A 26th Way to Prank Octavian
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Chapter 2
As it turns out, buying bear costumes is surprisingly easy. Piper walked into a store, asked the owner for 8 bear costumes (Reyna was not going to dress up,) and that was that. They were 8 bear suits richer while losing only 6 dollars, charmspeak * sigh *, what would they do without it. Leo had gone to make some replicas of the knife they stole from Octavian's room. If Reyna hadn't grabbed the knife, then they would have to go in there again. They all agreed that they had seen enough ducky boxers to last a lifetime.
Octavian was feeling terrible. Every time someone mentioned the word "teddy" or "bear" he would flinch (this was unfortunate because a member of the First Cohort was called Teddy.) Percy and the other seven made sure that they said the previously mentioned words as often as possible. Once they had determined that Octavian was still having teddy nightmares, they moved on to stage 2.
Hazel's sewing skills (the ones she thought she would never use,) were put to the test in this stage. They made a cut in the stomach of the costumes and sewed the holes up with comically thick, bright blue thread. They left one of the costumes alone for stage 3. Piper gave Reyna the camera used for the butt prank and Reyna hid it in her bed sheets (sorry, I meant toga.)
Finally it was time for the prank. Reyna pretended to ask Octavian for a private meeting in an empty part of New Rome. When he arrived there was no one there (that he could see, Reyna was in the bushes filming his every move.) Right when he was about to leave 7 bears, wielding augur knifes, jumped out of some other bushes and started chasing him. Reyna followed shortly behind (masked so he wouldn't know it was her) and she was capturing on tape all of his high pitched squeals and failed running (he ran like a girl commented Percy… Annabeth stopped speaking to him for the rest of the day.) Octavian looked over his shoulder and managed to count 6 bears before he heard a loud clanging noise…