Chapter 20

Recap: Rob had apparently found an empty wine bottle somewhere, and I just knew where this was going to go. He had us sit in a small circle on super fluffy pillows. Gods, this is going to be a LONG night.

As soon as we entered the room, Rob forced us into sitting around the bottle.

"All right, we're gonna play truth or dare, and there will be NO chickening out if you choose dare, understood? And also, I want you to swear on the River Styx that you won't drop out of a dare," Rob said intimidatingly.

Percy was quick in swearing, and, after a moment of thought, I also swore.

Rob, being the… person… he is, spun the bottle first. I could swear that he was wanting the bottle to land on me first.

I got lucky and the bottle landed on Percy, who's expression immediately changed when the bottle stopped.

"I dare you to…go make out with a pillow."

Percy gave him this sort of, "Are you freaking crazy?", or better yet (and my favorite), the "what have you been smoking?" look for a moment, then stood up and walked toward the bed. He actually slumped his way there, obviously regretting that he had sworn upon the river Styx and all.

As he was walking, Rob pulled out a Sony video camera from his duffel bag.

Blackmail!

Percy picked up the pillow with his back towards us, and Rob turned the camera on.

Percy turned around and starting kissing the pillow, which I have a feeling he was thinking of as someone (most likely Annabeth, his now official girlfriend as of about an hour ago). That was because it was kind of passionate looking, which was quite disturbing seeing as though it was a PILLOW.

He made out with it for about two or three minutes.

Rob had recorded the entire thing.

We turned and looked at it again, and it was as funny as some of the stuff shown on AFV (America's Funniest Home Videos).

Percy walked over, obviously curious about what we were laughing about.

"Hey! Let me see!" he said with a whiney tone.

Rob quickly turned away, and said, "You'll see it after I've saved it onto the computer."

Percy reacted immediately and went to grab the camera, but Rob turned quickly to the side and tossed me the camera.

I ran to the bathroom and locked the door from the inside while Rob plugged up the stuff for the computer.

Percy banged on the door to get it back, but after about five or so minutes, I quickly unlocked the door, shoved it with my shoulder (forcing Percy onto his butt) and ran for the computer.

Rob plugged it up, opened the file, and saved in onto his thumbdrive.

Percy was still of the floor once it was saved, so I had a good feeling that he didn't know that it was saved already. So I decided to mess with him.

I whispered to Rob quickly, "Put it on Facebook or your Myspace while I… distract him."

Percy got up and ran towards me, desperate to get the camera. I rolled to the side, and under the bed. Percy followed, but I was already out on the other side, taunting him to come and get me. He tried.

I said," Σκιές της νύχτας, επενδύτης εγώ στο σκοτάδι" which seriously means, "Shadows of the night, cloak me in darkness".

I've kinda figured out how this whole magic thing works. I found the little English to Greek translator book that was given to me while with Kronos a while back and made up random things, for like hiding in shadows and stuff. Really, I just get this kind of feeling in the bottom of my gut, it's like it's going up or down, as if I was on a roller coaster. I have to concentrate a little bit, and in my free time, I try to practice a bit.

Well, anyways, after I said those few words, I hid in the shadows. If you've seen the beginning of Peter Pan, when Peter had lost his shadow or whatever, that's sort of how I was. It's kind of weird, being squished against the wall constantly, but is way easier to hide.

I hid in the shadow of the bed.

Percy went around the room, kicking the walls where a shadow was every now and again trying to find me, yelling, "Derek! Give me the camera!"

Percy did that for another minute or so, at least until Rob went and yelled, "Derek, you can come out now! I put it on YouTube and Facebook!"

"YOU WHAT!" Percy shrieked at Rob, charging towards his computer.

I ran out of the shadow and tackled him.

"You know we're going to need these again soon, right? Meaning the camera and the laptop, so no use in killing them now," I said to Percy as I got up and offered my hand to him.

He ignored my gesture and stood up, and sat near the bottle again.

Rob and I followed his lead, and silently Percy spun the bottle.

It landed on him. He spun it again, and had the same results. That went on for the next few minutes until it finally landed on me, barely missing Percy, to whom I was sitting next to. (Thanks HPchicaHP!)

A wicked grin spread across his face and said, "I dare you to go into the girl's room, however you please, and drop a stink bomb in there. Stay until it clears, then come back and give us clear details on their reaction. Or better yet," he shoved the camera at me, "here." (Thanks to CrzyMonkeyNinja!)

I stood up and took a deep breath, recited the same words from earlier, then disappeared into the shadows. I slipped out of our room by going under the door, and used that same method to get into the girls' room.

They were having a very loud pillow fight. Julie held two pillows, Annabeth with one, using it like a two handed sword, a very fat and fluffy one at that. Julie used the one in her left hand as a shield, the other as a weapon…of some sort.

I crept along the wall, the shape of my shadow going unnoticed as I slipped from one shadow to the next. I stood in the shadow of one of the four-poster beds, slipped out from being a shadow, and slid under the bed. I flicked on the camera, pressed the record button, and rolled the small stink bomb out.

About two seconds later, there was a small bang and the room then started to smell as if a skunk sprayed someone a couple dozen times. I plugged my nose, and held out the camera, making sure that they didn't see the little red light on the side.

Julie, who was in the middle of swinging at Annabeth, stopped immediately, and plugged her nose, saying, "Oh gods that stinks! That better not have been you Annabeth!"

"She who smelt it dealt it," Annabeth replied.

Julie shoved her face into the shield pillow, and Annabeth put the collar of her shirt over her nose, and whacked Julie upside the head with her pillow, making a really loud WHAK noise. Julie pulled her head out of the pillow to glare at Annabeth quickly, then gave into an extremely disgusted look on her face and shoved her face back into the pillow, this time keeping her eyes out. Julie lifted her pillow into a high arc and slammed the pillow onto Annabeth's head.

They whacked each other relentlessly while I tried not to choke on the horrid smell. After about the 30th gulp of air, I coughed… really loudly. The duel came to a sudden halt, and Julie came closer. I quickly chanted to hide in the shadows before she looked under the bed.

It would have worked, but I had let go of the camera when I coughed, so it wasn't in the shadows with me.

Julie crouched in front of where I was hiding and picked up the camera, and saw Rob's name scribbled on the side in Sharpie.

"I'm going to kill Rob," she said loud enough for Annabeth to hear.

"What did he do now?"

Julie stood up and showed her the camera. Annabeth turned on her heel quickly and stomped out the door with Julie on her heels.

I went out of the bed, still in the shadows, and then ran to the bathroom in my hotel room.

I went out of shadow mode and flushed the toilet, hoping to make it so that it looked like I was in there the whole time..

I stepped out the door and saw Rob. His face was purple and he was in one hell of a headlock by Annabeth, while Percy was on his stomach and pinned to the floor by Julie. I noticed that the camera was on the entertainment center and still blinking red.

I decided that since they felt that there was no need to pin me, I slumped onto the wall and watched Percy as his head was pulled up.

"What the hell is wrong with you!" Julie shouted into his ear.

"I didn't freaking do it!" Percy yelled back in agony

"Then who did?"

"Derek!"

As soon as he said my name, my face dropped and I stepped back into the bathroom and locked the door. Not even two seconds later the door was being hammered in by Annabeth and Julie.

"Get out here!" Julie screeched at the door.

"Why?" I replied, deciding to be a smartass.

"So I can kill you!"

"Oh yeah, that would make me want to come out!"

The next thing I know, there's a dagger point sticking out the door key handle.

CLICK

The door burst open and I flew across the bathroom like superman.

Julie stepped in and glared at me as if I were a monster instead of her friend….

I'm incredibly sorry for taking so long, by I had lost interest in FanFiction for a while. Scratch that. A LONG while.

Again, Thanks to HPchicaHP and CrzyMonkeyNinja! You helped quite a bit with my writer's block there :]

Sorry I took so long…

~Crimsonsword142!