Sorry - this chapter doesn't have much action. There is a bit of Percabeth near the end though. Hope it makes up for the non-action scenes.

- Lizzy :)

"TRAVIS AND CONNOR STOLL! YOU ARE DEAD!" yelled Katie Gardner, soaking wet and a very mad expression on her face. Travis and Connor laughed silently with Percy, hiding behind the bushes.

"At least you don't have to face her wrath..." started Connor.

"Unless we dob you in," finished Travis. Percy glared at the sons of Hermes.

"I helped you, you get the blame, remember? That was our deal," Percy reminded them. Travis and Connor looked at each other, "Won't be the first time she'd mad at us," Travis shrugged.

"Yeah, but Mr. Newbie, over here should learn what it's like," Connor replied.

"We did have a deal and Stoll's always honour their deals," Travis reminded his brother.

Connor grinned, "You made that up, didn't you?"

Travis shifted uncomfortably, "Maybe..."

"Yeah you did." Percy had listened the discussion between the two brothers with interest. It kind of reminded him of him, Thalia and Nico.

"Why don't you want the blame, anyway?" asked Connor, suddenly.

"Umm, because then my dad and Uncle Zeus will get mad and make us come back to Olympus. Also, have you ever seen Demeter in a bad mood?" asked Percy.

The brothers looked at each other again, "No, but we've seen an angry Katie. Percy sighed, shaking his head. He was pretty sure that an angry Katie and an angry Demeter were nothing alike. He suddenly heard leaves crunching and twigs snapping. Percy's head jerked up, only to see the furious face of Katie Gardiner. Her eye's widened in surprise.

"You were part of it too?" she asked, obviously surprised, "I thought that you might have a bit more sense than those two idiots." Katie's brown hair was still dripping wet and Percy smirked, remembering a time when he and Nico had dropped a huge bucket of water on Thalia. She had chased them around the house until she had managed to electrocute them.

"Oh, you think that it's funny?" asked Katie, catching Percy's smirk and thinking that it was because of her appearance, "Wait until I've finished with you."

"I wasn't smiling because of you, I was just remembering a time when something similar happened to Thalia," Percy said hurriedly.

"Hey, Katie," said Travis, easily.

"What's up?" asked Connor. Katie's green eye's glinted with anger.

"What's up? What's up? I'll tell you what's up? Some idiot sons of Hermes and a son of Poseidon decided to rig my hose and pour an entire lake over me and my cabin! THAT'S WHAT'S UP!" As soon as Katie finished talking, Percy felt something snaking up his legs, up to his waist. He looked down to see the grass growing rapidly, twisting around his legs. Percy tried to move but found that he couldn't. He pulled at the grass and tried breaking it. It didn't work.

"Oh, don't worry about it, Perce," said Travis, ignoring the glare that Percy gave him, "the more you struggle, the faster it grows. Besides, you're lucky that this isn't poison ivy..." Travis trailed off, remembering the time that Demeter's cabin had grown poison ivy around the Hermes cabin as revenge for planting thorns and weeds all around Demeter's cabin.

A few hours later Percy was walking, free of grass, laughing with the Stoll brothers about the prank. They had set up a trap: a bucket of water that would tip on her when she opened the door. Then, after she had finished shouting at Travis and Connor, she would change her clothes and then water her plants. When she went to get the hose, Percy would use his powers to bring the water out of the hose and redirect it into Katie's face. They kept doing that until Katie finally had enough and started looking for the Stoll brothers. Then they (Travis and Connor) had run away, laughing with Percy, until they found a hiding place in the bushes.

- Children of the Big Three -

"Hey, Perce, was it true that you helped the Stoll's prank Katie Gardner?" asked Nico, walking up to them.

"Yep," grinned Percy, popping the 'p'. Nico grinned as well.

"Awesome!" he exclaimed, giving Percy a high five, "I heard that it was really funny! What happened, what did you do?"

Percy looked at Travis and Connor.

"Well..." started Travis, mischievously, "we might have wet Katie..."

"A few more times than just once..." carried on Connor.

"Maybe closer to 20, finished Travis, laughing, remembering the look on Katie's face. Everyone else started laughing too, Percy and Connor because of Katie's face and Nico because he thought that the prank would have been awesome and the thought of someone getting wet repeatedly.

Nico managed to calm himself first. He shook his head, "Next time, you'll have to include me. I can shadow-travel into them to scare them or something like that."

The Stoll's eye's widened, "You mean that thing that you did where you ran into a tree and came out on the other side of the arena?"

"Yep."

"Epic, imagine how many pranks we could pull with that!" exclaimed Connor.

"So many," moaned Travis, "Next prank, you're in," he said to Nico.

"Hey, what about me and my awesome water powers," Percy asked, jokingly.

"Sorry, man, but you're fired," joked Connor. Percy glared at him. "Nah, next prank and you're both in," Connor said, imagining all the pranks that he could do with the powers that Percy and Nico had.

- Children of the Big Three -

The next few weeks passed by quickly for the three newcomers. Percy trained some of the campers, including Luke, at sword-fighting. Thalia trained some of the campers at archery and Nico helped some more campers discover their powers. Percy and Nico helped the Stoll brothers with their pranks, Thalia found a wounded eagle and nursed it back to heath and Percy really did ride Blackjack everyday.

In the third week of the three demigod's stay, Thalia had found an eagle with a broken wing, lying on Zeus' Fist, a cluster of rocks that was named after Zeus. She had taken it to Lee Fletcher, head counselor of Apollo's cabin. He had helped Thalia heal it and she had called it Rapier, because it had sharp claws and a sharp beak, the sharpest that she had ever seen. When Thalia tried to release it, it didn't want to go away, so Chiron and Dionysus had let Thalia keep it.

"Zeus would kill me if I made my brat of a sister upset," quoted a certain wine god. Thalia had just grinned, there were some advantages of being the daughter of Zeus. Now Rapier carried messages all around Camp and followed Thalia around when he wasn't. Blackjack now unofficially belonged to Percy. He called Percy his 'boss' and made Percy ride him almost everyday.

"Now just Nico needs to find a pet," smirked Percy one night when he was walking around Camp Half-Blood with his cousins. Nico slapped Percy playfully on the shoulder.

"Maybe you can give me one on Thursday," replied Nico.

"Uh, what's Thursday?" asked Thalia, confused. Nico feigned shock.

"Do you mean to tell me that you've forgotten that we're turning 15 in two days!?" exclaimed Nico. Percy and Thalia's eyes went wide with shock.

"It's August 16th already?" asked a shocked Percy.

Nico rolled his eyes, "Well, obviously someone hasn't been keeping up with their dates."

Thalia moved her hands nervously, "What am I going to get you? I mean, two days isn't much time!"

"Good luck," said Nico, sarcastically, "I already got you your presents."

"Vlacas," cursed Thalia in Ancient Greek, calling herself an idiot.

"I agree," groaned Percy thinking of all the things that he would have to do for Thalia and Nico. Nico chuckled quietly.

"Good luck," he said again. Thalia stuck a tongue out at Nico.

"You two are so mature," Percy said, grinning at them.

"What and you are too?" teased Thalia. Percy glared at Thalia.

"Bet you can't beat me to the beach," he called, already running towards the beach.

"Cheater," yelled Nico, now running as well.

"Both of you are cheaters," Thalia shouted, running, 2 metres behind Nico who was 2 metres behind Percy.

Percy, Thalia and Nico were laughing as they ran, their troubles and worries lost in the wind.

"Beat...ya," panted Percy, still grinning.

"You...started...first..." Thalia replied, trying to catch her breath.

"Yeah...you...cheated," Nico scowled, "It's...not...fair..."

"Two words: sucked...in," Percy was the first to recover. Thalia and Nico pouted.

"You suck."

"Go to Hades."

Thalia and Nico started saying their usual insulting comments to him. Percy didn't listen, having heard it a hundred times before.

"I have an idea," said Thalia suddenly.

Percy and Nico exchanged glances - was this going to be a good or bad idea?

Percy shook his head, "Fine, let's hear this idea, Thals."

Thalia rolled her eyes, "Let's race again - fairly this time." Percy shrugged.

"Why not?" Nico said. The three cousins positioned themselves in a starting position for a race. Thalia started the race by saying 'go' and the three of them shot off like bullets, which is to say, very fast. They had decided that the finish line would be the cluster of rocks about 150 metres away.

Percy, who was in the lead, looked back and shouted, "Come on slow coaches! Ooof!" Percy had run into a person with blonde hair, landing on top of them. "Sorry," he muttered, blushing when he saw that it was Annabeth.

"We really have to stop meeting like this," she muttered back. Percy rolled off her gently, so that he wouldn't hurt her.

"Now, who's the tomato-faced slow coach?" called Nico, nearly at the finish-line.

"Shut up," Percy shouted back, poking out his tongue. Turning back to Annabeth, he said, "Sorry. I really didn't mean to bump into you... Umm, what are you doing here?" Percy added.

"I was walking down here to read. I like being near the ocean, it's calming," Annabeth answered. "So... were you racing?"

"Yep, I was going to win, but uhhh..." Percy trailed off, not wanting to seem like he was blaming Annabeth.

Annabeth smiled, grimly, "Sorry."

"Don't worry, it's not your fault," grinned Percy, "Can I sit with you?"

"Uhh, sure, but I'm only going to be reading," replied Annabeth, smiling but looking confused at the same time.

"Maybe you can socialise a bit, instead of reading. Every time that I see you, you're either doing the activities around camp or reading," Percy tried to convince Annabeth, "Oh come on, please," added Percy, seeing the look on Annabeth's face.

Annabeth rolled her eye's. Percy was doing puppy dog eyes at her. She could hear Nico and Thalia shouting that they were going to the archery range. Both Percy and Annabeth shouted 'goodbye' back. Annabeth thought some more. She looked at Percy. He was doing the puppy dog eyes again. Annabeth sighed, "Arg, fine."

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- Lizzy :)