PJO 100 Word Challenge

Chapter 9: Photographs


Behind an especially thick bush that faced the fountain and the famous couple of Camp Half-Blood hid two crouched figures and they were seemingly talking in hashed voices -

"Brother, did you get that? Percy and Annabeth are absolutely inseparable!" said the person on the right.

"Shh!" The other person replied. "I know. I got this."

"Yeah, 'coz it went so well the last time you said 'I got it'."

"It wasn't my fault the fountain exploded!" He countered. "And what about that time you 'accidentally' dropped the camera in the lava?"

"Alright, we're even."

"Of course…hey, don't you think it's a bit…shady than before?"

"Yeah, it was burning our heads…" said right-hand-sided person as he looked up. "…off."

Standing over the two people behind the bush, Percy Jackson never looked angrier. He was in his usual orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt and jeans. The beads on his leather necklace showed that he had already survived four summers as a demigod – in this case, as a demigod son of the Big Three - not someone you'd like to mess with.

"Um…hi, Percy. What are you doing under the big sun?" said Travis as he quickly shoved the camera out of sight.

"Hi, Travis, Conner. How funny? I was going to ask you the same question." said Percy in a less-than-amused tone.

"Very funny. Just getting some tan. You know, the usual stuff." Conner answered.

"For one I know the 'usual' stuff always involve you two and some sneaky tricks."

"You've got to be joking. We never do sneaky tricks." Travis said.

"Do you now? I clearly remember that time you sneaked my wallet from my cabin and one time you sneaked Riptide from my pocket." Percy added. "…oh, yes, and the time my cabin floor was covered by a layer of sticky glue."

"Now, Percy, technically, we never 'sneaked' them. I fondly remember the fact that we were invited into your cabin and we just carried off with some souvenir. By the way, that glue trick was not sneaky at all. We did that in broad daylight, you see."

"Oh, I see. So, the two of you are here to do some not-really-sneaky tricks."

"Bingo! Percy, you're the smartest guy we've ever met…um, we still have things to attend to…"

"See you around!" said Conner as they turned around and tried to run away.

But all they could do was try. For Percy had already taken out his pen/sword, Riptide, and trained it to their throats.

"I don't think so, Stolls. Give me the camera, then, you can go." Percy smirked.

Travis shared an eye contact with Conner. So he saw it?

Just act dumb.

I'm on it.

"What camera? We don't have one. Conner dropped ours in the lava last week, remember?"

"Oh, stop playing dumb. I heard you managed to secure one right after that one was melted. Now, camera or…"

"Or…? Gods, Percy, since when do you get so dramatic?"

"Camera, Conner." Percy faked a thinking look. "I think…perhaps the Aphrodite cabin would love a make-over? Hold it, perhaps Clarisse would love some new punch bags."

"We're not exactly 'new'." Conner muttered under his breath.

"I don't really care as long as you give me that camera."

"Fine." Travis finally gave in.

He handed over the camera to Percy, who summoned a ball of water that consumed the camera, drenching it thoroughly from the inside out. The two of them fringed at the sight of their ruined camera, completely unusable.


"And we lost yet another camera. It's just fantastic!" said Conner, who was crossing his arms all the way back to the Hermes cabin.

"But," Travis smirked and reached into his pants' pocket. "We still have this."

In his hand was a square chip the size of a stamp – the camera's SD card. As if on que, they rushed to the laptop and inserted the card with a USB card reader. After a few clicks, the photographs were displayed on screen.

"Another score for Travis and Conner!" The Stolls excitedly high-fived and shined two equally bright and sly grin. They quickly went to work and the printer was busy spitting out paper after paper in the next few hours.


"Percy, do I have something on my face?" Annabeth asked as the two of them walked across the camp to the arena, earning some more-than-usual glances and snickers.

"Not that I can see." Percy answered, feeling there's something wrong in the atmosphere. "But everyone's acting weird."

"They sure are." Travis snickered, watching afar in a safe distance with Connor.

"How can they not when they see this?" Conner snickered as well, holding the tiny newspaper they made last night and distributed through camp, that is, except the Poseidon and Athena cabin, of course. The photo of the kissing couple took up half of the A4-sized paper and was companied by a bolded and enlarged headline:

Percabeth prevails over 3 months

Passion still burning hot and wild

"High-five!" The Stolls whispered triumphantly.


A/N: So, do you enjoy the chapter? I hope you do. I think I've said enough in last chapter's AN, so I guess I'll leave your ears unharmed this time. Though I'd like to say that this chapter really came naturally. I've always wanted to try and write someone other than Percabeth and I immediately think of the Stolls taking pictures of Percabeth. XD So if you wanna complain and compliment, feel free to drop a review or pm. That's it. See you next time! (Probably one month later ;P)

Priscilla Tsang ={D

21:39 5 April 2013