Oath Kept

Chapter 6

I calmed down pretty quickly. I'm not entirely sure why it freaked me out so much. Leo looked so crazed. He was hearing a voice. Normally, that's a bad sign. He could have been going insane, or some evil immortal was trying to corrupt him.

We'd left the cave and set at the table.

But after he ensured me it was just Styx, I was able to regain myself.

"Why was she talking to you?" I asked. "What did she say?"

"She said that—" he paused and blushed a little. "What we were about to do in there would extend your curse to me. I'd be just as trapped as you are."

"Oh," I said. I felt guilty. A single moment of lust almost cost Leo the choice of leaving should he ever want to.

Leo saw the look on my face. "You don't honestly believe I care about that, do you?"

"What?" I said.

"If you're not leaving, I'm not leaving. That's what I said. What difference does it make if I share your curse?"

"Your friends—"

"Aren't as important as you are." I blushed. "I saved the world, Sunshine. I'm free to stay here for eternity all I want."

"But do you want that?"

"Of course I want that! I'm not losing my sunshine."

"Can you stop being so sappy?" I said with a smile. "Its making me uncomfortable."

"I'm never uncomfortable when I'm with you." Leo said with a mischievous grin.

I rolled my eyes.

"Now if I do recall," said Leo. "We were in the middle of something."

"I do believe we were." I said whilst standing. "Are you sure about this?"

"Never been more sure about anything," he said whilst also standing. I walked over to him and nearly launched myself into his arms. Our mouths connected. My arms wrapped around his neck. I licked his lips, asking for entrance and he obliged.

Without breaking apart, we began to move toward the cave. We entered and I pushed him on his back onto the bed. I took out my shirt and by the look in his eyes he enjoyed the sight.

I then got on my knees and started on his pants. I may have been out of touch with the world for awhile, but I know this is how s*x usually starts out now.

About an hour later, Leo and I stood and were putting our clothes back on.

"So," said Leo. "Was that worth waiting three thousand years for?"

"Very much so," I said. "I think I'm good for the next three thousand years." I gave a smirk.

"I don't know," said Leo. "Now that you've had a taste of Valdez, I don't think you'll be able to keep your hands off me. I'm too hot to resist."

I rolled my eyes.

"So," he said. "Ready for some after-amoroso food?"

"Definitely."

We sat the table and the invisible servants brought us a tray out enchiladas. I hadn't even ordered them to do that.

"Did you do that?" I asked.

"I don't think so," he said. Then his facial expression changed. "Oh."

"What?"

"You will share both her curse and her gifts from the gods," he quoted. "Let me try something." He raised his hand and the tray of enchiladas lifted into the air then was carefully sat back down.

"Interesting," I said.

"You don't have plates, do you?"

"No. I've only ever needed bowls."

He then pulled two paper plates from his tool belt. The invisible servants took them and dished out the enchiladas, then brought us forks.

We are greedily.

"These taste just like my mom's. I guess they read my subconscious and made my favorite food. That's incredible."

"YesI . I made the stew one time, and they started cooking it automatically."

"So what else did the gods give you?"

"Hephaestus gave me the bathroom. Hermes just visits from time to time. Hera gave the invisible servants. And I think that's it."

"Really?" he sounded disappointed.

"Oh, right. Hecate taught me magic."

"So I can do magic now?"

"I doubt it. I already had magic in me. She just taught me how to use it."

"Bummer."

Once we finished our enchiladas, we walked hand-in-hand to the workshop. We had intended on starting the building of the house model.

But when we got to the workbench, we saw a book on it. It was yellow and had orange lining. The spine was free of words, but the cover read Magical Crafting And You, by Hephaestus.

Leo picked it up and flipped open the cover. Written on the inside in very neat handwriting was a message. I read it over his shoulder.

Dear Leo,

I wanted to give a copy of this book to every single one of my children, but it was unanimously agreed upon by the gods that I couldn't. Gods are allowed to give their children a magical item, possibly two, but it has been forbidden to teach a demigod to make them as they'd become too powerful. To be honest, I agree. But now that you've taken the curse of Ogygia upon yourself, a magical weapon in your hands can't possibly be dangerous. So I give you this gift for an eternity of birthdays.

Sincerely,

Hephaestus

P.S. You may need Calypso's help.

"Huh," Leo said. He skimmed through the pages. "Hey, let me see the flower I made you."

I reached up to my hair where I kept it.

"Oh," I said. "It fell off."

Leo waited. After a couple seconds he rolled his eyes sand raised his hand. An invisible servant brought the metal moonlace to him. I mentally facepalmed myself for not thinking to do that.

He flipped through the book and stopped on a page.

"I have an idea," he said.

So we got a little sidetracked. By the time we'd finished Leo's idea, we were pretty tired and ready for sleep.

What was Leo's idea? He used his new instruction manual to modify the celestial bronze moonlace to turn it into a super multi tool suited perfectly for me. He'd originally intended to do it anyway, but using magic instead of tiny complicated technology was much faster and easier.

Now, the flower always returns to my hair. And if I need a tool, all I have to do is hold it and will it to turn into it. And when it turns into a watering can, it'll never run out of water. I haven't yet found one it can't turn into, but I've only had it for about five minutes.

Leo wasn't actually able to do the entire thing himself. He had to work the metal and do all of the complicated work, but he needed my sorceress skills to actually make it work. It was a completely different branch of magic than what I'd used before so I had to practice before I could get it down.

All in all, it was a pretty rewarding day. Leo and I went back to the cave and laid down. We rolled onto our sides to face each other and our lips met. I tried to slip my tongue into his mouth but he denied access then pulled away.

"If you want round two you'll have to wait 'till morning," he said.

"Fine," I said. "Can't wait." I rolled over onto my back and let myself drift off to sleep.

A/N: Okay, so bad luck it is. And I'm no longer going to give you estimates of when chapters should be up. I'm trying to do a chapter every other day, but for now on just assume you'll get a chapter when you get a chapter. I don't want to set a day into your head and have you be disappointed when it's not out by then. Luckily it was out by the deadline I set for myself, but only just barely because I've got Cinco De Mayo plans right after uploading this.

Anyway, as always, leave a review and let me know what you think. I'm also thinking about creating an "Extended Edition" version of this story that's rated M, so you can go over there to get more detailed with the s*x scenes. So let me know if you want that, but of course doing so would put delay on new chapters in the main story.

Oh, and I've put out the first chapter of another story called Sinister. I'd been toying with the idea for a while and just wanted to get the idea out there. Don't worry, it's not going to get in the way of AM or OK,NEB. It'll remain on halt until I've finished one of my current two stories. But head over and let me know what you think of the plot.