Chapter One – The Arrows of Love
"What's wrong with her?" I asked Annabeth.
Katie Gardner was running after Travis Stoll, shrieking, "I love you! I LOVE YOU!"
"I don't know, Seaweed Brain. Loads of campers have been acting like that. I think it must be Eros shooting love arrows at them, because they fall in love with the first person they see."
I realized that Annabeth was right. Everywhere I looked campers had expressions of adoration on their faces,
One girl was lying alone on the ground. I recognized her. It was Delilah, a daughter of Hecate.
"Delilah? Are you all right?" I walked over to her.
Delilah's eyes opened. To start with, she looked confused. Suddenly her expression changed. She smiled at me, and the smile grew into a look of desire.
"Oh, Percy, I knew you'd save me. You're my hero!"
Uh-oh, I thought, as Delilah tried to kiss my cheek. I backed away.
"Oh my gods," Annabeth muttered. "She's been shot, and now she's infatuated with you."
"It's not my fault. I can't help it that I'm so amazingly handsome!" I joked.
Annabeth whacked me on the back playfully.
I heard footsteps.
I turned around. "Thalia!" I exclaimed. She and the other Hunters of Artemis were standing by the cabins. "Why are you here?"
"We were in the area and decided to stop by to thrash you at Capture the Flag again." Thalia laughed.
"I'm sure that the campers will beat you one day," Chiron had appeared, with Rachel Dare.
Chiron looked around. "What's going on?" he asked, catching sight of Katie, who was trying to snuggle up to Travis.
"I think that some of the campers have been hit with Eros' love arrows," Annabeth told Chiron.
"Oh, dear," Chiron sighed. "We must stop this before it gets even worse. We must consult the Oracle."
We all turned to Rachel. For a second, she looked perfectly normal, then her eyes began to glow ominously, and she rasped:
"The children of the Big Three shall go on the quest,
Distractions shall keep them from doing their best,
They must journey to the place of the King's birth,
And prove to Olympus their strength and worth.
A gift shall keep them on the Love God's trail,
But will they succeed or will they fail?"
There was a deadly silence in which Rachel returned to her normal self.
"The prophecy said that the children of the Big Three must go on this quest. I assume it means Percy, Thalia and Nico," Chiron declared.
"But, I wanted to go!" Annabeth protested.
"I'm sorry, my dear, but you are not a child of one of the Big Three, and in any case, only three people can go on a quest," Chiron told her. Annabeth looked disappointed.
How are we supposed to know which King it's talking about? There are thousands of Kings!" I asked.
"Honestly, Percy. You're so dumb. I can see why Annabeth calls you Seaweed Brain," Thalia said. "It means Zeus, King of Mount Olympus."
"Shut it, Pinecone Face."
Thalia was about to reply when Chiron spoke.
"You must go to Zeus's birthplace, Mount Ida. You must find Eros and get him to reverse the spells."
Author's Note
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