AN: Here I am, again! Hope you enjoy chapter 30:
Leo's PoV
If they caught me, I was dead. No machine could help me. But I needed those points – I could already imagine what I would dare the girls. I stood up and left the cabin, looking back and knowing a few of them were going to follow me to make sure I was doing it. I decided my route, leave the hardest to the end. I went into the Hermes cabin, the easiest, I hoped. I opened the door, making sure to keep it ajar for when I needed to escape. I looked around, carefully, and located two boys on the bottom bunk of two beds closest to the door.
I moved over like a mouse, careful not to make a noise, and locked eyes upon my target. I took a deep breath, knowing how much this was going to hurt, it had happened to me once, before, some kind of run in with a monster. I pulled up my elbow and punched, hard, maybe too hard, not missing my target. As the boy, Chris, I thought it was, sat up instantly and yelled, I ran over to the next bed and punched before running out the door.
"What the fuck!?" screamed the second one as I slammed the door behind me and, sprinting at full pace through the camp, heard the door open and the two boys run out, looking for me. I moved to the Iris cabin next and hit my targets. The next few cabins I completed without too much trouble. I'd done 7 cabins by that point: 14 boys had been hit and I still had a few more left.
Picking my way through the shrubbery (for I had been forced to take shelter to hide from one of the boys), I made my way towards the Aphrodite cabin. The boys in here, I knew, generally slept towards the back. There was a ladder leaning against the side of the cabin, I scrambled up it and found two holes looking down, both of them near a bed.
I dangled myself down and dropped, gently, onto the carpet which, I hoped, muffled the noise. I moved a few metres to the back of the cabin and found a few people there: it was eerily silent, Aphrodite's children never snored, that could break up relationships. I cast my eyes upon two of the boys and punched both, at the same time.
The chorus of screaming, like out of tune strings on a violin, was horrifying and raucous. The Aphrodite boys were such wimps. As if in harmony, every pair of eyes in the room fluttered open. Shit. I leaped back into the centre of the cabin and jumped up, just grabbing the side of the ceiling with help from a chair nearby. My arm muscles were weak, I could just about wield a sword. I began to pull myself up, remembering the monkey bars in playgrounds when I was a child.
When my navel had gone above the surface of the cabin, I felt the first few hands, clawing for a grip. They wanted revenge, obviously, and I knew that Jason and Percy had left them hanging not too long before. I was just another boy. Why did I choose this cabin?
The first two pairs of hands grabbed my shoes first, I could do without them so I continued to pull myself up, wriggling out of the shoes. My socks were pulled off next and then I felt hands groping at the hems of my trouser legs. My belt did little to hold them up and, slowly, they were pulled down. In a last effort, I pulled myself up and jumped off the cabin roof, leaving my bottom-half clothes inside the cabin. There were a few scratch marks on my shin, that was the limit of the damage.
Two more cabins left, four more boys, eight more balls. I then entered the Athena cabin and finding my targets. I wanted to make this quick – it was cold and I didn't want anyone finding me in just my briefs, I remembered the last time I'd walked around camp in just my underwear.
I punched, both, and made for the door. It bolted shut. The cries of the boys went on as they were brought from their slumbers in the most painful way possible. I realised, with horror, that this was some kind of trap. Oh, get me out! A loud alarm noise sounded and the other cabin members sat up groggily to stare at me. I was stuck behind a glass cage, a light shone upon me and no escape.
Malcolm Pace was the first to respond, he stood up and walked towards me. With relief, I knew he wasn't one of those I punched. He looked at me, up and down. I was standing, behind the glass, in just a t-shirt and green briefs, he was on the other side in just his red briefs. We could have joined together and become Christmas.
"SPIDERS! I'll set my spiders on you!" was the only thing I could come to think of. Well, it seemed to work. Malcolm instantly groped at a button and the glass screen flung up into the ceiling tiles. I bolted to the door and made my escape. Whenever trapped by one of the Athena's children, just say spiders.
After making sure I was well out of the way, I made my way to the last cabin, the hardest one: the Area cabin. I took several deep breaths and opened the door a crack after I'd avoided the traps they have outside. I stepped in, avoiding the rug on the floor which would send spears springing right up where you don't want them, I avoided the fake bed which would burst into flames if you touched it and the dangling light switch with would turn into a snake and strangle you. Health and safety nightmare, this cabin.
I found two people right by the door, convenient and, after checking they weren't dummies, hit them. Quicker than I could move one metre, they burst out of bed, fully clothed and one punched me in the nose. I fell onto the floor. They didn't even make a noise, I did. The other campers didn't wake. The two boys looked at each other, and then I saw my mistake: I'd hit two of the girls. Fuck. One came down, grabbed my briefs, and pulled them off, leaving me exposed.
"I've never seen one before." The one on the right commented.
"It's smaller than the one's I've seen." The other laughed. "Ready?"
"Let's do it."
They pulled up their feet and kicked downwards with so much force. I howled in pain.
"Better go quickly before anyone else sees you like that." The one on the left told me.
Still wincing and swearing, I pulled up my briefs, opened the door and bolted out, expertly avoiding the weapons. I made my way to my own cabin and put on a pair of boxers and loose jeans, the briefs were making it more painful. After crossing over to Jason's, I saw them all roaring with laughter. I guess they'd all been told what had gone on.
"No…pains, Leo?" Piper asked me, hiccoughing.
"I'm surprised they found the target, it's that small." Joked Leo, I scowled at him as he picked up the pad and gave me a point. I spun the bottle, it pointed at me again, brilliant. I took off my t-shirt and jumper, which I had put on because of the cold. I spun it again: Annabeth.
"Annabeth?" I asked.
"Truth." She replied, obviously not wanting to go through anything like what I'd just done.
"What did you do with the photos you took of us in our underwear?"
"Oh, those, well…we managed to get physical copies, kept some of them and we're thinking of selling some of them." She said smiling. There was an outburst from us boys, but we knew there was nothing we could really do.
Annabeth spun the bottle and it landed on Travis. "Truth or dare?"
"Dare." He replied easily.
"Let us all put something down your underwear."
AN: The next chapter will certainly be interesting :P. Thanks to you for reading this and don't forget to review, favourite and follow! Hope you enjoyed!