have to find something like a map to get to Chicago.

That's when I remember the compass the invisible servant on Ogygia packed me in the backpack. I quickly hide behind a small, red brick house and dig through the bag until I pull out the black compass. I zip up the bag and sling it over my shoulders again then face west and turn myself invisible, flying towards Chicago, Illinois.

I'm ready to see my family again.

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