Well readers, it's the second to last chapter before the end of the first arc of the story. which means that the next arc will need to be decided on, so i have three choices: 1. a crossover with the Kaines, 2. entering the Trials of Apollo after a brief timeskip, or 3. an arc focusing primarily on the redemption arc of Lazarus, Nigel's brother. please let me know in the reviews or by voting on the poll I'll have on my profile.

Chapter 19: I go to court, Olympus court

Several days passed as I slowly started to recover from what happened with my dad. The Camp grounds needed repairs so I tried to help where I could, though it seemed that the others weren't letting that happen.

"For the last time Nigel you need to be resting, your body has already been pushed to its limits as it is!" Jason told me as he tried to get me to stop trying to help carry some boards.

"And I told you that I'm fine." I said as I stood there, a board across my shoulder. It was true, I feel fine, I mean aside from the bandages that Hayden and Will kept on my chest and arms, my body had basically finished healing. But I still had a couple nasty scars from when Lazarus crucified me and drove a spear through my chest, as well as two scars on my shoulders from the arrows I got shot with.

Jason groaned as we continued to argue. This wasn't a rare occurrence even before all this happened, I always got into arguments with everyone. I guess since I pretty much died and came back to life made everyone a little more on edge.

As I set the board down so I could argue with Jason more, a voice suddenly cut in. "Jason stop arguing with him." A female voice said. We both turned and saw it was Piper who was talking, she had Reyna with her.

"Piper's right, you should have learned by now that Nigel has a compulsive habit of arguing and disagreeing with anyone or about anything." Reyna nodded with a knowing smirk. "Seriously I'm quite certain he'd argue with a brick wall if given the chance."

"Hey." I warned her, giving her a glare. Jason sighed in defeat and relented, going with Piper to finish supervising. That's when Reyna shook her head and gestured for me to follow her.

"Come on, it's time for your treatment." She told me as she started walking towards the Poseidon cabin.

I sighed as I followed her, we had gotten into this routine for the past couple weeks ever since I got my body back, she'd always have me follow her to my bunk where she'd take some kind of medicine and place it on my wounds. I really don't like doing it since I have to let her rub her hands on my wounds for it to work…

However if there's one thing I've learned after all this time with her is that you never argue with her, because there's really no point and she won't let you win anyway. We walked into the cabin as I sat down on a bench that Percy put in and Reyna sat behind me, she started by placing the treatment next to her before slowly and carefully unwrapping the bandages.

I hissed as the bandages came off and her hands made contact with my wounds, they had basically almost completely healed, but it still hurt when people touched it. The treatment Reyna was giving me was really helping, just wish I knew what it was.

As she rubbed my back with the stuff I shivered, it was cold. "What is that stuff anyway? Something the Hunters use?" I asked, trying to turn my neck to look at her. As I looked at her I saw that her face was a darker shade than usual around her cheeks, meaning she was blushing. I saw a couple other times and saw the exact same thing, and I couldn't understand why.

"It's called Androssis, a medicinal treatment used by the Amazons use." She said as she placed some of the purple colored liquid on where the arrows had gone through my shoulders. "It's made from a plant only found in New Rome, deep parts of the Amazon rainforest and the Amazon homelands of Pontus. It enhances healing as well as promotes scar tissue, and also wards off infection."

"Oh." I said as she seemed to be tracing her fingers along the burn scars I received from getting struck by lightning twice and blasted with fire, twice. "What are you doing back there?" I asked as a particular motion she did up the crease of my back made shiver and nearly jump.

"I'm trying to discern what scars need more treatment and which ones don't." She said with a level tone, one that seemed to be slightly forced.

"It feels more like you're trying to feel up my scars." I joked with a smirk. "What? Do they make me look badass?"

I could hear her try to stifle a laugh as she flicked my ear. "More like it makes you look like you came out of clash of the titans, now be quiet. I need to get this done."

I raised my eyebrows at that last part, we usually joked around when we were alone by now, but now she was making movie references? That was new, hell, I didn't even know she liked movies. 'Okay. Stick a pin in that for later.' I thought as she tapped my shoulder.

"Alright, turn around, time to get the other side." She told me.

I turned around, facing her. This part was where things got awkward, we always ended up sitting in silence until she was done. But this time I decided it would go differently. "So…" I started. "You like movies?"

She was quiet for a moment before she took a deep breath and kept rubbing the liquid over my injuries. "I do." She replied. "But I tend to enjoy a very select few types."

"Like What? Action, horror, documentary, sci-fi?" I asked further, now she got me curious. She looked at me and rolled her eyes with a smile.

"I mainly like action and science fiction movies that revolve around war and battle." She told me. "And maybe the occasional Romcom film for a change of pace."

I chuckled. "Action, sci-fi and comedy does it for me, but I do usually watch horror movies on like Halloween for the sake of tradition." I then shuddered as her hand passed over the spot where the hole in my right shoulder used to be.

She then stopped as she traced down the rest of my front to make sure, which made me notice that she was paying extra attention to my muscle definition, which made me blush.

"Why Don't you take a picture? It'll last longer." I said, trying not to sound mad, but it was just really embarrassing.

She stopped and then finished up, seemingly flustered for a brief second or two before taking some bandages and started wrapping them around me. "Sorry." She said. "I just happened to notice that your muscle tone has become much more robust than it was before."

"Really? Huh." I looked in the mirror across the room, she did have a point. "Must be a side effect of what my dad did." I nodded. "Guess I didn't notice till now."

Reyna finished wrapping me up as she put up the ointment. "That should be good enough for this week." She told me.

"Ya know I'm grateful that you do this for me." I told her as I looked at her. "But you don't have to do this, I owe you remember? Not the other way around."

She then put the stuff in her bag she had with her and walked up to me, then just hugged me briefly. "This isn't about repaying a debt or anything like that." She said as she pulled back. "We're friends aren't we? And friends help each other, however they can."

That caused me to blush, having her say that really made me feel good, and the fact that her ample chest had made contact with mine was pretty nice too...okay that sounded weird.

I couldn't help scratching the back of my neck as I chuckled nervously. "Yeah, right." I nodded. A few seconds later Chiron came up to the cabin followed by Percy, Annabeth and Jason. The centaur was holding some sort of letter. "What is it Chiron?" I asked.

"I received a message from Hermes. The gods are saying it is time for you to come to Olympus for your trial." He told me, handing me the letter.

I looked at it, sure enough it was just like a court summons. I just ran a hand through my hair as I crumpled up the letter and threw it in the trash. "Great, perfect, this is just perfect!" I said in sarcasm as I put my newly repaired camp shirt back on.

"Complaining about it isn't going to help." Annabeth said.

"You'd be complaining too if you were about to go to a trial that's already been decided." I said.

"What do you mean?" Percy asked. "You think they're not going to give you a fair shot?"

"Think? I know they won't." I told him, putting my hands in my shorts pockets.

Jason was the next to speak. "Come on, Give my dad at least some credit, I mean Percy was in a similar position and he made it out."

I looked at my roommate. "Seriously?"

"Yeah. The exact same situation. And all I can tell you is this, the gods take the opinions of their kids into account when they judge a camper. So don't sell yourself short just yet." He told me, putting a hand on my shoulder.

"Yeah we're here for you." Annabeth added.

"Ditto." Jason nodded.

Reyna also put her hand on my shoulder and gave me an encouraging look.

I looked up and smiled at them. Man was I glad to have friends like them. After we got the message, we all traveled to New York City to get to the Empire State Building, where the entrance to Olympus was. As we walked in Chiron, in his disguised form, got a key to the elevator where we turned it and pressed a button to go up to Olympus.

I held on for dear life as the elevator shot up, getting faster and faster, higher and higher until BOOM! A big flash of light and a shake of the cab later and we're met with a huge cluster of clouds and various Greek style buildings at the other side of the door as thunder rolled and lightning crackled underneath our feet.

I slowly struggled to get up as everyone started to walk out, Percy helped me up a bit. "Gods of Olympus I thought I was gonna have a heart attack." I said as I stumbled out of the elevator.

"You'll get used to it. I was the exact same way when I first used the portal." Percy said, smiling.

We all walked up the marble steps of a large building that I assumed was where the gods were. We continued to walk through the halls until we reached a giant room with thrones all placed in a half circle around some sort of fire pit. The gods all sat in one of the thrones, each seeming to fit the god or goddess it belonged to based on appearance.

As I walked up to a podium that was in front of the gods, I noticed there was a spherical tank holding some sort of cross between a sea snake and a cow in it, the creature was sleeping. 'Bessie, the Orthotorus.' It said. 'Okay.' I thought. 'That's weird.'

I looked back at the gods before Zeus spoke. "Nigel Jager, today you will face judgment for the crime of breaking the seal that was placed upon you." He boomed.

I couldn't help myself as I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms in annoyance, this again? Then he continued, clearly noticing my attitude. "You will be aloud a single statement and then we will take a vote to decide your fate." The god of lightning said.

Again I rolled my eyes as I tapped my foot in annoyance. "That it Huh? That's how things'll go down?" I said as I looked down, hands on my hips as I chuckled. "Seems like this 'trial was already decided to me, makes me making a statement seem pointless." I said this as I looked Zeus dead in the eye. "So I'm just gonna say what's on my mind. I don't care what you guys do, it'll just prove me right, you guys destroy anyone or anything that doesn't meet your standards or is related to someone who did something wrong without even considering if their innocent or not." I looked at all of them as I continued. "But I guess I can't say that I'm surprised right? I mean like the saying goes "a Jaguar can't change its spots."

As I finished Zeus seemed real pissed at me, but it seemed Hera calmed him down by whispering something in his ear, he then called for all the gods to vote. "Ares?"

The god of war looked at me before smirking. "Let him live, if he grows up to be as tough as his father was I'll have the perfect punching bag."

Zeus nodded then turned to Athena. "Athena?"

"I have heard many good words and praises of his prowess in battle and his overall character from my children." She told him. "And the fact that he seems to enjoy not only learning but also seems to go out of his way to be kind to my patron animal, certainly sways my vote. Let him live."

She was right, during my time monster hunting I saved a baby owl and helped it get back on its feet, now it acts as a sentry for me.

Next was Hesphestus. "My boy Leo told me about how this boy went out of his way to go on a quest to find him, even if it did end in him temporarily dying." The man then stroked his beard for a second. "That speaks volumes for me."

Then there was Hermes. "My dons say he's got a good sense of humor. And I appreciate a guy with humor, so I'll let him pass."

Then there was Apollo. "My kids Hayden and Will both got good things to say about this kid." The sun god said. "Those two aren't usually wrong so, I'm fine with him."

Artemis went after him. "I personally don't like him because of how much time he has been spending with my Hunter Reyna, But, be that as it may, I am glad to see her happy." She paused. "So for her sake. I'll let him live."

After her Mr. D went next. "I honestly don't care. But given that so many of the campers like him I'll vote to let him go."

Demeter voted to let me go, as did Hades was personally against it, probably because of how I antagonized Nico, and Poseidon voted for me, probably because me and Percy were roommates and because of the talk we had awhile back. Hera also voted for me, though something told me it was out of pity because I didn't have a mom, her being the goddess of moms and all.

Second to last was Aphrodite. "Mmmm…" She hummed as she looked at me, then she looked at Reyna, and then Artemis, then back to me. "I won't say why I'm voting to spare him, but I will say this, my match making senses are tingling!"

Zeus sighed. "Seems that the vote is in. Nigel Jager, you shall be spared the death penalty. However your sentence will be a house arrest for the rest of the summer. You are not to leave Camp Half Blood under any circumstances, understand?"

I nodded. "Yes sir." I couldn't believe it, I had just escaped the death penalty. As I turned to face everyone they immediately started either hugging me, giving me a noogie or high fiving me. I smiled as I looked back at the gods, looks like I have a lot of people to thank when I got back to camp.