Hey. It's me. Again…
Did you miss me? Of course you did!
Anyhow here the details for A Prank Gone Wrong, the sequel to Everything A Child of Hermes Needs to Know; since I'm sure you're all getting tired of waiting for the sequel to come out, or you've just completely forgotten that this exists… So I figured I'd toss you guys a little preview of the sequel… Enjoy!
They are threatened by those who seek to destroy them and their reputations…
"Dude, I love our jobs, but seriously, I think I love Camp even more." Connor said to Travis, looking around wildly at the camp.
"Oh, please, the only reason you like visiting Camp is because none of the nymphs or dryads on Olympus have any interest in you." Travis said in reply to Connor, who was checking out some of the newer Aphrodite girls.
"And the only reason, you like visiting camp," Connor began, "is because Katie's here."
"Touche." Travis spoke, craning his neck in hopes to find Katie, his girlfriend of about one and a half years.
"Hey are you two the Stoll bros? We're the Heists." A voice from behind Connor and Travis said, showing no emotion but determination.
The boys whirled around to find, two boys staring at them with cold hard looks. "Yeah…" Connor said, "but we're on vacation, and we only pull pranks between the hours of ten and three anyway."
"We do?" Travis asked Connor in confusion, he didn't think that there was a set time for them to pull a prank.
"Aww, who am I kidding –besides Travis- we'll prank whenever you need us." Connor said, his voice rising, excited at the idea of a prank.
"Well, that's exactly what we're her to talk to you about." The brown haired boy spoke, his face was twisted as if a monster had bashed it in, but then Travis realized that it was him smiling.
The other taller boy began to speak, "You have no business here anymore, we're the new prank kings, and dad's new favorites, so don't get to attached to your titles or jobs, because that won't last long, we're going to have them in no time."
"Woah." Connor said, "Someone didn't get in their daily dose of stealing!"
"But, we figured we'd give you a chance to prove yourselves." The younger Heist brother said.
"Go on." Travis continued, caution in his voice as if the boys would pull lasers on them at any minute.
"We're challenging you to pull the biggest prank to have ever happened in Olympian Greek History."
"Awww, little boy," Connor said, ruffling the eldest boy's hair whom couldn't have been two years younger than Connor, "go run along. Leave the big stuff to the older kids."
"I'm seventeen you fool!" The boy spoke.
"Wow, still waiting for that growth spurt, eh?"
"We'll do it." Travis spoke surprising even himself.
"Great." The boys said, and the Stoll's couldn't help but shiver at the sight of their similar monster bashed in smiles.
There are challenges lurking around every single corner…
"You idiot! You did it wrong!" Travis yelled at Connor, anger and a little bit of fright apparent in his angular face.
"I didn't mean to!" Connor protested, "I was just trying to pull the greatest prank ever! Which need I remind you, you got us into!"
"Well in doing that look what we've done!" Travis yelled, the anger at himself and his brother outshining every other emotion.
Connor peeked around the corner and saw…nothing… "There's nothing there!"
"Well give the genius a prize!"
"Oh shit. What did we do!" Connor yelled taking all of his high self-esteem not to drop down and weep, "What have we done?"
"Well Connor, you seem to have forgotten in our efforts to try and pull the greatest prank ever, we made every single freaking God disappear!" Travis yelled, his voice at an all time high.
Connor said the only thing he could think of, "Whoops." Then he dropped down to the floor, succumbing to the overpowering fatigue and insanity that was building inside him.
With all efforts tried almost each one fails…
"Any luck?" Annabeth asked Connor, her fingers were crossed for luck.
"Nothing yet." Connor replied, "Are you absolutely positive we're getting as much energy as possible from that machine thingamajig you designed?"
"Connor, you've asked me that five times now, and what have I said each time?"
"Yes Connor." Connor mimicked Annabeth.
"It should've worked by now Connor, evidently this plan isn't going to work." Annabeh said, only diminishing a small part of Connor's hope.
"That's okay!" Connor said, "I've got lots more ideas!" With that said he held up his blue beaten Omega backpack, opened the zipper and dumped it out, at least fifty blueprint ideas-with pencil marks all over them- falling to the floor.
"And I thought I carried around a lot of blue prints." Annabeth said staring in awe at all of the blueprints that lay on the big house basement floor.
Help will be found in the most silent places…
"Gods damn it! All those ideas, every piece of freaking blue paper, every machine used couldn't reverse the prank, what are we doing wrong Travis?" Connor cried out in frustration after a whole day of working with Annabeth creating faulty machines to bring the Gods back.
"I don't know."Travis said his voice dull and sad, he had gone to visit Katie earlier in the day and had come back angry and depressed and had yet to tell his brother why, "Maybe we're looking in the wrong places."
"Then where the hell is the right place to look?" Connor yelled at his distraught brother, in the meantime he neglected to look where he was going, and walked straight into their book shelf- which held more crap than books, in walking into it though he knocked something off the top. A book fell down, tumbling to the ground and hitting Connor in the head along the way.
"Ouch!" He groaned, rubbing the spot where the book had hit him. He bent over and picked up the book turning it over so he could see the front. "Hey Travis." He said confused.
"What?" Travis grumped from the couch.
"Was Annabeth reading an English textbook when she helped us move in, because she's the only person I could think that would read one…" Connor said, his eyebrows furred in confusion as he stared down at the book in his hands.
"No, but an English textbook, let me see that!" Travis said, his mood being the happiest that it had been since he had left Katie's.
"Uh, sure" Connor said, still confused, and handed the book over to Travis.
Travis's face lit up, "Connor! This isn't just some old English book! This is Everything A Child of Hermes Needs to Know!" Travis began to rapidly flip through the book. "Wow, this book has stuff in it we didn't even know about. Oh cool, types of shoes that don't wear out as fast as regular gym shoes, things children of Hermes can do that others can't, oh and uh wow I really didn't need to read/see that...Connor! There's a section called A Prank Gone wrong!" Travis, was clearly excited.
"Woah! Cool, did you know Amelia Earhart's disappearance was a prank gone bad, and the Revolutionary War, and the Great Chicago Fire, and Hera!"
"Really?" Travis asked, shocked.
"Nah, but it'd be funny if she was."
Hearts will be betrayed and broken…
"Oh my Demeter Travis, thank Gods you're here! I've been going crazy, what do you think happened to the Gods? Who in Gaea is a big enough jerk to make the Gods disappear, it was probably those two jerks-the Heists- from the Hermes Cabin, they probably did it!" Katie said.
"Uh, yeah…"Travis said, trying to hide the growing shame that was developing from not telling Katie who was really responsible for the Gods' disappearance.
"Travis are you alright?" Katie asked, the concern for her boyfriend of one and a half years evident in her voice.
"Yeah. I'm fine." Travis said.
"No you're not, Travis Andrew Stoll, tell me this instant what are you keeping from me?" Katie asked impatiently.
"My middle name isn't Andrew," Travis said, "it's Caceus, it kind of hurts that you don't know that…" Travis said trying to lighten the mood.
It didn't work.
"It probably hurts you as much as it hurts me when you keep the truth from me." Katie said trying a last attempt to get him to tell her the truth.
"Katie, I'm not hiding anything, promise." Travis said desperately.
"Well, until you can come up with something that I can believe Travis Stoll, were done." Katie said solemnly. Then she turned on her heel aand walked out of the door, flowers wilting as she walked by them.
Places unexplored will no longer be…
"Are you guys sure this is safe?" Percy asked Travis and Connor as they surged through the pinkish layer that seemed to hold everything that had ever happened in it. Percy was clutching Annabeth's hand, making sure they didn't get lost in the pink haze that surrounded them.
"Oh my, Apollo!" Annabeth said her face unreadable.
"You know Annabeth," Connor said, "people usually say Oh my Gods, instead of Oh my Apollo, even if it it sounds better…"
"No it's really Apollo!" Annabeth yelled, the four demigods turned to look forward and saw…Apollo?
He collapsed just as they reached him, folding into Annabeth's arms, unmoving.
The god of the Sun-for once in his eternally long life- was silent.
Things people thought would never happen…
"I can't believe it. That thing's huge, how in the world are Katie and Travis going to survive?" Connor said, staring at his brother, whose face was beaded with sweat and he stood rigid in fear, almost cowering. Katie stood tall, next to Travis, she looked ready to take on anything, but anyone could see the little sweat beads dripping down her forehead.
"They'll find a way." Annabeth, who was next to him, said her face shining in the hot beaming sunlight, "They're Travis and Katie."
"I mean I was always sure that there would be little Travis and Katie's running around one day, but now look at that thing! It's huge; they'll never get past it, and the chances of them living through it? Even smaller." Connor spoke as if it were poisoning him to watch his brother stand there defenseless against the plans of life.
That's all for now! Coming up soon, the actual story itself will debut, and everything goes from good…to bad….to horrible…and maybe to good again…I'm a bad person so it may just stay at horrible…I hope this holds you guys over for now until the actual story debuts! I'm hoping to have it out by next Saturday or sooner…
Thank you to everyone who has EVER reviewed or read this story, it means a lot that you did that for me. So thank you and I hope the next story pleases you even more than this one has!
Tratie, Percabeth, Thalico, Chrissee, Groviper, (I did as many PJO couple names as I could think of…)
~Wisegirl~
P.S. I'm sad! This is the last sign off ever!