I promised you all a happier chapter today after yesterdays downer of a chapter... I hope I delivered :)

A Very Percy Jackson Advent

December 15th

"Percy?" Annabeth called as she quietly shuffled into his room. It was still early in the morning and no one on the ship had awoken.

Percy lifted his head up and looked around in confusion. "Annabeth?" he croaked. "What are you doing here?" He squirmed under the sheets as if checking if he was wearing anything and seemed to relax when he confirmed that he did indeed have clothes on.

"I uh... had a bad dream..." she confessed, feeling a lot like a five year old going to their parents for comfort.

"Must have been pretty bad if you've come to me for comfort," Percy said with a smile as he shuffled over o make room for Annabeth to cuddle up beside him. Annabeth nodded in agreement and climbed in under the covers.

"Let's hope today isn't the day coach Hedge decides to leave his room," she laughed.

"Yeah, we didn't exactly get away with it the first time so a second time's not going to be any better," Percy agreed.

The two of them stayed cuddled together enjoying each other's company until they both fell asleep again.

When they woke up, it was to Frank bursting into the room shouting, "Percy wake up, it's the afternoon and we can't find Anna – oh." He stopped dead as he saw both of his friends looking up at him with startled expressions. "Sorry."

Annabeth was the first to recover. She sat up and allowed the cover to slip down enough to reveal that they were wearing clothes and said, "Uh... no worries, Frank..."

"We weren't doing anything!" Percy exclaimed as he came half way to his senses.

Frank laughed. "I know, don't worry."

-0-

"So," Calypso said. She'd been wandering aimlessly about the ship. Being a goddess nymph, she had no need of training so she found herself with nothing to do in the long hours that the others spent training. "You're still working with the sphere?"

Leo smiled. He knew Calypso was kind of bored and, even though she'd become good friends with everyone on the ship, she only ever seemed truly comfortable talking to him – living alone on a magical island for so long would make anyone uncomfortable in big groups. "Yeah, sorry... I suppose I could give it a rest if you wanna do something like watch a movie or something."

Calypso shrugged. "I'm surprised you haven't built in more entertainment facilities, Leo."

Leo looked slightly insulted. "Haven't built-" He began to repeat her words but trailed off and shook his head. "I built in a whole room filled with every game I could get my hands on... I suggest if you want, we round everyone up and we have a nice friendly game of twister."

"Sure," Calypso said uncertainly. "What's twister?"

Leo grinned, which made Calypso slightly nervous. "Something that will hopefully make you more comfortable with the others," he said.

"What's twister?" Hazel asked. Nico looked equally confused.

"So that's three people who have no idea what the best board game in history is," Leo sighed.

"The best board game in history is Mythomagic!" Frank exclaimed, earning a nod of agreement from Nico. "But Twister is pretty good too."

"So basically," Leo explained. "You spin the dial and if say it lands on left hand yellow you put your left hand on a yellow dot and you keep it on the yellow dot until you get told to put it on a different colour. When you fall, you're out. The last one standing is the winner."

"Um... I'll just spin the dial," Annabeth said.

"Oh come on Annabeth!" Percy groaned, he grabbed her hand and pulled his best puppy dog face.

"No," she insisted though it seemed to be taking some effort to refuse. "If you want to make a spectacle of yourself, then go ahead but I think I'll just stand and watch."

Jason was the first to take his turn.

"Right foot green," Annabeth announced.

Then it was Piper.

"Left hand red," Annabeth told her.

After half an hour, everyone was knotted together in compromising positions whilst Annabeth continued to call out commands but no one had fallen over just yet.

"Dude get your butt outa my face!" Nico complained at Frank.

"Get your face outa my butt!" Frank retaliated.

Hazel laughed so hard at their antics that she fell over, taking frank with her. They fell on top of each other making them both turn bright red and then there was an awkward scuffle as they tried to remove themselves from the game.

"And then there were six," Leo said.

The next one to fall was Reyna when she was told to move her left foot to red. The only spare red dot was on the other end of the board which caused her to fall. "I don't like this game," she grumbled as she went to join Frank and Hazel with a smile on her face despite herself.

The next to fall was Piper; naturally, she fell right on top of Jason. "Sorry," they both laughed as they clumsily made their way to join the others at the edge of the room.

Now only four of them were left and kept finding themselves in incredibly awkward positions. Nico found himself petrified of falling on multiple occasions – when falling would result in him falling directly on top of Percy. Leo and Calypso kept finding themselves in similar scenarios.

Nico eventually allowed himself to fall off the mat, a dignified fall compared to the rest as he didn't fall on anyone.

"And then there were three," Leo announced.

"Left hand green," Annabeth called.

Leo stretched out his left hand, taking as long as possible to get to his destination.

"Come one, Leo, My arms are giving out!" Percy complained as he'd found himself in a position he'd previously thought impossible. Just as he said that, his arms did give out and he fell flat on his face. He refused to go without taking someone down with him, however and managed to wrap his foot around Leo's arm and drag him down too.

"Well done Calypso!" Annabeth managed to say through her laughter. "Thank you Leo. That was the best Christmas present ever!"

Percy scowled at her but forgave her as soon as she kissed him on the cheek and assured him that he actually looked quite graceful as he fell.

sonofthetrigod: Yeah, I guess yesterday's chapter was kinda sad. Note to self- don't try and write a chirstmas fanfic whilst listening to mayday parade...

Goddess Of Idiots: Just because they're inside our heads doesn't mean to say they're not real!

Percy'sSisterSPQR: I just had Percy being all in pink fluffy dressing gowns only two days ago but of course you can have more Percy!

Ana-DaughterofHades: Definitely the fault in our stars. you should definitely read that

thefangirlthatwon'tshutup: Can't tell if you're criticizing my writing of Nico or just ranting but I had Nico just be a normal kid in this chapter :)

ddddddd: If shakespear can make up the word bedroom, you can make up words like awesomeistic :)

butterflygirly99: I really like Bianca's character and I think she's a really big part of Nico's character so I felt I needed her at least mentioned :)

Lily: I'd be glad to but I'm not the fastest of writers unless I get a good idea that sticks with me like with this one I'd been telling myself since November that I was going to write an advent series and I'm going to stick at it and here I am... I'll definitely consider it though. If you have a plot in mind please tell me and I'll see what I can do x

Remnant of Life: Don't worry, I'm keeping Nico well looked after in this story which is why I didn't let him drop out of playing twister with everyone.

Guest: :') stop it! you're making me blush... (go on...)

The Eighth Demigod: YAY! Christmas is almost here! I kind of don't want it to come so soon though... I like writing this and when christmas is here it'll all be over... I might write a new years special just because I hate endings

Percy'sGirlfrien: I was thinking the same thing, I hope this was enough fluff x

see you all tomorrow xx