army!?

firstly, I'm sure she'd make it all a vintage aesthetic. Colors are mint green, cool blue, and pale pink which all match with a retro aesthetic.

booths on one side and barstools on one side to sit and eat your gelato, with cool yellow lights and a checkered pattern on walls.

a cute little make-your-own-icecream stand makes it adorable. cones and cups, sayces and toppings, flavors and add-ons laid near a rainbow decorative wall.

now for the table decorations, retro fries in cute cars and pink milkshakes ties it all together! comment below with what character you want it next <3

Nico felt a thud behind him but didn't dare look back. He didn't stop til he was out of the dark and shadowy flat and back to the elevator.

When he did look behind, though, he came face to face with only Annabeth. He was already out of breath but the absence of a certain child of Apollo made it even harder to inhale.

"Will," he choked out. "Where is he?"

"I- I don't think he made it out. I'm so sorry." She look genuinely terrified and hurt.

"I'm so sorry about Percy, Annabeth. I promise we'll find everyone. I'm not going to leave here unless it's with everyone." Nico inhaled.

She gulped and looked back towards the way they'd just ran out of.

"We have to go back. Will and Percy are still in there."

Nico nodded. With his last bit of bravery he started walking towards the corridor with Annabeth on his heel.

As they stood before the large door in the dark hall, Nico couldn't help but think, "What was in the room?"

They didn't have a proper look or even seen such a thing before. Was a spirit? Was it an otherworldly creature?

He couldn't dwell on these thoughts for long as be heard Annabeth tell him to open the door.

He hadn't realised he was holding his breath in. He breathed out shakily as his cold hands gripped the door handles, and he swung it open once again.

Inside, the grimy flat was dark as ever. Annabeth sidestepped Nico and into the flat, and suddenly his vision became hazy.

"Annabeth, where are you?" He called out into the dark. After a few seconds with no reply, he assumed she must have entered into one of the rooms.

Still, Nico couldn't shake the feeling that stepping back into this place was definite suicide. He gulped and stared back at the moth-eaten sofa from outside, not quite ready to enter yet.

As he stood paralysed at the entrance, Annabeth's voice sounded an echo from inside. "Nico, where are you?"

"I'm coming!" He responded quickly. Deciding there was nothing to lose now, he stepped into the dark flooring of the flat, only for it to give away.

"Annabeth! Help me!" He shouted desperately, hanging on to a wood plank from the flooring.

He dared to look below, and had to squint to see anything. But there was nothing to see.

The sound of feet pattering against the heardwood floor came soon, and Annabeth looked down at Nico from where his fingers where hurting from hanging on.

"I'm sorry, Nico, I can't!" She looked confused and scared from what Nico could barely make out with his impaired vision.

"Help me, I'm gonna slip!" He shouted. She stared helplessly at the boy in red while he hung in by only one hand now.

He screamed as his hands finally let go, and he fell into the abyss that had formed.

Nico closed his eyes, half-waiting for the deathly impact, but it never came. Rather, as his eyes opened, he was in his bed.

The hazyness from his eyes was gone now, and he couldn't remember why it was there in the first place.

He looked around his room to see it was evening, and Will would be around to pick him up for Piper's place anytime now.

Deciding he must have dozed off, Nico splashed his face with water and waited in the living room for Will to arrive. He soon did, and they reached Piper's house in minutes.

At midnight the same day, Nico was on a candy rush. They were on the top floor of Piper's building, and him and Hazel were trading candies.

"Be back in a minute, Nico, I'm taking the stairs back to the flat to get a hair tie," Hazel said.

He watched her disappear behind a staircase and went to sit with Annabeth near the window. "Hey, Nico, have you seen Piper? I can't find her," She asked.

He furrowed his eyebrows, and shook his head, "No, I haven't. Why, is she not here?"

Without answering, he pulled Annabeth towards the two of them lightly.

"Percy isn't here."

Her eyes widened and she made sudden movements to go find him when Will stopped her.

"Don't go anywhere, Annabeth, there's someone here. Stay close together."

Taking a deep breath, Nico pushed open the door. Inside was an empty room with carboard boxes at the end. The whole room smelled wet cardboard and dust roamed in the air from when the door was swung open. Bathed in streaks of moonlight and empty, it looked bigger than it actually was.

"It's empty. Lets go back, yeah? Nobody's here." Will said quietly, standing at the doorway with Annabeth, who looked horrified at the idea.

"Percy isn't here. We need to find him!"

"There's no room we haven't seen already. Maybe he saw someone outside and went to check it out?" Will reasoned.

Annabeth seemed unconvinced when she pointed towards a door at the end of the hall. a broken and rusted lock hung on the handles and the door itself was scratched and dusty.

Annabeth and Nico exchanged looks. "It's right there. One look, okay? Tha-"

Her sentence was interrupted by a loud noise of wind coming from behind the door in front of them.

"You, uh, wanna go inside?" Nico gulped. "Nevermind, we should check it, um, out too."

"Of course we need to!"

Annabeth was the first to walk towards the end with a determined look on her face. Nico and Will quickly followed behind as she flung open the door.

They stared on, nobody quite ready to go inside the room lit by a singular candle placed in the middle. Will raised his phone to the back wall to see blood splatters.

The silence was broken by another unnaturally strong gust of wind coming from somewhere inside the room. Nico wasn't sure if it was just wind or if someone had body-slammed them. The pressure brought the three of them to the floor.

Nico scooted backwards and screamed, "We need to get out!"

When he was met with no reply, he grabbed Annabeth's shoulder and repeated it. She looked daftly at him, and he realised the wind was drowning them out.

He got to his feet with little struggle and pulled at the two in front of him. The glass on the windows started rattling as they dashed out of the room and closed the door behind them.

"Help- it's- n-not closing!" Will panted, both arms struggling to keep the door closed. An inhumane roar mixed in with the wind's whistling.

Nico pressed his shoulders along with Annabeth in an attempt to keep the door from bursting open.

"R-Run- at- three?" Annabeth breathed. "One,"

"Two,"

"She's not here? I could have sworn she was with you a minute ago," Nico Di Angelo frowned.

Everyone scattered around the small area, search for her. They looked inside the elevators and checked if they'd stopped working. Calling out for her didn't work, as they quickly realised.

"I'm going to go check by the stairs," Piper stalked to the end of the corridor as the group tried calling her phone.

Annabeth didn't say anything but she could tell Nico was scared. she walked up to him, and said Hazel was probably on another floor and it's nothing to worry about.

"She's probably just exploring. Don't worry, yeah?" It was hard to make herself believe in it, though, no matter how hard she tried.

A few minutes passed and Will looked up from where he was sat on the floor to ask whether Piper found hazel near the flight of stairs, When he noticed another person missing.

"Did piper come back from the other end of the corridor?" he asked Nico silently from where they were sat on the floor.

Nico shook his head. "There's something i need to tell you, sun, i saw..."

He faltered as Annabeth and Percy walked towards them. Annabeth looked towards the other hall and back.

"Piper didn't come back."

"She didn't return."

They both said it at the same time.

Percy sighed and said, "We should go check out the end of the corridor too. Maybe there's another elevator there?"

Will nodded doubtiously but started to the end of the musty hall anyways. When they reached the end, a mahagony double door matching the walls was slightly opened.

"Does anyone live here? I can't see a nameplate," Annabeth examined, looking at the surrounding walls.

"I don't think it's been in use for a long, long time. It's probably not safe," will nodded.

"Right. should we-" The daughter of Athena was interrupted by a loud creaking noise coming from the door behind them.

Before he could've stopped himself, Percy had pushed it open. The now small group peered into the dim flat before them, their missing friends nowhere to be seen.

Darkness was what greeted the group of teens looking for their lost friend on hallow's eve inside a mysterious house.

"Percy, you can't just walk into a random house like that!" Annabeth chided.

Percy looked back, his eyebrows knotted. "Hazel could be here, we have to check it out."

Before anyone could protest, Nico stepped forward. "He's right. Will, come on." he took his boyfriend's hand and walked inside after Percy.

"I suppose we need to look here, though I can't wonder why hazel would wander into a random house." Annabeth sighed.

They walked on inside to find that this barren flat had, once, been inhabited. Broken furniture and dilapidated couches.

The stench of the place would have been enough to turn away practically anyone but the teenagers were on a mission to find their friends.

"Turn on flashlight, yeah, guys? I don't have my phone, so I can't," nico said, walking inside.

Two bright lights shined from behind him as they ventured further into the flat. Cobwebs clung to the ceilings and dust was settled on every surface.

After the small living room, there was a hallway with doors on every side. He glanced back apprehensively to where Percy, Annabeth, and Will were stood.

Will took the hint first and was beside Nico in a second, illuminating the first door. Percy and Annabeth were quick to follow and came up behind him.

With will beside him, he opened the door to the first room. Inside was a small room with a bed pushed up in the corner and a desk below a window on the other side.

Deciding there was nothing to look for here, Nico backed up against Will and turned walked to the second door. "There's nothing here, let's go."

"She said it'll only take another five minutes," Annabeth Chase spoke, looking up from her phone. the bright screen shone upon her face, illuminating her curls that she'd pulled up. a black denim jacket hung over her shoulder above black boyfriend jeans.

She handed the phone to Piper, who pocketed it in her flared jeans. She wore a bright red halter top under a cropped denim jacket, matching with the blonde girl and the brunette yet to arrive.

Percy Jackson shifted from his position on the couch with Niico Di Angelo and Will Solace to walked to the kitchen to presumably get another juice box. A blue dinosaur tail dragged behind him from the onesie he had bought. It made a scraping noise on the cold tiles as the silence of the flat was broken yet again by the bell.

Annabeth rose and hurried to open the door. in front of them stood Hazel in a shiny black and purple jumpsuit, finishing as the third and last charlie's angel. She smiled, "Happy halloween!"

"Happy halloween, Hazel!" Piper greeted from the doorway behind annabeth. Soon they were all outside, ready and waiting for the elevator to arrive.

As they piled inside the lift, Hazel laughed. "Nico and Will, you guys are the cutest." Will grinned and pulled Nico against his side. they were matching on red and yellow, dressed up as ketchup and mustard.

"Will really wanted to," Nico pouted.

"Hey, I don't remember you saying no either," Will laughed and Nico rolled his eyes, smiling nonetheless.

With a 'BEEP' the elevator doors slid open to a corridor decorated with cobwebs and pumpkins. Cheesy signs hung on the doors a red handprints scattered the walls.

In the first house they went to, they were greeted by a small and cute kid who was obviously very excited for halloween, but too young to go trick or treating yet.

In the next house there was an old yet kind lady who complimented nico and will's matching costumes. "Always liked to match with my boyfriend too, I did. Would you like some more smarties?"

Floor after floor passed till it was midnight, and the building fell into a sleepy trance. teens still dazedly wandered around, laughing with their friends.

On the very last and highest floor, six kids excitedly talked, their voices low. "Take a picture of us, won't you, Percy?"

The three girls posed as charlie's angels as the shutter of a camera went off. They took turns posing and clicking each other's pictures beside different halloween decorations until the film ran out.

Piper and Annabeth leaned over Percy's shoulder to look at the camera in a corner. Will was rummaging in his treat bag and hazel was probably with piper. Nico stalked over to the end of'L'-shaped corridor and peered into the darkness.

The lights weren't working as well as they were near the elevators. The photoframe hung crooked and plant wilted. Out of the corner of his eyes, the son of Hades could swear he saw a shadow moving. Just as he was about to walk toward it, Will wrapped his arms around him from behind.

"Oh, hi, love. That was you." Nico breathed.

"I didn't quite catch that, Neeks, but let's go back, yeah? that doesn't look too safe." They turned away from the shadowy coridoor and walked back towards the group just as piper asked him to take a picture of her.

Nico had just snapped a silly picture of Qill and Piper pouting, when Percy spoke up worriedly.

annabeth at 3 am: EVERYBODY WANNA STEAL MY GIIIRL EVERYBODY WANNA TAKE HER HEART AWAY

calypso: is this a personal attack

nico: say it to my face next time

will: take care babe, don't stress out a lot :(

nico: i'll try to, thanks sun

percy: yeah nico, stay safe

Nico: Okay. When I was small-

Percy: *laughs*

Percy: Was?