Hello dear readers! Happy December 13th - Friday 13th; some weird stuff might happen today!

hope you enjoy it :)

A Very Percy Jackson Advent

December 13th

"What in the name of the gods just happened?" Reyna exclaimed as her glass of juice suddenly disappeared from her hand as she was about to take a sip. The look on her face was mildly confused but in her head she was trying – and failing - to persuade herself that she wasn't losing her mind. Leo looked up from his breakfast with a questioning gaze. "My glass just vanished!" Reyna said.

Leo, in his struggle to not laugh in Reyna's face, ended up choking on his mouthful of cereal which made him take a while to calm down and try to sort out the situation. Once he'd finished choking, he jumped up and began to examine the area around Reyna where the cup had disappeared from. If it was caused by something mechanical, he would hopefully be able to sense it.

"I'm sensing something," Leo said as he moved his hand slowly through the air like a madman. Reyna was still sat in her seat and looked slightly uncomfortable with his hand in her face. "I think it might be... but it can't be."

"Could be anything," Jason said after knocking back the last mouthful of his coffee. "It's Friday 13th after all."

Hazel sighed. "You guys don't seriously believe in that do you?"

Leo shook his head. "Every day's unlucky for demigods, why should the fact some cultures think the day is particularly unlucky make any difference to us?"

Hazel nodded in approval. "Well Jason, do you have any proof that this day is particularly unlucky?"

Jason shrugged and stared at his empty coffee mug. "I just thought that if so many different cultures believe in the same thing then maybe there might be some truth in it..."

"It is!" Leo exclaimed suddenly making the other three jump.

"What?" Reyna asked.

"It's Festus! He must be malfunctioning..." Leo began to mutter to himself, waving his hands around in the air as he made some calculations.

"Festus is malfunctioning?" Reyna asked with a hint of panic slipping into her voice.

"Not majorly; the ship will still sail and it's still secure. I have backup generators for the backup, backup generators for those things."

"What?" Hazel said with a blank expression but Leo just waved his hand at her dismissively and carried on.

"I don't know how ling it'll take to fix though... And gods know where he's gone and transported everything to..."

"Okay what's going on?" Percy asked. He walked into the room with nothing but his fish pattern boxer shorts on and a very confused expression.

"Have you lost all your clothes or something, Percy?" Hazel asked with a giggle.

Percy frowned and crossed his arms over his chest. "As a matter of fact, yes I have. And I woke up on the floor – my bed's gone."

Leo placed a hand on his chin. "Hmm. Maybe the problem is worse than I thought... I'm gonna go and take a look." With that he wandered off muttering something about how he hoped the disk wasn't faulty again.

Percy looked at Hazel, Reyna and Jason and gave them a questioning look.

"Leo thinks Festus is malfunctioning and transporting random things to random places," Hazel explained. "At least I think that's what's happening... Nice boxers by the way." She passed him her dressing gown which was pink and fluffy. Percy reluctantly took it and put it on. It was better than walking around in nothing but his underwear.

"I DIDN'T TAKE THEM, I PROMISE!" A terrified shriek of Frank came from down the hall. Hazel ran toward the sound of her boyfriend's yells and when she got there couldn't decide between doubling over in laughter and being worried about Frank's safety.

"Who else is going to take them?" Nico asked menacingly, he had his sword drawn and had it pressed threateningly against Frank's chest. "No one else would dare."

"That's true," Hazel said as she attempted to keep her voice calm. She knew exactly what was going on. Nico must have woken up to find his Mythomagic collection missing and instantly thought of Frank. "But Nico, Frank didn't take them."

Nico didn't take his sword away from Frank but he did turn his dark gaze toward Hazel. "Who did then?"

Hazel put her hands up in surrender and motioned for him to put down his sword. "Festus is malfunctioning and is transporting random things to random places... hopefully on the ship... Reyna's cup vanished from her hand and Percy woke up without his bed and all his clothes apart from his boxers are missing..."

Nico's eyes turned wide as Hazel told him this information and he quickly looked down to the ground to hide the fact that his skin was turning pink. "Well, can Leo get everything back?"

"Yup!" Leo announced, approaching them just in time to hear Nico's question. "There was a lose wire and he also had a few screws loose," Leo laughed. "Everything should be restored soon."

"Good," Nico said, finally sheathing his sword and backing away from Frank who slumped against the wall. Despite his new physique compared to Nico's small, scrawny frame, it's hard to imagine why he'd be so intimidated by Nico but when he was angry; to cross him would be madness.

"Oh and guys," Leo said, "Go grab Jason and Percy; it's practice time!"

"Practicing for what?" Hazel asked.

Nico and Frank sighed and shook their heads whilst Leo taped his nose with that grin that promised nothing good and probably Christmas related. "Wait and see Hazel Levesque wait and see."

Guest: Feliz navedad is quite a good idea, I'll keep that in mind :)

Ana-DaughterofHades: Oh I can't wait to see the hobbit! thanks for the review x

Goddess Of Idiots: Yes Nico is looking for Bianca but since she was reborn she won't go by the name Bianca anymore which is why his ghosts are having problems finding her.

PersassyJackson: Everything must come to an end... I hate endings too, I love writing this. Don't worry, the end is still quite a lot of chapters away :) I'm sorry to keep you waiting today x

Guest: I'm sorry to waste the data on your phone. A little tip, once the page is loaded you can see it without internet so long as you don't close the page so you could just use the few seconds it takes to load and then turn off the internet data and read the chapter then turn it back on so you can review :D that's what I do anyway x

thefangirlthatwon'tshutup: Haha, that's the exact reason I'm not writing my own! I have a few suggestions and one original song now, they will feature in a chapter closer to christmas :)

butterflygirly99: glad you like it, thanks for the review :)

PursuerofNovels: Thanks :) I do try to make the chapters as long as possible without dragging it out too much. It's hard sometimes with the whole update once a day thing but i'm glad you like it x

sonofthetrigod: I think any fangirl would be lying if they said they hadn't ever had even the smallest little crush on Nico (I still do tbh) It means a lot that you think that and, it doesn't matter how many reviews I have, I read and reply to every single one and each and every one meas the world to me. And then getting long ones like your one are even more special because it's more fun to rely to them :D

stickysillyputty: Aw that means a lot, I'm usually the one sat refreshing the page waiting for a fanfiction to update, not the one having people waiting for my update! I'm sorry I uploaded this chapter a little later today x

vale1996: What? i mean... Que?... ummm... yeah I'm gonna go with the translator on this one :) Gracias, me alegro de que te guste. yay! muy orgullosa de mi español: 3 No hay nieve donde estoy bien :/ no puedo deletrear en cualquier idioma si soy honesto con usted ...

Aly kitten: your review described my soul in two words. if you want more Nico feels, go and listen to ghosts by Mayday Parade and see how much you can relate it to everyone's favorite fictional character!

I'll see you all tomorrow xx