Disclaimer: Still don't own anything.

Time for everyone's favorite part...the Yule Ball!

Also, to whoever asked about when the demigods get revealed...hmm...I'm thinking it won't be a full reveal, I'm sort of saving that for the end of Year 5 or 6.

And yes, I still can't find my Goblet of Fire copy so sorry for any giant blocks of text I missed.

Hazel's P.O.V.

The Yule Ball was just around the cornor, and it was kind of funny watching everyone scrambling for partners.

Of course the usual pairings happened among us demigods. Percy and Annabeth, Jason and Piper, Frank and I Leo and Calypso, Will and Nico (Nico kept mumbling stuff about how people were going to gawk). Lou Ellen was going with some Ravenclaw dude in her year, Thalia of course was going alone since she's an eternal maiden, and Reyna was going with Harry. Which was a shock to everyone since none of us thought Reyna would ask someone out, but then we found out that she did it because then she could keep an eye on him. Also because his initial date had turned him down for another champion. That was one lucky girl if two champions asked her out. Apparently Harry had also gottne turned down by more then one girl, too, so he was happy he at least had a date of some sort.

Everywhere girls were chattering and giggling in the halls, and boys were nervously asking girls out. So there was a lot of gossip happening. From what I heard, Hermione had ditched Ron over some argument they had, Harry got rejected by Cho Chang, who was going with Cedric,, as well as Ginny Weasley, and Thalia had landed at least 3 different boys in the hospital wing because they tried asking her out.

Most of the boys stayed far away from her after that.

The week before the Yule Ball was the most trying for many of us demigods. We were trying to keep up with classes since we still had to study, even if we didn't take wizard-style year-end exams (We could choose whether or not we took them, but all of us did have to take a demigod-style final-which we weren't worried about at all of course!). Then there was keeping an eye for suspicious activity, trying to befriend as many people as possible...Oh and dancing.

That was...interesting...to say the least.

As it turned out, Percy, Leo, Will, and Thalia were epic fails.

Well, Thalia wasn't going to dance. But she participated in the classes that everyone had to take, just to get rid of nervous energy. But in reality it just made it worse.

I felt sorry for Annabeth, Calypso, Nico, and Neville. At least Frank and I didn't step on each other's feet every 5 seconds.

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The night of the Yule Ball was amazing. The male demigods wore tuxedos while the girls wore dresses. Or something that looked like tuxedos and dresses, anyways. They were more like mashups betwen ancient Greek or Roman outfits and modern wizard wear. Venus designed them so they looked pretty good, but I can't say they were extremely comfortable. Even togas felt more comfortable. And the heels...and the makeup...

Long story short, Piper and Thalia were steaming mad.

Lou Ellen was lucky. She got to wear wizarding dress robes. They looked comfortable compared to the sparkling bejeweled thing I was wearing. My outfit was especially heavy, seeing as it was covered in the precious metals, as was my hair.

Sometimes, being a daughter of Pluto cursed with the ability to raise gems from the earth could be annoying.

I wasn't the only one complaining, of course. Piper was stuck in a white lace gown, and apparently had received what she called, "Aphrodite's Blessing", making her look way too beautiful, which of course made her grumpy. Nico looked uncomfortable in his pitch-black tux, standing next to Will in his bright gold one. Percy and Annabeth's outfits complimented each other perfectly, combining elements of Minerva gray and Neptune blue. Percy had argued with Aphrodite for a full 5 minutes when he'd found out his pants didn't come with pockets. Eventually, he won and he got a pocket for his pen-er, sword.

Leo wore flaming red, Calypso had something similar to Piper, and Thalia had downright refused to wear Aphrodite's choson outfit for her (a shimmering silver gown) and had opted to wear her Hunter's uniform. Frank looked amazing in his red-and-blue tux. Reyna's white, puple, and dark blue dress complimented her features perfectly, and Jason was wearing a sky-blue tuxedo that he kept adjusting the collar of.

Percy, Frank, Reyna, and Jason all had purple cloaks "for being praetors". Or ex-praetors.

Nico and Leo were rolling around on the floor laughing after the heard that. Percy looked less then pleased but luckily before anything could happen he and Annabeth were taken by Professor McGonagall to get ready for the first dance, which they had to do. The rest of us followed later, after meeting up with Ron. Reyna had gone off to get ready, and Hermione was apparently going with Viktor Krum, so that was that. Lou had also run off to go find her date.

"Blimey, how're you able to walk?" Ron asked me. I shrugged,and all those jewels clanked around.

"I'm going to have a word with Mother about this later..." Piper muttered. Jason gave her a kiss on the check and whispered something to her, which she laughed at.

Frank took my hand and squeezed it."C'mon, let's go watch Percy, Annabeth, Reyna, and the others." He said, and we walked into the Great Hal, which had been transformed completely into the perfect Winter Wonderland.

I apologize for the really crummy chapters. I'm just really excited about finishing up my full-length story right now and promise I'll do better. I might come back and redo this chapter ater on, as well, when I update all the edits I'm working on right now. Feel free to rant at me in the reviews on how bad my writing has gotten in the past few days, and Happy Holidays!