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When I was in the middle of sleeping quite peacefully in my bed, I was woken up in the rudest way possible.

I was in the middle of dreaming, yet another dream with Annabeth involved. What this means is still a mystery to me…

I was sitting on the couch, watching the Super Bowl. As of the moment, the 49ers just made a touchdown. My eyes widened in desperation. No! The Ravens must win!

"Yeah Kaepernick!" I heard a female voice scream next to me. I switched my focus from the game to the voice and saw Annabeth in a 49ers T-shirt cheering for her favorite team. To say that I was surprised to see Annabeth next to me in my apartment jumping up and down, and hollering like a madwoman over a football game was an understatement.

"Annabeth?" I asked incredulously.

She faced me with a playful gleam in her eye, "Get ready to lose that bet Seaweed Brain!"

What bet? I wondered.

I must've been thinking aloud because Annabeth just rolled her eyes and said with a sigh, "Did you forget already? Come on Percy, not even you're that stupid. We literally made the bet about 15 seconds ago!"

"Ummm…" Before I could say anything, the house rumbled. Pictures and furniture fell to the ground and toppled over. It felt like the whole world was collapsing. No joke.

"Percy!" Annabeth screamed out of fear.

"It's going to be ok Annabeth! I'm right here for you!" I assured her. We locked into a tight embrace and ran to look for somewhere, anywhere, where we could find some protection from this calamity. Concrete was falling. Dust and debris were flying around everywhere. Annabeth and I rushed to my bedroom and went underneath the bed to use as shelter.

However, during that time, with Annabeth in my arms, shaking furiously like a frightened Chihuahua (or maybe it was me that was shaking…), one strange thought occurred to me. Earthquakes don't happen often in New York, and whenever they do, it almost never occurs at such a powerful magnitudes such as this.

Just when I was thinking these thoughts, a voice echoed loudly around the crumbling building. It said something like, "Time to get up!"

"Percy! Percy! Wake up!" someone said, shaking me rigorously.

I shot out of bed in cold sweat.

"Annabeth!" I screamed. With a sigh of relief, I realized that I was only just a dream. Wow, that was a really freaky dream. I would never want something like that to happen to Anna-, I mean me.

"Percy?" asked someone to my left, "Are you okay?" I was about to answer whoever asked that question, only to find that the person asking was a really scary-looking ninja. The ninja stood at about my height, was holding several shurikens in his hand, carried a katana on his (or her) back, and had dark, piercing almond eyes.

Naturally I screamed.

"AH-" but then the ninja clamped his hand on my mouth.

"Percy! Shut up! It's me." And the ninja pulled down on his mask, revealing the face of the one and only Sean Yamamoto. Figures he would dress up like a ninja at around… I took a look at my watch. 5:00 in the morning! Aw man… Thanks to Sean, I'm not sleepy anymore. Which only pissed me off further. Damn him…

When he released his hand, I warned him in my calmest voice, "You better have a good reason to wake me up at this hour if you don't want something bad to happen to you soon."

Sean was a nice guy. He was of Japanese descent and was a really good swimmer for his age. He could swim a 200 IM in 2 minutes, and he was only 15 years old.

"Come on Percy! The other guys are up, and we want to prank someone, and want you to join." I lifted my head up and saw that he was right. I saw the fifteen other Poseidon campers up and ready to do some damage, all dressed up in ninja costumes for some reason that was unknown to me. Even little Cheyenne looked pretty intimidating in her size 4 dark pink ninja garb.

I was flattered that they would want me to join in their prank. I love a good prank.

"So… Why were you screaming out Annabeth's name?" a camper named Marissa asked me teasingly.

I blushed furiously. "I, uh… "

I was interrupted by her brother Tanner, who said, "Come on Marissa, you know the answer already! Percy's got the hots for Annabeth!"

"No I don't!" I protested. The campers all gave me doubtful looks that basically said, really?

I got up and was about to say something until Sean pulled out a dark sea-green ninja outfit for me.

"We can talk about Percy's love life later. Here, put this on," he said as he threw the article of clothing at me. I decided to ignore what he just said and drop the Annabeth subject.

"May I ask why we have ninja suits?" I asked, switching topics.

"Because ninjas are bad ass! And so are the members of the Poseidon cabin!" Cheyenne answered. My eyes widened in shock. How could such a sweet little nine year old say the word 'ass'?

"Cheyenne!" I scolded, "Where did you hear that word?"

"I heard it when Marina and I were watching MTV together." She answered.

Marina looked away.

"We'll talk about this later Marina. And Cheyenne, don't ever say that word again."

"What? Ass?" I heard some of the other campers giggle.

"Cheyenne!"

"Sorry…" she mumbled.

I sighed, and switched topics. "Ok, let me change for a moment" and I went to the bathroom. When I came out, all dressed in my dark sea-green ninja-suit (I looked pretty cool, if I say so myself), they were all ready for me. They kind of looked like generals convening together to make some sort of war strategy or something… I'm so proud of them.

"Ok. First thing's first, what have you guys come up with so far in your prank?" I asked.

Sean answered, "We were planning to prank the Athena cabin. Matthew insulted our intelligence and dishonored the Poseidon name! He went up to Cheyenne and said, and I quote, 'You and your kind are just a bunch of fish-brained idiots who will never amount to anything except for perhaps drowning and decapitating yourselves at the same time.' We won't stand for this!"

A (silent) roar broke out in agreement.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Matthew did that? That punk's got something coming to him." I grumbled.

Marina spoke up, "Yeah! To avoid suspicion and getting in trouble with Chiron or Mr. D, we decided to prank our own cabin, along with the Athena cabin, the Hera cabin (the other cabin that pisses us off) simultaneously. We'll split up into groups of two and go to the Athena and Hera cabins and prank them each at the same time, I'll give you details later, and then when they wake up, we'll rush back into our cabin and douse ourselves in water, not that we'd mind it at all since, you know, all of us love water and getting soaked." The campers nodded their heads in agreement.

I had to hand it to them; they did a really good job thinking this prank out. Back in my day, our pranks just consisted of guerrilla tactics: hit, run, and hope that you don't get caught. The future generation seemed to be more thoughtful and prudent.

"Ok. Sounds good. So what are the pranks that we're doing to the Athena and Hera cabins?" I inquired.

"For the Athena cabin," Charlie said, "we plan to give them a little surprise visit and wake them up with random facts in different languages to scare the shit out of them, you know? Then we'll make our quick getaway by locking their door on the outside. You know what? While we're at it, let's cover them in silly string! I got so many cans in my trunk that I've been waiting to use all winter break"

"Silly string?"

He ignored me. "As for the Hera cabin, since they have a weird fetish for peacocks, we decided to shower them in some fake peacock feathers from the camp store once we spray them with quick-reacting glue! They'll look like peacocks for the whole day! It's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!" he whisper-shouted victoriously.

Actually, now that you think of it, it was a really great plan. We probably wouldn't get in trouble (the decoy, remember?), and it was really creative and original.

Without even hesitating, or giving this matter a second thought, I said enthusiastically, "Let's do it!"

Silent cheers broke out in the cabin.

We went out of the cabin in a single-file line, and split up. Half of us went to the Hera cabin carrying glue and the bucket of (fake) peacock feathers, while the other half (including myself) went to the Athena cabin with canisters of silly string and lock-sabotaging material.

The Athena cabin was kind of… weird, for lack of a better term. It was like a nerd's paradise. Smart boards, projects, and other nerd-related stuff are placed everywhere. Do these guys ever sleep?

When Sean opened the lock with his lock gun, we all crept inside and had our weapons and tools ready (You didn't think that we'd go unarmed, did you?).

Sean produced an Asian-styled gong and then hit it loudly, which was the signal for everyone to go with the plan.

I heard so many different languages.

"Kuamka!" (Swahili)

"目を覚ます!"(Japanese)

"Проснитесь!" (Russian)

"起床!" (Chinese)

"일어나!" (Korean)

"Réveillez-vous!" (French)

"تستيقظ! (Arabic)

"Probuďte se!" (Czech)

As the army of ninja-warriors went to I followed Sean, while spraying my bright blue silly string at some screaming campers that were freaking out. It was so funny to watch them; they looked like flailing and flopping fish on the deck of a boat or something. I watched Sean as he approached some random Athena camper, who was currently freaking out at the moment in her bed. "おはようございます! 熱力学の法則は言う…"

Sean didn't get to finish his sentence because the camper screamed, "Who the hell are you!?" Oh, turned out that that "random camper" was Annabeth.

"僕はあなたのおとうさんです!"

She looked at Sean, then at me, and just rolled her eyes and said, "あなたは私のおとうさんではない… " Wow, I did not expect her to know Japanese. Apparently, Sean didn't either, but kept his cool nonetheless.

Sean just retorted, "僕はみためよりわかいです."

"間抜け… I'm going to kill you!" At that, Annabeth then shot out of bed and chased me and Sean around the room. I saw the other Poseidon campers doing the same thing. We were all being chased to death by very angry nerds, covered in silly string and had murderous looks in their eyes. Not that I could blame them. It was really fun to see their expressions, though. That is to say, when they're not chasing you of course.

We were approaching the door and saw the ninja (Alice) who was keeping guard by the door. Once she saw us, she got ready to close the door and work (super-fast) on locking the murderous and bloodthirsty campers inside by sabotaging the lock.

Once we got out, Alice, being the wonderful ninja locksmith she is, got straight to work and successfully locked in the Athena campers in about 2 seconds. After breathing a sigh of relief, we each took a look at our left and saw that the Hera mission was equally victorious. Fortunately, they also had a really talented locksmith on their team, so they succeeded in locking the Hera cabin mates inside their own cabin as well.

Judging from the handiwork, I'd say we had about 20 minutes at most to get into our cabin, change into our pajamas, and douse ourselves in water to avert suspicion when Chiron asks who was responsible for the pranks.

We each shot back into our cabin and did as we planned. We changed, and doused ourselves in water, locked our own cabin on the outside (how that happened, I'll never know), and started banging on the cabin door, fake-pleading to be let outside while letting loose some very angry outbursts.

Moments later, Chiron opened the door and had a lock gun in his hand.

"Children! Who did this to you? The Athena and Hera cabins were also pranked!" he said excitedly.

"What? Our good friends from the Athena and Hera cabins were pranked too?" Trevor asked, "Whoever did this must be stopped!"

I had to admit; Trevor's acting skills were really good. The guy should go for Broadway or something…

Chiron just nodded his head, believing Trevor's mask of innocence. "Yes. After you get changed, come meet me, the Athena cabin, and the Hera cabin in the Big House to help find out who is responsible."

We all agreed, and at that, he left. Once the door was closed, and Chiron was out of earshot, the Poseidon campers and I huddled together.

"Well, ladies and gentlemen, I say that we have perhaps performed the greatest and cleverly thought out prank ever!" Everyone agreed with me with big, stupid grins on their faces. "That'll teach Matthew, the Athena cabin, and Hera cabin that the Poseidon cabin is more capable of doing things than 'Drowning and decapitating ourselves at the same time'? Am I right?"

A loud cheer erupted among our huddle.

I broke into a huge smile on my face. "That's what I thought."


When we finished changing and stuff, we all headed to the Big House. Once we arrived, I couldn't help but laugh at the scene. The Hera cabin did look like a bunch of overgrown, humanoid peacocks. They almost looked like ridiculous blue chickens. They each reminded me of Big Bird gone blue.

The Athena cabin, on the other hand, looked tired, grumpy, discombobulated (probably from the gong that Sean hit), but most importantly, was covered in silly string from a rainbow of colors. They had bags under their eyes (I don't know how that happened), bloodshot eyes, messed up hair (tangled with some silly string), and, well, just looked like they got out of bed in the most obnoxious way possible… Which was kind of what happened.

When the Hera and Athena cabins noticed us laughing, both cabins glared at us with the basic message, don't say anything, or we'll hunt you down and kill you where you will never see the light of day.

Message received…

When my cabin each took a seat, Chiron proceeded.

"Campers, in Camp Half-Blood, we have a very lenient policy towards pranking, and this time will be no different." We heard groans echo through the room. Chiron held up his hand for silence. "However, given the circumstances, and the fact that no prank had ever gone this far and on such a large scale before, the punishments will be a little more demanding." The campers cheered, even our own cabin, you know, to keep up the façade…

"Some ninja said something about the Law of Thermodynamics!"

"I look like a blue chicken!"

"Water up my nose!" We all looked at Trevor with weird looks, but dismissed it.

"Yes… Well, can anyone tell me anything about these… What did you say they were Jason? Ninjas?" Chiron asked. Jason nodded his blue-feathered face. I had to chuckle, his feathers were just bouncing up and down with his every move.

"Well, there were about eight ninjas in the Athena cabin, and seven in the Hera cabin" Matthew said, "But that's pretty much the extent of our knowledge about these guys."

"One of them had an Asian-styled gong, and another one of them had a lock gun." An Athena camper named Kristy supplied.

"Yeah, that too."

Chiron shook his head, clearly unpleased with the lack of evidence of this prank.

I couldn't help but feel victorious. We had pulled it off! I took a look at my fellow campers and they looked like they were suppressing grins also.

I then felt someone staring at me from behind. I turned around and saw Annabeth looking at me with a suspicious look… Like she knew something that everyone else in the room (minus the Poseidon cabin) didn't. Worst-case scenario? Annabeth correctly finds out that we were actually responsible and turns us in with her super-smart and intelligent mind. That wouldn't be good.

"Well, anything else?" Chiron asked. I silently pleaded Annabeth not to say anything. To my relief, she didn't.

"Ok then, I'll see you all for the semiyearly Half-Blood games." Oh, the Half-Blood games… I almost forgot about that. My cabin would have to do some planning…

You see, the Half-Blood games are a series of events played in the camp. They range from events such as chariot racing, archery contests, a cook-off, even a machine-building contest, and they all lead to the most important event of them all: the talent show. It was really fun. Every cabin would send at least two-three representatives to participate and counselors could join in. Cabins could do that, or two cabins could send one-two representatives and work together as a single team.

For example, last time we had the games, the Aphrodite cabin and Hephaestus cabin sent their representatives (Beckendorf and Silena) to work together as a team and they reached 3rd place, which was significantly better than any of the scores that they had received when they worked alone.

When all of the cabins went to leave the Big House, I felt a hand on my shoulder, stopping me from joining my cabin.

"Not so fast mister" I heard Annabeth say behind me.

I turned around to face her. "Hey! Annabeth! How's it going?"

She regarded me with a cold glare. "I was fine until you and your cabin decided to give my cabin a very rude wake-up call."

I huffed, "You don't know that!"

"Come on Percy," she said, "When you raided my cabin, I saw your eyes behind that mask. Only one person in the world could have that kind of eye color."

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"Your eyes are a deep sea-green. They just swirl and change shades according to your emotion. No one could have that same kind of eye color." She answered.

"You don't know that."

"Reason two," she continued, "during the meeting, you and your cabin were the only ones who were laughing hysterically when anything regarding the prank came up. It's kind of suspicious, don't you think, for a cabin to have been recently pranked rudely and to just laugh about it when they should've been as grumpy and miserable as the other victims?"

She got me stumped. "Ok, what do you want in order for you to not tell anyone?"

Annabeth looked at me with a mischievous grin, the same grin that I had imagined her with in my dream. Flashes of a crazed 49ers fan in my apartment passed my mind.

"I don't know Percy, let's just say that you owe me one. But I assure you, I won't use my favor lightly…" and at that, she turned around swiftly, whipping her hair into my face, and walked off, leaving me with the faint scent of lemon shampoo.

What a girl…

AN: I don't own anything else in this chapter that might be copyrighted…

Today, I just picked up a decapitated rat (don't worry, I used a plastic bag) and threw it in the trash. Because my mom was so grateful, she decided to let me buy a book, so I need you (my readers) to help me decide what (paperback) book that I should get. You could do that, or choose one of the following options:

Legend by Marie Lu, Airborn by Kenneth Oppel, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey, Nothing by Janne Teller and Martin Aitken, Ship Breaker by Paolo Bacigalupi, Paper Towns by John Green.

Since you guys love to read (otherwise, what are you doing here?) I want you to help!

By the way, since this chapter, Cmedance (who is now pretty much my BFF) and I decided, was better to be cut into two, the entries for song suggestions for the next chapter are still open! So, write in your favorite song, or a song that you really like, or a song that you really hate, I don't care, just put in a song that you want to see in the next chapter!

Another thing, the whole Super Bowl scene that I just wrote, that was written a long time before the Super Bowl even happened; so don't be furious at me for mistakes or whatever. In fact, the game just started right now... Go 49ers!

Also, I am not Japanese, in case you guys were wondering. I just happen to have an affinity for learning new languages. However, that doesn't mean that I speak Swahili, Russian, Arabic, or Czech. I just used Google translate for those languages.

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Question of the chapter: What will Annabeth use her favor from Percy for?