Emily stared at the girl in front of her Emily wondered of how Elpis was able to be here if she was inside Pandora's Pithos. Emily watched Elpis' clothes kept going form the silver dress to what Emily was wearing. Emily knows the story of Pandora's Pithos, or Pandora's Box as Emily raised knowing, that Pandora was the first woman to be made and she was giving the Pithos as punishment for one of the titans. Emily wasn't sure of what to make of this or even what to say to Elpis, now that Elpis was standing in front of her. Thinking of it, Emily really never gave it much thought about Elpis till recently due to the waking of Gaea. Mainly because Gaia was to wake on the feast of Spes in about a week and half, of which seems a short amount of time, finally Emily had manage to say something again.

"How are you here and why do you look like me? Not only that but what happen to Gaea?"

"I unleashed hope, even though she is strong, she can't break all hope unless if she wakes on at the feast of Spes on August first." Emily had managed to stand up as Elpis spoke.

"I heard about that, that I am in her way of breaking all hope. But since you are a Protogenoi don't you stand in her way."

"In a way, yes. I am sure you already heard this but in order to make sure that hope is not lost or breaks you must be standing on this mountain when the feast of Spes."

"I heard that one too. But you still haven't my other questions." Elpis had sighed before she and spoke.

"Emily, I am different from other Protogenoi. I am different because I help make people believe in themselves had have hope even from a jar. But unlike other Protogenoi that I am only half awake whenever there is one that has strong hope or have a small amount of power over hope. But till you, no one had even had strong hope inside of the or have the amount of power over hope as you do. The moment that you had had become Hestia's champion that I woke up fully."

"Why me?"

"Why not you?" Emily tilted her head and Elpis had sighed. "Emily, there is a lot you don't know and understand. I can say that I am here because of you. Of why I look like you, that I can't answer not until the feast of Spes and that is the main reason you had come here and allowed me to come here. For you need to do something something that hasn't been since Ancient Greek times."

"What must I do?" Elpis had waved her hand and suddenly they found themselves in the original throne room of the gods. In the middle was the hearth and what was in the middle of the hearth surprised Emily. For in the middle of the room was Pandora's Pithos and Elpis had looked at it and spoke.

"Yes, it is here. Hestia had brought it shortly after the Titan war end but it is not in the hearth but it is hidden in this room and you must find it when you get here." Emily looked at it before looking at Elpis.

"Why me? Why must I find it?" Elpis had looked at Emily.

"Because you are hope but you need to be more than just the hope. You need my hope as well in order to help defeat Gaia. So when you find it, open it and release me."

"Why? Won't Gaea think we gave up or something?"

"No, she wants to smash it and if she does that, than I will fade."

"Can't one of the others do it?" Emily felt panicked, for she felt like there was so much placed upon her, she knows the others feel it too. Each of them had a part to do in this quest and Emily felt her part was the heaviest to carry. But Emily felt like she got the worst end of that, now that Gaea waking is coming closer that she felt more weighed down.

"No, it has to be you." Elpis had put a hand on her shoulder and spoke softly. "I know there is a lot that is weighing you down, it has been that way since the moment you learned that you were a demigod. I can say that after this quest is finished that most of it would be lifted for you have been though some of the roughest of your life. But if it succeed or fails depends on you and the other nine. All nine of you must be ready for when Gaea wakes on the feast of Spes." The dream had faded and the dream had changed. Emily wasn't sure where she was for she never seen or heard of a place like this before and it didn't quite make sense to her. It seem like she was no longer on the earth when the dream and changed. After who knows of how long, Emily had woke up and she got up and went up to the deck to talk to Leo, hopefully, or even Lauren.

They were a couple days away from Athens and it three days time that Gaea would awake and most likely destroy the world. That is if they didn't stop them, Emily had ask the avengers to go to Camp Halfblood in hopes to make sure that no war would back out and that Reyna and the others had made to prevent it. There had been no news about what was going on at the camps mainly because of the fact that the Iris messages wouldn't connect very well. Even her phone was not working very well, because of commutation a were not working well that made her uncle weary of leaving her, but Emily had told him to go for Emily felt that his part on this quest was over but he had a part over at the camps. Emily wasn't sure about his part at the camps but she knows that his part in the quest she was part of was over and he was needed elsewhere. That much Emily was sure of, Emily wished that he could stay just as he did and she knows hat he didn't want to leave her side in the toughest challenge ahead of her. Emily had reminded the last conversation host they had when she pulled him to one side.

"Uncle Steve, you have to go to else where, at least to Camp Halfblood."

"I won't leave, you are in danger." Emily looked up at her uncle when he said that, she knows he always tried to been there but since she had leered of her heritage that it had been difficult for him to protect her.

"Uncle Steve, you have protected me for a good amount of my life even during the war. But I had seventy years without you thinking you were died. I am glad that you are not died but since this I learned to protect myself and you know this and you have seen me protect myself and fight since the war."

"I know but you can't do this alone."

"I am not alone, there are nine others there to stop her and ten counting me." Emily hand out he hand over her uncle's hand before got on. "Remember when I had wanted to go with you to face the red skull?"

"Yes and that you didn't want to leave my side and I made you stay beyond. For I know you would be safer back on the base than on the plane. For a fight between you and the red skull would be unfair to both of you." Her uncle looked down at her as he said that.

"We have come to a similar situation but in this case it is me that has to face the red skull but you stay at the base." Her uncle hand bit his lip as Emily spoke and she went on. "For it would be just as unfair fight if you went with me like if I went with you." Emily could tell that her uncle didn't like it at all, neither did Emily, so they had to go their different ways for the time being. When the Helicarrier had went out of sight that Emily was close of breaking down and crying. For she remembered all the times that her uncle had protected her and everyone else before he crashed that plane and after he woke up. For it seem like he was the one protecting everyone or someone else but this time it seem more she was the one doing the protecting instead. Emily could understand better of how her uncle felt when he had turned her down and away from his fight with the red skull. For he couldn't let her face the red skull with him but she couldn't let him face Gaea with her. For her uncle didn't have the abilities to go against her but in Emily's case with the red skull that she was too tired to use her powers and she would have been defeated to easily. Emily was gripping e risking as she thought of what she did earlier that day, she hoped that they would be fine travel across the ocean again and she was hoping that nothing would prevent them or stand in their way from reaching camp halfbloods.