Hello there! Thank you SO much for clicking on my story! I love you for that :) Okay, so I'm starting to do Percy Jackson one shots! woooo!
I got inspired to write this chapter when it was the hottest it's ever been where I live and I thought it would bring me to a cooler place.
So this takes place in the winter after TLO. Leo and all his friends are there though, because I love Leo and I had fun writing about him.
I don't own PJO or HoO... sad day bro :(
Snow Days:
Percy's POV
I open my eyes and something seems… off, not monster off, just different. I swing my feet over the side of my bed and stand up. I look at the clock, 8:20 A.M.; breakfast starts in 10 minutes. I throw on some black basketball shorts and an orange camp half-blood shirt. Too lazy to bother tying shoes, I slip on a pair of navy blue flip flops. I open the door and feel the cool, December breeze.
I guess I forgot to say that its winter right now. Annabeth and I convinced our parents to let us stay year round to help build cabins and welcome new campers. We do that, but we also hang out all day long.
Okay, so I step out onto the porch of my cabin and my foot is freezing. All over camp there is snow, lots of it. I'm pretty sure there wasn't snow last night when I went to bed. I walk over to the dining pavilion. I sit down at my table and a nymph brings me some food. I walk over to the fire and push some of the food off my plate and into the flame.
"Poseidon." I whisper.
I sit back down at my table and begin to eat, all by myself. I wish Tyson was here, he would love this random snow storm.
"Attention campers! As you can see, we have let the winter weather into camp! Please be careful, there is plenty of ice all around. We have had plenty-." He is interrupted by a satyr that was holding a big stack of plates that slipped and fell on some ice. Broken plates are scattered all around the satyr. Tree nymphs with brooms and dustpans rush over to help him clean up.
He reminds me of Grover. The lord of the wild is M.I.A. currently. With other satyrs and nymphs he is trying to bring plants and trees back to the earth.
I look over at the Athena table and see that Annabeth isn't there. Then I fell someone grab my shoulders.
"Hey Percy!" Annabeth said. So that's where she went. She sits down next to me.
"Hey Wise girl." I tell her. "How you liking this weird weather surprise?" I ask her.
"It's going to be fun to practice in! How do you like it?" She asks. Before I can reply I hear someone yell at me.
"Hey Prissy!" Clarisse yells. I turn around to face her.
"What do you-?" She chucks a snowball at my face. The Ares table erupts into laughter. I turn to Annabeth with snow still on my face.
"I have mixed feelings about it." I say and wipe the snow off my face. I give Clarisse a look that says, "I'm- so- going- to- get- you- for- that!"
"Let's go change so we can go play in the snow!" Annabeth said.
"Why so excited? It's just snow." I asked.
"Percy, I'm from California, we don't get snow." She reminds me.
"Okay, but I'm not done with my breakfast." I say and look down at my unfinished pancakes. Annabeth sighs.
"Fine, you finish. I'll go change. Meet me at the sword fighting arena after you've changed." She says. I nod my head, my mouth too full of pancake to talk. Annabeth leaves me and walks to her cabin.
Annabeth's POV
I leave Percy on the dining pavilion; he was shoveling the rest of his pancakes into his mouth. I walk over to my cabin; this snow has made the temperature drop and I'm freezing. I walk into my cabin and feel a blast of hot air. Someone turned on the heater thankfully.
Since I haven't been home since June, my dad mailed me some warmer clothes, all I had with me was cool, summer clothes. I took out a pair of leggings and put them on, over that I wore jeans and a pair of black sweats with life guard written down the leg in neon colors. Then I grabbed my simple, gray winter jacket and put it on. I dug through the box that my clothes came in and found a pair of gloves and water proof boots. Wow, my dad thought of everything, no wonder Athena fell for him.
I strapped my dagger on my thigh and left my cabin. I walked over to the sword fighting arena. As I pass the dining pavilion I notice that it's empty. Percy must be changing. I go over to the bleachers and sit down, waiting for the seaweed brain.
After I sit there for a few minutes I begin to become impatient. Gods, how long does it take to change? I think. I jump up off the bleachers when someone shoves snow down the back of my jacket. I turn around to see Percy laughing. While he's busy laughing, I take a handful of snow and shove it in his face.
"Yeah, I deserved that." He admits. "But you should've seen how high you jumped when that went down you back!" He says and starts laughing all over again.
"Come on seaweed brain, let's go build a snowman!" I tell him. He is red in the face from laughing, which has almost stopped.
"Really, wise girl, a snowman? That's so childish of you." He says.
"Shut up, I've never made one before. You got to remember that I've been here or California for most of my life." I told him.
"Yeah, that's true. Well you do you at least know how to make one?" He asks. For that I had to punch him on the arm. "Hey! What was that for?"
"For asking me if I know how to do something. Of course I do Percy!"
"Well don't just stand there wise girl, let's go build it!" He said. We both made a snow ball and started to roll it around in the snow. It wasn't working very well; we were mostly pushing the snow around.
"Here, let me try something." Percy said. He raised his hand and turned his wrist a little. The snow ball moved. "Sweet." He smiles. He rolls his into a ball that's big enough to easily roll around then does the same with mine.
"I'll make the middle and head; you make the bottom, wise girl." He tells me. I roll the snow into a ball until it's about as high as my waist. I look over at Percy; he has his two made already.
"Come on seaweed brain, let's lift them up." He rolls is toward the one I made. Together we lift them both up, the top of the head is at my eye level. We step back to look at it; right before we are covered in snow. I look up to see Mrs. O'Leary where our snowman used to be. I see that Nico is riding her, that's why she crushed our snowman.
"What the Hades is with the snow?" Nico asks.
"They let the snow in, death breath." Percy says and pets Mrs. O'Leary.
"Gross, the world is too white, now if snow was black, then I'd love it!"
"Come on Nico! Be a kid and have some fun!" Percy yells at him and throws a snowball at him, which he blocks. Then Travis and Conner run into the arena. Conner is chasing Travis with a snowball in his hand and a hood full of snow.
"I'm going to get you if it takes all winter!" He yells at his brother.
"Come at me bro! Oh wait, you can't because I'm faster!" Travis laughs. Mrs. O'Leary takes off running after them with Nico on her back.
"Mrs. O'Leary! Stop!" I hear Nico yell. She obeys and stops, but by doing this a wave of snow covers the Stolls who are a few feet away from her paws. It also sends Nico flying forward and into a pile of snow. Percy and I laugh and run over to him. He gets out of the snow, looking cold and wet.
"I hate snow." He grumbles. "If you need me, I'll be in Percy's cabin." He says.
"What? Why in my cabin?" Percy whines.
"There are big holes in my walls, and my roof is busted. Wait! Oh yeah that's right, because of the snow the construction stopped so I have to wait longer for my cabin!" He says and walks off to Percy's cabin.
We hear noises coming from the pile of snow that used to be the Stolls. Their upper bodies pop out. Conner throws a snowball at Travis.
"There, I got you, and so did Mrs. O'Leary!" He says and starts cracking up.
"She got you too!" Travis says.
"Yeah, but these are your pants. So, I win!" Conner says and they both get out of the snow pile.
"Why are you wearing his pants?" Percy asks.
"I didn't want mine getting wet!" He replies.
"Wow! Then I guess this is a god time to say that I put a bunch of snow in your sleeping bag." Travis says.
"What?!" Conner says and takes off running to the Hermes cabin while Travis runs after him laughing his head off.
"I am so glad that I never had to stay in the Hermes cabin." I say to Percy.
"It's not that bad. They didn't do anything to me, they were nice. Stole some stuff from the camp store for me." He says. I roll my eyes. The snow is starting to come down again, it's hard to see.
"Want to do see if Chiron made hot chocolate at the big house?" I ask.
"He has hot chocolate?! Why are we still standing here?" Percy says and starts walking to the big house. I walk beside him.
"Yeah, when I was little I would go to the big house and he would give me hot chocolate." I tell him.
"Mhm, mhm, something about little and hot chocolate." He said.
"You are such a seaweed brain." I roll my eyes. We step onto the porch of the big house and Percy knocks on the door. Chiron opens it; he's in wheel chair form.
"Hello Percy and Annabeth, want to come in for some hot chocolate? It's freezing outside." He says.
"Yes please!" Percy says and walks right in.
"Thanks Chiron." I hug him and walk inside. Percy and I sit in the small living room on a couch and Chiron brings us some hot chocolate.
"What have you two been up to?" He asks us.
"We built a snowman, and then Mrs. O'Leary crushed it." I tell him. We hear a lot of whistling coming from outside. We go by the window and see swirls of snow and strong gusts of wind blowing at camper's faces.
"Oh dear, looks like a blizzard." Chiron says. He rolls over to the camp intercom where he sometimes does announcements. He grabs the mouth piece and begins to speak into it.
"Attention campers. A blizzard is starting, please don't panic; everyone report to their cabins and cabin leaders take roll, Athena cabin, Annabeth is with me. Malcom you are in charge for now. That is all." He says and comes back into the living area with Percy and me.
"So, we're going to stay in here until the storm stops?" Percy asks.
"Yes, unfortunately." Chiron says.
"Why is it unfortunate?" Percy asks and puts his arm around my shoulders.
"No one can go outside." He says.
"Wait! How will we get food?" Percy asks worried, gods he is such a teenage guy.
"We have to hope that the storm will pass soon, I have some food in here but that will not help the other campers." Chiron says.
"Isn't my dad the storm god? Can I like contact him somehow and get him to cut it out?" Percy asks.
"Percy, your dad doesn't make snow storms, he makes hurricanes." I told him.
"Oh… that makes sense." He replies.
"We're going to have to hope that the odds will be in our favor with the snow goddess." Chiron says.
Percy's POV
For the next few hours we played board games like life, monopoly, and sorry. We also played would you rather and apples to apples. We missed lunch so I am cranky. After about four hours the snow stopped. We walk outside and the snow is at least a foot and a half deep.
Chiron changes to centaur form so he can walk through the snow. Annabeth and I slowly make our way to the dining pavilion where nymphs and satyrs are hurrying to clear off some snow and get food prepared for a bunch of hungry demigods, I know I'm starving.
Tree nymphs have big brooms and are running around the pavilion pushing the snow off of the concrete and onto the dirt in a big pile to one side of the hill. This gave me an idea for something Annabeth and I can do while we wait for dinner.
"Hey wise girl, I have an idea." I tell her. "Meet me at the top of halfblood hill in an hour." I say then run off to the Hephaestus cabin.
"Hey Leo!" I yell. Then a boy with curly dark hair runs out of the cabin.
"Is it safe to come out? Are the gods still pmsing?" The sky rumbled. "Sorry!" He yells at it.
"Hey, can you make me a sled for two?" I ask him.
"Sure! That's easy! I think I have some stuff for something like that back at bunker 9, want to come with?" He says.
"Sure!" I've never been to bunker 9, I've heard it's really cool though. Leo starts taking me in the direction of the woods. "How long is it going to take to get there? I have an hour until I have to meet Annabeth at halfblood hill."
"Eh, won't take too long." He says and we enter the woods. I've never been in here when it's snowy; kind of looks like Narnia.
"Okay, so you want a sled? What kind of sled?" He asks.
"The kind with a wooden board and the metal tracks on the bottom, I don't know what it's called." I told him.
"Oh yeah, I know what you're talking about. I like the plastic ones, put some grease on that baby and she'll get you fast and far." He said. We walk for a few more minutes. "Okay, we're here." Leo says.
"What do you mean? It's solid rock." He touches the rock and it turns bright orange, kind of like fire. Then a door opens.
"Oh, I see. That's sweet!" I tell him. We walk in and Leo walks over to a work bench along one of the walls. He grabs a long, wide wooden board and starts a power saw.
"Band saw, I'll cut it into an oval." He puts on some safety glasses and tosses me some, I put them on. He started cutting the board and saw dust flew everywhere. I see why he gave me these glasses. When he was done he pushed the off button and walked over to this other machine.
"It's a rounder, I'll make it so it won't hurt to grab onto the sides." He says and begins to round the edges. When he is done he rubs an edge on his cheek.
"Ah, just like a baby's bum." He said. "Mkay, now I just have to drill some holes, and bolt down the tracks." He says and within five minutes he has finished it.
"Thanks Leo!" I told him.
"No problem. Let's get going, it's almost been an hour." He says. We walk out, he puts his hand on the boulder and the door closes. We through the woods and back to camp without seeing a single monster, do they hibernate like bears or something?
"See ya later man, I'm going back to my cabin where it's not below freezing." Leo says.
"Okay, thanks again!" I say.
"No problem!" He says and walks over to the cabins. I walk over to the top of halfblood hill. I see Annabeth standing there.
"Hey wise girl! How long have you been waiting?" I ask.
"Not long. Where'd you get that?" She points to the sled.
"Well, it just so happens that your amazing boyfriend got Leo to make it for him." I smile. I get on the back and pat the empty space in front of me. "Get on Annabeth."
She gets on. I use my hands and push us until we're at the edge of the hill, then I let gravity do its thing. Halfblood hill is the steepest hill around; we went pretty fast and far; all the way out of camp boundaries… and into the road. We quickly got off and ran back into the camp boundaries.
"I think Leo made this too fast." I laugh.
"Leo made it so of course it's fast, that kid always acts like he's on energy drinks." Annabeth says.
"Yeah that's true… want to go again?" I ask.
"Race you to the top!" She yells and takes off.
"No fair! I have to carry the sled." I yell back at her.
"Yeah, I know!" She calls over her shoulder. I ran up to her. She stopped at the top to wait for me. Once I was on flat ground I dropped the sled and ran straight at Annabeth. I scooped her up in my arms and kissed her.
"Race ya down." I whispered in her ear. I set her down, snatched the sled and took off down the hill. When I reached the bottom I got off and turned around and smiled at her. She was still at the top, with her arms crossed across her chest, gods she looks cute.
"Distraction!" She yells at me and walks away.
"Hey! Annabeth come back!" I yell. I run up the hill to her. She turns around and motions for me to follower her.
"Come on, Percy!" She says. I run up to her.
"Where are we going?" I ask.
"They got the fire started, probably to melt some snow. I'm really cold." She said.
"Well yeah you'll be cold if you only wear sweats." I pointed to her legs.
"Percy, I have three layers on and I'm still freezing. Two of my layers are soaked." She said.
"Oh! That's why I'm not cold, because I'm not wet from the snow like the rest of you." I look at Annabeth, she's shivering.
"Hey, you're shivering. Come here Annie." I say and wrap my arm around her shoulders.
"Don't call me Annie." She says. We get to the fire and sit down.
"Okay, that's better." Annabeth tells me. She puts her head on my shoulder and I put my head on her head. I feel my eyes lids drop, and I fall asleep.
How I was woken up makes me miss being woken up in the middle of the night to Tyson's snoring. The Stolls took my sled, put a huge pile of snow on it and dumped it on Annabeth and me.
I jump up and start chasing them. I jump and grab their ankles making them fall to the ground, lucky them they fell on snow. Not lucky for them, we were by the lake. I will water to come over and float above the Stolls. I get up and let the water drop.
"Cold!" They both yell in unison.
"Yeah I know, snow's cold too; never do that again." I walk over to the fire. Annabeth has put up her hood, her head's probably cold.
"Come on wise girl, let's go get some food. I already got them back." I grab her hand and pull her up on her feet.
"What did you do?" She asks while we start to walk to the dining pavilion.
"I dumped freezing cold lake water on them." I answered her.
"Good." She said. She goes and sits at her table with her siblings and I go sit by myself at the Poseidon table. For dinner we had any kind of soup we wanted. I had clam chowder. What? Just because I'm friends with sea life doesn't make me think that they don't taste good. I also drank some more hot chocolate. Normally I would drink blue coke, but it's too cold for that.
After dinner we had our normal campfire and sing-a-long, led by the Apollo cabin of course. They were singing Christmas songs tonight; I guess the snow put everyone in a holiday mood.
"Good night campers! Remember to turn on your heaters and try to not freeze tonight." Chiron says when the Apollo cabin finishes singing. Annabeth and I walk hand in hand over to the cabins. We stop in front of the Athena cabin.
"I love you, Annabeth." I tell her.
"I love you too, Percy." Our lips are just inches apart, I close the gap. Annabeth was the first to pull back.
"Percy… I don't think I like snow anymore." She says. I smirk at her.
"Goodnight, wise girl."
"Goodnight, seaweed brain." She turns and goes inside her cabin. I walk across the way and go inside mine… to find that I forgot to turn the heater on.
Soooo, did you love it? hate it? want more? REVIEW and let me know! I think that was a really long one shot! I got kinda carried away... oh well! That's a good thing for you guys!
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