The Ocean's Glare - The Lightning Thief

Chapter 33

Chapter 33 - I love/hate pranks

The prank on Percy commenced after the laurels ceremony. They burned laurels of Annabeth, Grover and Percy. I honestly don't know what was going through the Ares Cabin's mind when they made the laurel. I also don't know what was going through Chiron's when he refused to let me make it.

I mean seriously, they put smiley faces with xed out eyes. COME ON! I could have done twenty times better than that!

My favorite part of that day was when Percy ate his cake. You see, Alexandria made the mist look like only one of the cakes was there to Percy while to the rest of us it looked like there was two. So, while the 6 of us cut slices out of the regular cake Percy cut out a slice of the salted cake.(The mist covered what we really did.)

We just sat there contentedly eating our cake when Percy took the first bite out of his cake.

All of us started laughing hysterically while his eyes bugged out of his head and he spat it out as fast as possible.

"WHAT IS THAT?" he asked, staring at the cake like it was some Greek monster.

"Cake," said Alexandra regaining her 'cool'.

"HOw are y'all eating it?" Percy asked, gesturing to Annabeth and Grover who were eating their cakes.

"It's amazing" I said with my mouth full.

"Ok, cut the crap, what did y'all do?" he asked.

I nodded at Alexandra who dropped the mist and revealed the second cake.

Percy stared at it dumbfounded, "Do wha-"

"WE made two cakes." I laughed.

"Why?"

"It is a word, starts with a P and ends with a K and has some letters in between." I said.

"Pancake?" Connor asked.

"Ends with an e." I shook my head.

"I can't believe you kept me alive for my entire quest just to try and kill me by feeding me a salt cake. My mouth will never be wet again." Percy started laughing and everyone just broke down laughing again and it was awesome.

Then, later that day I was talking with Luke about what to do with Alexandra since there was no room in the Hermes cabin after Connor and Travis came.

"We don't have any room" Luke growled.

"I know you don't have any room. As a person who stayed in your cabin for a week, I was sleeping with someone's feet as a pillow for 5 out of 7 of those!" I countered.

"Why can't the gods just claim their kids?" Luke grumbled.

"I agree, I could look at all of the undetermined kids and give them a godly parent but it still wouldn't count unless they were claimed. And, it doesn't help that some parents don't even realize their kid exists." I was thinking about my dream.

"Exactly!" Luke said exasperatedly.

"But what are we supposed to do about Alexandra? She can't just sleep outside." I countered.

"Why can't the minor gods have cabins?" Luke asked himself.

"The gods are arrogant guys who have an indefinite life span who have forgotten the meaning of hardship." I replied, "Hey, maybe I could ask Chiron if she could stay in my cabin. I honestly don't care what Poseidon thinks."

"That sounds like a good idea." Luke nodded.

I walked towards the archey class where I knew Chiron was giving a class(I am actually competent but... Percy is cursed so they don't really want either of us at the archery range)(The sons of Poseidon have been cursed by Apollo after what happened with orion and Artemis)

All of a sudden I felt like I was being sucked into a vacuum. I blinked and all of a sudden I was in a different part of Camp Half-Blood, wearing different clothes... hey is that the same stain Percy got on his clothes from the frosting earlier?

Alexandra did this, "ALEXANDRA!" I yelled. Wow, Percy sounds weird.

"ALEXANDRAAAAAAAAA!" I yelled again.

"Percy, why are you looking for Alexandra?" Annabeth asked, coming out of her cabin.

"I am looking for her because she made me and my twin sister switch bodies meaning, you are talking to Peyton Jackson now tell me where Alexandra is!" I told her.

"Good one Percy, you are just trying to get us back from the cake earlier it won't work." Annaebth left.

Ah crap.

I started running towards where I was and found myself looking around confused. When I finally stopped I was out of breath and red in the face.

"Percy... needs... to work out... more." I panted. If I were in my body I could have run that no problem.

"Hey," percy-me yelled at me.

"What??" I asked, still out of breath.

"Who are you?" asked Percy-me.

"Where in the name of Poseidon is Alexandra Mckay? I am going to kill her." I glared at Percy-me.

"What is going on? Why do you look like me, and why am I wearing my sister's clothes?" Percy-me picked at my clothes.

"Well, a little daughter of Hecate thought it would be funny to swap the bodys of twin Percy and Twin Peyton now, I look like you, and you look like me now where the HADES is ALEXANDRA?"

"Annabeth should know," Percy-me told me.

"Annabeth thinks you are trying to get back at her for the cake thing so I can't ask her, you gotta."

Actually we didn't because Alexandra came towards us with a grin on her face. I pulled Percy's pen out of my pocket and flicked the cap off.

"Alexandra, swap us back." I said.

"Why should i? This is funny." she responded.

"I have a sword and will maim you if you do not swap us back," I said murderously.

"Geez, what happened to you?" she asked. She snapped her fingers and I felt the vacuum sensation again as I was now in my body again.

"Thank you, also, I was going to ask Chiron if you could stay in our cabin but, now I think you can sleep in the woods." I smiled and walked away.

That, is why I love/hate pranks.(So, is Peyton going to join the titans? Will she fight for the gods after what happened between Poseidon and Percy? Find out... a lot later!)