A/N- It wouldn't be as humorous without another prank, so I give you…CHAPTER 21! With another epic prank! *evil laugh*
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Chapter 21: It's another Epic Prank!
Naomi's POV
1. Any kind of soda - Dionysus cabin.
Well, here I was. I knocked on the door. It was answered by Pollux, the only kid in the Dionysus cabin. I'd heard he had a twin that died in the Battle of the Labyrinth. "Um, hi," I said.
"Hey. You're that kid in the Nemesis cabin. Naomi, right?"
"Actually it's just Mimi."
"Okay. Come on in, Mimi." I entered the cabin. Grape vines were everywhere. There was a huge fireplace at one end of the room.
"Nice cabin." I said.
"Thanks. So, what is it you need?" Pollux asked.
"Well, um…" I hate asking for stuff. "I needed a lot of soda. Any kind. Khristi told me to come and get it from you, cause your dad's the god of wine and stuff so…"
"Well, right now, he's more like the god of Coke, but I know what you're getting at. How much do you need?"
"How much do you have?"
"A lot." Pollux said, waving his hand at the barrel in the corner, "That barrel is mostly full."
"Okay. I'll probably need about…half of it."
"May I ask for what?"
"It's for a prank on the Stolls, but don't tell anyone."
Pollux laughed. "This should be good. When is this prank?"
"Tomorrow night."
"Okay. Tomorrow morning, I'll move this into your cabin. It's the black one with the swords over the door, right?"
"Yeah. Thanks."
"No problem. Good luck!" I left and glanced down at the list.
2. A pin - ask anybody.
I asked the first person I saw, a girl from Demeter. She gave me a pin without asking what it was for. I put it carefully in my pocket.
3. 2 or 3 logs - steal from by the fire pit.
I headed over to the fire pit. Sure enough, not far away was a stack of logs. I grabbed three large ones and put them behind a bush. Then, one at a time, I went around behind the cabins until I reached mine. I went in through the back door and stuffed the logs under three separate beds.
4. Sleeping pills - Morpheus or Hypnos cabin
Hypnos was closer, so I went there. I walked in and nearly fell asleep. I turned to the nearest bed and shook the person in it. "Hey, you!" I yelled.
"Yeah?"
"I need sleeping pills. Do you have any?"
"Under the bed…" he started before falling asleep again. I reached under the bed and pulled out a box of sleeping pills. There. Done, I thought.
Khristi's POV
5. Superglue - Hephaestus cabin
I still had some left, so I was good on that.
6. A large wooden crate with a lid - Hephaestus cabin
That, I did not have. I thought about going to the Hephaestus cabin, but suddenly was struck with a thought. I had seen a crate under a bed in the infirmary…I ran up the hill to the infirmary. The crate was gone.
I'll check the Big House, just in case, I thought. Sure enough, under the ping-pong table was a stack of empty boxes. I grabbed the biggest one and headed for the Athena cabin. I was almost there when I saw Naomi. "Hey, Mimi!"
"Hi."
"How's it going?"
"I have everything. What's that for?" she pointed to the box I was holding.
"Oh, this? This was on my list."
"Where are you going to put that?"
"I don't know…"
"There's a closet in the Nemesis cabin if you want to use it." she said.
"Oh. Okay." I brought the box to the Nemesis cabin and stuffed it in the closet. That was two parts done.
7. Two air mattresses - Aeolus or Zeus. If not, check the camp store.
Okay, I thought. Let's check Aeolus first. I went over to the Aeolus cabin. It was sky blue with clouds actually moving across the outside. I knocked. A girl I didn't know answered. "Um, hi," I said.
"Hi. What do you want?" She asked crossly.
"I was wondering if you had any air mattresses I could borrow."
"Is this some kind of joke?"
"No, of course not."
"We don't have any. Go away." The door slammed in my face as I was blown backward by a big gust of wind. I slammed into a tree and winced as rough bark hit my back. Let's try the Zeus cabin, I thought. There was nobody in the Zeus cabin. There weren't any beds, either. I was about to check the camp store when I spotted a closet. I opened it and was faced with inflatable air mattresses. Perfect. Now how to inflate them…I looked around and found an outlet in the wall. There we go. Now tomorrow, all we have to do is inflate these and we're good to go. I heard a conch horn blow and headed for the pavilion.
Later at the campfire…
"Hi Mimi!" I said as she sat down beside me. "Do you have everything you need?"
"Yep. You?"
"Me too. Now, tomorrow at dinner, you have an important part to do. You have to…" I went on explaining to her. "Got it?"
"Yep. It'll be tricky, but I think I can pull it off."
"'kay. You know what we do once they're asleep, right?"
"Yeah. This is gonna be AWESOME!"
"Shhh," I said, "do you want them to hear us?"
"Hear what?" A voice asked. I looked up and saw Connor Stoll grinning down at us.
"Oh, nothing," I lied, "Just our Capture the Flag strategy for next Friday."
"What is it?" he asked.
"Why should we tell you?" Naomi said, scowling.
"Because I made an alliance with the Athena cabin yesterday."
"How do we know we can trust you?" I asked. "You could be lying to us."
"Alright everybody, back to your cabins!" Chiron said. Connor smirked and headed off towards Travis.
The next morning…
I skipped breakfast and instead went to the Zeus cabin. I grabbed two air mattresses and blew them up. Then one at a time, I dragged them behind the cabins until we were in the back of the Hermes cabin. I went in, took the Stolls' mattresses one at a time and dragged them out into the woods. Then I took the air mattresses in and put them on the beds instead. If we were lucky, the Stolls would never know the difference.
The day went by fast until it was time for dinner. After we got our food and were heading back towards our tables, we heard a crash. I turned around. The Stolls were sprawled on the floor. Connor had spaghetti in his hair. "I'm so so sorry!" Naomi said. "Here, let me get you some more food."
"No, we can get it ourselves," Travis said.
"But I was the one who accidentally tripped you! You have to let me make it up to you."
"Just let her do it, Travis," Connor said. Naomi grabbed a couple plates and gave the Stolls exactly what they'd had before. When nobody but me was looking, she mixed in a little white powder. Sleeping pills. Ground up, of course.
"Here you go," she said, presenting the plates to the Stolls. "Is there anything else you need?"
"Nope." they chorused. Naomi turned to go back to her table, but first, catching my eye, she grinned. Let's just say that her grin was so mischievous, it made the Hermes kids look like angels.
That night the Stolls skipped the campfire. Michael had a night off from singing, so he came up and sat by me. We didn't talk much, just mainly sat and watched the fire. Afterwards, once everybody in the Athena cabin had gone to sleep, I sat up. I was still in dark jeans and a black shirt, all the better to sneak around in. I ran over to the Nemesis cabin and bumped into someone in the dark.
"Khristi?" I heard a familiar voice say.
"Michael? What are you doing here?"
"I came to help with this prank."
"How'd you know when we were pulling this off?"
"I guessed. You weren't at breakfast this morning, so I knew you must be up to something."
"Okay, you can help. I'll just have to clear it with Naomi."
"I already did that. I explained to her about your back and how somebody needed to be around to make sure you didn't do anything to it." he said. I shook my head in admiration.
"You think of everything, don't you?"
"Almost everything," Michael said, looking pleased. I crept into the Nemesis cabin.
"Mimi?" I hissed. No reply. I stepped forward and called her name again. A hand clamped over my mouth and I almost screamed. I heard an evil giggle.
"Hi, Khristi." a voice said in my ear. The hand over my mouth released it's hold.
"Mimi?"
"Who else?" That evil giggle again.
"Did you have coffee?"
"No. I'm just hyper at night."
"Guys? Everything okay in there?" Michael asked from the doorway.
"Yeah. Everything's fine." I replied. "Let's go. I've got the superglue. Mimi, do you have the pin?"
"Yep."
"Each of us should take a log," I said.
"A log? What are you guys doing?" Michael asked.
"No time to explain," I whispered. "Just do what we say."
"Okay." He grabbed a log. I did, too. We walked over to the Hermes cabin.
"Who should we do first?" Naomi asked.
"Connor," I hissed back. We lined up our logs. Naomi took one end of Connor's mattress. I was about to take the other end, but Michael stopped me and took it himself. They slowly pushed the mattress off the bed and onto the waiting logs.
"Okay, take it slowly," Naomi whispered. We slowly rolled the mattress forward on the logs. Once a log came out the back, I'd pick it up and put it in front. We slowly moved the mattress down to the lake and set it afloat. "Are you sure they know how to swim?" she asked.
"I've seen them. They swim like fish."
"If you're sure," she said. We did the same thing for Travis, then Naomi took the pin and poked one little hole in each mattress. "How long will it take for them to sink?" she asked.
"Long enough." I said. We went back to the Nemesis cabin. I grabbed the box, Naomi took the superglue, and Michael took the coke. We went over to the Hermes cabin, grabbed the Stolls' clothes, and put them in the box. Michael poured coke over it. Naomi took the lid and superglued it on. Then we went down to the lake and threw the box in after the Stolls, who were already pretty far out in the lake. The mattresses were already starting to deflate.
We sat in silence for a moment, then turned to head back to our respective cabins. I was almost to the Athena cabin when I felt a wet hand clamp over my mouth. What next? I thought, wondering who this person was.
A/N- Haha! Little cliffy! Guess who it is! I think this might be one of my longest chapters, too! REVIEW! Please?
-smartone101
