A/N: Hello all! Thanks for the huge amount of support for the first chapter, it really motivates me to write more! Here is the second chapter - the plan is for all chapters to alternate between the Tartarus cell and this POV (even though it's still in third person). The chapters themselves are a little shorter than what you might expect, but it means I can update quicker and my train of thought is more concise. I hope you like this!

I forgot to mention that this takes place after BoO, and Leo is not back (sorry, Leo lovers). And Phoebe is not dead in this fic - because I needed a Hunter.

Also - SOLANGELO! :)

*CAMP HALF-BLOOD*

Nico and Will walked hand in hand up to the canoe lake, where they knew they would find Annabeth. She had spent most of the last three days there. Taking quiet steps, so as not to alarm her, they emerged from the forest to see a blond-haired girl staring out blankly across the water, her fingers scraping at the dirt and leaves on the ground.

"Annabeth," Will murmured softly. "Come back into camp, please, it's nearly dinner."

Annabeth stayed staring out into the distance. Her voice was hollow and lost. "Three days. He's nowhere to be seen. No-one knows anything about where he was, where he's gone, or when he's coming back. This lake is the closest thing I have." She curled her knees up to her chest.

Nico looked at Will, who nodded. Not bearing to see Annabeth breaking down like the last time Percy disappeared, they sat down either side of her and put their arms around her shoulders, watching the surface if the lake ripple. She relaxed and held Nico's hand tightly. Her voice was shaking, this time, and barely a whisper. "What if h-he never comes back? What do I do?"

Nico rested his head on her shoulder and rubbed her back. "We'll go and find him. We'll tear down the last stone of Olympus before we let anything happen to him, you can be sure of that."

Annabeth smiled a little. "Thanks guys," she choked.

As the three approached the diving pavilion, Chiron's distinct whistle rang behind them, and they spun round. The centaur's face was pale and his hooves shuffled nervously. Chiron was never nervous.

"We've been waiting for you three. Counselor's meeting. Now." His voice was uneasy.

Nico snatched a glance at Will, who shrugged, and they traipsed up to the Big House. When they got inside, six intimidating immortal girls stood in the centre of the meeting room, bows and quivers slung across their backs. Nico and Will sat down, but Annabeth turned to the Hunter in front.

"Phoebe, please, do you know where Percy is? Have you guys seen him - anywhere?"

Phoebe looked concerned. "Percy is missing? That makes three. We came here because we've lost Lady Artemis and Thalia. We hoped they'd turn up here, despite the camp's - ahem - drawbacks, but no such luck. I'm sorry, none of us have seen him."

Annabeth paled. She walked over to her chair shakily, and Phoebe took the chair for the Hunters. Percy's chair stood empty as a reminder of what was all too wrong.

She blanked out for most of the meeting. Phoebe talked about how Artemis and Thalia disappeared, and Chiron said something vaguely encouraging about where they could be, as Nico and Will debated with Clarisse and Phoebe about the best courses of action. Only Annabeth, the 'wise' one, could see what was going on. Eventually, she snapped.

"Don't any of you UNDERSTAND? They're not just GONE, why would they DISAPPEAR for no reason? They've been TAKEN, you MORONS! Why else would they just vanish?"

Phoebe was taken aback. "And I suppose you know who took them? And where they are, for that matter? Oh wait, you CAN'T POSSIBLY KNOW, because if you did you wouldn't be sat here blankly whilst everyone else works out a plan!" Her frustration came out in her voice.

Chiron called things to order. "First of all, Annabeth's right. They must have been taken. Secondly, Phoebe's also right." Annabeth opened her mouth to protest, but Chiron cut her off. "No-one has a clue where they are. We haven't a hope of finding them. For all we know, they could be in the Underworld."

Annabeth shook her head blindly. "No," she whispered.

"We'll find them, Annabeth, don't worry," Will consoled.

"How? Camp Jupiter is in turmoil, and no-one knows why. Jason, Piper, Hazel and Frank are having enough trouble as it is. The Hunters will barely be able to hold their own without Artemis and Thalia. It's not like we'll ever be able to trace them - Percy left no clues, no note, no nothing, and from the sound of it neither did the other two."

With those words, they were interrupted by a powerful glow of light, forcing the demigods, on pain of death, to clamp their eyes shut.

A/N: Sorry for the length of this, but it was planned to be this short, and as I said before it means I can update quicker.

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~FlamesOfHestia