Aphrodite's Curse

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Aphrodite's Curse

Day One
Leo Valdez exited Bunker Nine in a great mood. Another day had passed, and he did a pretty good job working/planning for the Argo II. It was New Years Eve, and there was an event going to be held in the Amphitheater after sing-along to welcome the new three hundred and sixty five days. Leo walked out from the woods with his siblings and marched toward their cabin when they heard a horn being blown in a distance.

“Dinnertime, guys!” Leo announced, and hurriedly they formed a line and instead marched toward the dining pavilion. They sat down on their cabin’s table and did the usual dinner stuff. Then they talked about their plans for the New Year, their new year’s resolutions, and stuff similar to that.

Leo let his cabin mates chat within themselves, and looked around the other cabins’ tables. Jason was sitting alone in the Zeus cabin’s table. Leo wanted to break the silence surrounding his friend’s eating zone by sliding in and start making fun of his cropped hair, or drag Piper beside him. Anything that would make him cheery. (Romans, why do they always have to be serious?) Leo continued to move his eyes around other tables. When his eyes wandered on the Aphrodite Cabin, he frowned. Not a single camper was sitting on their table. There were no Aphrodite kids in sight, including Piper.

“I wonder who’s going to be cursed this time,” Someone from Leo’s table whispered.

“Well, I sure hope it isn’t going to be me!” another one chimed.

Leo turned back to his cabin mates when he noticed they were huddled up closely together like some rugby team. “What curse? Are you talking about Cabin Nine curse?”

“Oh no, this is different,” Jake, Leo’s right hand man for the Hephaestus cabin, said in a whisper. “We’re talking about the New Year’s Curse of the gods.”

“What about it?”

“It’s a random curse given to one of the campers here by a god,” Nyssa started. “It happens every year in camp. The Olympian gods decide which one of them is going to be the curser and then later, they’ll decide who’s going to be cursed among us.”

“It can either be a good curse or a bad curse.” Another one of Leo’s siblings continued, “Some curses can give you good things, some not, and some are just plain useless.”