Chapter 1
"I didn't do it" Percy spat at Athena, as she glared at him from her throne.
" Liar!" Athena snapped back, " My son is DEAD, because of you." She yelled with angst in her voice and fury in her stormy gray eyes. " I vote we send him to Tartarus."
There was a collective gasp across the whole room, Percy hung his head, not in shame but from pure and utter hatred for the Goddess of Wisdom.
"You have all seen what he has done, demigods, you have all seen the blood on his hands, does he not deserve it?" Athena said with an icy tone to her voice.
" No!" Percy's head snapped round, not expecting the voice from which the shout came, it did not come from Thalia or Nico, or even… No, Percy couldn't bare the thought that Annabeth could even think he killed her brother. No, the shout came from Chiron.
" I don't believe for one second that he did it" Chiron stood tall, at the back of the crowd of campers.
" Then that is your vote, Chiron" Athena said calmly " Who else votes he should be allowed to stay?'
Why ever the hell Athena was taking control of this "trial" was beyond Percy but he looked around and saw many faces he knew, his friends, and his enemies.
All with their hands by their sides. All except Thalia and Nico. Percy didn't want to, but toward Annabeth with tears in his eyes.
Her hands were both firmly by her sides, and trembling. She too, had tears flowing from the grey eyes she inherited from her mother.
" Annabeth" Percy whispered, his lip trembling, " Please." Annabeth shook her head slowly from left to right as a single tear hit the ground.