Darkness. Trees. Alone. Mom. Drakon. Festus. Festus. FESTUS.
"Festus!" Leo yells, bolting upright. Leo is still not completely conscious since he fails to notice that he had just knocked someone over who tried to make him drink something, shattering whatever-it-is on the ground, making everyone in the room panic for a bit.
Leo couldn't lose Festus, too—not after everyone had abandoned him and left him alone for months. Festus is the only one he has left—the only one left who cares about him... and he would notlet some stupid monsters take him away.
Panting as if he had just run a fifty-mile marathon, he unseeingly looks around the stony room in a panic as he hurriedly tries to break free of the chains which are preventing him from getting to his bronze companion. The key word being tries.
Not noticing the people standing up on the bed beside him and surrounding him, he burns the soft restraints he is currently trying to get away from. He has to go to Festus and he doesn't care about the freaking consequences. No one takes his family away from him.
Now free from his restraints, he jumps up—trying (and failing) to stop himself from falling from what he now deemed is actually a bed. Finally, after what seems like an embarrassingly long time but is actually less than a second, he lands in an ungodly heap at the foot of a certain green-eyed son of Poseidon...
The green-eyed son of Poseidon whose companion, the bushy-brown-haired daughter of Pluto, is yelling something at their red-headed companion who suddenly shoves a vial of something down his throat, making him spit it out immediately.
"Holy Hades, what is that?" Leo asks, coughing and trying to get the taste out of his mouth. "It tastes like Cabin Five's old gym socks! Well... I don't actually know how it tastes like, you know... but in theory—just a theory—it would probably taste something like this because that is freaking nasty as schist."
Finally staring up from his position and actually taking a good look at the people surrounding him, Leo blinks profusely before coming to a realization.
Because he is right in front of a raven-haired green-eyed boy who definitely looks like Percy... but wait a second; he was pretty sure that Percy is with Annabeth right now studying at school in New York, which meant that this dude he was talking to was definitely NOT Percy... unless something happened? Or he's in the future?
Oh gods, how long has he been out?
"Percy?" he starts cautiously.
The moment he uttered the name, he already confirmed that the boy in front of him is definitely not Percy because all three of them glance at each other the same way he and the other six demigods did when they were faced with trouble that they are bound to solve in some way or another.
"You want... my brother?" the redhead asks.
"Er, no, I—" he stumbles before looking at the green-eyed Percy-look-alike. "You're not Percy," Leo finally manages to say, even though he's just stating the sad sad obvious.
To his surprise, the green-eyed boy snorts in reply. "No, I am definitely not Percy. No way, no."
Beside him, the redhead chuckles as well before they are berated by the Hazel-haired girl. Her brown eyes even look gold from time to time when the light shines on her eyes.
"Am I dead?" he jokes instead.
"Nope, very much alive," the redhead says.
Leo's brows scrunch up in confusion before his whole face turns into one of horror because oh gods, what if this is a trick or something?
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Quests of Valdez: The School of Magic (Harry Potter x Percy Jackson fic)
FanfictionLeo goes to Athens, Greece without the burden of a prophecy to get his mind away from his loneliness and to make peace with the trauma from the last war. Along the way, a series of events and a fascination with dragons eventually lead him to an une...
