Emily was dreaming of her trip over to the camp in Italy, dream Emily was more of a ghost as she watched her fourteen year old self sitting in the plane with James and Lauren. Emily was looking at Lauren, Emily only had one picture of Lauren and it had been a while since Emily had last looked at it. It pained Emily to see Lauren alive in a dream, it brought back the memory of the last battle she had with HYDRA in World War II. The one of where she was told that Lauren had died in the battle, so far she was the only one of the howling commandos had died. A few times Bianca had called Lauren so that Emily and Lauren could talk, Lauren had told Emily of how proud she was of Emily and what she had done since her death. Than Emily's past self had spoke suddenly.
"Why do you keep looking at me like as if you seen me before of when we both know we haven't meet before?" Emily looked between her old self to Adam, Adam looked surprise while Emily had a curious look on her face.
"It's just that you have a strong resemblance to Captain America." Her old self had looked at her two best friends with a confused look, all three do them had looked confused by that statement. Emily just chuckled for she knows exactly of what that ate meant means now. Emily remembered of how odd the name had sounded when she had first heard that name.
"Who is Captain America?" Adam seem shock but he had recovered quickly.
"I forget that when one lives year around in camp that there are a lot of things that one doesn't hear unless if it is about the godly world, the demigods, or a war. However not only details of the war would be heard in Camp Halfblood. Captain America is a new super hero, a year ago he made an appearance and had been doing shows and stuff now a days."
"Sounds more like an actor."
"He's not an actor, or at least he wasn't suppose to be. A year ago there was a super soldier program that was cancelled because the scientist who made the super soldier serum was killed after one of the soldiers was injected with the serum. I know I was there, because of the serum that he was at the peak of human efficiency. But due to what happened after the scientist was killed that the public had took notice of him. So he had become a super hero and gave hope to the people in America of winning the war by doing the shows and films. I have to say it's a shame that he has to do that since he would be better use in the war. But the Colonel is old fashion in his thinking and it had took a lot of effort for me to accept a demigod left alone three demigods and three that are underage no less."
"What does he look like?"
"He is build like James now, but before he had the serum in him that his built was closer to yours but since this your build had changed somewhat so you have an athlete build or more than you did a year ago. He has the same blond hair as yours as well as the same blue eyes." Emily was close of bursting into laughter as she watch herself, for her expression looked funny as she was thinking of what Adam said as he spoke of what Captain America looks like.
"Do you know what his real name is?"
"Yes I do. His real name is Steve Rogers." Emily had burst into a fit of laughter and fell on e floor she her past self nearly fell off of her seat in the plane. Her old self tried to say something but was unable to do so. "Do you know him?"
"Yes, I do. He is my uncle."
"How is that you didn't know about that fact?"
"That is because I never told him where Camp Halfblood was. Not only that I didn't know where he was. So we never wrote to each other. Not only that but I didn't tell him I was a demigod when my mother took me to camp. For he had enough to worry about when I had left with joining the army and worried about my safety. The last thing he needed was to know that when I wasn't in camp that I would be in danger from monsters." Than the dream had than faded. Emily had found herself waking up and looked up at the face of Leo.
"Come on, Silver princess. Breakfast." When Emily had got up to the room that she learned that Percy and Annabeth were not there and everyone was looking for them. Soon enough they were found by Frank and they had went up to the mess hall of the ship. For the most part that everyone calmed down by Gleeson had went ballistic after hearing of where they were. Emily merely rolled her eyes, sure she knows Jason and Piper better but she knows Percy and Annabeth well enough to know hat nothing really happen. Than Percy had told them about the dream he had last night about Nico.
"Nico... Oh, gods. The seeds."
"You know what they are?"
"He showed them to me once. They're from our stepmother's garden."
"Your step... oh. You mean Persephone."
"The seeds are a last-resort food. Only children of Hades can eat them. Nico always kept some in case he got stuck somewhere. But if he's really imprisoned - "
"The giants are trying to lure us. They're assuming we'll try to rescue him."
"Well, they're right! Won't we?"
"Yes! It'll involve fighting, right?"
"Hazel, of course we'll help him. But how long do we have before... uh, I mean, how long can Nico hold out?"
"One seed a day. That's if he puts himself in a death trance."
"A death trance? That doesn't sound fun."
"It keeps him from consuming all his air. Like hibernation, or a coma. One seed can sustain him one day, barely."
"And he has five seeds left. That's five days, including today. The giants must have planned it that way, so we'd have to arrive by July first. Assuming Nico is hidden somewhere in Rome - " Piper hand put her hand on Hazel's shoulder before she had spoke.
"That's not much time. We'll find him. At least we know what the lines of the prophecy mean now. 'Twins snuff out the angel's breath, who holds the key to endless death.' Your brother's last name: di Angelo. Angelo is Italian for 'angel.'"
"Oh, gods, Nico..."
"We'll rescue him. We have to. The prophecy says he holds the key to endless death."
"That's right. Hazel, your brother went searching for the Doors of Death in the Underworld, right? He must've found them."
"He can tell us where the doors are and how to close them."
"Yes. Good."
"Uh... One thing. The giants are expecting us to do this, right? So we're walking into a trap?"
"We have no choice!"
"Don't get me wrong, Hazel. It's just that your brother, Nico... he knew about both camps, right?"
"Well, yes."
"He's been going back and forth and he didn't tell either side."
"You're wondering if we can trust the guy. So am I."
"I don't believe this. He's my brother. He brought me back from the Underworld, and you don't want to help him?"
"Nobody's saying that. Nobody had better be saying that."
"Look, guys. All I mean is - "
"Hazel, Leo is raising a fair point. I remember Nico from Camp Jupiter. Now I find out he also visited Camp Half-Blood. That does strike me as... well, a little shady. Do we really know where his loyalties lie? We just have to be careful."
"You... the great Jason Grace... the praetor I looked up to. You were supposed to be so fair, such a good leader. And now you..." Hazel had stormed off and away from the room, Emily knows she can be cold at time but honestly what Jason and Leo had done was really cold, even more colder than what Hercules had ever done.
"Hazel! Ah, jeez. I should - "
"You've done enough."
"Give her time. You guys, that was pretty cold."
"Cold? I'm just being cautious!"
"Her brother is dying."
"I'll go talk to her."
"No. Let her cool down first. Trust me on this. I'll go check on her in a few minutes."
"But... Fine. I'll wait." Jason and looked over at Emily and spoke.
"Elizabeth, you know I am ..." Before Jason could finished that Emily had slammed her first into the table shocking everyone in the room and everyone had backed away from her as she stood up and glared at Jason as well as Leo. Emily had yelled when she had spoke.
"Are you two insane?"
"He could ..."
"No, he couldn't for if know him. You are only using the excuse of him knowing about both camps as a reason not to trust him. That is the most stupidest and obscure reason ever on the fact of the planet to use for someone to be a traitor. If Nico is a traitor for that reason than I will be a traitor for the same reason, for I know about both camps. I am the protecter of the roman state and the home. I have friends in both camps and up you know me well enough to know I would never turn my back on anyone that is close to me. Hst I would risk everything I have to make sure they are protect even I toss myself into Tartarus just to save the whole world or even throw myself off of Mount Olympus."
"He is a son of Hades. Hades has ..."
"Hazel is a daughter of Pluto, Hades's roman aspect. For that reason she should be a traitor. Just give me a good dam reason of why we shouldn't trust Nico?" No one said a word when Emily had sisd that, so she had went on but she wasn't yelling this time. "You see there is no reason to not trust Nico, you are haut following back on the roman ways on this Jason and it is stupid in this war that we are facing. This is what Gaea wants guys to have us fight as well as set up traps for us to stop or delay us from our quest. We can't let her win for the world will fall if she succeeds, if we start fighting among ourselves than Gaea would win. Sure they might be traitors but for the most part she would bring back the demigods that are most dangerous or ones hat she thinks would be a use to her plans. Of which means all ten of us as well as a few others like Octavian and Nico."
"But we don't know where his loyalties lie." Emily raised an eyebrow when Jason said that.
"He is on our side, I know this for a fact, other than Hazel, Bianca and myself knows Nico the best. Nico cares about his sisters and he never ever will turn his back on his two sisters, whatever side that they are fighting on that he will be fighting on that same side."
"Why didn't he tell anyone about the two camps?"
"The same reason the gods had made that oath of not to talk about the two groups to each other and the same reason I had never told either camp about each other. That it will cause a civil war and it would be more bloody than the last civil war was of which was aim he 1860s. You know from history that war was one of the bloodiest wars ever, even more so than the two World Was combine. Think of what will happen if something happened at Camp Jupiter when you got there like started blowing it up. That would have caused another civil war, I may not have been alive in the civil war but I can promise that it would be worse than the last civil war." Emily looked at them carefully, she was giving all of them a death glare that made them back away from her even more. Without saying anything more that Emily had storm out of the room, thinking that life was so much simpler when she was in World War II of which was saying something.
After a few minutes that Emily had found Hazel and did her best to comfort Hazel, Emily would admit that she wasn't sure what Hazel was feeling but Emily could feel it. Being a champion of Hestia that Emily can sense of when someone had been cut deep and hurt by someone they considered close or someone that they had looked up to. Emily knows that she had looked up to Jason till a few minutes ago of when he said he was wondering if they should trust Nico. Shortly afterwards that Annabeth had come in and and helped Emily but that a Frank had come in and seemed to be in a panic state. They all went on the deck as well as Leo, Jason and Piper, Leo had stirred the ship away and when the city was far behind them that Percy, Gleeson and Frank had managed to tell them what happened and than Jason had explained about the quest he was sent on with Reyna.
"Whoa! That's the first successful military submarine. From the Civil War. I always wanted to see that."
"It was designed by Roman demigods. It held a secret stash of Imperial gold torpedoes - until we rescued them and brought them back to Camp Jupiter."
"So the Romans fought on the Confederate side? As a girl whose grandmother was a slave, can I just say...not cool?" It was clear that Hazel wasn't going to forgive Jason any time soon from the tone that Hazel was using. Emily looked at James and Persephone, James and knocked his fist against his forehead, Emily nearly burst out laughing. For Emily knew that was James' way of calling Jason a stupid head And it seem Persephone had picked that up for she was close of laughing. Even though James and Jason were half brothers, however form the sons of Zeus that Emily had meet seventy years ago that she would pick Jason than the very first son of Zeus she had meet. Than Jason had put his hands in front of himself, palms up.
"I personally was not alive then. And it wasn't all Greeks on one side and all Romans on the other. But, yes. Not cool. Sometimes demigods make bad choices. Like sometimes we're too suspicious. And we speak without thinking." It was clear that Jason was apologizing to Hazel, than Jason had elbowed Leo. Emily figured that it may still talk a while for Hazel to fully forgive Jason for that outburst but with Leo, Emily wasn't as sure.
"Ow! I mean, yeah...bad choices. Like not trusting people's brothers who, you know, might need saving. Hypothetically speaking."
"Fine. Back to Charleston. Are you saying we should check that submarine again?"
Once they had a plan set that Emily had walked down below and into her room, after a few minutes of sitting on her bed that James and Persephone had walked into her room and James sat done next to her while Persephone had remained by the door. None of them said anything for a few minutes, but James had broke it.
"You know, I had never seen you get like that before, even in World War II." Emily sighed when James said that.
"What Jason and Leo said had really made me mad." Persephone was about ready to say something but there was shouts from above and the three of them had left her bedroom and went up onto the deck. When they reached the deck that the three of them had stopped short, for standing on the deck with the others with a handful of HYDRA soldiers was the last person she expected or wanted to see. For standing in the middle of the deck was the Red Skull.
