( 3 hours after the previous chapter )

"All right everyone out now. DINNER TIME!!!!," yelled Nyssa as the Hephaestus campers let out a sad sigh before switching off their assigned furnaces and setting down their work. Leo came out of the largest, sizzling hot furnace, wearing nothing but his underpants as he put down the part he was melting off.

"Do I really need to be there, I have my plate after all?" asked Leo as Nyssa shook her head, while jabbing a finger in his chest. "You mister are coming to dinner. Two days of no human contact is dangerous, and not appreciated under my command. So put on some clothes before I drag you in those underpants itself," warned Nyssa as Leo nodded frantically.

"Esta bien madre gallina," said Leo as he hurried off to put on his clothes. Washing his face, he put on his boots as he followed his cabin to the eating area.

They all sat down as Chiron started his speech on how the monthly capture in flag was scheduled next week, and since it was Saturday, he went on a parallel about ratings on cabins, which one needed more work and which ones were the best.

For some weird reason, Leo felt like he was being watched. Turning around ever so slightly, he saw Annabeth looking at him. Trying to unravel him like he was a mystery. As he shifted a bit more, he saw Hazel looking at him apologetically while Nico and Frank looked ready to kill him.

He could also hear the whispers of the relatively newer campers, about how he disgracefully cheated death, how he didn't deserve it. His cabin seemed to be unaware of it, but he could not blame them. It was something Leo had build up from all those years of running, to listen to even the slightest sound, to be beware of even the slightest changes as being unaware of these things could have cost him a lot.

To his relief, he did not have to wait for long as for some reason, he felt sleepy instead of being hungry. So, he simply took out a pair of earplugs from his tool-belt, inserted them and put his head in his arms. Within seconds, he was sucked into a dreamless, rem sleep.

"Leo my boy, wake up," ,Chiron said while shaking the fire-wielder, who sat up groggily, taking a good moment before he was fully conscious. "Your siblings and others have gone to sacrifice the food for the gods. I think you should do the same," smiled Chiron as Leo waved a hand dismissively.

"I don't think Dad would kill himself if one of his child did not sacrifice something for him a single day," snorted Leo as Chiron too let out a short laugh, before his expression turned serious.

"Leo, don't think I am in dark about the rumors and whispers spreading around, nor I am oblivious to the treatment you have received from the others as well as the Romans. If you ever need to talk or wish for anything, just let me know my boy," said Chiron in a grave voice as Leo was slightly taken aback, but quickly compose himself before nodding.

Excusing himself, Leo found his way to his siblings. All of them then made their way back to the cabin, the bonfire being cancelled as the lead singer for today had been put into the infirmary by a rude pegasus, who was not in mood today for having a rider.

Once all their siblings were put into bed early for today, Leo and Nyssa stood in front of a round table, munching on some cookies. "All right, so how do we go about it, I thin-," started Leo before he was cut off by Nyssa raising her hand.

"No need for planning or anything. We already have the plans," said Nyssa as she went over to the walls of the workshop and pressed a part of the wall, making a small box pop out. Taking out its content which happened to be pen drive, she went over and placed it on Leo's hands.

"I present to you, the first anniversary gift of the late Charles Beckendorf to his late girlfriend Silena Beauregard, which he could never give."

Leo simply stared at the pen drive for some time. Plugging it into a laptop, the whole blueprint along with each minute detail popped up. Along with a letter pdf to Silena from Charles, but Leo decided to let it go untouched, to be given to Clarrise and Percy, Silena and Charles best friends.

"Who all knew about this?"

"Only Jake and me. This was his last project after Festus. Finished two days before the mission he and Percy went on, the mission that took his life," recounted Nyssa as a few tears escaped her eyes, on recounting what a great big brother Charles was to the whole camp, and how she sought to become like him.

"I see. We shall honour him by creating this then."

"All right then! Let's go!!!!!" exclaimed Nyssa with joy as Leo let out a huge lopsided grin.

The next few hours were a blur, with Leo and Nyssa working on creating an assembly line for tomorrow, where the whole cabin would work together. Slowly but steadily, things were coming together.

As the clock ticked half past eleven, Leo found Nyssa passed out on a table. Chuckling slightly, he bridal style picked her up and placed her on a make shift bed they had in the workshop. Seeing to the fact that she was comfortable, Leo turned around and went towards a corner of the workshop, where they kept the automatons.

He had used the Archimedes Sphere to create them, as a helping hand for his siblings to do heavy lifting work. But unknown to them, these automatons could also do minute detailed work, if fed the right information.

Starting three of them, he fed them with the info on the mechanism as he chugged down the last mug of coffee they had left in the fridge above.

"All right dummies, time to create some phone for dummies!"

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Estas bien madre gallina - alright mama hen

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