Leo Valdez

Leo was sure he was going to die, but it seemed ridiculous how opening a fortune cookie could kill a person. He was obsessed with dying and Nemesis now, first she gives a fortune cookie as a key to a problem Leo couldn't possibly solve -great, then she tells him he has to make a sacrifice as big as losing an eye to get the answer-awesome, a revenge goddess talking of Leo as a seventh wheel and then seeing him die for some punny numbers. Now he is stuck here in the air descending to the Tartarus since what seemed an eternity. Annabeth had once told him that it took nine days to fall into the Tartarus from Gaia, but Leo couldn't keep track of time.

He remembered his last moments of living very well. Those crazy eidolons had possed the awesome machinery of Archimedes and were trying to kill his friends, Hazel and Frank while Leo the great had the once in a lifetime opportunity to put back a complicated Archimedes sphere, to unlock which he needed a numerical code.

He had daringly opened the cookie to get the code, which worked all right. Then he melted the celestial bronze to trap the eidolons in them. after that he had fuzzy memories of the room-filling with highly flammable gasses, Hazel and Frank moving out of the room while his nervous energy caused the room to explode with fire coming out of his nose, the ground exploded then, he fell. He wondered what the rest of the crew might be doing or if Hazel and Frank are safe. He thought about Annabeth and her quest where she would face her most frightening enemy. He even started worrying about Nico. Poor Nico, trapped in a bronze jar which was sucking his life out. Most of all, he thought about Camp Half-Blood, which would be destroyed by the Romans. All of this would be because of the dirt face, Gaia and her treachours plan to wake up and take over earth(Leo didn't understand why cuz she was earth).

Time up!! No more thinking time, Master Leo is going to crash into a bottomless pit and break his head into 100 tiny pieces. Unless ...... he has something great in his mind. Ohh yes, Leo had forgotten about his best pal ever-TOOL BELT, but when Leo put his hand to reach out stuff there was nothing, that's when he realised that it must have fallen during that explosion. Oh, man!! now, what would he do besides he could already see the ground approaching that's when he thought about all the people he had met in life and those stupid fates who had woven his life thread like this. He felt grateful to the world(except Mrs dirt face) then spoke to himself 'right it's ok if I am the sacrifice to this quest but only if all the other 6 aboard the Argo II survive the quest, saving Nico and the world. He said one last goodbye to the sun and the starts as he crashed into the body of Tartarus, slowly disorienting, repeating these lines

 To storm or fire, the world must fall,

An oath to keep with a final breath........