A/N:

Funny story...I'm procrastinating again. Hahaha...

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Right, so anyway, I just really want to take a break from studying and decided to write a sort of 'filler' chapter.

I mean, 'Hey, why not?', right?

*If you haven't read the chapter: The Chapter Wherein Nothing Really Happens (Just A Phone Call) I suggest you go back two chapters since I've updated for three days straight...

Note: This happened during Percy's stay at Planet Chaos

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Alternate Chapter Name: The Curse Of The Purse

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Luke tightened the strap of his sandals. Currently, he was wearing a plain white t-shirt, black slacks and Spartan sandals. Those sandals that have straps that criss-cross around the shin.

He double-checked his satchel stocked with food, a bottle of water, a knife hidden in a secret compartment, those senbon things laced with poison (Ethan said they were very useful), some pens (Hey, you never know when a treaty needs to be signed) and his small medicinal kit (Because apparently, he can't protect himself since he sometimes doesn't think things through. Siding with Kronos on his part attested to this fact).

He picked up his brown satchel and left the room.

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"It's not  a purse!" 

"Then what is it?"

"It's a satchel."

"I don't believe you. Man-purse, on the other hand, I can believe."

"It's a satchel."

Percy seemed unmovable with his conclusion. He shook his head and tsk'ed.

"Did you just tsk at me?"

"It truly is such a shame, Luke. You definitely can't understand..."

"But you gotta admit, the purse looks cute." Silena commented. She was lying on the chair, her head on Beckendorf's lap who idly played with the strands on her hair.

"It's not a purse..." Luke swiped his hand over his face, utterly exasperated.

The rest of the warriors came in at that moment.

"What's not a purse?" Castor asked, a lollipop in his mouth.

Silena pointed at Luke pur--satchel.

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"Definitely a purse." 

"Oh come on!"

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The selected Warriors chosen specifically for this mission namely: Percy, Luke, Ethan, Beckendorf, Silena, Castor and the last minute addition, Jason.

They all wore the same type of clothes because apparently the planet's inhabitants didn't take too kindly bright colored clothes or any shiny things.

Goodbye, weapons!

Luke kept the sendon though. It's not like anyone would notice...(Dear Luke, you're just basically foreshadowing things...)

They left through a portal made by Chaos. He merely bid them a farewell. He didn't really make much contact with them or interfere with their affairs because first of all: He's Chaos. He had a lot of things to do. What did you expect? He'd use his powers to do all his work. It's very tiring to maintain all that energy, you know. Second:  He had to save all his will power to fight his very worst, one of the oldest, most dread and undefeated enemy...Paperwork.

His paperwork never seems to end! Just when he finishes a stack, a new stack comes in. He had to deal with all this political, economical bullschist. He had to manage over a million planets. He had to sort everything. Everything. He had no secretary. The last one quit after seeing the pile of schist stacked on his desk.

And don't get him started on his office.

Chaos' room was...well, in chaos. He had coffee mugs strewn all over the room. Candy wrappers lied abandoned on the floor. Take-outs from chinese restaurants were piled up in one corner. Crumpled papers were hazardously all over the room; From his floor to his ceiling fan (How it ever got there remains a mystery).

Luke sighed. 

There was a reason why he just fought. Him, paperwork plus dyslexia? The people who mix these three together are just asking for a fire to happen. How? Luke is a Hermes kid for a reason.

He clutched his satchel and let the portal consume him.

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They were in a lush, green meadow. White and yellow flowers circled the area.The sky was void of any clouds and the wind tickled at their senses.There were no trees in sight. Everything was very warm.

There were small wooden houses resting at the corner of the field. The inhabitants seemed to be having a picnic. Most of them wore sunday dresses while some wore simple outdoor clothes. They were all eating the same things. Ham and cheese sandwiches, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, meat and more meat. They were the image of perfect people except one thing...

They were all freaking tomatoes. Human-sized tomatoes.

Okay, wait! What?

"Tomatoes?" Luke questioned under his breath.

"Yes!" A deep, exuberant voice spoke from behind them. "We are the Tomato People."

"Right," Silena tried to keep the confusion in her voice. "It is very nice to meet you. We just didn't expect that...We weren't informed of the fact that you're...tomatoes."

"Ah, yes." The tomato behind them was decked in prince's robes(*), he had a crown resting atop his head. The robes were a beige color and the crown was made of only pure gold though...

Come to think of it, the other tomatoes seemed to wear only brown, white and shades of the like. 

"My name is Tomato."

"...Tomato?" Luke asked. Seriously, that was his name?

"Yes, you may address me as King Tomatoh if you prefer."

"You're name," Percy started. "Is Tomato Tomatoh?"

King Tomatoh nodded sagely.

"O~kay...then."

"Now, you're mission..."

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Long story short, they were simply asked to get rid of Aphids (You know those insects that cluster around tomato plants? Yeah, they were tasked to get rid of those. Human-sized Aphids, mind you)

It was a pretty uneventful mission.

They only had to deal with the stares...Whatever you call it since the tomatoes didn't have eyes. (How could they see?) and well...just tomatoes in general.

Luke wiped the sweat off his forehead. "Whew, I can't believe it's over."

"Hey, Luke..." Jason squinted behind his glasses. "Why is your bag sparkling?"

"Wha--"

He was cut off by angry roars. Tomatoes were running toward him in a mob with King Tomatoh leading them. "Attack him! Attack Sparkles!"

"Attack Sparkles!" The tomatoes behind him chanted.

Luke's eyes widened and he dashed off.

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Luke limped towards the portal. 

"Dude, are you okay?" Beckedorf asked though the answer was quite obvious.

"Of course I'm no--"

"No, he's Luke." Percy answered.

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Castor slow-clapped. "Well-played, Percy, well-played."

Luke tried to repress the memories of giant tomatoes eating him. They freaking tried to devour him! All he could see was red. He shivered. No more red...

Percy nodded sagely. "Yes, now you know the horrors of red and why blue will forever beat red."

Luke couldn't help but agree.

"Come to think of it..." Jason narrowed his eyes. "Why was your purse sparkling?"

Luke furrowed his eyebrows and didn't bother to correct Jason. He had enough of teasing. Helooked down at his purse. (hey if you can't win against them, why not join them?)

"Did you...bedazzle my purse?"

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A/N:

Okay, I was too tired to write the entire mission and I still had to do things. I also couldn't just leave this unfinished!

Anyways, triple-day update! 

Yeah, this might be the last update for a while...