Just a quick random shout-out to all the people who read this book but don't comment or vote or give any sign that they exist. I know you're there. I've seen you put my books on your reading lists. You can't hide from me. I appreciate you guys too. Love you all <3 /p

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It was time for Name In Development to strike.

The plans had been made. The materials had been prepared, after a long night of making bright pink slime full of glitter.

Their first target was in sight: Cabin Eight, the Artemis cabin. The contraption was in place. Now, just before breakfast, as everyone was just waking up, Tango, Beckendorf, Connor, and Travis crouched by the side of the Apollo cabin, looking across the central green space at the door of the Artemis cabin. They wouldn't be caught dead sitting next to the latter - they didn't want to be mistaken for a couple of those lovesick satyrs.

The door opened. All four pranksters held their breath.

They heard a scream as the first Hunter to exit the cabin got a facefull of glittery, pink, sticky slime.

Travis, Connor, and Tango failed to hold back their laughter. Even Beckendorf let out a chuckle.

"Won't it stain?" Beckendorf asked.

Connor shook his head, still snickering. "Little Hermes pranking trick. It'll come right out."

"Oh, good," Tango laughed.

"What the heck are you guys doing?" A voice asked.

The four of them turned to see some kid from the Apollo cabin that Tango didn't know. "Uh... hi," Travis said.

"We're pranking the Hunters," Tango said, pointing to the cabin across the green space.

The Apollo kid looked over there and grinned. "Nice. They deserve it, they've been hogging the archery range."

"Want to help?" Connor and Travis asked in unison.

The Apollo kid shrugged. "Why not? Can't say I'm good at pranking, but my cabin and I can make life hard for them."

All four Hermes and Hephaestus kids grinned. "Welcome to Name in Development," Beckendorf said.

"Name in... what?"

"Name in Development," Tango said. "That's our name."

The Apollo kid looked like he regretted joining Name in Development. "I'll find some people who I've heard complain about the Hunters. We can sabotage their arrows."

"Make it so none of them hit," Beckendorf realized. "That'll annoy them to death."

"Yeah, what do you mean about not being good at pranking? That's evil," Connor said, his voice almost accusatory.

The Apollo guy smiled slightly and shrugged. "Anyone could think of it." Then he walked away.

"Anyone know who he is?" Tango asked.

"Nope," Travis said. "Never seen him before. Can Apollo kids bend light to be invisible, since they're children of the sun god?"

"I don't think that's how it works," Connor told him.

"Can you go invisible, since you're sons of the god of thieves?" Beckendorf countered.

The Stoll twins exchanged excited glances. "We've never tried."

Can Grian do that? Tango wondered.

The Hunter who had been slimed had disappeared. Other Hunters had left the cabin and started searching for the culprits.

"We should probably go," Tango said.

His fellow Name In Development members nodded in agreement and walked behind the Apollo cabin, pretending to be just campers heading to breakfast like everyone else. Not suspicious at all.

The Hermes and Hephaestus kids split off to their separate tables for breakfast. Bdubs glanced suspiciously at Tango, than at the Stoll brothers. Tango grinned at him from across the pavilion. Bdubs crossed his arms and glared.

Over on the Ares table, Ren was already chomping down on a muffin twice his size. They really needed to figure out how to turn him back to a human.

The Hunter girl who they had slimed had changed into clean clothes, but there were still remnants of pink goo in her hair. She was laughing and arm wrestling with the rest of the Hunters of Artemis. That was good. Tango didn't want any of the pranks to cause too much damage.

Tango sighed and went with the rest of the campers to dump a portion of his food in the fire.

After breakfast, all the campers went to their separate activities. Tango and Beckendorf headed to the forge as usual to work on more prank stuff. Other campers came and went. Rumors were spread about how none of the Hunters' arrows hit their targets - something about the Apollo cabin and a curse.

"You watch, they're going to curse the Hunters to only speak in poetry next," Beckendorf laughed.

What surprised Tango was how happy all the campers seemed about it. Nobody seemed to have any intention to tell the Hunters, Chiron, or Mr. D who had done it.  It was like the whole camp was in on it. Apparently everyone wanted revenge for the last time the Hunters had been here, which nobody bothered to tell Tango about but apparently it had been bad.

Connor and Travis came in when it was almost time for lunch. "That Apollo kid is good."

"Yeah," Tango agreed. "We heard. Just goes to show that you don't need to be a Hermes kid to pull good pranks."

"I was talking with a couple of Aphrodite girls today," Travis said.

"You couldn't pull them," Connor teased.

"I totally could. But anyway, they want in on the mayhem too."

"No way," Tango laughed. "Of all the cabins, Aphrodite has a mischievous side?"

"They want to impress you, Travis," Beckendorf said in a dead serious tone, even though Tango knew he was joking.

Connor rolled his eyes and smirked. "He wishes."

Travis scoffed.

Beckendorf chuckled. "As long as it's not Silena."

Tango glanced sideways at his half brother, raising his eyebrows and grinning.

"Shush," Beckendorf muttered.

Tango snickered and ducked behind the massive anvil to avoid the rolled-up blueprint that Beckendorf threw at him. "You can't say something like that and expect not to be made fun of!"

Beckendorf flushed. The Stoll twins cracked up. Tango poked his head out from behind the anvil and got another blueprint hard to the face. "OW! Oh, you asked for it, you're getting pie faced at dinner tonight!"

"I'd like to see you try," Beckendorf shot back.

"Pie face the Hunters," Travis suggested.

"Not in front of the whole camp," Connor protested.

"But what if we made another contraption?"

"They'll be expecting it next time."

"Well-"

The Stoll Brothers left as the conch horn sounded for lunch, still bickering.

Tango lightly punched Beckendorf's shoulder, which was hard because he had to reach up about a foot. "Silena, huh?"

Beckendorf shrugged. "It's not like it's a secret."

Tango grinned and followed the Stolls. "I know. Doesn't mean I'm gonna have mercy."

Beckendorf groaned.

Tango turned his focus to not tripping over his own feet. This was a good day. They had gotten one, possibly two new cabins on their side. They had successfully pranked the Hunters. And the entire camp was mostly on their side.

All that was missing were the other Hermits. Unfortunately, Bdubs was quieter than usual, Ren was a guinea pig, Grian and Gem were missing, Zedaph was on a quest, and all the others were back home. Tango frowned. Was he subconsciously trying to distract himself from his Hermit-related problems? Maybe.

At least he was doing a good job of it.

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Guys I'm so sorry for accidentally publishing this not once but TWICE when it wasn't ready

@PiperInTheInternet you silly sausage you somehow read it before it was done

Again, sorry. I hope you will accept the completed chapter as my apology.

- Indigo