A/N: Bonjour! Aujourd'hui est Mardi Gras!(Hello! Today is Mardi Gras!) So, we all know that Nico and Hazel, the main occupants of the Hades Cabin (let's just say Hazel lives in the Hades Cabin), come from places that celebrate Mardi Gras (In case you don't know; Nico is Italian and Hazel is from New Orleans), and it's today, so I just did this short one-shot (unless you want me to make it longer) in honor of the holiday. Plot of the fic: Hazel and Nico celebrate, but Percy is clueless (as usual) to what Mardi Gras is, so yeah. Wait, before you read, OOC WARNING: Hazel and Nico may be very OOC. ENJOY!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything! I swear!

Percy was just strolling down the surf of the lake, when he saw a couple of paint buckets roll down from the window of the Hades Cabin.

'What the heck?' Percy thought.

Percy carefully walked up the hill, avoiding any stray paint buckets to the door of the cabin, and peered inside. He swore his jaw hit the floor at the sight before his eyes.

Nico…was wearing COLORS. Other than black. As for Hazel…she was wearing bead necklaces, like the big shiny plastic ones. A lot of them. As for the cabin itself…well, it was painted in many different shades of green, purple, and gold. This was the first time the hades cabin had this much color since…well, since ever.

Now, what they were doing. (A/N: No, not like that you dirty minded people! If you have a pure and innocent mind, just ignore this comment) Nico was laughing, yes, laughing with Hazel, and randomly shouted out at points (I warned ya, very ooc.) (By the way, if I get anything wrong about Mardi Gras, just tell me in a review). Nico was dressed in a purple shirt, and purple-green striped socks, his jeans were the only "normal" clothes on Nico, if you could call Nico normal (which he's not). Hazel was wearing a green t-shirt and jeans as well, along with the necklaces. They continued laughing and chatting. Then they noticed Percy watching.

"Umm… hi?" Percy asked.

"Oh hey Percy," Hazel answered.

"Oh, hi Percy! What's up?" Nico asked, much more cheerful than he was just the day before.

Percy looked at him suspiciously. "Are you okay, Nico? Did you eat something?"

"Of course!" Hazel said, "We're fine, Percy!"

"Ooookaaay…" he said, slowly backing out.

'Wait 'till Annabeth hears what I just saw!' Percy thought, and with that, he sprinted out of the Hades Cabin.

Percy ran to the other cabins and found them empty. 'Oh yeah, they were going to Olympus until tomorrow!' he remembered.

LATER…

"Annabeth! Guess what? The Hades Cabin has color!" he yelled as soon as they were back.

She snorted. "Yeah right, show me," and so he took her to the cabin.

It was back to black (Rhymes!), and Nico was back to his usual gloomy self.

"You were saying Percy?" Annabeth said in a bored tone.

"Wha- what just- but there- I saw-…" and he stuttered, eventually coming to a pout.

"Come on, Percy. Let's go do something productive," she said, and walked off.

LATER…

"Annabeth? What's Mardi Gras?" Percy asked, having checked Cabin 13's calendar.

"oh boy…" Annabeth sighed, and later Percy finally realized what had happened.

A/N: I KNOW I KNOW! THIS FIC WAS TERRIBLE! NOW LEAVE ME ALONE TO SULK IN THE DARK! ...or you could be really nice and leave me a nice review to make me squeal and creep people out at school tomorrow! (speaking of school-I sorta have to go to bed now if I don't want to fail and fall asleep in chorus.) BTW: My other story is NOT on hiatus. I just haven't gotten to typing the chapters yet. Okay. Goodnight!