Soon enough they all fighting, Emily was fighting with the wolves, while the others had took on other monsters. As Emily fought the monsters that Alexandria had jumped in fighting with her as well as Thomas. Emily had noticed that Leo had took on Khione, besides Emily, Leo was the only other one that could go up against Khione besides herself. Emily had also went up in flames as she fought, thankfully Alexandria and Thomas had got use to this but the werewolves didn't like it. Soon she was running out of enemies as well as the other two, and soon enough it was pretty much Leo and Khione that were the only ones fighting.
"You're too late. He's awake! And don't think you've won anything here, demigods. Hera's plan will never work. You'll be at each other's throats before you can ever stop us." Before Leo could do anything that Emily had lit herself up as well and walked over to where Khione was at and there was fear in Khione's eyes unlike the usually coldness that they had been there. There was also panic and a few other emotions in Khione's eyes. "Impossible, I would have known if another children of Hephaestus had the same power as Leo."
"I am not a child of Hephaestus but of Demeter."
"But you can't use fire."
"'I have hope and fire running in my veins. It keeps me hidden from the cold when i don't realize it'" at those words that Khione's eyes went wide and Emily brow fire and her and she disappeared she he fire hit her. Now Khione should know that she was the champion of Hestia. Than she heard Piper talking.
"Nice horse."
"Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!"Jason had got off his horse thing and jumped into the pool and ran to the pool when Hera had spoke as well as Emily, Leo and Piper had jumped into the pool as well
"Uh, Tía Callida, are you getting shorter?"
"No, you dolt! The earth is claiming me. Hurry!" Emily couldn't believe her eyes, not once had Emily ever encountered something like this, for Hera was sinking into the earth.
"The giant wakes! You only have seconds!"
"On it. Piper, I need your help. Talk to the cage."
"What?"
"Talk to it. Use everything you've got. Convince Gaea to sleep. Lull her into a daze. Just slow her down, try to get the tendrils to loosen while I—"
"Right! Hey, Gaea. Nice night, huh? Boy, I'm tired. How about you? Ready for some sleep?" The more Piper talked that Emily felt slightly sleepy but not overly and Emily realize that the charm speak was working on Emily of which means Piper's charm speak was getting stronger. The mud was raising more slowly the tendrils seem to soften a little. Than Leo had pulled out a circular saw from his tool belt, of how it fit in his tool belt was beyond Emily.
"I don't have anywhere to plug it in!" The storm horse that Jason was using had jumped into the pool and whined.
"Really?" The horse dipped his head and trotted over to Leo, Leo looked doubtful but he held the Plug anyway. Than it was somehow connected and the saw whirred into life.
"Sweet! Your horse comes with AC outlets!" However the worst thing or closest to the worst thing happened, the king of the giants was reborn. Emily had followed Jason over to where the king of the giants, for Emily wouldn't be any good over there. When they approached that he had ask who they were.
"I'm Jason Grace, Son of Jupiter."
"I'm Elizabeth Rogers or Emily Blackthrone, daughter of Demeter." The giant looked at her and chuckled. When Jason had made the comment that the giant should be more worried about Emily and Jason that the giant seem to be happy about starting with boosting instead just going to the fighting.
"So … we'll start by boasting, will we? Just like old times! Very well, demigod. I am Porphryion, king of the giants, son of Gaea. In olden times, I rose from Tatarus, the abyss of my father, to challenge the gods. To start the war, I stole Zeus's queen. Hello, Hera."
"My husband destroyed you once, monster!mHe'll do it again!"
"But he didn't, my dear! Zeus wasn't powerful enough to kill me. He had to rely on a puny demigod to help, and even then, we almost won. This time, we will complete what we started. Gaea is waking. She has provisioned us with many fine servants. Our armies will shake the earth—and we will destroy you at the roots."
"You wouldn't dare." It was clear that Hera was wearing judging from the sound of her voice.
"Oh, yes. The Titans sought to attack your new home in New York. Bold, but ineffective. Gaea is wiser and more patient. And we, her greatest children, are much, much stronger than Kronos. We know how to kill you Olympians once and for all. You must be dug up completely like rotten trees—your eldest roots torn out and burned." Leo and Piper were still working and Jason had to shout to get his attention back,
"You said a demigod killed you. How, if we're so puny?" Emily sighed when Jason had said that, it seem like she heard that word a lot in the last year.
"Ha! You think I would explain it to you? I was created to be Zeus's replacement, born to destroy the lord of the sky. I shall take his throne. I shall take his wife—or, if she will not have me, I will let the earth consume her life force. What you see before you, child, is only my weakened form. I will grow stronger by the hour, until I am invincible. But I am already quite capable of smashing you to a grease spot! So, child of Zeus! I have finished my boasting. Now it's your turn. What were you saying about destroying me?" Emily looked around and she was worried of what may happen now that Porphyrion had finished his boosting.
"I'm the son of Jupiter!" he shouted, and just for effect, he summoned the winds, rising a few feet off the ground. "I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion." It was clear that Jason didn't know of how it was coming out of his mouth or at last not fully. He had held his arm out to show his tattoo to Porphyrion and Porphyrion looked uneasy. "I slew the Trojan sea monster, I toppled the black throne of Kronos, and destroyed the Titan Krios with my own hands. And now I'm going to destroy you, Porphyrion, and feed you to your own wolves." Than Porphyrion had looked at Emily.
"What about you?" Emily step forward and rolled up her sleeve to reveal her own tattoo and once more Porphyrion had looked uneasy once more.
"I am Elizabeth Rogers, or Emily Blackthrone, daughter of Demeter, champion of Hestia, lieutenant of Artemis, and Ambassador of Diana. I was fighting in World War II and become known as Lieutenant America and I have raided over 100 HYDRA bases. I have went on many hunters and killed many monsters including the Nemean Lion, the Manticore and the minotaur. I am the flame that you can't flame out and I am the hope you can't get rid no matter how hard you try." After Emily said that, that Jason did something unexpected that he attacked without a weapon. Jason had managed to get hold of a sword and went on attacking Porphyrion and Emily had started attacking as well. But unlike Jason that she had a weapon. When Porphyrion had caused them to get off of him at Hera was out of her cage, she had thrown off the cloak. Emily knew what was going to happen and close her eyes. When Emily was sure that it was safe that she had open her eyes.
Emily had notice that the hunters were back to their original state, Phoebe and Karen had come over and helped Emily up. Emily had looked around and saw that Leo and Piper were getting up, but than Emily had notice Piper's gaze and she followed her gaze and Emily gasp. For laying on the floor as if died was Jason, Piper had went over to Jason as well Thalia and Piper had kept saying his name over and over again, the hunters had moved back and Leo had remained where he was standing as well as Emily the words of the prophecy had run though her head. 'The champion of the hearth shall melt the ice. Without her that there would a price. The forge and dove shall break the cage. And death unleash, through Hera's rage.' Emily realized that the price must been Jason's life and she had another thought, that with he monsters reforming that it was possible that someone could come back from the underworld. Emily had went over to Jason and Piper was holding him with Thalia touching his forehead. Emily had put her hand over his heart as Piper and the others spoke.
"It's no use, child."
"This is your fault. Do something!"
"Do not address me that way, girl. I am the queen—"
"Fix him!"
"I did warn him. I would never intentionally hurt the boy. He was to be my champion. I told them to close their eyes before I revealed my true form."
"Um … True form is bad, right? So why did you do it?"
"I unleashed my power to help you, fool! I became pure energy so I could disintegrate the monsters, restore this place, and even save these miserable Hunters from the ice."
"But mortals can't look upon you in that form! You've killed him!"
"That's what our prophecy meant. Death unleash, through Hera's rage. Come on, lady. You're a goddess. Do some voodoo magic on him! Bring him back."
"Is he breathing or his heart beating, Emily?" Hera had answered before Emily could answer.
"Impossible, I wish it were true, child, but no mortal has ever—" Emily had looked up at Hera and spoke the lines of the prophecy.
"Child of Lightning, beware the earth,
The giants' revenge the ten shall birth,
The champion of the hearth shall melt the ice
Without her that there would a price
The forge and dove shall break the cage,
And death unleash, through Hera's rage."
Emily could tell Hera was confused but Emily didn't have the time to explain things to her of she couldn't figure it of what was to happen. Emily had than looked over at Piper before Emily had went on. "Piper, use your charm speak."
"Jason, listen to me. You can do this. Come back. You're going to be fine." Emily started pouring hope into Jason as Piper used her charm speak.
"Healing is not a power of Aphrodite. Even I cannot fix this, girl. His mortal spirit—"
"Jason. Wake up." Suddenly Jason had gasp and hai eyes were full of light, golden light and when the light had faded that his eyes were normal. Jason looked confused as he looked at the others.
"What—what happened?"
"Impossible!" Emily had looked at Hera and spoke.
"As long as there's hope, anything is possible." Piper had hugged Jason till he had groaned.
"Crushing me."
"Sorry."
"How do you feel?"
"Hot. Mouth is dry. And I saw something… really terrible."
"That was Hera. Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon."
"That's it, Thalia Grace, I will turn you into an aardvark, so help me—"
"Stop it, you two." Emily was surprised that both Thalia and Hera had did what Piper had ask, Piper was still facing the two of them.
"Now …Hera—Your Majesty—we couldn't have rescued you without the Hunters. And Thalia, you never would've seen Jason again—I wouldn't have met him—if it weren't for Hera. You two make nice, because we've got bigger problems." There was a pause before Thalia had grunted.
"You've got spirit, Piper. You ever want to be a Hunter, call me. We could use you."
"Fortunately for this Hunter, you have a point, daughter of Aphrodite. You wondered, Piper, why I chose you for this quest, why I didn't reveal your secret in the beginning, even when I knew Enceladus was using you. I must admit, until this moment I was not sure. Something told me you would be vital to the quest. Now I see I was right. You're even stronger than I realized. And you are correct about the dangers to come. We must work together." It was clear that Piper wasn't sure of how to respond to that but Leo had spoke though saving Piper the table.
"Yeah, I don't suppose that Porphyrion guy just melted and died, huh?"
"No. By saving me, and saving this place, you prevented Gaea from waking. You have bought us some time. But Porphyrion has risen. He simply knew better than to stay here, especially since he has not yet regained his full power. Giants can only be killed by a combination of god and demigod, working together. Once you freed me—"
"He ran away. But to where?" Emily figured of where he was guessing pretty much everyone guess of where he was going or where his army was going.
"I need to find Annabeth. She has to know what's happened here."
"Thalia … We never got to talk about this place, or—"
"I know. I lost you here once. I don't want to leave you again. But we'll meet soon. I'll rendezvous with you back at Camp Half-Blood. You'll see them there safely? It's the least you can do."
"It's not your place to tell me—"
"Queen Hera."
The goddess sighed. "Fine. Yes. Just off with you, Hunter!" Thalia had Jason and Emily had hugged Piper and said goodbye to all three of them. It was Leo who spoke before Emily and the hunters left.
"Emily hen are you coming to camp?"
"When I come with the hunters and Thalia of course. Until than farewell, till the hunters get to camp." Emily and the hunters had left the wolf house and courtyard.
