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A Very Percy Jackson Advent

December 11th

"What in the name of the gods is going on?" Reyna yelled down the hall. It was four in the morning and she'd been woken up by a series of loud banging and giggling. "I swear it's like travelling with a bunch of toddlers," she muttered to herself.

When she arrived at the source of the noise she found Nico, Frank and Hazel – who were supposed to be on night watch – gathered around what looked like a piñata. Hazel was the one blind folded and was randomly waving the bat around like a madman.

"I can't believe you two have ever played this game before," Frank said as he ducked to avoid the swing of Hazel's bat.

"How do you even do this?" Hazel giggled.

Reyna had always loved to play piñata on her birthday with her sister before... everything. She caught herself smiling and opening her mouth to ask to join in when she noticed Nico stiffen as he detected her life aura and snapped out of it. She was supposed to be a leader. She couldn't stoop to their level and join them in their silly little children games. She dropped her smile and cleared her throat. "Aren't you supposed to be on night watch?"

Hazel froze at the sound of her voice. She sheepishly lowered the bat and removed her blindfold then looked back and forth from Nico and Frank to Reyna, waiting for someone to say something.

"We were just having a little fun," Frank said. Nico was backing away to the shadows as if maybe he could escape this despite the fact that he was still too weak to shadow travel. "Night watch is just a precaution, Leo's sphere is great at protecting us; we haven't had one monster attack since he built it," Frank explained.

"Don't you get it?" Reyna fumed. "We're in the middle of a war and you stop taking precautions so you can play with a piñata!?"

"It has Christmas tree shaped chocolate in," Frank mumbled desperately.

As if from nowhere, Leo appeared in the room. "Christmas tree shaped chocolate? Piñata's? Count me in!"

"Where in the name of Hades did you come from?" Nico asked as he slowly moved out of the shadows to rejoin the group.

Leo pointed to the wall. "Secret door!" at everyone's confused and shocked expressions; he raised his hands as if in surrender. "What you think I'm gonna build a super cool war-ship and not include secret passageways?"

Hazel shrugged, accepting that, of course Leo would include secret passage ways – it's Leo!

"Oh and you really shouldn't worry too much about security, Reyna," Leo grinned. "The security on this ship is probably better than that of Olympus."

"Somehow I find that hard to believe," Reyna said but even as she said it she visibly began to relax.

"You better believe it," Leo said, "'Cause it's true. Now seriously, I want in on beating the chocolate out of the paper mache party pony!"

Hazel handed the blindfold and bat, only slightly reluctantly, over to Leo and all of them – Frank, Nico, Hazel, Leo and even Reyna – took turns in hitting the piñata until it rained Christmas themed chocolate.

Later that day, at a much more acceptable hour to be awake, Piper found Jason sat at the helm of the ship making tiny whirl winds in the air. "You're getting good at that," she said to make her presence known.

"Hey Piper," he greeted her.

"Why so sad?" Piper asked as she sat down beside him and took his hand.

"Nothing specific," Jason said. "It's just... I guess the weight of this whole thing is finally catching up to me."

Piper rested her head on Jason's shoulder and took a moment to appreciate the fact that everyone she cared about was still alive. "I know what you mean," she sighed. "Just remember that it's not all on your shoulders. All seven of us and Reyna and Nico will all work together to complete this thing."

"I guess you're right," Jason admitted.

Piper grinned. "Boy does it feel good to be right for once!" Jason gave her a questioning look so she explained, "I've been playing strategy games with Annabeth all morning. That girl is just never wrong!"

Jason nodded. He couldn't disagree. He'd never gotten to know Annabeth very well; the only time he'd spent with her was when they were helping Leo to build the Argo II back at camp half blood and then she'd been a little preoccupied with finding Percy to make any real conversation and now Annabeth was always either challenging people to strategic thinking games or spending time with Percy – she spent a lot of time with Percy.

"I got you the best Christmas present!" Piper announced suddenly.

"You can't say that, now I want to know!" Jason complained.

Piper shrugged then gave him a small kiss on the cheek. "Leo wanted me to tell you to put on your Christmas jumper and meet him and the boys in the Rec room... something about practicing?"

Jason gave a long groan of despair. "Ugh, I hate Christmas."

Piper giggled on smacked him on the arm. "Don't be such a scrooge."

Someone in reviews said that it'd be good if Percy or someone started making up their own extra funny Christmas songs and singing them. It's a great idea but I'm abysmal at song writing (yes, so bad that I had to use a big word) So I look to you my beloved readers to send me any of your own extra funny Christmas songs via review or PM or both. I might use all of the songs that are sent to me, it depends how many I get sent. I'll give the people whose songs I use a shout out (unless you don't want one then that's fine, just say, whatever) Merry Christmas!

Thanatos Grim: Thanks! cool user name by the way! maybe there will be more mythomagic games. we'll see. x

expa: I like writing it! I hope Uncle Rick decided to add some into BoO!

Latias876: I'm glad you like it! I update this everyday; I hope that's soon enough for you :) x

Ana-DaughterofHades: I'M SO JEALOUS! I WANT SNOW!

Remnant of Life: I think Nico must be everyone's favorite character. I haven't ever met one person who doesn't just want to give Nico a big ol' hug!

ddddddd: Hey! (omg this feels like some kind of support group now) I'm sarah. My favorite colour is... idk... tumblr blue? my favorite animal is also a cat. thanks for reviewing x

YeahI'mWeirdAndILoveIt: Don't say that to me or else you'll never see any other characters! this story will become somthing like "Nico is sitting on his bed thinking about how much he wants a McDonald's"

thefangirlthatwon'tshutup: Aw, I'm glad you think so. I really want my own set of mythomagic cards. HOW COOL WOULD THAT BE THOUGH!?

LeeOfHermes0330: Yeah *virtual high five* you're the only person to admit to singing it! thanks for the review x

ArianandXaia: Well they're only celebrating christmas for the sake of celebrating... and the tree is a representation of their characters and yeah... thanks for reviewing :)

annoyinreindeer: Ah it was you that suggested the songs! I'm definitely going to include that idea if I get some songs sent to me but I really like the idea so PEOPLE! PLEASE SEND ME SOME FUNNY CHRISTMAS SONGS BECAUSE OF REASONS!

see you all tomorrow ! x

AND CAN I JUST THANK YOU ALL BECAUSE THIS NOW HAS OVER 100 REVIEWS AND I ACTUALLY CRIED OF HAPPINESS BECAUSE BEFORE THIS THE MOST REVIEWS I'D GOTTEN WAS 75 AND THAT WAS OVER SOMETHING LIKE 5 MONTHS SO TO GET THIS MANY REVIEWS I JUST :') C: XXXX