Sorry for being kinda late to update today, it took me a while to write this one, hope you enjoy it :)
A Very Percy Jackson Advent
December 18th
Everyone, even coach Hedge, was sat around the ping pong table in the Rec room. Leo had had Buford bring them all hot chocolate and once they'd finished drinking it, they all merely sat around enjoying the peace that was provided to them by Leo's great work with the sphere.
"I don't think I've ever gone so long without having to kill something," Coach said grouchily.
"Don't say that like it's a bad thing," Piper said as she adjusted her position so she could more comfortably snuggle up to Jason. "We're not out of practice; I don't think we can ever forget our experiences with fighting monsters. Not having to fight is a good thing."
Hazel and Nico rolled their eyes at each other. "Piper, whilst I actually agree with you, you know charm speak doesn't work with us so why do you bother?"
Piper frowned. "Because it works on everyone else and I'm trying to get Coach Hedge to not think about killing things."
"Keep dreaming Pipper," Coach said.
"It's Piper," she corrected.
"Okay!" Leo said loudly as he noticed Coach Hedge getting ready for an argument – that goat had some serious anger management issues! "Since we're all together and not doing anything, how about a game of truth and dare?"
Piper grinned. "Yes! I love that game."
Jason shrugged. Frank's face remained blank. Hazel nodded her head. Percy shrugged. Annabeth and Nico looked uncomfortable. Calypso looked confused.
"What's truth or dare?" she asked.
Leo opened his mouth to explain but Piper beat him to it. "You go around the circle and each person chooses either truth or dare. If they pick truth then the others get to ask them any question that they have to answer correctly or they have to do a really bad forfeit. If they pick dare then they have to do whatever everyone tells them to do or it's the forfeit again."
"That doesn't sound really all that fun..." Calypso said.
"It is though, it'll help us to get to know each other too," Piper exclaimed.
Calypso shrugged and so the game began.
Leo went first. "I'll have a dare," he said.
Percy grinned mischievously, he knew it was an awful and mean dare but he needed t give it. "I dare you to kiss Calypso."
Annabeth punched him in the arm. "Percy, you're so immature."
"It's a kiddie game so I'm being immature," Percy laughed.
Leo had turned bright red and his hair was beginning to smoke. Calypso had also turned and endearing shade of pink.
Annabeth shook her head. "You can change the dare if you want, Calypso."
Calypso didn't say anything; she just looked at the ground. After a moment of consideration, Leo finally leaned in and kissed her on the cheek.
"Aw, come on dude," Percy sighed. "You know that's not what I meant!"
"You need to be more specific then," Leo replied cockily.
Percy sent him a look that clearly promised that he would next time.
The next person was Piper. "I choose truth," she said.
"I think you actually do care about how you look," Hazel said, "am I right?"
Piper shrugged. "Fine... Yes." Leo gave a mock shocked expression. "After living in the Aphrodite cabin, I'm not the girl who purposefully cuts her hair horribly that you found in the wilderness school," she explained.
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A few rounds had passed and it was Jason's turn again. "Dare."
"Come on, you haven't told one truth yet!" Leo exclaimed.
"Fine, truth," he replied.
"Did you ever like Reyna?" Leo asked. "I mean before you met Piper.
"Oh come on, that's a ridiculous question!" Jason said. "Reyna and I are friends and have never actually been anything more." Reyna nodded, clearly over her crush now.
"I'll go with a dare this time," Calypso said.
Percy grinned, finally getting his chance. "Kiss Leo on the lips. You can always forfeit – you have to kiss Frank in the form of whatever is the most disgusting creature he can think of is."
Leo seemed to be controlling his flammable-ness but only marginally. Calypso gave Leo the chance to back out before throwing caution to the wind and kissing him. Percy whooped with joy while everyone else in the room smiled. Leo and Calypso seemed lost to the world as they stared at each other in shock, only just now realising their true feelings for each other.
"I called it!" Percy exclaimed. "Pay up," he said to Frank. Frank sighed and handed him 5 golden drachmas.
"Your go, Hazel," Jason said.
"Kiss Frank in frog form!" Piper yelled.
Frank shrugged and turned into a frog. Hazel hesitated a second, "I hope he turns back into a prince," she said before kissing the frog. When Frank turned back into himself he was doubled over in laughter along with all the others, even Coach and Nico managed a giggle.
"Dare," Frank announced.
"Turn into a horse and have Percy translate for you for the rest of the day," Annabeth said, finally getting into the game.
Frank sighed but went along with the dare.
"I'm not translating that, Frank!" Percy exclaimed. "I didn't know you had such a... colourful vocabulary!"
"Your go, Coach," Piper said.
"Dare," he said, crossing his fingers and muttering about hitting something with a stick.
"Eat all the rubbish in this room as quickly as possible," Leo said. When he received funny looks from everyone he said, "What? Who do you think it is that cleans up after you lot?"
Coach shrugged and got to work. The rest of them carried on the game while he ate.
"Truth," Reyna said.
"If you could have any Greek god as a parent, who would it be?" Annabeth asked.
"If I had to choose... uh... Maybe Athena? She's the goddess of war isn't she so that's similar to my current godly parent."
Annabeth grinned. "Dare," she said.
Piper bounced up and down in excitement. "Oh your first dare! Um... Re-enact the underwater kiss between you and Percy that everyone at camp always used to talk about."
"Uh... We kinda need water that isn't infested with dangerous monsters for that," Percy said.
"Dude, we have a swimming pool!" Leo said.
"What?" Percy gasped. "Why didn't I know about that?"
Leo shrugged. "Dunno, I thought you'd have sensed it."
"We're surrounded by water; of course I can sense it I just didn't think it was on the ship."
Ignoring Percy's ranting, they all followed Leo to the swimming pool where, with a small shrug, Annabeth and Percy jumped into the pool. There was a sudden whirlpool of water around them as they kissed. When they climbed out their clothed were completely dry. "Thanks Piper, I liked that dare," Percy grinned.
"Truth or dare, Percy?" Jason asked.
"Dunno, if I pick dare will you dare me to do that again?" he asked. Annabeth punched him on the arm. "Fine, fine, truth."
Frank whinnied.
"Dude," Percy said, "No."
"What did say?" Jason asked.
Percy looked a little uncomfortable. "He asked me if I would ever want to trade my Dad from being Poseidon to Zeus... uh... No offence."
Jason smiled. "None taken; my dad's technically Jupiter, not Zeus anyway."
Frank whinnied again.
"Frank says it's your turn, Nico," Percy smiled.
"Dare," he said.
"Come on dude, you haven't had one truth!" Leo exclaimed. "No one knows anything about you!"
"Frank does," Nico said. Frank bobbed his head to confirm the statement.
"Okay so the horse knows who you are," Leo said. "We wanna know a little bit about you."
"Fine, truth."
Jason asked a non-intrusive question before anyone else could ask him something like 'who do you like?' "What's your favourite book?"
Nico went slightly pink. "Marvel comics..."
Frank neighed and trotted around.
Percy grimaced at the noise. "Di imortales; stop the shouting! Frank says he likes them too."
"It's getting kinda late now," Coach Hedge said as his stumbled into the swimming room with a very full stomach. "Is the game over now?"
Everyone nodded and muttered goodbyes to each other before going off about their own evening routines.
Percy'sSisterSPQR: thank you for the awesome idea, I obviously used it, I hope you liked it :)
Ana-DaughterofHades: ah okay. I don't think I will include birthdays though - one celebration at a time I think.
Goddess Of Idiots: haha, I imagine they can sort of cook. Some of them have fended for themselves on the street for some time before getting to camp.
thefangirlthatwon'tshutup: Yup, and now he's out to stay :D
theargoII: yeah, I don't think I will include birthdays though, I'll just focus on Christmas
annoyinreindeer: It's a good idea, I'll consider it!
PursuerofNovels: Aw, thank you :) yes my friend was very glad that I didn't take full credit for the idea, I shall send the congratulations onto her :)
sonofthetrigod: Yes everyone seems to be shocked by the cliffhanger but I'm not going to reveal what they're practicing until christas eve. I guarantee it'll be such a bad surprise that you'll love it anyway. just like he bad Christmas cracker jokes that everyone laughs at because they're that bad
Lily: yay, thank you for recommending my story :)
butterflygirly99: I don't think Piper would actually be that bothered maybe Leo would though, as a joke.
Bob frank: yes there ha been you and one to recommend this and so it had been written :D
moonshroom420: hehe, you'll have to wait longer to find out :D thank you for all of yu reviews, I'm glad you liked it enough to read all of it in 2 days or whatever x
nevah nyrum: Thank you, I love your review x
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