Notice - If you go onto google images and type in The Lost Hero you will be able to see the Bronze Dragon, People who have The Demigod Files will know where it comes from x
Remember I have no idea how the real book goes - this is my version on ths book, so anything on this fanfic may or may not ever happen, I don't know. Thanks for the lovely reviews so far
Zeus glared at Jason. Athena picked up some parchment and started to write
"Are you Jason, son of Aeolus, god of the winds, aged 16?" Zeus asked, not to kindly to Jason
"Yes"
"You have been brought before us so we can pass judgment on you for crimes against the gods, do you agree with the following?"
Athena ripped her parchment from her scroll and handed it to Zeus, who read out
"You started to work against the gods from an early age?"
"Yes" Jason said, all the gods were looking at him
"You joined Luke Castellan's army to overthrow the gods?"
"Yes" He felt their eyes on him, his skin tingled
"After Mr Castellan was taken over by Kronos you remained in his army, helping him carry out multiple killings on innocent demigods?"
"Yes" his mouth was very dry
"You helped in the disappearance of Percy Jackson?"
"No, I've never meet him" Jason shouted
"That's not the exact truth though is it Jason?" Zeus asked "You were giving the job to kill Percy, how do we know we can believe you have nothing to do with the boy's disappearance?"
"I was with Leo and Piper" Jason said
"No you weren't, Hestia has told us she placed you on that bus the same day you arrived at camp, three days after he went missing"
"I don't know what happened to me, I can only remember to last year, I don't know what I did this year" Jason told them, but they didn't believe him
Zeus looked up from the paper to Jason
"Have you any more to add before we vote?"
Jason's heart leapt now was the time
"Yes…My friends, you've got to let them go, they have done nothing wrong, please, kill me if you must but don't hurt them"
His attempt was weak, even to him, Zeus thought so too, he said
"Nothing wrong you say, the girl refused to even speck to us and the boy tried to hand us the storyline from Clash Of The Titans to get himself out of trouble, even us gods have seen that film"
Apollo chuckled "Yeah the remake…I look more like Aphrodite, stupid mortals can't even…"
"Apollo not now" Artemis cut him off
"We shall now vote, all in favour for conviction"
Every single hand went up, including Hermes. He felt this boy was the reason his son was going to die
"You, the other boy and the girl shall be killed at sunset, method of execution still currently unknown; you shall wait in your cell until we are ready for you"
Ares got up and took hold of Jason who walked out feeling downhearted, he'd tried but they was no hope.
The sun was lower in the sky, they had about three hours to live, he knew this was the last time he would see the sun
Ares dragged him back down, he kept his head down, he didn't want to see his friend's faces, he'd failed them.
Back in his cell he sat down away from the bars and though of all the things he still hadn't done yet.
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Piper had her hand on the wall, she had told Leo to put his hand on his wall too. She imagined holding it, anything to comfort her
"They asked me about you and Jason, they tried to shift the blame on you, that god who questioned us, Zeus, well that girl Jason hurt or killed was his child, he wanted someone to pay for her injuries and he wanted me to say it was your fault so I just stayed quite, everything they asked me I just gave them a blank look, in the end they said I was guilty and they voted to kill me"
Leo moved near to the wall, he wanted to be close to someone
"A voice told me to say things, I thought the voice was helping me but it got me worse off" Leo placed his head on the cold stone
"Will they do it with us together or apart?" Piper muttered, Leo could still hear her
"I don't know, together I hope" He also wanted to say 'I don't want to be alone' but he knew it would upset her
Jason put his hands over his ears and closed his eyes, he wished he was in a cell away from his friends; he didn't deserve to listen to their last few words
He got up off the floor and walked around the cell, he turned back to the bars and they was someone standing next to him
His hand reached for his coin, but it wasn't there
"Who are you?" Jason asked
"I'm a demigod not a god, you don't need to fear me, I can help you, my name is Nico"
Jason looked at him closely; he was clearly a demigod at close view
Nico held up a hand, Jason could hear footsteps coming down the passage outside, Nico turned and ran through the wall
"Aww don't you look cute, sitting there by the wall, well the gods have come to a desision, you will be feeling Zeus' lightening bolt, a quick death" Ares said to Piper, than walked over to Leo's cell
"You shall be forced fed Ambrosia and Nectar untill you erupt into flames" Ares grinned and walked to Jason's cell, he banded on the bars
"And how does touture sound to you? everyone thinks it's best for you"
Ares truned away and walked back up the passage and out of site
Jason turned back to the wall, Nico walked through
"You just walked through the wall" Jason said in shock
"Yeah I know I did, I'm going to get you and your friends out of here, you have been set up, the gods believe you are all involved with Percy Jackson going missing but you're not, I've seen Percy, he's being kept by The Mistress but I'm going to help you and your friends clear your names"
Jason looked at this demigod, he didn't look very trustworthy, he was dressed in black jeans, black t-shirt and had an evil looking sword at this side
"Why are you helping us, what do you want?"
Nico raised his eyebrows
"Right now, outside in the park the gods are setting up TV screens and multiply torture areas, it looks like a mini version of the fields of punishment outside, if you want to stay here and try a few tortures out, than that's fine by me but I want my friend back and I am no match against The Mistress, her servant and her little storm monsters, I only made it back alive out of pure luck, so I need help"
Jason listened, they seemed only one option
"Ok I'll help you, how do we get out?"
"Follow me"
Nico lead the way to the wall and held out his hand for Jason to take hold, Jason felt his body go through the wall, Leo jumped out of his skin
"What the hell" He screamed
"Leo what's up" Piper called to him
"Oh I see, you're not too happy I'm still alive so you've come back with a friend to finish me off" Leo said, looking at Nico
"Leo I didn't know what came over me, I promise you I am so sorry, Nico is here to help us" Jason pleaded with Leo
"Nico?" Leo said, he remembered Luke's words "Yeah you're going to help us and we got to go with you?" Leo asked, just to make sure Luke got it right
Nico nodded
"Yes, you, him and the girl are coming with me, were going to bring back Percy from The Mistress but first we need to get ou..."
Leo held up his hand
They could hear footsteps coming down from the passage, Nico breathed "Oh no" He grabbed Leo and Jason and pulled them back
"…No Zeus wants the girl first, than the boy with curly hair. We don't need the other one till later" A young person said, it sounded like Apollo
"Come on, stand up, no running off now" came Poseidon's voice, they unlocked Piper's cell
"Leo" She called; they could hear a sob in her words
"Come on, don't make it worse for yourself sweetheart, it'll be over soon" Apollo's voice said, he sounded sympathetic
Leo gave a little moan, tears running down his cheeks
"Be quite, we'll help her" Nico whispered in his ears
The footsteps faded away
"We've got to help her" Leo said, he went to the bars and got himself thrown back
"Stop that, I've got something we can fly away on, we'll get on that and help Piper, now we can go, can you two hold on to each other's hands"
"No" Leo said
"Ok hold on to him then" Nico said ignoring Leo's answer
Leo forced himself to think of Piper and took hold of Jason's hand so tightly Jason gasped with the pressure.
They followed Nico out the cell and down the passage after Piper; Nico peered outside to make sure the path was empty.
Nico waved them to follow him, the sun was setting, Olympus was flooded with orange light
The three demigods walked down the main path, they were right up at the top of the mountain, just a level down from the throne room
Nico lead them down some steps and they came out into a street with statues and water fountains and standing by a statue was Hera
"Son of Hades, what in the name of Zeus are you doing?" she shouted
She came closer to them
"Run" Nico shouted
Leo, Jason and Nico ran in between the statues and down into an alleyway next to some shops selling winged sandals
They ran out of the alleyway and came into a street full of demigods and satyrs
"Stop them" Hera called, somewhere behind them
They heard alarm bells going off somewhere
The demigods ran down the street and down a set of more stairs before the other demigods could react.
"Down here" Nico shouted, they turned right and ran behind a white and gold building
Something grabbed Leo and pulled him into the building, Nico and Jason were dragged in magically
Someone had their hand over Leo's mouth to stop him screaming,
"It's all right, don't scream" Hermes said
Leo stopped struggling at once when he heard his father's voice; Hermes clicked his finger and the door closed.
They had ran straight into his temple, outside they could hear people running past, shouting orders to each other
Hermes eyed Nico for a second and seemed to guess what had happened
"We need to get down to the first level, can you help us" Nico asked the god
"I guess that thing is yours then? What are you going to do with it?" Hermes asked Nico
"Fly and bring back Percy, we now know where he is but Hera has got this place swarmed now, I wont be able to get these two down without them being seen" Nico said
Hermes nodded
"I guess the ancient law on not interfering with the lives of our children have well and truly been broken so I will help you"
Hermes eyes met Leo's for a tiny second
"I have a passageway under this temple, it goes right down to the gift shop on the first level, I use it often" He grinned slyly
He showed them the way down
"Good luck" Hermes said, yet again his eyes were on Leo who smiled at him, he remembered Luke's words but they was no time, they had to save Piper
"Thanks…" Leo began but he didn't know if he was to call Hermes 'father' or 'my lord'
They jumped down into the small tunnel and made their way down, it seemed to go on forever until a small light appeared; they came out in the back of the shop.
Leo blended in for some reason no one seemed to see him coming out but the people saw Nico and Jason
"Thief's" The two owners shouted, their were Nymphs. The three demigods ran to the shop entrance and out of the door, the alarm was still going off in the upper levels of Olympus
"Straight ahead" Nico shouted
"What…but that's…" Jason panted
"Yes, it's the bronze dragon" Nico shouted "We had it at camp, climb up its wing, were going to fly it!"
They ran up the wing to sit on its back
"Fly, Bronze Dragon, the campers of Half Blood Hill order you" Nico ordered
Over in the garden Piper was stood before some of the gods, Zeus was holding a three foot lightening bolt in his hands.
Apollo was singing a slow funeral style song on his Lyre, when he was finished he would bow to the gods, say a haiku and start a new song
The way the gods were groaning when he sang would have been funny to Piper if she wasn't about to be killed.
"We have come together today…" Zeus announced over Apollo's fifth song, the crowed cheered as Apollo sat down looking disappointed
"…to carry out the sentence of three demigods who have been found guilty of treason against the gods.
Piper, daughter of Aphrodite (Piper looked up in shock, she had never know who her mother was) you have been sentenced to death by my lightening bolt, have you any last worlds?"
Piper shook her head, Zeus raised his bolt, Piper closed her eyes tight and a high voltage charge flew from the bolt and straight at Piper
A big golden shape flew down from the sky and Piper vanished, Zeus' charge hit nothing. The gods all gasped and looked at the sky as the Bronze Dragon flew away from Olympus
On the dragon Piper opened her eyes and saw Leo's big grin, he hugged her
"You don't mind if we borrow you do you? you didn't seem to be having much fun with the gods anyway" Leo's eyes lit up and his grin widened as Piper laughed
"This is Nico, he helped us get away, we're going to help him, he's found Percy Jackson, were going to bring him back and clear our names"
Piper smiled at Nico, she was too happy for words, she was safe for now…for now
"Mistress…the demigods approach" the servant said, he moved his hand over the Iris message and it vanished
"Good" The Mistress said, she walked over to a stone, chained to the stone was a boy
"Percy Jackson…Your friends are coming"