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~Before anybody could say anything, Clarisse jumped on the table and said, "Give it to me."~

Percy's POV

Holy *Insert swear word of your choice*.

Clarisse will kill me! Yes, I know it is a paint-ball gun. But, what don't you trust Ares' kid's with? Any type of weapon, which is basically everything. In addition, we've got poor old me, who isn't exactly Ares' most favoured person, sitting in a cage as a target for the wonderful children of Ares. I will die. Clarisse has probably manipulated the gun already.

How was I so oblivious? Of course the brothers knew I was going to attack them. Those bastards. Connor and Traviswere coming over to my cage right now. Travis told me to lighten up. My reply?

"Lighten up? Lighten up? You expect me to lighten up when you just gave my mortal enemy sometime that could potentially kill me? I am going to kill you guys if I make it out alive." I said the last part in total seriousness.

Connor just replied calmly, "Percy, Annabeth is right, you are a total seaweed brain! Your invincible remember?"

At the last part he buffed out his chest as a joke.

Oh yeah. I'm invincible. Right. Okay, so maybe I won't kill Travis and Connor If I get out. Anyway, moving on. I have bigger problems at this point in time. Clarisse had the gun and positioned herself right in front of me.

"Hey Prissy, think of this as payback from insulting the Ares' cabin."

All the Ares' kids cheered.

"Alright Clarisse, let's get this over quick."

I shouldn't have jinxed it. It did not end quickly. I thought Clarisse was the only person that was going to shoot me, turns out the whole cabin was equipped with guns.

I am so going to murder the brothers, starting with Travis, who told me to lighten up.

First I was hit by Clarisse. Mental note – Paintball machines hurt. Oh, how I wish I had motion in my legs right now.

I was a walking rainbow, with aches and pains. I wasn't happy nor delightful. The whole Ares' cabin decided to shoot me at once.

All. At Once.

Remember – The cabin got bigger because of my wish to the gods. Around 30 kids were beating me up with paint-balls.

No, I didn't break down and cry like a baby. That would give Clarisse too much satisfaction. I just sat their and waited, and waited, AND WAITED until all the ammo was out.

Now I get the raincoats. Everybody within a 10-meter radius of where I was sitting was pretty much splattered in paint. Not like me though, I was a walking 'Simpsons' character. My face was yellow, top was rainbow: all the orange was gone; along with my shorts, legs and shoes.

The cheering started with the Ares' cabin but then laughter came from the rest of the camp. Where they somewhat defending me?

YES THEY WERE! The Athena cabin started the laughter when they all pulled out their own paint-gun machines and started splattering the Ares cabin.

The rest of the camp soon evolved into a paint-gun war. Except it was everyone against Ares.

They gave in. Clarisse gave in.

"Sucked in Clarisse. That's called karma."

I winked at her, knowing that I had the quest the next day and wanted to achieve something tonight.

Her eyes shot at me like daggers. Oh well, the camp was in jubilation!

Travis's POV

So everything has gone according to plan.

- Read the letter to the camp - check

- Get Percy to leap at Travis - check

- Put Percy in cage - check

- Hand weapons to Ares cabin - check

- Ares cabin paint-bomb Percy – check

- Hand rest of camp weapons - check

- Rest of camp paint-bombs the Ares cabin – check

- Utter chaos for 5 minutes – check

- PARTY and introduce final surprise – not yet

Looks like it is time to party! I am in charge of this section while Connor is running the boom box again. To get everybody's attention, I decided to step back onto the podium and release Percy.

Everybody turned to him in shock while I shouted out, "Everybody! The next item on the agenda is to party! So, everybody grab a partner and hit the dance floor. Could you please place your weapons in the box near Percy's cage. Party like there is no tomorrow!"

I jumped back down from the podium while Connor blasted music. They all followed to the plan, the Aphrodite girls covered most of the dancing area but we did spot a few Athena, Apollo and Demeter. I even saw Percy approach Annabeth and moved to the dance floor.

Demeter! That reminds me; maybe I should ask Katie to dance with me. She would probably just think it's a prank. Plus she is way out of my league. And look, she has that whole group of people around her.

Do I look weird? I am staring right at her; maybe it wouldn't do any harm to ask her to dance. Plus, the special event is going to happen soon on the dance floor. It could be somewhat romantic to have her next to me.

Yes! I'm going to ask her, what's the worst that could happen? Have her knock me down and break my heart? Okay, maybe I shouldn't do this. Plus Connor is approaching me anyway.

"Hey Travis! Strange that your not kicking butt on the dance floor? I've seen you practise some moves so– don't you lie to me! What are you waiting for? I overheard Katie talk to someone else, she really wants to dance with you." he winked at me and walked over to a bunch of Athena girls who soon, shooed him away.

Let's do this; I'm going to ask her now. I moved through the people in the crowd without taking my eyes of Katie. She was near the fountain talking with a few of her friends. She looked up to me and smiled.

I bumped into someone. How embarrassing? I get so clumsy around her! I was about 3 meters away from Katie when I saw Nico approach and talk to her. What was he doing? Was he asking her to dance? Nico? Out of all people in the world?

I stumbled towards them when Nico saw me and left with a smirk. What was all that about?

Katie skipped up to me and all those thoughts about Nico swept away.

"Hey Travis! Nico just came up to me for advice on how to ask Thalia to dance with him! How cute!" She looked up and smiled at me, I smiled back.

"What exactly did you say then?" I raised an eyebrow, awaiting the answer.

"I just said for him to swallow up all his pride and just go for it. Sounds like someone else could use his advice as well." Katie asked while I tugged at the collar of my shirt. Was this aimed at me? Did Katie want me to ask her to dance?

"Hey, um, Katie… Would you, I dunno, actually never mind."

I turned my head, blushing and started to walk away too embarrassed to continue my sentence. She then, pulled my arm and brought me back to her.

"Travis, want to dance? Obviously, you're too chicken to ask me!"

"YES! I mean – uh- yeah, that sounds cool" I smirked and brought her to the dance floor.

This night is just going to get better, not only for myself but for Percy and Annabeth too.

Hope you liked it!

Turns out that I can see the hits of a story! I never knew that! My last chapter got 157 hits! That is awesome! My first chapter even got 450 hits!

Hahaha! Anyway I'm reading this book called Gifts at the moment :) Pretty good! I also pre-ordered City of Fallen Angels! Cannot Wait! :D