HELLO MY FRIENDS!
ALEXANDRA HAS RETURNED! :)
I'll do my list, per usual.
One: CHAPTER FIVE! WHOOP!
Two: Another awesome fic is After Blood by TeachingGods. It's in my fave list!
Three: This chapter is funny! It's got a lot of people!
Four: RRFF everyone!
Five: I just spent the weekend in NYC. It was so insane lol
Six: I wanna see if people read these. There will be an italicized word at the bottom of this. Put it in your review!
ON WITH THE CHAPPIE!
Nico was lucky to have all the friends he had now. Well, scratch that. He was friends with OJ, Alexandra, Weasley, and Karl (some daughter of Ares that never told people her really name), but he was still trying to become friends with the other people in their friend group. Sure he still had the guys from the quest (Jason never left him alone) and he definitely still had Reyna, but it was nice to have friends that got to like him while not battling for their lives.
He met OJ and Weasley at a Apollo sing-along festival that was held during the first official week of summer. It consisted of campers singing solo pop songs in the pavilion and embarrassing themselves. OJ told Nico that they were hired to film the worst singers make a joyful noise for some Athena kid named Chloe. He learned a while after talking to them that they were friends with Will too. Of course, that didn't stop them from filming him sing "Sugar" by Maroon 5 totally off key.
What Nico liked the most about them was that they didn't seem affected by his presence at all. They were so calm and collected around him. He was accepted for who he really was, not who's son he was. That's why he started hanging out with them. He met Alexandra and Karl through them, learning things about them both like the fact that Karl had a soft spot for little kids and Alexandra wanted to be a famous violinist.
When the four demigods started inviting Nico to group events, he was surprised how calm all their friends were around him. It didn't take long for everyone there to accept him as one of them. It was good to have a friend group and still hang out with Will at the same time.
Which is how he ended up here today. The eight demigods were sitting in the strawberry patch chatting and looking at the video of Percy running around Charlotte's tree to get OJ.
Nico was almost in tears, "What did you do to make him so mad, OJ?" She started to grin evilly and Weasley started to pout. He and the Stolls had been the ones to pay. While OJ was cunningly hiding herself around the camp, Weasley and the Stolls had been swimming their way back to shore after Percy dumpers them in the middle of the lake.
"I didn't do anything that Percy hadn't been asking for." She replied.
Ethan's face scrunched up into deep thought, and then everyone in the group swore they saw an animated lightbulb go on over his head. "That's what you were doing the night you snuck into the Poseidon Cabin!" Lucas smacked him upside the head. "What?!"
Karl sighed and rubbed her head, "Well, I'm just glad the drama's over. OJ kept on hiding in all of our cabins for days! I tried to get in my bunk one night and almost squashed her alive!"
"Like there was much to be squashed by..." OJ muttered under her breath. It was a known fact by all that both OJ and Karl were the shortest girls in the group. Karl's head jerked up.
"You wanna say that to my face Hades Spawn?!"
OJ held her hands up in mock defeat, "Sorry Mom."
Nico and Will shared a look. This whole conversation explained why they both had found OJ huddled under one of the bunks in the Hades Cabin. She wouldn't tell them anything besides "Evil Percy" and "Mass Genocide of all of Hermes Children".
Alexandra stopped the growing argument with a tilt of her head in the direction of the strawberry patches entrance. "Look who's coming."
All eyes went to the boy wearing a pair of glasses ten sizes too big for his face. Weasley's face brightened as he called out to the boy.
"Hey Daniel!" The boy waved as he ran over to them. He stopped just in front of them and started to push his glasses back into place.
"Hey guys! OJ, I have something important to tell you." This made OJ stop messing with Alexandra's hair and sit up a little straighter. A look of seriousness passed over her face.
"Is it done?" Nico looked at Weasley in confusion, who just shrugged in return. OJ turned to face the rest of the group.
"It's for my next plot against Percy!" Everyone looked horrified for a moment as they imagined what kind of magic spell OJ had implored Daniel to make for her.
Clearly reading their faces she grinned and said, "No one throws my bro-bros into the lake and gets away with it!" She hooked an arm around Daniel's shoulder and looked at him expectantly. "Let's see it then."
Reaching into his back pocket, he withdrew a medium sized perfume bottle.
"This is a invisibility serum. One spray over a test subject and they are guaranteed to be invisible for a whole day!"
"Has is been tested yet," Alexandra asked.
"No," he answered. "But is it ever?"
OJ stood up straight and stick her arms out. "Spray me!"
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" Will said standing up. "As a doctor, I would advise you not to try that. What if you stayed invisible for days, or forever?! What if you died on contact with the substance and we never found your body because you were invisible?!"
"Then we'll have to hope someone trips over my body," she turned back to Daniel. "SPRAY ME."
Daniel squeezed the button on the perfume bottle, but it seemed to be stuck. He started pounding his hand against it.
"You need to be careful with that, Daniel," Karl cautioned.
"I...ALMOST...HAVE...IT!" He grunted. With one final push the button sprang forward, spraying ALL of its contents onto the eight demigods before him. No one had time to move or run.
The last thing everyone could remember before passing out was Weasley screaming like a little girl.
...
The first thing Nico was able to process when he woke up was that something was very wrong. He didn't feel good, and his vision was still dotted with tiny black marks. As he sat up he could see Daniel running around trying to wake the others up...
'Wait,' he thought. 'I can still see them!' He glanced over at Will, who had started to rouse beside of Nico. OJ sat up across from him. He gave him a once over. He looks fine.
'Wait... HE DOES LOOK FINE!' Yes, that was the case, because OJ was no longer a girl. The person sitting across from Nico was a ginger headed young man with big brown eyes. Those brown eyes widened when they fell in Nico and came to the same conclusion.
"Your a girl! I'm a guy! Will's a girl! Ethan's a girl! Lucas's a girl! Karl's a guy! Lexi's a guy!" He paused to take a breath. His eyes widened to an even more considerable width again. "Oh, Lexi's gonna kill me when she... he wakes up!" A groan was heard from next to Nico.
"You see! I told you that you shouldn't have tried it, and now we've all become the opposite gender!" Nico and OJ's eyes fell on the now awake and steaming son of Apollo. Nico would never admit it out loud, but Will as a girl looked like a supermodel on a magazine cover.
Weasley sat up and grabbed OJ's shoulders, "How do I look?!" OJ seemed to take this into serious consideration.
"The same, but a bit more feminine. Your hair length is the same. How do I look?"
"Well, your hair's not long anymore, but you look fine for a guy. Your not ugly!" OJ's face brightened.
"Thanks bro... sis!"
Everyone had now woken up and was starting to look around for answers. Ethan was looking at himself.
"Am I dreaming?" He turns to Lucas. "Did you sneak into my dreams again?" Lucas looked weirded out.
"I'm pretty sure we're awake dude...dudett. And when have I snuck into your dreams?!"
"If it's not you, then who is?"
"Guys," Karl yelled. "There are more pressing matters than who is stalking Ethan in his dreams! Where'd Daniel go?" Everyone looked to see the son of Hecate trying to slip out of the strawberry patch unnoticed. They all sprang to their feet and surrounded him.
"What happened to invisibility?!" OJ screamed while grabbing the front of his shirt.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! You know spells don't always go as planned!" He covered his face with his hands.
"Well," Alexandra started. "At least tell us when is will wear off."
Daniel gulped, "It should be gone by tomorrow morning." Everyone relaxed and OJ let go of his shirt.
"But, since the spell messed up it could be longer..." He tensed up and started running. "Gotta go! Bye!" Before anyone could stop him, the son of Hecate was already out of the strawberry patch. There was silence for a few moments as the eight were trying to figure out what to do until morning. Karl's head sprang up.
"What do we do if we have to go to the bathroom?" All of their faces filled with horror.
"OJ!" Alexandra ran at the ginger full speed. The boys face fell as he turned tails and ran out of the strawberry patch, with the son of Athena following closely behind.
Chiron like his walks around the camp when it was peaceful. No drama had happened since the gift shop incident, and all was well. As he neared the top of Half-Blood hill, he could hear screaming in the distance.
He turned his head and could see in his line of vision what looked like a chibi version of two young men running around. The one in the front was repeating the mantra "I'm sorry!"
Just before he decided to keep on with his walk he saw the boy in the back pounce on the screaming one and drag his squirming body into the woods.
"Well," he said to himself. "At least for once OJ hasn't done something."
OOOH! gEnDeRbEnD!
MERP
Until next time,
Alexandra SIGNING OUT!
