Time: Post-Battle Against Gaea
Ships/Pairings: N/A
OG Idea: I decided two years ago that Leo deserved to have a story about his various April Fools' day activities.
Setting: Camp Half-Blood
Characters: Annabeth C., Miranda G., Percy J., Clarisse L. R., Piper M., Malcolm P., Connor S., Leo V., Ellis W., Sherman Y., various OCs, (main) Aphrodite, Calypso, Chiron, Jason G., Travis S. (mentioned)
Plot: "Leo plans out an April Fools' day and watches while shenanigans unfold across Camp Half-Blood."
An April Fool
Ever since Travis had left, Connor had been taking on more responsibility as opposed to pranking. After breaking up with Jason, Piper had been devastated. Leo, seeing how down his friends were, decided to plan a true Camp Half-Blood-style April Fool's day with Connor. Leo had also somehow managed to convince Percy and Calypso into joining his pranking team (although in the case of Calypso, it was "help me convince everyone that this is a good idea, because without you nobody will listen").
Leo grinned. So far, things were all going to plan. He had successfully woken up at 4'o clock, gotten all the charmspeaking work done through Piper, obtained Aphrodite's permission for various things, and persuaded Chiron to not punish him for his pranks.
He looked over his checklist for the day: Cabin 4 had flowers that squirted water when touched, Cabin 5 and Cabin 10 would exchange contents, Cabin 6 would receive an interesting surprise, and all other cabins would be assisting the entire situation from behind the scenes. However, some members of Cabin 9 refused to participate, but Leo decided that it wouldn't be such a big deal.
"This is going to be awesome!" he exclaimed, pumping his fist. "Time to get the horse, Percy," he whispered. Percy nodded; he went to find Blackjack. The show was just about to start.
Annabeth woke up and yawned widely. "6'o clock? Seriously? It's a Saturday," she muttered rubbing her eyes.
"Annabeth," Mia called up from the hammock. "Why is there a giant blue cookie on your desk? It smells really good, did your boyfriend—"
Malcolm, who had just finished brushing his teeth, turned the corner and scratched his neck groggily. He reached for his glasses but accidentally bumped into the cookie instead.
The cookie exploded with a high-pitched "pop", waking up the last of us still asleep. Tiny blue cookies flew everywhere—into the plants, on top of books, and even into the trash can. One happened to hit Malcolm's face, who immediately "woke up". He quickly scanned the cookie and his eyes widened.
"There's something written on the back of these cookies," he said. "They all say that Poseidon is better than Athena. This handwriting also looks real familiar..."
Clarisse grumbled herself awake; she was surprised that there was no punk rock music playing (or perhaps that was only "a thing" a few years ago). She was considering looking around the camp awhile before heading to the library for studying.
"SHERMAN! WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR CABIN?", Ellis yelled. "IT'S ALL PINK! WHY ARE WE IN THE APHRODITE CABIN?"
Clarisse rubbed her eyes... it did seem brighter than the usual crude red. "Ellis! CALM DOWN!" She shifted the curtains, which had all been replaced with pastel green and blue ones with lace, to open the windows, because the room reeked of perfume.
"Oh," Clarisse said. "Good point."
"HERMES! APOLLO! STOLLS! VALDEZ!," Ellis continued. "WHOEVER DID THIS SHOULD LEARN THE HARD WAY! WHERE ARE MY WEAPONS?"
"DUDE! Stop screaming, I don't know!," Sherman yelled back. "Let's just go out there and find out the Ares way!"
Those squirting flowers aren't nice, Miranda thought. How did those pranksters manage to get inside my cabin undetected and place those fake plants?
"Denephew, hold up, I'm using the bathroom next. Olivia, sorry about that... I didn't know they squirted water whenever you touched them." Miranda quickly brushed her teeth and was about to leave the bathroom when she tripped over a plastic flower. There was the noise of a bugle call outside. Miranda, clutching her big toe, managed to screech out, "Denise! Open the door! What's going on out there?"
Denise opened the door and heard somebody dressed from head to toe in a pizza suit shouting through a loudspeaker on a horse, "THE ROMANS ARE COMING! THE ROMANS ARE COMING!". Miranda hopped over to the door and tried to find the source of the noise.
Behind a bush and not well concealed, she saw Connor and Leo (why did they think those disguises were going to work?)... filming the scene. However, the first thing Miranda registered was that she could recognize that voice, that one that belonged to Percy Jackson.
Miranda let out an exasperated scream; all three of them were going to have plants chasing after them tomorrow.
Leo took off his fake beard and drank from a glass of water. "Piper! Did you see that? What are you gonna do n—" As if on cue, 5 cabins howled "VALDEZ!". He shrugged and grinned widely, and shouted back, "OH, COME ON! IT'S APRIL FOOL'S!"
Piper shook her head gently. "No, Leo, that wasn't so bad. I haven't seen something like that since the Argo II age."
Leo did get specially engineered plants chasing after him when the Romans did come later on in the day, but in the end he knew it was all worth it.
A/N: What a pain to edit, this one took a long time. It also seems a lot less than it was hyped to be, although I must admit I put a lot of work into fact-checking (it's sprung to twice the size now!). Thank goodness that Wikia exists, without it I'd have to go through the books again just to check for continuity.