DISCLAIMER: I do not own PJO.

July 14, 2003;

"Chiron what do you mean we have to all stay in the old giant tree house," Luke asked. His face was bright and scar free.

"Well," the centaur said stroking his chin, "It appears to me that my relatives have…uh….decided to do a family reunion."

"Didn't you want to cut that tree down?" Annabeth asked, she was ten now. "Didn't you think that there was no use inside the treehouse other than for Mr. D's torture cave? Why can't we stay in our cabins?"

"My relatives are half human, half horse, Annabeth, they'll surely take up a lot of space." Chiron smiled politely but Annabeth returned it with a blank stare.

"I don't like want like horse manure in my like bed," one of the Aphrodite girls said disgusted. Silena turned to her and gave a harsh warning look.

"You better not say that to them," Annabeth piped up, "In the stories they love to be wild and rather….barbaric. They probably haven't change, right Chiron?"

"Yeah," Chiron mumbled, "Or something like that. Now you guys head on up to the tree!" The several campers sitting at the tables below him stared.

"You won't be removing Mr. D's torture thing right?" Travis Stoll asked.

"I have arranged for the Athena cabin to put them all away in the attic," Chiron informed them.

"Awwwww….horse," Connor muttered under his breath, "At least we know where it is."

"Padlocked," Chiron finished. The Stoll brothers fainted.

"I'm not taking their things," everyone said at once.

Later up in the tree house, the Stoll brothers regaining consciousness,

"This sucks Luke," Annabeth said. She was reading about centaurs in a corner. Luke was with a sprawl of sleeping bags with a caduceus on them.

"I think they're fine," Luke said ignoring her. The Stoll brothers lay flat on their sleeping bags, Connor was getting some color and Travis was breathing slowly. Finally they woke up.

Travis rubbed his eyes, "I'm going to talk to take back all of Mr. D's torture devices. Whose with me?" Connnor who was breathing rapidly nodded. They ran quickly to the door ad fast as they could and in a second they were down on the ground heading towards the Big House.

"Oh gods!" Annabeth swore and she, Luke, Silena and Beckerdorf flew down the ladder. The Stoll brothers were nowhere to be seen.

"This is not good," Silena said whimpering, "We're stuck in the forest, the Big House is a quarter of a mile there and I might break a nail!"

"Oh for Olympus sake," Beckerdorf said, "they can't be that far." The four of them headed towards a gold shimmer of bright light which got nearer and nearer as they headed the same direction. They passed the cabins, in the firepit a small girl was tending it.

Loud roars were heard as they four of them approached the Big House and they found the Stoll Brothers snickering at a slightly open door.

"You two are in very big trouble," Luke hissed. They ignored him and continued giggling. "Gods what is it?" Travis moved his head to let Luke see through the crack. Luke's eyes widened and he motioned to Annabeth. Annabeth covered her mouth trying not to laugh. Silena pushed away Connor and started giggling in a laugh worth of Aphrodite. Beckerdorf looked through the crack and smirked.

"I think we have got this year's bead design."

August 31, 2003

"Another summer has past and some of you year rounders will stay," Chiron announced. Mr. D stood next to him depressed that his torture chamber was cut down. "This year the Hephaestus cabin with help of Athena, Aphrodite and Hermes have created the bead. The bead design is…." The centaur froze as he stared at the bright yellow bead.

A centaur wearing a pale blue prom dress and dancing awkwardly stared back at him.