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Chapter 22 includes Halloween

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Hyperion has updated his status: Hello mortals

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Grover Underwood: I thought we turned you into a tree! Trees can’t have Facebook!

Courteney the Teleporting Tree: Yes they can

Grover Underwood: Who are you?

Courteney the Teleporting Tree: A teleporting tree. Duh!

Percy Jackson: How did you get onto the mythological Facebook?

Courteney the Teleporting Tree: I teleported of course!

Annabeth Chase: *facepalm* Of course she teleported!

Connor Stoll: Teleporting trees are all the rage these days!

Nico di Angelo: There’s even teleporting trees in the Underworld!

Mrs O’Leary: WOOF

Courteney the Teleporting Tree: AHH! I’m off! *teleports away*

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Percy Jackson has updated his status: Anyone wanna go trick-or-treating?

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Annabeth Chase: Percy, it’s not even October

Percy Jackson: I’m dressing up as a teleporting fish, HBU?

Leo Valdez: I call being Katniss!!

Piper McLean: Oh, you just ruined that whole movie

Frank Zhang: I wanna be a turtle! *changes into a turtle*

Hazel Levesque: I’ll go as a pet owner

Leo Valdez: *cough* so original *cough*

Frank Zhang: Oh, you being ‘the boy on fire’ is so original!

Leo Valdez: I WAS ON FIRE BEFORE KATNISS HAHAHAHA

Annabeth Chase: Leo, stop being a goofball. I might be Hermione Granger

Hermione Granger: Excuse you?

Annabeth Chase: Ummmmmm…..

Jason Grace: I wanna be Superman. May as well be cliché

Piper McLean: Then I will be Wonder Woman :D

Nico di Angelo: Umm….can…I…maybe….come along?

Hazel Levesque: Of course, Nico!

Nico di Angelo: Then I shall go as Batman

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Two hours later, they all went trick-or-treating on Olympus. This is how it went. 

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“Aww, you look good Annabeth,”

“Yeah, but look at Jason! He’s totally showing off as Superman.”

“Lol. Yeah. Do you like my fish costume?”

“Percy, no-one says ‘LOL’ in real life. And yes, it looks good.” The eight of them were in the elevator to Olympus, otherwise known as the Empire State Building. Chiron had given them permission to come here, on the means that they would return by ten o’clock. None of the gods had known about their little plan to come trick-or-treating here in April. 

As they arrived at the top, the doors opened and everyone gazed at Olympus. Thanks to Annabeth’s architecture, the place looked even better than before. New temples were up, things were redesigned and it looked amazing. Flowers bloomed at every corner, celebrating spring. Minor gods and goddesses walked by, and nymphs chatted and lyres were playing. It was barely dusk, but the place was still live and full of action. 

“Trick-or-treat!” Leo’s voice echoed out, causing everyone to look at the strangely dressed eight of them. Annabeth was wearing a clock and wielding a wand in one hand and a book in the other, occasionally reading and walking at the same time. Hazel was dressed normally, but she was holding a turtle, which turned out to be Frank. Leo was the same, the only difference was that he now had a bow and arrow slung on his back. Leo’s (out of tune) voice had been singing ‘Girl on Fire’ all the way there, and it had annoyed the Hades out of everyone. Jason had refused to wear the full Superman outfit, so now he was wearing a blue t-shirt with the red symbol, a red cape and jeans. He carried Piper through the air, who was a wearing a Wonder Woman mask and cape. Nico had on regular jeans and t-shirt, but his face had a Batman mask and the cape hung from his back, nearly touching the ground. And Percy, well, he had on a fish onesie and was making strange blubbering sounds like he was trying to mimic being underwater. Of course he wouldn’t know, since he could breathe underwater. 

At the sight of them, people hurried into buildings and houses, probably trying to work out if this an attack or something else. 

“Hey! We come in peace!” said Leo, holding up his hands in surrender. They then went traipsing to the throne room, where a casual meeting of the gods was on.

“Trick-or-treat!” thy cried, marching in. Hermes was the first to notice them. The gods were in super-size, so not everyone noticed the strangely dressed demigods marching around on the floor. 

“What in Hades?” Zeus roared, finally noticing his son dressed as Superman.

“Um, trick-or-treat?” said Jason timidly. 

“Aww, honey, Halloween isn’t until October, sweetie.” Cooed Aphrodite, who was quite fond of Jason in some ways.

“Yeah. We know,” Jason replied. “It was Percy’s idea.” Everyone in the throne room then looked at Percy, who shrugged.

“Percy? You are dressed as a fish.” Stated Poseidon, looking slightly amused at his son’s costume attempt. 

“It was boring at camp. And yes, I realised that. Now, is there any candy here?” The gods then made candy appear, each to represent themselves. Ares was a bright red one that exploded in your mouth, and Athena’s candy made you think of a random fact. Aphrodite’s candy was one that made you eager to fall in love, and of course, Hermes’ candy was a gag one.  It was quite a fun time, walking round and gathering candy until Zeus called it to a halt. 

“Well, children, we were in the middle of a meeting. Now, if you’ll excuse us.” Zeus flicked his wrist and the eight flew backwards out of the throne room, the door slamming in front of them.

“Aww, Zeusy, they were only having fun.” Came Aphrodite’s slightly muffled voice from behind the door.

“Ah, that was nice. Hospitality is excellent on Olympus, isn’t it?” said Leo before bouncing off to scare nymphs with his sugar rush.

“This is one of the weirdest, non-Halloween party, isn’t it?” Piper whispered to Jason as they made their way back to the centre of Olympus. 

“Yeah, you got that right.” He whispered back, still floating along a few feet above the ground. Dryads and nymphs now gathered round them, whispering flirty stuff and having a good time. 

A few fun hours later

“Um, guys. It’s nearly 10 o’clock. We need to get back now.” Nico’s voice cut through silence, or as silent as it could get with Leo yelling random things from the back of the group. 

“Sure.” The eight of them made it back to camp just under curfew, with good memories of the time they went trick-or-treating in Olympus in the middle of April. 

A/N: OK, so I don't know why I wrote this since it is April, but I felt as if you guys deserved a quick update so I wrote this :) next chapter will be longer