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The Adventures of a Lovesick Idiot: Roasted Crab for Lunch
"When's the launch?"
"Any minute now."
"Want a brownie?"
"No! Why would someone evil like us want sugary baked goods?"
"Wait a second… One of my brownies just went missing… Paul… Did you take it?"
"Psh, what? NO, AS IF."
"You could be soprano and I'd be the bass line. And whenever we reach the chorus, I could burst in a mega flame ball," Leo bubbled excitedly.
Calypso chuckled lightly. "How many times do we have to go over this?! I already agreed the first time."
Leo shrugged and replied, "I just wanted to make sure that you remember our plans for a future business empire and potential world domination." He knew that he and Calypso had already discussed it a multiple number of times but he wasn't really sure what she would do if her curse was ever broken.
What if the moment her curse disappeared, she ran off to Percy? He had to make sure that he knew where her loyalties lied.
Leo was sure that made him sound like some kind of an evil mastermind. He didn't know how to put it nicely was all.
He wanted to read her mind. He wanted to know how she really felt about him.
"Just what am I to you?" Leo asked boldly. He never really had the guts to ask that before. Leo wasn't certain what had changed. What had had provoked his conscience to finally say exactly what was on his mind?
"What do you mean?" Calypso still asked in a light and casual tone.
Her head tilted in an absolutely adorable way.
'It looks so cute on her,' Leo thought. Then realising what he had been thinking about, Leo instantly shook his head vigorously.
"I mean, what am I? Your friend, your best friend, your future-colleague, your b-b-boyfriend?"
Calypso opened her mouth to reply and then seemed to reconsider. She took on a look of shock and anger.
"What do you want to be?!" she screamed.
Leo stumbled over his words. "Er… Um… I-Uh…"
Calypso's face contorted into disgust.
"I thought we've already established our relationship. Urgh, you know what? Bye."
She stormed off angrily out of the man-cave only to realise that Leo was still watching. Seconds later she stormed back and switched off the television.
Leo decided to spend the rest of the day sulking. His day just couldn't get worse, could it?
He lazily dragged his feet to the main control room and sat in a comfortable chair.
Leo thought about his feelings.
'Average sixteen year old boys probably didn't spend their time thinking about their feelings,' Leo thought. If he was in the human world, kids around his age would probably shun him for being girly or scrawny. Life was so sad… It was either get bullied by kids or get killed by monsters.
How did it all start? It all began with a simple, "Just what am I to you?" A small question like that had caused all of his problems. Now they were never going to start 'Leo and Calypso's Auto Repairs,' get married, have kids or die together at old age. The last part however was probably never going to happen anyway.
Leo's life seriously could not get any worse, or so he thought.
A flaming cannonball sailed through the air and hit the main control room. Argo II was sinking.
It was official, Leo Valdez's life was just plain pathetic.
"WHAT'S GOING ON?!" Piper screeched.
"YOU THINK I KNOW?!" her boyfriend yelled.
A voice from the upper decks screamed, "CRAB ON THE LOOSE!"
A crab? Leo remembered a magical crustacean from Greek Mythology. Although he had only attended a few lessons of Monster Training, he still recalled a few key points.
Karkinos was a giant crab that had fought alongside Hercules against the Hydra.
It turned out that it was actually the crab that had managed to kill the Hydra in the end and not Hercules (Contrary to popular belief).
And of course, Hercules being Hercules took all the glory. On top of that, Hercules roasted the crab and ate it.
Now after a gazillion years, it was completely resurrected and prepared for revenge.
BRING ON THE FLAMES COS UNCLE LEO'S HERE!
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