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Jason sighed.
The day had been going so well. He and Percy had been playing cards, having epic bro time and such. At one point Luke was even there, but he had to leave.
Percy had excused himself to the bathroom. Fair enough. But then he had been gone for ten minutes, so Jason tried knocking on the door. No answer.
He banged on the door and shouted something about blue food. A loud banging sound emitted from within the bathroom.
The door opened. "What?"
"Dude, why were you gone so long?"
"I don't know. But what about the blue food?" he asked insistently.
"There's no blue food."
Percy put a hand on his heart. "How dare you."
"Look, were you having a pain episode or not?"
Percy nodded after a moment of nothing.
Jason shook his head. "Dude, I could've helped you. You didn't have to hide in the bathroom."
"It's embarrassing, okay?" Percy said. "To have no control over your body? I don't want to hurt anyone. Ever since the incident with the vial . . ."
He didn't have to finish. Jason gave him a hug. Not a bro hug, but a genuine, friendly, I'm-here-for-you hug.
It had been exactly one month since the vial incident. Everyone was holding their breath in anticipation. Jason had offered to get his mind off things like death, destruction, and hopelessness.
Nothing like a good game of chess to take your mind off things.
"Wanna play chess?" Jason asked him.
Percy grinned. "Sure, bro. But I royally suck."
Jason smirked. "Then you wouldn't mind me taking your king and queen?"
"Oh, you are so dead."
They played about five games. Jason won the first four, and Percy only won the fifth because Jason went easy on him.
"How are you so good at this?"
Jason shrugged. "I'm not that good. Your head is just full of kelp."
"Ha, ha."
"Just be glad Annabeth isn't here," Jason said.
Percy shivered. "She got into the Guinness World Record Book for being the youngest person to ever become a Chess Master." (A/N: Idk if that's a thing.)
Jason nodded. "You wanna play something else?"
Percy smiled. "Truth or Dare sounds fun."
Jason laughed. Then he couldn't stop. He just doubled over, laughing his head off.
"What?" Percy asked.
Jason told him about the strategy they used to get him out of the Fields of Punishment, and the fact that it included a game of Truth or Dare.
Percy stared. "Are you telling me that my fate rested on a silly party game? Because if it did . . . that's amazing."
"I know, bro," Jason said.
"Yeah, bro," Percy said.
"Should we get the others, bro?"
"Totally, bro."
And by the Power Of The Bro, they managed to get almost everyone together at Percy's house. And not just the seven - Zoë, Silena, Beckendorf, Connor, Travis, Katie, Luke, Clarisse, Bianca, Reyna, and Will.
But one person was missing from the party.
"Hey Hazel," Percy said. "Where's Annabeth?"
She smiled. "She got a message from Hades, telling her to come to his palace immediately."
"Dude, that's awesome!" Jason said, clapping Percy on the back.
He laughed nervously. "Totally."
Jason could see why he was nervous. They both knew what taking the medicine would mean. The others did not, though. Those that weren't a member of the seven cheered. The rest of them looked at Percy sympathetically.
Before anyone could ask why the were looking at him like that, Percy spoke up. "So, we are here to play a game."
"What game?" Clarisse asked.
"Truth or Dare," Jason said.
Everyone groaned except the Stolls.
"Wicked!" they both cried.
"Oh, shut up," Katie said.
"You know you love me," Travis said, winking.
"Yes I do." She kissed him on the cheek. Jason smiled. It had taken forever to get them together, but now they were inseparable.
"I shall start," Reyna said. There was no question in her voice.
Everyone murmured their agreement.
"Clarisse, truth or dare?" she asked.
"Dare!" Clarisse shouted.
Reyna thought for a moment. When she finally spoke, she had an evil glint in her eye. "I dare you to go jump in the pool - fully clothed."
Clarisse jumped up. "Time to go swimming!"
She proceeded to run out the screen door, fly off of the deck, and do a cannonball into the pool.
"Well that was interesting," Percy said.
"Hey, why is this salt water?!" they all heard from below.
They all cracked up.
But then Clarisse returned. She was soaked, but she was grinning ear to ear. "Alright, my turn."
Everybody paled. Who would be her victim?
"Percy, truth or dare?"
Jason caught his breath. Would he actually be stupid enough to-
"Dare."
The answer was yes. Yes he would.
Clarisse looked evil. "I dare you to dump this glitter all over your face," she said smugly, producing a gallon of pink glitter.
"Where did you even get that?!" Percy asked.
"I brought it, just in case. Oh, and you can't wipe it off. You have to where the glitter for the whole game."
Percy groaned. "Can I at least wear goggles?"
Clarisse pondered this. "Sure," she said finally.
Percy ran off into the house and returned a moment later with blue swim goggles. Clarisse handed him the gallon of glitter after he had put them on.
He groaned and said, "Wish me luck."
He held his breath, uncapped the gallon, and dumped it on his face.
Everybody burst out laughing. They were all laying on the floor, clutching their stomachs. Even Percy was laughing.
"Do I have to keep this on the whole time?" Percy asked with his baby seal eyes.
Clarisse sighed. "Fine. You can take it off on three turns."
"Yeah!" Percy cried, jumping up in the air (which made him look like a pink disco ball). "My turn."
He looked at them all and then decided on something. "Zoë, a dam truth or a dam dare?"
Zoë looked mad. "What does thou mean?! Stop with this ridiculous mockery!"
Percy cracked up. Jason was confused, and he wasn't the only one.
"Dude, what?" Leo asked.
Percy wiped a tear away. "Inside joke. Truth or dare?"
Zoë thought. "Dare. I shall not spill my secrets in front of so many males."
"Alright, I dare you to do the chicken dance with Leo and the Stolls."
Everyone cracked up as the three of them jumped up with stars in their eyes.
"We've trained for this," Leo said.
"What is this chicken dance thou speaks of?"
"Girl, it's 'you'," Connor said.
"I hate new English!" Zoë cried indignantly.
"You four will have five minutes in the other room to practice," Percy explained. "Good luck!"
The others left.
Piper volunteered to go next. "Will, truth or dare?"
"Truth," Will said immediately. Smart man.
"Which person here would you kiss if you had to?"
Will blushed. "Well, since Nico isn't here . . . Jason."
"I am offended!" Percy shouted.
Jason laughed. "Admit it, I'm hotter than you, Jackson."
"In your dreams," Percy countered.
"Are not."
"Alright, both of you. Leo McShizzle is hotter than both of you! And now for the chicken dance!" Leo cried.
Everyone turned to the sound of his voice. The three boys were grinning, while Zoë was scowling. Jason guessed she had learned what the chicken dance was.
They proceeded to do the dance, and while the boys smiles widened, her scowl deepened.
When the were done everybody gave them a round of applause.
"Can I take the glitter off now?" Percy asked.
"One more turn, punk," Clarisse said.
"Fine. Zoë, you're up."
Zoë thought for a moment. "Jason, truth or dare?"
Crap. It was his turn. "Dare," he said after a bit of thinking. He didn't want to deal with her old English too much.
Zoë came in close and whispered in his ear. "I dare thou to hug thy girl, and then shock her with thy lightning."
Jason paled. He had lived a good death.
He awkwardly went over to Piper and hugged her.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Sorry about this," he whispered in her ear. And he shocked her.
"OUCH!" Piper cried, jumping out of Jason's arms. "That was uncalled for!"
"Sorry!" Jason said. "She told me to!"
"But you did it!"
"Sorry to interrupt your bickering," Percy said, "but I have been given my freedom!"
He proceeded to jump out the door and tumble into the pool. "AH YEAH!"
Everyone laughed. Piper seemed to forget that Jason had shocked her.
Percy came back up, dry and glitter-free. "Well, let's keep playing!"
Jason grinned. "My turn."
He thought about what to do. He looked at everyone one by one. His eyes settled on who he wanted to pick.
"Leo," he said. "Truth or dare?"
Leo grinned. "Dare. Totally a dare."
Jason had the best idea. "I dare you to-"
Just then the door burst open. A panicked Annabeth stood there, eyes wide and hair wild.
"Everyone that is not a member of the seven needs to leave," she demanded.
Her tone was so authoritative that everyone got up and left.
When the door closed behind them, Percy turned on Annabeth. "What was that for?!"
She took a deep breath. "Hades said that it should only be us, just in case it doesn't work."
"So? Worst case scenario I fade away! And that shouldn't happen for a couple hours!"
"You're wrong, Percy," she said quietly. "You're wrong."
"How wrong?" he asked.
"First of all, we don't have a couple hours. Hades said he could already feel you fading away."
"That's ridiculous," Percy said, trying to take Annabeth's hand. Jason gasped.
His hand went right through her.
Percy looked at his semi-transparent hand in shock. "Ok. Maybe it's not that ridiculous."
Annabeth looked down. She was holding a tiny blue vial in her hands. "This can cure you, in the best case scenario."
But Jason knew she wasn't telling them everything. "Annabeth, you said 'first of all'. What else?"
She looked up at them, and there were tears streaming down her face. "Worst case scenario . . . Percy is in pain for eternity."
1,727 words. One of the longest yet.
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