Hello! Hope you're all having a wonderful December 2nd! As promised, here is the next chapter brought to you by my revision break :)

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A very Percy Jackson Advent

December 2nd

The morning of December 2nd was met by the cheerful yet off key sounds of Leo singing "we wish you a merry Christmas" as he waltzed through the halls with Buford the table at his side and freshly baked pancakes.

"Will you shut up!" came a croaky yell from the cabin at the end of the hall; Nico's cabin. "What in the name of Hades are you even doing, Leo? IT'S 6 O' FREAKIN' CLOCK IN THE BLOODY MORNING!" there was then a series of loud bangs as if Nico had fallen out of bed in his rage which was followed by a lot of cussing in a mixture of ancient Greek, Italian and English.

Piper poked her head round her door. Her hair still managed to be perfect despite the early hour. It was either the fact that her mom was Aphrodite so she could never, ever look anything less than perfect even if she wanted to or she got up at 4am to make sure she looked fine. Leo was inclined to go with the first option. "It is a little early, Leo," she said sweetly. "And I don't think it's really a tradition to be so into Christmas spirit this early in December."

Leo laughed. "Pipes you haven't seen any Christmas spirit yet. This is just Advent celebrations."

Nico let out a loud groan of anguish. "I don't care about your stupid festivities. I want to SLEEP!"

Percy poked his head round his door. Unlike Piper, his hair was very far from perfect; it stuck up in random places as if he'd been tossing and turning all night. "I have to agree with Nico here, it is a bit early even for Chris- uh I mean... advent."

"I made pancakes," Leo said, a little down heartedly.

Percy looked as if he was about to tell Leo to just go back to sleep but his stomach seemed to have other ideas. "Pancakes?"

"Uh huh."

"Well we can't refuse something you put so much effort into, can we?" Percy grinned as he took a plate of five pancakes.

The rest of the crew gradually came out of their cabins to get their share of pancakes that were in varying shapes of Christmas trees, snowmen and reindeer. All except Nico.

Hazel knocked softly on his door. "Hey Nico, don't you want any pancakes?"

"No," he replied.

"But they're all different shapes!" Frank said still staring in awe at his snowman shaped one. "This is so cool; they're snowmen and Christmas trees!"

"Ugh! I hate Christmas," was Nico's reply.

"Don't be such a scrooge," Jason said, "Wake up and eat some pancakes. You'll never like Christmas if you don't even try to have fun!"

Nico grudgingly opened his door. He was fully dressed and his hair was just the same as always. From all his shouting and complaining, it was a shock to not see him still in pyjamas with messy hair like everyone else (but Piper) on the ship. "Give me the freakin' pancakes," he sighed.

"How come you're not in your pyjamas?" Jason asked.

Nico ate a strawberry before shrugging and saying, "Never got changed; couldn't sleep."

Percy and Annabeth nodded with complete understanding. All demigods suffered from bad dreams but you never quite experienced truly awful dreams until you'd spent time in Tartarous. At least Percy and Annabeth had been with each other.

"It helps if you wear comfortable clothes," Frank said.

Leo burst out laughing. "Says you Mr Sleeps as a Cobra."

"How did you know about that?" Frank asked.

Leo grinned. "You don't wanna know."

Reyna suddenly burst into the hall way that they were all stood in; she'd been on night watch. "You guys might wanna take a look at this."

When I set out to write this it was supposed to be light and happy but then this happened. Oops.

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