The following days that there was more monsters attacks both on the Helicarrier and the Argo II. Emily was grateful of the fact that Lauren had come back as well as Daedalus, Emily was still unsure if the labyrinth was really remade as well as Daedalus. But there wasn't time to figure that out not for they needed to get to the original Mount Olympus. At the moment they have a break from all the fighting that they had been doing, Emily was standing at the railing. Leo was at the controls, James and Persephone were at the other side of the ship, Jason and Piper were by Leo. Lauren was by James and Persephone while the others were down below or on the Helicarrier in the case of the avengers. Emily was still wearing her Lieutenant America uniform but with her brown jacket over it. She was also were in her silver circlet that shows her position as Lieutenant of Artemis and her hair was in a braid as it usually was. But her hair was a mess, the braid was messed up and hair was sticking out and it was dirty and there was some slime in it.
Her clothing so were covered with gime, slime and monster dust among other things including a little bit of blood. Her skin was pale unlike of what it usually was of which was usually tanned, but her skin was slowly turning back to the tan color that it usually was at. There was some scars on her arms that were slowly disappearing, partly due to the nectar and ambrosia that she ate not too long ago. The other part was due to the blessing of Artemis and as well as being the champion of Hestia. Emily had learned quickly after being the champion of Hestia that not only was she able to heal others but she healed quicker as well. The blessing of Artemis makes she never dies of disease, old age and a bunch of other things as well. Expect for battle but it helps regain her strength after a fight, of which Emily was glad of. Emily felt sick as she looked at the water below, Emily wasn't sea sick and she wasn't airsick. From days of fighting monsters almost non stop and repairing the Argo trends to drain a person.
Emily had been though a lot as a hunter but nothing in the hunt or camp Halfblood had ever prepared her for anything like this. Emily doubted that the hunt or camp Halfblood could ever prepare anyone for anything that the the of the prophecy has faced so far. As Emily stood there that she heard someone walk to her and she turned to see her Lauren walking up and stood on her right. Emily had looked back at the sea, it was great to have Lauren back more so in the last few days. For there was so much to tell of what happened and Emily was able to let go of everything and tell Lauren everything. For Lauren was one of few people that she opens up to or fully opens up to for there was only three people that Emily had ever fully open to of which was Lauren, James and her uncle. But Phoebe, Thalia and Leo were getting close to among the few that she would open to or at least on the mortals end of the scale. On the godly end that the only ones she ever opened to was Artemis, Hestia, her mother and Apollo. Emily was more halfway with Apollo mainly because of the howling commandos, for he manage to have all of the howling commandos stay alive expect for one of who was back.
"Elizabeth." Emily looked over at Lauren before Lauren had went on. "It seems so odd to be back in the world of the living again." Emily smiled slightly when Lauren had said that.
"I bet it is, but we are not the only ones from the 1940s on this ship." Lauren smiled when Lauren had said that.
"True." Emily and Lauren just stood there for another few moments before she had spoke once more. "You know, it's funny in a way that you and James are tow of the ten and I am left out of it. You know what, in a way I am glad I am not part of the ten." Emily looked over at Lauren.
"But you are happy at James and I are part of the ten."
"Yes and no. Yes, because you are doing something. No because this quest sucks on so many levels that it is not really funny." Emily was about ready to respond when the ship had lurched, Emily and Lauren haut barely managed to hold onto the railing. Emily heard the alarm going off, than she looked around and saw that a monster had managed to get to the ship. Emily felt dread as soon as she saw the monster, for there was two monsters of the monster that was trying to get onto the ship. It was more or less nameless, for no one could find the right name for it so everyone called the one pair of monsters the old ones. However one was killed a long time ago in ancient Greece and thankfully the monster can never be reform. However the other one was still roaming around somewhere, for the pair of demigods that killed the first old one couldn't kill the second one. There were rumors of why that was but none of it could be confirmed though, the others had come from below and started to fight off. But it seem impossible to kill it, as Leo used fire to kill it that he yelled.
"Does anyone know about this monster?" It was Annabeth that responded.
"I heard about them there was original one but one was killed and thankfully that monster and this one can never come back to the mortals world once they are died. They are called the old ones."
"But how do we killed it?"
"A son of Zeus and a son of Demeter had defeated the first one. So it has to be a a son of Zeus and a son of Demeter." As Annabeth said that, that Emily remembered something her mother had told her long ago when she had ask about the old ones that there was a female and a male. Her mother had showed her a vision of what the two monsters looked like and Emily remembered that there was a slight difference between the two monsters. As Emily fought the monster at she looked at it and realized the this was the female old one. Just than James had yelled.
"But we don't have a son of Demeter!"
"We don't need a son of Demeter." Emily was sure that he others looked at her funny when she had said that. "I remember this monster in the monster fighting classes at camp. There was a rumor of how it could be killed just from when the fire time was killed that a son of Demeter and a son of Zeus was part of it. However there was a female and male version of the monster and we are facing the female version." It was Leo who had responded.
"What are you saying?"
"I am saying that in order to defeat this monster is a daughter of Demeter and a daughter of Zeus to defeat it." Emily had glanced at Lauren of who caught of what Emily was getting at. Lauren and grabbed her arm and ran over to the other side of the ship and yelled as the monster had come after the two of them.
"Than let's have some fun with this and do it our way." When they reached the railing that they got up on it and jumped and the wind had picked them up before they entered the water. Emily smiled, this was one of her ticks that Emily and Lauren had did during the war when they fighting side by side. Emily had allowed the poppy to grow around her arm as the monster roared from the ship below at them. It was clear that the monster knew of who they were or who their parents were, most likely from their scent. Emily had let go of Lauren for Lauren and enough air pressure underneath Emily that she didn't it no more. When Emily did that, that Lauren had dropped them at the same level as the ship and the monster had roared and jumped at them. So Emily and Lauren started using their swords, or dagger in Lauren's case, and started fighting the monster, it was difficult to figure out of how to kill it.
It wasn't till the poppy was wrapped around it's neck and Lauren using the wind to knock to the sea and stabbed it in the chest that they managed to kill it. When the monster was stabbed that it turned to gold dust and flew away from the sea. Emily sighed in relief as the wind carried Lauren and herself back to the deck of the Argo II, when Emily touched the ground that she gripped the risking for support. Emily didn't have her full energy level when that monster had attacked, but it seemed that Emily had more energy that Lauren for Lauren and collapse on her floor without bothering to grab hold of the railing. James had ran forward and helped Lauren up while Leo had walked over to her, James and Persephone had took Lauren to Persephone's cabin while Leo had took Emily to her cabin. Emily had managed to get onto the bed in her cabin that Leo had spoke.
"How did Lauren do that?"
"Lauren had been at camp since she was three till the SSR had wanted three demigods to help with the war. She had eleven years of practice as well as a year in a war to practice different skills and powers. But she has been out of practice for seventy years, so I am surprised ghost she was able to hold herself and me without me holding onto her for that long." After a few minutes of tasking that Leo had left and Emily had fell fast asleep.
Emily was standing in a small city, but it was high up so Emily had went to the edge of the city and looked down to see a mountain below her. Emily could see Athens below her, she knew that she had to be on the original Mount Olympus. For if this was the Mount Olympus above New York she would see New York City instead of Athens. Not only that but Mount Olympus was busy and there was no one here or no one that Emily had saw her. As Emily looked down that a voice from behind her and spoke sending shivers down her spine.
"I see that you are looking at Athens." Emily had turned around, Emily didn't need to turn and look to see who it was for Emily knows who it was. For it was Gaea but in her forest green robes instead of the black cloak and her eyes were open as well. Emily had took her hair pin from her hair and grasp it in her hand as she looked at Gaea, than Emily stepped forward.
"Yes." Gaea had chuckled when Emily had said that.
"I hope you realize that this is hopeless, child."
"Nothing is hopeless as long as you have a family and a home to keep safe and protect."
"You sound much like your uncle and your patron. Why don't you think I did this for child?"
"Because the gods overthrow your children and you want them destroyed."
"Very true and I am defending my children."
"By killing innocents while doing so."
"They are no importance."
"They are important in their own lives and family." Gaea had looked at her carefully before she had spoke.
"I will admit that the ten on this quest are dangerous but you ask the most dangerous of the ten, more so than any of the children of the big three. This is why you would useful more as a pawn than killing you." Emily had took a step forward and touched the clip and the hair clip had become her sword.
"Why am I more dangerous than the others? What is that makes me more dangerous than the others? What makes me so different form any of my siblings? As far as I am concern I am Emily Blackthrone or Elizabeth Rogers."
"You said why, child. That is why you different and more dangerous. You are Emily Blackthrone and Elizabeth Rogers." Gaea had step towards before going on. "On the feast of Spes, I promise that I will be here to breaks the hope of all the gods and demigod but you will not been there."
Suddenly dirt had rose up and it buried Emily under the dirt, Emily tried to do something but she couldn't do anything but breath in the dirt and choke. Emily could hear Gaea laughing, but his Emily heard Gaea cursing and than nothing, Emily tried to yell or something but she was unable to do so. Suddenly the dirt she fell away and Emily collapse to the floor, Emily breathed in the sir and allowed it to go into her lungs. As Emily breathed that she felt a hand on her back, Emily had got up and turned, as she turned that she had soon her sword till she stopped and her sword was at the throat of a girl. When Emily had saw the girl that Emily had dropped her sword and fell to her knees out of shock. She couldn't believe of what she was seeing of what was in front of her for it wasn't possible. But it had to be didn't it or Emily had choked enough that she was letting things go to her standing in front of a girl no more than fifteen years and the girl looked exactly like Emily.
She has the same blond hair, the same blue eyes, the same tan skin, everything was the same. Even the markings were the same expect for a few things, like the girl in front of her had a mix glow that it look golden but in the sunset that the glow has a silver tint to it. Her hair in a high ponytail Greek style, and there was gold and silver threaded into the girl's hair. She was wearing a silver Greek dress, the strange thing about her was that she was wearing the same silver circlet as Emily was wearing as well as the same orange flame bracelet. Not only that but she also had the same hair pin that her sword turns into whenever Emily doesn't need her sword to be in it's sword form. The girl had step forward as she did so that for a moment her clothes changed to what Emily was wearing currently, her Lieutenant America uniform and brown jacket and when she took that one step that her clothes changed back to the silver dress. This the girl had spoke and Emily could hear herself in that voice.
"Emily Blackthrone, I have been waiting for thousands of years for you to be born." Emily opened her mouth and than she closed her mouth again. After a couple of times of opening and closing her mother that Emily had manage to talk at last.
"Who are you?"
"I am Spes, the goddess of hope but you know me better as Elpis."
