As they flew that Emily had managed to get off Festus and down to the cage of where her uncle and Bucky where in. She had used the poppy to have a rope like plant around her waist and had some of it wrapped around Festus' claws and the cage itself. Emily sat on top of the cage looking down at her uncle and Bucky and they were looking up at her. Emily thought of being on the side of the cage but decided that it was better and as well as safer if she was on top of the cage. For there was a better chance of falling off when she was on the side of the cage than on top of the cage. Emily was glad that her uncle and Bucky were alive, but she didn't like the idea of them being in Medea's place. More so when she was one of the most dangerous enemies out there but she as died once more. Her uncle she grabbed some of the bars on top and pulled himself and put one of his hands though and Emily had grabbed his hand and buck had did the same thing. Emily could tell that they had been worried about her, Emily has no idea of how long they had been there. They could have been there since after Emily left the tower for all she knows.
"How did you get there?" Her uncle had shrugged when she had said that.
"I have no idea of how I got there. One minute I was heading back to the campsite that the howling commandos have and I was knocked out. The next thing I know that I woke up that cage with Bucky next to me blacked out. He woke up a couple hours later but I am not sure of how long we have been in here or there." They had spoke for a little more but he a suddenly something had happen, Festus started to fall. If it hadn't been for the poppy wrapped around her waist and around Festus' leg and that both Bucky and her uncle had a grip on her hands, Emily would have fallen off. Emily wasn't sure what had happen but it was clearly not good of whatever happen, she could hear Leo shout something to Jason and Piper. Emily had saw Piper and Jason fall from Festus, with how much there was that it was clear Jason was using the wins to help him fly. It was clear that Bucky and Steve seem horrid as Jason and Piper went past them.
Than Festus had started to glide but it was clear that something was wrong with him still. When they over a compound that everyone had went wrong, that a gun fire had shot at Festus and he dropped all three cages. Emily had barely just managed to have the poppy grow back into the hair clip as he let go of the cage that she was on top of and her uncle and Bucky were in. Emily held on for dear life, she felt her uncle and Bucky tighten their grip on her as the cage hit the ground and rolled. She felt like her head was spinning when the cage had stopped rolling, emily felt her uncle and Bucky look go of her and Emily loosen the grip she had on the bars and slid down to the ground. Just than Piper and Jason had landed and Jason had ran over to a figure laying on the ground. Emily realized that it was Leo, when she looked at Leo that she felt guilty for not trying to look for him. However Piper had ran over to her.
"Emily, are you all right?" Emily had manage to get up before Piper had got to her.
"I am fine, most likely bruised a little, other than that, I am good."
"I am surprised that nothing worse happened from that fall." Emily looked over at Bucky when he had said that.
"That fall was short compare to the one the four of us had over a car factory. That fall, I would have been flatten for sure." Jason had than called Piper and Emily over, Piper had went over but Emily remained by her uncle and Bucky.
"Elizabeth I had forget to ask, but who are those three?"
"Jason Grace, son of Zeus. Piper McLean, daughter of Aphrodite. Leo Valdez, son of Hephaestus." As Emily said that, that it seems that Leo had woke up. Leo had managed to get up and went over to the head of Festus and made a promise to Festus before Festus seem to have died. It seem to hurt Leo a lot when Festus had flicked out, Leo had started to cry while Piper and Jason tried to comfort him. Emily wasn't sure what it was like for Leo to lose Festus, but Festus had meant a great deal to Leo, that much was clear. Emily didn't move as Leo stopped and removed the head from the neck and somehow held it in his hands and ask his father to take it to the bunker till Leo could reuse him. Emily smiled as the wind picked up and the wind had lifted the head from Leo's arms.
However when the others had went to the big house that Emily had followed them in, thankfully Leo had disable all the traps that were placed on the way to the house. When they went inside that they all looked around, there were many doors as well as of a lot of statues. Emily had a bad felling about this place, she wasn't sure who this house belong to but she didn't like it. Leo had tried to light up his hand because of dark it was that he couldn't light his hand up. Emily tried the same thing as but no such luck for she couldn't use fire as well, that send her sense even higher than before. That told her that something was wrong here, something was differently off here in this house on this property. No one had offered a better idea than Jason's idea of staying the night here and think of what do in the morning. So they had brought in the cages, Emily brought in the cage than there uncle and Bucky were in while the others brought in the other two cages. Once inside that her uncle and Bucky had looked around the room with he sofas and statues, it seem to unnerve them.
Emily had tried to grow plants and such but was unable to do so whine she tried but she had managed to summon some food but not a lot. But just enough for all six of them to eat, Emily went to one of the sofas and fell asleep as well as Piper. At least Emily assumes that Piper was asleep but Emily wasn't sure on that though, but as Emily fell asleep that Leo was working to get the cages open. Emily had woke up when the yelling had started, it was Gleeson and he was yelling die as she smashed the tea pot. Jason had managed to clam him down, Emily had to odd the couch and notice that her uncle and Bucky were not in their cage any more and Emily looked around till she looked on top of the cage. Sure enough Bucky and her uncle were on top of their cages looking worried, scared and were wondering what had just happen. Before Emily could say anything that Gleeson had looked over at Emily and than at her uncle and Bucky.
"Fire Plant, why are you here and who are this two?" Emily rolled her eyes when Gleeson had called her by his nickname for her, Gleeson was the one that had came with James, Lauren and Emily when they went on their first quest. He only had went because the quest had required four because the prophecy had made it clear that a satyr should go. During that quest that Emily was giving the nickname of plants face by ageless on of which James and Lauren always found funny. Besides Gleeson, James and Lauren were the only two that could get away with calling her that. But when they had meet after Emily joined the hunt and was the champion of Hestia that he had changed it to Fire Plant. He also used calls her Silver Fire or Silver plant as well. Emily figured hat she may as well use his nickname that she has for him.
"I am part of the quest, goat man. That is my uncle Steve and Bucky."
"Don't call me that."
"That don't fall me Fire plant."
"Fine, Silver fire." Emily rolled her eyes as Gleeson had started talking with the other here while her uncle and Bucky had got off the cage. Just than that an old man had fame out wearing nightclothes and brushing his teeth and he seem surprised to see them standing there. Than he called back though the door he just come from to someone in that room or nearby at least.
"Son? Lit, come out here, please. There are strange people in the throne room." However Gleeson had did the most obvious thing, for he had raised his club and shouted the one word that he started the most often. More so doing the last battle in the Titan war than any other time.
"Die!" It had took Emily, Leo, Piper and Jason to hold back the satyr from charming at the guy. For some odd reason that the guy seem familiar to Emily, she wasn't sure but she felt like she knows him and her senses were giving off warning signs. Jason had spoke to Gleeson as a younger man entered the room, the younger man seem to zero in on Jason and went towards him but Piper had stopped him. Piper had managed to calm Gleeson down and the old guy allowed them to sit down and told him that he was King Midas. When the old guy said that, that Emily knew that they were going to be in trouble, Emily wasn't sure when it will come but knows it would be soon. Jason and send hedge outside, due to the fact that he lived to fight, of which was odd for a satyr. As Piper, Leo and Jason spoke with Midas and gave them the backpack to use as a cell for the storm spirits that her uncle and Bucky had moved next to her. But than Midas had brought a patron and it was Jason who spoke.
"So you do have a patron, you work for the giants."
"Well, I don't care for giants myself, of course. But even supernatural armies need to get paid. I do owe my patron a great debt. I tried to explain that to the last group that came through, but they were very unfriendly. Wouldn't cooperate at all."
"The last group?" Lit had snarled when Jason had said that.
"Hunters. Blasted girls from Artemis."
"When? What happened?"
"Few days ago? I didn't get to kill them, unfortunately. They were looking for some evil wolves, or something. Said they were following a trail, heading west. Missing demigod—I don't recall."
"Very unpleasant young ladies, those Hunters. They absolutely refused to be turned into gold. Much of the security system outside I installed to keep that sort of thing from happening again, you know. I don't have time for those who aren't serious investors." Emily knew troubling was coming when Piper had tried leave or at least let the six of them leave but Midas wouldn't have none of it though. He had gave them a choice to fight his son or be turned into gold, he changed both Piper and Leo into gold. After he did that, that he turned to Emily, her uncle, Bucky and Jason, honestly Emily wish she was back at Medea's lair right now.
"Gold trumps fire, I'm afraid. In this room, my power dampens all others: fire… even charmspeak. Which leaves me only four more trophy to collect." Hand he touched Emily, to both her shock and Midas' shock that nothing happened. Emily looked down at where he had his hand on Emily, than the words of Hestia entered her mind shortly after she had stopped crying of the choice her uncle made in World War II that had made her think he had died.
'You are my champion and you will face more challenges more difficult than this. This will test you throughout your whole life so you will be ready and prepared for your future. Keep in mind you hold hope in your spirit of which makes you unique along with your leadership abilities and bravery. Hope runs in your blood now and it will forever mor even after death. You are the hearth, hope and family of the demigods. You are the one that will glue the demigods together peacefully.' Emily had than spoke.
"It seems that my powers are not dampens here and since your touch can't affect me, than I choose fighting." Midas had let go of her hand and lit step forward with a smile. Emily had took her hair clip out of her hair and touched the clip and it had become her sword, the first one she got from her mother. Lit had stopped when he looked at the sword, it was clear that lit knows the sword all too well as well as Midas. For they both looked shocked to see it in her hands, Lit looked away from the sword and looked at Emily.
"How did you get εποχή ερωμένη, girl?"
"My mother gave it me."
"Nonsense, the last child she gave it to had died during World War II, Gaea told me this."
"Let me guess, the said child was Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of Demeter and champion of Hestia?"
"Yes, she was one of the best sword fighters there was in the war. Besides the children of the it three. How did you know this? Most everyone knows about her form the stories but not very many people know that she was the only champion of Hestia."
"That is simple." Emily took a step forward. "For it's the reason my powers are not dampen or at least a certain group of my powers only one power among that group I can't use. For I am known as two people, I am know as Emily Blackthrone, lieutenant of Artemis." Lit had growled when Emily had said that, but Emily paid no need and went on. "But you apparently only heard my birth name before I joined the hunt an schnapps my name. For I am also, Elizabeth Rogers, daughter of Demeter and champion of Hestia."