Frank
'As always everything came back to Octavian.' thought Frank.
That morning after breakfast Percy, Frank, and Hazel had gone to the field when the scroll had arrived telling them that the Greek ship was about to land. They immediately went to Reyna to tell her what the message had said. Percy, who had been still wearing a toga tripped over the excess cloth that had been trailing on the ground. They had been passing the bath house, so he ran inside to change quickly telling Hazel and Frank to wait. Octavian had come out of the building speed walking towards the field where the ship was about to land.
'That's when he must have locked Percy in the bath house. Everyone else was heading over to the field so the only one in there was Percy.' thought Frank.
Frank and Hazel had been waiting for Percy for five minutes when the whole building had exploded. A huge geyser of water had spewed 30 feet in the air. And on top of the spout was a very mad looking Percy. He jumped from the water spout and sprinted towards the field before Frank and Hazel had recovered from the blast. They screamed for him to wait before finally sprinting after him. Percy had stopped at the crest of the hill. Frank and Hazel had almost caught up to him. Frank had noticed that around Percy's body swirled a greenish blue smoke. All at once every drop of water from the aqueducts spilled over and created a barrier in between the two and Percy. Frank didn't even think Percy had noticed the barrier that had just been formed.
Even though Frank could only see Percy's back through the barrier, he could tell that the son of Poseidon was furious at what he saw happening at the field. He took of running again, leaving Frank and Hazel behind the immovable barrier. For a good ten minutes Frank and Hazel attacked the barrier with everything they could think of. Sword slashing, arrows and punches did nothing to the wall of water.
Then, without warning, the barrier had just collapsed, splashing down soaking Frank and Hazel.
The only thing that Frank could think of was that something had happened to Percy. Why else had the barrier given out so abruptly? The two saw Reyna's group emerging from the field. They tried to ask her if anything happened, but the praetor looked like she was about to break down any minute. All they could get out of her was that Jason had come back. This gave the two hope until they passed Octavian following Reyna.
The augur was extremely pale, (more than usual) and had a large welt forming on the side of his face. When they asked how he had gotten the welt he told them that a battle had broken out, and Percy had been slain by one of his own. Hazel immediately started running at full tilt toward the field, cavalry sword raised. Frank glanced quickly at Octavian one last time to try to detect any false statement. The augur looked crest fallen and defeated. A chill ran down Frank's spine as he sprinted after Hazel ready to face whatever nightmare lay before them.
