author note: this chapter was written by tina_bookslover (thank you, art class, for remembering me of this myth, and HoO spoilers)

Ben appeared in the cabin window, storytime.

Nico put away the mythomagic cards that he was playing with Jules-Albert, his particular French zombie chauffeur.

Nico walks to the door and when he opens it he immediately regrets it, there are more kids at camp because it was summer.

"Hi-"

"No." Nico closes the door before the kids can even finish greeting, but Ben didn't let him close it, blocking it with his shoe.

The kids look at Nico with many "pretty please" faces.

"Okay, okay," he surrenders, letting the kids come in.

Nico sits in his bed and the kids sit all around him on the floor.

"You have a story in mind that you want me to tell you?"

All the kids yelled at each other, one wanted princess, another one wanted demigods stories, the other wanted gossip, etc.

"Then, I'll be choosing it," Nico said louder than their yells.

The boy looks to the desk at the side of his bed, there were his mythomagic cards, and on the top of the pile was Narcissus, so as his creativity wasn't that good that night, Nico chose him.

"So, Narcissus was a beautiful man but it was said that he would only live long if he never saw his face, which is sad since he could never see such beauty inside him." Nico rolls his eyes, he didn't like this story, and in his opinion, it's better to be beautiful and not be able to look at yourself than to be ugly and have to look at yourself every day.

The children of Aphrodite nodded in agreement, considering the situation. But the other kids just rolled their eyes, probably thinking the same as Nico.

"As he was very beautiful a lot of people fell in love with his beauty, but he rejected all of them, one per one, and all of them got desolated." Aphrodite kids were liking that story. "But one of them really liked him, that was Echo."

The children (except the Aphrodite kids) weren't really liking it, he had to make it more interesting.

But then, all of a sudden, Leo entered the cabin.

"You were talking about Narcissus and Echo?" He asked excitedly before Nico could even say anything.

"Yeah..." The kids said, they were with faces that said by itself "boring"

Leo was already sitting on a bed as if he were home. Nico rolled his eyes.

"And you knew that I was there too?" The children got interested and their heads got up again.

Nico squinted his eyes afraid of what Leo would say.

"Yeah! I was there for a mission," he made a lot of hand gestures trying to make the kids interested. "And I made all his fans become my fans and yell "team Leo", or other compliments." The kids were definitely impressed, and more interested than before. "They did run after me trying to kill me after this," he murmured to himself. "But that isn't important," Leo said and the kids laughed at him.

"Okay, okay," Nico said between all the laughter. "Now, time to bed before Will argues with me." The kids complained but started to get up.

"But I haven't finished!" Leo complained.

"Your problem." Nico chuckled.

Leo rolled his eyes and went to bed as well.

Now that no one was at the cabin Nico turned to Jules-Albert with the mythomagic cards in his hands.

"One more round?"