Broken || A Riordan Universe Story

Leo POV~ "What's Happening To Me?"

     "Great Leo, you jinxed it." Magnus said.

     "Sorry guys." I scratched my head.

"You thought it would be easy, but do you know us?" Khaos boomed, "we are legends."

"With all due respect, I've never met any of you before, nor have I heard anything about you so called 'legends.'" Percy gestured using air quotes.

"Percy, not helping." Annabeth whisper-yelled as she nudged him hard in the arm.

"Ow." He winced.

"What do you want from us?" Asked Sadie, "what are you planning?"

"All we want is some entertainment while our armies turn earth into a wasteland for our taking." Replied Set innocently.

"Well, if people are dead then technically, aren't you guys dead too?" Percy said.

"That's the smartest thing you've ever uttered, son of Poseidon." Khaos sneered.

"Hey!"

"But you see, we'll have an anchor to the earth." Explained Khaos.

"And what is said anchor?" I asked casually.

"Nice try son of Hephaestus." Said Loki, "have fun!"

The screen vanished.

"Now what?" Asked Sam.

"We survive." Answered Annabeth. "You heard what they said, we need to get back to our worlds to help defeat them. That means staying alive and having each others back's. We're a team now, and we need to combine our strengths and weaknesses in order to get off of this gods-forsaken island."

"Amen!" Sadie said.

"That was oddly inspiring in a we're-all-going-to-die-so-let's-make-the-most-out-of-it sort-of way." I commented.

"Let's set up camp near the beach, just in case we can find a way to escape using the water." Said Zia.

"Smart." Smiled Annabeth.

When we finally arrived at the beach (after what felt like an hour of walking) the sun was barely sitting in the sky.

"Should I set up a tent?" I asked, searching my tool belt. "That's so weird."

"What?" Asked Jason.

"I was searching for the materials to build a tent, but I can't find any of them in here." I puzzled.

"Are you sure you had any of the materials to begin with?" Asked Piper.

"Yeah, when I took out the materials I needed to build the trap, I found the materials I needed for the tent in here too." I guestured.

"I bet it has something to do with the island." Annabeth said, "wait."

She unhooked her Yankees hat from her belt. Then she put it on her head.

"Oh no." Annabeth looked at her meekly visible hand.

She was flickering. Annabeth was going between being visible and invisible.

"Percy do something with the water." She urged.

Percy made a wave gesture with a gleaming look of concentration in his eyes. I was expecting something exciting to happen, but all the water did was dim down its wave cycle for two seconds.

"Oh gods." He strained as he looked at his hands. "What's happening to me?"

I tried to light a strong flame on my hands, but I could only manage a spark.

"They're draining us of all the mythological magic we have." Confirmed Carter.

     "Does this have anything to do with their whole statement of having an anchor?" Magnus asked.

     "I mean it could. With all this power, they could do so many things. Terrible things." Annabeth paced.

     "Schist." I replied, as I ran a hand through my untamed hair.

     "Jack?" Asked Magnus as he took off the necklace.

     This time though, there was no sight of a singing sword. He tried over and over again.

     "Jack come back. Please." Magnus begged.

     He clutched the necklace to his heart as if it was the only thing tethering him to this world.

     "I regret all the annoyed comments I made. You're one of my best friends, and that's-that's the truth." There was something that resembled a tear running down his cheek.

     Alex walked over to him, and slung an arm around Magnus's shoulders. She looked slightly uncomfortable, but eased into the embrace soon.

     "We'll get him back. You know Jack won't go down without a fight." Alex comforted.

     Magnus laughed as he wiped away a tear. "Yeah you're right."

     Sadie was uttering foreign words, as she tried to draw in the air with her boomerang and stick (at least, that's what it looked like), but to no avail. Jason was jumping off of the ground; trying his best to fly. No one was having any luck.

     "Hey." Sighed Calypso as she sat next to me. "It'll be alright. I'm sure we'll find a way off of this place, and get our powers back."

     "How can you be so sure?" I asked as I looked into her dark almond eyes.

     "Hope. That was the one thing that I held onto when I was on Ogyia." She smiled. "Because if you don't have hope for things to get better, then what's the point of living? I'll tell you a story, one you're very familiar with. One day there was a girl living on an island who cooked and cleaned every day of her immortal life, because her ticket out of that life style would always abandon her. She didn't mind though, because she had hope. Hope that one day her perfect Prince Charming would save her. And he came, in a rumpled white shirt and tattered suspenders."

     She paused to laugh; it was music to my ears.

     "At first she didn't believe it." Calypso continued. "He made her laugh everyday when they were together, and soon the girl fell in love. But he too had to leave. So as they said goodbye, they knew that they would see each other again, because they had hope."

     "I love you so much, so much that I could never put my emotions into words." I pulled her close.

     "I love you too." She smiled as she pressed her lips onto mine.