Emily felt sick as the cavern went into darkness, Emily knew she was still in the cavern for she could still see Pasiphaë standing there as well as Clytius. Clytius was still standing by the doors of death and Emily knows that they have to do something to make sure Percy, James, Persephone and Annabeth make it back alive. The mist was doing something but Emily wasn't sure of what Pasiphaë was doing with it but she didn't like it not one bit. Hazel had than took a step forward but Hazel had bumped into a wall that shouldn't have been there. Leo and Emily had touched his hands against the stone wall, Emily felt panic enter her heart when she touched the stone. For Emily realized what Pasiphaë was doing, Emily had never thought of seeing this place ever again not since the battle that had took place in camp a couple of years ago.

"What the heck? Where are we?" As Emily expected that a corridor had stretched out to their left and right and torches were fluttered in irow sconces. The air smelled like an old tomb, Gale had barked angrily and it seem that Gale was digging her claws into Hazel.

"Yes, I know, it's an illusion." Leo had pounded on the wall.

"Pretty solid illusion." Emily knew that this was not an illusion, but she wished it was an illusion.

"It is not an illusion at all. It is the Labyrinth, she is remaking the labyrinth." Hazel and Leo had looked at Emily when she had said that and Pasiphaë had laughed when Emily had said that before she had spoke.

"Very good, Elizabeth. I am surprised that Hecate hadn't picked you instead of Hazel." Emily had banged her hand against the wall when Pasiphaë had said that.

"Trust me, if she did, you would be regretting this." Emily felt anger inside of her, she didn't like the fact that someone else was using the labyrinth as a way to defeat the demigods even to trap three of them. Pasiphaë had chuckled when Emily had said that.

"Brave, Elizabeth. But Gaia has plans for you when you reach amount Olympus, that I am sure." Leo had started tapping the wall with some kind of hammer but he turned and frowned at both Hazel and Emily.

"What now? I thought the Labyrinth collapsed during that battle at Camp Half-Blood – like, it was connected to Daedalus's life force or something, and then he died." Emily was about ready to respond but Pasiphaë had best Emily to it,

"Ah, but I am still alive. You credit Daedalus with all the maze's secrets? I breathed magical life into his Labyrinth. Daedalus was nothing compared to me – the immortal sorceress, daughter of Helios, sister of Circe! Now the Labyrinth will be my domain."

"It's an illusion, we just have to break through it." As Hazel spoke that the walls were getting more solid and the smell of the old to be were getting stronger as well.

"Too late, too late. The maze is already awake. It will spread under the skin of the earth once more while your mortal world is levelled. You demigods … you heroes … will wander its corridors, dying slowly of thirst and fear and misery. Or perhaps, if I am feeling merciful, you will die quickly, in great pain!" Holes had appeared in the floor under their feet and a row of spikes had shot up impaling the ceiling, Hazel and grabbed both Leo and Emily before the spikes could hit them.

"Run!"

"Where are you going, young sorceress? Running from an illusion?" None of them had responded when Pasiphaë had said that. Spikes kept shooting towards the Ceiling as they ran. Than Hazel had pulled them down a side corridor and they leaped over a trip wire before they had stopped in front of a pit.

"How deep is that?" Emily was worried now, this was not her fight, it was Hazel's fight, Emily wished that she could help Hazel.

"Eight minutes now, I'd love to see you survive, truly. That would prove you worthy sacrifices to Gaia in Athens. But then, of course, we wouldn't need your friends in the elevator." Emily looked at Hazel as was thinking but than Pasiphaë had spoke once more. "Seven minutes now. If only we had more time! So many indignities I'd like you to suffer." But it seem that Hazel had an idea.

"Leo, Elizabeth, we're going to jump."

"But –"

"It's not as far as it looks. Go!" Hazel had grabbed both Emily's and Leo's hands and they laughed themselves across the pit. Emily wasn't sure what Hazel was planning and Emily was feeling sick till they landed. Emily had followed hazel's gaze and nearly yelped. Where the pit was a three inch crack that was a very easy jump.

"Come on!"

"Oh, dear, no. You'll never survive that way. Six minutes." The ceiling had started to crack apart, suddenly there was a new tunnel that was leading to the left. Emily understood what was happening, Hazel was using the mist just like Pasiphaë was. The three of them had dashed the the new tunnel,

"You really aren't very good at this, my dear. The floor had collapsed under them, Emily had managed to jump to one side as well as Hazel but they had to drag Leo with them though. They had veered back the way they had come. But this time it was full of poisonous gas and Emily started to hold her breath before Hazel had spoke. So that Hazel only warned Leo.

"Leo, hold your breath." They went though the toxic fog, Emily's eyes started to water as they ran though the fog.

"Five minutes. Alas! If only I could watch you suffer longer." Suddenly they entered a corridor with fresh air and Emily had let go of her breath but spher breathing was not as heavy as the other two thankfully. Leo had coughed as he breathed,

"If only she would shut up." They ducked under a bronze wore and the walls of the tunnel had started to close in on both sides, Emily expected Hazel to stop them but the walls seem to be going faster. The floor was shaking and the ceiling was cracking. The three of them were running for their lives. Emily had Nico idea of where this tunnel was leading them to but she hoped that Hazel knew where it was going.

"A pity, I wish I could kill you and your friends in the elevator, but Gaia has insisted that two of you must be kept alive until the Feast of Hope, when your blood will be put to good use! Ah, well. I will have to find other victims for my Labyrinth. You two have been second-rate failures." The three of them had come to a stop, in front of them was a chasm and it was so wide that Emily couldn't see the other side. Emily could hear hissing, Emily was sure that at the bottom of the chasm were snakes, thousands of them.

"Okay, okay. The walls are moving parts. They gotta be mechanical. Give me a second."

"No, Leo. There's no way back."

"Besides most,of the traps that were in or are in, the labyrinth are magic. The labyrinth trends to trick demigods."

"But –"

"Hold my hand, On three." Emily had grabbed hazel's hand when she said that, Emily wasn't sure what Hazel was up to but hopefully it would be better than what was happening.

"But –"

"Three!"

"What?" Emily and Hazel leaped into the pit and Hazel was pulling Leo with her. Both Emily and Hazel tried to ignore his screaming, but it was difficult though. Emily could hear Pasiphaë laughing with delight. Suddenly Emily felt Hazel twist in midair and Emily hit a chute or something in the darkness. The three of them had slid down it and into the cavern and the landed on top of Pasiphaë.

"Ack!" Pasiphaë's head had smacked against the floor as they landed on her. Emily had managed to get out first and took out her hair pin and made it into her sword, Pasiphaë was second and she backed away from them. Emily smirked as she looked Pasiphaë, her hairdo was bent sideways making it look like a cake had fell off the table and her dress was smeared with grease stains from Leo's tool belt. "You miserable wretches!" He maze was gone and Clytius was standing his back to them watching he doors of death. Emily knew that they didn't have long before James, Persephone, Annabeth and Percy were up here.

"You must really hate demigods. We always get the better of you, don't we, Pasiphaë?"

"Nonsense! I will tear you apart! I will –"

"We're always pulling the rug out from under your feet. Your husband betrayed you. Theseus killed the Minotaur and stole your daughter Ariadne. Now two second-rate failures have turned your own maze against you. But you knew it would come to this, didn't you? You always fall in the end." Pasiphaë had took a stop back and fingered her necklace before Pasiphaë had started to wail.

"I am immortal! You cannot stand against me!"

"You can't stand at all. Look." Emily had followed to where Hazel was pointing and saw that there was a trapdoor that was opened under earth Pasiphaë. Emily smiled when she had saw that, Pasiphaë had fell, screaming, into a bottomless pit. Than he floor had solidified and Pasiphaë was gone,

"How did you –" Just than the elevator had dinged. Clytius had stepped back from the controls. Before Hazel or Leo could do anything that Emily had turned her sword back into a hair pin and throw it at the up button. When the hair pin hit the button that the doors opened with a hiss and black smoke and billowed out. Instead of four bodies spilled out face first that six bodies had spilled out face first, emily looked at the six and realized that she knew who the last two were even though Hazel and Leo may not know. But her stare didn't linger long on them when the giant's smoke had went over the six that were in front of the doors.

"Clytius, you've lost. Let them go, or you'll end up like Pasiphaë.' The ginst had tilted his head and than Annabeth had lurched like she hit a power line and she rolled on her back and black smoke had was coming form her mouth.

"I am not Pasiphaë. You have won nothing."

"Stop that!" Emily felt terror as she watched Annabeth and Percy and Percy talking in a voice that was no his own like Annabeth.

"Not quite dead. terrible shock to the mortal body, I would imagine, coming back from Tartarus. They'll be out for a while. I'll tie them up and take them to Porphyrion in Athens. Just the sacrifice we need. Unfortunately, that means I have no further use for you two."

"Oh, yeah? Well, maybe you got the smoke, buddy, but I've got the fire." Emily was about ready to tell him no when his hands had blazed with fire. Leo had this shot columns of flame at the giant, like Emily expected that Clytius' smoky aura had absorbed the fire on impact. The smoke had traveled down the fire and covered Leo in darkness, Emily was was starting to panic. It was bad enough that Clytius had control over the six but he had control over Leo. Sure fire was Clytius's weakness but it wasn't just any fire was hai weakness for Emily's ability fire was to weak to use I he giant and Leo's ability was about the same strength as hers. Emily had watched in horror as Leo fell to his knees clutching at his roar.

"No!" Hazel ran towards Leo, Emily wanted to do the same thing but Hazel didn't get it till Gale had chattered urgently at Hazel. Clytius had than spoke though Leo,

"I would not. You do not understand, Hazel Levesque. I devour magic. I destroy the voice and the soul. You cannot oppose me." The black fog had started to spread towards Emily and Hazel.

"F-fire. You're supposed to be weak against it." Hazel had this looked at Emily. "So so ring, you have the same ability." Emily was shaking her head before Hazel had finished of what she was saying.

"True, but I can't use it against him, he is too strong for my fire. And Leo's fire is at my strength. Another kind of fire is needed." The ginst had chuckled and used Annabeth this time,

"You were counting on that, eh? It is true I do not like fire. But Emily Blackthrone is right. Neither Leo Valdez's or her flames are not strong enough to trouble me." Than somewhere behind Hazel and Emily at there was a soft lyrical voice that spoke and it was a voice that Emily knows all too well.

"What about my flames, old friend?" Emily watched as Gale squeaked and jumped from hazel's shoulder and scampered to the entrance of the cavern of where a blonde woman stood in a black dress, mist was swirling around the woman, Emily smiled when she saw Hecate and the giant had stumbled backwards bumping into the doors of death.

"You."

"Me." Hecate had spread her arms and blazing torches appeared in her hands. "It has been millennia since I fought at the side of a demigod, but Hazel Levesque has proven herself worthy. What do you say, Clytius? Shall we play with fire?"

Emily wished that Clytius had ran, but Emily figured that he wouldn't run. But he managed to recover and stomped his foot, the floor had shook and the Blake smoke had covered the seven that were on the floor. The only exception was Leo and the giant's gleaming eyes that was coming from the smoke, Emily was grateful that Hecate didn't pick her. Besides Emily doesn't think she has the potential to use the mist or magic not like Hazel or Hecate. Clytius had than spoke though Leo.

"Bold words. You forget, goddess. When we last met, you had the help of Hercules and Dionysus – the most powerful heroes in the world, both of them destined to become gods. Now you bring … these?" Emily was close of choking in tears as she watched Leo's unconscious body contorted in pain. Emily wanted to shoot output flames like Leo but she knows better for she would end up like Leo. Not only that but this was not her fight or at least at the moment if at all. It seem that Leo being in pain bothered Hazel as well.

"Stop it!" Emily wasn't sure if Hazel had planned on what happened next or not and Emily felt like she was going to panic when she saw Leo dissolved. However Leo had appeared at Hazel's feet along with Percy, Annabeth, James, Persephone and he other two Emily didn't expect to see coming from the doors when the doors had open, Daedalus and Lauren. Of how and why Daedalus and Lauren were Tartarus were beyond Emily, in a way Emily was glad to see them but she hates to see the like this though. The mist was whirled around Hazel and it was spilling over the stones and it surrounded, Emily and the others that were around Hazel. Where the mist meet the smoke that it steam and sizzled. Leo was the first one to recover, he opened his eyes and started to gasp.

"Wh-what …?" Annabeth, Percy, James, Persephone, Lauren and Daedalus remained motionless, from where Emily was that she could tell that they were starting to breath more normally. Than Hecate had stepped forward before she she spoke to the giant.

"You're right, Clytius. Hazel Levesque is not Hercules or Dionysus, but I think you will her find just as formidable." The go at had opened his mouth but nothing had come out, it was clear that Clytius needed someone to talk though in order to talk. Emily smirked as Clytius sneered in frustration. It was as Clytius sneered that Leo tried to sit up.

"What's going on? What can I –" Hazel had drew her sword before she spoke,

"Watch Percy and Annabeth. Stay behind me. Stay in the Mist."

"But –" the look that Hazel gave Leo was severe, more severe than Hazel had realized.

"Yeah, got it. White Mist good. Black smoke bad." Emily had helped Leo pulled he six away from Hazel, Hecate and Clytrius, Emily had made sure that they remained in the mist. Hazel had started to advance and the giant had spread his arms. The ceiling had shook, than Clytrius' voice had echoed though the room reminding her of when Rachel spoke her prophecies but it was much more scarier since it wasn't coming from his mouth.

"Formidable? Because the girl has learned your magic tricks, Hecate? Because you allow these weaklings to hide in your Mist?" Thins a sword had appeared in the giant's hand, it looked much like Nico's but it was fictive times the six. "I do not understand why Gaia would find any of these demigods worthy of sacrifice. I will crush them like empty nutshells." It seem that made Hazel angry of which Emily couldn't blame her for the walls made a crackling sound and gems had went toward the giant pun copying though his armor. His voice bellowed with pain and ichor was trickled from a wound on his right arm and there was a murderous expression on his face,

"You. You worthless –"

"Worthless? I'd say Hazel Levesque knows a few tricks even I could not teach her." Hazel was still standing in front of them, Clytrius had pulled a diamond out and tossed it aside, the wound had closed.

"So, daughter of Pluto, do you really believe Hecate has your interests at heart? Circe was a favourite of hers. And Medea. And Pasiphaë. How did they end up, eh?" Emily had realize that Persephone, James, Daedalus, Annabeth and Lauren were started to stir and Percy was saying something that astounded like Bob. Emily had understand of what Percy was talking about and that Bob had stay behind to make sure that Percy and Annabeth would make it. Clytius had stepped forward holding his sword at his side, Emily knew that Clytrius would try to get Hazel not to trust Hecate. Emily would admit that since the last Titan war that Emily was weary of Hecate, but Emily was slowly to trusting Hecate again. Though Emily couldn't blame Hecate for switching sides, like many of the minor god and goddess as the demigods that went unclaimed or were children of the minor gods or goddess. "Hecate will not tell you the truth. She sends acolytes like you to do her bidding and take all the risk. If by some miracle you incapacitate me, only then will she be able to set me on fire. Then she will claim the glory of the kill. You heard how Bacchus dealt with the Alodai twins in the Colosseum. Hecate is worse. She is a Titan who betrayed the Titans. Then she betrayed the gods. Do you really think she will keep faith with you?"

"I cannot answer his accusations, Hazel. This is your crossroads. You must choose."

"Yes, crossroads. Hecate offers you obscurity, choices, vague promises of magic. I am the anti-Hecate. I will give you truth. I will eliminate choices and magic. I will strip away the Mist, once and for all, and show you the world in all its true horror." Leo struggled to his feet, Emily was about ready to pull him back but he had spoke,

"I'm loving this guy. Seriously, we should keep him around for inspirational seminars." Leo's hands had lit up. "Or I could just light him up."

"Leo, no. My father's temple. My call."

"Yeah, okay. But –" Before Leo could finished that Annabeth had managed to wheeze.

"Hazel …" Emily was glad that Annabeth was all right, it seem the others were starting to open their eyes. "The chains …"

"You can't seriously believe you have the strength. What will you do, Hazel Levesque – pelt me with more rubies? Shower me with sapphires?" Emily had thought that Hazel might tell Clytrius off or something. Emily wasn't sure of what Hazel might say to him, but Hazel had did something that Emily didn't expect her to do and neither did Clytrius. Hazel had raised her Spatha and charged at him, by the time that he raised his sword that Hazel had ducked between his legs and jabbed her Spatha of where it was not very pleasant. Emily wasn't sure if she would done that or not. Clytrius had roared and arched his back and he managed to get say from Hazel, mist was swirling itself around Hazel. Hecate was assisting Hazel or that what Emily figure for with what Hazel did not too long ago that Hazel may not have the strength to keep up the mist around herself. Hazel had ran to to the doors of death and he blade shattered the chains on the left side.

Clytrius had yelled no and he hit her with hai sword, Emily had thought that she was going to be cut in half but thankfully that didn't happen, but it had sent Hazel flying and Hazel hit a wall and Emily was sure that there was some broken bones from that. Leo he screamed Hazel's name and he was about ready to run to Hazel but Emily had caught his hand and stopped him. Leo had looked bald at Emily, the look Emily gave him told him that this was not his fight and that it was Hazel's. Leo still looked worried but he merely nodded. Emily had pulled him back to the ground as Clytrius looked at Leo and Emily as well as the other six. Emily had wrapped her arms around Leo's waist and buried her head in his chest and she felt Leo wrapped his arms around her. Emily felt safe and felt comfort coming from Leo as he held Emily against him, that if Clytrius was going to kill them that she would either rather die as she was or with her sword in her hand. But Emily didn't want to move and the sword she usually uses was by the doors, she didn't dare use her powers to have the poppy grow towards her for she wasn't sure if they would work. Emily knows that Hecate was nearby but Emily wasn't sure what she was doing but than Emily had heard Hazel croak. "Clytrius!"

That seem to caught Clytrius attention as Emily's and Leo's, Emily had lifted her head and saw that Hazel was standing up, but it was clear that she had took a beating. Clytrius had turned from Emily, Leo and the others. Hazel was limping forward towards Clytrius and Clytrius laughed sending chills down her spine."A good try, Hazel Levesque. You did better than I anticipated. But magic alone cannot defeat me, and you do not have sufficient strength. Hecate has failed you, as she fails all of her followers in the end." Emily had managed to let go of Leo as she heard Lauren calling Emily by her birth name and Emily crawled over to Lauren for she didn't dare stand up for the fear of what might happen if she did. Leo had went to Percy trying to force feed Percy some ambrosia but Percy was still out of it. Annabeth was awake and struggling as well as Daedalus, James and Persephone. But Lauren was still out of it as well and Emily managed to get some nectar down Lauren's throat. As Lauren had started to stir more that she felt a shudder from the ground, Emily hand looked up to see that the chains were gone from the doors and the doors had disappeared in a flash of purple light. Clytrius had roared loudly and half-dozen stelae fell from the ceiling to the floor and shatters.

"That was for my brother, Nico. And for destroying my father's altar."

"You have forfeited your right to a quick death, I will suffocate you in darkness, slowly, painfully. Hecate cannot help you. NO ONE can help you!" Emily watched as Hecate raised her torches and Hecate and spoke.

"I would not be so certain, Clytius. Hazel's friends simply needed a little time to reach her – time you have given them with your boasting and bragging."

"What friends? These weaklings? They are no challenge." In front of Hazel the air had rippled and Emily smiled as she watched it rippled for Emily knew what was happening. The mist had thickened and it created a doorway and ten people step though the doorway. Frank's arm looked like if it had been bleeding or was bleeding. But like Piper, Nico and Jason, Frank had his sword out, Emily hand looked at Hazel of who wept with relief when she saw Frank. Emily had smiled when she saw the other avengers, her uncle and his shield in his hands and he others had their weapons out ready to fight. it was Jason who had spoke first.

"Sorry we're late. Is this the guy who needs killing?"