Hello, anyone who's reading this! I'm back with chapter three! Thanks to all of you that reviewed- you're so supportive! :) This is my first PJO fanfic, so i wasn't sure how it would turn out...

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Day Number 1-

-Travis POV—

I try never to wake up before nine o'clock on summer break. Today, however, was an exception.

I rolled over in my bunk, groaning. My hand groped for the alarm clock, and I punched it quiet. Above me, I could hear Connor muttering something in his sleep.

The other day, I had come back to the Hermes Cabin in a state of horror. I could barely pick my jaw up off the ground long enough to tell Connor about my punishment. When I did, he shook his head in sympathy. "Man, that really bites."

I grumbled. "Thanks for reminding me."

A group of pretty Aphrodite girls walked past us, and when they saw Connor and me, they batted their eyelashes and giggled. Connor waved and wiggled his eyebrows at them. They giggled even louder and hurried away. I gave Connor a strange look. "Why are you acting weird?"

Connor shrugged. "I always act weird. Thought you'd already figured that out."

"No, I mean, weirder and flirty-er than normal."

Connor rolled his eyes. "Oh, brother, brother, brother. How else am I supposed to get a date? I'm not naturally dark and handsome like you." He fake batted his eyes and spoke in a falsetto tone. "Oh, Travis, will you go to the dance with me? Pretty please?" Then in his regular voice, "Girls will be lining up to dance with you."

I snorted. "Please. Maybe for you, but not for me. You're the blonde. Girls are attracted to blonde guys like flies are attracted to electric lights."

Connor raised his eyebrow. "Are you seriously comparing me to an electrical light?"

I snorted. "More like a fly magnet."

Anyway, I pulled on some old clothes, trying not to wake up my bunkmates. I stepped outside into the morning air and shivered.I jogged up the hill leading to the Big House. There was an ominous fog hanging over the camp, and it was gray and gloomy outside. There were no other campers in sight- which I was very thankful for. Yesterday afternoon had been torture; walking through the crowds, hearing everyone whispering my name. It was like people didn't know what to make of me. I didn't really mind that much, but it was still unsettling. Connor told me it would all blow over soon. I hoped he was right.

I entered the silent Big House and followed the single light. I opened the door to Chiron's office and saw that Katie was already there, checking her emails on the small computer in the corner. She didn't look at all that ready to do some dirty cleaning work; she had on a loose Camp Half-Blood tank top, raggedy jeans, and old flip-flops. She had no make-up on. It was like she didn't care at all about how she looked. It was weird. All the girls I knew spent about ten minutes on their look. Katie looked like she had spent about ten seconds.

I sat down on a comfy couch, and Katie logged off to join me. Chiron cleared his throat and peered down at us. "I'm glad you both showed up this morning. I had some doubts." Chiron gave me a pointed look as he said this, like he didn't trust my punctuality. As if.

"Today, your assignment is thus; clean up the mess you made of Camp. You may use minimal amounts of magic to compete this task. When you are done, you may go back to your daily schedual. You get breaks between 8:00 and 8:30 for breakfast and 12:30 to 1:00 for lunch. Good luck."

Katie and I trudged put of the Big House. She shot me an angry glance that clearly said, this is ALL YOUR FAULT! Have I mentioned before how annoying she is?

Kate pointed to the Dionysus Cabin, where the two twins, Castor and Pollux, were busy trying to climb onto the cabin roof and get the toilet paper off. Someone had written "DRUNKARDS!" all over their front door, and it looked like it had been half-scrubbed off, and then given up on. I watched with amusement as Castor tried to boost Pollux up the ladder, and then they fell down on top of each other. "Why should we go over there? It's hilarious just watching them! I mean, look!"

Katie gave me a look of disgust, and muttered jerk under her breath. "Well, I'm going to go help them. Laugh all you want." She marched over to the Dionysus Cabin, and I reluctantly followed her.

Kate walked up to Pollux, the older brother, who we knew from Camp board meetings. "Hey Pollux. You need any help?"

Pollux looked relived. "Yeah. Hey, by the way, how'd you get framed for doing all this?"

Katie looked relived. "You mean that you know that I didn't do it?"

Pollux just shrugged. "It's kinda obvious. You would never do this. Nobody thinks you ever would."

Katie smiled. "Thanks! OK, I have an idea. Stand back."

I walked up to them and snorted. "What're you going to do, cover the cabin in roses?"

Katie rolled her eyes. "Please. We Children of Demeter can do more than you think." She lifted her hand, and a green vine sprouted out of the ground. It crept its way up the cabin and hooked onto the roof. Then, another sprout broke off of the first one and zigzagged along the vine, creating a hanging ladder. Katie climbed onto it and motioned for Pollux, Casper, and I to do the same. As soon as our feet hit the bottom rung, the vine pulled us upward until we were standing on top of the Cabin.

Kate shook her hands against her shorts and smirked at me. "Beat that."

Pollux laughed. "Wow Katie, that was awesome!" Castor nodded his head in agreement and looked up at Katie in awe. I jst shrugged. "Aw, that was nothing."

Katie rolled her eyes. "Let's just clean up. Castor, Pollux, you want to help?"

Pollux nodded eagerly, and Castor agreed, too. In a matter of minutes, the Dionysus Cabin was clean. Even the paint on the door had been completely scrubbed. Katie waved goodbye to Castor and Pollux, and we set off. I checked at my watch, and I was surprised to find that it was only 6:30.

Katie then led us to the Apollo Cabin. I waved to my friends Phil and Gabe, and they shot me sympathetic looks. I made a face and nodded.

Katie did the vine thing again, and a crowd gathered around her. Great. Now there had to be people to witness my humiliation. This turned out to be a good thing, though, because when Katie asked if anyone wanted to help, they all raised their hands and grabbed a scrub brush.

When we left the Apollo Cabin, I quickened my pace so that I was standing next to Katie. "I have a quick question."

"Is it because you're wondering why I'm awesome and you're not? That's a very easy question to answer, I can't believe you didn't figure that one out."

I gritted my teeth and forced myself not to yell at her. "No, I was just wondering how you get so many people to help you clean up. I mean, no offense, but you're not exactly popular."

Katie narrowed her eyes at me. "Well, there's this secret thing that you use to get people to do what you want. Want to know what?"

I rolled my eyes, but was still a little curious. "Fine then, tell me if you want."

Katie leaned in like she was about to share top-secret information. "It's called...manners." She whipped her head around and flounced off. I curled my fists into little balls. See? This is why Katie is so annoying!

I followed her around to every cabin, and the results were the same. She would offer to help them clean up, and then ask if they would help her. Almost everyone did. Even the Aphrodite Cabin, who hates getting themselves dirty, offered to help scrub down the windows after Katie decorated their cabin with sweet smelling roses and pink lacey flowers. Finally, we only had one cabin left.

The Ares Cabin.

I smirked. "So, how are you gonna get the Ares to do what you say? Your stupid little manners aren't going to get you anywhere here."

Katie looked at me like a banana peel that had just been pulled out of the garbage can. "Yes, but I can still try. And, if not for me, you'd still be out here scrubbing away at the Dionysus Cabin."

Unfortunately, she had a point. That didn't make her any less bossy, though. On the contrary, I disliked her even more for getting me out of this punishment even quicker using her stupid method.

As we approached the Ares Cabin, I saw fear behind Katie's eyes. Ha. She was never going to get out alive.

Katie walked up to Clarisse and Dan, two Ares campers that were currently trying to scrub the paint off their windows to no avail. Wow, Marianna must have used some super strong spray. "Um, hi, we're here to help clean up your cabin."

Clarisse whirled around and her face contorted into a menacing grin-sneer that would normally make me run for the Hermes Cabin. "So, you two are the little punks that trashed our cabin, huh?!"

Katie shrugged. "It depends on who's telling the story."

Clarisse gave a deep growl from the back of her throat. "You sure about that? What I saw was you two holdin' spray an' standing in the middle of the FREAKIN' CAMP!"

Katie stood her ground. "Well, we're gonna need some help, so..."

Clarisse snarled. "And what makes you think that I'll help you?"

Katie shrugged and pointed a finger towards the cabin. At first I thought she was going to grow a vine again, but I realized that she was doing something else as soon as I saw the first sign of pink. Pink and purple flowers started blooming all over the Ares cabin, growing up vines and trellises, and generally giving the impression of an Aphrodite Cabin.

Clarisse's eyes widened in shock and horror. Howling in rage, she launched herself at Katie, but Katie was too quick. She jumped onto one of the hanging branches and shimmied up it onto the roof before Clarisse even had time to jump at her again. Clarisse tried to climb up the vine after Katie, but the vine snapped under her weight and send a very angry Clarisse tumbling down. I was just standing there in shock with my mouth slightly parted, wondering how long it would take for Clarisse to kill Katie.

Clarisse paced underneath the roof, looking lime a caged lion; hungry for blood and ready to attack. Katie was perched above, dangling her feet and smiling serenely.

Finally, Clarisse yelled up to Katie, "You can't wait up there forever, punk!"

Katie shrugged. "Maybe I can. Unless you help us take down all the grafitti, your cabin is going to be covered in flowers for the rest of the summer."

Clarisse growled. "Will they go away when I KILL YOU?!"

Katie smirked down at Clarisse. "Well, if you kill me, then the curse can never be undone. The Ares Cabin will forever look like Sringtime has barfed on it."

As Clarisse puzzled over this bit of logic, she seemed to notice me for the first time. "What're you looking at, Stoll?"

My eyes widened. "N-nothing."

Quick as a viper, Clarisse grabbed me by the arms and rammed me up against the cabin walls. For a few seconds, my eyesight went fuzzy. When it returned to normal, I could see Katie peering down at me concernedly from the roof. Clarisse was grinning evilly. "You get back down here and change this cabin to normal, or your boyfriend here gets it!" she called up to Katie.

I could almost see the wheels in Katie's head turning. If she came down from the roof, Clarisse would pummel her. But, if she didn't come down, Clarisse would pummel me. I tried to give her my best pleading-look, but my head was still throbbing too hard to concentrate on her face.

Katie straightened up. "OK, I'm coming down." Clarisse smirked. "Thought so," she gloated.

Katie made the vine and shimmied down it. Clarisse waited like a hungry wolf about to get its first meal. Katie's feet touched the bottom, and Clarisse lunged for her- and came up empty-handed. Katie was still holing on to the vine, except now it was spinning her around the cabin. "Come get meeeeeee!" she cried to Clarisse, taunting her. Clarisse jumped up, enraged, and started sprinting around the cabin, howling. Katie went faster and faster until-

"Oomph!" Something had grabbed my shirt and I was suddenly spinning in mid-air. It stopped, and I caught sight of Katie grabbing onto my shirt and pulling me along behind her, away from the Ares Cabin. Clarisse was on our tails like an angry bull, but Katie and I were quick. We zigzagged along the crowds of people and around the strawberry fields. Katie seemed to know where we were going, and even though I didn't, I followed her anyway.

Katie led me to the edge of the forest, and we went through the back end of a prickly shrub that Clarisse certainly wouldn't be able to get through. Katie grabbed on to a low-hanging branch of a tree and helped me climb up it. We waited there for a few minutes, the only sound was our deep breaths. Finally, I whispered, "So much for manners."

Katie lightly punched my shoulder. "Shut up, Stoll." But I could see even in the dim light that she was smiling. "I was pretty amazing, though, wasn't I?"

"Yeah, but I was even more amazing."

"Doing what, getting yourself almost-beat up by a girl? Real smooth."

I laughed. This wasn't so bad, actually. Talking with Katie was like talking with….Connor.

I checked my watch. "It's 3:00. You think we should go back down there, or wait up here for a while?"

Katie shrugged. "Clarisse probably cooled down and went into her cabin. All we have left is the Poseidon Cabin. I can do that by myself. You can go back to your cabin if you want, this will only take a few minutes."

I nodded. "Sounds like a plan. Well, see you tomorrow, bright and early."

Katie grimaced. "Great. Any idea what Chiron has cooked up for us to do tomorrow?"

"Nope. Bye!" I jogged down the hill and started off towards the Hermes Cabin. On impulse, I glanced behind my shoulder and saw Katie outside of the Posiodon Cabin, talking with Tyson, the Camp's only Cyclops. She motioned to the roof, and Tyson nodded eagerlt and produced a broom and mop from inside the cabin. I shook my head and smiled, then turned around for my cabin. Inside my head, I made a mental checklist. Day 1, complete.

Only six more to go.

So, thanks for reading! Please review! I would really like some constructive criticism, like what i'm doing wrong or what i need to fix, or how i should write better. Sorry for not posting earlier, but i've just been soooo busy studying for exams and stuff...so yeah. Thanks for reading!

BTW, I would love your opinion on what I should do next in the story! Here are some questions-

1. What song do you think perfectly sums up Tratie?

2. Who should fall in love first- Travis or Katie?

3. What is your favorite PJO story?

4. How did you find out about fanfiction?

Thanks for answering! Anybody who does answer, I'm going to put them in my next chappie! :)