Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson and the Olympians
A/N: I wanted to put up this authors note because I do not want anyone to be offended if some of the national monuments fall down or something.
Chapter 12
"Spiders!" Travis said gleefully while grabbing one of them.
"They have a big nest right over here at camp after all." Connor commented.
Travis nodded and placed the spider he grabbed back to the nest. "We can place them all over the Athena cabin. Under their pillows, beds, shelves, cupboards, books, everywhere really."
"They'll freak out for sure!"
Travis nodded again as they both heard the conch horn signal for dinner. Connor took off running but Travis made sure all the spiders didn't escape and followed his brother.
They went back to their cabin to collect the campers.
"Cabin 11 fall in!" Travis yelled loudly so that the newest camper even saluted.
Connor snickered as they marched to the Hermes table. He sacrificed the best portion of his dinner to his father seeing as he needed to succeed with all his pranks with his brother. He sat back down again, thinking of new ideas.
It was when Travis had finished eating his ice cream when he got a brilliant idea.
"Connor!" He whispered to his brother.
"Got a brain freeze?" Connor laughed at him.
"Brainwave actually." Travis said. "You know how the Athena kids love architecture right?"
Connor nodded but didn't see how this was going anywhere.
"What if we put on a fake news channel saying that all the architectural buildings they love fell down?" Travis continued. "They would freak!"
"You're a genius!" Connor shouted and slammed his hands on the table, making some people jump at the sound.
Campers started to stare and point.
"Why did you have to start a whole line of gossip?" Travis hissed.
"Because your idea is awesome! We just need to Photoshop, edit a few graphics and BAM!" Connor yelled out the last word for the extra effect. "A new set of lies right there."
Travis glanced around at all the unneeded attention. Usually he wouldn't have minded but if any of them slipped their words... Let's say the punishment would not be pretty.
"Not so loud Connor!" Travis told his brother, but not angrily.
After all, who wouldn't love to make all the national monuments fall down? Oh that's right. The Athena cabin. And that's exactly who the prank was for.
As they finished their dinner, they ran back to where the spiders were, and grinned. The Athena cabin was going to freak out for sure.
"Bees," Connor blurted out randomly.
"What?" Travis looked at him strangely.
"Bees," Connor said again and pointed towards a tree.
"What about them?"
"Honey. We can pour them all over the Athena cabin's books so that they can't open. And we should badly alphabetize all their dictionaries, thesauruses, and encyclopedias in random order."
Travis pretended to tip his fake hat. "Brilliant idea as always kind sir."
Connor grinned. "But we won't be that kind at all will we Travis?"
"Not at all kind sir."
"Oh shut up."
Travis laughed, as Connor punched him on the shoulder playfully. He frowned, and looked at the spiders.
Travis noticed this. "What's wrong bro?"
"How are we going to get the spiders all in one place?" Connor asked.
Along with his brother, he frowned as well. He glanced at the spiders and in the far distance saw the cabins. Or particularly, the Athena cabin.
"Got it!" Travis suddenly said excitedly. "Spray! We can spray their cabin so that the spiders will only come there!"
"Brilliant brainwave as always dear brother who likes hitting me." Connor grinned, and ran for the Hermes cabin, his brother chasing him.
"You were the one who hit me, not me hitting you!" Travis yelled.
"HELP!" Connor screamed.
Due to the war, the campers have been more alert ever since so that's why, a few seconds' later campers took out their weapons and stepped out of their cabins.
"For Olympus!" Chris blurted out.
"Where are the monsters Stoll?" Clarisse took out her electric spear, Maimer and walked over to Connor.
Connor pointed to Travis. "Well if you call him a monster..."
"Hey!" Travis protested.
By now the campers were looking confused, and Chiron had finally trotted over to them.
"What happened child?" The centaur asked the two brothers.
Travis wanted to point out that they weren't children but he shrank back under Chiron's stern look.
"He hit me, I ran away, screamed for help, and here I am." Connor said, and Travis laughed at his poem.
"Unexpected people can write pretty imaginative," Will commented.
He whipped out a notepad from his shorts pocket and started writing Connor's unintentional poem.
"So you're telling me there are no monsters?" Clarisse asked while frowning.
"Nope," Connor said.
"Alright campers go back to the things you were doing, and Travis and Connor come here." Chiron ordered.
Clarisse was grumbling while the others, mainly some Apollo campers were grinning at Connor's poem. But basically all the others were half annoyed that the Stolls had called out a fake attack. The other half were happy that the camp was at peace.
Meanwhile the Stolls were shuffling their feet while not looking at Chiron. They hadn't really meant for the 'HELP' scream to be a prank, but it had been one. So even though Chiron was talking to them they both grinned.
"And that's why you should not scream 'HELP' when you don't need to," Chiron finished.
The Stolls looked up and nodded their heads. With a few 'yes sirs' and salutes they retreated back to their cabin. They both breathed out a sigh of relief when he went away.
"Why did you scream 'HELP' like that Connor?" Travis asked his little brother.
"Because you were chasing me?" Connor replied.
That set out a string of playful arguments that all siblings have all the way to the cabin. Travis opened the door to see the faces of his half siblings looking at them.
"Why did you scream 'HELP' like that Connor?" One half-sibling asked...
A/N: Ok if any of you guys do not like any of the national buildings falling down, I'm sorry. However if only one person doesn't like it then you'll just have to skip that chapter. Also are you guys ok with them sometimes having the Stolls have a normal day? It gets tiring with the same routine: Plan the prank, do the prank, see the reactions, and repeat the above all over again.
