The dirt began to rise slowly out of the ground, it was like telekinesis, it listened to Katie's concentration, and as long as her concentration didn't break neither would the giant pile of mud above us. She began to move the dirt in through every opening to the cabin, windows, doors, skylights, tanning holes, etc.
The dirt was almost gone, when I heard voices, heading up the hill.
"OMG. I can't wait till the new perfume shipment order comes in!" someone squealed, myeyes widened, that sounded way too much like an Aphrodite girl.
I had two choices, go and distract them and then risk them knowing that I was distracting them and they might think Connor was the one shoveling dirt in, or grabbing Connor and getting our buts outta there, and making it look like Katie's fault.
Both were possible choices, both with negative results, but now which one to choose?
I looked back at Katie who was still concentrating on moving the dirt into the cabin with her demigod abilities. I thought about how she had helped us to prank the Apollo Cabin, and now the Aphrodite Cabin, she was nervous, but she still did it. Then I looked at Connor, who was still talking to Mr. Dandelion, and figured that our escape chances were pretty slim. I figured I should probably go distract them, if Connor hadn't had a possible concussion then we might have ran, but because he did, I decided to take my chances with the Aphrodite girls.
I ran up over the hill in front of the cabins to distract the Aphrodite girls, I could hear them giggling loudly. It sounded all squeaky like.
"And did you see that new demigod, I think he's a Son of Apollo because he is just so hot!" More giggles and agreements.
I made it to the top of the hill when I realized that I had no plan to distract them, I was so sure that they were going to be at breakfast the whole time, I hadn't even thought of a backup plan. You know maybe Connor and Katie are right and my plans aren't the greatest.
I decided to wing it, so I stepped over the hill to meet the Aphrodites, instead standing there was Percy, Nico, and Annabeth.
"Travis you idiot!" Annabeth said, and then slapped me upside the head. "Do you not remember what they did to you the last time you pulled a prank on them?"
"No I remember." I said shaking at the memory of permanent makeup.
"Then why are you doing this again?" Nico asked smiling slightly, I think he liked Annabeth yelling at someone other than him or Percy.
"Because it's revenge, and I have to say that this is one of the few times that I'm glad to see you guys, I thought you were the Aphrodites at first."
"That's what we were going for." Annabeth said, she looked ready to slap me again, so I stepped back.
"Aphrodites?" Nico asked, his eyebrow arched
"It's the slang term for children of Aphrodite." I answered.
"Got it." Nico said. "Well the 'Aphrodites' are at breakfast perfecting their makeup, which is the only reason they have not yet seen the piles of dirt going into their cabin."
"You know it's kind of ironic." Percy interrupted.
"How so?" I asked.
"Well you know 'Aphrodites' spread 'dirt' about other people and collect it for blackmail, and now you're putting dirt in their cabin."
"Interesting." Annabeth said, I couldn't tell if she was being sarcastic or not though, so I changed the subject.
"How did you guys see it though?"
"Katie told me your 'brilliant' plan." Annabeth said.
"I really need to have a talk with her about pranks being kept secret." I said.
"Hey Travis!" a voice yelled from behind me. "Can we take your brother to the infirmary yet?"
"Yeah Katie, just uh-oh. WATCH OUT!" I watched as Connor approached Katie from behind and toppled into her, making them go Katie over Connor down the hill, again.
"Owww." Katie groaned at the bottom of the hill rubbing her head in pain. Connor sat up unfazed and looked around at Annabeth, Nico, and Percy. I looked at him in concern, he now had a dandelion necklace around his neck, and mud war stripes under his eyes, in his right hand he clutched 'Mr. Dandelion' tightly.
"What happened to your brother Travis?" Annabeth asked.
"Kind of a long story, but can I see your cell phone before I tell you it?" I said.
"I want it back Stoll, or you'll wake up in Hades in the morning." Annabeth warned pulling her phone out of a hidden pocket in her pants and handing it to me.
"I'll give it back." I promised rushedly. "I just want to use the camera." I assured her.
"Fine." She handed over the phone. I began to snap pictures of Connor, he smiled and posed for each one.
"Now," I said and turned to Katie who was watching me with amusement, "now we can take him to the infirmary." I turned to Annabeth handed her back her phone and said, "Please email those to me, and you can keep a couple, I want some for black mail please."
I turned to Connor, lifted him up off of the ground and began to drag him towards the infirmary, my friends watched in amusement.
"Now what do we have here?" The daughter of Apollo asked me as she took in the sight of my half insane brother.
"He tripped and hit his head on a rock." I answered, simplifying down the truth.
"Uh-hu." She said, evidently not believing me, but she let it go.
"Travis," she said, "you should probably stay for awhile."
"Are you kidding me?" I asked. "I'm outta here! Bye!" Looking back I wish I had stayed in the sanctuary of the infirmary.
I raced to the pavilion for breakfast, I had yet to eat that morning, and so as of right now, I am starving. I went up to the first nymph I saw and got a plate of pancakes, a dounut, sausage links, bacon, eggs, and hash browns. I sacrificed the eggs to my dad.
"Dad, please help me not to die by the hands of the Aphrodite girls, help me with Katie, and excuse Connor for not sacrificing to you this morning, he's in the infirmary." I said, then scraped my eggs and half of my hash browns into the fire, it went up smelling like donuts, delicious.
There were only a couple people left in the pavilion, Percy, Annabeth, Nico-they hadn't eaten yet because they had been distracted by our prank-, Katie, and me. Even Chiron and Mr. D weren't there, off to conduct classes more than likely. Everybody else was at their classes or doing their chores, or in Connor's case in the infirmary.
A few minutes after I began to sit down and began to eat, a voice appeared before me.
"I don't get how boys can eat that much in one sitting." Katie said.
"Two sittings actually." I replied, "What's up?"
"How's Connor?" she asked.
"Not really sure…" I said. "I ditched him with an Apollo girl."
"You idiot." She yelled at me though she was smiling.
"No I was smart, I'll know when Connor is awake because some Apollo girl will start screaming from the infirmary," I began to speak in a fake falsetto voice, "Oh you sick, twisted per-" I was interrupted by Annabeth.
"Guys! You'll never guess what I just heard." She asked.
"What?" Katie asked.
"Dad started new rules?" Nico asked
"My brother already got kicked out of the infirmary?" I glanced at my watch, "Wow, I gave him two more minutes that's a new record, and the girl must have had patience this time because last time she was screaming 'get outta here you pervert!' "
"No Nico, and no Travis that's not it, and that's a bit disturbing." Annabeth said, and I shrugged.
"Well what is it?" Percy asked.
"The-" This time Annabeth was interrupted, not by someone but something.
An arrow flew straight above my head with such amazing accuracy it pinned a lock of my curly brown hair right to the wall above my head."
"And that was a warning shot." A voice said.
We all looked to the direction the arrow had come from; standing there was a pack of girls in silver, one clad in black, with a silver tiara on her head. White timber wolves surrounded them.
"THALIA!" Annabeth cried out in joy tackling her friend, Percy, Nico, and Katie gave her smiles. I was still shaking from the arrow, and couldn't quite manage to bring myself to a smile. Can you blame me?
"The hunters of Artemis have arrived." Thalia said a broad grin on her face as she embraced her friends.
I'm not sure exactly why I fainted, but I'm pretty sure it had something to do with shock, oh and the thrill of getting an arrow shot at me may have had something to do with it too.
Maybe I should've stayed with Connor.
Wow. You guys are really lucky. I updated twice in 24 hours. You better review! So what did you think of this chapter? I'm excited about writing the next chapter. Plenty of ideas for that! Heres an info peek of my next story which will be out later this summer, it's called Hating You is Harder Than it Seems. Heres the basic storyline for it:
Annabeth Chase-today's hottest (in more than none way) upcoming young designer. Helps Percy Jackson to make his comeback in the modeling business and also uses it to her advantage to become more famous after the Luke incident. Finds herself growing closer to Percy as time goes on, though she tries not to admit it to herself and others for fear of losing her reputation. But will it be destiny for them to be together or just heartbreak?
Percy Jackson- Hot model looking to make his comeback after being in rehab for drug overdose, cold-hearted to everyone he knows, even Annabeth after she helps him back to number one. As time goes on he finds himself warming up to her, that doesn't mean he'll be any less cold to her. Or does it?
Nico DiAngelo- Percy's cousin and manager who is responsible for making arrangements with Thalia to have Annabeth design for Percy. Helps play match maker with Thalia for Percy and Annabeth until Percy finds out-and fires him. Thalia feels sorry for him and decides to help. But will something else blossom along the way?
Thalia Grace- Annabeth Chase's best friend and assistant/manager (Basically does whatever Annabeth needs). Makes arrangements with Nico DiAngelo to have Annabeth design for Percy Jackson thinking it will help her make a comeback after Luke, even though Annabeth tells her not to make appointments with him or anyone else. She sees the chemistry between Percy and Annabeth first, which is ironic because she has never had a boyfriend, not even a crush. She enlists Nico to help her blossom the love between them, but will something else happen?
Luke Castellan- Hot, arrogant model, who thinks he runs the world. A real crowd pleaser, until there is no more crowds. Ex-client of Annabeth, until he cheated on her. Then broke up with her saying she cheated on him, causing her business popularity to decrease and make her never want a male client again. Is jealous of Percy for breaking down Annabeth's walls and wants him gone, for good.
So what do you think? It's AU, and everyone may be a bit OOC but I'm really excited for it! I hope you will be too. I'll make sure to tell you when it is out.
Remember to keep voting on my poll to decide who to prank next. If you want them to prank the hunters you have to vote for them on the poll! So vote!
Gods I typed this up, at like two today and its nine now, see this is what I get for going with my mom and sister to get my dad his father's day present! We got him the iPhone.
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