This one-shot does have a few spooky skeletons, but nothing very creepy. Just thought I'd put a little warning over here.
The Stoll brothers were looking forward to Halloween. It was the best evening to prank people, and not a lot of people dared to prank the brothers back. Still, both of them felt like they were forgetting something.
That something was the hair-dye prank. It had been three months since they had dyed appropriately-coloured streaks into Percy's and Dionysus' hair (in name of Peter Johnson, rest his soul in Camp Jupiter, of course) and even though the magical dye still wasn't fading, the Stolls had forgotten that both of the victims had been set on revenge. Yet, the victims hadn't.
The reason that they had waited with staging their plan for so long was because they knew the Stolls would forget. Yet, this night, they decided that the Stolls had forgotten enough. So, that evening, Dionysus called the entire Hermes cabin to the Big House, save for the Stolls. The Stolls didn't think a lot of it, at first at least, until they heard something by the door. It sounded like a cat was scratching it. 'That's weird,' Connor muttered to himself. He walked over to the door, and opened it. There was nothing. He shrugged, and closed the door again. A few seconds later, he again heard the sound, but louder this time. This time, Travis walked to the door. He still saw nothing. His brother sighed. 'Maybe there is something on the other side of the cabin?' He suggested. Travis shrugged. 'Let's take a look.'
Together, they walked around the Hermes cabin. Neither of them would tell the other, but they were both pretty scared about what could be going on. It was almost Halloween, after all. As soon as they reached the back of their cabin, they screamed in unison. There was, in fact, something scratching the walls of the cabin; it was even a cat. Yet, it wasn't exactly a living cat, but instead a skeleton. The Stolls looked around, and saw that there were seven more skeletons dancing around the place. They were literally dancing - Travis was pretty sure two of them tried to do the Macarena. 'Let's get out of here,' he whispered to his brother. Connor nodded, and together they ran away from the skeletons, and, unknowingly, towards their doom (also known as the lake).
Yet, when they started to run, the skeletons had stopped dancing and started to chase them. The Stolls ran faster, and they started to lose a few of the skeletons, but hadn't accounted for the cat. It was quicker than his bony family, and it jumped around their ankles when it reached the Stolls. That slowed the boys down, and as such it got easier for the other skeletons to catch up to them. After three of them had almost pulled the Stolls down by their ankles, Connor jumped over the cat and started sprinting. His brother quickly followed him, and it was then that they realised they had ran towards the lake.
As soon as they reached the deck, they started to realize that Percy and Dionysus had not, in fact, forgotten about the hair-dye disaster. And as soon as they started to realize that maybe going to the lake wasn't a very good idea, an enormous wave pulled them in. Both of the Stolls were screaming, but, of course, the sound got muddled under the water. Suddenly, vines grew out of nowhere and curled around their ankles, pulling them down even further. Connor reached towards his throat, but lucky for the brothers two bubbles formed around them, and that way they could breath.
Travis was the first one to calm down slightly, and he decided to think about the situation for a little while. A bunch of skeletons had chased them towards the lake, they had been thrown in with a wave, after that vines (how did they even grow under water? Travis asked himself) had pulled them towards the bottom and the moment they had really started to need air, the bubbles had formed around them so they could breath. Travis looked to the surface, wondering when he would be let out. Diner had already been served, so he wasn't really worried about food right now, but it couldn't be very comfortable to sleep in a bubble underwater.
His brother was wondering the same thing. He knew it was the evening of the thirtieth of October. He swallowed. Tomorrow it would be Halloween. He looked down. The vine and the bubble looked kind of nice - like a decoration of some sort. At that moment, he heard something knocking on the bubble. It was Percy. The son of the sea god opened the bubble, and came inside. He was carrying something. When he put it down, Connor saw that it was some orange juice, a few slices of bread, butter and jam, and a little bit of Halloween candy. Percy smiled at him. 'I'll get you out tomorrow morning. Here's a pillow and a blanket.'
Connor sighed. 'Who thought of what, if I may ask?' 'I asked Nico to summon the skeletons and drive you to the lake so I could pull you into it, and it was Dionysus' idea to put you two in bubbles, put them to the floor with vines and keep you two here for a few hours.'
'And you went along with that?'
'These bubbles aren't uncomfortable. Plus you two have food and water.'
'Isn't it to much for some hair-dye?'
'Consider it revenge for every prank you two got to play without consequences.' Connor sighed.
'All right, then.'
Percy swam to the other bubble to give food and blankets to Travis, and after that swam to the surface. Travis put a single piece of chocolate in his mouth, and layed down with the blanket and pillow after that. It wasn't to uncomfortable. 'I'd rather be on the surface. It is a little moist,' he thought to himself as he fell asleep.