It’s almost time for the concert. The Apollo cabin had this great idea to set up a concert to honor each god. Like love songs for Aphrodite and hard metal for Ares. We told Chiron the idea, and he agreed to it. We were going to play at fireworks’ beach after dinner. The beach is used for the Hephaestus cabin to do a fireworks show every 4th of July. Since it was the Apollo cabin who thought of the idea, Apollo will be the one to honor the concert to. The Apollo kids thought of no better leader than me, so I agreed.

We sold tickets for the concert. Sadly we had to give it to the camp store to pay for the expenses. Everyone was in the Big House preparing for the show. The Aphrodite cabin willingly offered their help for us. They chose yellow sundresses with an orange bow as the belt. The boys wore yellow t-shirts with suspenders; they look pretty goofy in them.

Lacy, a blond Aphrodite girl offered to do my makeup. I suddenly heard a knock on the door.

I answered, “Come in”.

Leo came in with a bouquet of flowers. I looked at him, Lacy, and then the flowers.

I looked at Lacy and asked, “Could you-”

Lacy winked at me. “Oh sure, I’m done anyway.”

She then giggled her way out the door. I sighed; she was probably going to tell everyone about the flowers. I didn’t expect anything less than a gossipy Aphrodite kid. Leo shuffled uncomfortably, and then he extended his arm showing the flowers. He turned as red as the roses in the bouquet, along with lilies and carnation. It was very beautiful, too beautiful. The work of a Demeter kid I bet.

“These are for you.”

I said sarcastically, “Really? I would have never guessed.”

I took the flowers and suddenly he felt a bit calmer. I took a whiff of the flowers, they were a good combination. I was impressed on whoever conjured up these flowers together.

Leo said, “Good luck out there.”

“Thanks, I need it.”

Leo then left the building, probably going to head out to the concert. I set the flowers on the table. Then I walked out the door.

The concert was awesome, everyone did a great job. We sang some pretty cool songs like “Soak Up the Sun”, “Bubbly”, and “Brighter than the Sun”. All of the songs either had to have something about sun or the artist’s father is Apollo. As we ended our concert with the sounds of whooping and applause, a huge bright light appeared before us. Standing before me was this guy, probably around his 20s. He had sandy, blond hair. He wore sunglasses and looked pretty hot and it seemed like he had a cheerful personality. He wore a red tank top that had a logo of a smiling sun in sunglasses. He also wore denim jeans and red vans.

He grabbed the mike. “Hello campers, Lord Apollo here. I happened to drive by, and I just couldn’t resist.”

Everyone started to kneel towards Apollo, followed by the Apollo cabin and me.

“Oh stop it. Your making me blush. You can all stand up; you guys are making me feel older than I really imagine myself.”

Everyone stood up again. Apollo went towards his kids.

“Great job you guys, you make me proud.”

Will Solace then step forward. “T-thank you father.”

He then walked towards me a pat me on the back.

“You’re a great leader, why you sing better than the 9 muses.”

I blushed. “Thank you Lord Apollo, but I can’t possibly be better than-”

He interrupted, “I’m not kidding. I taught the muses myself. You have more talent than Calliope. Or maybe Clio.”

"Lord Apollo, really, you shouldn't-"

"No, I swear on the River Styx you have more talent than a muse." He laughed. "But no one can compare to them when they sing together."

Some kind of shiver went down my spine. “T-thanks for the compliment, Lord Apollo.”

Apollo then leaned and whispered into my ear. “I’m glad my gift wasn’t put to waste. Be careful of the prophecies ahead of you.”

He clapped his hands. “Well, I got a schedule to run. See you guys in the sky.”

Apollo then materialized and disappeared from the stage. Everyone went back to applauding. We all took a bow, and then we went backstage.

After the show, everyone went back to their cabins. I tried to go asleep, but I was so happy with the results of the concert I stayed awake. I sneaked out to the beach. There are furies who eat kids who don’t sleep on curfew. So what I did was ask them to leave me alone when I not in my cabin. In exchange I give them recipes for kids they do eat. (Don’t worry they’re fake. And if they use them they’ll be making recipes that will make them never eat a demigod again.) So I was walking at the beach, when I heard some voices. I didn’t want anyone to follow me so I went into the forest. I went to the clearing I found in the forest.. When I reached the clearing, I went into one of the hot springs. Luckilly no one can see me, or else it’ll be like Artemis when an unlucky guy sees her and gets turn into a stag.

While I swam I sang the song that my mom sang to me. I’m positive it’s Latin, but I can’t figure out most of the words. Then I heard a twig snap. I was completly vulnerable and no monster can possibly find this place. So I had to distract it while I get away. I pressed my ring, and thankfully it’s waterproof. I went to Artemis’ section and used those fart arrows. As I stedied my aim, I heard a familiar voice and saw it was Leo.

“Leo?”

But I acidentally let go and the fart arrow exploded on impact. Leo stumbled and went into the spring. He made a huge cannon ball and wet my dry clothes. When he came to his senses he gave me a grin. Then he glanced at my clothes by the surface and blushed.

“Maybe I should.”

“Yeah, just, you know.”

As he got up and left, my clothes were drenched with water. Thankfully, I put an extra spare under a rock. When I dressed I caught up with Leo.

I asked, “Are you stalking me all of a sudden?”

“No! That’s not it. I saw you walking by the beach, then went into the forest. I was worried, so I followed you here.”

I was confused, “So the term is stalker?”

Leo protested, “It's not!”

I changed the subject. “You know, you never really explained me the whole fire thing.”

“I’m the human torch,” He said with a big grin.

“No, really.”

Leo’s face turned grim. “I’m a fire-user. The last one made the London Fire, Thomas Faynor I think.”

“You don’t look very proud with your powers.”

“I know but, I don’t like to talk about it.”

“Aw, you don’t trust me.”

“My mom- she got killed by the fire I started, but I lost control. Ever since, I’ve been living in foster homes and running away.”

"Wow, demigods have such a hard life." I said, then scolded myself for saying the obvious.

Leo chuckled, "Story of my life."

I nudge him playfully, "Well it's not really over, isn't it?"

We walked by the beach after that.We went down the beach and sat on the sand. We were both quiet, until I broke the silence.

“What’s your favorite constellation?”

“Have we met before? Let me introduce myself-.”

“Okay I get it, your namesake Leo, the Nemean Lion”

“What was the myth of your namesake, Kassandra?”

“Kassandra is known for “she who entangles men”. In Greek mythology, Kassandra was the daughter of a King and Queen of Troy. Her beauty caused Apollo to grant her the gift of prophecy. However, when she did not return his love, Apollo placed a curse on her so that no one would ever believe her predictions.”

He looked at me and said, “She who entangles men, fits your description”

I punched him and replied, “Don’t be such a hot-head”.

“Why are there even prophecies, people end up trying to fight it but just die trying.”

“A prophecy killed my mom so, yeah, it seems unfair.”

“I’m glad your not in the Great Prophecy like me.” I said. "But it's pretty cool you're building the ship for the kids who are."

He paused and said, “Yeah, I don’t have anything to do with the prophecy.”

“I can trust you, right? And you’ll trust me with anything.”

“Yeah, of course you can.”

We started to give each other corny jokes. Let me tell you, Leo’s jokes will make anyone jump to Tarturus.

Leo then said, “You look more beautiful than Aphrodite.”

“Aw, don’t say that. She’ll curse you for that.”

“I don’t care. It’s true.”

Then Leo leaned towards me. I then remembered what the Aphrodite kids told me. Leo, the player? Your just another one to put on his list. I moved back, but Leo leaned in so much he landed facefirst into the sand. He got up from the ground and spit out the sand.

“Cursed.” He spit out some more sand. “I’ve been cursed.”

The sun was startting to come up, we’ve been here all night. Leo headed back to his cabin, and I went back to mine.

As I walked back, I heard voices at the front of my cabin. It was to early for anyone to be up. And I thought the Hermes and Hephaetus cabins gave up trying to break in. I glance who was at the front and there, the 12 Olmpians and Hades. All of the Gods were bored and talking or argueing with each other. Hephaestus and Hermes were trying to unlock the door to my cabin. Hephaestus was checking the door’s security system and Hermes was checking for any unlocked windows or trap doors.

I went up to the two Gods and asked, “Any luck?”

“I have no clue how you made this lock system,” Hephaestus said.

Hermes said, “No secret entrances, my kids must be dying of boredom not getting in this place.”

Then they stopped and looked at me. All of the other Gods stopped and stared. I started to grin and finally they started to laugh. Hermes and Hephaestus started asking me a lot of questions of my cabin. The lock system, secrets entrances and exits. So I just explained it all to them.

“I was afraid some Hephaestus or Hermes kids will break in,” I explained. “That lock system your working on, Hephaestus, is fake, it doesn’t open anything, its just a way to keep them busy until I come back. Hermes, there are secret entrances and exits. But they’re not anywhere near my cabin. There is a whole system underground the Hephaestus cabin doesn’t even know.”

I went to me door and explained, “My door isn’t like any doors. There is not a single lock, it’s made to my own specialty.”

I then pressed my ring on the door knob. It started to glow and the door pushed open. My door must have the touch of a mortal and my ring.

I then pressed on the intercom and said, “special mode.”

The spin wheel’s arrow multiplied and pointed to each image of the gods. All of us then went in.

As soon as the Gods stepped in, my cabin tranformed in a mini version of the throne room in Mount Olympus. Annabeth told me what it looked like from the field trips to the Empire State Building. If there is a Roman version of this camp, Mount Olympus can be on the 600th floor in the Empire State Building. Each chair I made secretly from the descriptions Annabeth told me.

As soon as the Gods sat down they went down to business.

“It’s a great honor to meet you all at once,” I said with a curtsy.

“Kassandra,” Zeus began. “We know it will be hard but you must accept the fact that you will be in the Great Prophecy.”

Zeus was holding on to his lightning bolt and wore a blue tailor suit and had a blackish grey hair.

“Hmm, Kassandra. I know that name, she was the girl who, well, dumped me,” said Apollo.

Apollo had sandy hair and a pair of sunglasses, he work a t-shirt that wrote CALIFORNIA: THE SUN COUNTRYand jeans.

“And you cursed her by having people not believe her predictions,” I said blushing. Apollo was one of my favorite gods, well, I admired all of the gods.

Then I face Zeus again, “I accept that I’m going to be in the Great Prophecy.”

“Now the details of your part in the prophecy,” Artemis reminded Hera.

Artemis had auburn hair with moon like eyes and wore what looked like the hunters’ uniform.

“Oh yes,” said Hera. “The demigods who aren’t in the seven, you need to fill in the job. You have to also help out the seven to train and know their powers.”

Hera had lovely peacock pattern dress who tied up her long brown hair into a bun.

“So I need to be a demigod of 6 of the 12 gods”?

Hades cleared his throat and muttered, “Forgetting someone.”

Hades had albino skin in a black robe made of complete darkness and held his helmet of darkness.

“Oh, I mean 6 of the 13.”

“Well, yes that’s your part,” Hera said.

“But can prophecies do that? Adding a prophecy to the Great Prophecy”?

“Yes,” Hermes said. “Then titan war was part of the last Great Prophecy and there were many prophecies to make that prophecy come true.”

I muttered, “How confusing. But how can I help them train with their powers when I don’t know them”?

“Well, my daughter Piper is a charmspeaker. So you should have her work on her powers of presuasion on females especially,” Aphrodite said.

Hephaestus said, “Leo is a fire- user so he needs to work on burning his enemies but not his friends.”

“Um, Leo is in the Great Prophecy”? I asked.

“Yes, hasn’t he mentioned it”?

I was speechless. I didn't know he was actually in the Great Prophecy. I jut thought he was building their transportation since he's the counseler of the Hephaestus cabin. I trusted him, he told me I could trust him. I know it seems not that big of a deal, but we had a whole conversation about it. And he didn’t mentioned a single word. Like, ‘Oh yeah, I’m one of the seven in the Great Prophecy. That’s why my mom died.’

“Jason needs to be able to shock a monster with enough electricity to power New York,” Zeus continued.

“My son Percy,” said Poseidon. “He needs to work on having the others be able to breathe in water.”

Poseidon held his trident and was in a hawaiin shirt and bermuda shorts with a black trimmed beard.

“Annabeth,” Athena said. “Can work on her battle stradegy skills.”

Athena wore a dress suit and had long, wavy hair. Her gray eyes were as striking as Annabeth’s.

Hades explained, “My Roman form, Pluto, has a daughter, Hazel, who can control rocks underground and raise the dead can work on that.”

“And Mars or I, or both of us have Frank who could shiftshape into different animals,” Ares told me.

I couldn’t believe it but I just listen to every single demigod in the prophecy. The mention of all of those powers made me scared of only being a mortal.

“But why me, I have Julies, my twin brother. It might be better for him to be in my place” I said.

Artemis exclaimed, “How dare you say that. Boys always have a big part in Greek myths. It should be and honor for a girl to have such a big part.

She was right of coure, boys get all the glory. While woman were mostly like the bad guys like Madea or Medusa.

Zeus finally said, “We should all get back now.”

I bowed to the gods. “Thank you.”

After that all of the Gods poofed back to Olympus. Mr. D just walked out of my cabin. Everyone left except Aphrodite.

“Could you show me the Aphrodite mode”? She asked.

I went to an intercom and called out, “Aphrodite mode.”

The cabin then shift into a huge shopping mall. Clothes of every design came in rows of racks. The Aphrodite cabin will practically raid all of this. Aphrodite then started to browse around the cabin.

“I love your taste,” she said.

“Thanks, but shouldn’t you be up at Olympus?”

“Sometimes even the boys you trust, will lie in your face.”

I knew she was talking about Leo. On how he lied to me of not being one of the seven in the prophecy.

I asked, “But why? Why do they even lie?”

“Oh, dear,” she said. “Even I don’t get the male gender much less about lying. That’s more of Hermes’ expertise, I only teach kids on flirting and such.”

“But what should I do?”

“It’s really up to you. Forgive him or confront him with your trust together.”

I paused and sat on a waiting chair of the Aphrodite mode. A lot of the Aphrodite girls told me when Leo never met me he will check out every single girl out of his league.

“I don’t know what I should do,” I muttered.

“I’m sure you’ll figure it out,” she said. “You and Leo are like the old power couple, Hera and Zeus.”

“Oh.”

“I do have something for you, it’s a type of love potion.”

She materialize a injenction into her hand. It had a a type of golden liquid in it. The liquid must have been the potion.

I backed away. “I don’t need a love potion. I already have enough trouble with that gift you gave me.”

She laughed. “I’m so glad that my gift was found useful. But either way, I want to give it to you.”

“No, I don’t really need it.”

Aphrodite’s face turned sad. “You don’t want my generous gift?”

I panicked, I din’t want to anger Aphrodite. She can hold a grudge, and having the goddess of love as an enemy is a nightmare.

“Okay, I accept.”

Her face turned into a grin. He then handed me the injection. But then I forgot something, I’m terrified of injections.

I asked timidly, “Um, Aphrodite?”

“Yes, sweetie?”

“C-could you do it for me.”

She started cracking up. “The world’s hope is depended on a young mortal who’s afraid of needles!”

But she got the needle from me and insert it into my shoulder. I felt a searing pain, how can this be a love potion? I felt tears coming to my eyes, how can I start crying now? The pain started to fade away, I felt myself glow. Then it the light vanished and I returned to my normal color. I didn’t know how the love potion works, but I felt more mature, more responsible, more diciplined. It didn’t feel like a love potion, if made me feel more adult.

“Thank you lady Venus.”

“Your welcome, good night.”

She snapped her fingers and I fell into a pile of designer purses.

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Did you guys like this chapter? And what is this love potion that Aphrodite gave to Alexandria. If it were up to me, it has no effects that a love potion should have. HINT HINT. Maybe Venus- I mean Aphrodite mixed it up. Hmmm. Anyway, wait for the next chapter. BYE!!!