Percy Jackson/Heroes Of Olympus Headcanons & One-Shots

Pillow (Christmas/Headcanon)

Leo was always known to give very odd presents that had some kind of mechanics applied to it. Take the bells he gave his friends the year before, for example. Who knew that they could emit such ear-piercing "HO HO HO's" It was no surprise that Nyssa expected something bizarre to happen after Leo had given her none other than a pillow. Of all things, a pillow.

"What's the deal with these, Leo?" Nyssa asked. Fully aware of her half brother's knack for explosions and advanced expertise in pyrotechnics, she was more than just wary and skeptical. She could have easily done a few tests on it to find out if there was anything unusual about it. However, that was too mainstream, and Nyssa and mainstream don't mix. So she cut straight to the point. "What did you do to it, and al the others?"

"Why nothing, dear sister! I'm too tired to think of anything to do to it." Leo said in his usual cheerful, self.

Nyssa wasn't taking any chances. Without anyone seeing her, she changed the pillowcase of that pillow with one of her own, and put the one from Leo to the forest. Some campers gave her weird glances as she passed them, but she just yelled, "I'm making friends with nature!" In reality, she just didn't want to bother any of the campers if the pillow did do anything. She knew that the forest nymphs would at least understand, or so she hoped. Her siblings had all been through a tough day, and she didn't want to disturb them.

Carefully, she set it at the base of a tree in the dense woods and waited. And waited. And waited.

Then, when the clock struck 12, it exploded. Yes, exploded. And the tune of an traditional Christmas played, followed by others, for about 10 seconds.

Classic.

Some of the tree dryads and nymphs popped out of their tree homes to see who was making the noise. When they saw Nyssa, she mouthed, Valdez. They rolled their eyes and went back to their respective trees, already knowing that anything involving Leo Valdez was not quiet. Grinning in satisfaction of her not-mainstream technic of discovering Leo's hidden surprise, Nyssa picked up what she could of the pillow guts and started planning her gift for him. It was going be a good gift, a good one indeed.

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I am tired. Crappy headcanon again, I'm so sorry.