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Title: The Trial of the Chosen – Living in a World of Mutants

Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians / Heroes of Olympus; AU

PJatO Disclaimer: All rights reserved to Rick Riordan for he created the awesomeness that is Nico di Angelo. And everything else related to Percy Jackson and the Olympians / Heroes of Olympus. Aside from the Gods, of course. They are all copyright by the old Greeks. This fanfiction on the other hand is entirely mine. No money is made with this, though reviews are more than welcomed.

Warnings: shounen-ai, underage, explicit intercourse, masturbation, anal, hetero, shoujo-ai, mutants

Main Pairing: Nico/Percy

Side Pairings: Octavian/Percy, Leo/Percy, Ethan/Percy, Jason/Percy, Piper/Annabeth, Charles/Silena, Chris/Clarisse, Frank/Hazel, Grover/Juniper, Malcolm/Katie, Tyson/Ella, Jake/Will, Lou/Miranda, Drew/Thalia/Bianca

Percy Jackson Characters:

The Sirens of Poseidon: Perseus Jackson, Piper McLean, Silena Beauregard, Drew Tanaka, Lacy Hunnigan, Mitchell Logan, Tyson Jackson

The Fighters of Ares: Nico di Angelo, Clarisse la Rue, Frank Zhang, Chris Rodriguez, Bianca di Angelo, Hazel Levesque, Reyna Anderson, Mrs. O'Leary, Aurum, Argentum

The Crooks of Hephaestus: Leo Valdez, Nyssa Black, Charles Beckendorf, Jake Mason, Travis Stoll, Connor Stoll, Grover Underwood

The Hunters of Zeus: Jason Grace, Thalia Grace, Zoe Nightshade, Calypso Nightshade, Phoebe Burge, Hylla Anderson, Kinzie Cohen

The Avengers of Hermes: Ethan Nakamura, Annabeth Chase, Lou Ellen, Katie Gardner, Miranda Gardner, Juniper Gardner, Malcolm Cage, Luke Castellan

The Seers of Apollo: Octavian Simmons, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Ella Dare, Will Solace, Austin Barton, Kayla Hein, Alabaster C. Torrington

Court: Counselor Paul Blofis, Judge Chiron Brunner, Counselor Nancy Bobofit

Summary: Poseidon, one of the most powerful mutants, used his son to spy on his enemies. But what after they got caught? How will Percy struggle through the trial? And through love?

The Trial of the Chosen

Living in a World of Mutants

1. The Beginning of the Case

/Piper\

"I will repeat the question only one more time; Why should he need you to befriend the heirs of the Big Seven, Perseus?", asked the prosecutor with a dangerous look in her eyes.

I bite my nails nervously as I watch my best friend practically dozing off in the court. Oh, why can't that boy stay focused for longer than ten minutes? Damn his ADHD!

"Calm down, Piper, you're ruining your nails", chuckled a beautiful blonde softly.

She rested her hand on the knee of the girl next to her. A young native American, with wild brown hair and different shades of blue dyed into it. The blonde had similar streaks in his hair, only hers were pink. She smiled soothingly at her obviously younger friend.

"I know, Silena", whispered Piper, finally stopping her nails-biting.

Her soft, blue eyes seemed to shimmer in other colors as she focused her worried gaze on the boy being interrogated by the mean counselor. He was stunningly beautiful, but then again that was a trait they simply possessed. His sea-green eyes where shining in the brightest color, probably the first thing Piper had noticed about him back when she had first met him. His black hair was ranged with bright green streaks, fitting Silena's and Piper's. It was their trademark.

Be good, Green Siren. We know you can do that. I know you can do that. Even if we may loose Poseidon to the government, they are not going to take you away from us, Percy.

"You don't need to be so worried", murmured Silena, knitting her eyebrows.

"Yeah, right", snorted the Asian girl on Silena's other side.

"Shut up, Drew", scolded Piper slightly irritated.

There were five of them sitting in one row, like a little army, all staring intensely at their fellow member being questioned. On the outer left sat the Asian with red streaks in her black hair and nearly brown eyes, though hers seemed to shift too. Next to her was Silena, obviously the oldest and also the leader of their little group. On Silena's other side was Piper, followed by a shorter blonde girl with two pig-tails and orange streaks in her hair. She was holding hands with a young brunette boy with crass yellow streaks. The two were the youngest.

"Because I'm his heir and he simply wanted for me to make new contacts."

Smooth lie, Percy. We'll get out of this together. I pry my hand free from Silena to bite my nails again. His green eyes seem to glow and the green and blue color of them seem to swirl. Oh no, not a good idea! If they catch you doing this, you're outed! They can't know!

"What is he doing there?!", hissed Piper irritated. "Silly, what is he doing there?! Why?!"

"He's nervous", mumbled Silena worried, now biting her own nails. "He'll stop... I hope..."

"Percy!", exclaimed the smaller blonde on Piper's other side, bolting up.

"Lacy, sit down!", hissed the native American irritated and pulled at her hand. "Doesn't help!"

The judge, an older man with wild grayish brown hair, glared dangerously. "Young woman, I do not tolerate this behavior in my courtroom. One more interruption and you're out of here."

"Yes, sir", mumbled Lacy with a bright blush, averting her eyes.

A snickering behind her made Piper glare slightly. She turned to look at the blonde.

Annabeth, keep out of this. Oh, Percy... I will never forgive you for introducing me to her! Why is she so... clever and rich and all of the things I've never been...

"Take my questions more serious!", glared the counselor darkly, interrupting Piper's thoughts and directing the attention back to the trial at hands. "How did you end up with your father and his plots? How did you get pulled into all of this to begin with? Are you one of them?"

Time for a smooth lie, Percy. That's one thing you've always been good at.

/Percy\

"You see, my mother died two years ago. With no one to care for me, my father tracked me down and took me in to care for me. I feel it's my duty to pay him back for his kindness by adapting to his society ways", smiled the green-eyed boy charmingly. "Or do I look like one of those mutants?"

Oh, you have no idea who I am and what I'm capable of. Even though this was by far not as much of a lie as I would have liked it to be. But my mother's death is in the files...

Mom...

I can feel my thoughts drifting back to a different time, slowly...

I shake my head slightly as I feel the intense glare of my best friend on me. Piper looks worried, sitting between Silena and Lacy. They actually all look worried. Aside from Drew. But then again, she mostly always looks annoyed and nearly never worried...

Aside from back then when we first met, perhaps... But then again, I've been through a rough time when I first met my girls. It had been after my mother's death... so shortly after it...

"Mommy, mommy, please", I had pleaded in my head.

But all pleading was useless, the light had long faded from her blue, blue eyes. Because the water had long filled her lungs. I will never understand how I had lasted that long. But the water filling the car seemed more interested in ending my mother's life than ending my own.

I stayed in that car for an amount of time that should not be humanly possible before someone came to my rescue. A bystander, jumping into the river, cracking the window and pulling me out. He had saved my life. But still, the first reaction he had received from me was a fearful scream. That scar running down his face, those extremely mischievous, plotting eyes. I had to shudder.

"You're safe now, pretty boy", smiled the handsomely creepy stranger. "I'm Luke."

"My... my mom", was all I had been able to get out.

"Young man, you are spacing out again", warned the judge with sharp eyes.

He looked like a nice man. In any other time and place, he may have been a mentor.

"I'm sorry, Judge Brunner", mumbled Percy ashamed and averted his eyes like a little kid. "But the thought of my mother's death..."

The judge sighed and nodded. It was pretty hard to stay angry at the green-eyed teenager.

I don't even need my powers to influence most people. It's amusing how easy they can be manipulated. The normal people at least. With mutants, we're having a bit more of a hard time. My girls and I. But with practice, it comes easy to even take control of those. I remember how much of a problem it was for me to meet others like me.

Over the centuries we've been called many different names – tempters, succubi, sirens...

But the last is with what my girls and I stick. We call ourselves the Sirens.

The ones controlling the weak-minded, influencing them, seducing them into giving us whatever it is that we desire. Obeying our every command. It is what makes us outcasts in our own society. Even mutants fear the Sirens. Not like others with extreme strength or the control over an element, no, a different kind of fear. The fear for their free will.

When I first met the mutant society, other mutants and especially so the Sirens, it had been a rough time for me. It was odd to be shunned for something you're not at fault for. Then again, who can blame them for their fear? We can easily tempt those who want to be tempted. And with our looks, the person that doesn't want to be tempted by us has yet to be born.

My eyes wander over to my friends again while Prosecutor Bobofit falls into another one of her monologues about my bad childhood and how my father forced me into prostitution.

Funny. The men I was 'forced' into sleeping with, they all came too. Probably all set on tearing me apart personally once this is over. I had spied on them and betrayed their trust, after all...

/Piper|Flashback\

I will never forget how I met that stubborn boy for the first time. How I met my best friend.

"Piper, I'm busy with an assignment for Poseidon", declared a two-years younger Silena, finishing her make-up. "But his son just arrived. So since I don't have time and I doubt Drew will be sensitive enough to take care of a kid who just lost his mother, you're on."

"Just so you can go on a date with Beckendorf?!", complained Piper with a pout.

She crossed her arms over her chest and glared, falling onto the couch of their apartment, right between Mitchell and Lacy. The two youngest grinned at her.

"You know perfectly well that I have to get into connection with Charlie so I may get a little insight into Hephaestus' whereabouts and plans", chided Silena irritated. "It's work, not fun."

"Right, and all that 'Oh, Charlie' was only business too", snickered Lacy.

"'And the way he kisses' and what about 'And the way he holds me'", grinned Mitchell.

"Stop it, you little buggers!", warned Silena and blushed.

Piper grinned softly as she watched the older girl leaving the little, dirty apartment. Their hide-out. Or rather, the place Poseidon hid them from others. Understandable so. They were his most valuable assets after all. Piper braided her dirty-brown hair with one of her blue streaks.

"E—Excuse me, my father send me here..."

I looked up to see a kid. Fourteen years old boy with wild black hair, hiding his beautiful green eyes. He was afraid and uncomfortable, not knowing anyone or anything and it made me remember how I had arrived here all on my own and having no clue what was going on.

"Hey, I'm Piper, those are Mitchell and Lacy. And if you see an Asian that looks like she got a stick so far up her ass that it might come out her mouth, that's Drew", grinned Piper and stood.

"I'm Percy. It's nice to meet you... I guess...", mumbled the boy and bit his lips.

The native American girl came to stand in front of Percy, looking him critically up and down before pushing his long bangs out of his eyes to gasp. Those eyes were the most unique she had ever seen.

"Lacy, get me the scissors! I'll take care of these hair", smirked the brunette. "And the dye!"

"Which color?", asked Mitchell eagerly.

"Well... We've already covered blue, pink, red, orange and yellow... Doesn't leave many options, does it?", chuckled Piper. "Green. To go with his eyes."

"What are you talking about?", asked Percy stunned and confused.

Piper rolled her eyes and pushed the boy down onto the toilet seat. He looked uncomfortable. But then again, that did most people seeing their apartment. It was cheap, but so highly decorated that it looked like a trip into twilight zone on LSD.

"Don't worry", grinned the blue-streaked girl sweetly. "You'll become a Siren."

"A... Siren...?", whispered Percy stunned.

"Yeah", grinned the little blonde girl bringing the scissors. "You're one of us now."

"Part of our family", smiled Mitchell broadly, giving the green hair-dye over to Piper.

Back then it may have been only a phrase to make Percy more comfortable for now. No one would have guessed that he would be a non-replaceable part of our family within such a short time. He soon became a brother to us, someone to protect and someone who was also willing to protect us. The ties of our family go deeper than blood in many cases.

And that's why we're here today. We will not let anyone take Percy away from us. Even if it may mean to expose and endanger all of us. A Siren will never be left behind.

My eyes trail back to the row behind us and my heart aches just the tiniest bit. Annabeth is sitting there, with as watchful eyes as everyone. But I know she's certainly only here to make sure Percy doesn't spill any of her boss' secrets. As are the others from the other tribes of the Big Seven...