"One, two, THREE!"
"This girl is on fire!" Sang three off key voices. The owners of these voices were non other than the Super-Sized MicShizzles.
At least that's what Leo Valdez called himself and his kids when they sang. He bragged to Calypso that they would out show the Apollo cabin. She said he was delusional.
His two kids, Esperanza and Fuego, (The only reason he got away with that was because Calypso didn't know Spanish) were eight year old twins. Esperanza was a spitting image of Calypso, while Fuego looked like Leo.
"Well done my offspring!" He shouted. "We'll soon enter a duel with cabin seven. And claim victory!"
His kids gave a victory cheer.
"When will mom join us dad?" Esperanza asked.
"Well, your mother doesn't quite think that I have the capability to train you. And, she said that if I, I mean, we could best cabin seven, she'd make me, I mean, us her special home cooking instead of having us eat the camp's food."
"So he pretty much made a bet out of it."
Leo whipped around to see Piper walking their way.
"Hey, Pipes, how did you know we were here?"
"Everyone in camp knows where you are."
"But, the house on the other side of camp."
"I know. But you guys sing really loud."
Fuego stepped in front of his father. "What'd ya think of our singing aunt Piper?"
"It was very uh, passionate." The response was good enough for the twins, who high-fived.
Leo knew better though "It wasn't that bad." He whispered.
"Yes it was." She whispered back.
"Wait. Dad, you made a bet with mom?" His daughter looked up at him.
"Last time you made a bet with mom you made us do everything you promised that you would do!" His son chimed in.
Shoot they're on to me. He didn't want to go against his children. Sure he was superior, but his kids were two of him, plus Calypso would team up with them and he would be stuck with gross chores for a week. Or worse, two weeks.
He got so nervous that he accidentally set Calypso's flower bed on fire. At which his kids shouted, Piper jumped back and called for Calypso. Calypso ran out their front door with a water filled vase, she threw it on her flower bed, dousing the fire.
"Leo!" She glared at him.
He chuckled nervously. "Sorry sunshine. Hey, do you want to hear how me and the kids are coming along?" Before she could say no he started singing.
"She's got her head in the clouds and she's not backing down." Thank the gods the kids joined in.
"This girl is on fiiiiiiire!"
Both the women covered their ears in an attempt to save their hearing. While Leo paraded the singing terror away, smiling as he saved himself from certain doom.