Halloween at Camp Half Blood

I recently reread the Percy Jackson series, and I loved them, again. I thought of this while I was looking at costumes online (I know, it's early). This takes place a year before The Lightning Thief. This is going to be in separate parts (It was originally just all going to be one long story, but I think cutting it up will make it, not run smoother, but will make it easier to read in a way. I own nothing, I'm not trying to profit from this (Although reviews would be nice) I hope you like my story.

Silena was right when she said the Aphrodite cabin worked hard to make the training arena look good. The beat up dummies were gone, the floor was polished, if you didn't know better, you would never know this was a training arena. The lighting had been charmed or something, the lights were multiple colours, but at the same time, looked nothing like a night club, they were different if you looked at one individually, but if you just looked around, the room was just tinted an almost hazy colour. There were decorations of streamers and balloons everywhere, and there were about twenty campers already at the dance mingling.

Annabeth smoothed out her dress (The only one she could find that went past her thigh, mortal costumes were so degrading) fixed her hair (like there could be an imperfection, Silena had hairsprayed the Hades out of her hair) before entering the room. Taking a look while inside, she could see that out of the twenty some inside, none were from Ares, and that the majority of people were from the Hermes or Aphrodite cabin. Nervously, Annabeth continued inside, before being stopped by Mr. D.

"Hello Annie Bell. What are you doing?" Mr. D asked looking down at his clipboard.

"Going to the dance, is there a problem with that?" Annabeth asked, wondering if maybe there was an age restriction to enter the dance.

"No, I wanted to be sure that-" Mr. D muttered looking up and stopped mid sentence after looking at the young demigod. Not that he would ever be sexually attracted to a camper, but in a 'I've-been-a-father-figure-in-a-way-for-the-past-five-years' way, she looked gorgeous.

Annabeth was dressed in a light purple dress that went mid thigh, and fit her figure loosely. The dress was plain with no designs, but sparkled around the bottom. Her long blonde hair was braided into a crown around her forehead, then down her back loosely. She was dressed as a princess, a contrary to the Aphrodite girls, who were in near corset tightness, and extremely short. Honestly, the other girls looked awful compared to Annabeth and her simple, yet sophisticated dress.

"Are you alright?" Annabeth asked, concerned

"Sorry, I got lost in thought. I was making sure you coming to the dance. If you will excuse me, I must speak with Chiron for a moment." Mr. D said lamely, while rushing off. He wouldn't admit it, but Annabeth had reminded him of his wife.

Annabeth wondered around the room a few times, looking for someone to talk to. She usually didn't go to the camps dances, as the other girls were usually dressed in trashy outfits, as was the case now. Annabeth felt childish in her princess dress, while the others were dressed sexily. She hoped Selina would arrive soon, as her dress was similar in length. Her prayers were answered, when she heard a call from her friend,

"Annabeth! You look even more amazing then you did five minutes ago!" Selina called happily, in her Dorothy costume. Hers was a bit longer in length then Annabeths', since in her last conversation with Luke, he mentioned how he was sick of the girls wearing such short dresses. Selina kept, this information to herself, but did help Annabeth pick an expectable dress.

"Really? You're the best! I would have probably went in the hotdog costume if you didn't help me pick out a costume!" Annabeth joked, although, she was tempted to go in the hotdog costume. She figured Luke would think it was hilarious.

"No problem, and that would have been so cute!" Selina laughed, and suddenly turned serious, "Are you going to ask him to dance?"

"I don't know. He's almost six years older!" Annabeth exclaimed.

"I think you'd be fine, you guys are friends right?" Selina asked, but she had no worries. She had gotten Luke to promise to dance with Annabeth at least once tonight, so she wouldn't get suspicious.

"Ya, but what if-" Annabeth attempted to ask, but was interrupted by Selina

"No buts! Just wait for a slow song, and ask him!" Selina exclaimed