A/N: First of all, there has been a rather big problem… I can't seem to see any of your reviews. I mean, it says that this story has 37 right now, but there are only 28 listed. And the number was 34 before, then 36, then 37, but the reviews I can see and count are only 28 on various browsers so I'm guessing that this is the site's fault. And yes, it is very frustrating knowing that so many of you wrote something and that I can't see it. I know it takes some time for reviews to show up, but it has been a few days and it usually takes less than ten minutes to an hour, so I have sent a message and we'll see how it ends up.

Thanks for your reviews CrazyBlueOwl (I'm glad to include all your favorite things) and Khaos20 (no clues because I haven't thought of it completely) and anyone else who reviewed but the review didn't show up because of some reason, of which, I'm assuming the regulars like SuzuBells and lunarchroniclesandcockatiels as well as Jaspercabeth83 also did. If you had something important to say/ask you can PM me, and I'll answer your questions when your reviews show up.

Task 4: This task involves spinning a wheel known as the Wheel of Doom. It consists of eight segments on which it can land, which are, in order, going clockwise:

Take $20 from every other contestant.

Collect someone's toenail clippings.

Get someone to hug you (without directly asking them).

Pick your poison.

Put someone's sock in your mouth.

Polish someone's shoes without them noticing.

Go around in a humiliating costume (picked by the others).

Get someone to say, "You're the boss!" without ever actually asking them directly to do so.

Each contestant will spin the wheel once, and they have thirty minutes to complete the said task, and if they fail, they get a negative point.

And because some of you may have some questions in this regard, we're also going to be explaining the punishments. At the end of four rounds (or occasionally three rounds), the contestant(s) with the most negative points are punished and this punishment is meted out by the others (keep in mind everything has to be PG-13 people), and this means that in some situations, three of them might be punished by one person. Now, in the case that everyone has the same number of negative points (which to my knowledge never happened even on the original show), I'm guessing we'll probably due a quick segment, like 'My Great Idea To Change the World' where there is guaranteed to be one winner.


This time, Leo decided to go up first.

"No matter what happens though Leo, you're definitely getting punished," Jason said. "The only question is if anyone is going to be sharing your punishment."

"Not if all of you fail in this," Leo said.

"Unlikely," Frank said. "Just spin the wheel already."

"Right," Leo said, and nervously spun the wheel with bated breath. Finally, it landed on 'Pick your poison.'

"So, which one of the other segments are you choosing?" Percy asked.

"I think I'll, uh-" Leo said, scratching his chin, when his eyes lit up. "I think I'll take twenty dollars from every other contestant."

"Wait, he's allowed to do that?" Frank asked.

"I don't think so," Jason said. "I mean, it does say 'pick your poison,' and money doesn't really count as poison."

Leo patted Jason's shoulder. "Actually, I will have you know, Jason, my friend, that the love of money is the root of all evil, and greed destroys people. Money breaks up families and leads to so many social evils. So come on, get twenty bucks out, each of you, and give it all to Uncle Valdez!"

"Shouldn't we have specified these things in the wheel?" Jason asked.

Leo frowned. "I could only make it so big, and I asked one of you to make an advanced rulebook."

"I did," Frank said. "But why didn't you just print the words smaller?"

"How much smaller did you want me to print it? It is barely visible as it is, and that's mainly Percy's fault for buying such a small wheel," Leo said.

"It was the best I could do with the money you gave me," Percy said.

"Yeah, well maybe I'd have more money if you'd all quit blabbering and give me twenty bucks each, and Frank finally pays me back for that incident on Thursday," Leo retorted.

Percy and Jason both asked, "What incident on Thursday?" while Frank made a face that said, 'Shut up, you'll get your money soon, just keep this between us Leo.'

There was some bickering, but in the end it was decided that Leo couldn't pick that option, based on the 'Advanced Rules' that had been written by Frank (as he was the only one non-dyslexic) beforehand and it mentioned that 'pick your poison' did not include that specific segment.

And so, Leo decided to go with polishing someone's shoes without them noticing.

"Now, just to be clear," Frank said, reading from the Advanced Rulebook, "the person has to be wearing the shoes at the time, and you must rub them with a cloth for at least two seconds each on each shoe, and they can't see you doing this. You've got thirty minutes starting now."

Leo wasted ten minutes dressing up to the occasion in a weird sort of military camouflage uniform, with a helmet that had two twigs attached to it.

Outside, there was an unsuspecting demigod who was munching on a sandwich while glancing around, probably thinking about whatever nonsense teenagers at summer camp usually think about.

"However, our unsuspecting demigod doesn't know, while he munches on his- okay, can you guys tell what kind of sandwich that is?" Percy asked.

"Peanut butter and jelly," Jason said, while Frank answered, "Lettuce and mayonnaise," simultaneously.

"Okay, so he's eating some time of sandwich," Percy said. "What he doesn't know, however, that he is currently being stalked by a predator known as Leo Valdez, who is currently peaking at him from a bush."

"Stop making this sound weird," Leo said as quietly as possible. To avoid detection, he had taken a route that made him circumvent a good portion of camp, so that he had only four minutes left to get the job done.

"Leo, there is almost literally no way this can't sound weird," Jason said.

Leo was crouched behind the bench where the guy was, but the thing was that he had an annoying habit of moving his feet while eating, and one time almost hit Leo in the face.

"And so, Leo waits for an opening, when his prey will let his guard down," Percy said.

To Leo's relief, the guy finally stopped moving his legs, and so Leo took out a small white cloth (if you're wondering, no, it didn't have shoe polish on it, it was just a cloth) and began rubbing the guy's left shoe. He got through that for two seconds quite easy, but when he moved on to the right shoe, just as he was done, the guy moved his foot, meaning that he felt something latched onto his leg.

If you're wondering, the guy's name was Dave, and he was surprised to feel something tugging on his leg. He turned around to see nothing, but there was something moving behind the bush, and he could swear he had seen someone's shoe there….

Feeling that this was getting rather weird, he called out, "Who's there?"

Let it never be said that Leo Valdez never comes prepared with a gadget for any situation. He took out his voice modulator, something that was disguised neatly as a bowtie, and set it to a female voice, though getting an old woman's accent from North Carolina wasn't what he was expecting.

"Oh, I'm just a tree nymph," Leo said through his voice modulator.

"But, but, what was that about my shoe?" Dave asked. He had half a mind to peek behind the bush.

"Don't you dare look behind the bush," Leo said as he crawled away. "I'll have you know that I'm changing."

"Why are you doing it in public then?" Dave asked, confused.

"Because- THE COW GOES MOO!" Leo's voice modulator suddenly malfunctioned.

"Nymphs," Dave muttered and walked off.

Leo walked all the way back, trying not to notice that the guys back at headquarters were probably literally rolling on the floor laughing.

Result: Leo passed.


Next was Percy's turn. He spun the wheel, for it to land on 'Take $20 from every other contestant.'

"Lucky…" Leo muttered under his breath.

All of them did hand over Percy twenty dollars though.

Result: Percy passed.


Next up was Frank, and he actually landed on a segment that was purportedly difficult.

"Okay, so you have to collect someone's toenail clippings," Percy said. "And the advanced rules say that they have to be a fresh sample."

"Wait, so I can't go and find toenail clippings from somewhere?" Frank asked, realizing that he shouldn't have written that in, and that this was going to be much harder than he had thought.

"Where would you have found toenail clippings from?" Leo asked.

"Probably the Hermes Cabin," Percy said. "If it is anything like the last time I visited there, you'll find lots of stuff in various places… including toenail clippings."

"But here, Frank," Jason said. "You can have these." Jason gave Frank a toenail clipper and a Ziploc bag.

The Roman Legion taught you a lot of things, but how to take some random stranger's toenail clippings was not one of them.

Frank spent five minutes scratching his head wondering just what he was going to do.

He then wandered off towards the Athena cabin.

"The Athena cabin?" Jason asked. "What's he doing?"

There, Frank managed to find Malcolm, who was doing reading something.

"Hi there Malcolm," Frank said.

"Oh, hi," Malcolm said, looking up from his book for a second.

"See, there's something I sort of need," Frank said. "I'm doing this kind of school project on the study of human nails."

"You're doing it on onycology?" Malcolm asked.

"Yeah…" Frank said.

"He has no idea what that is," Percy said. "By the way, what is onyco-whatever Malcolm said?"

"Scientific study of nails," Leo said. The other two stared at him oddly. "What? I read sometimes too."

"Thing is though, that I've already clipped all of mine, and I sort of needed another sample, so could I clip some of your toenails?" Frank asked.

"Uh, yeah, thing is though that I already clipped mine four days ago," Malcolm said. He took off his shoe and sock to show neatly trimmed toenails- way more neatly trimmed than should actually be humanly possible. It was still just barely possible to take clippings though

"It's alright," Franks said. "I think that's enough."

"Alright then," Malcolm said, scratching his head, and thinking that it would be really odd to for anyone to see Frank, Praetor of New Rome, clipping his toenails.

Result: Frank passed.


"The Athena cabin is probably the only ones who would give someone their toenails for study," Percy said. "Great job Frank. Now, Leo's still the one who's most behind, so that means if Jason fails…"

Jason ignored Percy and spun the wheel.

"So Jason, you need to put someone's sock in your mouth," Percy said. He then flipped through the Advanced Rules. "And by the way, they need to have been wearing it at the time, so sneaking into the Camp laundry."

Jason walked out of the place, feeling very confident. He then went up to the climbing wall, where there was a bulky son of Ares who had just finished climbing.

"What's up?" he asked when he saw Jason.

"To be honest, things are going pretty bad," Jason said.

"Why?"

"I was just told that I had weird feet," Jason said.

"Someone said…. that you have weird feet?" the guy asked.

"Yeah," Jason said and began taking off his shoe and sock. "See, do they look abnormal to you."

"No," the guy said. "Mine's are even weirder." The guy started taking off his shoe and sock as well.

"Oh," Percy thought. "Clever."

"Wait a minute," Leo said. "Jason, you can't possibly be thinking of putting the sock of a child of Ares in your mouth? You do realize just how much they pay attention to hygiene, don't you? Not at all, I mean, even Frank's socks smell horrible and he's a clean freak compared to the rest of them."

Frank was about to feel insulted, but instead said, "Leo, why have you been smelling my socks."

"Research purposes…" Leo muttered, though so softly no one could hear him.

Jason knew Leo was right, he could almost smell the stench immediately as the guy took off his shoe, and then his sock, and while he was showing Jason how weird his feet were, Jason put the sock in his mouth.

"I'd honestly prefer losing to having to do that," Percy said.

Result: Jason passed… though it can be argued that he was the biggest loser, since, you know.

A/N: And that ends our chapter. The result is the same as last chapter, with Leo, Jason, and Percy having a negative point each, and Leo having two, making Leo this arc's loser, who will be punished in the next chapter before the next arc begins. Also, the Wheel of Doom will be making debuts again, though it will be changed slightly.

As a note, the punishment chapters will generally be shorter than the others. Also, updates are going to be a whole lot slower now since I'll be busy, probably only an update once per week.

Thanks for reading, and as always, do review if you liked.