It was Christmas, and the squad was setting up for the holiday spirit.

Will had forced Nico to put on a matching ugly sweater with him and also a santa hat. Nico pretended to hate it, but in actuality he was just glad to be spending the holidays with Will.

Frank was flying around up on the roof as a bird, stringing lights around with Jason assisting. There had been a mishap somehow, since the giant Santa Claus was upside down and wrapped with snowflake cut outs and blinking rainbow lights. Nobody knows how that happened.

Piper and Annabeth were wrapping gifts for everybody. Most of them were pretty expensive gifts, since Piper had managed to charmspeak the cashier into letting her get a discount. Annabeth was teaching her how to wrap a gift with maximum difficulty of opening, and they couldn't wait to see everybody's faces when they struggled to unwrap the gifts.

Hazel was in the kitchen baking cookies with Calypso. Leo had originally tried to help them by baking the cookies with his fire power, but then got distracted decorating Festus with ribbons and a banner that said "FESTIVE FESTUS"

Thalia, Reyna and a few other Hunters were also there, using ornaments as target practice. Rachel and Tyson had to come out and stop them before they shattered all the ornaments for the tree.

"A tree without ornaments is a sad tree." Tyson said with a frown. "And we want happy trees!"

Percy was outside trying to build a snowman looking like a blob gawking at a helicopter in the sky. Nobody knew what that was about.

Even the gods were celebrating.

Apollo walked around Olympus belting Christmas Carols and weird haikus. Artemis was out hunting for the Christmas feast. Aphrodite and Ares were being mushy under the mistletoe (how cliche). Hephaestus was building gifts for everybody. Hermes was super busy out delivering those gifts. Zeus was just sitting there on his throne feeling regal. Poseidon had made the seas calm so people wouldn't shipwreck and die on Christmas. Hades was in a good mood, which was saying something.

It was pretty much a rare time all the gods were at peace with each other.

***

Percy stood back and examined his snowman. That's when Leo came outside.

"Hey Percy!" He said, then burst into flames (the only person who makes that statement perfectly casual). "I'm gonna break the world record for the fastest snow angel!"

He then threw himself in the nearest pile of snow, melting it into the shape of a human then made it into an angel with only one sweep of his limbs.

Percy smirked. "Wow, impressive. But let me just break your record."

He used his water power to clear the snow in the shape of an angel in less than 1 second.

"Dude not fair!" Leo protested, dusting melted snow off himself.

Percy was about to say something when a sudden crash sounded and something huge fell from the roof, crushing Percy's snowman.

"NO MY SNOWMAN!" Percy exclaimed.

Turns out the Santa Claus with cut out snowflakes and blinking lights was the one that fell from the roof and smashed Percy's snowman. Frank fluttered down and assumed human form, looking pale.

"Well that just happened." He muttered. "Er, sorry about about the snowman Percy."

"Sorry! I got scared and accidentally struck Mr Claus with lightning!" Jason called, standing on the roof with an armload of mistletoe.