Leo's Point Of View

This is insane. Now trust me, I've said things were insane before, but this is seriously insane! I mean, how can you blame me for the Argo II being demolished? I'm not the one who lit the whole place in flames!

Okay, so I have lit a ton of things on fire, accidentally. But this was not one of those times. See it started when Piper and Jason third-wheeled me yet again. They nuzzled noses together and everything, yuck.

We had—and by we, I mean everyone else—decided to celebrate with a fancy dinner, not just because of Percy and Annabeth's escape from Tartarus, but because it was actually Seaweed Brain's birthday today. Annabeth's right to have given him that nickname.

Certain that they'd been together on their own long enough Piper and Jason tagged along, so I did too. Now, here we were on a double date, plus one. Coach Hedge stayed behind, as he was panicking now more than ever. A baby on the way, and I'd panic too.

To my misfortune, Percy and Annabeth were competing with Piper and Jason using their flirt languages, and this took just about the entire waiting time of the meal. Twenty-Five Minutes.

By now you're probably wondering, we were behind on time before, why were we wasting nearly half an hour just to get some fancy cooked up cow when there's hamburgers that can be whipped up in only about five minutes to make for a fraction of the cost? I wondered that now too.

The food was delicious at least. Though, when I finished I had to sit through the couples trying to feed each would only get worse when we got back.

"I love you more." Piper said, flashing one of those charming grins she wore. Jason smirked and pulled her onto his lap, kissing her on both cheeks. I'm still gagging. I just turned away, trying to pay attention to the movie rather than those two, but that was when I smelt the tangy scent of smoke.

Let me tell you something about Annabeth, she cannot cook, whatsoever. Anyways I went to go check it out, because it seemed better than dealing with Missy Make-outs and Mister Kisser taking up most of the couch space.

To my luck, just as I walked in the whole kitchen lit up in a blaze. Quickly spreading through the ships walls it looked impressive. However, what seemed impressive to me was not impressive to Coach Hedge.

"What did you do this time, Valdez!?" He shouted, stomping a hoof against the floorboards. His eyes widened at the flames, which were once more, not my fault.

"Holy Hades.." He muttered to himself, along with some other swears I didn't have time to catch. "I know what you're thinking—" I started to say, but he didn't let me finish, he could sense something was going to happen and yanked me by the arm.

"Duck and cover!" He shouted towards the living room as we both tumbled to the kitchen floor, and with that, the Argo II was no more but a pile of scrap.

"Leo! What were you thinking?" Piper shouted, Jason frowned, "Too far this time, man." Hang on, retelling this I know now I built that ship, didn't I? How could they be so mad that I wrecked my own creation? Well whatever.

I picked myself up off the ground, I was upset, and the whole ship was ruined. My whole ship. Percy and Annabeth came just at the right time, "The cake…" I saw her mouth make out, but those words never came up again, she decided to blame me just like everyone else. I really hope she thought there'd be no harm in that.

I think that was when I cracked. I was sick of always being blamed for the stuff that happened. I clenched a fist, standing up straight and looking at them all directly. At different moments, of course, I don't have seven eyes, although that does sound like it'd be cool.

"That's it!" I said puffing out my chest with confidence, they were obviously intimidated and that's why they gave no response. "I'm tired of you always blaming me, ever occurred to you that everyone makes mistakes? Maybe if you looked at your own fault instead of putting them on someone else—"

With that Percy uncomfortably shifted, "Nico and Reyna haven't been able to answer any of our iris messages. I'm starting to get worried and that…that's my fault." Sympathy, that's exactly what Jackson got when I was here trying my best to—

Well, even though I tried I did it anyways. My whole hand enveloped in an inferno of dancing flames. I crossed my arms and stayed silent the rest of the time, and though I never really grow angry…When I do, I just stay silent till I cool down.

This time, however, I did not cool down. I stayed in my sealed dorm walking around in circles around the ground. I quickly began to pack a bag stuffing things in it quickly. Maybe Nico was dark and solitary but he'd make a better companion then these people would. They. He and Reyna would.

I walked down the hall quickly, pulling a small scrap of paper from my tool bag, and then a pen. After scribbling a few words down I made my way up to Festus. "This is goodbye for a while, buddy… I'll see you soon."

I set the paper down and took a deep breath looking back at the place, maybe I would miss it, but it was for the best.

So here I am. Stranded in the middle of nowhere, walking around an empty void of land, stretching out to nowhere. I will find them, maybe I can't shadow travel like he can, but I certainly can build something better. Then they'll see. I'll return the statue with them, and I'll do just fine without those other six.

A/N: So this is a little story I'm going to be working on, I really hope it doesn't ruin your view of Leo/Nico fanfiction. I'm sure you can find something much better if you tried. Either way, constructive criticism is something I love, so before you go, why not leave a review?