Chapter 9: Suppressor's secret revealed

I woke up after my blackout with a splitting headache. I couldn't remember what happened or how I blacked out, all I knew was that I blacked out and now I had a headache.

I slowly rose myself up as I spat dirt out of my mouth. Did I lose the duel? I sat up and looked around, part of the stadium was damaged and it looked like a row or two of trees had been sliced in half like butter.

I looked at where the others were, they were helping Reyna, who apparently was still conscious before me, which meant I definitely lost the duel.

I reached over for Suppressor which was right next to me, but stopped when I saw how different it looked. I grabbed it and looked it over as I got up, it looked like Halberd, the weapon of Galand of Truth from the Seven Deadly Sins, only it was all silver.

Percy then came running up to me, an extremely worried look plastered all over his face. "Nigel, What in Hades was that?"

I looked at my weapon in my hands, then at him. I was really at a loss for words. "I-I-I-I Don't know…" I finally managed to say. "I don't know…"

That's when I noticed something else, Suppressor wasn't heavy anymore, and all my wounds from the fight before my blackout were gone, even the ones that hadn't healed all the way from my fight with the Manticore.

I then made Suppressor transform into its bracelet form, then turned and grabbed Percy by the shoulders. "What...what happened?" I asked.

As Percy lead me to the mess hall along with the others, he explained what had happened, how I had somehow released something from inside Suppressor that not only healed my wounds and boosted my power, but caused it to change shape.

I sat there as I fiddled with Suppressor in its bracelet form, which now had four spikes jutting along the rim. I looked over at Reyna who was having her wounds tended to, which were luckily all fixable.

I looked down again, I felt horrible, and not because my headache was only just now going away, but that I had somehow lost control of my own body and almost killed someone.

I heard Chiron come in (this was because I could hear his hooves), and Mr. D not far behind. I looked up at Chiron, expecting to see anger all over his face, but instead I only saw concern, and worry.

I looked down at the floor again, unable to bring myself to look at him. "I'm sorry…" I whispered.

Chiron put a hand on my shoulder. "Stand up." He told me.

I rose up to his level as he looked down at me, bringing me in for a comforting hug. Which really made me feel better. I rubbed my face into him as I slowly felt myself tear up.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, I should've, I could've-" I said as I actually started to cry, which was something I never really did, like at all.

Chiron grabbed my shoulders, then made me look at him. "I know, And I understand. But you shouldn't blame yourself, your actions were not exactly all your own." He told me.

I wiped my eyes as I looked at him, confused as to what he was saying. "What?" I questioned. Chiron had me sit down as he pawed the ground to get everyone's attention.

It was by this point that I noticed that everyone had ended up here. Guess they all wanted to know what caused my lash out just as much as I did. They all looked either concerned, worried, or even scared.

Chiron brought my arm up to his where he could see my bracelet and then nodded. "Would you mind showing me your staff?" He asked.

I nodded and made Suppressor change form, then handed it to him. The centaur examined Suppressor and then his previously puzzled look turned to one of surprise and intrigue.

He was quiet for a few more seconds before clearing his throat. "Interesting." He nodded.

"What?" I questioned.

"It seems like this weapon also seems to have a sort of enchantment put on it, similar to your dagger's, only this one stores the life force of the monsters you kill, and can release it to give you a temporary boost in all of your attributes. Only it comes at the cost of draining your own stamina greatly." Chiron explained. "Which would also explain your outburst, your mind was simply overwhelmed by the sudden flow of power and it clouded your perception and judgment."

Everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief. So this wasn't because of my dad trying to take me over. I sighed in relief as well.

Chiron nodded. "So I don't think we need to worry about you being taken over, although that definitely is a concern." He then handed Suppressor back to me as I changed it back. "As for its new form, I'm not entirely sure what caused that to occur."

This left a big question unanswered, but it wasn't that important right now. I then looked at Mr. D, who seemed pretty aggravated at me, though honestly I didn't care, I liked pissing him off anyway.

"This may not have been entirely your doing, Jagger, but make no mistake this will not go unanswered." He said. "Therefore, you'll be taking care of cleaning up the stadium until it's manageable enough for repairs, clear?"

I growled at him for calling me the wrong name again, but nodded anyway, if not for anything else than to get this over with.

The two then left as everyone poured into the hall, asking me how I got that boost, how I was feeling, if I was okay (probably because they saw me cry), and so on. But I was more concerned about Reyna.

I walked over to where she was as Will finally finished patching her up. I scratched the back of my head nervously. "Hey, Reyna, listen I just wanted to say I'm sorry for what happened earlier." I told her.

She looked at me and then she seemed to smile ever so slightly. "You don't have to apologize, you weren't in control, what happened wasn't your fault."

"I know but still-" But she stopped me mid sentence.

"No buts, I'm not going to hold a grudge. Especially since you went all out and didn't hold back, I may have won that duel by default, but if you hadn't blacked out that probably wouldn't have been the case." She told me. "Besides, I would have shown you the exact same courtesy. So, let's just call things even and leave it at that, alright?" She asked, holding out her hand.

I smiled as I nodded and shook her hand. "Sure."

And so after that, the rest of Camp Jupiter left to go back to their own camp. Except Jason, Hazel, and Frank, who decided to stay. Reyna said she had to go see Artemis and the other hunters so she left too.

Not gonna lie I was kinda bummed, but I knew she had other priorities so I just went on. I then went back to the Poseidon cabin with Percy and we both started getting ready for bed.

I climbed into my bunk and laid down. "Hey Percy?" I said.

"Yeah?" He answered.

"Do you, do you think that my blackout could've been because of my dad, ya know, Tartarus?" I asked, pulling up my blankets.

Percy was quiet for a second. "Maybe. But you shouldn't worry about that. You've got us now, we'll help you no matter what happens."

"You...you'd really do that?" I asked in slight surprise.

"Of course, we're friends aren't we?" Percy said.

I chuckled. "Yeah. Yeah I guess we are."

So readers, here we are. please let me know what you thought of today's chapter and pm me with any suggestions. PS, I'll be holding a poll on my profile page to see if you guys like the potential ship of Reyna x Nigel. so be sure to go vote.