Chapter 2

Connor's POV

This was going to be good. For years, we hadn't pranked the Athena cabin because that will automatically result in death. But now, we've got a foolproof plan, sort of. We ran back into the Hermes cabin, we tried to avoid attention. But, as usual, we got caught. Annabeth saw us.
She stopped us when we were at the front of the door. We were *this* close to safety.

"Did you guys had something to do with the incident earlier," Annabeth asked. She narrowed her eyes and tried to detect guilt on our faces. We were trained in lying, since our father was Hermes and also because we had to lie to not get busted on some of our pranks. But the Athena cabin was different. They have built in lie detectors in their brain. The hellhound we could, take. Annabeth, not so much.

"If you mean the hellhound we just wiped out in the woods, then yeah, we did something," Travis said. He grinned smugly though I was the only one who did all the work in defeating the hellhound. But it was a good excuse. We did defeat the hellhound, which means we're not actually lying.

"And why would you two be out in the woods," she asked. Annabeth was just too smart for her own good.

"You know, defeating monsters, trying to find some cute nymph and running away from pranks we didn't do but get blamed on," I said casually.

She narrowed her eyes and said "I'm on to you two," then she did "I'm watching you" sign.

"Good, you might see some of our good qualities and handsomeness," I said, winking. I shouldn't have because she kicked my leg and then stomped on my foot. Me and my big mouth.

"Annabeth, you know you're not allowed to hurt my brother!," Travis protested. I was grateful to him. Now all that's left is for him to show Annabeth who's boss. "But you know I'd never get back at you," Travis said, raising his hands. Forget the grateful part.

I sighed she bought it. I went inside our cabin, limping. I swear, Annabeth's shoes have metal hidden inside. We saw Chris inside also looking at us suspiciously. I forgot he's Clarisse's boyfriend. Oh, no. We aren't safe even in our own cabin. We sat on our bunks and I looked at the list again. Big mistake. Chris saw it and snatched it instantly from my hands. Travis lunged at him tried to get it back but Chris sidestepped and Travis hit the wall of the cabin.

"What's this?" Chris asked. He has a mischievous glint in his eyes. He was going to tell Chiron. Last time he did, we got stuck on kitchen duty for a month. Last, last time, it was cleaning the stables for 2 weeks. I shuddered, just thinking about our punishment.

"No! Please don't tell Chiron, we'll do anything," I said. Travis nodded in agreement and we got on our knees and praised him.

"Hmmm, Prank list, eh?" Chris read the front page. It was no problem for us reading it because we blackmailed the Hecate cabin to put a spell on it to make only Hermes kids understand it. Fortunately, our handwriting were gibberish so Chris could only understand a few lines.

"Praise, the great Chris-Buddha," I said, still bowing down to Chris. I hoped he liked the Buddha line.

"What is this?" Chris asked.

"Our prank list."

"I'm in."

"What?" Travis and me said in unison.

"I want to join you on your escapades. I don't want you to think that I don't know how to have fun. We're brothers, dudes," Chris said. There were few who wants to join us because usually, they're the ones who gets blamed and not us. Or in Percy's case, they're the ones who get beaten up. But Chris offers to join us. We do need another helping hand if we want to and Chris willingly offered his help. Who am I to deny this wonderful help?

"Sure, Chris!" I said. "But first, let's read the list." He gave me the list and I turned to a page that says:

Pranks for the Hades Cabin.

Pranks= Paint the whole cabin with pink color and write on the wall " I'm a Barbie girl, in the Barbie world. Life in plastic, it's fantastic …. And so on. Replace all the bones on the cabin with chocolates and put DVD's of mushy romantic stories. Wait for the hordes of skeletal warriors.

If busted= Bring dogs to face the skeletal warriors. Remember: bone eating dogs.