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The next person up was Percy. Leo wanted Percy to wear a funny costume, but they had all agreed against that because they were trying to be discreet, they had to dress up normally.

The people comprising Percy's case walked in.

"Okay, Percy," Leo said. "Now, regardless of what they say, I want you to say, 'I'll be the judge of that,' with real attitude at the end of every sentence."

"Well, these are some people waiting for a case," a sentry said.

Percy dramatically flipped over a lock of hair, put on a pair of sunglasses from his pocket, and pointed his gavel at the sentry. He then said, "I'll be the judge of that."

"Uh… okay," the sentry said. "So, basically what happened was that the Senate approved a new tax on vegetables, and so what happened was that these merchants here, who sell tomatoes, pointed out that technically speaking tomatoes are not vegetables and therefore cannot possibly fall into the category of taxation. The Senate however, will point out that though botanically speaking the tomato is a fruit, socially and legally as it is consumed as a vegetable and so is technically speaking liable to taxation."

"And I thought the last two cases were ridiculous," Frank said.

Percy spun his gavel in his hand and pretending he was like Thor, slammed it on the desk like it was Mjolnir and said, "I'll be the judge of that!"

"Um… I don't get it," the sentry said. "That was the case summary… I mean that's pretty straightforward. You're supposed to judge on the actual case, Your Honor."

This time Percy flipped his hammer in the air and caught it before saying, "I'll be the judge of that!"

Everyone else glanced at each other uneasily, wondering what was wrong with the judge.

"Okay Percy, you can stop now," Leo said.

The guy representing the Senate decided to speak up. "Well, you see, in accordance with decree 243.32.125 recently voted on by the Roman Senate which says that, 'All vegetables currently being exported out of New Rome will have a tax place on them of five percent of their gross price, with no exceptions.' Now, though the word 'vegetables' has not been defined strictly by the senate, I would like to draw your attention to an older decree." The guy then began rummaging through some scrolls.

"Percy, this guy's going to put us all to sleep," Jason said. "Next time, when he talks, blow a raspberry in between."

"So, there is a case from around 147 BC-" the guy began when Percy made a loud raspberry.

Everyone stared at him but no one bothered asking what was wrong with him or saying something else, so the guy tried to continue.

"A case from around 147 BC of the Roman Republic-" here Percy blew another one- "wherein the question of the definition of gold artifacts was called into place-" and yet another one- "and it was stated that no certain legal definition was required-" and another one- "and that the common man's interpretation of what constituted one was enough."

By this point, everyone was looking at Percy, not the speaker, except for the speaker, who was trying as hard as he could to keep his face straight and to continue reading.

"And so, I'd like to point out-" another one from Percy- "that since everyone uses tomatoes as vegetables, we should consider them as vegetable and tax them as such, regardless of however they are classified-" yet another one, at this point the speaker was trying to move as fast as possible to finish "-in terms of botany, they are still considered vegetables by common definition and so by law they should be taxed."

"Now give us a really big one Percy, one that lasts for like half a minute," Leo said. "And tell him that's what you think of his speech."

"Well, this is what I, the judge thinks of that," Percy said. He then, in a customary fashion, stuck his tongue out and made the loudest noises for as long as he could.

There was an awkward silence then.

And after that, there was even more awkward silence.

The others though, characteristically, were laughing like they didn't have a care in the world.

"Okay, this is almost as ridiculous as the argument you two guys had about apricots or stuff," Leo said.

"It wasn't about apricots," Jason said. "It was about grapes and watermelons."

"Yeah," Frank said. 'I told Frank that I thought grapes were like tiny watermelons, and he said that watermelons were more like big grapes."

"And you two argued for two hours over that," Leo said.

The lawyer for the opposing side finally cleared his throat. He was unsure how to proceed, and also not sure if the case was proceeding in a way that was good for him. After all, how did one interpret it if the judge was giving raspberries whenever your opponent was making a speech? Was it good, bad, or did it just mean the judge was crazy.

"Um, right, I'd just like to counter that by pointing out that most people," the other speaker said, "do know for a fact that tomatoes are fruit and not vegetables. And that court ruling that my opponent has mentioned is from a very long time ago, and isn't even from Rome, but one of the provinces and so really doesn't count."

"Legal definitions are tricky," Jason said. "Did you know that in New Rome, they define a dog as anything which has four legs and a tail? So by that definition, a mouse, a deer, and a lion are all dogs according to New Rome Law."

"Deer don't have tails," Leo said.

"Yes they do," Frank said. "It's that little cottoney thing or whatever they have."

And so, the three of them forgot about the show and entered a very detailed and dramatic discussion on whether deer have tails or not.

Meanwhile, Percy was trying to listen to the case as best as he could. There wasn't much more, so it was finally time for his judgement.

"Yes… I've decided that," Percy said, unsure of what to say. "I've decided that we should take a survey of all New Rome citizens and then ask them whether they think tomatoes are fruits or vegetables, and based on that we'll make the decision."

The survey was made, and vegetables won out by a small margin. However, the tax gains that the Roman Senate made from this were a third of the cost of doing the survey. Reyna later on passed the excess bills to Camp Half-Blood (Dionysus received these, who then pawned them off to Chiron) that then passed to Percy, who then threw the bills in the trash.

Result: Percy passed.

And finally, last up was Leo. Leo managed to get to his courtroom late, so he had to rush in while everyone else was already waiting there.

As Leo sat down on his seat, there was a large noise.

"Okay, who put a whoopee cushion under my chair?" Leo asked the gathered crowd.

"We did!" the others shouted at once.

Leo put the cushion away and sat down. "So, what's the case this time?"

"This is currently a case of civil forfeiture, Your Honor," the sentry said.

Leo sighed inwardly. Once again, it appeared, that the others had decided to give him a serious case while they took all the funny ones for themselves.

"So, just so everyone in the courtroom understands this, please do explain once what civil forfeiture is," Leo said with a straight face.

"Uh, sure," the sentry said, confused, because no judge had every asked for something like that before. "Civil forfeiture is a process by which a certain amount of goods, rather than a person, are being accused of a crime. In this case, we have the Senate and People of New Rome VS Roughly Three Hundred and Twenty Bottles of Mountain Dew."

"What?" Percy asked. "What is this?"

"Um, what is the crime these bottles have been accused of doing?" Leo asked.

"Well, you see, this young person was just walking alongside the road one fine evening, when he noticed a large crate of goods sitting in the 'No Trespassing' zone," the sentry said. "On further inspection, he noticed that the crate was full of bottles of Mountain Dew, and could so therefore only surmise that someone had put them there."

"Thank you, Captain Obvious," Percy muttered.

"Actually, what you're supposed to say is, 'Thank you, Captain Obvious,'" Jason said. "And I thought we agreed not to give Leo a case that was ridiculous."

"We did," Frank said. "But Percy picked Leo's case, and apparently once he saw the words 'Civil Forfeiture' he just assumed it was boring before reading the rest."

"Hey, I have dyslexia," Percy muttered. "I don't do well with reading."

"As such, Your Honor," the sentry said, " we would like to first of all call the citizen responsible for seeing the crate."

After the witness had sworn the oath and everything, he began. "So, I was just walking down, minding my own business when I noticed that there was something in the 'No Trespassing' are. So, there was a crate, and it was partially open and I took a peek at what was inside, and there were a bunch of bottles of Mountain Dew inside."

"Now tell me," the sentry said in a dramatic voice. "Do you see those bottles inside this very courtroom right now?"

"Yes! Yes!" the witness shouted, pointing to approximately three hundred and twenty bottles of Mountain Dew kept there in the courtroom.

"The defense would like to cross-examine the witness," the lawyer for the defense said.

"Wait, the bottle of soft drink get a lawyer?" Percy asked. "Who paid for that? And who assigned a lawyer to them anyway?"

"So, tell me," the defense attorney said, "is it not true that all bottles of Mountain Dew look the very same?"

"Uh, yeah…." the witness said. "I don't know where you're going with this."

"If they all look the same, how do you know that these are the very ones that you saw?"

"Uh… I guess because they're saying that they're the ones that they found in the crate?" the witness said meekly.

"Let it be noted that the witness cannot be sure that these are the very same bottles found," the defense attorney said.

"Leo, say, 'Let the record also reflect that all of you are morons,'" Jason said.

"Let the record also reflect that all of you are morons," Leo said. This left most everyone speechless.

"Uh, in that case," Leo said, "I'd like to here from the defendants themselves."

"The bottles of soft drink?" the sentry asked. "You want us… to put them on the witness stand? But they're inanimate objects?"

"Uh… yeah, but I want them to be questioned," Leo said, knowing the had to say something to divert the attention from himself.

And so, one by one, the bottles were place before the stand. And of course, they didn't answer, no matter how much Leo threatened them.

"Leo, pretend to get really angry at them," Percy said.

"I hereby demand that the witnesses speak, else they will be put in contempt of court!" Leo shouted, trying to sound as dangerous as possible.

"Now say that we have only one option left with us, torture," Jason said.

"It appears that we must now stoop to something I had hoped not to use, torture," Leo said.

"Now torture them," Percy giggled, hoping to see what Leo would come up with.

Leo had one of the bottles placed on his table and picked up another one.

"So," Leo said to one of them. "I'm going to need some answers and I'm tired of playing good cop around here. So, let me show you what happens to those who don't talk."

In a dramatic motion, Leo opened the cap to one bottle.

There were several disbelieving gasps. "Surely he wouldn't!" someone cried out.

And then, Leo took a sip.

"Murderer!"

"Bloodsucker!"

"Leo! Now say, 'Bring in the dancing lobsters!'" Percy said.

Leo was sure that he had misheard something, but still, he said, "Bring in the dancing lobsters."

All at once, a large group of people dressed up as lobsters whom the other three had hired walked in and began dancing to Everybody Dance Now!

The entire court went crazy, not least because of what Leo had done.

And so, Leo was charged for murdering a defendant, the thing was brought to Reyna, and long story short, he was fired from his job and given a fine, which like Percy, he also threw in the trash can. The others decided that this meant a penalty.

Result: Leo lost.

A/N: And that ends this. Frank and Leo have two negative points each, while Jason and Percy have only one. The next one will be the last before the third punishment.

Again, thanks a bunch for reading, and do review if you liked!