Believe it or not, this is actually one of the longer chapters.

~Innovation

Chapter 5: Carina

I saw Ruidi come up to me with a grin on his face. What's he planning to do that would make him so happy? He waved to me to come over and talk to him. As I walked over I realized that he was going to put me into his plan.

"What do you want from me?" I said harshly to him. He just smiled even wider.

"I need your help with a prank."

"And that is on whom, may I ask?" I said in a formal manner.

"Pranu, she defeated our team at dodgeball unfairly, and I must regain my honor," Ruidi adopted my formal tone.

"Like you had any honor before, but then , why would you need me?"

"So here's the plan...," he whispered the plan into my ear. As I was listening I felt like smacking him in the face. Actually, I always felt like smacking him in the face, but now more than usual. His plan, I hate to admit it, was brilliant, but I was kind of reluctant to help him in it, because Pranu was my friend. However, it would be kind of funny to see her face...

After a few brief (very brief) moments of pondering, I decided- "I'll help you, as long as you don't reveal my part in your plot."

"No worries," he said, with a mischievous glint in his eye.

Pranu

I was looking forward to a nice, quick rinse of my hair after sweating a lot in the Weapons Training program. I'd learned about five bajillion new ways to stab someone with my trident, and I had to admit, it was kind of fun.

I turned the corner, to the showers. I turned the knob on, stood up, realizing what the color of the liquid was... then, I screamed.

Alex

I was just returning from Weapons Training practice. Suddenly, I heard Pranu scream: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" I raced toward her voice.

When I got there, Carina and Raven were already there, helping Pranu dry off her sticky mess of hair. Her orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt was soaked with red liquid.

"It appears," Raven said, inspecting the showerhead that they'd just screwed off, "that an unknown person or persons have placed a dried powdered form of a chemical mix of citric acid, maltodextrin, calcium phosphate, aspartame, potassium citrate, butylated hydroxyanisolece-"

"It's Kool-Aid," I said, looking at the showerhead too. There were still some traces of the red powder. "Somebody put Kool-Aid in your shower head. Gosh, Raven, would it kill you to simply say that it was Kool-Aid? No need to make everything so complicated."

Pranu was trying to contain her anger. "WHO DID THIS!?" she shrieked. "'CAUSE I SWEAR, I'M GONNA KILL THEM WHEN I FIND OUT!"

"Calm down, Pranu. You have no control over your powers if you're angry. Try drying your shirt again," Carina advised.

Her hands trembled as she tried to contain her anger. This time, she got a bit of progress and most of the Kool-Aid evaporated, but it left behind a really big red stain.

Pranu

"WHOEVER DID THIS IS GOING TO PAY!" I fumed. My hair was still sticky, and there was nothing I could do about it, since it wasn't water-based, except to take another shower. Today at lunch I was going to ask Alex to read the minds of everyone that I suspected- which was, basically, the whole Hermes cabin.

Later:

"So who did you want me to read?" Alex asked.

"Them. The Hermes guys," I waved in the general direction of the Hermes tables.

"Ok," Alex closed her eyes in concentration. After a while, she reported back to me. "Nobody has ever pranked you... but... well... some of them have told Ruidi three or four pranks, since he asked..."

"SO IT WAS RUIDI!" I screeched. Ruidi, who was sitting a few people away from me, suddenly realized that I had figured out he had pranked me. He got up hurriedly and began running.

"OH NO YOU DON'T!" I took off after him.

I chased him past the cabins and the swimming pool as he yelled like a little girl.

"I WILL GET YOU, YOU LITTLE-!" I yelled a few profanities at him. Then I got an idea. Willing the water around me, I made a mini water tornado and used it to propel me forward. I caught up to him, stopping him in his tracks.

"Wassup?" He asked nervously, trying to sound casual and innocent.

"Nothing much," I said smirking. And then I summoned a ball of water, laced with energy. And I threw it at him. He stood there for a second, dumbfounded.

"That's all?" He asked confused. He had expected for it to be worse.

"Yep," I said but trust me, I had something up my sleeve. I just needed some help from Carina...

2 days later...

I looked at the plan, it was perfect. Now to tell Carina.

I walked up to her in the stables, she was brushing Kirby's mane.

"Hey Carina," I called out.

"Hey."

"So, you remember how Ruidi pulled a prank on me right?"

She nodded.

"Well I want revenge, think you could carry this plan out for me?"

"Of course," She said smirking. I told her the plan.

"Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!" She exclaimed.

"Aww, you're making me blush, stop."

We both burst out laughing.