Steve's pov

"We need to do something." Steve was on the main gathering level for the avengers in the tower. All, but Elizabeth, of the avengers were there. Steve had to leave camp and left Bucky in charge of the howling commandos. He had left when he heard about half of he Romans planning on attacking Camp Halfbloof and Elizabeth was in a quest to stop Gaea from rosin since she was one of the ten. They had been weird reports that spoke of what happen in Rome a few days ago and when he had spoke to Elizabeth over a week ago on what the Romans call the feast of Fortuna that she had told him that the the were going to Rome. Steve was no demigod, none of the rest were as far as Steve knows, unless if one counts Thor considering of how he explained that he had a long lifespan but would die one day. Steve was sure he had a long lifespan than everyone else but Thor, most likely due to the serum. Steve was unsure about Dr, banner and the other guy, he wasn't as sure if Dr. Banner could die considering that no matter what Dr. Banner that he couldn't kill himself. Steve just knows something was happening to Elizabeth, something had or worse judging for what he heard on the news.

"But what can we do, son of Roger?" Everyone looked at Thor when he said that.

"I don't know, something is happening and I feel like we are suppose to been helping them somehow. I am not sure of how. From what Elizabeth told me that this was far out of my range of the things I had faced, even the red skull. When I had woke up and made that oath to Apollo that I could do some more things that I couldn't do before but even with that it is sill out of my range. After seeing the world she lived in the past seventy years had ..."

Steve wasn't sure what to say, he always been worried about Elizabeth and what may happen to her and it only went up since he learned of the demigod world and what he saw of it since he woke up for he saw little of it before. Before he had went to sleep that he could tell Elizabeth was on her way of becoming a female version of himself. But now seventy years later, she only aged like a month and half even though she hadn't aged all the much that he could tell clearly that Elizabeth had become his female version and beyond. But that still didn't stop him from trying his best to protect her, when he was able to like when he was fighting Bucky before Bucky had got his memory back of which was mostly due to Elizabeth. He had wanted to go with Elizabeth in the quest but she had told him that he couldn't it and she had told him that he had some sort of part to play in this. But she had no idea what part he would be playing and he felt that part was coming up soon.

"We could take the Helicarrier and I can hack I to the cameras to locate where Elizabeth is and go to where she is." Steve nodded when Tony had said that.

"Do it." Steve had looked at the others. "Who is coming?" Everyone agreed to go, the only thing they need now was some more people,who would be willing to go with them.

Emily's pov

Emily had woke up suddenly, panic had spread though her, compare to the other dreams she had the dream she just had was not bad but the dream had made her worry none the less. For she had been dreaming that her uncle and the avengers were coming to her aid, Emily has no idea of when they will come or even if they are on their way. Emily was panicking because she didn't want the avengers to get into this but somehow she did feel that they had some sort of part in this quest. It could be helping with Gaia or her stop the fight between the Romans and the Greek, Emily just sat up when Hazel had entered her room.

"Hi Hazel."

"Hey Elizabeth." A silence had fell between Hazel and Emily, after a minute that Hazel had spoke. "Elizabeth, I want to say thanks for standing up for your brother, since I haven't manage to thank for you that."

"Welcome, is that all you wanted?"

"No we are all meeting in the mess hall." Emily had got off of her bed and went to the mess hall, everyone but Gleeson and Piper were there. The only other ones that were missing were James, Persephone, Percy and Annabeth. Emily had looked at the walls as she sat down at the head of the table of where Annabeth and usually sat. Emily had more or less took the role of the leader, even though Jason was the praetor of Camp Jupiter, that Jason was too stressed. Unlike six months ago, Jason's hair was longer and it was I characteristically messy, it was weird to see Jason's hair messy. Not only that but Jason's eyes were more sunken than what they were before, he were not even sunken yesterday or not of where they were at the moment. Emily was stress, all of them were stress from what they had been though and none of them looked very good. Hazel was bleary eyed from guiding the ship though the mountains last night, all night and her hair was tied back in a bandanna much like how Emily's hair was.

Next to Hazel was Frank, her boyfriend, he was wearing a black workout pants, a romain t-shirt that said CIAO!. Emily wondered of why the Romans have that kind of shirt for she saw that kind of shirt better in Camp Halfblood not in Camp Jupiter. Frank's old centurion badge was pinned to his shirt, Emily knows that they were public enemies due to the crossing they did to get here. Than there was Nico, it was clear that with most of the demigods here, but Emily and Hazel, felt uncomfortable with Nico. That was mostly because of his aura that surround that seem to say death or something like that. He was wearing his leather aviator jacket, a black t-shirt, jeans, a silver skull ring, and the Stygian sword at his side. His hair was stuck up in curls and his eyes were sad and kind of empty as if he looked into Tartarus of which he had did.

"So, now that we're here … – the House of Hades, Nico?" Emily had zoned out most of what Jason was saying when she had looked at the others, Emily was sure that she didn't look much better than the others. She had Lauren's old bandanna and it tied her hair back, Lauren's bandanna changed into a dagger. Emily's hair was messed up and she had some cuts and she was sure that she seem more paler than what she was usually. But Nico had dragged her out of her thoughts.

"I communed with the dead last night."

"I was able to learn more about what we'll face. In ancient times, the House of Hades was a major site for Greek pilgrims. They would come to speak with the dead and honour their ancestors."

"Sounds like Día de los Muertos. My Aunt Rosa took that stuff seriously."

"Chinese have that, too – ancestor worship, sweeping the graves in the springtime. Your Aunt Rosa would've got along with my grandmother."

"Yeah, I'm sure they would've been best buds."

"Thankfully my uncle had never did any kind of stuff like that. I think I would been freaked out by that." Nico had than cleared his throat.

"A lot of cultures have seasonal traditions to honour the dead, but the House of Hades was open year round. Pilgrims could actually speak to the ghosts. In Greek, the place was called the Necromanteion, the Oracle of Death. You'd work your way through different levels of tunnels, leaving offerings and drinking special potions –"

"Special potions. Yum." Emily had glared over at Leo, Leo had merely shrugged. Emily had than turned back to Nico and spoke

"Nico, go on." Nico had merely nodded.

"The pilgrims believed that each level of the temple brought you closer to the Underworld, until the dead would appear before you. If they were pleased with your offerings, they would answer your questions, maybe even tell you the future."

"And if the spirits weren't pleased?"

"Some pilgrims found nothing. Some went insane or died after leaving the temple. Others lost their way in the tunnels and were never seen again."

"The point is that Nico found some information that might help us."

"Yeah. The ghost I spoke to last night … he was a former priest of Hecate. He confirmed what the goddess told Hazel yesterday at the crossroads. In the first war with the giants, Hecate fought for the gods. She slew one of the giants – one who'd been designed as the anti-Hecate. A guy named Clytius."

"Dark dude. Wrapped in shadows."

"Leo, how did you know that?"

"Kind of had a dream." Leo had explained his dream and it includes the one child of Apollo talking with Gaea's voice, shiver was sent down her spring as Leo had spoke. Emily didn't like the part about the camp being in ruins, Emily hoped that never would happen. Jason had pushed his pancakes away from himself.

"So the giant is Clytius. I suppose he'll be waiting for us, guarding the Doors of Death." Emily had than spoke

"It figures that one of the giants would be at the doors of death. But I am curious about the woman in Leo's dream. Who is she and why was she even in his dream in the first place?" However Hazel had spoke up.

"She's my problem. Hecate mentioned a formidable enemy in the House of Hades – a witch who couldn't be defeated except by me, using magic."

"Do you know magic?"

"Not yet."

"Ah. Any idea who she is?"

"Only that … Only that she won't be easy to defeat." Hazel had glanced at Nico as she spoke, Emily didn't push Hazel for answers, it won't do any good not with the stress that was placed upon them.

"But there is some good news. The ghost I talked to explained how Hecate defeated Clytius in the first war. She used her torches to set his hair on fire. He burned to death. In other words, fire is his weakness." Everyone had looked at both Emily and Leo, somehow Emily had a feeling that it won't be that easy to defeat Clytius again.

"Oh Okay."

"It's a good lead. At least we know how to kill the giant. And this sorceress … well, if Hecate believes Hazel can defeat her, then so do I."

"Now we just have to reach the House of Hades, battle our way through Gaia's forces –"

"Plus a bunch of ghosts. The spirits in that temple may not be friendly."

"- and find the Doors of Death. Assuming we can somehow arrive at the same time as Percy and Annabeth and rescue them."

"We can do it. We have to."

"We got to, we need to close those doors. So that monsters die of how they are suppose to and Gaea won't be able to bring any more of her allies."

"So, with this detour, I'm estimating four or five days to arrive at Epirus, assuming no delays for, you know, monster attacks and stuff."

"Yeah. Those never happen."

"Hecate told you that Gaia was planning her big Wake Up party on August first, right? The Feast of Whatever?"

"Spes, the goddess of hope."

"Theoretically, that leaves us enough time. It's only July fifth. We should be able to close the Doors of Death, then find the giants' HQ and stop them from waking Gaia before August first."

"Theoretically, but I'd still like to know how we make our way through the House of Hades without going insane or dying."

"It's July fifth. Oh, jeez, I hadn't even thought of that …"

"Hey, man, it's cool. You're Canadian, right? I didn't expect you to get me an Independence Day present or anything … unless you wanted to."

"It's not that. My grandmother … she always told me that seven was an unlucky number. It was a ghost number. She didn't like it when I told her there would be seven demigods on our quest. And July is the seventh month."

"Yeah, but … But that's just coincidence, right?"

"Back in China, in the old days, people called the seventh month the ghost month. That's when the spirit world and the human world were closest. The living and the dead could go back and forth. Tell me it's a coincidence we're searching for the Doors of Death during the ghost month."

"Let's focus on the things we can deal with. We're getting close to Bologna. Maybe we'll get more answers once we find these dwarfs that Hecate –" Suddenly the ship had lurched almost as if it had hit an iceberg, Emily's plate had slid off of the table. Emily had fell out of her chair and Nico had fell backwards out of his chair as a result that Nico had banged his head against the sideboard. Thankfully Emily didn't bang her head against anything, but Nico had collapsed on the floor and a dozen of the goblets and platters crashed on Nico.

"Nico!" Hazel had ran over to Nico to help him.

"What –?" Frank had tried to stand, but the ship had lurched again. Frank had stumbled into the table and went face-first into Leo's plate of scrambled eggs. If the ship wasn't lurchin than Emily would have found it funny.

"Look!" Emily looked to where Jason was pointing, Emily gasp as the images of camp half blood changed and flickered. Emit could hear murmured.

"Not possible." On the entire port side wall that there was a huge distorted face: crooked yellow teeth, a red beard, a warty. some and two matched eyes. It looked like the face was trying to eat the room itself. The other walls had flickered and it showed scenes from above deck, Piper was at the helm. But she was wrapped in duct tape, her mouth was gagged and her legs were bound to the control console. Gleeson was at the main past and was bound and gagged in the same way as Piper. There was some sort of creature that was dancing around Gleeson and was putting Gleeson's hair in tint pigtails with pink rubber bands. The other face had receded, it was another creature like the one dancing around Gleeson and the creature was putting things into a bag of some kind. Leo had than yelled.

"No!"

"Uhhh,"

"Piper!"

"Monkey!"

"Not monkeys, I think those are dwarfs."

"Stealing my stuff!" Leo had ran up the stairs and Emily had followed Leo. They were followed by Jason and Frank. Frank was knocked out, Emily had stay behind to help Piper while Jason and Leo had went after the two dwarfs. After about a hour that Leo and Jason had come back and they went to Venice.