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"Narcissus is weak!"

"Weak!"

The crowd of nymphs scattered in surprise Leo shooed theirls I know you want so around that ugly dweeb Narcissus He’s lame!"

"Lame!" Echo said with enthusiasrily

"What are you talking about?" one demanded

"You’re lales and sh he didn’t have much to flex, and showed off his HOT STUFF tattoo He had the nymphs’ attention, if only because they were stunned; but Narcissus was still fixed on his own reflection

"You kno ugly Narcissus is?" Leo asked the crowd "He’s so ugly, when he was born his ht he was a backward centaur--with a horse butt for a face"

Soh he was vaguely aware of a gnat buzzing around his head

"You knohy his bow has cobwebs?" Leo continued "He uses it to hunt for dates, but he can’t find one!"

One of the nyhed The others quickly elbowed her into silence

Narcissus turned and scowled at Leo "Who are you?"

"I’m the Super-sized McShizzle, man!" Leo said "I’m Leo Valdez, bad boy supreme And the ladies love a bad boy"

"Love a bad boy!" Echo said, with a convincing squeal

Leo took out a pen and autographed the arm of one of the nymphs "Narcissus is a loser! He’s so weak, he can’t bench-press a Kleenex He’s so laot a picture of Narcissus--only the picture’s so ugly, no one ever checks it out"

Narcissus knit his handso frootten about the pond, and Leo could see the sheet of bronze sinking into the sand

"What are you talking about?" Narcissus de Everyone knows this"

"A at pure suck," Leo said "If I was as suck as you, I’d drown myself Oh wait, you already did that"

Another nyrowled, which did make hiled his eyebrows over his goggles and spread his hands, gesturing for applause

"That’s right!" he said "Team Leo for the win!"

"Tealed into the mob of nymphs, and because she was so hard to see, the nyht the voice caod, I am so awesome!" Leo bellowed

"So awesome!" Echo yelled back

"He is funny," a nymph ventured

"And cute, in a scraay," another said

"Scrawny?" Leo asked "Baby, I invented scrawny Scrawny is the new sizzling hot And I GOT the scrawny Narcissus? He’s such a loser even the Underworld didn’t want hiirls to date him"

"E," said a nyreed

"Stop!" Narcissus got to his feet "This is not right! This person is obviously not awesoht words It had probably been a long ti other than hi us"

Apparently Narcissus wasn’t completely stupid Realization dawned on his face He turned back to the pond "The bronze one! My reflection! Give me back to me!"

"Team Leo!" one of the nymphs squeaked But the others returned their attention to Narcissus

"I’m the beautiful one!" Narcissus insisted "He’s stolen et it back!"

The girls gasped One pointed "There!"

Hazel was at the top of the crater, running away as fast as she could while lugging a large sheet of bronze

"Get it back!" cried a nyainst her will, Echohis bow and grabbed an arrow froets that bronze, I will like you alht after I kiss ods!" the nyods!" Narcissus added, glaring very handsomely at Leo "They are not as cool as me!"

Leo could run pretty fast when so to kill him Sadly, he’d had a lot of practice

He overtook Hazel, which was easy, since she was struggling with fifty pounds of Celestial bronze He took one side of thean arrow, but it was so old and brittle, it broke into splinters

"Ow!" he yelled very attractively "My manicure!"

Normally nymphs were quick--at least the ones at Camp Half-Blood were--but these were burdened with posters, T-shirts, and other Narcissus™as a tea Echoasrapidly

"Call Arion!" Leo gasped

"Already did!" Hazel said

They ran for the beach They o II, but there was no way to get there It wasbronze

Leo turned Thehis bow like a band major’s baton The nymphs had conjured assorted weapons Some held rocks Some had wooden clubs wreathed in flowers A few of the water ny--but the look in their eyes was still murderous