When Emily entered the cabin that she had pulled out a rainbow can and pulled out a drachma form her pocket. She had started the spray and tossed the drachma into the rainbow and spoke themes age for the Iris message. "Oh Iris, goddess of the Rainbow, please accept my offering. Show me Thalia Grace." Sure enough when Emily said that, that the Iris message had went though and Thalia was talking to Phoebe and Bianca. None of them seem to notice the iris message at first and they were talking about when she was coming back as well as talking about Lycaon and his pack and trying to find Percy. Emily wished that she was there at the moment instead of going on the quest, but she knows she has to be on this quest or it may fail without her. Phoebe had looked over at Thalia and started to day something but she had stopped when she saw the Iris message.

"It took you long enough." Thalia and Bianca had turned around to see Emily and he Iris message.

"We were talking about you."

"I heard. So Lycaon had come back than?"

"Yes, we have been tracking him for most do the day and we stopped for now since his tracks seem to had faded. We are having a hard time find Percy at the moment but we have some guessing of where he might be. We believe that Lycaon may give us some information."

"Even if he doesn't I would still go after him due to the fact that he is a huge threat just by himself. But with his pack, he would be an even bigger threat."

"When are you going back?"

"Winter solstice."

"Why not sooner?"

"Because a quest was issued and it calls for members and it said who should come in the prophecy and one the tis to go was the champion of the hearth and I am the only champion of Hestia of who is the goddess of the hearth. Without me on the quest that apparently a price would be paid but with me on the quest that it wouldn't be paid."

"All right, we expect to see you than."

"I may see you sooner. Depending if our paths cross, though if that happens I would still have to stay with the quest."

"All right, see you in the next few days." Emily nodded and cut the connection before she got ready for the quest the next morning.

By next morning that Emily was packed and was ready to go on the quest, Emily had decided to go to the Aphrodite cabin first to pick up Piper. Just from the small amount of talking that they did yesterday that Emily was sure that Piper might have a miserable time. Since most of the Aphrodite campers are shallow and be somewhat stupid, but not all of them are that bad some of the Aphrodite campers were nice. They were just lead by the worst cabin leader ever on the face of the planet, seriously ever since Drew had become the cabin leader that it seemed that the Aphrodite campers had become worse. Worse meaning they had become more shallow and stupid than they had been before as well as more into fashion than before. Emily had walked up the steps before she could open the door that Piper had come out, Piper had nearly jumped when she had saw Emily standing there. Piper looked like she was close to tears, it was clear that Piper had it rough in the cabin considering that she would be an outcast in her own cabin. Emily had a feeling yesterday that Piper would be an outcast in her own cabin when Emily had saw her.

"Are you all right, Piper?"

"I am fine." Emily walked up to her and put a hand on her shoulder before she spoke.

"Yesterday, I had figured that you might be a daughter of Aphrodite. Just from the time I spent around that I could tell that you may not fit in your cabin. If you want or even need to, you can stay in the Artemis cabin or maybe even the Demeter cabin or even the Hermes cabin. I am sure Artemis won't mind that you sleep in her chain when she meets you and get to know."

"Are you sure?"

"Pretty sure, you may have the abilities of a child of Aphrodite but you don't act like one. You look like one right now sort of but that is only because of the blessing. Honestly, I prefer your original haircut and no make up than the make up and the hairdo you have now." Piper smiled when Emily had said that and they walked off the patio and towards the green. Emily had stopped when she notice a dragon flying overhead and it seem like the whole camp seem to notice. Emily smiled when she realized what dragon it was, it the dragon that was built in World War II and it was barely finished when Emily had got to camp. When the dragon had landed that Leo had got off of it and told Jason, when Jason had got out, that this was the transportation. Emily was close of laughing her heard off she heard what Leo named him, Festus and Jason had ask him that they ride off to save the world on Happy the dragon. Jason seem a it hesitated about the dragon till Annabeth told him to go due to the deadline. Jason had looked over at Emily and Piper.

"Are you two ready." Emily looked at Piper and Piper looked at her. Than they both looked at Jason

"I am ready."

"So am I." They climbed aboard Festus of who took up into the sky. Emily was in the back behind Jason as they flew over New England. Emily didn't say much of anything as the others spoke of what they had to do, Emily was not really looking forward to seeing Boreas mainly due to the fact that Emily was a fire user. She knows cold and fire don't mix to well, after Leo explained of what he had seen and about Gaea that Emily took a couple sharp intake of breath. However Leo had called her dirt woman of which Emily liked, for Gaea was more or less a dirt woman.

"That's … disturbing,"

"About sums it up, thing is, everybody says don't trust Hera. She hates demigods. And the prophecy said we'd cause death if we unleash her rage. So I'm wondering … why are we doing this?"

"She chose us, All four of us. We're the first of the ten who have to gather for the Great Prophecy. This quest is the beginning of something much bigger."

"Besides, helping Hera is the only way I can get back my memory. And that dark spire in my dream seemed to be feeding on Hera's energy. If that thing unleashes a king of the giants by destroying Hera—"

"Not a good trade-off, at least Hera is on our side—mostly. Losing her would throw the gods into chaos. She's the main one who keeps peace in the family. And a war with the giants could be even more destructive than the Titan War."

"Chiron also talked about worse forces stirring on the solstice, with it being a good time for dark magic, and all— something that could awaken if Hera were sacrificed on that day. And this mistress who's controlling the storm spirits, the one who wants to kill all the demigods—"

"Might be that weird sleeping lady. Dirt Woman fully awake? Not something I want to see."

"But who is she? And what does she have to do with giants?"

"Dirt woman is Gaea. She is one of the Protogenoi. She is the Protogenos of the earth itself. The giants are her children and she is slowly raising them because of the second Titan war was own but the gods."

No one said anything after that, Festus just kept going north. After awhile that Piper told Leo to go to sleep, after about three hours that they had made it the palace of Boreas. When Boreas' two sons had left them land in the home of Boreas, when the one son brought up of deactivating Festus that Leo had turned Festus into a suitcase. Just after Jason said that was impossible that the two sons of Boreas had pulled their swords and pointed them at Emily and Leo and glared at them. Emily understand of why they glared and pointed their sword at her but she didn't understand of why Leo was added in. But than a thought hit her, that usually a child of Hephaestus would be a fire user but one hadn't be around since that fire in London. Emily wondered if it was possible that Leo was a fire user and the first child of Hephaestus to be a fire use for over four hundred years.

"Okay … what'd I do? Stay calm, guys. If it bothers you that much, I don't have to take the dragon as carry-on—"

"Who are you? Children of the South Wind, spying on us?"

"What? No! Son of Hephaestus. Friendly blacksmith, no harm to anyone!"

"Daughter of Demeter and Lieutenant of Artemis." At the words of Lieutenant America that the one son of Boreas that had the silk shirt and had been flirting with Piper had pulled his sword away from Emily.

"There is no way I am not going to mess with Artemis or even Demeter. However how is that you smell like fire?"

"Smell fire. Fire is bad."

"Oh. Yeah, well … my clothes are kind of singed, and I've been working with oil, and—"

"I was talking to her, demigod." The one brother had looked at Leo when he spoke before looking back at Emily.

"I am the champion of Hestia." The one son raised an eyebrow and he sniffed in the air and spoke.

"Know that you said that, that I can smell cooking smells coming from you among other things." This he looked back at Leo and both swords were aimed at Leo. "What about you? Are you achampion of Hestia?"

"Hey … look … I don't know— Guys, a little help?"

"Look, there's been a mistake. Leo isn't a fire guy. Tell them, Leo. Tell them you're not a fire people."

"Um …"

"Zethes? We're all friends here. Put down your swords and let's talk."

"The girl is pretty and of course she cannot help being attracted to my amazingness; but sadly, I cannot romance her at this time."

"Destroy them now?"

"Sadly, I think—"

"No, Leo's just a son of Hephaestus. He's no threat. Piper here is a daughter of Aphrodite. I'm the son of Zeus. We're on a peaceful …" Jason's voice had faltered as the two sons of Boreas looked at him.

"What did you say? You are the son of Zeus?"

"Um … yeah. That's a good thing, right? My name is Jason."

"Can't be Jason. Doesn't look the same."

"No, he is not our Jason. Our Jason was more stylish. Not as much as me—but stylish. Besides, our Jason died millennia ago." Than Khione had appeared and told Leo and Emily to stay there while Khione and one of her brothers took Piper and Jason to see their father. Emily had watched Leo when Khione had come out and Emily rolled her eyes as she watched Leo. Emily knows that Khione would not even look at him if it hadn't been for the fire bit, Emily chose not to comment on the crush. When the more stupid brother was across the room randomly yelling hockey and pizza that Emily had lean towards Leo and whispered softly.

"You are a fire user aren't you?" Leo looked at her and was about ready to say something, most likely to deny that but Emily went on. "Don't deny it, Leo. When a child of winter, or even of snow, smells fire on a demigod that means that they are a fire user. I am one myself and that is only because I am the champion of Hestia. However yours come from your father." Leo had nodded when Emily said that but he didn't meet her eyes.

"Yes, I am a fire user but I don't like using it." Emily couldn't blame him, she may not know of why he didn't like using it. But Emily had trouble with controlling it when she had become champion of Hestia, but she learned quick enough and she knows that it was a dangerous ability to have. Emily put a hand on his shoulder and he looked at in surprise.

"Leo, I can understand that, I didn't have that ability my whole life unlike you. It had took me a while to tame the fire ability, it is a dangerous ability granted. But it comes in handy, more for you than me since you make things and need fire to do so. But it still helped me many times."

"Do you mind if you show me how to use it?"

"Sure, but not now." As they waited that Leo had put Festus back into his original form, Emily and Leo kept talking. Honestly this was the first time that she had spend any time alone whit Leo and was able to talk to him since he entered the camp yesterday. Emily would admit Leo was annoying but of a brother annoying than just the normal male annoying as the hunters would usually put it. While they were waiting that Emily had made pizza appear and all of them eat, even Cal, the stupid brother as Emily likes to call him, Emily had found it amusing when Emily had said stupid brother that cal had repeated it, Leo had found that funny and all three of them had started laughing. Emily figured that Cal didn't understand why he was laughing but it was just made it even more funny for Emily and Leo. To be honest, Emily preferred to be here with Cal than where Jason and Piper were at the moment and it was clear that Leo felt the same way.

Even with stupid and simple Cal was, it was so much being there, it was like being at the old apartment with her uncle before he went to war or with the howling commandos. After a while that Jason and Piper had come down and Emily had notice Khione storming upstairs after telling Jason and Piper something, of what Emily didn't hear of which didn't bother Emily. When Khione had went up the stairs that Emily had refilled the pizza box and told Cal to finish the rest of it while Emily, Leo, Piper and Jason got on Festus and went to Chicago. As they rode on Festus that Jason and Piper had explained to them of what happened in the throne room. Leo didn't seem to thrilled about Khione but it seemed that he didn't care as much as he did when he first saw her if which Emily was glad of. Emily had made sandwiches appear before she did that she had ask what they wanted, Emily had made sure that the sandwiches were to their taste.

Jason had ask for a cheeseburger and Emily had summoned a cheeseburger the way Thalia liked it and he ate it and enjoyed it as much as Thalia does from the looks of it. After they finished that none of them said anything to each other of which was just as well. For they had something on their minds, it seems like Leo didn't want to tell the other two about being a fire user. Emily was sure they were wondering why that the two sons of Boreas had singles Leo out for being a fire user. Emily was sure that they were wondering if Emily was a fire user being a champion of Hestia. Emily was indeed a fire use ever since the day that Emily had become champion of Hestia and she had become her patron goddess. As night fell that Piper had fell asleep leaning against Jason, wheel Leo kept directing Festus to where they were going next. In some ways, Emily was worried of what may happen when they reach their next stop.