The Blood of Olympus (Heroes of Olympus Book 5): Heroes of Olympus #5

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When Leo accidentally polishes Buford with Windex instead of Lemon Pledge with extra moisturizing formula, Buford runs off with two syncopations essential to building the engine for the Argo II. Leo, in a panic, asks for Jason and Piper's help to retrieve them. He explains the situation of how in about an hour, dangerous chemicals will mix in the engine blowing up the forest portion of Camp Half-Blood without the syncopations. With everyone caught up, the three friends journey into the forest in search of Buford. They then encounter Maenads on their journey and Leo feigns to be the Greek god, Dionysus, to please the Maenads. Suspicious, the Maenads figure out the truth and chase Leo and his friends until Leo comes up with an idea. Leo sends Jason to go find Buford, while he and Piper run towards Bunker 9. Once they reach Bunker 9, Leo distracts the Maenads with a party while he sets up a trap to ensnare them. Leo finally sets off the trap which drops a net (based on the original net which Hephaestus used to catch Ares and Aphrodite together) on the Maenads. Jason just in time arrives with Buford and Leo fixes the syncopator in the engine of the Argo II, thus narrowly preventing a massive explosion at Camp Half-Blood. Later Chiron and Argus arrive and decide to deport the Maenads away. In The Blood of Olympus, Leo respected and cared about Annabeth as a good friend, and she approved of Leo going to face Nike. While he was with Nike, he missed having Annabeth with him because she was good at talking. He also thought that Annabeth was no slouch. As for Annabeth, she liked Leo but would be a little strict with him as a leader, Near the end of The Lost Hero, he starts to let go of the pain of his mother's death and learns that his pyrokinesis is a gift and tool, not a curse. He also decides to stop running from his past and he starts opening up to his friends more. As of The House of Hades, after visiting Calypso for the first time, Leo became more steady and yet heartbroken, but he still made jokes, albeit less frequently. Facing heartbreak from this experience seemed to age him somewhat, often seeming sad and far off, thinking of Calypso and his promise to her. Leo's maturation after meeting Calypso is quite typical of someone who experiences heartbreak after a lifetime of feeling like an outcast.

In the days after, though Jason insisted he was fine, Piper wasn't too sure and knew there was a chance he may not make it. The wound was purple and steamed, and he was mostly bedridden. At breakfast, Piper changed his bandages as he writhed in pain. Leo sat next to him, since he was least likely to punch him, and they discussed subduing Nike. They agreed Jason shouldn't go, since he and Percy may kill each other, the two calling each other bros. Leo was upset over the route to Athens, but Jason said they could only go through the Peloponessian or it would be suicide, as Juno said.

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Leo then rescues Percy, Jason, Piper, and Nico from Ephialtes and Otis as the twins are destroyed by Bacchus in the Colosseum. He states how he had Hazel create a tunnel, built and attached a distress signal to Frank the weasel, and led Coach Hedge to save them. Leo tells Percy that Gaea had shown them Annabeth in peril and they head to the Emmanuel Building. Along the way, Nico tells them that the mortal side of the Doors of Death is in Epirus, Greece in the House of Hades. He also informs that the Underworld side of the doors is in Tartarus. Leo blasts the ballistae into the parking lot, unknowingly smashing Arachne into a chasm that led to Tartarus. They disembark into the cave where Annabeth tells the group she defeated Arachne with Chinese Spidercuffs, a variation of Chinese Handcuffs. Leo thinks that they'll be able to fit the statue in the Argo II, but the lair started to collapse. Leo, Jason, Frank, Piper, and Coach Hedge try to secure Athena Parthenos from the Argo II. Hazel grabs the rope ladder but tells them to cut Annabeth's ankle. Suddenly, Annabeth is dragged toward the chasm but Percy manages to catch her in time. Nico tries to save them, but Annabeth tells Percy to let her go. Percy denies and tells Nico to promise him that he'll lead the others to the Doors of Death in Greece. He and Annabeth then fall into Tartarus. Since the House of Hades, Jason had nightmares about Gaea. Sometimes in Epirius with Clytius, some with Gaea destroying Camp Half Blood, and one with Lupa killing him after revealing her true form and his mom leaving him. In the last nightmare, he would be scared and wake up with tears. He was also very worried about Reyna, Nico, and Hedge. Especially Nico, and he would pray to his father to help him after everything he'd been through. Echo is a nymph that Leo met while on an island in the Great Salt Lake. While Leo originally teases her, as she is forced to repeat the last thing she hears, he stops after Hazel Levesque tells him to stop (as well as Echo turning his words against him). After meeting Narcissus and seeing how absorbed he is in himself, as well as all the nymphs loving him for his looks, he realizes that Echo is the only one that truly loves him for him and wants to save him. Echo helps Leo in his plan to steal a metal shield Narcissus is using as a mirror and aids in Leo's escape. While running away, she plans to fight off the nymphs that are after them. Leo sees her true face for only a minute and offers to bring her with them, but she refuses as she still loves Narcissus. While praetor, Jason fought to change the camp's rules and traditions, even trying to change the name, Twelfth Legion, to First Legion. But it was no use, and Camp was too traditional. But while Praetor, Fifth Cohort's reputation was restored in the eyes of Camp and it became respected again for the first time since the 1980s. Jason welcomed numerous demigods to camp, including Hazel Levesque. Jason and Hazel became friends, though Hazel thought of him as hard to read and more as a legend than a person, and he told her about his battle with Krios. Jason and Reyna also met Nico di Angelo when he introduced himself as a son of Pluto, and welcomed him to camp, letting him be ambassador. He set up mines to stop bulldozers before the battle but was taken hostage by Commodus along with Emmie and Georgie. He looks to Apollo to see if he has a plan when the mortal god goes into his Divine Form and blinds the emperor, he helps Emmie and Georgie getaway. After the battle he and Josephine rebuilt Festus.

While Leo's fatal flaw has not been revealed, he shows feelings of inferiority - being unwanted or not trusted, the one no one wanted. He also can say the wrong things at the wrong time, as shown in The Dark Prophecy when he is held captured by one of Commodus' men, a Germanus named Albatrix.In The Demigod Diaries, Leo sings the theme to the tv series Psych while trying to fool Dionysus' followers. Coincidentally, Timothy Omundson, one of the main cast members of the TV series, would later come to play his father Hephaestus in the live-action tv series adaptation.