Hey guys whats up! I hope you like this chapter I tried to make it funny. Also I just want to clear up any confusion about the different chapters. This is taking place in the summer right after the titan war and before the Heroes of Olympus. All of the chapters are taking place on the same day, the day the Stolls challenged the Cabin Seniors to a Prank War. The dance is the day after and Annabeth and Percy's prank was started the day the prank war was announced. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask, I will be frequently clarifying on the chapters just to be sure. Love you guys! Now on with the story! All rights go to Rick Riordan who changed my love of books!

Nico's POV

Right after Thalia and I decipher our plan we went straight to work! I had a feeling that everyone else was also beginning theirs. The most difficult part was finding the tar. I mean where in the hades would you find tar in a camp where tar is banned! Why is it banned… well, to make it short the Hermes cabin infuriated the Aphrodite Cabin, resulting them to cursed till the summer was over to have make up on their face and all of their clothes were either to big or to small. It was hilarious! Any ways back to present time. Getting the photo booth was easy all I had to do was call for some dead skeletons and command them to make a photo booth based on a picture Silena gave us. Ahhhh the perks of being a son of Hades! What joy! It turned out actually pretty good considering skeletons made it. I was about 7 feet tall and 5 feet wide decorated with pink, white, and purple swirls. If you had to ask me I think a plain black would be a lot more suited. Now about that tar…. We are not allowed to go outside of the camp and I don't really want to have to deal with tar monsters. Ya we have tar monsters in the woods and they are vicious!

"Nico… Nico! EARTH TO NICO!" Thalia screeched bringing me back to the living

"Sorry was thinking. What?"

"Wow, Percy is starting to think and now you! Annabeth is a genius!" Thalia said in pure amazement and sarcasm

"Gee thanks but really what!"

"Oh I was thinking that the only way we can get the tar is by the tar monster. There is no other way without bringing attention to ourselves"

"Oh yeah but the angry roar of a monster isn't suspicious or the screech of agony, or the fact that we will be coming out of the woods probably covered in tar, and with buckets!"

"By the gods Nico I already thought of that! It's one of the perks of being a Huntress, battle strategy. Here is what will happen. You and I will shadow travel into the woods close to where the tar monster is. You will raise the dead to protect us and get the monsters attention, then I will send a huge bolt of lightning at it, immediately killing it. We grab the tar and shadow travel back to your cabin. Then give the photo booth to Silena! It's fools-proof!"

I look at Thalia in awe! She makes it seem so simple when any regular half-blood wouldn't do it for a million drachmas! Now that I think of it the plan is fools-proof. Let's just hope nothing goes wrong.

Thalia and I are all geared up in 30 minutes.

"Ready?" I ask a little worried for my cousin. Shadow traveling isn't easy. It feels like you are turned into silly putty, all your guts and organs stretched, you feel frozen stiff with cold and somehow you feel claustrophobic, and on top of all of that its pitch darkness, and I love it!

"Nico really its fine now let's go!"

"Okay fine! I'm just wary the 1st time Percy did it he puked and fell unconscious for 2 hours!"

"I'm 100 billion times stronger than that old fish brains! And it's less than a mile away you guys went form Camp Half-Blood to Maine!"

"Okay, okay, let's go!"

With that I grabbed her wrist with one hand and 4 buckets with the other and ran right at the wall before being engulfed into darkness.

We arrived about 10 feet from the tar pond, a little too close for my liking. The trees in this part of the forest were dark and creepy some were covered in tar and others just had a sick feeling to it. It reeked of something old and decayed. All in all the place was nasty.

"Back behind that tree" I whispered to Thalia. She nodded and stealthily ran behind the tree. I turned ready to follow her when I tripped over a root and all of the pails flew into the air crashing into the ground with a huge crash. This of course is just my luck, cause before I could even get up the roar of the tar monster shook the forest.

"Ohh great!" I groaned picking myself up from the ground and getting my pure black sword out.

"Thalia you go get the tar, I'll distract. When you are done go behind the tree and call me so we can go" I shout

"Okay!"

I look back to the pond and see a 10 foot thing covered in tar. It had two curled horns both tipped with mold, a fish snout, which was really weird and two beefy arms and legs, let's just say it was incredibly ugly!

I put the tip of my sword on the ground and began to summon the dead to help. Immediately 10 dead warriors in a triangular formation surrounded me, with me in the middle.

"CHARGE!" I command my army. We run towards the beast as the monster also charging. His head dips down showing its perfectly sharpened horns. The battle started to fail as soon as the first dead solider crossed weapons with the monster. The solider was quickly evaporated into gold dust.

"Well darn", I mutter. I quickly do a scan of my surrounding seeing if I could use anything to kill the monster. My eyes fall on a net of vines, strong enough to hold an object back. "Perfect" but before I could run toward the vines I was thrown backwards tumbling in the dirt, with half of a Skelton slowly dissolving on top of me. My vision began to blur, and I began to feel a sharp pain behind my head.

"Owwwwww that's going to hurt later on" I thought

I try to get up, but my head hurts too much. I put my hand to where the pain is, I can barely process the feeling of the bump in the back of my head through the pain. I pull my fingers away, it's coated in blood.

"BAM!" a sudden blast knocks me down again, followed by a pained filled bellow.

"Nico are you okay! Wait- that's a stupid question of course you are not, um let me get you some nectar" Thalia stammered.

"Ugg" I responded. I feel the nectar being poured onto I head, I gasp with pain then relief. I can feel the skin being mended together and the bump diminish to a size of a mosquito bite. I sit up feeling loads better.

"Thanks Thalia"

"No problem, I couldn't let my cousin die now could I, no matter how dimwitted he is?"

"And there is the old Thalia I know and love so well" I said sarcastically

She smirked "You know it!" I get up, dusting off some dirt.

"Do you have the tar?" she point to the now filled buckets of tar.

"Great let's go now" I grab the handles of tar and Thalia's wrist and shadow travel back to the Hades cabin.

We get back to the Hades cabin, and I feel drowsy.

"Okay let's give this photo booth to Silena" I say taking a few steps then stumbling

"Oh no you are not Death Breath! As much as I would like to see you stumble around like a drunk monkey, I need you to be tip top shape to help me take this to Silena and rig it up, later"

"Fine" I grumble and let her lead me to my bed. I was a little amazed that she could be so nice, until she shoved me head first in the bed then hilariously laughing at me and walking away without seeing if I was okay.

I awoke an hour later, to Thalia again yelling in my ear.

"Gee Thalia do you have to do that every single time?!"

"Nope but I love your reaction it's hilarious!"

I groan, getting to my feet and grapping the rope to start rigging up the photo booth. You see the plan is to get the rope in place so we can quickly tie the bucket in place, then at the dance we put the booth in a shady area, I use my awesome power to hide the bucket in a shadow of darkness so they don't see it, so when they come get a picture, just before the camera goes off SPLAT! They are covered in tar! We bring the photo booth to Silena and she was thrilled!

"Wow guys, you did amazing!" she squealed

"No prob Silena, now if you don't mind we have to go to sword lessons"

"kay bye!" she said still eying the booth

When we reach the Arena everyone is already there, we start the lesson dueling each other. It wasn't as fun without Percy, he got moved up to teacher instead of student. We were in the middle of a duel when Annabeth and Percy came walking into the arena

"Hey Annabeth, Percy" Thalia shouts while throwing a thrust at my chest with her spear that I easily parry.

"Why does everyone greet Annabeth first then me? Why can't I be greeted 1st?" Percy whines.

Annabeth smacked the back of his head and said "Percy you can be so immature! It's just greetings not the end of the world chill!"

"No need to be such a Wise Girl"

"Well you are a Seaweed Brain!"

"Owl Face"

"Kelp Head"

"Know-it All"

"Dumbo"

"Smarty Pants"

"Imprudent"

"Loud Mouth"

I clear my throat, getting their attention. They turned their head at me glaring, due to the fact that everyone was biting their lips from laughing. We break into laughter, unable to contain our laughter. Unfortunately we didn't see Annabeth spike the water.

"Gee thanks guys I can feel the love" Percy said sarcastically

Annabeth whispers something harshly to him. He nods his head in understanding. I turned to my friends on the floor trying to get their breath back.

"You two sound like an old married couple" Conner stated

"Shut up" Annabeth growled her face turning beet red, "Now let's duel"

"No thanks" Conner, Katie, Travis, and Will said quickly gathering their stuff and a cup of water from the water dispenser

Thalia and I shrug and got into a fighting stance. We battled for 30 minutes getting use to each other's fighting style and just having fun. At the end, we grabbed some water drinking our fill, Annabeth and Percy didn't drink anything. Weird, and head of to our cabins. I sat down on my bed feeling heavy with the need of sleep, so I get into bed chucking off my shoes. The last thing I remember was the sound of laughter at my door, before I welcomed sleep with open arms.