A/N: Thanks to everyone who reviewed, including Verteller (I suppose the distance was small enough so he wouldn't feel anything), DaughterOfApollo, Annabeth and Percy Jackson, Thrawn13, Yup just another, CallMeQueen (I can't draw well though), Flarecraft11, FanBoyFanatic, Sage Nicholson, gerky, TheBookFiend, and GoldenRacehorse.

Task Two: Our old four players return for this task.

Camp Half-Blood is having a small parade for a reason that Leo didn't bother to read or pay any attention to, and Chiron has asked the campers to make floats for the parade. Each of the contestants has to present a float to Chiron that they haven't seen before and which has been made by the three others. In addition to this, they have to do an tell whatever it is that they're told. Refusal to do so will lead to a penalty, and if they can't get Chiron to approve it for the parade, then they also lose.

First up was Leo.

"Alright, Mr. Valdez," Chiron said, tapping a hoof impatiently. "Just where is your float?"

"It's right here," Leo said.

Leo led Chiron to something covered by a huge curtain. Whatever it was was pretty big- almost truck-sized.

"I have to say that your float is much larger than the other camper's," Chiron said.

"Hey Leo, say 'That's what she said, but not about my float,'" Percy said.

Frank and Jason both guffawed.

Leo's face turned a bright shade of red which he tried repressing as he stuttered to get the sentence out. He then decided that if he was going to say it, he might as well say it in style.

"Well, that's what she said, but it wasn't about my float," Leo said.

"Oh, really, I would've never though of that," Chiron said sarcastically. "You must consider yourself so full of wit, Mr. Valdez."

"Getting' roasted by Chiron, huh?" Frank asked.

"Say that it was about your fidget spinner collection," Jason said.

"It was about my fidget spinner collection," Leo said.

Chiron frowned. "You mean those small, stupid things? You collect them?"

"Yeah," Leo said.

"So now Leo, take off the curtain," Percy said.

"And, now, prepare to be amazed," Leo said as he began pulling the curtain off.

"Well, I am amazed," Chiron said. "Where is your float?"

Leo turned around to see a huge framework that was supporting the curtain as well as a huge raised wooden stage on which there was… nothing.

"Is it invisible or something?" Chiron asked.

"Uh…" Leo said, rendered speechless.

"Wow, Leo can't say anything," Frank said. "That doesn't happen a lot."

"By the way Leo, we weren't lazy. We actually made your float for you," Percy said. "Go to the middle of the stage we built."

Leo moved towards the center of the stage where, once he looked around, still saw nothing.

"Look down, and make sure you don't break it by stepping on it," Jason said. "It was expensive."

Leo looked down wondering just what was going on around here where he noticed something rather small, only slightly larger than a pebble. He then knelt down to get a better look.

"Oh, so this is my float," Leo said to himself. "Hey Chiron, come over here!"

Chiron trotted on over to see what Leo was looking at.

"Why, it's positively minuscule," Chiron said.

The float was actually pretty well made- it had designs of horses and dragons on it and would have looked pretty cool except for the fact that it could've fit in the palm of Leo's hand.

"Leo, say, 'That's what she said, but it wasn't about my float' again," Frank said.

Leo shook his head. "Yeah, well that's what she said, but it wasn't about my float."

Chiron looked at Leo as if he was wondering if Leo had suddenly grown a third eye.

Leo however, was waiting for the three others to tell him something else like they had the first time… but all he got back was silence.

"Aww, you were expecting us to add something else so it wouldn't look like you were talking about… well, you know what, right?" Frank said.

"And instead all you get is awkward silence," Percy said.

"Now, Mr. Valdez, I do have to admire the handiwork on this miniature," Chiron said. "But I'm afraid that it is far too small for us to take on the parade grounds."

"Leo, say that it was originally full-sized, but then give the stupidest reasons for why it's small now," Jason said.

"Well, see, the thing is that it was originally pretty big," Leo said. "Like huge, but then I think I might have accidentally hit it with a shrink ray. I might make a movie on it once- I'll call it, 'Honey, I shrank the Float.'"

Chiron sighed. "Mr. Valdez, shrink rays don't exist."

"Oh, or maybe it found one of those cupcakes that were, you know, in Alice in Wonderland and then it got smaller," Leo said.

"Floats can't eat cupcakes," Chiron said.

"Or maybe when I took a photo of it and shrank it on Photoshop, it shrunk in real life as well," Leo said. "I heard that's a new feature they added."

Chiron looked at Leo blankly. "Is this whole thing just some sort of elaborate practical joke… am I wasting my time here?"

"One more ridiculous story and then you can proceed," Frank said.

"No, no," Leo said. "I think the Hermes cabin's messing with me. They must've come, taken away my float, and then built a tiny replica as a joke."

"While I think that the Hermes cabin is probably the only one with enough time to play a practical joke like that, I doubt that they have the skill needed to make something of this quality and furthermore, where would they hide something that large?" Chiron asked.

"Hey Leo, run over to the camp store so and grab yourself a root beer," Percy said.

"Uh, could you just wait five minutes?" Leo asked. "I have something I need to get at the store."

Leo rushed on over to get the mug of root beer. Alcohol was technically strictly prohibited, but since when had that stopped the Hermes cabin?

"Now run back over to Chiron," Frank said. 'Trust me, this part is going to be the best."

Leo sighed inwardly- it was bad enough with all that happened already. What could be worse?

Chiron was waiting with an impatient look on his face.

"Now put the mug of root beer down and put the float in it," Jason said.

Leo was confused but followed.

"Now say that it isn't a float anymore, it's a root beer float," Percy said.

Leo groaned. "Well, this isn't a float anymore, it's a root beer float."

"This was a complete waste of time, wasn't it?" Chiron asked. "And you did all of this for a pun?"

"I regret nothing," Leo said.

Result: Leo lost.


Percy was leading Chiron towards where 'his' float was.

"Now why is it in the Poseidon Cabin again?" Chiron asked.

"I had to put in a cold place," Percy said. He didn't know why, but the others had told him that it needed to be refrigerated.

Percy and Chiron walked into the Poseidon Cabin and Percy shuddered. The inside was a cold as a walk-in freezer and he was dressed for the summer.

"What… is that?" Chiron asked.

Percy saw his float- it was depicting a large number of seahorses and chariots. It was pretty cool, except that for some reason it was made entirely out of something that was yellow.

Chiron frowned and touched the base of the float where the stuff came off. He sniffed it. "What is this?"

"It's a float made entirely out of butter," Frank said.

"It's a float made entirely out of butter," Percy said.

"Out of butter?" Chiron asked. "Why?"

"Well," Jason said. "People said that your old float wasn't good enough, so you decided to make it butterer than ever."

Leo shook his head. "Seriously? Puns again? You do realize that puns are the lowest form of humor, don't you? The only thing maybe remotely worse are fart jokes."

"Well, everyone said that the old one that I made wasn't good enough," Percy said. "So I decided to make this new one butterer than ever."

"But you made it out of butter… we can't take this around the place Percy. You might as well have made it out of sand," Chiron said.

"You know what to say, don't you Percy…" Leo said.

"I don't like sand," Percy said. "It's coarse, and rough, and irritating… and it gets everywhere."

"That may well be," Chiron said. "But we still can't take this float outside. It'll melt in the summer heat."

"Man, no one ever gets that reference," Frank said.

"Percy, say that you made another float, but it's made out of your tears and it's kept together using your water powers," Jason said.

"Do you want to see my other float, Chiron?" Percy asked. "I made it out of my tears. I need to use my water powers to hold it together though."

"Now that's even more impractical than this thing," Chiron said.

"But I can put it in a huge glass box and we'll have it air conditioned," Percy said.

Chiron stroked his chin. "Well, I suppose that it could work… you know, just maybe. Alright then Perseus, if you can manage to ensure that it doesn't melt, well then I suppose we can make this a great addition to our parade."

Result: Percy passes


Next up was Jason and Chiron approached the float, which was currently covered in a huge curtain just like Leo's, which was probably bigger than the actual float.

"So, what is it that you've made?" Chiron asked.

"Well, it's this," Jason said as he took off the curtain and revealed… his float.

"Just what is this supposed to be?" Chiron asked.

At the top there was a huge statue of what looked like a puppet with a giant nose (Jason guessed it was Pinocchio) who was standing near a blank canvas with a paint brush in his hand. Below this were a lot of paintings.

"This is an art exhibit kind of float," Jason said.

"I see," Chiron said. "Why is Pinocchio on the top then?"

"Because Pinocchio's one of the greatest artists of all time," Percy said.

"Because he's one of the greatest artists of all time," Jason said.

Chiron frowned. "I believe you mean Picasso Jason."

"Oh, well then I guessed Pinocchio lied to me then," Jason said. "No wonder his nose is so big."

"Fun fact, Percy was actually supposed to put Picasso up there but he messed up," Leo said.

"Hey! How am I supposed to tell the difference! Both of them sound the same," Percy said.

"Now show Chiron all of the paintings," Frank said.

"Now, I think we should see the paintings first," Jason said. He then showed Chiron the first one, which was just Leo's painting way back from 'A Picture Worth Zero Words.' "This was made by Leo."

"Hey!" Leo said. "You guys put my painting upside-down again!"

"No we didn't," Frank said. "It makes more sense that way."

"No it doesn't!" Leo said. "That's the wrong way!"

"This is the latest in abstract art, or so I'm told," Jason said.

"Art keeps getting weirder and weirder," Chiron said.

The next was a portrait of someone picking their nose.

"This is a portrait of someone picking their nose," Jason said. "I like to call it, 'Person Picking His Nose.'"

"Fascinating," Chiron said dryly.

The next canvas was blank.

"Tell him that it's a portrait of John Cena," Frank said.

"This is a portrait of John Cena," Jason said.

"Who?" Chiron asked.

"The wrestler," Jason said.

"But it's blank," Chiron said.

"Exactly," Jason said and moved on to the next painting, which was also a blank canvas.

"Say that you left the painting blank on purpose so that people can project what they want onto it," Percy said.

"I uh- left this one blank on purpose so that when people, you know project what they want to see onto it," Jason said.

"How is this different from the earlier one?" Chiron asked. "And how is anyone going to tell the difference?"

"Moving on," Jason hastily said, turning to a portrait of what looked like a dolphin with the word 'LIFE' written on it.

"That's a porpoise," Percy said. "And I call the painting, 'The Porpoise of Life.'"

"I call this painting the uh- 'Porpoise of Life,'" Jason said.

"Puns were never very funny even back in my day," Chiron said. "But what's this now?"

"That is a portrait of a guy playing with a fidget spinner," Jason said.

"Well, I suppose if some of the younger campers will like it," Chiron said. "And what's this last thing?"

There was just a small mirror instead of a canvas.

"Say that you need to label it, but it will show the heading, 'World's Biggest Idiot,'" Leo said.

"I uh, kind of haven't put the heading up yet, but it will say, 'World's Biggest Idiot' when I do," Jason said.

"Yes, that's just brilliant," Chiron said. "Well, I think I've seen enough. I have a limited number of floats that I can accommodate and unfortunately I don't think that yours is ah, very good."

"What?" Jason said.

"Oh, the effort is ah… appreciated," Chiron said. "Just don't take this rejection, ah, personally."

Result: Jason gets a penalty.


Frank wasn't sure what it was it was that the others had built, but given the fact that he was an experienced joker, he could only assume that it would involve maid outfits somehow given that it hadn't been mentioned before.

Frank removed the curtain to see that his float was some sort of horror-themed float with small candy skulls (he hoped they were made of candy) littering the bottom and on top there were various teddy bears and sitting at the tip on a plush throne was a teddy bear- the same one from all the times that Frank had seen it. It was wearing a black crown and was holding a stick which had another teddy bear's head impaled on it.

"Well, this is a bit… gruesome," Chiron said. "I do understand that Romans do tend to trudge this sort of a line, but this is a bit too gruesome, don't you think?"

"Uh…" Frank said.

Frank didn't need to say anything though as the king teddy bear turned its head, and from it came the voice, "My slave will tell you nothing. He merely follows my commands, puny centaur. I will showcase my triumph throughout Camp Half-Blood, and all will swear allegiance to me." He then paused. "Or else…"

"Is it supposed to do that?" Chiron asked. "Because I don't really see the point in all of this."

"The point?" the teddy bear said. "The point is that I will rule this entire world. You centaur, you will allow my triumph, or you won't even find sanctuary even in Narnia from whence you came."

Frank face-palmed.

"Well, sadly, this is not what we need," Chiron said. "So, I will have to ah, sadly reject your float."

Result: Frank gets a penalty point.

A/N: Percy and Jason have a negative point each, and Frank and Leo have two negative points each. Thanks for reading!