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A Very Percy Jackson Advent

December 16th

The morning of December 16th was met by the sound of multiple startled screams as the crew woke up not quite feeling... themselves...

Nico woke up to find himself in the warm embrace of Annabeth.

"What the-?!" he muttered in surprise quickly untangling his suddenly not-so-lanky arms from her. His voice sounded different too though hauntingly familiar... He looked down at himself to find that e wasn't himself – he was Percy. His mind slipped into overdrive as a million thought flew through his mind until they settled on the girl in front of him. Though this would be the most embarrassing moment of his life, he knew he'd have to ask Annabeth for help. "Annabeth," he shook her awake.

Annabeth rolled over onto her stomach, folding her arms across her chest.

-0-

Jason rolled over to avoid being woken by whoever it was that was trying to wake him. He tucked his arms under his chest for warmth and then sat up in shock as he realised that he wasn't in his body... "What in the name of the gods!?" he exclaimed. He looked down at himself to see Annabeth's body, he ran his hand through his hair – Annabeth's long curly blonde hair – and then he looked up to see Percy staring at him with a startled expression.

"Annabeth," Percy uttered urgently.

"I'm not Annabeth," Jason replied with an equal amount of urgency, "I'm Jason."

"Jason?" Percy sounded almost relieved. "I'm not Percy, I'm Nico!"

After taking a while to soak that in, Jason finally said. "Well this isn't weird or awkward at all..."

"Has everyone been body swapped?" Nico asked in a timid voice. "And if so, who's in whose body?"

Jason could do nothing but shrug. "One thing I know for sure is that there's going to be a rule that none of us get changed whilst we're like this."

Nico seemed to turn a little pink at that but Jason couldn't be sure. "Agreed," Nico finally said.

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Leo woke up covered in long brown hair. It covered his face and got in his mouth. Confused, he climbed out of bed. The first thing he noticed was that he wasn't in his room - he was in Calypso's room. The next thing he noticed was that he felt a little taller than usual. And then, finally he looked in the mirror and nearly had a heart attack.

He then burst into the room. Or rather, his body that was being controlled by someone that wasn't him did.

"Leo?" He (his body being controlled by someone else) asked hopefully.

"Uh yeah," Leo replied, "I'm usually the one running around in that body."

"It's me, Calypso," she replied.

"Oh my gods," Leo gasped. "We've swapped bodies! Have you burst into flames yet?"

Calypso nodded. "I'm sorry; I kind of burnt your curtains... I was more than a little shocked."

Leo nodded and gave a forgiving smile. "Happens all the time. I have to say I would have burst into flames too, if I could, when I looked in the mirror."

"That bad, huh?" Calypso asked with a smile.

Leo grinned and gave a shrug before grabbing Calypso's (or his) hand and running off to the dining hall.

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Annabeth woke up expecting to be wrapped up in Percy's arms as she did almost every morning when one of them had had a particularly bad nightmare. Instead she woke up alone in a room she was almost completely unfamiliar with - Jason's room. "What in Olympus?" she muttered. She got up out of bed and almost fell over as she experienced a whole new centre of gravity.

With a gasp, she realised she'd woken up as Jason! Her mind instantly jumped to the most pressing matter - who had woken up as her and how did she put this right?

She hastily began to run toward the dining hall hoping to find everyone there, stumbling on her way as she became accustomed to the new height and balance.

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Hazel woke up in her usual haze. She felt well rested after not having as many bad dreams during the night. Her unusually calm awakening was shattered as soon as she looked in the mirror. "Why do I look like Piper?" she asked sleepily, deciding that she must still be dreaming - it wouldn't be the first time she'd dreamt that she looked as pretty as Piper.

"Hazel?" Hazel asked, walking into Piper's room with a worried expression.

Hazel looked up at herself in confusion and then back at Piper in the mirror. "Piper?" she asked.

"Yes, Hazel, it's me!" Piper replied with relief. "We must have swapped bodies!"

"How in Hades did we do that?" Hazel asked.

Piper shrugged. "Dunno, let's go find the others and see if we can fix this."

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Percy woke up in a dark room feeling more than a little restless. He soon realised that was probably because he wasn't sleeping on his usual waterbed and he didn't have Annabeth next to him. The absence of those things never equated to anything good.

Having just woken up, it took his mind some time to comprehend that he was no longer in his own body and the reason he'd woken up to find himself surrounded by darkness was because he'd woken up as Nico Di Angelo.

Not having one clue as to how to deal with his situation, he did the only thing he could think to do - go and find Annabeth.

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Reyna sat down on the edge of Frank's bed as she tried to process the fact that she had woken up in Frank's room as a dog and then transformed from a dog into Frank before her very eyes. She'd been sat there for ten minutes until she appeared.

"Reyna?" she asked.

"Frank?" she asked in reply.

Frank nodded yes.

Reyna sighed. "How?"

Frank shrugged. "Beats me, let's go find the others, see if they know."

Frank and Reyna were the last one's to arrive at the dining hall. Everyone was staring at each other in confusion.

"Does anyone know what's going on?" Percy in Nico's body asked.

Nico stared at Percy as if watching himself talk was even stranger than talking to ghosts.

Everyone shrugged.

"It could be a curse from the gods. Maybe Gaia's army are getting stronger and they've found a way to penetrate the ship's defences," Jason said.

Everyone looked quite shocked at such an intelligent comment coming out of Jason's mouth so early in the morning until their own minds caught up to the fact that it was in fact Annabeth.

"Then what are we gonna do?" Frank as Reyna asked.

Everyone shrugged.

"We might as well try and just wait it out," Hazel as Piper said. Everyone except Percy as Nico nodded in agreement as Hazel unknowingly used Piper's charm speak on full effect.

"What if that doesn't work?" Percy asked.

Everyone shrugged. "Let's just hope it does," Jason replied.

Leo as Calypso reached out to get a few metal scraps from underneath the fruit bowl and started tinkering. After a moment, he got a really frustrated look about him.

"What's wrong?" Calypso asked.

"How do you people cope without the ability to just start a flame at the tip of your fingers?"

As if the mere thought of fire triggered the power, Calypso suddenly burst into flames.

"Calm down! You'll burn the ship!"

Calypso finally managed to stop the flames whilst everyone else leant back with varying expressions of worry and amusement.

"How do you manage?" Calypso asked.

Leo shrugged. "Don't know, just do..."

"Frank, will you stop prodding my face?" Reyna as Frank asked.

Frank dropped his hands. "Sorry, it's just weird... I'm used to turning into animals not other people..."

Well we might as well make the most of a weird situation, who's up for a party game or ten?"

"I never thought I'd hear those words coming out of my mouth," Calypso muttered.

Leo grinned. "Same here."

All of them made their way to the Rec room and played whatever game Leo suggested ranging from monopoly (which ended just as bad as you'd expect but they were only getting mad at themselves) to charades. At dinner, Percy ate more than the rest, to Nico's disapproval and by the time evening came, they began to switch back to themselves again. After multiple apologies and assessments of limbs, they all tried to hide the weirdness of the day, silently agreeing to never speak of it again and turned to go about their own daily things.

Goddess Of Idiots: that sounds so cool, I wish my school had been that fun!

sonofthetrigod: yes, twister can be awkward to play but it's the best game to watch ever; it should be an Olympic sport, then i'd watch the Olympics!

Ana-DaughterofHades: I'll try to add more percabeth in tomorrows chapter

YeahI'mWeirdAndILoveIt: glad you like it, thanks for the review x

thefangirlthatwon'tshutup: The review didn't go the wrong way! A little criticism is never a bad thing though I'm glad you didn't mean it as criticism! thanks for the review x

expa: aww thanks x

theargoII: We'll have to see which stories decide to make themselves known, I might try and do something like this for every occasion

PursuerofNovels: I'l try and get more Reyna in the next chapters :)

Guest: I'll see what I can do though I won't be able to start it whilst I'm writing this. I think the back story is important so the OC doesn't become unrelatable or just there as a romantic interest.

butterflygirly99: that's good to hear! sorry I can't think of much better responses, my battery is really running low now O_O

SaberMarine: I hadn't seen it before! it's a great post though :D

no matter what I PROMISE you, I will update tomorrow... I have more than one electrical device that connects to the internet! if any of you happen to be technical wizards- i think it's the charger itself but idk... its not the plug and my laptop itself is fine so... ?