Hey guys! Sorry for the really late update, but like school term's starting so I probably can't post as often. Sorry in advance because I don't think I can post every week.

Piper'sPOV

We mostly just sat around waiting. Leo tried to up the atmosphere, but Percy told him to button his lip before he did it for him. He said and I quote, "If you don't zip your mouth, it won't open again."

It was suchhhh a relief when Trin, Hazel, Frank and Aden- now turned back into human- came through the door.

"Hey guys!" Trin made a point of posing like a fashion model before plopping down next to me. "Miss us?"

"No." muttered Nico.

"Who's turn is it to play?" Hazel asked, sitting down with Frank and Aden on either side.

"Your go." Leo nodded at her.

"Okay. Oh, by the way, Leo, Chiron needs to have a word with you tomorrow morning. You and Thalia." Hazel bit her lip worriedly, tilting her head at him.

"Awwww, no!" he moaned. "And what tomorrow, for heaven's sakes woman, it's nearly 4am!"

"What?!" Nico sprung up, looking at his watch. He moaned, "I'm on pegasus duty, I forgot. Sorry guys, I gotta go."

"Really, dude?"

"Yeah, me too. Gotta finish that camp letter for Chiron." Trinity stood up as well.

"And uh, which letter was it?" Percy asked innocently. Trin held the record for writing the most letters of apology to Chiron. If a camper broke any rule, they had to be punished. Trin always wrote letters of apology before her punishment came and probably before Chiron even knew about it. Hence, she never got punished, because "she actually takes the trouble to apologise".

"The one about not leaving pegasus poop in the shower." Trin said drily, before heading out the door.

"I should head off as well." Rayna stood up, wrapping her cloak around her. "I would like to have a nice, warm bath before any other members of the Twelfth legion awake."

"TMI, Rayna." Annabeth laughed.

"Um, what's that?" Aden asked.

"Too much information." Jason said. I squeezed his hand. It was nice of him to not make fun of Aden, even if he was a bit dumb.

"We should go and get our punishment, Thalia." Leo reluctantly pulled himself up.

Thalia grimaced. "Hope it's nothing too bad."

"Um," Aden coughed, "I don't want to sound weird, but how bad can a word be?"

Percy's POV

After that, everyone left. Hazel and Frank had to go check on their legion and Aden wanted to go "stroke the horsies". Jason and Piper wanted to squeeze in a bit of sleep, while Poppy wanted to tend to her flowers.

When we were completely alone, I wrapped my arms around Annabeth and gave her a good, proper hug, one with no one watching.

"Happy birthday, Seaweed Brain,"she said softly.

I held onto her for as long as I could, until she gently pushed me away and pulled out a neatly wrapped gift from her pocket.

"Here's your present." she said, smiling.

I unwrapped it….. and stared at it in shock. "Oh, Annabeth!"

Leo's POV

Campers were already starting to wake up by the time Thalia and I reached the Big House. When I say wake up, I mean they started to moan and shift when I threw acorns at their heads.

"Leo!" Thalia hissed in irritation. She poked at me with her fingers and a shiver of electricity passed through him.

"Don't do that!"

"Shut up! Do you wanna wake Mr D?"

"Rather him than you."

She poked me again and I was electrocuted.

"Stop it!"

"Zip it then." she knocked quietly on the Big House door.

A few moments later, Chiron clip-clopped out, his tail and curly hair entwined with curlers and in his pink party pony pyjamas. He didn't look particularly pleased.

"Leo, Thalia." he acknowledged us with a frown. "Please don't tell me you're here on another dare."

"You asked to see us." Thalia piped up.

"When did I-" Chiron cut himself off with another frown. "When I told Hazel I wanted to see you, I didn't mean now. I meant-"

"Now?" I poked me.

"Ow!"

'Lower your voice, Leo." Chiron said wearily. "Come in then, I don't want anyone to see me."

"Ok." I turned my head and spoke loudly. "Hey guys, check out-"

"Leo Valdez!" Chiron glared at me. "Let us hope nobody heard you. Or your punishments are no doubt going to be more severe."

At that moment, Poppy came out of the woods, carrying a hunk of wood and humming softly. When she saw Chiron she stopped, wide-eyed and open-mouthed. Flowers started sprouting under her fingers on the wood, but she didn't seem to notice.

"Ah." Chiron grimaced. "Poppy, what are you doing up?"

Chiron's stab at a casual conversation made me wince, not in the least because I was in bigger trouble.

"I, uh," Poppy glanced at me and Thalia. "Uh…."

"You were up last night, no doubt." Chiron shook his head gravely. "As you can see, Thalia and Leo are getting most of the blame. For prank calling me and waking me up in the middle of the night."

"Oh." By now, the flowers were spreading all over the wood like crazy, sprouting leafy bushes and even a few tangled branches. It looked like a blooming garden, so to speak.

"Not a word of this to anyone, Poppy, please." Chiron rubbed his eyes tiredly. "And do something about that mini-garden you have over there!"

"Sorry, Chiron." Poppy shook her hand fiercely, but the branch seemed to have grafted to her hand. Looking irritated she did something which looked like a grasping motion but it was hard to see because of all the flowers.

When she relaxed her hand, all the flowers and leaves and branches started to retract rapidly, shrinking into her fingertips until there was just a plain hunk of wood in her hands.

"Thank you," Chiron sighed and trotted back into the Big House. "Come one then, you two."

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