AN: All right, we are back of where this story first started when Arabella enters the underworld. For those that read this story before it was renamed from Daughters of Hades to Children of the Grains and the Shadows. The added chapters and the name change was done to show Emily's journey from the end of World War II to when she disappears at the end of Children of the Harvest. That is where this story will end, so this story still had a long way to go, this story is more of a background story for Emily and how her relationship with Phil and Arabella formed. Soon you will see Hogwarts, in the next few chapters at least. So warning ups head that you will see things from my other Children stories as well as from the Shadow Witch Avenger. Also this story will have other marvel movies in here, that includes the Xmen movies or some of them like the original three Xmen and Days of future past. So yes we will be doing days of future past but we will not cover Xmen first class, for that happened about ten years earlier. Emily was doing something like either helping a demigod or in the underworld and Arabella isn't born yet.
The ideas for this stories, half of them whirl the other half are Iveya Jade's psycho mind 08's ideas. Since this just as part of my stories as it is with the Shadow Witch avenger. Arabella and Emily is our creations.
Disclaimer: we don't own marvel, Harry Potter or Percy Jackson.
It had been about sixteen years since Emily joined SHIELD officially, to be fair she never gave it much thought of Phil joining SHIELD when she first started training him but he did. Emily was utterly surprise of how high they both went in SHIELD, Phil was Nick's right hand man but not the deputy director. Emily was the third highest person right behind Phil, for a time she was second till an agent name Maria Hill started climbing the ranks and managed to get the rank of deputy Director. Honestly, Emily wasn't bothered that she was the third person after Phil, she actually preferred it for that meant she had less things to worry about in the SHIELD world as Emily and Phil refer to as. However when Emily and Phil did their first SHIELD mission together that Emily panicked when she found out of who the third person on the mission was. For it was Melinda May, one of the roman demigods that she helped trained personally throughout the last eight years when she was there. For she knows that Romans and Greeks didn't get along when they meet or at least normally, for Emily has no problems with the Romans. She was wondered that Phil and Melinda wouldn't get along, but to her surprise that they did, the main worry was that making sure that neither one of them were not aware that they were a Greek demigod and a roman demigod or even a demigod at all.
However, Emily was on a break from SHIELD and helping demigods getting to the camps or wolf house in the case of the Romans. Even though she was on a break from both things that she was not on a break from her underworld duties. Emily barely finished dealing with a riot and some spirits trying to get out of the underworld, that annoyed Emily but not near as much as it did Hades, Thanatos or even the three furies. Not that she could blame them since they had been doing this longer than she has and it only get busier since he took over. She knew that part of the reason of why Hades made her that offer all those years ago was take some weight off of his own shoulders and the others. At the moment, Emily was walking through the halls towards the throne room to see if her father heard anything from Phil about any new missions that required her. When she reached the throne room that she saw Severus Snape, a legacy of Hades, run into a shadow. Emily merely raised an eyebrow when Severus ran into the shadows before turning to her adopted father.
"Father!" Hades turned and looked at her as Emily walked towards him as she spoke. "Why was Severus here?" Hades lowered his voice a little.
"Remember that one night I spend with that red head woman named Lily?" Emily remembered that night, for she remembered of how mad Persephone got when Hades came back from his one night stand. It was like watching Hades and Demeter fight but without the comment of Cereal from time to time as well as a little less dangerous.
"Yes, it is a little hard to forget."
"Apparently, she become pregnant with my child that night as well as her husband's child. You know what is like for a child of Hades living in the world of the living and how hard it is for a Halfblood to be raised. So Severus brought her down here to be trained." Emily was aware but even a child of Hades would be raised by their mortal parent.
"But why? I mean, why not let her be raised by her mortal parent?"
"Well, as it happens she is part of a third, the other world that Severus is part of and there is a war going on up there. There is also other things that is added to the factor, so it would be safer for both Arabella and her family if she was to be raised here." Emily nodded.
"Where is she?"
"She is in a nursery that was built some time ago, when Persephone become my wife. We put it there when and if we have children." Hade stole her where the nursery was, Emily went in the direction Hades told her before reaching the room. As she entered the room that she saw Persephone sitting Ina rocking chair holding a pink bundle in her arms. Persephone was singing softly and she looked up as Emily entered and cross the room, when Emily reached them that she looked down at the baby girl in Persephone's arms. It was clear that the baby girl was recently born, for the baby was too small for it to be any older than a week old. Her hair was a dark red color, to no big surprise that her skin was pale compared to most everyone else. As Persephone stopped singing that the baby girl opened her eyes to reveal purple eyes with flecks of green in them. Emily felt her heart melt as the baby girl looked up at her and cooed, in a way it felt like when she meet Phil about twenty years ago when he watched his father die in front of him. The baby girl cooed again and reached her arms out towards Emily, carefully Emily bent forward enough to take Arabella from Persephone and Persephone carefully handed Arabella to Emily.
"What is her full name?"
"Arabella Persephone Evans. She is was born to a witch as well as to Hades. You most likely knew the last part by now." Emily looked at the baby girl again of who closed her eyes once more and cuddled into Emily. In the last decade that slowly Camp Halfblood and a map Jupiter gained children of Demeter or Ceres. The oldest one of the ones at the camps was twenty, but she was not close to any of them expect for Phil and she never had a half sister or half brother through Hades before or at least not since World War II. The closest person she had to a half sister was Lauren, looking down at Arabella reminded her of what Emily had been doing before she learned about Phil. Of which she stopped doing after she learned about Phil, thinking about that at the moment made Emily realize that she missed having a half sister around or someone she considered as a sister. For she never had a half sister before she took a couple of them to Camp Halfblood a few years ago and she never really considered them as half sisters. Well Persephone could count but than again there some things that she did with Lauren that she never did with Persephone or eve consider doing with Persephone. Emily touched Arabella's face softly.
"Arabella Persephone Evans, that is a name you don't hear often. I am curious where does her mother live?" Persephone merely shrugged, after a while Arabella fell asleep in Emily's arms and Persephone had since left. Of which didn't bother Emily all that much, so Emily carried Arabella over to the crib and put her gentle down into the crib before putting a blanket over Arabella. Emily lean forward and kissed Arabella's forehead putting hope into Arabella as she did so, an orange glow washed over Arabella's forehead before it faded. Emily touched Arabella's cheek softly and spoke. "You may not be a child of the great prophecy but I think you may just be as important, I don't know why I think that. It's a feeling that I have and you will have a role to play in that prophecy as well as another, no matter what though, I hope that you become another light in this gloomy world down here as well as hope that one day you will find your twin half brother. That glow was a gift that you will find your twin half brother before you turn fifteen, even if you don't know it at first." Emily pulled her hand away before leaving the nursery to go to her own room.
December 21, six months later
Emily and Hades entered the underworld palace after coming back from the winter solstice meeting, Emily usually comes down here after a solstice meeting to cover anything that Hades may need or want her to do in the underworld. Than she would go above and do SHIELD stuff unless stated otherwise, for Emily told Nick about the newcomer in the Underworld. Nick wanted to meet Arabella but Emily told him that Emily would only bring Arabella up when she was old and ready. As soon as they entered the palace that Emily and Hades stopped in their tracks at the site before them. The palace was in a mess, not the kind that Aphrodite had done in the past when Aphrodite thought the place seem too gloomy and painted it pink and covered with different things that concerned love. It was more the mess of a six month old baby gone wild, there was toys everywhere as well as food stains both on the floor and on the wall, there was even some diapers on the floor. Emily was shocked to see the palace in this site, Hades seems to be wondering what happen, feisty the fact he watched an io and Bianca grow up.
"What happened?"
"I am going to guess Arabella." Hades looked at her surprised, Emily pointed to the toys before going on. "Well can you see Persephone play with a toy like that while we were gone and she was the one looking after Arabella while we were gone."
"Good point. I will have the dead clean this up. Why don't you check on your two sisters." Emily walked down the hall following the mess till she reached the nursery of which was just as messy as the halls and some other rooms Emily saw as she walked past them. Arabella was in Persephone's arms fast asleep and Persephone looks worn out, she also looked relieved to see Emily entering the nursery. As Emily walked over to her that Persephone spoke up.
"I am glad to see that you came back down here." Emily looked down at Arabella as she cooed in her sleep.
"Well you know how long those meetings can take."
"So what happened?" Emily shrugged when Persephone said that.
"You will have to ask Hades that question." Persephone sighed.
"I keep forgetting that you always get bored and entertaining yourself while you are there. So I assume you were entertaining Hermes as well." Emily nodded when Persephone said that, than Persephone stood up and handed Arabella to Emily. "I am going to talk to my husband, do you mind if you take her to her crib."
"Sure." Emily took Arabella from Persephone and she went to talk to Hades, Emily sat down in the rocker and held Arabella in her arms for a few more minutes. As she sat there that she sang a lullaby, it was one of the lullabies that her father sang to Emily and her brother when they were younger before he died. As a matter of fact when Emily visited him after she was adopted by Hades that her brith father would still sign it to her as she would fell asleep either in her room at her father's house in Elysium. Sounds crazy but it help comfort Emily over the years till Phil came along, it ha sheen over twenty years since her birth father sang that song to her. After a few minutes of singing the lullaby, that Emily got up slowly and put Arabella down in the crib and looked at her. Emily knows a demigod's life is hard but it was harder for a child of Hades, Emily hopes that Arabella will have a good life as she grows up.
For the next six months that Emily helped with raising Arabella, so she spend most of fall and winter in the underworld as well as being there for spring and summer. The only time that Emily every left was to train demigods or go Ina SHIELD mission with Phil. Persephone stay down here for most of summer and spring, she went to see their mother a few times, it was during one of those times that Persephone told their mother about Arabella. Their mother started telling that Arabella should eat cereal as soon as Arabella was to, Persephone and Emily rolled their eyes when their mother said that. But Arabella started to talk more, she even used the words dada and mama, not only that but Arabella also said wmile when she tried to say Emily's name. A couple of weeks before Halloween that Emily went back to the surface to do what she usually does of which is to help, rescue and take demigods to camp. When she was on her way back to the cabin from doing a rescue mission that Emily stopped suddenly. When Emily held Arabella that first time that she felt that connection between Arabella and her mother.
Emily felt it every time she held Arabella in her arms for the past year and four months, Emily was able to know if her real mother died because of that. A tear rolled down her cheek as Emily sense Arabella's mother and stepfather being judged. Instead of going to the cabin that she went to the underworld, Emily went into the nursery. Persephone was in there trying to calm Arabella down, when Emily went over to her half sister that she took Arabella from her. After a couple minutes of singing a couple of lullabies and using the powers she got from Hestia to clam down Arabella that Arabella finally stopped crying and only sniffled. Arabella put her head on Emily's shoulder and feel asleep, Persephone was glad of that, not that Persephone was a bad mother, it was just that in this case that Persephone would have a hard time calming Arabella down. Persephone put her hand on Arabella's cheek and spoke.
"I wondered what happened?"
"Persephone, her real mother died tonight. I am not totally sure what happen but I think it has to do with the other world." Persephone knew what Emily meant by the other world, the wizarding world, there was certain things that Emily knows about that world. She only knows about because of Arabella and Severus, otherwise Emily would have been unaware of the wizarding world. After a few more minutes of talking that Emily gave Arabella back to Persephone and went into her room in the underworld. It was one of biggest rooms but Arabella's room might be bigger, but that didn't bother Emily all that much. Emily changed her clothes before climbing into her bed, she looked down at the hand that had her wedding rings on it. She took off the rings and put the rings in the middle of her hand and close her hand around. She closed her eyes and thought to the day when Bucky fell from the train, what would her life been like if that never happen. She was sure of one thing, that she would have an utterly different life and a happy one too. Even with how much she loves her new life that Emily just wished that she has the three closest people with her. Emily put her rings in the drawer before she laid back on the bed fell asleep.