Chapter 2

"Ready," Connor asked his brother.

Travis grinned at him, "ready," he agreed. He felt like a kid on his first trip to Olympus, he was so excited. See, this prank was different to the others because this time they had a plan and it was foolproof.

"Initiate phase one," Connor spoke into a tape recorder, it was his new thing;keeping records of all the pranks they pulled, he said it was 'for the future generation of Hermes kids.' "You know what to do?" He asked. Travis nodded eagerly. "So we meet back here in approximately 20 minutes," he confirmed.

They approached the Demeter cabin; Connor waited outside and unzipped his bag pulling out several rolls of toilet paper. Meanwhile Travis slipped inside the cabin silently to start his part of phase one, this was the easy part; the plan had to start out simply. He walked towards Katie's bunk near the back wall, for a moment he just looked at her. Her long dark hair was a knotted mess across the pillow, she had kicked the duvet off in her sleep so he could clearly see her 'hello kitty' pyjamas but she looked peaceful when she was sleeping, she was actually smiling for once; usually whenever she saw Travis she was frowning or yelling. But now she looked beautiful. Whoa, where had that come from? He knew that he flirted with Katie sometimes and he liked to joke with her; but he didn't actually... He shook his head slightly and carried on with the prank.

Firstly he went into the modest Demeter bathroom, the room was so filled with flowers that the smell was just insane, it was like a mixture of: lavender and rose and tulip and... um those were kind of all the flowers Travis knew, anyway it smelled flowery. He took a bowl out of the cupboard and filled it with hot water from the tap and then he went back to the room and gently moved Katie's hand to rest in the bowl. Wow she has really soft hands, he thought. Seriously? What is wrong with me? For the finishing touch he pulled a can of silly string out of his bag and as quietly as he could he sprayed it through Katie's hair and even gave her a, rather artistic, silly string moustache. Katie mumbled something in her sleep and Travis held his breath until she turned on her side and her breathing went back to a steady rhythm. He glanced around to make sure he hadn't been spotted but all he saw was six still sleeping Demeter kids. He slipped silently out of the cabin. When Travis got outside he saw that the Demeter cabin was now completely tp'd, it was barely visible through the layers of toilet paper, thankfully it was only 4:20am so nobody was up yet to see what they had done, he knew they would get caught eventually but he didn't care, it was worth it. Travis' next job was to set up phase two. He went around to the back of the cabin and just as they had planned Connor had left him a bucket filled with big juicy worms. Travis grabbed the bucket and climbed up one of those ornamental wooden garden ladders that was attached to the side of the cabin and swung onto the roof. He attached the mechanism in seconds, it was a classic; he had done it a thousand times, he could do it in his sleep. So now when a furious, silly string – covered, wet pants Katie came out of the cabin to come and kill us she would get a bucket of worms over her head. Don't worry it gets even better. Connor had already gone to hide in the forest for phase two, so Travis quickly slid off the roof and went to join him. Now they just had to wait.

"STOLL!" She screamed so loudly that the two brothers could hear her all the way from their vantage point in the forest. They looked at each other and grinned. The door to the cabin flew open with a bang and Katie stood there, still in her hello kitty pyjamas, with what looked like a silly-string wig on her head, sadly the moustache had now smudged over her face and although Travis couldn't see from here, he suspected a wet patch on her crotch from the hot water. Then the worms fell on her head.

That's when Katie screamed some 'un-ladylike' things that Connor didn't think were appropriate to say into his tape recorder; Travis on the other hand wasn't as polite.

"I SWEAR TO ZEUS STOLL! I AM GOING TO CUT OFF YOUR DICK AND REPLACE IT WITH A FREAKING DAISY! YOU BETTER RUN!" Travis had to admit, that scared him a little; he hated daisies. Then the seagulls came over from the bay after smelling the worms, just as they had planned. The gulls attacked Katie mercilessly; she screamed and ran out towards the forest, crying out in pain as the birds pecked her. By this point her screaming had woken up all the other campers, but they just stood in the doorways of their cabins and watched too stunned to do anything. Phase 3. Travis stepped out into the open next to the lake. When Katie saw him her eyes flashed with rage and she ran at him, the seagulls still attacking her, screaming "IM GOING TO SEND YOU TO TARTARUS STOLL!" Travis just grinned at her; I know what you're thinking he was either incredibly stupid or incredibly brave. But don't worry he had a plan. Ok, she was getting pretty close now. Holy Zeus, she was gunna freaking kill him. Where the Hades was Connor? Just before she reached him, Connor dove out of the trees and pushed her into the lake.

Travis glared at his younger brother, 'don't you think you left it a little late? I thought she was gunna kill me!' Connor shrugged, he didn't look too sorry. Katie climbed out of the pool completely covered in black goo. See, while Travis was fixing the bucket to the Demeter roof Connor had been mixing black dye and gunge into the lake. Katie was visibly shaking with rage as she wiped the goo and the worms out of her eyes and turned to the brothers.

"You," she hissed. Time for phase 4. Run.

A/N: hmmm, Travis should really sleep with one eye open... So what's everybody thinking?

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