For the next about twenty six years, Emily made sure that she did her best to do what she needed to do and it was hard at first. With the training, the nightmares, and duties, but as time went on that Emily slowly started to get use to using her powers and duties. Thankfully the nightmare slowly went away as the time went on, but Emily felt like an empty shell in many ways. The gods she was closest to know that fact and Emily knew that fact all too well, Hermes tried to help with pulling pranks of which helped in some ways. For Emily started pranking him back so as a result a prank war started between Emily, Hermes and the Hermes cabin. However at first it was just Hermes and Emily. But it was clear after a few years that Hermes brought his children, both Roman and Greek, in on the prank war as well of which Emily didn't mind. For it made her trips to both camps even more worst while when she brought a new demigod to Camp Halfblood or when she watches over the Romans for the changes like Zeus ask for.
Though Emily doesn't usually bring the changes up in meetings, she would only bring up when the gods approach her and ask her about it but only on one of the solstice that they do that and not every god approach her about it. The only time she does when there was a new praetor or a new centurion or augur, well Apollo would know about the augur for sure or as far as Emily knows. For she doesn't know how the augur was picked, since the augur was the roman version of the oracle that she assumes that Apollo has some sort of role to play concerning when there was a new need of an augur. During the next few years that Emily learned about when and how the pact of the big three not having any more children as well as learning about the curse of the oracle from Hades. Emily was not thrilled and after yelling at Hades about that that Hades told her that she was her mother's daughter all right expect there was a slightly less worry of Emily killing him than Demeter.
After learning about her two half siblings that Emily went to check on them, thankfully due to her immortals status that she wasn't affected by the casino. It didn't take long for Emily to find them, she wanted the two of them out of the casino but she promise Hades that she wouldn't remove them unless he felt like the two should leave the casino. She knows why the tow ended up there, she knew Zeus was the reason behind it, after hearing about what Zeus did to the two demigods that she told Zeus off as well making him shrink from her. Hera was present when Emily did that and Hera found it amusing that Zeus was told off by a demigod. Emily did told Zeus that he was close of leaving the list of people she trusted and respect, at he only reason he still remain on the list because of the permission he gave her to fly though the air as well as five of his children were her adopted siblings while she was at camp.
After a few years of those events that Emily more or less started praying to Demeter asking her to give her a half sibling. The chances of Hades giving her one was unlikely, despite the fact of how close she got to some of the gods, even Persephone the only half sibling she has at the moment, that none of them could replace the missing places to Steve and Lauren. With Steve and Bucky who knows where and Lauren disappearing not too long ago that Emily felt like an empty shell. Sure she could task to Persephone about Hades and their mother as well as doing hints together as sisters, but there things she couldn't task to Persephone about or she was not sure how to talk to Persephone about. That was mainly because Emily was still part mortal while Persephone wasn't, because of that there things that Persephone couldn't relate to. Emily never got an answer nor did her mother even talk to her about having a half siblings, but hey both were aware about and it seems that they were in agreement that they were not sure how to bring that subject up with each other.
When December 31 of 1972 rolled around that Emily remained at her cabin for the day, as soon as night fell that there was a knock on the door. Emily got up slightly puzzled, most of the gods know where she lived both inside had out of the u dee world. But it was rare for them to come down here to talk to her, Emily went to the door and opened it. It was Hestia, unlike at Camp Halfblood or at the meetings or even at other times that Hestia visited that Hestia didn't appear as an eight year with mousy brown hair with warm red eyes. Instead she appeared as she use from the ancient Greek time or from what she was told by Hestia and the other gods. Her eyes were warm and brown, her black hair, or what Emily could see of her hair, framed her face in ringlets. She was wearing a plain modest dress and there was no trace of makeup like Hestia needs it, and her hair was tucked under a Lionel shawl. There was a honest smile on her face, Hestia was beautiful in her own right and there was a sweetness coming from her, the kind of sweetness the tone would expect from a mother. Of course the delicious scent of wood smoke and toasted marshmallows was there.
"Hestia, I was not expecting you."
"I know, can I come in?" Emily step aside to allow Hestia inside, as soon as Hestia was inside and the door was closed that Hestia turned to her with a serious expression on her face. "There is something we need to talk about."
"What about?" Emily sat in an arm chair as Hestia sat down on the couch.
"Have you heard about time travel?"
"I heard it brought up from time to time in the mortal world. Why do you ask?"
"There were a few times when there was a time jump and two time lines were created from of where there was someone at went back in time and changed events slightly."
"All right, but what does this have to do with me?"
"Apollo came to talk to me earlier today and told me about what he saw, he saw two futures and the two futures start tomorrow. However the one future must takes place before the other comes, Apollo couldn't see much of the second future or the first one, but he saw enough to know in the second future that you have a part to play."
"Why are you telling me this?" Hestia looked down before she spoke.
"Because there was something else he saw or what he told me, that no matter of the two timeline that after a couple more wars that you will end up with the same fate. That you disappear in a flash of light not to been again for a while, he didn't say how long for sure. However he told me that there is a way you could come back sooner than he saw in one timeline. That I give you a blessing that you will remember both timeliness when you wake up, after the second future is set in motion and the two that make the change go bake to the time they left and that you will know it is time to come back."
"What will happen when I come back?"
"I don't know, I asked him that, he told me that when the time comes that you have the answers to the questions you are asking yourself. I am not sure if I understand but if Apollo is right, I want to make sure you come back as soon as you can." Emily tilted her head.
"Let me guess because you will miss me."
"That is a reason, a very good one at that. But that is not all, for Apollo made it quite clear in both timelines you will find Lauren, Steve and Bucky, and be wi them again before you disappear. I know what these last few years have been like for you and I want to make sure you kept your family and return to them as soon as you can. So if you let me." Emily nodded before she knelt in front of Hestia and allowed her to do the blessing, after the blessing was given that Hestia said farewell and good luck, before leaving. After the next day came and went that Emily was a little annoyed for in a way she hoped that the one future would just happen instead of doing on future before the other future would be set into motion.
For the following year and half that Emily kept up doing what she has been doing for about twenty eight years now. Doing her underworld duties, protecting snd help train the demigods, lead the demigods to the wolf house, Camp Halfblood or the hunters. Emily only lead the girls to the hunters and if they suffered abused from males and didn't trust any males. Emily was at least glad that she wasn't a male so it made it easier for her to get them to the hunters. Thankfully she did managed to open the hunter's eyes a bit to see that some males could be trust or show some of them respect. So that at least the hunters showed some respect Chiron for training bad helping the female demigods at the very least of which was better than they had been before in camp. Unknown to Emily when she prayed to her mother on the evening of July seventh of having a half sibling that her prays were going to be answers the next day.
Phil's pov, July 8th
Phil ran with his father right behind him as he ran, when Phil came back from the baseball game that day that Phil told his father of what happen at school with what seem like a monster trying to kill him. But a stone lion attacked the monster giving Phil time to get out, when Phil told his father that, that his father panicked and told him to come with him. When they got into the car that his father told him everything about his mother and that he was a demigod, a son of Demeter. His father said this as they drove out of town into the country, Phil wasn't sure what to think about what his father was telling him. His Faye real so told him that he was going to take Phil to his older sister that was adopted by Hades, however his sister considers herself as a daughter of both gods. However as his father told him about this that his father suddenly stepped on the break of the car, in front of the car was the monster from earlier, it has a head of a human, a tail with spikes, and it's was that of a lion. Suddenly his father started going backwards with the car just than the lion man roared and charged.
"Get out." Phil managed to unbuckle his seat belt and the two of them get out of the car as the lion man smacked right where Phil was. Phil stumbled back and tripped over a root, the lion man turned Phil and crowded before he started to leap. Before he could get too far that his father jumped into the back of the lion man, the lion man roared and hit his father with the spiked tail and throw his father into a tree before his father fell to the ground like a rag doll.
"DAD!" The lion man charged at Phil, Phil tried to back away and get up before Phil could move to far that he heard something behind him before something leaped over him. Whatever it was at it moved fast enough that it was blurred as it hit the lion man the first time, the lion man fell back and crashed into the car. As the lion man struggled to stand back up that Phil looked to where he last saw where the blur was before it hit the lion man.
To his surprise it was a woman that was a good twelve years older than he was, she has black curly hair that was pulled back with something leather. She was wearing an old 1940s brown leather jacket, armed shirt, black pants and running shoes. There was an air about her, like she was born and trained to fight this kind of monster, like she was born a warrior, a defender. The lion man roared as it charged at the woman and the woman took off the necklace and swished it, to his surprise the necklace become a sword. Phil looked away from the woman and the lion man to look at his father as the woman started to fight off the monster, he got up and ran over to his father had turned his father to the side so he could look at his father. His father was barely breathing, he opened his eyes and looked up at Phil before he reached out and touched his cheek.
"Are you hurt?"
"No, but you need to get healed."
"Phil ... "
"You will be all right." Phil didn't what to lose his dad, they been through much already, since he has friends but one thing Phil and his father did was restore the one red car in the garage and that was their time. Phil didn't want to lose his father since his father was the only parent he ever knew.
"Phil, you know I won't make it, not with what happen."
"Please dad." There was a voice behind Phil making Phil jump and turn.
"He is right,meh doesn't have much time left." Phil looked up at the woman stands there looking at the two of them. "His life aura is fading and fast." Phil looked to his father.
"No, you can't leave me, not in the middle of the forest. You also told me that you were taking me to my half sister's."
"I did." His father looked up at the woman behind them. "What is your name?" The woman looked at his father carefully before she spoke.
"Rachel Blackthrone, daughter of Hades. Why?"
"You're Rachel?" The woman looked surprised when his father said that.
"Yes, do you know me?"
"Your mother told me about you and told me that you are her child by birth but were adopted by Hades much later in life. She brought up that you think of yourself as both of their daughters as well as the gods but the demigods only know you as a daughter of Hades." Phil looked at Rachel, she seem a bit worried.
"What else did she tell you about me?"
"Everything but she asked me to only tell Phil that you are her daughter by birth and a daughter of Hades by adoption." The woman looked at Phil and she knelt down besides the two of them.
"He is a demigod isn't he?"
"He is, he is a son of Demeter." Rachel's eyes widen when his father said that, his father went on. "His scent was starting to get stronger in the last month, when he almost got killed earlier today that I know I had to find you and get him to you. Please take him in, he doesn't have anyone else to go to now. You are his only family left." His father looked back at Phil. "Behave Phil, learn what she teaches you to make sure enough you can defend yourself against the monsters. I love you." Phil wanted to say something but couldn't, for his father closed his eyes and his head slumped forward.
"Dad? Dad! No!" But his father took his last breath as Phil yelled no, Phil hugged his father tightly as he cried. He hardly noticed when Rachel pulled him from his father's body, Phil heard Rachel told someone to take the body away and give his father a burial shroud. Phil kept crying till he fell asleep.
Emily's pov
As soon as Phil managed to fell asleep that she looked at the boy, he was no more than ten years of age. Such a young age to lose a parent, however she lost her father much sooner than ten, so she could understand of how he was feeling right now. His hair was brown as well as being slightly tanned, his eyes were the same color as her own eyes that was when she was in her birth appearance. While he cried that she told Alecto to take his father down and give him a burial shroud of which she did at once. As soon as Phil was fast asleep that she stood up carefully and allowed the shadows to engulf the two of them. When the shadows left that was standing in front of her cabin, Emily went over to the door and opened.
Once inside that Emily put Phil on the couch before taking a step back, Hestia did inform her of the manticore attack a demigod and their parent. But what she didn't expect was the said demigod was her half brother, as she looked at him that she heard running. Emily looked just as her mother stopped at the doorway and notice Phil and Emily there, in one hand of her mother was a backpack that was blue and in the middle of backpack was a picture of Emily and Steve in their Captain America and Lieutenant USA uniforms. Her mother looked relief seeing Phil on the couch, if her mother was a mortal that Emily was sure that she would be out of breath from how her mother looked at the moment.
"For a moment, I though Phil was killed." Emily walked over to her mother and took the backpack from her mother before she spoke.
"Why didn't you tell me that you had another child?" Her mother sighed.
"I thought of telling you but I wasn't sure of how to tell you that."
"You told his father about me but to have his father only tell him that I was your daughter by birth and adopted by Hades. Why?" Her mother smiled slightly.
"Well, the part of informing your brother about having an older sister wasn't mention till Phil ask if he could have any siblings to his father. I told his father about you when I brought Phil to him, for I know you wanted a half sibling and I knew in due time Phil would learn of heritage. Who else would be able to teach him of how to use his demigod abilities other than you? I have no other demigod expect your twin brother but we have no idea of where he is." Emily looked back at Phil.
"But I am not sure if I should keep him here, not only that but I can't bring him to the underworld."
"Actually you can." Emily looked back at her mother when she said that. "Shortly after Phil was born that I told Hades about him, we both agreed that he needs to be trained of how to use his abilities and you are the only one that do that. As long as you and Phil are fine with it, that Phil will go back and forth between this cabin and the underworld till he trained enough. He would still be welcomed in the underworld though." Emily looked down at the backpack in her hands.
"Is this everything he has?"
"No, some of it is still back at his house, you need to bring all that stuff from that house to here." Emily looked up at her mother.
"I assume Lieutenant USA and Captain America are his heroes."
"They are. He is most likely the biggest fan of them. I will watch him for now and make up the second bedroom for him, while you get everything of his and the red Corvette from his house." Emily headed towards the door as her mother spoke, but when her mother brother up a red Corvette that Emily stopped and turned to face her.
"A red Corvette." While her mother spoke that she went over to where Phil was, her mother turned ways from Phil to look at Phil.
"Yes, it was a car his father was working on and he had Phil help for bonding time. Phil did some Inge with his old friends like baseball. His father wanted to spend time with him and I am pretty sure that they recently finished working on the Corvette. I have a feeling Phil will ask about the car at some point, so it would be better if you managed to bring it here."
"How am I suppose to do that?"
"Shadow travel."
"Where will it go?"
"I ok put a shed or garage of sorts so that the car won't be effected by the weather or at least the weather around the clearing and such." Emily stared at her mother for a few moments.
"Where does he live anyway."
"Up till Phil was five, they lived in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. Five years ago they moved to Rhinebeck. They are near the new development." Emily nodded before running into the shadows, Emily reappeared near the new development. Emily asked a few people of which way was the Coulson house explaining that she was the half sister to Phil Coulson when they asked her why she wanted to know. It didn't take long to find the house, she asked a neighbor for a key to get in after finding it locked. When she went inside that she quickly found Phil's room, as soon as she went inside the room the she froze. The walls were red on top and white on the bottom while the carpet was blue, there were various pictures, drawings and posters of Captain America and Lieutenant USA. There was also comics in one corner from what she could see. Emily entered the room and started packing some more things for Phil, among the things he had was a vintage trading cards of both Lieutenant USA and Captain America. When Emily was sure that she had everything that Phil wanted or needed that she went to the garage to pull out with the car before dawn shadow traveling everything to her cabin.