She was a few minutes late for dinner but Chiron only nodded at her; she walked quickly over to her cabin table and started to talk with Nevaeh, a new girl. Nevaeh was gothy, but seemed to fit in ok.
"Who are they?" she had asked shyly, pointing to the Stolls who were practically rolling on the floor laughing, Connor had almost gone blue with lack of oxygen. "They're the Stolls, what did they do?" Lacey dropped in, "They told Katie, that to reverse the hex, she had to cut off her hair," Piper automatically looked for her friend. "She cut her hair off… it didn't work." Piper made a face and started to get up but Lacey stopped her, "Drew and some others are helping her, Lou Ellen as well, they're trying to regrow it." Piper nodded.
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Piper woke up. She'd heard something. Slowly her hand crept under her pillow, to grip her knife. She slowed her breathing and slowly cancelled out her cabinmates' breathing until she could hear three extra pairs of breathing; she sat up and slowly folded the covers back and swung herself out of bed. She crept to the door but halfway to it she bumped into a warm body. Which shrieked like a little girl seeing a spider. "Percy?" she asked, "How-?"
"GO!" roared another voice and a red light blinked on in the darkness, Piper began to back away, but she was too late, a giant bucket full of ice water splashed down on her…
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The next day, there was a new video up on Percy's Facebook. Piper had commented: 'I nominate . .praetor, .psycho and Also screw u Percy.'
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"What the hell is the Ice Bucket Challenge…?" Octavian thought. He searched it on his computer, "Tip a bucket over me... no thanks," he wrinkled his nose. Then, his eye fell on a website, "Do the Ice Bucket Challenge for the children!" he read out. He couldn't help himself; he started scrolling through the website. 'Do the Ice Bucket Challenge and donate, so children like Ali can get better.' There was a picture of a 5-year-old boy with floppy hair in a hospital bed, he was tiny and Octavian would have thought he was only three, if not for the caption. Next to the sickly picture of him was a new picture, with the same boy but he was now smiling and playing on a playground swing, 'This is Ali, three weeks after your donations helped him.'
Octavian smiled sappily, then stopped in case someone walked in. instantly, he clicked donate and donated $100 to the charity. Then, he borrowed a camera from someone and a tripod from someone else, he brought a bucket and a bag of ice, he, then, tipped it all in the bucket and left it in the sun. After, he went back to his computer and looked at other cases like Ali.
Three quarters of an hour later, he got his bucket and set up the tripod and camera. "I'm Octavian and this is my ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Thank you to Piper who nominated me. I nominate Frank, Clarisse annnnd… Juno." He smiled at the camera and dumped the water over his head.
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I know most people hate Octavian but he's kind of funny. I like him anyway.