Wow, it has been a LONG time. I truly feel disappointed in myself for not updating sooner. But alas, here it is

Leo had wolfed down four sandwiches by the time Simon spotted a small wooden hut concealed among the trees.

"How did you find that so quickly?" Leo asked, dusting the crumbs away from his sweater.

"I am a vampire," he replied without looking back. Leo let his eyesight drift toward Isabelle. He had to admit, Izzy was a sight to see. She had that tough-girl look to her that kind of reminded Leo of Thalia— the look that says "totally out of your league." Leo wouldn't have minded and probably would've even made a move if Simon the Vampire wasn't her boyfriend. Oh well, Leo sighed, not like it's the first time a fine woman is unavailable.

"So how are we going to do this?" Jace put his hands on his hips, scrutinizing the house about ten yards away from them. A simple wooden door was shut and the two windows, one on each side of the door, were boarded shut.

"Well, we can't just walk in," Leo said, "because the door has, like, five locks on it." He earned a dubious stare from the Shadowhunters. "Hello, son of Hephaestus? God of forgery and mechanics and FIYA?"

"Didn't his mother throw him off a cliff for being too ugly?" Jace recounted.

Leo narrowed his eyes, "Hera did many things."

"A lot of them, I would gladly make her pay for," Percy growled and kicked the dirt.

"Treading on dangerous ground here," Simon whistled, and then he looked back at the house, "both literally and figuratively."

"Again, ideas to get in?" Jace said.

"We could smash in with brute force," Isabelle suggested.

"Children, children, have we forgotten so quickly?" Leo chided. "Follow me." He strided over to the door, probably looking confident. However, inside, he was excited. It was like the fire in him knew that it was going to be used. It knew, and it was coursing through Leo's veins like preparing for battle. Considering what Jason said about the vampire-women inside, battle must probably be coming up next. He waited for the rest of the group caught up to him and then placed his hand on the doorknob. He closed his eyes and tried to feel the locks behind the door. Now that he was closer and had better judgment, he could sense that the door had about seven locks. Well, melting that many locks is out of question. So he resorted to just burning the house down.

He shifted his hand to rest on the wood instead of the metal knob and willed the heat from his palm to emanate and catch onto the wood. Within seconds, the wood exploded into flames.

"Woah, there!" Alec stepped back and almost stumbled into Isabelle.

"Leo, you're gonna set the whole forest on fire!" Percy scolded.

"Can't you just put it out with some water?" Leo said and continued to spread the fire throughout the door. Then his face went slack as he remembered why Percy couldn't do that.

"I can't just summon water like you! I need a source!" Percy yelled.

"Oh," Leo said in a small voice. He snatched his hand away from the house that was now catching fire.

"Guys, what if this isn't even the house we're looking for?" Alec's whimpered.

Shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot, SHOOT! How could he have been so stupid? Stupid Leo strikes again! Stupid, stupid, STUPID!

"There's a creek not too far away from here," Isabelle quickly suggested.

"I'll show you, Percy," Simon volunteered and led him off to the left.

"Nice going, little volcano," Jace muttered. Just ignore him, Leo thought. But a new whirlwind of thoughts were swirling around his head.

This wasn't the first house that went down in flames because of him. He even heard his mother call his name as he was taken back to his mother's death. Leo, Leo.

"Leo? Leo?" called a more realistic voice. Great, now Leo was going crazy and he could hear his mother's voice. "Leo, you idiot, is that you?" … Okay, his mother never called him an idiot.

"Annabeth?" he yelled toward the house in disbelief.

"Not all of us are fire-proof!" Annabeth shouted from beyond the wall of flame. Fluorescent orange flames and its insistent crackle seemed to speed up time. It seemed that the fire was consuming the house within seconds with a crooked grin.

Out of nowhere, water erupted from the sky, concentrated on the flaming house. After a crash and a sizzle, not a single flame was left in sight. However, the fire left damp cinders in its wake. The door was crumbling slowly. It seemed like if someone were to touch it, it might fall to the dirt in ashes. When the water has crashed onto the house at first, it sprayed onto Leo and the Shadowhunters, leaving a wet mess as the water spilled at their feet once the fire was doused. Gradually, the dirt absorbed the water and all that was left was soggy ground.

"Did you…" Isabelle raised an eyebrow to the trees on her left. Percy stood there, concentrating on the house as if he never heard her. Simon stood next to him, pretty amazed.

"I swear, are you guys some sort of elementalist warlocks?" Alec sighed.

"All demigod, all the way," Leo muttered. Demigods were powerful. He still remembered, as if she were right behind him, repeating to himself, power over fire… very, very rare… and always dangerous. Leo could still remember Nyssa back at Half-Blood camp, talking about how previous demigods with power over fire almost destroyed the world in wars. No, Leo shook his head; I'm not one of those demigods.

"So are we saving this chic or freezing out here to death?" Isabelle rolled her eyes as Simon and Percy made their way to the group of teenagers.

"Well, I didn't get splashed just to give up," Jace said.

"Leo, are you still there?" Annabeth called. Her voice changed— it was shakier, but she was clearly trying to hide it. Something was going on.

"Annabeth…" Percy whispered to himself, "Annabeth, it's me, Percy!"

"That's great! Can you help me now?"

"She always was a sassy little—" Leo stopped when Percy glared at him, "What? I was gonna say… uh…"

"It sounds to me that someone's in trouble and, once again, the boys are slacking off," Isabelle sighed and unwrapped the strange rope around her arm. Leo whistled as it turned out to be a very long whip and black runes almost shone on her neck. With a skip in her step, she bounced forward and disappeared into the house.

"Izzy!" Simon yelled and scrambled after her. Percy, Leo, Alec and Jace entered next.

Inside, it was too dark to see anything except a little light in the distance.

"That's Izzy," Jace explained the light and walked toward it with Alec, both confident that they wouldn't bump into anything.

"Shadowhunters, huh?" Leo scoffed.

"It's weird. You know, that they've been living in New York and we never knew," Percy admitted.

"Kinda like that Egyptian kid, right?"

Percy hesitated before saying Carter's name out loud, "Yep. Just like him."

When they reached the Shadowhunters (and vampire), Simon looked at a specific door like it was speaking to him. "There's something behind it. It could be Annabeth or Camille."

"Or the other freaky vampire lady," Leo added.

"Let's try to be optimistic, please?" Percy breathed and took out his pen. Percy grabbed the door handle and signaled for the others to brace themselves for whatever stood behind that door. Leo plopped a mint into his mouth and pulled out a dagger from his tool belt. In his free hand, the fire in him scattered around beneath his skin, just waiting to see the world again. He was ready. He went to the doors of Hades to save Annabeth. He wasn't going to lose her to a bunch of blood-sucking kidnappers.

Percy swung the door open and jumped inside, the rest of them filing in just as quickly. The room seemed huge, with towering walls and it was definitely too big to fit in the little hut. Magic, Leo sensed, and he didn't like that feeling.

"Annabeth!" the relief on Percy's face was difficult to miss when he saw Annabeth hunched in a corner, under a torch, her limbs all tied together. At the opposite edge of the wall to her left, the wood had blackened as a result of Leo's fire. Percy darted forward to help Annabeth, but a dog, a cute golden retriever, jumped in front of him, panting with its tongue out.

"A dog?" Isabelle laughed. She bent down with the intention to pet it, but Annabeth screamed, "No!"

"Indeed," a voice said behind them as the door shut with a bang and the click of the lock ricocheted off the walls. "I don't like nosy and uninvited visitors." Leo swerved around to see two figures in the darkness. "They don't ever seem to like my idea of a refreshing drink."

Okay, so Sea of Monsters is coming out in LESS THAN A WEEK.
I just wanted to say that I really hope it stays true to the book.
I think that's basically what every PJO lover is thinking.

As a result, I'm more excited and anxious for City of Bones.
HOLY FUDGE I CANNOT WAIT FOR THAT MOVIE!