I'm so sorry guys! What's it been? 2 weeks? 3 weeks? 4 weeks? Too long! I'll give my explanation at the bottom.
But lo and behold the fourth chapter of APGW.
P.S. I'm sorry that this chapter isn't as long as usual! Next chapter will be!
Flashback of last chapterness!
"Yo Stoll." A voice said from behind me. I turned to see the Heist brothers walking towards me, "Behold the greatest prank ever."
I looked at them in confusion, "What do you mean? I don't see anything. Oh wait I see it!"
"What do you see?" Mer said confused.
"You guys got your faces fixed!" I exclaimed. Connor yipped in happiness besides me.
"Shut your dog up, now watch the prank, and bow down before us."
"I'm waiting." A moment later, I said, "Still waiting."
Conrad ignored me, "Focus on the climbing hell behind us."
"Concentrating," I said looking as a kid scrambled up the wall to avoid the lava, "but I'm still not seeing anything."
I heard a sharp click and suddenly a block of ice fell out of the sky and onto the climbing wall. The wall collapsed, sending the kid sprawling downwards andlava pouring out into the camp, leaving campers running scared. I stared at them in awe, from horror or even a little admiration.
It was a cruel prank, but it was then I realized just how high the bar was set, and they would stop at nothing to win this.
Even if it involved the lives of others.
"You jerks!" I screamed at them. "You pig-headed jerks! Just wait until I tell Chiron!"
"You're not going to do that," Mer said.
"Why not?" I challenged him.
"Because if you do, then we're going to show him all of these." Conrad said, and then he held something up-no not something, somethings. And they were pictures. Of pretty much every prank me and Connor had ever pulled and not gotten caught because of not enough evidence, but with these pictures, non-campers or not, Chiron would punish us for life. And I could barely stand a minute of KP.
Connor whined from his spot next to me, but I ignored him. "Fine," I said begrudgingly. "But that's all I'll do."
"Nuh-uh," Conrad said, that evil Minotaur smile plastered permanently on his face. "You also have to tell Chiron that you, not us, pulled the prank."
I didn't have time to reply, because Connor decided right now and then would be a great time to attack.
He jumped on the unsuspecting Conrad, growling and barking at the top of his lungs. I saw his sharp paws slicing through Conrad's thinning orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt.
"AHHH!" He screamed. "Get your effin' dog the Hades off of me!"
"Conno-" I paused, I couldn't let the Heists' know that Connor was the dog, so I fast-libbed "Con, get down! Over here boy! Come now! Heel! Mush!" I said every command I ever heard of. Connor, thank the Gods, obeyed me and jumped off of Conrad. I sighed in relief.
"What the Hades is your dog's problem?" Mer said, Conrad was out of breath and couldn't talk.
"Oh, he's just got some patience issues," I said smirking at Connor, "plus he just doesn't know when to hold his tongue." Connor flashed me a sheepish canine like smile.
"Why…do…you…even…have...that dog…at camp," Conrad finished hardly making it through the sentence.
"Um…" I said stumbling for an answer, "It's our punishment from Chiron." I lied, "He gave us this dog so we could learn some responsibility." Conrad raised his eyebrows, but thankfully he seemed to buy it, I let out a sigh of relief.
"Hey Travis!" A voice from behind me called, the grass suddenly seemed greener and lusher. I turned to see Katie walking towards me. She walked up and planted (A.N Haha "planted" like you can plant a seed? Never mind.) a kiss on my cheek. "Cute dog, where'd you get him?" She asked me, scratching Connor behind the ears. He whined in pleasure and sat down looking at Katie with big pleading puppy dog eyes that seemed to be saying, don't stop scratching there!
"Um, this is the dog that Chiron sentenced us to have while we stay at camp so it would keep us too busy to pull pranks," I said, not looking my girlfriend in the eye, ashamed that I was lying to her.
"I think Chiron just doesn't want them to pull a prank and then feel bad when they see one of ours. Our pranks are mountains compared to your…anthill," Conrad said struggling at the end to come up with a word to describe our pranks.
"Well," I said, "if it's the Myrmekes Anthill I'm okay with that." Connor yipped in agreement beside me. Mer narrowed his eyes at me.
"Come on Conrad." He said, "Let's go. We've got…things…to do. (A.N. Is anyone else feeling the foreshadow here?)
"Good riddance!" Katie said as we stared at the walking away forms of the Heists. Katie turned to me, her eyebrows raised skeptically, "Now what's the deal with the dog? Because I know Chiron would never assign a dog to keep you two busy, he'd be to afraid that you'd use it against him, or just plain forget about the dog; he'd do something much more reasonable, like KP."
"Maybe you should sit down while I explain about the dog," I said, leading her over to a dead tree stump behind the Hades Cabin, it was one of many dead tree stumps, and other dead things that I will not say, they were so disturbing. Katie sat down on the stump and looked up at me expectantly.
"So what's the deal with the dog?" She asked, Connor let out a muffled yawn and laid down, his eyes closing, I rolled my eyes at him and kicked him in the side.
"Get up! You have to help me explain this; it's your fault that we're in this position anyway!" I snapped at him.
He rolled his eyes in a dog-like manner but got up and sat next to me. "So here's the story," I said taking a deep breath. "Connor and I had to go to the Hecate Cabin to ask for some help to pull a prank and we get there and this girl Chrissie answers the door-"
"Oh, I know her." Katie interrupted, "We team up for Capture the Flag sometimes, nice girl, we agree on a lot of the same positions."
"That's not the only thing you agree on." I muttered, thinking of how much Connor annoyed the both of them.
"What?" Katie asked.
"Nothing." I said, "So we get there and Chrissie opens the door and brings us in after we swear her to secrecy. As were walking in Connor tied my shoelaces together when he knelt down to tie his own, so as we were walking in I tripped and fell flat on my face."
"I can't believe you." Katie said.
"What?" I asked confused. "That we went into the Hecate Cabin, I told you it was for a prank." It wasn't a lie, but it wasn't the full truth either.
"No that, you didn't think to even check before you walked in. You can be such an idiot sometimes."
"Thanks," I said sarcastically before continuing. "We're in there and Connor starts being annoying and asking all these obnoxious Connor like questions. She warned him and he said something I will not repeat-"
"Let me guess," Katie said, "something about not aggravating girls during that time of month."
"Yeah, something like that." I said, "So he said that and she said some fancy words-"
"A spell," Katie said.
"Do you want to hear the story or not?" I asked irritated.
"Sorry," She said smirking. "Continue."
"So she says her fancy words, the smoke clears and voila, Connor's a little black puppy. And according to one of her brothers, only she can remove the spell; which is never going to happen in this century, because Connor broke her wand which her mom specially gave her as a present."
"He did not." Katie said astounded, I nodded in response. "So that's Connor?" She asked pointing to the black dog by my foot. As if to prove it was him Connor jumped up and started walking on his hind legs, which looked incredibly painful, but when I looked at his legs they looked straight and strong, and growing? Connor let out a bark which had a human tint to it.
I stared in confusion at him, "But Kendall said…" I trailed off staring at my brother who fell over and started letting out animal, human like yells.
"Shut him up! Quickly!" Katie said to me urgently, "Before someone hears and comes running." I looked around wildly, when I found nothing I reached for the edge of my shirt to take it off and shove it in his mouth. "No!" Katie cried, "Not your shirt!"
"Why?" I asked confused, than teased, "You didn't seem to have any problem with it on Olympus a month ago." (1)
Katie's face turned to stone, "You promised not to talk about that Stoll." I knew I had pissed her off, because the only time she ever called me 'Stoll' was when she was seriously angry with me.
But me being stupid, ridiculous, ADHD me pushed on, "Come on Katie, you know you want to see me shirtless. I mean you wanted to a month ago at least."
"Shut up Travis," Katie said her voice as hard as her face. "It was a stupid mistake, end of subject."
"No." I said, now angry myself, "Open subject." We were staring (glaring) at one another over Connor who was moaning at us to shut up and get him some pain medicine, needless to say we both ignored him. "Am I stupid mistake? Is that what you're saying?" I said to Katie, my eyes never leaving hers.
"I'm beginning to think so," Katie said before standing up straight and walking away.
And because I couldn't let her have the last word, I called out after her, "Good riddance!" She just ignored me though.
I turned back to my brother who was now moaning about how being a dog was horrible and the pain he was in. "Shut up Connor." I said. It seemed strange, two brothers in pain; one physical pain, possibly a broken bone or two or three or four or five…and the other brother in total emotional pain, from one broken heart shattered into five million pieces.
"I told you so." Connor moaned from his spot on the ground, "You should have just asked her to marry you. Would've gotten this done with a whole lot easier."
"Shut up Connor," I spoke as I watched Katie's running figure disappear from my line of vision.
(1) No they didn't have you-know-what, but they almost did. The full story will be in one of the upcoming chapters.
So I'm SOOO sorry for not updating sooner. Schools been crazy busy add in volleyball, babysitting, chores, and Teen Group and you get one crazy busy schedule. Plus now I just found out that I got into NJHS so that adds a couple more hours of free time taken away. So I'm so sorry I'm going to REALLY try to have another chapter out within seven days.
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