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This year, it looks like the main colors are blue, white, and pink. The walls are a shimmering midnight blue with large white glitter snowflakes all over. The ceiling is a light pink with tinier snowflakes that look like little white dots. Again, a soft glitter snow falls to the floor. Confetti snowflakes of pink, blue, and silver cover the snack table. The floor and pillars are a silvery-white marble that seem to be glowing.
Last of all, the DJ booth is open to song suggestions and karaoke!

{One can hope. I think the karaoke could have some interesting results.}

Annie entered the ballroom and gasped. It was beautiful; something only the gods could have created. She stood in the doorway, drinking all of the splendor in. Then she noticed the DJ booth. A sign hung behind it advertising that people can do karaoke.
'I know I'm not doing that.'
Since she was the first person there, Annie decided to go take a seat at one of the silver tables until someone else came. Once seated, she examined her dress. It was a pale gold in color, going just below her knees and had long sleeves. The shoes were also gold and had small heels that were about an inch in height. Her hair was done in a simple, twisted bun on top of her head. Annie thought she looked nice when she left her cabin, but she paled in comparison to the ballroom.

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...

"Being a seven year-old son of Neptune means I can already outswim Michael Phelps."
~Theo McAllister

((Thanks to an unfortunate miscommunication, Theo is currently stuck in a rather humiliating polar bear outfit. For complete details on the story and what the outfit entails, click here))
Theo, still trapped in the embarassing polar bear outfit, walked into the dance. Despite his unfortunate circumstances, Theo couldn't help but be amazed at the splendor at the ballroom. That elation, however, was soon replaced by humiliation as he caught some of the whispers of fellow campers.
"You see Theo?"
"So cute!"
"I had heard that Aphrodite cabin..."

Others weren't so pitious

"I heard he's Roman..."
"He deserves it for being in our camp..."
"Why don't they send the little twerp back to wherever he came from?"

For a moment, he was thankful for the hood on his costume. Even though it had ridiculous looking plush ears on top, it hid his head well enough that as he made his way over to a seat in the corner, he could look at his feet and no one would be able to tell he was blushing. So he waited for Liz in that corner, hoping no one would come and talk to him.

...On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...

"Being a seven year-old son of Neptune means I can already outswim Michael Phelps."
~Theo McAllister

((Thanks to an unfortunate miscommunication, Theo is currently stuck in a rather humiliating polar bear outfit. For complete details on the story and what the outfit entails, click here))
Honestly, Theo was unsure whether Liz was joking or not. But it didn't matter. You see, one of the skills Theo had been practicing on his two months off was observation. When everyone could be a monster, you had to be able to notice details quickly. As soon as he had walked in he had been able to identify key points of interest. He wasn't any Sherlock Holmes, not by a long shot. He was a Roman. This was his battleground, and he was scoping out his enemy.

With his paw-like hand, he gestured to a girl by the refreshments. "It's her. I know she's Aphrodite's kid, she did all the speaking when we burned Eric's shroud. She didn't say anything when I came in. She hoped it would make her not noticable, but she was the only one who didn't talk so it made her stand out. She doesn't have as much makeup on as the others. They've spent all day preparing, while she was busy putting the finishing touches on her curses. She's great at costumes, I saw some of her work when I walked passed the cabin on my way here. Don't worry, none of them looked like they were meant for you. And no, don't do anything yet. That would just make them angry. We'll think of something, but if they can curse me they can probably curse you."

Once again, Theo's brain was in overdrive, in fact his felt a little dizzy after he had finished talking. Was this something all Romans did? Or had the gods given him this little trick to help him bring together the demigods somehow? Was he supposed to do that alone? Theo cleared his head again, snapping back to reality. He had no time to worry about what his dad had said now.

...On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...

"Being a seven year-old son of Neptune means I can already outswim Michael Phelps."
~Theo McAllister

((Thanks to an unfortunate miscommunication, Theo is currently stuck in a rather humiliating polar bear outfit. For complete details on the story and what the outfit entails, click here))
"For right now," Theo said thoughtfully, "we wait." He paused, "I learned one interesting thing though. This suit has some interesting features. We already saw that it can't be cut by my sword. So it'd make a fine emergency armor set. Easy to pack, and tough. But a bit...weird. We'd also need to find a way to add thumbs, but we better not risk that until I can get it off. It repels stains. I ran through a puddle on the way over and the clothe remained mud-free. And it doesn't get too warm either. Or too cold. The temperature is always just right. Looks like she didn't want my torture to be uncomfortable. That way, I'd have no excuse to hide in my cabin. Well...except for the polar bear part. Who knows? Maybe we oughta get you a penguin suit after all!" He said with a weak laugh. He was miserable, there was no denying it.

Five minutes later, Theo couldn't take it anymore. Without warning he got up and, ignoring the taunts from the Ares kids (with the exception of one who got squirted by his own glass of water), he crossed the dancefloor to talk to his assailant.

...On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.

There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune...

"Being a seven year-old son of Neptune means I can already outswim Michael Phelps."
~Theo McAllister

((Thanks to an unfortunate miscommunication, Theo is currently stuck in a rather humiliating polar bear outfit. For complete details on the story and what the outfit entails, click here))
The girl turned he nose up at Liz, and Theo stepped in between them, his voice was calm and unemotional and a little bit robotic. The conversation went a bit like this;
"You did this?"
"Yes. You like it? You look so cute!"
"I hate it. Why'd you do it?"
"You know why."
"I didn't kill him."
"Liar."
"I'm not lying."
"Murderer."
"I'm seven. I was six and a half when it happened."
"So?"
"So he was a teenager. And a tough one at that! I couldn't take him down!"
"Roman."
"You switched topics."
"What's it matter?"
"You're crazy."
"And you're a polar bear."
"Shut up. When's the curse wear off?"
"Who knows? I'm nice though, I'm gonna let you keep the costume and everything."
"Can you take it off?"
"No."
"What about showers? I need to be able to take it off once and a while."
"Oh, I worked that in. It'll come off when you need to shower or do other such things, but if you try to leave without it, you'll fall asleep again and put it back on."
"How nice of you."
"Thanks."
Clearly this wasn't working. So he decided to answer some other questions;
"What about Liz? She was there. You gonna curse her?"
No response.
"Are you going to tell me?"
No response.
"So all that you can tell me is that I'm probably a polar bear for Christmas?"
She smiled and left.
He turned to Liz. "You're staying with me in my cabin tonight. Hopfully she won't try to get you there. If she tries at all."
((Is she gonna try at all to curse Liz? And if you watch "The Mentalist" I imagined Theo's voice kinda being like Cho's throughout this scene!))

...On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures.

Camille was happy that some other people had finally arrived, she sat down in a corner and looked around slightly awkwardly.

Camille noticed a little boy in a polar bear costume and was a little curious, but she stayed where she was. She was sort of starting to wonder why she had come, she didn't really know anyone at camp yet.