Leo had been absorbed in deep, dreamless, peaceful slumber when a wake up call in the form of the blessed conch from the Conch Horn woke him up with a start, causing him to fall off his bed and onto the hard floor of Cabin 9.
"Oof! What the f-loor?! Not again! I already have bruises from yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that, and the day before that and –" before Leo could suck himself into his infinity ring of speech, Beckendorf grunted from him own bed, clearly disturbed, "Just go back to sleep!"
So he did. In a minute, both, Leo and Beckendorf were back asleep. Exactly seventeen minutes later, the Conch Horn sounded again, summoning everyone for breakfast this time. Leo woke up with a start again. But now asleep on the floor, he had nowhere to fall and therefore rolled over to Beckendorf's bed with a loud THUD. This caused Beckendorf to get startled and fall off his bed – atop of Leo. And hence, Leo witnessed what having an asthma attack would feel like, except that he didn't actually have asthma.
"Bones…*gasp*…crushing!...*deep, deep breath* GET OFF ME YOU HEAVILY LOADED SON OF A MOTHER!"
Beckendorf got off with a grunt while Leo complained, "Great! Now I have Broken Ribs to add to my list of Injuries Obtained While Waking Up! Thanks so much CHARLES!"
"Always glad to help a friend…"
After a series of falling back on their beds in eccentric poses, Beckendorf and Leo were finally showered, ready and very, very sleepy.
*Later in the day*
Leo couldn't keep himself awake, solely because 1) He was too hungry to sleep as 2) he had skipped breakfast but 3) Lunch wasn't until an other hour 4) He had aching bruises all over his body, which 5) were a result of the Conch Horn completely BLASTING his sleep not only that morning, but Every. Single. Morning.
Something had to be done about that ruddy old Conch Horn, and he would do it. This called for a prank. But it wasn't even exactly a PRANK. It was more of revenge. But it still was a prank. "Aha! I've got it! It's going to be a REVANK! And yes, even though it sounds like an elephant with a sinus problem honking, it still is pretty cool! He announced all of this in a monotone. Then he added in a Shakespeare kind of threatening tone, "BEWARE CITIZENS OF CAMP HALF BLOOD! FOR THE REVANK IS COMETH!"
The best part was that, because of his excessive exploring and pranking, he was the sole person (except maybe Chiron, the Stoll Brothers and Dionysus) who knew exactly where the damned Conch Horn was kept. He decided it was time to rid it of its location.
*An hour and fifteen minutes later*
Leo finished lunch at remarkable speed and creeped into the Big House while everyone was out, still eating. He crawled up to the couch and raised the floorboard exactly behind it. There it was – the Conch Horn, right where he had last seen it – under the floorboard. He had always wondered why a HORN needed such a secret location. But then it struck him that someone possibly tired of it disturbing their sleep everyday might want to get rid of it. Someone like Leo. Well, Chiron was a pretty smart person. But not smart enough. The Conch Horn had been found.
Leo picked it up and went out through the back door, running straight into the forest. He found a hollow tree some distance away and decided that it was perfect. A whole seven minutes later, Leo managed to get the horn into the hollow tree and walked away like a hero. Nothing was going to disturb him now.
*Yet another hour later*
Elm the nymph finally decided to get back into her tree. She swooshed into the nearest elm tree she saw, causing a lot of wind.
Then something very loud went off and Elm looked as startled and scared as Garfield when he realizes it's already Monday. Strangely, it sounded like the Conch Horn. She swooshed out of the tree, causing it to go off again.
Leo suddenly heard the Conch Horn go off, twice. But how could that be?! He ran off to the elm tree to check. A lot of other campers and Chiron had gathered around to see how the sound could possibly be coming from the tree. One of the Ares campers was trying to get the Conch Horn out and definitely wasn't failing. The Conch Horn was out in another minute and was handed to Chiron.
Chiron looked at it, relieved. Leo tried to slowly back out of the crowd but was caught midway by none other than the Most Miserable God he'd ever seen, aka. Dionysus. "My, my, Leen Valerie, so someone hid the Conch Horn here, have we any guesses as to who it could've been?"
"Well…." Leo started off pretty slowly. But then he started to speak really fast, "Well I don't know who did it why would I know I don't know YOU should know you're the camp director I swear I didn't do it OK I don't SWEAR because I'm a man of sure words but I DIDN'T DO IT!" he then gasped for breath, slumped his shoulders and added in a small voice "Fine, I did it."
The Campers and Chiron all sighed, "Leo!"
A/N: Hey! So, what I've been thinking is that the PRANK STREAM is only going to have two chapters after this one, i.e. one more regular PRANK STREAM chapter, and then the GRAND FINALE of the stream. After that we'll be going back to regular (Sighs) Leo! Chapters. I'm sorry, but I'm really running outta ideas.
On another note, I've got an idea going for the finale, but please hit me with any ideas you might have. Doesn't matter what they are, as long as they are pranks. Hope you liked this chapter! Thanks!
