To TheGirlofManyFloods,

I am really sorry, but I didn't really understand your advice.

You want me to add quotations to my story parts, or to Rick Riordan's book parts? And also, how will it be helpful ?

I have separated my story parts in plain text and Rick Riordan's book parts in bold.

Also if you will observe, I have left enough of Rick's book parts so that you can get an idea of what's there in the paragraph.

So, sorry, but can you please explain your advice with more clarity ?

PM if you want.

(If you are there on wattpad, I'd prefer that you PM me on wattpad, as wattpad is much more comfortable for me. I have the same username on wattpad.)

Thank you.

I don't send two immature, inexperienced twelve year olds who hate each other on the most important quest of the century to the Land of Dead.

My point?

Simple! I am not Rick Riordan!

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My dear readers. I am a reader too, so I very well know that at times readers skip parts of chapters which they don't find interesting. (I've done it myself at times.) But I request you to bear with me, and not skip any parts of this particular chapter. Thank you.

Showers With Chili Sauce And Cow Dung

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Annie watched Luke as he sulked down in his seat and stuffed a cheeseburger in his mouth.

Annabeth was scolding him about eating un-healthy food, but he didn't seem to be paying attention.

She still couldn't comprehend the fact that Luke could side with somebody so evil, and betray even her. It was pretty obvious now about who Luke's new master, the monster in the pit was.

The fact that Luke made the correct choices in the end was just a small balm to the pain. But it wasn't enough. She remembered her days when she had been on a run with Thalia and Luke. Even those horrible days seemed better than having Luke betray her.

"Hey," a familiar voice said from behind. She turned. Percy was looking at her, his eyebrows all scrunched up together. He looked cute when he was worried. But what was he worried about ?

"Hi," Annie said weakly.

"You want to talk about it?" Percy asked.

He is worried about me, Annie realized with a pang. "No. I am okay." Annie said.

Percy raised his eyebrows. Obviously Annie was not okay.

"It's just...he took care of me since I was seven. I can't believe he would do something like that to me."

Percy looked at Luke. "When I first saw Luke, it didn't strike to me either about how bad mistakes he could make. He seemed so easy going. I wonder what I did to make him betray me." Percy said with sadness.

Annie shook her head. "It's not because of you. It's because of his parents. You'll see it in the future books, I guess."

"I wish I could change how things work out in our universe."

"Me too. But we won't even be remembering anything. We cant change things we dont know about."

"You know what? Let's just stop worrying. We know that in the end things would work out. Besides, we'll be going through all of this together. We're a team right? We'll help each other out."

Annie smiled gratefully. Percy really knew how to cheer her up. It was reassuring to know that someone like Percy would be standing by her side.

"Thanks." Annie managed.

Percy sighed. "What did I tell you about this?"

"What?"

"I told you, no thank yous and no sorrys unless extremely necessary."

Annie's smile widened. "Well, I consider it extremely necessary."

"Whatever. I am going to the arena for practice. You coming?"

"Oh, yes. I can't wait to beat you again." Annie laughed and stood up.

"You wish." And then they ran towards the arena.

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After dinner everybody gathered around the TV Hephaestus had made to check the scores. Percy and Annie returned from the arena, grinning at each other and panting and sweating. They were definitely starting to get along now.

Everyone whooped as Hephaestus turned on the TV screen. Then everyone tensed and the room went silent. Everyone was excited to see who was on the lead and by how much and all the stuff.

The scores flashed as follows:

Team Apollo and Hermes: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO

Team Travis and Connor: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO

Team Percy and Annie: EVERYONE LUVS LEO

Team Poseidon and Athena: EVERYONE LOVES LEO

Team Leo: I AM McSHIZZLE BAD BOY SUPREME, SUPREME ADMIRAL COMMANDER OF THE ARGO II

Team Nico and Will: ALL DA LADIES LUV LEO

Team Ares and Aphrodite: ALL DA LADIES LOVE LEO

Team Zeus and Hera: ALL DA LADIES LOVE LEO

Hephaestus grinned and his eyes twinkled. Everyone else turned to glare at Leo, who was innocently whistling to himself at the corner of the room, pretending to be working on some miniature helicopter model.

"LEO!" Piper yelled loudly.

Leo yelped and jumped from his seat. "Jeez, Beauty Queen. What is it?"

"Oh, don't you dare act so innocent! Fix the TV !"

Leo raised his hands above his head. "Okay, beauty queen. Whatever. But you know everything written on the TV is the truth."

"Yeah, you wish." Percy said sarcastically.

Leo pulled a screw driver out of his pocket and did a few fixes. The TV screen went blank then turned on again.

Team Apollo and Hermes:13

Team Travis and Connor:12

Team Percy and Annie:11

Team Poseidon and Athena:9

Team Leo:8

Team Nico and Will:7

Team Ares and Aphrodite:5

Team Zeus and Hera: 7

"Alright everybody, listen up." Travis clapped his hands together to get everyone's attention. "Tomorrow breakfast will be the result declaration of the winner. The prize is this!" Travis took a cap out of his pocket.

"Hey!" Annabeth yelled. "That's mine!"

Travis stared at Annabeth, as he held the Yankees cap in his hands.

There were a few moments of silence, before Annabeth started stepping towards Travis with murderous looks on her face. Travis gulped and stepped back.

"Wh-what?!"

"You very well know it's mine." Annabeth grumbled. She was about to do to Travis what the Hulk had done to Loki in the Avengers movie, when she was suddenly interrupted.

"No!" Annie yelled. "It's mine!"

Annabeth frowned, then shook her head. "Annie, I lost my cap. It's obviously mine."

Annabeth turned to glare at Travis.

Travis gulped, then frowned. "I took this from Annie. I swear on the River Styx I don't know anything about where your cap is."

Annabeth's frown deepend as Travis gave Annie the cap, who dusted it off and stuffed it into her pocket.

"As for the real prize-" Connor continued quickly to save his brother from going to Tartarus. "-It is this!" Connor raised a shield in his hand, and Annabeth gasped, her mission of murdering Travis forgotten. It was that shield. Beckendorf's video shield!

"But this is Charlie's shield!" Annabeth exclaimed. "Nuh uh. Not quite." Connor said. "We had Lord Hephaestus make it."

Travis took the shield and pressed a button on it's arm band. It morphed into a clay bead. The kind of clay beads they get at Camp Half-Blood at the end of year. The only difference was this clay bead was three times the size of a normal bead, and had a button on it. On the bead's front was printed a small photo of the book they were currently reading.

"What's so special about that shield?" Poseidon asked with a frown.

Travis grinned, then pressed the button and the shield opened up. He spoke to the shield "show me Chiron" Sure enough, they could see Chiron, standing at a railing in front of The Big House, frozen in time, sipping from a cup while holding a magazine.

"It can show you any place or any person?" Athena asked curiously

"As long as the person or place is within the reach of sunlight." Hepheastus said with a nod.

"Well, that's one kind of shield I would want to have." Ares said with a grin.

"Alrighty everyone! Back to bed!" Connor said.

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Annabeth didn't show it, but from the inside she was really worried now. Heck, she was close to crying. She had lost Percy. She had lost her cap. Her mother had disowned her, and she couldn't even talk about it to anyone.

The book reading was making her remember all the painful things she had gone through with Percy, and it didn't exactly ease her mood. She was so frustrated and angry. She just wanted this to end now. She sighed and rested her back on the bedpost.

Her eyes started to slowly droop when she caught the smell. The smell of ocean. Suddenly she felt as if someone had touched her cheek and she gasped. She put her hand where here cheek had been touched, but there wasn't anything there - no hand.

Probably just the wind. Annabeth sighed, then laid flat on her back and closed her eyes.

"Just a few more days. Then I will get to see Percy." Annabeth muttered to herself.

How about tomorrow? A voice whisper-asked her.

"Percy?" Annabeth's eyes flew open and her heart started beating faster. She sat up and frantically started looking around, but she couldn't see anyone except the sleeping demigods.

She listened intently, but all she could hear was the loud snores coming from Grover and Coach Hedge.

Heck, Coach Hedge could snore louder than a dying Colchis Bull, and she had had some experience with that.

She was probably hallucinating. She would ask Apollo to check her tomorrow. She closed her eyes and laid on her back again. This time when she closed her eyes, she drifted to sleep.

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Hermes was so excited that he couldn't even sleep. Tomorrow he would win the prank wars. It was going to be awesome.

According to his classified spying information,

Team Poseidon and Athena, Team Leo, and Team Nico and Will, weren't interested in winning.

Team Zeus and Hera had been disqualified.

Travis and Connor would have done some excellent last day pranks, but Hermes had ensured that they were securely tied to their beds and wouldn't be able to get up till the next day's shower time, which meant they wouldn't be pranking anyone. Those Crusty's waterbed came useful in trapping them.

Ares and Aphrodite were too behind to be able to win.

Even Percy and Annie were too behind.

There was no chance anyone else was going to win. Him and Apollo would win easily! He didn't really care about the shield, but it was a good prize. The shield could make eavesdropping and thieving so much easier. Hermes grinned to himself once more. Tomorrow was going to be his big glorius day! He set his alarm on his cellphone excitedly and went to sleep. Little did he know about the upcoming winner of the prank wars.

【】 Time skip to morning brought to you by Crusty's Water Bed's Palace 【】

Leo sang 'Despacito' to himself as he dropped his clothes and turned on the shower. (Actually I don't really know any other Spanish songs. So I had to choose this one.)

"LEO, STOP SINGING SO BADLY, YOU ARE MAKING MY EARS BLEED!" Jason's voice yelled from the other stall. Leo grinned and sang louder. Though he had to shut up after receiving a shock.

He closed his eyes and continued to humm slowly as the relaxing water came down from the showers. After a few moments, he frowned. Something was wrong with the water. It felt different...thicker and warmer, and... He opened his eyes and yelped. The liquid he had been showering in wasn't water! It was... It was blood!!!

Leo screamed.

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Apollo relaxed into the bathtub. This was bliss. The warm water, the music playing from the speakers, the bubbles, it was all awesome. He hummed with the tune of the song when he noticed something strange.

There was a bubbling sound coming from the tap. He patted the tap lightly. The tap made some choking sounds. Apollo frowned. Suddenly water started spouting of the tap at the speed of a fire hose. But there was a problem... The water was black!

Beep beep beep.

Apollo gasped in horror as the black water... No! Black paint! As the black paint started flowing into the bathtub. He tried to stand up, slipped because of the water, and fell face first out of the bathtub. Apollo groaned.

The black paint shot out of the tap at the force of a fire hose and blasting him in his godly... Ouch.

"AAAAHHHH! OH MY-GAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!!"

The choking noise of the tap returned and the tap shut down.

Apollo groaned and tried to stand up. It really hurt. Again, Apollo fell hard on his rump, and the author's gluteus clenched in sympathy.

Apollo yelled some things that would've made Blackbeard blush. Angrily, he draped a towel around his now completely blackened body. Poseidon or Perseus, whoever had done this, was going to pay!

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Annabeth turned on the shower and took the bottle of her favorite lemon shampoo. She was about to pour some shampoo in her hand and rub it in her hair when she realized something. The shower was not spouting water! It was spouting... Her favorite Lemon shampoo!

Annabeth gasped. There were only three people alive who knew about her favourite lemon shampoo. They were Annabeth herself, her father Frederick, and Percy. But obviously ten-year-old Percy didn't know about her it. Which meant...

Annabeth's heart started beating at the speed of a bullet trian.

How about tomorrow? The whispering voice had asked her. Annabeth gasped loudly. The shampoo stopped pouring out of the shower tap, and soon it was normal water again. Annabeth quickly washed her body, used her towels. Then she got clothed and ran outside, her heart beating faster than any other heart in the world.

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Connor grinned as he turned on the tap. His dad had thought that he could win by trapping him in his own bed for the night. But Connor still had a few tricks up his sleeve. All he needed to do was wait till breakfast.

The smooth warm water started flowing out of the shower and Connor relaxed. It was heaven. He hummed music to himself and thought of the amazing pranks he was going to pull during breakfast.

He scratched his forhead as he continued to plan. He then scratched his neck as he thought about Travis' role in the pranks. He scratched his butt as he thought about the prize. Wait! Why was he feeling this urge to scratch himself all over the body.

Connor frowned, then gasped. "OH GODS! OHGODS! OHGODS! THIS IS REALLY ITCHYY OHMYGODS!!!" *scratch scratch scratch* "SOMEBODY GET ME SOME BODY LOTION THIS IS REALLY ITCHY!!"

Beep beep beep.

He furiously turned off the tap, drapped the towel, and ran outside. At the same time, Travis ran out from the other bathroom yelling "AAAHHH!!! THIS IS ITCHING!! GET ME SOME TALCUM POWDER!!! ITCHY, ITCHY. ITCHY!!"

Both clashed into each other, but they were too busy itching and scratching.

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Beep beep beep.

No, wait. This wasn't blood.

Leo frowned at the red liquid. It was...burning, irritating.

Leo took a bit of it off his cheeks and tasted it. Hmm...this is...

"OOOHHH MYYY GOODDDSSS! OHMYGODS! OHMYGODS! HOT! HOT! THIS BURNS! SOMEBODY GET ME WATER! WAATTTEEER! I WILL NEVER EAT CHILI SAUCE EVERR AGAIN!" Leo yelled.

Much to his relief, the shower started spouting normal, cold water.

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Hermes snapped his fingers and got clothed. He was fuming. Percy or Poseidon, one of them had managed to prank him. Now his whole body was smelling of a weird mixture of mayonnaise and rotten tomatoes. He walked out of his palace and teleported to the dining room. He looked around.

In one corner, Apollo, dressed only in a towel, was arguing with Poseidon. For some reason, Poseidon had been attacked by blue paint, which meant he hadn't done the prank. Apollo, on the other hand had been attacked by black paint. His gold body was now completely black. Hermes stifled a laugh.

Behind Apollo, were standing Nico and Will, completely painted in rainbow colours.

Hermes looked around. All the non participating demigods and gods were watching the show with amusement while having their breakfast. This was certainly good entertainment for them. Hermes heard yells and screams. He turned back to see who it was.

"BUT I DIDN'T! IT WASN'T ME!" Percy yelled.

"STOP LYING SEAWEED BRAIN. ONLY YOU COULD HAVE DONE THAT LEMON SHAMPOO THING TO MY SHOWER'S PLUMBING!" Annie yelled.

"I GOT ATTACKED BY BLUE SALT WATER! MY FATHER WAS ATTACKED BY BLUE SALT WATER TOO! HOW CAN YOU BLAME ME!" Percy yelled back.

Hermes frowned.

Sure enough, Percy too, was painted completely blue, though the colour suited him well.

Hermes painfully clapsed his hands to his ears as shrill screamings and wailings filled the air. Dressed only in her bath robes, Aphrodite rushed in, screaming like a little girl whose favorite toy had been crushed.

Everyone looked at her and their mouth's dropped open. But that wasn't because Aphrodite was looking beautiful. "WHO DARED TO PUT HELLHOUND PEE IN MY SHOWER?!" she asked steaming.

At exactly the same moment, Athena walked in swiftly, and she too was fuming.

"I have been pranked. Salt water? Really? Perseus Jackson, you dare to prank me with saltwater?"

She spoke to herself. Percy opened his mouth to argue, but he was cut off by another fantastic entry.

Hera, the Queen of Gods, came running into the room, wailing. And her face was coated with...

Cow dung.

Everyone burst into laughter. Hera grumbled and started walking towards Poseidon when another voice yelled.

"POSEIDON!!!"

This time it was Zeus, almighty thunderpants King of Gods. He too was coated in hellhound pee. Hermes wrinkled his nose.

"FOR THE SAKE OF OLYMPUS, I DIDN'T DO IT!" Poseidon yelled.

"NEITHER DID I!" Percy yelled.

Then Leo and the Stolls came in running. They hadn't been coloured or coated with cow dung, but the Stolls were coated completely white with talcum powder for some reason. Coated from head to toe. Fully white.

"LEO?!" Hera asked.

"Shut up Tia Callida. I have been pranked too. I WAS PRANKED WITH HOT CHILI SAUCE, FOR TYE SAKE OF OLYMPUS!" he yelled and burst into flames.

Hermes winced. He had had his own share of pranks with chili sauce, and it wasn't exactly a sweet experience. More like spicy. A lot of spicy.

Hermes turned to look at the Stolls. They shook their heads. "We've been pranked too." They said together.

Then who?

Then Annabeth came running in. But she didn't stop anywhere. Her face was strangely lit up, as if she had just been granted a wish. She ran straight to the pranking TV screen and turned it on. Her smile widened into a grin.

Team Apollo and Hermes: 14

Team Travis and Connor: 12

Team Percy and Annie: 11

Team Poseidon and Athena: 9

Team Leo: 8

Team Nico and Will: 7

Team Ares and Aphrodite: 5

Team Zeus and Hera: 7

(New entry) Team Perseus Jackson: 15 : Winner!

Hermes' jaw dropped to the floor.

Athena frowned. "But where is he?"

"Right here." A voice said.