Chapter 4: Hyacinthus has a terrible camping experience, Icarus supports feminism, Percy gets religious trauma
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Hyacinthus gives Camp two out of five stars. One because he can't give zero and the other one because he makes two awesome friends.
Icarus realizes that life is unfair and Minos is a prideful idiot.
Percy has a horror movie experience.
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No one was surprised when Hyacinthus received the invitation to go to camp. And only one person didn't want him to go. His little sister Polyboea. Polyboea had just turned four to Hyacinthus twelve. Her first word was Hya, the closest approximation to Hyacithus's name and from the moment she could walk, she followed Hyacinthus around if allowed. All too often, the caretakers took the little princess back to her rooms. Prince Hyacinthus had to train in gymnastics and combat and could not indulge his baby sister all day.
Maybe it was the lack of a mother, but Polyobea was utterly different from her older sisters, much more tomboyish. As Amyclas had hoped, her looks had somewhat improved as she grew older, but the king was still disappointed that she was not as cute as her sisters or half-brother had been at her age. Hyacinthus thought that his father ought to get over himself, but others told him that the prettier a girl was, the easier it was to secure her a good marriage. Queen Sparta was adamant about it. Hyacinthus shot back, saying she had many other options even if Polyboea could not marry. She could join the ranks of Artemis' priestesses or just keep living in Sparta as a princess.
"Your fondness for her blinds you, Hyacinthus." wistfully spoke his grandmother.
"You will one day wed, and your bride will not like having your little sister around, undermining her authority. She will make Polyboea miserable."
Hyacinthus silently thought there was a simple solution: he could not get married, but he did not say that to his grandmother. She would have lectured him on his obligation and duty to contribute to the succession, especially since it was confirmed that Hyacinthus would be king after Amyclas.
Laodamia had married Arcas, the king of Arcadia and the son of Zeus and Callisto. Arcas came to ask for her hand in marriage after his first wife, Meganeira, an Eleusian princess, had died. Laodamia was not pleased that her husband already had two sons, Apheidas and Elatus, but Amyclas liked the match and its advantages.
Hyacithus had gone to Eleusis with Argalus to witness the nuptials. Amyclas had not wanted to leave the Kingdom for that long. Argalus had needed to take a long way back, but Hyacinthus had caught a flying chariot ride with his mother. He had been able to mull over what he had learned for Arcas' servants. His new brother-in-law had not one but two nymph lovers, indeed his father's son. The two dryads, Chrysopeliea and Erato, had several children by King Arcas. Hyacinthus knew that it did not bode well for Laodamia. He had tried to warn her and Argalus, but neither wanted to listen to him.
Hegesandre's husband was of far more unsavoury and infamous lineage. Argeus, prince of Elis, son of King Pelops and Queen Hippodamia. With this one, Amyclas was less than delighted since he did not want a descendant of Tantalus to be married to his family. Argeus was coming not from Elis but from Delphi, where he had received a prophecy from the Pythia that he was to marry a Spartan princess.
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FanfictionWhen Hyacinthus died, Apollo grieved the loss of the love of his life. He asked Hades to return his love to him but was denied. Less than a century after the disc struck, Hyacinthus of Sparta was reborn as Icarus of Crete. Once more, he loved and wa...
