I wanted to save the good stuff for last, but all of my ideas are getting mixed up in my head, so.... yeah i just decided to do the good stuff.

Sorry for the CRAPPIEST CALEO ON EARTH last chapter. Like, what was I thinking? Sheesh.

Well, I'm making it up to you by killing people!

You can thank me later :3

~Alex

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Calypso had been taken from her island. Not out of freedom, however. Gaea was planning to use her against the demigods. She knew they wouldn't want to hurt her, and at least one of them would defend her if they did. She didn't want to hurt them either. But Gaea did.

The demigods arrived. Gaea towered over them in front of Calypso so that she was hidden. Calypso screamed, pulled on the chains she was in, rattled them, and did whatever she could to get their attention, but Gaea seemed to be blocking the sound waves.

Then she saw Leo. His hair was messy and darkened, like he'd just gone swimming in a pool of blood - which, for a demigod, sounded pretty accurate. His hands, face, and clothes were stained with blood. His jeans were muddy and torn. Calypso noticed he was still wearing the clothes he'd made him - which made her heart jump. But she knew he would be in great danger soon.

She tried to scream to him, call his name, get into view, but nothing worked.

Calypso saw Percy Jackson step up, and felt painful stab in her stomach, like the memories were coming back. But Calypso didn't care for him anymore - she only cared for the man who dared her to hope. Leo Valdez.

Percy opened his mouth to speak, but Gaea cut him off.

"Heroes," She said. "You have done well on your journey to stop me. You will be great heroes of the Greek Gods, forever knowned in the books and readings."

The demigods looked nervous and confused. Calypso didn't blame them - she didn't know what Gaea was saying either. Then it hit her.

"NO!" Calypso tried to scream.

Gaea ignored her. "Alas," She said, slowly spinning her finger in circles, as if getting reading to shoot something out of it. "Every great hero eventually has to die, yes?"

The demigod's eyes widened. "What do you mean?" Percy Jackson asked.

Gaea smirked, which looked pretty creepy with her eyes closed. "I have a little game set up for you seven." She chirped as if they were about to play Candyland.

"Let me disuss the rules."

The demigods looked like that was the last thing they wanted, was to play a "friendly" game with Gaea, but they had no choice.

Gaea looked over the demigods. "You need to pass past this wall, yes?" She gestered to the wall behind Calypso, where she was chained up. "So that you may stop me from rising?"

The demigods hesitated, but nodded. Leo looked like he was going to be sick. So was Calypso.

"Well, then, that won't do. What if, perhapes, I set you up with a... lets call it a monster, shall we? I will set you up with a monster. The only way you can pass the walls is for one person to die while fighting." She held up her index finger. "Just one. Whether it is the monster or demigods."

The demgods looked shell-shocked. So was Calypso. Gaea had never explained her plan to her, but she was having a bad feeling about this one.

"Agreed?" Gaea asked. "It is the only way you may get to the other side."

Percy stood up. "Swear to the River Styx that everything you just said was true. If one person, or monster, dies, then we can pass."

A blond one, Calypso guessed it was Annabeth, looked at Percy like he was crazy. But she obviously knew it was their only way out.

"I swear." Gaea said.

Percy looked around his group for support. Annabeth stepped up. "We agree to the terms, but only of what you said was true."

Gaea smiled. "Good. Prepare yourselves, demigods. This will be a powerful monster, a very hard one to conquer, with my help."

Annabeth looked cheated, but she sighed like she knew it was fair. "Will you tell us what this monster is?"

Gaea shook her head. "I think I'll leave it as a little surprise."

"Great," Calypso could hear Leo mumble. She was worried for him. She made herself a deal - as long as she was still on her feet, she would stop at nothing to protect these demigods, especially Leo.

Gaea turned around to face Calypso, blocking the demigods from her view.

Thats where Gaea spun her finger. Calypso had no chioce but to inhale the black toxic smoke from Gaea's hand. Calypso's vision turned red. She had no control of her body, but she still knew what she was seeing and hearing. Calypso knew what was happening.

She was the monster. Gaea stuffed her numb body into a torn sack and threw her to the demigods.

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Leo stared at the sack, hammer ready in his right hand, fire ablaze in his left. But he was almost dissapointed to see how small the creature was inside the sack. he looked up to question Gaea, but she was gone.

Leo looked around his armed friends, looking for answers. They knew about as much as he did.

The sack started moving, shaking, even. Leo directed his focus on it, ready for a fight. 

I shaky, pale hand reached out from under the cloth. Leo jumped back in shock. But he was even more surprised when he saw was came out from under.

It was Calypso. His Calypso, Calypso of Ogygia. She was here.

He wanted to run to her, but something told him it wasn't right. Calypso's eyes were purple and shallow, probably from loss of sleep. Her golden skin had dulled to a sickly pale white. Her dress was dirty and torn. Her wrists and arms looked marked, and bloody, like she had tightly been chained in thick metal.

Leo saw the empty chains on the wall and gulped. Oh.

Calypso's eyes were shut tight, like she was afraid of what she's see if they opened. Percy was the first to walk to her. Even with everything happening, Leo felt a tinge of jelousy.

Percy knelt down in front of her. "Ca-"

Before he could say another syllable, Calypsoopened her eyes and snatched him by the neck. She shouldn't have been strong enough to hold him over her head by the throat like that, but she did. She threw him across the room, where he hit a wall and fell, unconsis.

"Percy!" Annabeth yelled. She turned to the others. "Take care of the girl. I'll get Percy." Before she could turn around, Calypso grabbed her arm and slamed her against the ground repeatablty.

Leo stood in shock as the others tried and failed to pull Calypso away from Annabeth. Then he saw her eyes. Glowing black and green, like a sickly swamp. Tears of black oil fell from her eyes.

Leo stumbled forewards. While the others were hitting her and slicing her, and while she was fighting back at them with horrid white claws and new deadly fangs, he managed to grab her by the shoulder.

"Ca-" She slashed at his chest, throwing him to the side. he watched as she stepped over him, preparing to rip apart his face.

"Calypso, no!" He yelled. She raised her claws, but he managed to roll away just in time.

He looked at Jason, who was about to charge her. Then Frank, who was mounting an arrow. Then Piper and Hazel, who looked ready to jump on her from behind. Annabeth was weak from getting beat up so bad, but she was managing to stumbled towards Calypso.

Leo gasped. His friends didn't know Calypso. To them, she was just another monster. Monsters disguised themselves as mortals all the time. This left his friends blind.

Leo realised that if he didn't do something, his friends would kill Calypso.

Without giving it a second thought, Leo jumped infront of Calypso, who had calmed down and was studing her claws, probably confused.

Jason skidded to a stop in front of Leo. "Leo, what are you thinking?"

"Don't touch her." Leo breathed.

"Leo, shes a monster, can't you see? Leo- watch out!" Jason pointed behind Calypso. Leo turned halfway around before Calypso jumped up and wrapped her arms around his throat, choking him.

"Leo!" He heard Piper scream. Leo was blacking out fast. He tugged as hard as he could against her arms, along with his friends, but again, she only tightened.

Leo wanted to say something, but he couldn't breath. He did the last thing he could think of - fire.

He lit his whole body to a quick blast of flames, not wanting to hurt Calypso. Once she let go from shock, Leo crumbled to the ground, holding his throat and breathing heavily. A few minutes later, he felt okay again, and only stood up to see his friends slashing at Calypso - and Calypso nearly bleeding to death.

She stumbled around his friends, making a pretty good effort to dodge their weapons, but Leo knew that if they gave her one more scar, she'd be gone.

Leo wouldn't be able to live with guilt. His love for Calypso would be destroyed by his friends.

Calypso had fallen to her knees. Her expression showed a mix between fear, confusion, and pure hatered.

Annabeth raised her dagger.

"No!" Leo pulled the limp Calypso out of the way, making Annabeth cut his shoulder instead. She jumped back in shock when she saw Leo holding Calypso protectivly.

"What are you thinking?" She screamed. "She'll kill you!"

"You don't understand!" Leo yelled back. "She's-" He never got to finish because Calypso pushed him away and tore open his back. Leo screamed in pain. He fell to the ground.

He watched Calypso tearing apart his other friends. Tears formed in his eyes. This wasn't Calypso. He knew it couldn't be a copy of her. Not a disguise, either. Calypso had to have been persuaded of some sort, maybe hypnotised. But this was not Calypso at all.

Leo remembered what Gaea said about her being hard to defeat. It sure was hard for him.

As he watched the battle between his love and his friends, he didn't know who he wanted to win. Maybe if they could just knock her out a bit, bring her to her senses. But then they wouldn't be able to pass the wall, he remembered. He choked on a sob.

"Calypso," He said. "Calypso." He used his arm to push himself off the ground so that he was on his knees. "Calypso, please."

Either Calypso couldn't hear him, or the demon that seemed to have taken her over was ignoring him on purpose. Leo scoffed.

"Calypso, remember me?" He said. Calypso froze in a mid-slash towards Frank.

"Calypso, I know you're in there. Just listen to me." Leo begged. Annabeth knit her eyesbrows and looked at Percy real quick, then looked at Calypso like she recongised the name. Jason looked at Leo, like, What the fck are you doing!

"Calypso, its me, Leo. Remember?" Leo could see her hesitating. All of his friends had froze, curious in what Leo was doing.

"Calypso, please talk to me." Leo said. Then, he pushed with his arm again and managed to stumbled to his feet. His back stung like a million needles and his shoulder burned like acid, but he ignored it.

Calypso slowly turned around. Leo felt a twinge of hope. Then, she lunged at him.

"Gah!" Leo pushed her away and felt blood streaming down his cheaks. "Ca- Calypso-"

He saw his friends running towards him. Frank shot an arrow at Calypso.

"Calypso!" Leo wacked the arrow away before it hit her. Leo could hear Frank yelling at him, but he ignored the complaints.

Leo wrapped his arms around Calypso so that she was stuck in his grasp. No one would hurt her, and she wouldn't hurt anyone else. Leo huged as tightly as he could as Calypso thrashed and kicked and screamed. He almost felt bad for her, but he was afraid to let go and see what she did.

But then, she took control. She pushed them towards a wall so that Leo felt the horrible impact of stone connecting to his skull. Calypso didn't. From the shock of pain and the blood in his eyes, Calypso managed to escape his grasp.

"Calypso..." Leo begged. She took down Hazel, then started towards Jason.

"Calypso, please..." Leo tried. Calypso threw Jason to the ground and jumped on Frank.

"Calypso, stop it!" He cried with all of his remaining energy. Calypso spun around, and for the first time since Ogygia, she spoke.

Her voice was raspy. "You...." Was all she said. In a flash she was holding Leo's army jacket collar with her fist. "You-"

"Calypso," Leo interuppted her. "Remember when you made be this?"

She looked down at his jacket, then back into his eyes. Leo noticed his friends staring in shock.

"Calypso," Leo said again. "Remember when you made me this? What was I doing? Where was I?"

His friends looked at him like that was the stupidest question in the world to be asking right now, but Calypso hesitated. "Ogygia." Was all she said.

Leo forced himself to look back in her green, empty eyes. "What was I doing?"

Calypso stuttered. "Spe- spe-"

"My sphere?" Leo asked. A drop of blood trickled from his mouth.

Calypso's expresion turned angry, but her voice was ever so slightly beginning to sound human. "Y- yes..."

"And my shirt-"

"Caught on fire." Calypso breathed. "A- and... and..."

"You thought it was the funniest thing in the world," Leo recalled.

Calypso breathed heavily. "Th- the c- crystal... you asked for a c- crystal..."

"Thats right," Leo said. "I still have it,"

Calypso's expression softened. "You- you- you left me-"

"I was gonna come back," Leo promised her. "But I guess you're already here."

Calypso let go of his collar and put a hand to his head. "B- b- blood-"

"Not your fault," Leo breathed.

Calypso shook. Leo realised that her eyes had faded back to normal.

She was human again.

"Calypso..." Leo started.

She looked at him. Her expression turned sour.

"You. Idiot." She said. "Why didn't you kill me? You could've died!"

"Cool it, Sunshine-"

"Don't. Call. Me. Sunshine!" She growled.

"Sure, Fine, Sunshine, but its okay. I didn't want to you to die." Leo cracked a smile. "Besides, nobodys dead."

"Yet." Calypso turned to Leo's friend, who all were standing with theirs mouths hanging open.

She opened her mouth to say sorry, but instead a waterfall of silent tears came. Leo wanted to comfort her, but he couldn't get up.

I raspy voice echoed the halls - the same voice Calypso spoke with when she was possessed.

"I was promised the death of one, it spoke powerfully. "Now I get the death."

A horrible flash of green and black erupted around the room. Leo watched at it reflected from corner to corner until in decided where it wanted to go. A horrible shock of electricity zapped Leo's heart. He couldn't scream or move - he just went into a horrible numb feeling all around his body.

The last thing Leo saw before blacking out into certain death was Calypso's horrified face. Leo's vision was blocked out from blood and pain. He felt his body shaking uncontrolably from the electric charge inside him. He saw a glimpst of Jason running to him, but jumping back, being burned from the different electricity.

Leo thought about his times at working with his mother, Camp Half-Blood, his half-siblings, Festus, his friends, his best friends Jason and Piper, his times on Ogygia, and finally Calypso's face before he closed his eyes forever.

Leo Valdez was no more.

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I feel like crying. WTF why'd I write this? Oh yeah, cause I thought it was a 'good idea'. Yeah, real smart Alex. Pfft.

Maybe I should even it out, kill Calypso next. But then we'd be in the same situation, right?

Oh! Oh! I know! I'll make Calypso go insane next! Or Leo... maybe both? I've been thinking about it for a while. Or maybe Leo could get kidnapped by Calypso after a horrible battle and get healed by her...? I've been thinking about that one, too.

I told you I had a lot of ideas.

Your ideas are welcome, too*! Please comment!

~Alex

*I'll give you the credit if you give me an idea I use, i promise. I want other people's opinions!

:D