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that night before dinner, everyone was ready to beat the hunters at capture the flag.
it was going to be a small game: only thirteen hunters, including bianca di angelo, and about the same number of campers.
zoë nightshade looked pretty upset. she kept glancing resentfully at chiron, like she couldn't believe he was making her do this. the other hunters didn't look too happy, either.
unlike last night, they weren't laughing or joking around. they just huddled together in the dining pavilion, whispering nervously to each other as they strapped on their armor. some of them even looked like they'd been crying. i guess zoë had told them about her nightmare.
on our team, we had beckendorf and two other hephaestus guys (jake, and lu), a few from the ares cabin (clarisse was still on her mission), the stoll brothers and nico from hermes cabin, and a few aphrodite kids. ayana and nina sat out, and decided to be medic along with will, and the apollo kids. brooklyn, ellie, and cythia also sat out.
it's not often that the aphrodite kids chose to play capture-the-flag. i was one of the only familiar faces to the game. once they found out it was against the hunters, they were all ready to go.
cayden and theo grumbled curses about the hunters as they strapped their weapons on. theo began cursing in french, and let's just say, he can be quite creative. let's hope the apollo cabin never put a rhyming curse in him.
"i'll show them 'love is worthless,'" silena grumbled as she strapped on her armor. "i'll pulverize them! burn their quivers to the ground!"
"love isn't weak. it's not worthless. i'll fucking run them through with my sword, then hang their head in front of my vanity. all without even chipping a nail," aurora muttered, strapping on her sword.
"i've never seen you're siblings so mad," percy whispered to me. "well, except aurora. i've seen her mad a few times." he shivered, remembering aurora's threats.
i tightened my shoulder armor. "yeah, well we're children of the love goddess. we're usually overlooked. but these hunters, ugh, they think we're weak. useless. worthless. they think we're dumb little kids who believe in fairies and pixie dust. why i'm gonna—"
