All of the characters and locations and stuff belong to the wonderful Rick Riordan, whom I am not and make no pretense of being. That said, enjoy!
Piper's POV
Piper hated snowboarding. It made her cold and wet and sore all over. You'd think after saving the world from evil multiple times, nothing would phase her, but nooo. It just had to be snowboarding!
After they made peace last summer, the two camps had decided that they should do things like holidays together. Because awkward holidays with distant, disapproving relatives hadn't been bad enough, they now had an awkward ski trip with relatives on the godly side! Everyone was invited! The Hunters, the Romans, the Greeks, the Egyptians whom they had met and made peace with last Halloween, and even the Amazons, who had politely declined (thank the gods! Things were bad enough without them and their iron-collared man slaves).
The Apollo kids, Greek and Roman, had joined forces to make this Christmas the most mortifying of them all, with such timeless classics as Grandma Got Run Over by a Centaur, Jingle Swords, I Saw Three Triremes on Christmas Day, and Ambrosia Roasting on an Open Fire. To make matter worse, rumor had it that Connor and Travis Stoll had joined forces with Lou Ellen and Drew to make some enchanted mistletoe. And one of the Egyptians had summoned an army of magical penguins.
So, just another happy holiday season.
Personally, Pipe just wanted a romantic fireplace with some hot chocolate and a Jason to curl up with. Is that too much to ask? Instead she got snow, lots and lots of snow.
She resigned herself to eternally numb feet as she waited for the next lift with Jason to her left and Annabeth to her right.
"Where's Percy?" She asked her friend.
"Enjoying something warm somewhere warm." He friend said wistfully.
"Too cold for him?" Jason asked. What is the deal with guys and their stupid competitions?
"Apparently he's convinced the goddess of snow is out to get him."
"If there's anyone Khione's out to get it's—" her voice died. Nearly five months and still no word from their fiery friend. The others picked up on her tone and remained silent. Each of them lost in thought. At least until they reached the top and Piper promptly face planted, causing the lift to stop and Jason to nearly run her over.
"Woah, Pipes, you okay?" He asked as he and Annabeth helped her up and out of the way.
"Yeah, just... gonna go and die of embarrassment now." She tried to smile but winced, her face still sore from her most recent, not-so-graceful encounter with gravity.
"Maybe you should..."
"Join Percy in the it's-cold-and-I'm-a-klutz club?"
"Uh..." She interrupted him with a kiss.
"See you tonight if I don't die on the way down!" She shouted as she started sliding down the hill, which would have been pretty cool if she hadn't been going down backwards with only one foot strapped in.
When she finally made it down in almost one piece, twisted ankle and half of a pine tree in her hair not withstanding, she found Thalia standing beneath the doorway cursing every god Piper had ever heard of and more.
"Hey," she said attempting to sound nonchalant, to be honest the daughter of Zeus had always kind of scared her. "What's up?"
"No! Don't—" Thalia started to shout as Piper half-limped through the doorway. "Don't walk through the door, there's enchanted mistletoe."
"Oh," Piper said sheepishly, noticing that her feet had stuck to the floor like someone had painted it with Medea's eternity glue.
"I am so going to kill the Stoll brothers." Thalia vowed before cursing some more.
"So... Are we just stuck here or... what?"
"You're a daughter of Aphrodite, you know the deal with mistletoe." Thalia responded in a rather spiteful tone, as if all mistletoe in the world was Piper's fault.
"Oh." Piper said in a small voice.
They stood there for a while. Piper tried to shift her weight and blacked out. Next thing she knew, she was in Thalia's arm and her ankle was throbbing like crazy.
"Are you alright? You were unconscious for minute there."
"Um, yeah. I may have broken my ankle on the way down the slope. Snowboarding. Not my thing."
"Gods, you need ambrosia!"
"No, I'm fine." She tried to stand, resulting in her nearly passing out again.
"No, you're not." Then Thalia did something totally unexpected that Piper was pretty sure she has hallucinated later. Thalia pressed her lips against Piper's, then picked her up and carried her to the infirmary.
Piper lay on a bed as Thalia chatted with Will Solace. Did that guy ever take a break?
"Nothing to worry about, this is her third injury today. Earlier she a broken leg from when she fell off the ski lift, and before that, she nearly impaled herself during a head on collision with a tree." He was telling Thalia. Gods of Olympus, this was embarrassing.
When he saw she was awake, he turned his attention to her, "no more snowboarding for the week, doctor's orders. If you have to take any more nectar and ambrosia, you'll burn up. As it is, I'll have to wrap your ankle. Can't risk any more godly food."
"Hey, Will, I got the stuff you asked for." Piper nearly jumped out of the bed. Even when he wasn't shadow-traveling, the son of Hades still managed to startle her whenever he entered a room. Absentmindedly, she wondered if he and batman were related, she could definitely she a resemblance.
"Nico." Will's face brightened, which is difficult for the son of a sun god, but it happened whenever he saw Nico di Angelo. The bandages were passed and they both blushed and looked away when their hands brushed. It was obvious, at least to child of Aphrodite or Venus, that they liked each other and why they weren't already together was a mystery to Piper. She began thinking of schemes to get them together by the end of the holiday.
Sadie's POV
She cursed basically everything in existence as she ran from a boy, Perry? Peter? Pablo? whatever, whom she had been forced to kiss under the cursed mistletoe. Not that he wasn't hot, with his stupid black hair and stupid troubled, intense green eyes and stupid subtle, toned muscles, or a good kisser. But she had a boyfriend for gods sakes, a confusing, possibly double boyfriend who had an adorable tendency to strangle guys with toilet paper if they tried to hit on her.
Anyway, she was running and cursing good-looking Greeks and magical mistletoe when she tripped over one of Felix's penguins and practically landed in the lap of one of the said good-looking Greeks.
"Hey," he helped her up like a gentleman, "I don't think we've met, Jason Grace, camp Half-blood."
She replied with something eloquent like, "gah! Umm, I, yeah." Thoth's beak! She really did have a way with guys. After a deep breath and count of three she corrected her self, "Sadie Kane, eighteenth nome. So, you're one of those demi-fellows. Yeah?"
He laughed, "demigods. My dad's Jupiter." He said it like you would say, "my dad's name is Earl," or "my mom's making bangers and mash tonight."
"Jupiter... he's the one in the bathrobe with the beard and zapping-ness and stuff, right?" All these gods were going to make her go sky goddess. One religion was hard enough with her dorky brother's help, but add Greek and Roman to the mix? No chance whatsoever.
"You could say that," he said, still laughing, "so you're a magician?"
"Sounds bonkers, but yup! Path of Isis, goddess of not helping me when I actually need it." She said the last part rather loud, hoping the goddess would over hear and apologize for not helping Sadie out of a particular doorway... No such luck.
Panicked shouts, both human and baboon, came from down the hall.
Sadie sighed, "I have to go, my baboon's trying to befriend someone."
"What?" Jason said, looking like hoped to have misheard her.
"You heard." At that, she rose and sprinted down the hall, followed closely by the son of Jupiter
When they found the center of the disturbance, there was a sight so priceless, it made the entire holiday worth it, penguins included. Their baboon, Khufu, was riding on the shoulders of a skinny, dark haired boy in black clothes. Khufu was trying to braid Cheerios and pink feathers into the boy's hair, which Sadie thought would've been a vast improvement on the black shirt, black jeans, and black leather jacket look which only a certain funeral god was allowed to pull off (at least in her books). The boy on the other hand was running around in a panic trying to remove the unwanted hitchhiker, and he was being chased by a blond, surfer-looking guy who was shouting helpful encouragements like "look out, there's a wall!" and "try head-banging!" to no effect. Keeled over on one of the beds was a girl with spiky black hair and silvery clothes, she was clutching her stomach and howling with laughter. On another bed was a girl who was somehow managing to sleep throughout the uproar, her foot was propped up on several pillow and in some kind of cast.
"Khufu, stop it!" Sadie shouted after enjoying the scene for a minute or so. The baboon stopped moving along with his new best friend and the guy chasing them.
"Nice hat, di Angelo." Jason commented from somewhere behind her, still breathless from laughter.
"Shut it, Grace, I would summon skeletons to drag you Tartarus." The dark-haired boy somehow managed to look intimidating with a baboon on his shoulders, which is not an easy feat.
"Would?"
"I made him swear on Styx not to use underworld-y magic until the trip is over." Surfer dude said, making Khufu's new friend scowl.
"Lucky me."
Khufu's friend ignored Jason and held his hand out to Sadie, "Nico di Angelo, son of Hades... or Pluto... either way." How he managed to look dignified with a baboon grooming his hair for insects will remain a mystery.
"So that's why he likes you so much!" Was all she could think to say.
"What?"
"Khufu, the baboon," she pointed, "he has this obsession with things that end in O, Cheerios, Doritos, burritos, jell-O, flamingos, et cetera."
"Oh, I get it!" Surfer dude interjected, "you're Nico di Angelo, son of Pluto! You must be like, perfection in his mind!"
Hold up, did Nico just blush at being called the perfect guy for a baboon? Sadie decided she must investigate this.
"Anyway, I'm Sadie Kane of the Egyptians across the river, path of Isis and all that stuff. You are?"
"Oh, Will Solace son of Apollo." He held out his hand.
"You are aware on the flamingo feath—" she began to say to Nico when she was interrupted by a loud alarm that was meant to call the campers and magicians and whatnot to supper, but it sounded a lot more like a World War II bombing siren to Sadie.
To be continued...
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