A/N: Thank you to DrakonOwl21195, Luna Space, Amaya, BrockenMockingjay, FanBoyFanatic, Greekgodsrox (an hour? You must read at the speed of a jaguar), Bellatricus, Hispanicin, ChilTy, gerky, and Thrawn13.

To everyone saying that the marking for the guys was lenient... yeah, I kind of messed that up and had to reorder who I wanted to win and so it wasn't fully accurate... then again in real life some people are nicer than others.

Percy had been blindfolded and was being carried somewhere in a truck. No- he hadn't been capture by Gaia's minions or some other weird monsters- that would have been preferable to his current situation. And if he had known in advance what was going to happen, he would've just gone and hid in a hole at the bottom of the sea until the very end of time.

"Where are we going?" Percy asked.

"The land of your nightmares," Leo replied.

The van stopped, and Percy got out to see that he was at the local animal pound.

"Why are we here?" Percy asked. "And what's up with the ambulance?"

"We think you might need one," Jason explained. He then motioned over to a few cages that were being kept on a cart. There were three of them and all of them contained dogs.

"You sir, are going to abandon those dogs," Frank said. "And following that, you're going to say whatever we tell you to in your earpiece on why you're abandoning them."

All three of them gave evil cackles as Percy took the cart into the pound.

And, Percy was surprised to see that there were around fifteen people there… holding up signs which seemed to suggest that they were protesting conditions at the pound.

"Surprise, Percy," Jason said. "I'll have you know that the pound staff here are hired actors- but those are real animal rights activists."

"Which is bad because they're going to hate you more than they hate poachers who hunt endangered species after this," Frank said.

Percy shook his head.

"Tell the guy at the counter that you want to abandon a few dogs, starting with the small Chihuahua," Leo said.

"Um, I'm here to abandon a few dogs," Percy said, with an eye nervously creeping towards the horde of men and women who seemed to be disgusted at him. "Starting with this Chihuahua here."

The guy working the counter was probably just a fourteen year old trying to save up money for whatever fourteen year olds want these days, and he asked, "Why?"

Now, I think it should be noted here that the Chihuahua in question was extremely cute. Like seriously melt-your-heart-out kind of cute.

"Tell him that when you're angry, you use it as a piñata," Leo said. "But the thing is that it has started bleeding too much when you hit it after repeated trauma and now its been staining your carpet."

Percy wished to be anywhere else in the world right then. "Well, see, when I'm mad and need something to vent my frustration on, I hang it up and use it as a piñata, you know, when the blood comes out I say that it's the candy, but I guess too much of it is coming now and it really stains the carpet you know? I guess I might have hit it so much it's permanently damaged."

There was dead silence. It was so awkward that Percy was sure that it was just the calm before the storm.

"Wow Percy, you are a terrible person," Jason said.

"I think they might take Jason and use him as a piñata," Leo said.

"If so, we're going to go in there and join them, right?" Frank said.

"Now pick up the Rottweiler and tell her that you found it as an abandoned puppy, enjoyed torturing it, but now it doesn't cry anymore since it's so used to what you've done," Jason said.

"And I don't want this Rottweiler either," Percy said. "I'm tired of it."

"You didn't even give it a name?" one of the protestors asked.

"Yeah, see the thing is I picked it off the streets as a puppy," Percy said. "But then I started torturing it just so I could you know, enjoy it cry and all, but I think I did it so much that now it's accustomed to it and won't react no matter what I do with it."

Percy could feel the tension in the room.

"And now finally pick up the small puppies and say that these cried too much when you tried experimenting on them," Leo said.

"And these puppies, well, I just got then now and I'm going to get rid of them because when I try experimenting on them, they cry too much-" Percy said but didn't get further, as the crowd of protestors surged forwards.

Percy hightailed it out of there while laughter echoed from his earpiece.

Leo switched off the microphone. "Do you think we should tell him that those protestors are really also just actors we hired to get mad at him and they won't actually do anything to him?"

"You know, we could," Jason said. "But Percy is the kind of person who enjoys exploring."

"So we should let him figure it out on his own," Frank said.

Leo turned to the camera, "No animals were harmed during the making of this punishment."

A/N: With that we cross several milestones... we've finally finished five story arcs and crossed 100k words, making this the second longest thing I've ever written. It'd be great if we'd cross 500 reviews too (wink wink) this time as well.

Anyway, thanks for reading up till now. Honestly I was surprised that this has lasted this long... my greatest fear was that I would either run out of ideas or it would stop being funny, and I have to admit there are some chapters that weren't as funny as others. However, with the sixth arc I'm going to try out some different kinds of contests to shake it up a bit.