I tromped off to find Connor who was likely hiding from Katie's wrath so he could help judge this contest. Not that it was going to be very hard, this little greenie thinks she can outprank me? Pfft. Points for confidence though, after I kick her butt I think she will make an excellent friend and protégé. I have to admit though, she got me pretty god with that whoopee cushion in the hand trick, been ages since I've met anyone with that kind of spunk. I wasn't sure exactly where Conor was but I found him hiding base 3 (a small tree fort on the very edge of the forest) after that it was easy to find Annabeth and she agreed pretty quickly. The conch for dinner rang, time to show up the competition. Brainstorming the entire way up the hill, I felt pretty confident everything I wanted to do would be able to be set up in 30 minutes. Grabbing some lasagna and salad and a roll, I sacrificed it to dad, 'Give me your pranking blessing to uphold your reputation'. Nothing could go wrong now, I was sure of it. Soon enough the dismissal conch came and, sending a smug and challenging look Melody's way, I ran to my cabin to get all the supplies I would need. Melody is going down!

...

I could practically taste his smug, confident excitement from the look he shot me as I was getting up from the table we were all sharing. Hah. Poor kid doesn't know what he's getting into. Ah, well, I've never felt much remorse for brutally crushing someones attempts at besting me so I don't feel bad enough to go easy on him. As he ran back to the cabin, probably to get supplies, I was already on my way to my own first target, the Ares cabin to get revenge for the bathroom stunt. While I wasn't hurt or humiliated, it was the principle of the thing. It was probably good that this was happening now, everyone would know to stay out of my way or face my hilarious wrath! Moo ha ha! Arriving at the cabin I pulled out silly string, air horns, and a lot of obnoxious clocks I'd bought over the years from my dimensional space that I'd learned to access from an Egyptian script I found in the library down the block from our house. I kept every piece of pranking material there I'd ever used, including copious amounts of pre-made tapioca pudding. Nice thing about dimensional space was that if there were no living organisms in there, time would stand still so the pudding and other stuff never spoiled or lost efficiency. Best thing in my arsenal if I'm being honest is a little leather pouch that I tell people is Hermione's endless satchel from Harry Potter. Ohhhh I can't wait to run that by the Athena kids.

I continued to set up in the Ares cabin while thinking of other things to do. I had located Clarisse's bed from its scent and rigged a beautifully disguised tapioca dropper with the Mist. Years of practice using it to hide my eyes and scales made it like second nature to me. All the trip wires, whoopee cushions, air horns and silly sting set up and hidden I heard them approaching from the dinning pavilion and quickly slipped out one of the windows facing away from their approach and quickly placed a locking curse on all the entrances that would wear off at exactly 23 minutes from now. Adding in my special indicator for when each trap went off. I decided that this setup could be the melody. Time to rig the bathroom and all the water in the camp. This was going to be GLORIOUS.

...

I, Travis Stoll, was very proud of my accomplishments as I walked back to the pavilion reviewing my accomplishments in the last 30 mins including, but certainly not limited to, putting a rubber spider in the Athena cabin, putting leaves on the big house fan, sticky noting Melody's bed and saran wrapping as many doors as I could find. I'd seen Melody running around a few of the areas I had pranked later but found no evidence that she'd done anything at all to anything, even the bathroom which she'd spent a while in. I was pretty confident I'd won as I made it to the pavilion where Annabeth, Connor, Percy and Melody were waiting about 2 minutes before the three hours started and took in their expressions. Connor looked excited, Annabeth mildly bored while Percy looked like he was preparing for war while simultaneously looking jittery. Melody was poker faced but her eyes sparkled with mirth and deviousness. Noticing my presence Annabeth came over and handed me a piece of paper,

"Write down everything you did and how its supposed to work. If you can, write down when you think its going to trigger and how we'll know it did." She told me before going over to where she was before. As I wrote down all my clever japes I finished just as the count down started.

10

Turning to Melody I asked, "So, you think you did enough to beat me?"

9

"Oh I know I did and soon everyone in camp will too." She smirked up at me.

8

I raised my eyebrows, "The WHOLE camp?"

7

"Yup"

6

"Nothing else to say? How is that gonna work?"

5

"I don't write my name all over things, I sing it."

4

"What?" I was incredibly confused but she just smiled mysteriously and raised her hand with three fingers, syncing with the countdown.

3

2

1

Nothing happened. I voiced as much.

"Give it a minute to reach your ears" She told me. Before I could ask her what the heck that meant, I heard it.

Dogsong. The theme of the ultimate troll. I continued to listen as other instruments found their way in, in awe suddenly I was aware of Melody talking under her breath at each new entrance.

"Ares cabin, shower 1,2,3, toilets, plumbing, kitchens," I stared in shock as a flipping FIREWORK went off to display the visage of the annoying dog.

I think I'm in love.


Fear not! Melody isn't actually shipped with anyone...yet. Personally I'm a fan of Travis x Katie so thats happening for sure unless y'all say otherwise.

Has anyone else ever had the soul crushing experience of being told to read a book for Honors English summer reading assignment and really enjoyed it only to be mailed the packet a few days after you finish to find that you have to write a 4 page essay (among other things) for it? I want to cry. Just when I'd convinced myself to stop procrastinating every english assignment until 3 AM the morning its due. If anyone CAN relate please come complain with me my friends are unsympathetic bullies.

In other news, before this horrendous occurrence, I have edited/rewritten chapters 1 and 2 of this. Mostly it was just adjusting syntax and making it more coherent and nice to read, so not much has changed besides some minor foreshadowing things may be worded a bit different. Both chapters just about doubled in length, thats why this is a while coming, along with I've written a small backlog of chapters so I don't stress while I'm working on school and other stories that I'm planning. Yay for responsibility! See y'all in the next chapter and have a stupendous day!

~FictionGirl11

P.S. Review to revive my soul, its in bad shape... Also if anyone wants to hear the song I played on loop while writing this its watch?v=TFIZS5rAyQQ its the song of trolling and what Melody's pranks are synced to in this instance.