Hello everyone TomboyJessie13 here, NOW THIS IS THE LONGEST CHAPTER EVER XD!!! I should've finished this sooner if it wasn't for DeviantART, YouTube, My Kingdom Hearts short story, and/or Seven Crimes and Punishments, but here it is, keep in mind that I don't know anything about court cases and never in my life I gotten Jury duty, but I hope you enjoy it.

Uh oh, looks like Daddy's got trial on "Bring your Child to work" day,and I was so looking forward to it too, but I got an idea in order to see what daddy does, me and my new friend Nemesis disguised ourselves as a really tall man and attend jury,I just hope no one can recognize us.

-Michelle Marlon

Chapter 4

Trial Mishap

Gallerian puts on his trademark cloak and waited for his name to be mentioned. "Today of all days, trial has to start, I hope Michelle isn't angry with me" Gallerian thought to himself...

"All rise in the Presence of Master of the Court:Judge Gallerian Marlon!"

He heard the policemen in the courtroom yell for him and proceed to walk to his stand, seeing everyone standing before him, he sat at his chair, grabbed his gavel and banged it, saying:"Now, Let the trial begin".upon saying that, everyone took their seat, Nemesis and Michelle who hid in the trench coat had a hard time sitting down due to being two people in one body but then they accomplished it, though the person sitting behind them is confused by the "man's" strange behavior.

"This trial is presented over the case of Cassandra Sonika vs Annebeth Kingston" the policeman said, letting The Prosecutor take the spotlight.

"This woman of Lasaland, Asmodean is stand accused of the murder of her husband Patrick Sonika and her business partner Alfred Kingston, who's also the husband of Annebeth Kingston." The Prosecutor said. "However It was believed from an anonymous phone call that Mrs. Sonika was having an affair with Mr. Kingston behind her husband's back, the two men killed each other as a result leaving Mrs. Sonika alive, but the evidence show that it's not the case."

"I didn't do it I swear!" The accused woman yelled. "I love my husband with all my heart!"

"She's a liar! Don't listen to her!" Annebeth yelled.

"Order in the court!" Gallerian said banging his gavel at her.

"Really?" the Prosecutor asked Cassandra. "Then I supposed your Lawyer has an opening statement for that...where is your lawyer anyway?"

"He said he's going to be here."

Then out of nowhere, a phone started rang, no one knew where it's coming from, then Ma spoke.

"Opp, I know where it is!" Ma got out of her seat and climbed up to Gallerian's chair.

"What are you doing!?" Gallerian exclaimed in surprise.

"Answering the phone, duh." Ma said looking under Gallerian's chair and pulled out the phone, the people in court started to laugh, including the disguised Michelle and Nemesis.

"Mother is so silly" Nemesis said giggling, luckily the courtroom's laughter is loud enough to hide her girlish giggle.

"Why would you have the court room's phone in my chair?" Gallerian questioned.

"Your butt keeps it warm that's why, now keep quite everyone." Ma said.

Everyone kept their laughter's in as Ma answered the phone. "Hellooooo, Levianta's Dark Star Bureau's Court House, Kayo Sudou speaking." Ma said using her other name, Ma doesn't sound like a real name. "Oh really? I'm so sorry...alright, I'll let your client know, get well soon." She hangs up and puts the phone under Gallerian's chair again. "Cassandra's lawyer had came down with "The Mumps", he's going to be bed ridden for two weeks, plus a week of recovery." Much to Cassandra's dismay, Gallerian Spoke.

"Then where just going to assign a lawyer if that's the case."

"Well while your at it, I going to fix up the jury, because I don't remember assigning thirteen members of the jury." The Prosecutor said pointing at the disguised Michelle and Nemesis.

"Uh oh, we're toast." Nemesis whispered.

The Prosecutor walked up to the disguised Michelle and Nemesis and asked: "What's your name?"

Nemesis stood there in silence, then she spoke in a man's voice,"...Nate Braginsky."

"I don't see your name on the jury list...It's seems to be some mistake here, I suggest you sit with the minors over there."

"Oh OH! yes. I'm sorry, I'll get out of the way now."

Michelle began to move themselves out of the jury's stand to where the audience are..."Wait!" The Judge called over to them, now what? "Tell me...What's your opening statement of Cassandra's defense?"

"..."

"Say something..." Michelle whispered. Nemesis regained her composer, cleared her throat, and replied:

"...Yes your Honor, I don't know much about this woman, but from her eyes I see virtue, so until the jury can prove if she's guilty or not, I can trust her completely...why you asked?" Ma gave a interested smirk at the disguised girls upon Nemesis finishing her statement.

"Just asking,but from that statement, your Cassandra's assigned lawyer." Gallerian said with a devious smirk on his face, leaving both Nemesis and Michelle stunned, they shouldn't saw this coming when he asked.

"Uh oh." Michelle gulped, "This is not well thought out." Reluctantly, they moved to where Cassandra is sitting and sat down, with michelle sitting on the floor under the table fixing her shoulders from the weight she carried and Nemesis sitting on the chair, Cassandra wondered why the "Man" looks shorter sitting, but upon seeing Michelle under the table, she faced palmed knowing that she'll be doomed to be arrested and her young lawyer making a mistake.

"You gonna be kidding me." Cassandra said under her breath.

"What's the matter?" Nemesis asked in a man's voice.

"Don't play dumb kid, look at you and your friend, you kids wouldn't understand this!"

"Yes we do," Michelle said, "The Judge is my Daddy, and I read his law books while he's not looking."

"...SO?"

"So we're not as dumb as you think."

Cassandra didn't know what to say, but she has no other choice, she sighed "...alright, alright, you two are the bosses, but don't blame me if you two get caught by your "Daddy"."

"Trust us on this, we'll win this one." Nemesis said, making a victory hand sign.

"Defense calls Annebeth Kingston to the stand." The prosecutor said.

Annebeth was a young woman with wavy golden hair with blue eyes, and a white suit in a style similar to Cassandra's yellow-orange one. she went up to the police man and placed her hand on the Levn bible held by a police man.

"You swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god?" The Police man asked.

"I do." Annebeth replied and sat on the stands next to Gallerian's seat.

"Now we're to hear the story from their perspectives. So Annebeth, what is your side of the story regarding the death of your's and Mrs. Sonika's husbands?"

Annebeth took a deep breath and said: "Yes sir, me and my husband have been very close for years even after in death, we been through alot, through happy, sad, and painful momemts, we remaind close, and then came the Sonikas, at first we became great friends, my husband working with them at the agency, but what I didn't know is that Cassandra was the one working with my beloved Alfred, because of that he started treating me different, like nothing, it was all because of Cassandra, she seduced him and now he thinks I'm just nothing."

"That's not true!" Cassandra yelled defiently.

"Sit down Mrs. Sonika!" Gallerian called out banging his gavel, "Continue?"

Annebeth nodded, "I wanna try to reason with him and get him back, at that time I figured that Alfred would be at the Sonika residents... and my hunch was correct because by the time I got there, they're we're policemen at her home, they've already taken in Cassandra, I ferried to get a closer look at what the paramedics brought out, and what do I find? The bodies of both our husbands..." her voice started to shake up, "My beloved Alfred, she tried taking my husband for herself by killing themselves with something, and I can only assumed she'd killed Patrick just to get his money...that's my side of the story."

The people in the jury, including the minors we're now skeptical about Cassandra without the green haired woman given her side of the story.

"Thank you Mrs. Kingston." Gallerian said, "Alright Mrs. Sonika, what's your side of the story?"

Cassandra stood up, walked to the policeman, and placed her hand on the Levin Bible as the policeman asked:

"You swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god?"

She nodded and sat next to the judge and said: "It's true what Annebeth said, are families are very close, we even worked together, but I never in my life would ever betray my husband and vice versa, but Alfred tried coming on to me but I always refused, I tried telling Annebeth what was happening only for her to accuse me for being a temptress." She sighed, trying to keep her cool, "then one day I got home from work, the door was surprisingly unlocked and I found both our husbands on the ground, dead. I tried to call the police but then they came in, I wanted to tell them what, but then they arrested me for murder... and that's my side."

The people started talking amongst themselves, it's seems that one of them had turned their backs on the swear of telling the truth. "Thank you Mrs. Sonika." Gallerian said. "Two different stories, one murder case, one of you had lied. Only the evidence can tell the truth."

Cassandra returned to her seat as Nemesis wrote down everything she heard from their testimonies, "Everything that you said, is it true?" Nemesis asked.

"Yes, Annebeth is insane." Sonika said, "After what we been through."

"I don't blame you Mrs. Sonika." Michelle whispered, "Annebeth doesn't seem to be honest with her emotions."

"Exactly."

"Ms. Sudou, please bring in the evidence." Gallerian said to his friend.

She nodded and reached her hand inside her sleeve then..."Tada!" She pulled a bag with the evidence in it out of her sleeve, "don't worry folks I'm wearing gloves, fu fu fu." She then gave the evidence to the prosecutor.

"Thank you Sudou, from two of the defendants's perspective, we learned that both of their husbands were found dead on the living room floor of the Sonika residents, though from looking at the bodies there seemed to be no physical injuries, what's the real culprit's secret? This." He pulled out a small glass bottle from the bag, a lot of people had reconized that item on the spot due the gasping being heard. "A small empty glass vile which contains the most deadliest poison known to man: Gift." The people gasped in utter shock. "An item well known and used by the notorious Marchioness Margarita Blankenheim of Toragay, Elphegort, causing the Toragay serial killings of 609 and Turing the said town into a ghost town we all know today."

Nemesis then spoke in a man's voice, "Um, surly there are some more physical evidence besides the gift bottle, maybe some fingerprints?"

"I wish I could answer that Mr. Braginsky but no, there's no other physical evidence or fingerprints, obviously the culprit wanted to keep him or herself from being convicted.

"Well, since they're no witnesses to the crime." Gallerian said, "I guess the Jury will have to decide who is the more innocent one."

Cassandra face planted the table as Nemesis rubbed her back, "I'm sorry." Nemesis said

"No no don't blame yourself." Cassandra said child.

The jury went into the room to decide who shall be guilty.

"What do we do now?"

"I don't know, we needed more evidence to prove Cassandra's innocence." Michelle whispered.

fifteen minutes later-

The jury returned to the courtroom to decide who will be guilty or not, anxiety has settled upon the two girls and Cassandra.

"Has the jury reached a verdict?" Gallerian asked the jury foreman.

"We have your honor." one of the Jury members said, he has short blond hair and green eyes. "We find the defendant Cassandra Sonika...guilty of murder, possession of illegal drugs, and unlawful seduction."

"NO!" Michelle squeaked.

"ABJECTION!" Nemesis yelled, almost breaking her male voice.

"Overruled." Gallerian said sternly' "I hereby sentence Cassandra 60 years in prison with no chance of parole." He bangs the gavel, "Court Adjourned."

Nemesis and Michelle couldn't believe what just happened.

Annebeth then walked up to Cassandra was being apprehended by the cops and said, "That's what happens when ruin my family, I hope your proud of yourself." she said poking her chest, suddenly, bits of herbs started to fall out of her sleeve. evidence? or coincidence? There's only one way for the two girls to find out. Nemesis got on to Michelle's shoulders and wobbled her way to Annebeth and asked:

"What is this?" Nemesis asked pointing at the contents on the ground.

"Oh um, th-they're herbs for m-my tea." Annebeth said hesitantly.

"Mmmmm."

"Hold on." Ma said, "There content in the gift bottle like that."

The Prosecutor took the pieces of the "herbs" and brought them to Ma for comparison, "It's a perfect match." The Prosecutor said.

The court room gasped at shock, especially Cassandra, how could she had murdered her own husband and Cassandra's?

"Please I can explain this!" Annebeth said in a panicky tone.

"What's wrong with your wrist." Cassandra asked noticing a dried cut on her wrist.

The policeman holding Cassandra let go of her, looked at her wrist then showed it to Ma asking: "Any blood in the Gift?"

"Well history of Margarita Blankenheim did say that the key ingredient is blood in order to make the Gift less recognizable but very effective."

Everyone gasped and started talking amongst themselves.

"I believe now we know who the real culprit is." Gallerian said as he smirked.

"Annebeth why would you do this to me!?" Cassandra yelled at her old friend in disbelief.

Annebeth broke free and stood in the middle..."YES! It's true! I murdered mine's and Sonika's husbands!" The courtroom feel silent, "I loved Alfred, but he never even shown me any kindness even BEFORE he died, he started treating me badly because of how I looked, when we met the Sonikas he started paying attention to her more than me! So I decided to get rid of him see how he likes it, I was going to do the same with Cassandra, but that be too good for her, so I decided to make her suffer by killing Patrick as well, knowing that if I can't have a loving husband then no one will! and it would've worked after getting rid of those fingerprints."

"So you murdered your husband who was philandering behind your back with a married woman?" Gallerian asked.

"...Yes."

"...Get her out of my Court Room, your free to go Mrs. Sonika."

The police let go of Cassandra who was shaken from the revelation of her own friend betraying her like that, but before the police was able to get a hold of her, Annebeth took out another Gift bottle from her breast pocket with a crazed look in her eyes and a psychotic smile on her face.

"BACK OFF! I GOT A GIFT IN MY HAND!" She proclaimed wickedly, "BUT NOT JUST ANY GIFT, THE SAME GIFT THAT DESTROYED ALL OF TORAGAY, AN AIRBORNE CONCOCTION THAT'S MORE DEADLIER THAN THE GULA DISEASE!"

Everyone was now panicking, "She's gone insane...DON'T JUST STAND THERE IDIOTS GET HER!" Gallerian Yelled at the cops.

"NO! IF YOU GET TOO CLOSE! I'LL DROP IT, AND EVERYONE WILL DIE WITH ME!"

Now it's turning from a murder case into a hostage situation, everyone was motionless and scared, Annebeth's smile however melted away when someone was pointing a sword at her back, she slowly turned and saw a purple headed man dress in black behind her with a Eastern Sword in hand. Glaring at the crazed woman with his dark blue eyes.

"Don't...you...dare." He growled.

While distracted by his menacing glare, the disguised Nemesis and Michelle grabbed the Gift from the woman, holding it up in victory, everyone cheered upon disabling the psychopath. Nemesis gave the Gift to the Prosecutor while telling him to keep it safe, Gallerian sighed in relief as Ma was clapping with excitement saying:

"Now that's what I call a show Marlon."

Gallerian nodded at his happy-go-lucky friend as motioned his to the cops, telling them to take Annebeth out of his courthouse, Gallerian turned his head to the young samurai, "Thank you for insisting us Mr..."

"Octo," He answered putting his katana away, "Lieutenant Octo, my group and I came after getting a tip that someone had smuggled Gift into this courthouse."

"Ah, Thank you very much."

A few minutes later

After the excitement went down, Michelle and Nemesis went back into the halls in hopes that no one at the Day Care noticed their disappearances.

"That was amazing Nemi-Chan!" Michelle said happily

"How?" Nemesis asked

"We get to see what Ma and Daddy do, stopped a criminal, and saved an innocent life."

"Yeah..." she nodded and smiled, "We make a good team Michelle." Michelle ain't such a bad person, she guessed that she'll get used to the idea of having a sister after all.

"Now we just needed to get back into that Day Care."

"...Hey Michelle, there's something I needed to tell you."

"Hm?"

"Well, it's about your Dad, and-"

"Oh there you are Mr. Braginski."

Nemesis was cut off when she heard Ma coming for them, and to make matters worse, Gallerian was with her too.

"Oh uh, Hello your honor and Ms Sudou." Nemesis said in a man's voice. "What can I do you two for?"

"Nothing much," Gallerian answered, "We just wanna give you our thanks and we appreciate the assistance."

"Ah is that so? Well I am happt to of service to you both."

"HELLO!? NEMESIS! MICHELLE!" They heard a voice in the hallway, it was the Caretaker, it seems she found the two girls missing.

"What's wrong?" Gallerian asked.

"Ahh, oooh, p-p-please don't be angry your honor, b-but I can't your's and Ma's daughters." The Caretaker was indeed a nervous wreak when she's in front of the Judge, afraid that he'll throw her in jail, but as expected, he flipped his lid.

"YOU LOST MY DAUGHTER!?"

"I-I'm sorry your excellency, I just don't know how it happened."

While it was happening the two girls are trying slip away, however...

"Hmmm." Ma mused, "I think I have an idea where they went." She looked around for a bit..."Opp, there they are." She said as she walked behind Nemesis and Michelle and removed her hat and mop wig, "Don't worry, they're in our care."

The two girls we're frozen, they've been caught. Gallerian recognized the green headed as Ma's daughter. "Nemesis?"

Ma then removed the coat and reviled Michelle with the Elphe girl on her shoulders. "Uh oh."

"Uh oh is right." Gallerian said crossing his arm.

"The last thing I remember that young men don't wear small girl shoes." Ma said smiling.

Wonder what's going to happen to those to girls now? Well see soon enough.

END CHAPTER.

I hope you like what I wrote, I'll try to get chapter 5 soon. CHAO!

*Annebeth and Alfred are based off the vocaloids Sweet Ann and Big Al of PowerFX, the surname Kingston being derived from King, the surname of Big Al's voice provider Michael King.

**Braginski was a surname inspired from Hetalia's Russia, which is the country Levianta was inspired by.

***You already read the Sloth Novel and my Seven Crimes and Punishments Fanfic to know about the Airborne Gift.