A/N: REVIEWS! :DDDDDD I'M SO HAPPY I MIGHT DANCE! Er-On second thought... ANYWHO. I KNOW I SAID I WAS GONNA POST TWO CHAPPIES IN A DAY.. BUT I'M TRYING. PLUS IT'S ALMOST CHRISTMAS! :D *Sings out of tune*
Disclaimer: Look, buddy, I-I'm sorry about yesterday. TT_TT PLEASE FORGIVE ME! Look, I don't own HP or PJO! There! All better, right? *Sobs*
The saying ignorance is bliss comes to mind when viewing the boys way of handling their predicament. Laughter filled their room, to the showers, to their room once again. Their laughter seemed to never cease, and Ron was starting to worry they had been hit with a curse. He calmed down when the laughter calmed down. Which was about an hour later.
"D'you think it's safe to go out there yet?" Harry asked, poking his head out the door in effort to see something. It was a deadly kind of quiet, the one right before something dangerous happens. But this lot being boys, they were still sporting wide grins, proud of their work. "They're not out there. Maybe they're not mad?"
"Both Ginny and Hermione never miss a spell." Ron moaned, "Granted, they were both practically shaking with anger.."
There was an outburst of laughing again in memory, and when they calmed down. "We shouldn't worry.. Hermione wouldn't dream of doing magic outside of school, would she?"
"Have no idea, but that doesn't stop Ginny or Annabeth, huh?" Percy gulped. Wise girl... when she's pissed... WITH TWO PEOPLE WHO CAN DO MAGIC. He didn't let his worry show, but it was slowly starting to consume him. His pupils dilated and he cursed in ancient Greek, "Truth or dare...We're going to be playing truth or dare.."
"Wait.. Wait.." Leo was thinking very fast, trying to find a loophole in which they could stall the game. "We have to stall. THEY'RE GOING TO KILL US. WE HAVE TO STALL."
"There are Five of us, and three of them. Let's think of a dare that'll take a long time... Or a truth.."
They sat there for a minute, thinking. There were a few, "We could dare them to rob a bank," and "Dare them to take a detention with Snape." and then the brilliant idea of, "Play a game of Quidditch."
"Yeah! A game of Quidditch. We'll all have to play, and Alex can't fast forward that, right?" Ron asked
"We can only hope.." Harry murmured, turning to face three puzzled demigods.
"Quid-What?" Leo asked "Quid-kick? I think I could do something like that."
"It's a wizarding sport.. Loads of fun." Harry explained, "If any of us get picked, we ask each other and say Quidditch, okay?"
"But what is quidditch?" Percy asked annoyed. After years of being not being told things tat affected him, he wasn't going to have it. Seeing this, Ron said, "Look, we'll explain it when we play, but we have to agree to pick it, okay?"
The demigods, though hating being out of the loop, agreed and they started off towards the stage room that last night had taken the form of a mess hall. On the way out, they saw in a mangled heap, where the roses they had sent with the oreos were now on the ground. It was very unsettling, and it seemed the situation had just now hit them. Three very pissed off dangerous girls were plotting against them, and they had practically no plan or defense.
The girls were quietly whispering to each other. they glared in the boys' direction and they clumped even closer together in the corner of the room. Something told Percy that there were not going to be having a food fight today. Annabeth didn't have a dangerous gleam in her eye, but Alex was not floating, but sitting next to the girls, transferring ideas that they either vetoed right away, or murmured thoughts on the plan. This process was very unsettling as he called over his blue pancakes with orange juice. There was a three chair gap between the guys and girls, the girls seldomly looking up from their huddle, the guys awkwardly sitting there in silence.
Aura was gone, and Alex after a small smirk forming at the corners of her mouth, returning to her floating table in the back was called back over by Hermione, apparently inviting her stay and eat with them. She gladly accepted, calling over eggs and sausage, while everyone else called over their own food.
"Well that's just lovely." Ron growled. "They got a new friend."
No one said anything, and Ron continued to fume, stuffing his face with various foods. Well all of them did, but Ron was the only one to replace fear with anger. The girls ignored them, laughing and getting to know Alex, who seemed to be doing a killer imitation of one of them. Her curly brown hair was the funniest thing about the imitation, as it was basically everywhere, and Leo smiled a bit, only to be glared at by all of them, causing him to shrink back in his chair and dig back at his tortillas and eggs.
Percy remembered their talk about crushes and still didn't put two and two together. He shook his head and finished his food, catching the words "In like Five minutes." from the girls. Looking back at Harry and Ron, he said, "We're leaving in Five minutes, I think we should only ask each other a few questions like easy dares and truths to pass some time before we play whatever 'Quidditch' is."
"That's we were talking about." Harry concluded, brainstorming a few truths and dares that would be sure to kill a few minutes at best. Before they knew it, the room itself was starting to change, the food floating neatly onto large plates, being stored into large refrigerators in the back, then flipping underground. The tables were replaced with couches, and the floorboards were switched to nicer colors, more vibrant. With the antique-looking multicolored carpets neatly placed under, with a numerous amount of cameras, visible and not, were scattered about. Alex was frantically floating about, going through a clipboard and talking through a mini-headset microphone.
"Okay, you guys know the drill, I'm going to introduce myself to the camera that'll be on in about five minutes, you can seat yourselves wherever you want, and Aura should. Wait, where's Aura. AURA!"
"Over here. Geez, calm down. It's not like we're on yet." Aura was sipping coffee at her floating desk. Her combat boots were up on her desk in her usual fashion, and she was smiling at the display of how the boys stayed as far away from the girls as possible.
"Okay, Hermione, you'll be starting us off!" Alex said distracted, her eyes were swimming back and forth and she barely noticed the boys' faces fall. "Three minutes now!"
"How could we forget?!" Nico screeched through a whisper to the rest of the guys as the girls held smug faces, swarming Hermione.
"Yup, we're screwed." Leo concluded, face palming. "Is the torture room that bad, Perce?"
"Depends on what the truth or dare is... Pick truth. There is no telling what they can make us do for dare..." Percy ran a hand through his jet black hair. If this was the girls' sick and twisted way of getting back at them, not doing anything that is, it was certainly working.
"Okay, me and Ron are easily one of her first choices for picking. But be prepared for anything. This is war now." Harry's attempt in humor went unnoticed, as Alex called for a 'One minute until showtime' warning.
They sat down in their peculiar spots. And Nico sunk into the shadows, following the rule of every man for himself apparently. Leo dealt with this by excessive leg tapping. Harry had a great poker face, and Ron still gave off a look of great annoyance. Leaving Percy for playing dumb, something he often did when he was in trouble with Annabeth.
"You got this Hermione," Percy heard Annabeth say. She was smirking at the boys, and gave a final glare in their direction before Alex was hollering, "THREE.. TWO.. ONE."
A/N: Thanks everyone for reviews. GIMMIE SUGGESTIONS FOR DARES/TRUTHS PLEASE. Anywho, thanks for reading I may or may not post a chappie in an hour depends on all the sh*t I have to do.
-"Alex"