A/N: Hey everyone! I'm sorry I took, well, forever to upload this and I'm really sorry about that but...Here you go!
I hope you all enjoy reading this as much as I did writing it. Seriously, this is probably the most I have ever written for a fanfic.
Disclaimer: I do not, in anyway, own Percy Jackson.
And can I just say a huge THANK YOU to Thaliatheawesome for being one awesome beta reader.
Truth or Dare - Take Two - Chapter 3
"Percy, are you sure about this?" Annabeth questioned her boyfriend, one eyebrow raised skeptically.
"Yes, absolutely. One hundred per cent." Percy nodded.
"But how can you be so sure?" Hazel asked, golden eyes thoughtful in the glowing flicker of flame.
"I don't know," Percy admitted. "I just have this gut feeling. There is definitely something going on between Nico and Leo."
Currently, the whole of Camp Half Blood and the Hunters were at Fireworks Beach. Mini campfires were lit, with small groups sat around each one. The Seven (minus Leo) were sat with Thalia.
"What exactly are you planning to do with them?" Thalia queried.
Percy smirked. "Just you wait and see."
"Seaweed Brain. If you're planning on doing anything stupid -"
"Calm down Wise Girl. Everything will be alright. I promise." Percy reassured her.
Annabeth scowled.
"Oh look! Here they are now."
In the distance, two figures could be seen walking side by side. As they got closer, the firelight revealed their faces.
"Hey guys," Leo greeted them, as he and Nico joined the circle. "What did we miss?"
"Nothing. We were just about to play Truth or Dare. You in?" Percy replied.
"You know it." Leo grinned impishly.
The demigods turned their heads to Nico.
The son of Hades sighed. "I guess I'll play too."
"Alright! Here we go!" Percy announced. "I'll start. Annabeth, truth or dare?"
"Dare."
"I dare you to go and tell your siblings that your mom is coming to Camp Half Blood."
Annabeth raised an eyebrow. "Really Seaweed Brain? That's all you got?"
Percy merely shrugged in reply.
"Okay then."
Annabeth stood up and walked over to where her siblings were. Eight pairs of eyes watched every step she took.
"Guys! What are you all doing here?" Annabeth shouted.
"Umm, sitting on the beach?" Malcolm replied.
"At a time like this? Are you crazy? We have to be preparing!" Annabeth cried, a glint of mischief sparking unnoticed in her eyes.
"What? Why?"
"Why? I'll tell you why! Because mom is coming for a visit anytime soon and we hardly have anything ready for her arrival!"
"What? Mom is coming? Here?" Malcolm gulped as the rest of the Athena cabin exchanged nervous glances.
'Yes. Now all of you get to work! Right this minute! Go go go!" Annabeth ushered them away.
After all of her siblings had left in a rush to prepare themselves, Annabeth rejoined the circle.
"That. That was the funniest thing I have ever seen!" Thalia gasped, holding her stomach as she laughed.
"Alright, I'm going now. Thalia! Truth or dare?" Annabeth questioned.
"Dare. Bring it on, Blondie." Thalia proclaimed.
Annabeth gave a thoughtful look then said "I dare you, to go on a flight with Jason."
Thalia's face paled.
"You don't have to do it." Annabeth proposed.
Thalia's expression turned from fright to determination. "I'm the daughter of Zeus and the Lieutenant of Artemis' Hunt. There's no way I'm backing out."
"Okay then sis, let's go." Jason stood up and brought Thalia with him.
"What now?"
"Yeah. Hold on tight." Jason wrapped his arms around his sister and launched them off into the sky.
A couple of minutes later, Jason landed back down again at the campfire with Thalia, whose face was paler than Nico's on a bad day.
"Oh my gods!" Thalia groaned, sitting down slowly. "I am never doing that again."
"Hey, you were the one who said you weren't backing down." Annabeth protested.
Thalia glared at the daughter of Athena.
"Alright, my turn...Frank! Truth or dare?"
"Uhm...dare?" His voice had a tremulous hint to it.
"I dare you, to turn into a bear and run right into the Ares cabin's campfire."
"Fire? You want me to run through the fire?" Frank spluttered.
"No. All you have to do is go up to them and scare them a bit. No running through fires are involved in this dare." Thalia clarified, calming Frank.
"Oh. Alright then." And with the dare having been established, Frank stood up and walked towards the Ares cabin's campfire nervously, keeping to the shadows.
When he was a couple of meters away, Frank transformed into a giant grizzly bear, casting an intimidating shadow across the sand,and headed straight for the children of Ares.
Multiple screams were heard and not a single person (excluding the Ares cabin) could stop laughing.
"JACKSON!" Clarisse screamed in annoyance, marching over to the Seven's circle, dragging a certain son of Mars by the ear.
"You better keep this one in line, Prissy, or you can watch out in the next capture the flag game."
"Oh no," Percy held his hands in defense. "I-I'm sh-shaking in f-fear Clarisse." Percy sputtered, shaking for effect as he fought to keep the grin off his face.
Clarisse growled as the others all smirked. She let go of Frank and marched away.
"O-okay. I take it back. That was the funniest thing that I've ever seen." Thalia chuckled.
"Well, I'm glad I could have been of assistance." Frank bowed and sat back down next to Hazel.
"Okay, Jason, truth or dare?"
"Truth."
Everyone gasped.
"Are you feeling okay bro?" Percy asked worriedly.
"Of course I am bro. Why?"
"It's just that, I didn't expect you to choose...truth, bro."
"That's because I'm full of surprises bro."
"Bro."
"Bro."
"That's enough of that." Frank coughed. "Anyway Jason, is it true that you, Leo and Percy dress up as characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender, and play around with your powers?"
All three boys' faces flushed red.
"Who told?" Jason asked, eyes widening.
"It wasn't me!" Leo protested, holding his hands up.
"Wasn't me, either bro." Percy said, fuming.
"Then who?" Jason trailed off and looked at the giggling girls and a smirking Nico.
"I-I can't, Percy! Truth or dare?"
"Dare. Obviously."
"I dare you to tell Annabeth one thing you dislike about her."
Suddenly, the giggling stopped. The girls looked at Jason as if to say, you have got to be kidding me? and then looked at Percy as if to say, go on, we dare you.
Percy looked into Annabeth's gray-eyed stare.
"Annabeth?"
"Yes Percy?" Annabeth replied coldly.
"The one thing I dislike about you is that you're so perfect, I can't even think anything bad about you. No matter how hard I try. Not that I'd want to, of course."
"Seaweed Brain." Annabeth shook her head before leaning up to give Percy a kiss on the cheek.
"Okay, Hazel. Truth or dare?"
"Truth."
"Do you really need to use a stool to kiss Frank?"
"Sometimes..." Hazel smiled sheepishly.
"Piper, truth or dare?"
"Truth! I learned my lesson from last time." Piper shuddered as she thought back to their last game of truth or dare, when Hazel had dared her to put make-up on.
Hazel grinned "Sorry. Anyhow, Piper. If you could choose between listening to one of Percy and Jason's conversations, filled with so much bromance that it could kill you, or having Drew handcuffed to you for a whole day, which one would you pick?"
Everybody stared at Piper intently, waiting for her reply.
"To be honest, I think I'd prefer having Drew handcuffed to me for a whole day. I'd much rather listen to her whining than a hearing a single second of one of Percy and Jason's bromance conversations."
"Okay...Leo! Truth or dare?"
"Dare, Beauty Queen." Leo threw an exaggerated superhero expression her way.
Piper looked over at Percy who gave her a small nod.
"I dare you to kiss the person on your left."
And of course, that person just so happened to be Nico.
Without hesitation, Leo pulled the other boy into him and kissed him.
"Piper, I thought we agreed that you weren't going to use your charm speak?" Percy scolded her.
"I didn't." Piper replied, her mouth made an O shape as Nico deepened the kiss between him and Leo.
"Oh my Gods! Seaweed Brain! You were right!"
"What can I say. When I know, I know. "
A/N: So, I hope you all enjoyed that. This will probably be the last Truth or Dare story that I'll be writing for a while - just warning you all now.
And...This is also going to be the last chapter. I'm sorry if you wanted more, but, I just don't think I can carry this any further and I think this is quite a good ending. So, yeah.
Thank you for reading this. Please review, I'd love to know what you thought.
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