The List of Pranks
Again, hi. As I noticed the first time, I forgot to put in a disclaimer. So here's the disclaimer:
I own PJO as much as I own the universe. If I owned Harry Potter I would be hanging out with famous people. But I'm not. So I DON'T OWN HARRY POTTER OR PERCY JACKSON! There done. My school had the magazine sale kick-off a few days ago. Prizes are duckies. Anyway, this chapter has little action. But it has Nico pranking! Dangerous but fun. And again, enjoy!
-Sunleaves
We stumble out of the portal onto a hill. It was the middle of the afternoon. The sun was glaring down on us. I look back to see if anyone was left behind. No, no one was. Everyone was with me. I signal for everyone to get up here. I look up ahead and I see a tall pine tree.
"Guys, we're demigods. Hopefully our godly parent is who we want them to be. As in our GAU parent. Let's go up," I say. We trudge up the hill to the pine tree. We see something golden hanging from a lower branch. The Golden Fleece. Peleus is asleep under the tree. We go through the barrier.
Our clothes change. Everyone but me, Amanda, and Grace are wearing blue jeans and orange T-shirts. The three of us are wearing white shirts, silver jackets, blue jeans, and black combat boots. We have silver bows and hunting knives. We each have a wolf sitting by us and a falcon on our shoulders.
"Being a Hunter has its perks! Hey, Deena, look what we've got," I say pointing to our wolves. Deena says she loves wolves more than I do. Considering how much I love animals, that would be very hard. Deena stares open mouthed at me. She narrows her eyes and concentrates hard on something. I guess she's trying to become a Hunter.
"No fair! How come you guys are Hunters?" Deena complains. I raise my eyebrows at Amanda and Grace, asking if I should tell Deena the truth. They shake their heads.
"Skill. Something you might lack in the department. Or we may love animals more than you or something along those lines," I smirk. Deena looks put out. "Come on let's look around." I drop back to where Seraphim, Amanda, and Grace are waiting.
"If you tell them we've been here already, you are dead to me. Let them figure it out when they meet Chiron," I hiss vehemently at them. The rest of the gang yell for us to hurry up. They look towards me for guidance.
"Let's go up here. We should be able to see the whole place from the hill," I say pointing towards a hill in the middle of the valley.
"Where is everyone?" CJ asks.
"What makes you think that people live here?" Amanda inquires coolly. CJ looks at her like she's an idiot.
"There're cabins over there. Weapons are scattered carelessly around the ground. That hearth is still smoldering... Hey is that a lady by the edge of the hearth?" he says.
"I dunno. Want to check it out?" Bryson says.
"No. Let's do that later. I want to explore some first." I raise my eyebrows when Bryson and CJ look mutinous and begin tossing one of my knives in the air carelessly. They step back and nod. I lead everyone over the hill to the Big House. There's a guy in a wheel-chair and some guy in leopardskin suit playing a card game. We slowly walk up to them. I go up to the guy in the leopardskin suit. He looks at us and yawns. The guy in the wheelchair looks at us in surprise.
"Amanda, Grace, Seraphim, Naomi. I thought you weren't coming for several weeks." I shrug. Seraphim looks at the group. As I predicted, there were gasps and looks of disbelief as Chiron revealed that he knew us.
"What?" was the first thing they said. I sigh.
"I didn't think you were that thick. Let me spell this out. We. Have. Been. Here. Before. Grace. Amanda. And. I. Are. Hunters. Greek. Gods. Are. Real." They glare at me. "You got a problem? Take it up with Mr. D." I point to the due in the leopardskin suit.
"Hello Natalie, Samuel, Ashley, Gayle. You're here to make to my life miserable this summer. Ah, well, peace can't last forever. Go away." I bow and everyone does the same. We walk away. Once we get to the commons, they turn on me. Not my sister or brother. Or Grace. The others.
"Why the hell didn't you tell us that you'd been here before?" CJ shouts. I take a step back. Definitely a son of Ares. Grace puts a hand on my shoulder. I look down at her, asking a silent question. She nods. CJ keeps walking towards me. I slip my knives in my hands. When he's three inches away, I point them at him.
"Keep moving and you'll be dead." He takes a step back. His fury is still evident in his face. He looks down at the knives. He looks up and scoffs.
"You wouldn't stab me." I raise my eyebrows.
"You sure? I don't like boys that much. I'm a Hunter. I swear off boys. They annoy me. My friends," I motion to Grace and Amanda, " did the same. If you try to do anything, I swear, at least four Hunters will cut you up and feed you to our wolves." He looks puzzled.
"Can't you count? There are only three of you." Thunder booms in the distance.
"That's the fourth."
"Lightning?" A girl with spiky black hair comes up to us. The circlet on her head gleams in the fading light.
"Thalia. Daughter of Zeus and Lieutenant of Artemis. If you threaten my friends, you threaten me. You threaten me, I kill you. Simple." Thalia tosses her knife up in the air and it lands an inch from CJ's toe. CJ flinches and steps back.
A fiery glow encompasses CJ. A crossed spear and sword were over his head. Great. Ares has a new demigod. Yay. I am doomed. No one threatens Ares's kids. Or Ares. Percy ticked Ares off when he was twelve. I just manage to tick off everyone. CJ looks up, startled.
"Oh, joy. Ares has another son," Amanda mutters. I look at her and raise an eyebrow. She just said what I thought. CJ steps forward. My knife is now poking him in the gut. He keeps moving forward. Now the knife is in him.
"Hey, CJ. Look down," I say. CJ looks down. His eyes widen as he sees the knife. He stumble backwards, his hand over the wound. Thalia looks at me appraisingly. Deena, who had looked like she was going to do the same as CJ, looks at me.
"Didn't know if you could take care of that or not. So why are you four here early?" Thalia grins as she hugs the four of us in turn, except for Seraphim, whom she gave a handshake. I laugh as I see CJ running away, a stream of curses coming from him. Seraphim looks at me.
"Did you have to handle it that way?"
"Yes, and Thalia, at our meeting a portal appeared." Thalia nodded.
"Are you looking for Kelp head? He's over by the lake."
"Thanks, Thals. Amanda, Grace, Midge, let's go show the gang around Camp Half-Blood." The four of lead Bryson, Elizabeth, Deena, and Morgan around camp. We show them the rock wall, the cabins, the sound, the pavilion, the woods. When we finished showing them around, it was seven thirty.
"So, when will we get claimed?" Morgan asks. I look to her.
"Depends. Some like us," I gesture to us Big Three spawn, "are claimed almost instantly. Our parents are our GAU parents. Dinner is in five minutes. We'll take you to the
Hermes Cabin." They follow us silently. Cabin 11 reminded me of old times. I was there for like, two hours.
"Travis, Connor! Get your tails out here! You have new campers!" Travis stumbles out sleepily and runs into me. His acting skills have gotten a lot better.
"Travis, as much fun as it is to meet another prankster, give me back my wallet. Or I will castrate you." Travis stands up right.
"At least you think I'm human and not an makes you think I have your wallet?" I raise an eyebrow.
"I don't think you're human. I didn't think Lady Artemis would approve of me using 'neuter' on something that isn't even worthy enough to be human," Grace inhales sharply. It's a little mean but he deserves it, "let alone an animal. And I see several fifty dollar bills sticking out of your back pocket. And I see the silver business card Thalia gave me two years ago. Now give it back." Travis looks crestfallen. He pulls out my wallet. I look in it making sure everything's in there. Everything's there except one thing. That list...
"Travis if you value your life, give me the list." Travis raises an eyebrow.
"What list?" He pulls a sheet of paper out of his pocket. "This list? The list of pranks to play on the hunters and campers? No, I think I'll keep that." He grins evilly. I grin evilly back.
"Can you three take care of the new campers? I have to talk to Travis about something." They nod and take them in the cabin.
"Travis, how would you like wreaking mayhem on Camp Half-Blood?"
"I like the way you think. What's on the list?" He looks at it. It says:
Dress up like a wizard and have the Hectate Cabin cast spells behind you
Give Aphrodite cabin love notes from random boys
Give Clarisse a broken electric spear
Ask Percy to borrow his pen every 5 minutes
Act as though Disney's Hercules is fact
Call Thalia Sparky, Sparkles, and Lightning-girl
Give Percy seafood
Hint about harpies hoarding all the sugar to Blackjack
Talk about Thalico near Nico and Thalia
Trick Thalia onto a Pegasus
Pass out RachelxPercy shirts in front of Annabeth
Place Happy Meals by the Hades Cabin
Get Travis to hug Katie for a day
Sneak Dionysus LOTS of wine
Introduce Lupa to the Party Ponies
Send texts to random demigods
Ambush Chiron while he has curlers in his tail and take pictures
Give the camp an awful prophecy about Connor and Miranda
Tell Annabeth you found some schematics (FAKE) of Daedalus
Give Leo a model of Gaea, a 3-pound hammer, and loads of sugar
Get a Hermes kid to smuggle wine into camp and put it in front of Mr. D
Convince a satyr to grow grape vines
Tell Annabeth that Percy lost his memory
MAKE Percy Lose his memory
Call every satyr 'Mr. Tumnus'
Dye everyone's hair different colors according to rank/cabin
Stare at the major characters in all the books. Don't say anything, just stare
Give all the satyrs coffee
Travis stares at me, wonder in his eyes. No doubt he never thought that a girl could come up with such devious pranks. He just stares.
"How did you come up with these?" he whispers. "How?" I smile at him, while tossing my hair over my shoulders.
"A guy I know. I threatened him with bodily harm unless he helped me come up with some pranks. He was very eager to help after I showed him with I could do with my knives." Travis nodded.
"Which one will we do first?"
"We should start small. We need to go to McDonalds. I need to tell Thalia first. You go help the guys get settled in." Travis nods and runs off. I stand there grinning like a maniac. I'm still grinning like a maniac when I find Thalia. She's down at the pavilion, talking with the Hunters.
"Thalia, I need to talk to you. Alone." Thalia looks at me suspiciously. "Gods, it's not about a guy, okay!" Thalia nods, her features relaxed. I lead her out to the woods.
"May I have your permission to go to McDonalds and possibly spend an exorbitant amount of money on Happy Meals?" Thalia blinks. Whatever she was expecting, it wasn't that.
"Why?"
"Pranking Nico."
"Who's helping?"
"Who do you think?"
"A Stoll?"
"Yeah. Don't worry about me though. Nico would never suspect me. He'd expect Connor of Travis to do it. I already threatened the Stoll not to tell if he gets caught. If he does, one night he will lose his ears, arms, or his fingers. I'm thinking fingers, cause then he wouldn't be able to pull pranks." Thalia shakes her head and looks up.
"Fine, but you have to let me in on some of them. What are you going to do?"
"We are going to prank Nico, by giving him...Happy Meals," I say solemnly. Thalia laughs.
"I want in on this one. Go buy the Happy Meals."
After a successful Happy Meal buying mission, I stand out by the Hermes cabin waiting for Travis to get his butt out here. Speak of the Hades, here comes Travis. He's yawning. I guess he fell asleep waiting for me.
"We've got to get Thalia now," I say. Travis just nods. We look in the Zeus cabin first. No one's in there. So we go to the Artemis cabin. Thalia's inside, sharpening her knife.
"Thals!" I whisper. She looks up and nods.
"Hey, guys I'm going to go for a walk," she says to the other Hunters. She walks out of the cabin towards us.
"Did you get it?" she asks. I grin evilly. Then hold up the bag.
"Lots." She laughs.
"Let's go find Death Boy." We sneak through the camp to the Hades Cabin. We surround the place with Happy Meals. We put them on the roof, windowsills, entrance, we even glued the to the side. Thalia and I are working super fast. Travis is the one telling us where to put them. We finish in ten minutes before we go back to the cabins.
Oh, the Nico pranking. I borrowed some of the prank ideas from TheCrazyBookwormWithALaptop. If you have time, read their story, Ways to Annoy the Romans. Great story. Anyways you should have a guess about what the next chappie's about.
-Sunleaves