Hello, everyone! I offer to you fanfic readers and Jeyna lovers my first story. I also offer this to my friends. Hello M's hope you read this. So I guess I'll proceed.

Disclaimer: The Ritual. I don not own Reyna, Jason, Octavian and some characters here because they belong to Rick Riordan, the author of the PJO and HOO series.

Information: I made some characters here to make the story more complex.

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REYNA

Reyna's currently holding a beautiful strapless black dress that is decorated with 3 feathers on the right side of her upper right chest. She cannot help it any longer so she rushed inside the bathroom to change. When she got out, she spun around and stopped in front of the mirror. Her eyes widened in sight of her own self. A surprised expression registered on her beautiful face. Her black hair was not in the usual braid that became her signature style in camp. Instead, her hair is in curls at the ends and paired with side-swept bangs putting more style and emphasis on her pretty face. She maybe not a daughter of Venus but then it's like she was a blessed child, grace with beauty and charm that many does not understand. Her smile is like the rarest gem and the most beautiful flower. So when she smiles, you can say that her beauty's exact, not too much or just simply perfect. She stifled a giggle and spun around again for the second time but when she halted in front of the mirror, she's not alone. A man is gripping her shoulders and smiled evilly at her. A scared and shocked expression soon painted on her face.

"Long time no see princess, I've spent years just to find you." The man laughed loudly that only makes her nervous. So she tried to scream, in the hard way.

She quickly got up from her bed like it's something she should really avoid. She is heavily sweating and her pulse's raising. Right now, she didn't know what to do. She really recognized the person. Actually, she's hiding from him since she knew who she really is. She sacrificed her life outside the camp just to provide her family safety.

"Calm down Rey, it's just a dream, a very bad one."

But then, right now, it's very clear that her efforts were gone to waste. One thing's for sure, she knows that she is just lying.

She tried not to get affected. She maybe hid her worries when she is giving a speech during the morning muster and inside the mess hall. But then, Jason Grace on the other hand can clearly sense that something's wrong with her when they are already filling up many paper works. She was so distracted that she can't even proceed to another file. Usually, Reyna is ahead of him in terms of filling up and piling up but today, he is very ahead of her. He already finished 15 files and finished piling them up while she only just got 2.

He watched her bit her lip and then stop doing it. And he watched her when she tried to write a word or two and then after, put the pen down. She keeps doing this process until she heaved a sigh and put her head down the table. He stood up and then rushed over to her side and carefully put his arm around her shoulders in not so romantic way.

"Tell me what's wrong with you. You've been distracted the whole morning." His voice is so gentle and kind the kind that will swept the girls who have a crush on him off their feet. She held his gaze for a long time. They stayed like that for a few minutes until she put her head down, closed her eyes and sigh softly.

"Rey, please tell me. You know I can't stand it when you're like this. I'm getting worried." She doesn't know what came to her. Her heart beats faster than the usual. She felt herself blushing a shade of pretty pink.

"I do—it's just a nightmare, Jase. Don't worry I didn't get caught in an incident that Octavian can use against me." She can hear him chuckle bitterly. She knows that mentioning Octavian is not a good word in their topic.

"What about it?" Something is about his voice that wants to make her follow, persuade her to tell the truth to him. She thinks it's because of the simple truth-she loves him. For a second, she thought they moved a little closer from their distance a while ago. She thought she can hear his heart beating rapidly.

"I-"She tried to utter a few words about it but it seems that her mind and her voice can't cooperate right now. Once again they held a staring not-so-contest. Dark orbs against electric blue ones that can make your heart melt. His fingers suddenly brushed few strands of her hair off her face. She can't already hold what she's feeling. She let her guard down even if it is prohibited for the praetors. This is the first time that she did it again after the successful war against the giants and the bad "mother earth" according to Leo.

"I—I-I…..ughhh….Why can't my mouth cooperate with my brain?" she covered her face with her hands in a sign of defeat.

"You know you are too cute when you're doing that." Jason chuckled with what he said that made Reyna groan once more. His chuckle soon becomes a laughter that Reyna joined in. After a while, Reyna's face turned sincere and serious. Jason frowned because of worry.

"I will just tell it all to you when I am ready. I hope you understand." Jason just gave her a smile full of concern and support. She did not expect his reaction.

"Of course Rey, you know I will." They held hands for a long time while staring at each other. Again. For the third time.

Percy came bursting to the doors of Principia while holding a black box wrapped with gold, silver, white and red ribbons.

"I'm sorry that I just budged in and I am sorry that we bothered both you to let us spend some vacation time in New Rome." He smiled genuinely.

"Of course it's okay Percy. Letting you in is not a problem but then, please tell Mr. Valdez to behave and stop flirting with my lady soldiers." Percy and Jason nodded in agreement. The three of them burst out laughing. Then suddenly, Reyna said curiously:

"By the way, what's that in you hand Percy?" He looked into his hand and realized that he needs to give it to the owner.

"Oh, I forgot. This is yours Reyna. Someone left it three meters away from the tunnel entrance where the guards can't see it. It seems that the person who left this "gift" doesn't want to be known." She slowly took the box away from Percy's hand. The two boys looked at her curiously.

"Who could it be" Jason whispered to make sure no one outside will here them. He felt threatened.

"I'm not sure. But I think I have an idea who this person might be." Together, the three teenagers looked at the mystery gift.

A cliffhanger maybe but I think that it maybe an appropriate ending for the first chapter. I hope you like it and I hope that you will continue reading this.

The "we" that Percy meant are Annabeth, Leo and Piper.

If you can't imagine the black dress that I'm trying to picture out, just think of the most beautiful black dress that you have seen.

I thank you again for reading the first chapter. There will be more chapters coming soon.

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Until next time, people!