So I only got one song in from you guys and it was less funny and more... gruesome... sorry :/

And so, songs will not feature in this chapter, they might in a later chapter though :)

Happy reading!

A Very Percy Jackson Advent

December 12th

Calypso stood on the top deck looking out across the sea. Despite the increasingly cold weather, she marvelled at the fact that the sea remained unfrozen. In Ogygia the seasons didn't exist. Perfect for her gardens as it was always perfect weather but she hadn't seen snow in so long that she's almost forgotten what it looked like until she saw it covering the Argo II thanks to a certain goddess of snow and ice.

"Enjoying the view?" Leo asked. Now that she'd been with them on the ship a few days, Leo had stopped spontaneously combusting every time she looked at him which was a plus even if she did miss the hilarity of it.

Calypso could have just nodded and returned to her thoughts but she couldn't resist the temptation of messing with Leo. "Even more so now you're here," she replied with a sly grin.

Leo turned an endearing shade of bright red but managed to remain himself and not turn into what Frank had referred to as Rudolf. He didn't manage to make a coherent response and instead looked down at his feel whilst making embarrassed mumblings.

Calypso then took pity on him and changed the subject away from flirting – which was done in a completely joking manner and was in no way romantic – and to a subject she knew Leo would be certain to babble on about for hours. She loved it when he started babbling even when the only words she understood were the connectives. "So how's your work with the sphere coming along?"

As she predicted, Leo suddenly became incredibly animated and launched himself into a long recount of everything he'd been trying to do with the sphere and everything he hoped it'd be capable of. When he stopped for breath, she interrupted and asked, "Are you getting enough sleep though, Leo?"

"I got a whole 11 hours sleep..." Leo replied.

"Last night?" Calypso asked as his tone implied that the answer to her question was no.

"This week," Leo mumbled.

"Leo," Calypso chided him.

"I have no time for sleep! I have things to do, a ship to run..." Leo defended himself.

"You can't run a ship when you're collapsing of exhaustion. You said Annabeth knows how to sail the ship?" Calypso asked.

"Yeah but I don't wanna bug her; she's been through too much," Leo said.

Calypso, realising it was a lost cause to try and argue with him about this, just rolled her eyes and told him to carry on telling her about the sphere.

-0-

"When do you even sleep, Nico?" Hazel asked her brother. She, Nico and Frank were sat on the floor of Nico's cabin, looking through his Mythomagic collection (again).

"What do you mean?" Nico asked in return, not looking up from the cards he held in his hand.

"You forget that I can sense auras too," Hazel said, "I know that you summon ghosts to your room and just talk to them every night. What's going on?"

Frank looked up at Nico with a concerned but passive expression which stood in contrast with Hazel's positively paranoid and worried sick expression.

Nico turned pale and didn't answer for a few long seconds. "Fine," he sighed. "I summon ghosts that were musicians or story tellers in life; they help me sleep."

Hazel smiled. "Oh," she said, "I didn't know you had so much trouble sleeping... it makes sense I suppose... I'm sorry."

Nico shook his head and allowed her to take his hand to comfort him. Meanwhile, Frank now looked suspicious as if he could sense he wasn't telling the truth but chose not to say anything, not wanting to worry Hazel. Instead, he convinced himself that he was just being paranoid and that Nico was telling the truth despite his track record.

When Hazel and Frank had left, Nico locked his door and summoned a ghost. He was getting better at it now, he didn't need an offering – he was the ghost king. "Sire," the ghost greeted him.

"What news do you have of my sister, Emerson?" Nico asked.

The ghost, Emerson, sighed. "It is difficult to locate a soul that has been reborn, Sire, we are doing everything we can."

Nico slumped down onto his bed and put his head in his hands. "I just want to speak to her, just one more time." Emerson looked unsure whether or not he should attempt to console the boy before him that he saw as his king. "I don't have enough strength to keep summoning you," Nico admitted. "I'm supposed to be regaining my strength so I'll be able to give what little help I can to the others with their quest."

Emerson reached his hand out unsurely and patted Nico on the shoulder. "We will continue to look and with luck, we'll have better news for you when you next summon one of us."

"Thank you, Emerson. You may go now... Merry Christmas," he added at the end of his dismissal.

Emerson looked confused at Nico's sudden show of kindness. He was usually too gloomy to bother with common pleasantries. "Merry Christmas to you too Sire," he said before returning to the underworld.

Sorry for the kind of gloomy ending, I was fixing a could be plot hole even though nobody noticed it...

expa: Well I couldn't just kick her out into the cold! :D thanks for reviewing x

Ana-DaughterofHades: Damn. Did you not even get the chance of a snow day then? it's getting colder where I am - it might snow yet! thanks for the review :)

piperandjasontogetherforever: Have all the caleo! I love Caleo. Though I'm not a fan of the characters themselves, I do ship Jiper and it was kind of fun writing it too.

vale1996: Thanks for the Spanish review! ( I only do spanish GCSE but i'm gonna give it a go in replying in spanish - sorry in advance) muchas gracias por tu critica! en el futuro, yo podria incluso madre de Percy :) maybe I should have just used a translator but I thought i'd give it a go... tell me how I did; I have a spanish writing exam coming up soon!

Remnant of Life: I'm glad you liked it :D I think pinatas might have been around when Nico and Hazel were around but pinata came to mind so I used it... thanks for reviewing x

anoyinreindeer: thanks for sending a song! As you were the only one to send one you can have this christmas cookie (::) well it's just a cookie but since it's christmas time that makes it a christmas cookie :)

YeahI'mWeirdAndILoveIt: Yeah I think I'd end up knocking someone's head off if you blindfolded me and then gave me a bat...

nevah nyrum: Thank you so much xx I'm glad to hear you think I'm improving because all you can ever hope to do is get better :D thank you for being my grain of salt and pushing me to improve x

see you all again tomorrow!