Hey there! Thanks for the reviews! Yes Frank will appear in this story, as will Nico though Hazel won't and unfortunately Jason won't turn up again any time soon. It will still be a while before Percy appears, sorry it's a bit slow! Eventually I do plan on them being in a relationship but not immediately and he's not going to just disregard Annabeth. I dislike those stories where Annabeth cheats on Percy, it's out of character and seems like an easy way to end their relationship.

Anyway, here's the next chapter, I hope you like it!

My day started out normally, it was the weekend so no one was really working, I woke up early, as is usual for me but did very little until going down to breakfast an hour later. Then Reyna came to find me.

I noticed her looking around the tables, her face etched with worry before spotting me and she walked over to where I sat. "Good morning, Zoe," she said uncomfortably.

I wondered why she had come over to find me, I thought it might have had something to do with Gwen, whom I hadn't seen since we argued last night. "Good morning?" I replied, uncertainly.

"Okay, when did you last see Jason?" She asked, or rather demanded. Had something happened to him?

"Last night, after the war games, we talked a bit," I replied honestly. "Why?"

Reyna looked at me intently. "You saw him after the war games?" She spoke quietly. Then she grabbed my arm and motioned for me to stand up. "Come we must speak somewhere more private."

I left the pavilion with Reyna and she led me to her office, where I'd introduced myself when I first arrived. Clearly this was a serious issue, either he'd gone missing... or maybe he'd lost his mind.

"Jason has disappeared, the last time I saw him was during the war games last night, he can't have just walked out of the camp and yet there's no sign of him anywhere," Reyna explained the situation without emotion.

Well at least he hadn't gone mad. "Are you entirely certain he's missing?" I replied carefully. It had only been a few hours after all.

"Well, I've been looking for him all morning, we were going to have a discussion this morning - not of anything of great importance - but he didn't turn up," she replied. "If he doesn't turn up by this time tomorrow we'll have to call a Senate meeting."

"Okay, so no one has seen him since last night?" I asked.

"I've asked a few people, one girl said she thought she saw Jason talking to you, and it seems that you're the last person who's seen him. Do you know where he went? What did you talk to him about? These dogs will know if you lie," Reyna said, eyeing me with suspicion.

I glanced at the gold and silver dogs, watching me for lies. "He was merely praising my performance in the war games. I don't know where he went, I thought he was going to his quarters," I said a little defensively, truthfully we'd talked about more than the war games but hopefully the dogs wouldn't notice.

The dogs growled but they seemed to accept what I'd said as the truth, as they didn't attack me. Reyna also glared at me in suspicion, or was it desperation? She obviously needed answers but unfortunately I didn't have them.

"Very well," Reyna said , not satisfied with my answer, probably just disappointed, the two were obviously close.

"Oh Zoe?" Reyna said as I was turning to leave. "Don't mention Jason's disappearance to anyone, if he's still missing tomorrow, then I'll tell the camp myself." Reyna sounded sad, preparing for the worst. "And you'll attend the Senate meeting."

I nodded and, with that news, walked away. Jason was missing. No one had seen him. No one had an explanation for this. Nothing. And I had just been getting to know him as well. Why did every decent boy I met have to disappear after a few days?

Well I could count the number of boys I could tolerate on one hand and it was me who'd died just as I was getting to know Percy Jackson. Wait, Jason couldn't be dead, could he? I had absolutely no way of knowing. But I couldn't get the idea out of my mind: an image of evil arrows pumping poison into his body so that he'd never move again.

I was jumping to conclusions. Anyway, I hadn't known him very well, in fact he could've turned out to be vile; quite likely. No, I should judge him based on how he had acted so far and he'd been respectful despite our differing views.

Why was I assuming that they would never find him? He could very well be alive and could even appear by the end of the day.

He didn't.

The next morning, Reyna found me and I had to come with her to the Senate meeting, Jason hadn't been found yet.

We walked to New Rome and passed Terminus, the God of boundaries, whom I still hadn't asked about death yet, maybe he'd be able to tell me whether or not Jason was alive. Or I could ask a child of Hades, it's possible they could know. If there were even sons of Hades around.

As we were speaking to Terminus and he was telling us to neaten ourselves up, Gwen walked over to us. We hadn't spoken at all yesterday.

"Hey Zoe, you're going to the meeting too?" Gwen sounded fairly sad and for once wasn't smiling.

"Yes."

"Well, sorry about giving you a hard time the other night..." She said awkwardly, before giving a very forced and pained smile. She must have taken the news of Jason leaving very hard.

I nodded and carried on walking as Reyna handed over her weapon to Terminus. We walked in silence.

"A meeting has been called as our Praetor, Jason Grace, had gone missing. We have waited an appropriate amount of time and has not yet appeared. We are here to discuss what may have happened she what we should do now," Reyna began the meeting in a clear, formal voice. She gave the appearance of a strong leader and did not show her emotions to the audience.

I sat near the front of the modestly sized hall, feeling out of place in ordinary clothes while everyone else wore togas. Why did I always feel out of place? I never felt like that while with the hunters.

"When did he disappear?" Someone asked, his voice sounding hushed in the silent hall.

"He was last seen just after the war games two nights previously," Reyna replied.

"Who last saw him?" The blonde boy, Octavian asked.

Reyna paused for just a second, hesitating? "The new camper, Zoe Nightshade."

Everyone seemed to know where I was as they all turned to look at me, well it felt like everyone. Octavian smirked at me from where he stood. I kept my face neutral but why did everyone look at me with suspicion?

"So," Octavian began, "the new girl, whom we know nothing about, and will tell us nothing about herself, was the last to see Jason? Does that not seem suspicious?"

Was he accusing me of something? They thought I could be responsible for his disappearance? Had Reyna suspected me yesterday? I knew nothing of Jason's disappearance.

Reyna was studying me thoughtfully. "We have little reason to suspect Zoe. She has displayed no antagonism towards anyone since she has come to camp," Reyna stated in a calm voice.

Octavian continued to smile however. "If she has come here with dishonest intentions, then she wouldn't act overly suspicious, would she? And she's already mentioned early that she had been trained before coming here. Where could she have been trained? I'm not trying to blame her but we must be cautious!" He said coolly; he had a very persuasive voice and many nodded in agreement.

I hadn't told him anything about the hunters, but Gwen had mentioned that he was well connected. Someone much have told him. He was obviously very clever so why did he want to blame me for Jason's disappearance? I had hardly interacted with him so far and didn't see anything he could gain from this. He was infuriating and this was cruel.

I stood up, to defend myself. "I do not know how Jason disappeared. I am genuinely upset about it. Please don't blame me, we should look for other explanations and indeed what we ought to do about this," I said, not everyone would listen but it was best to say something.

Reyna nodded. "Yes. We should send out some scouts to look for him of course... and if we don't find him, we shall elect a new Preator in a year, at the feast of Fortuna. Are we agreed?"

The meeting continued for another half hour, I did not say anything else though and while they mentioned me a few more times, they did discuss other things. However, I'm sure many people still suspected me, I don't think Reyna trusted me even if she thought I was innocent. I wasn't even sure if Gwen trusted me.

I was relieved to leave and wandered around New Rome trying not to worry about what everyone would think of me. Did that really matter? This was a hard task however, I hadn't been accused of anything like this in a long time. In the hunt, I had been trusted, but not here.

John and Louise, the archers, found me as I was walking alone and asked if I could show them the exploding arrow trick. I said yes, perhaps because they hadn't heard anything about Jason yet, so they couldn't suspect me, and did seem to have some respect for my abilities.

They both turned out to know a little about their powers and though they'd never channelled it through arrows before, they learned fast. Well John learned fast, after a few attempts he managed to get the arrow to burst into flames as he released it.

Louise had more trouble, not putting enough magic into her arrows, but after John's success she fared slightly better, not wanting to look weak in comaprison. She eventually managed to get her arrow to glow as she released it though I honestly did not see any purpose for a glowing arrow. Oh well, it was better than a healing arrow, the thought of one of those just made me cringe.

So my day was far from boring or miserable. Archery was a very calming thing. Until I got to dinner. People turned their heads just to glare at me. One girl ran away from me in horror. Though there was no proof, they obviously thought I was guilty. At least they weren't doing anything about it yet. I feared that would happen soon. I wanted to avoid fights, if possible.

The hostile looks wore me out far faster than enchanting arrows with my own energy had. I was soon frustrated and angry. Why did this have to happen? Just after I arrived. What had happened to Jason?

I had to do something about this, but I was incapable of persuading a crowd to think I was innocent and that's essentially all that could be done - apart from solving the mystery myself. Well who could persuade a crowd? It seemed there was one person at this - Octavian. I needed to talk to him. I didn't like him, but it would be undeniably useful to have him on my side.

That's it! What do you think? Too many subplots? Sorry, I love them. So please do review, thanks for reading!