This is it. The final chapter.

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It had been two weeks since Leo was fired from Circus Baby's Rental and Murder Station. He, Percy and Jason had practically run home after their final shift. Everyone at Camp Half-Blood was concerned, of course, and they just happened to be having a friendly visit from Camp Jupiter at the time, so that was a fun explanation...

Of course, the trio saved the REALLY juicy details for the rest of the Seven. They were hanging out in Bunker 9 when Piper threatened the Handunit with bodily harm if he hired Leo again. Leo had had to quickly reassure her that Handunit was an A.I over the intercom, but she was hearing none of it.

Jason had taken over by revealing that the true mastermind behind everything was none other than the Herald of Voices, Ennard. Hazel checked them over for injuries, found none, and gave each of them a big hug. Even Frank seemed thrilled to see Leo was alright.

Nico joined them a little later. Leo had taken the opportunity to ask him about the little girl, but Nico said that he couldn't find the little girl he was describing. Nico explained that people went to whatever afterlife they believed in when they died, so it was possible that she just wasn't in the Underworld with Hades. Nico left afterwards.

Leo sighed, thinking about the little girl. It always gave him a headache. The rest of the Seven decided that keeping an eye on the trio would be a good idea, so when Leo sighed, Piper put a reassuring hand on his shoulder.

"Still thinking about her?" she asked. Leo nodded glumly.

"I have no idea what happened to her..." he said. "And I have no idea why Ennard thought I know her..."

"Well, it's no secret that Ennard is a mess" Percy said. This made Leo snort in amusement while Jason flicked Percy. There was a knock at the door, and everyone turned to see who it was.

Will and Nico were standing at the entrance to Bunker 9 with a box between them. It was about as tall as them, and wider than them combined. When Leo stretched his senses, he could feel that it was an old arcade game.

"Hey guys," Will greeted. He got many friendly greetings back. "Package for Leo."

"Bring it over," Leo said. He got up to help them. Once they got the box inside, Will and Nico left.

"Who wants to bust it open?" Leo asked. Annabeth's hand was the first one in the air. She pulled out her drakon-bone knife and sliced easily through the box. It took a while to get the cardboard apart, but when it was finally gone, Leo, Jason, and Percy stared dumb-founded at the game sitting before them.

"Circus Baby's Cupcake Delivery?" Percy read. Leo took a deep breath and looked for an address on the dismantled carboard box, but there was nothing. Leo stood back up and stared at the blinking screen.

"Should we play it?" Frank asked. Leo took another deep breath and pressed start. He was playing as a pixelated Circus Baby. There were two grass platforms to jump on, and a box with a cupcake on the top platform. Leo jumped up and collected the cupcake, continuing to the next frame. There were two children wearing green shirts. He looked at the controls and saw a button labeled "throw." When he pressed it, a cupcake shot out of Circus Baby and to one of the kids, giving him a big smile and turning his shirt pink.

"Ok, so that's how you play," he thought aloud. He continued playing, eventually getting a blue cupcake that divided into three. He fed those to all the kids, then collected a green cupcake that kind of went through the kids. He ran out of cupcakes to give away, and a big "GAME OVER" appeared onscreen.

"Maybe you should run out of cupcakes before collecting any new ones," Annabeth suggested. Leo nodded and tried again. This time, there was an ice cream that he could collect at the end.

"Now what?" he asked. Percy stuck his hand in the air like a kindergartner.

"You know how sometimes there are hidden areas behind the starting point in these old games?" he asked. Leo nodded, then pressed restart. He tried again, making his way to the last kid with the extra cupcake. He ran all the way back to the start, almost running out of time.

The music got much quieter as he made his way back. When he got there, the background moved to signify that he was, in fact, entering a new area.

There were no kids nearby, but Leo's character set the ice cream on the ground and waited.

"Wait... Leo, does this seem familiar to you?" Percy asked. Leo's heart started pounding.

"'There were four, then three, then two, then one... something happened when there was one...'" Leo recited. The others gave him strange looks, but Percy spoke, too.

"'A little girl...'"

Jason, Hazel, Piper, Frank, and Annabeth gasped when a little girl appeared slowly onscreen. Leo's hair started smoking.

"'My stomach opened, and then there was ice cream'," Leo remembered. Everyone's eyes were glued to the screen, nervously watching the little pixelated girl walk slowly towards the ice cream. When she finally reached the cone, the screen turned black. Baby's eyes disappeared. Suddenly, there was a distorted scream as the top half of Baby's body leaned back and a metal claw shot out, grabbing the little girl. This made the demigods all scream.

It was an accident...

Daddy won't let me...

So it WAS the little British girl. Her dad built Baby and wouldn't let her near it. He must have known what would happen... the little girl didn't listen, and was alone with Baby... which means...

She was dead because of her father. But Ennard kept saying that Leo was there to be with her again... Ennard must have been confusing him with the little girl's father... but who was he? A video came up on the screen. A smiling man wearing a purple shirt stepped out of a house and started walking down the street. People were smiling and waving at him.

"Guys... Look," Leo said. The demigods calmed down and watched the screen once again. The man walked to the end of the street, and the screen reset back to the house. Nothing changed.

However, the third time the cutscene played, the man looked a little paler... a lot more sickly. The people in the background were all smiling and waving except for one man wearing green. He looked a little suspicious of the man walking across the screen.

When the cutscene restarted again, Leo lost his breath. The man in the purple shirt was looking a lot more green, with more background people looking suspiciously at him.

The next version of the cutscene had less people, but by this point, everyone was giving him strange looks. The man wasn't smiling anymore, and his skin was definitely losing its color. He had one yellow pinprick in his eye socket.

The cutscene replayed again, and this time, Leo's eyes widened in shock. He heard Piper and Hazel gasp behind him, and in the corner of his eye, he saw Jason grip the corner of the console tightly. The man's skin was a dark, sick shade of purple. There was a smile on his face, and two yellow dots for eyes instead of just one. The background people were hiding and frowning, or just missing.

This time, the cutscene featured one guy in a green shirt hiding behind a building. The man's skin was the same shade of purple as his shirt. He was hunched over and walking slowly, his eyes were trained forward, and the smile was still on his face.

Halfway through the ending of the cutscene, he stopped and started shaking violently. Leo leaned forward to watch. The man's eyes disappeared. His head shot upward so fast that his neck should have snapped. Something was going on in his chest area.

The happy music stopped, and the man bent forward. Something gray shot out of his mouth and escaped into the sewer grate that was built into the sidewalk.

When it shot out, everyone gasped except for Leo, Jason, and Percy, who knew what was going on. They knew that this man onscreen could have been them.

Baby's voice popped through the console, making the seven except for Leo back off. Leo just clenched his fists and glared.

"You won't die... You won't die... You won't die... you won't die... You won't die, you won't die..."

Baby kept repeating this line over and over again until her voice started overlapping. Suddenly, the purple man on the screen stood up straight, the lights in his eyes reigniting. Eyes popped open in the sewer grate. Then, the screen faded to black.

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That's that. Thanks for reading this thing all the way to the end! I hope you enjoyed it! I'm sorry this ending wasn't very long, and I apologize if it wasn't quite what you were expecting. But, hey, now all there is left to do is fix some errors in the other chapters, then I'll be done with this story for good.

-Sweet