When Emily woke up the next day that she knew what she had to do, the one thing she wanted to do was to meet Arabella's family ever since she meet Arabella. Plus Emily heard much of Arabella's mother from Severus, so she was curious of what this Lily was like. So Emily changed out of her nightclothes and put on normal everyday clothes, unlike most days when she would need to wear her princess of the underworld dress or her SHIELD jumpsuit. She put on a blue shirt, blue jeans, tennis shoes and her brown leather jacket that Bucky gave to her when they were dating. The last thing Emily did before leaving the room was putting on her wedding rings, once she did that, that she left her room. Emily took a few steps before stopping in front of the door of the room next to her, that room was Phil's and still is for his stuff was still in there or at least some of it. It didn't seem so long ago when Phil was with her and she was training him to be a demigod, not he was a SHIELD agent. Emily was still a SHIELD agent but she was inactive at the current time mostly because of Arabella.
When Arabella came along just over a year ago that Emily told Nick and Phil about her and Emily wanted to place inactive till Arabella was old enough that Emily would worry less about leaving her behind. The last time Phil was down here was two years ago for Arabella wasn't born at that time quite yet. Emily looked away from the door and kept walking through the palace and eventually out of the palace before she headed towards Elysium. As soon as she entered that the different spirits greeted her, some of them she knew quite well while others joined recently. After a couple of minutes that she stopped a couple and asked of where she could the spirits of James and Lily Potter. As soon as the spirit couple told her that Emily went to find James and Lily Potter and followed their directions. After a few minutes that Emily found the house, Emily leaned against the nearest house to her as she watched a man and a woman came out of the house before they sat in a couple of chairs talking.
When Emily saw Arabella for the first time that she could see some of her father in Arabella, but now that she was looking at Lily Potter that she could see the resemblance between Arabella and Lily. If her mother was any indicate that Arabella would be quite the heart breaker as she grows older. Lily has red flame hair but it was a slightly darker shade than flame red, her skin was lightly tanned, and her eyes were bright emerald green. The man, James, has messy black hair, hazel eyes, slightly thanked skin and there was a pair of glasses on his nose. Emily stood where she was watching the two of them, just from her looks and how Lily was acting that Emily could see why Severus likes Lily. After a couple of minutes that Lily noticed her and she pointed Emily out to James, James looked over at her before both James and Lily got up form the chairs. Emily stood up straight and walked over to them as they watched her. When Emily was in front of them that she looked between the two of them as they looked at her. It was Lily that broke the silence.
"You are the other child of Hades that Severus told us about shortly after he took Arabella to the underworld?" Emily nodded when Lily said that.
"Indeed I am, I am surprised he even mentioned me at all. He knows I prefer to keep a low profile." Lily took a step forward and spoke.
"How come you didn't come when Severus came to the hospital when I gave birth to Arabella?"
"Because he was at the castle and I was in the underworld dealing with a riot. I usually come down here during the spring and summer, but I have been known to come down here during the fall and winter. Usually I am above during that time, during that time I am usually taking demigods to camp among other things. But since Arabella came down here over a year ago that I been coming down here during that time more often. Though I would I still come down here to do my duties when I need to." This time James spoke up.
"Camp?" Emily nodded.
"Yes, camp. It is a special camp for people like myself or Arabella."
"Dumbledore never brought this camp up." Emily looked over at Lily in surprise when she said Dumbledore.
"Hang on, are you referring to Albus Dumbledore not Aberforth Dumbledore?" James and Lily looked surprised by this.
"Yes, I am referring to Albus Dumbledore. Do you know him?"
"Yes, while he was fighting in that war in the 1940s that I was fighting in World War II and ere times when we joined together because there was a few times demigods on the opposite side of my war and the wizarding people on the other side of Albus would join together. The first time that happen when Albus and the ones followed him lost the battle when the opposite side had demigods that he managed to find Project Demigod and ask us for help."
"So were you there when Albus defeated Grindelwald?" Emily sighed
"Yes, I was there but I won't be able to tell you much, there was some fighting before Grindlewald came out and said some crap to Albus, than the fighting resumed and I saw Grindlewald fly backwards in the castle that he is in prisoned now. But that is besides the point, though Albus doesn't know everything, Albus and I spoke of plenty of things during the fighting but I never told him about the camp. Though most demigods are usually raised by their mortals but certain demigods are exceptions, most of the time it is one of the great heroes or a child of Hades. I know there been a couple of other children of Hades that were raised in the underworld but I wasn't alive at that time. I will admit that I was slightly worried when Arabella came to the underworld."
"Why is that?" Emily sighed before looking at Lily.
"I am sure you heard about Prophecies."
"Of course there are prophecies in our world, what of them?"
"We have them as well, there is this one prophecy and I thought it might refer to Arabella. After trying to figured it out that I went to ask the fates. They told me that the prophecy isn't about her at all." Lily and James looked worried but the relax slightly when Emily reached the last part.
"Why is that? And what does this prophecy say?"
"'A half-blood of the eldest gods
Shall reach sixteen against all odds
And see the world in endless sleep
The hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap
A single choice shall end his days
Olympus to preserve or raze'
The fates made it clear that the said Halfblood is not a witch but a normal demigod."
"Hang on a second." Emily looked at James. "Are you saying it is uncommon for a demigod not have magical core?"
"Yes. But it has happen before, there is usually a handful in each generation though usually the demiwitch or demiwizard would stay in your world." James and Lily looked puzzled when Emily used that name. "A demiwitch or demiwizard is what we call a demigod that was both to a witch, or wizard depending on the case of who the godly parent is, provided that they are born with said magical core of which is usually the case. It because of the fact she is one is why she is not the child of the prophecy. For if she was than it would have refer to the fact that the Halfblood would have some kind of power or refer to the fact that she has magical abilities or core." Than Emily heard Hestia's voice in her head telling her that she has a new assignment and showed her of where to go. "I would stay longer but I need to go." Emily started to walk away but Lily spoke up.
"Wait!" Emily stopped and looked back at Lily as she walked forward. "What is your name?"
"Rachel Emily Blackthrone, daughter of Hades, princess of the underworld, heir to the underworld, and champion of Hestia." Lily looked a little surprised when Emily said princess of the underworld, champion of Hestia and heir to the underworld.
"Does that make Arabella a princess?"
"Well, considering the fact she is being raised here, yes. If she was raised by you or her mortals family, no. Not unless if she wants to become know as such if she learned of what she was later in life like other demigods."
"Rachel, can you please do me a favor?"
"What?"
"Can you look after Arabella?" Emily smiled lightly when Lily sisd that.
"Lily, I was planning in doing that anyway. For I am her half sister." Lily smiled, Emily turned and started to walk away but she stopped and turned to look at Lily and James of who were still looking at her. "Not only that, but a long time ago before World War II ended that I made a promise to someone I know."
"Who and what was the promise."
"I made a promise to do my best to help and protect the demigods and be able to have a better chance of living a normal life. I made that promise to my lost twin brother."
"You mean dead?" Emily shook her head when Lily said that.
"No, I mean lost." Emily turned and walked away leaving the confused Potters behind.
Three weeks later
Arabella was talking and was saying simple words but she has yet to speak a word properly yet. Emily and Persephone were playing with Arabella and kept on using words to help Arabella speak clearly. As they played with Arabella that Hades and Thanatos walked in, Thanatos was aware about Arabella and what happen to her mortal mother and step fa ther. He did tell them that her twin brother was not dead but he wasn't sure where the twin brother was, Emily hoped that Arabella's twin brother was fine. Emily looked up as Persephone got up and greeted Hades, Arabella was crawling towards but changed her course once Persephone went to Hades. Emily couldn't help but laugh as Arabella changed course that she giggled happily and crawled towards Thanatos. Thanatos watched in interest as Arabella crawled over to him, when she was a few steps from him that she managed to stand up and took a few steps. But she almost fell if it wasn't for the fact that she grabbed his tunic at the last second to steady herself. Arabella looked up at Thanatos and gurgled before she spoke her first clear word that she didn't stumble over or mispronounce.
"Death." Thanatos raised an eyebrow when Arabella said that, Emily smiled when Arabella said that, Persephone and Hades were close of laughing at Thanatos look of puzzlement and bewilderment.
"What?" Arabella giggled when Thanatos said that before she spoke again.
"Death." Arabella let go of his tunic and wrapped herself around his leg and giggled again, Emily and Persephone started to laugh as Thanatos looked even more confused. Emily was close of flaling back laughing but she managed to get up as she giggled before walking to Thanatos and picked up Arabella. Arabella squealed in excitement as well as giggled and said Death once more before looking around and clapping her hands together. Arabella made some happy noises and giggled before she reached out her hands to Thanatos. "Death, play." Emily burs it to laughter and was close of felling to her knees just from the look on Thanatos's face. Honestly she thought it was amusing when Phil came to the underworld and saw Thanatos's reaction to Phil the first time but this beats that. Emily managed to spoke as Arabella clapped her hands again.
"It seems that she said her first clear word though that isn't a very common first word for a child to say." Arabella giggled before she spoke again.
"Wmily." Emily looked at Arabella in slight surprised, Arabella gurgled and giggled as she clapped her hands once more and she looked proud of herself. Arabella was looking at Emily, than Arabella reached her hands out to Emily and spoke. "Wmily." Hades laughed when Arabella said that.
"Well it seems that she is getting close of saying your name properly." Emily smiled when Hades said that.
Ten months later
Emily came back fro the field of punishment, she spent most of the day there to check the area out and the punishments fit the ones in the field of punishment. She mostly checked on the new ones that entered the field of punishment, thankfully Colonel Phillips was not in there yet. Most people would know Colonel Phillips better as Daedalus, that he had been avoiding for thousands of years. Though to Emily, she still thinks of him as a colonel Phillips even though she knows the truth, hades knows the truth about Daedalus and who he was during World War II. Hades also knows that Emily could find him but he never forced her to do that, even though what Daedalus was doing unnatural, that to Emily it would losing another part of her past from what she lost already. Both Emily and Hades knew that he couldn't ask Emily to take away another part of her old life by her own hand. Even though Hades knew Emily had a way to find Daedalus that Emily never told him about Ariadne's String being in her possession. She could feel Ariadne's String in her pocket, she forced that out of her mind as she entered the palace. Emily made her way toward Arabella's room, as soon as she entered the room that she saw that Arabella was not there. Emily quickly left and found Hades in the throne room, Emily walked up to him as she spoke.
"Hades, where is Arabella?" Hades looked at her before he got up and went down to human size. He walked over to Emily as he spoke.
"She is up on Olympus with Persephone. Your mother wanted to see her as well as Hestia." Hades stopped in front of her. "You know it has been about sixty years since I adopted you. Wouldn't you think that you would be calling me Dad or Father more often by now." Emily shrugged when Hades said that.
"Old habits die hard as you know." Hades was about ready to say something when Persephone walked in with Arabella in her arms, Persephone smiled lightly when she saw Emily. Persephone walked over to Emily.
"Hi, Emily." Arabella waved at Emily and spoke.
"Hi Emily."
"Hi, Persephone and hi to you too Arabella. So what did our mother say about Arabella here?" As Emily spoke that she took Arabella from Persephone, Arabella hugged Emily around her neck as soon as Arabella was in her arms.
"The usually, that she needs to eat cereal and that she should learn to farm as soon as she is old enough to do so. She even wanted to show Arabella of how to do the farmer's knot." Emily shook her head when Persephone said that, it was so like their mother to say something like that.
"Sometimes, I wonder of how we have such a mother."
"Yeah, well, your fake death, your brother being lost in the water somewhere didn't help improve her. She become even more overprotective than she was before and she was rather bad after what happen with Hades and myself." Emily knew what Persephone meant by that when Hades fell in love with her and kidnapped Persephone. Emily remembered when she first meet Hades, for she thought he was going to do something similar to her like he did with Persephone. Emily remembered of how surprised she was when her mother was all right with the fact that Hades wanted to adopted, though her mother made the point that Hades ask her first not kidnap Emily to ask her. Emily learned about that last fact a few years after she was adopted by Hades from Persephone. Persephone and Emily got a good laugh out of that and they still have a laugh about that from time to time.
"I know that something else could have happen with my fake death. But it was still the best idea to make everyone think I was dead so that I could come here and help in the underworld or take demigods to Camp Halfblood, the hunters or the other place." At the moment they were not planning on telling Arabella about the Romans so they referred to Camp Jupiter as the other place in front of Arabella. Emits would admit that she was worried that one day Arsbella would notice her tattoo on her arm and ask about it.
"Emily can you take her back to the nursery."
"All right." Emily walked to the nursery, as she left the throne room that Persephone and Hades started whispering to each other, as Emily left the throne that she that Hades has a shocked and outraged look on his face as the tow of them whispered. Emily wondered what Persephone told him, Emily figured that it was most likely because of her mother or something her mother said about Hades. Unknown to Emily at the time that look that Hades had nothing to do anything with her mother but it had to do with Emily.
The next day, Emily was playing with Arabella in the throne room when Charon came in to talk to Hades, as usually he wanted to be paid more because of the Italian suits that he managed to found some time ago. Emily rolled her eyes when Charon started to talk, sure Persephone improved the underworld after she married Hades and Emily helped it further along when she was adopted by Hades. For Emily made sure to change some of the punishments of the spirits around, depending on who it was and what they did. For some spirits that were in Elysium went to the field of punishment, Emily also made the underworld feel more like home than it has been before just because of her presence. But there some things that were just left as they were like Charon not getting paid more, for there wasn't much of a reason to pay Charon more money than what they have been paying him. For he was already get paid enough and he already has too many Italian suits than he could use, so instead of going after Arabella when she walked away from her that Emily allowed Arabella to walk over Charon.
When Arabella reached Charon that she hugged his leg and started pulling at the pants that he was wearing and tried to chew on the pants or shoes, Charon was trying to get Arabella off of himself. But he was failing miserably, when he tried to get Arabella off that she squealed before she would say looking daddy or looking Emily. Emily was laughing, Hades was close of laughing as they watch this happen, Charon was just getting less happy about this by the minute as Arabella hang onto his leg. However Arabella eventually got bored of Charon and she unwrapped herself from Charon before walking back over to Emily. As Arabella walked back to Emily that Charon left the throne room and he growled about stupid kids as he left the throne room. It all too clear from what jaunt happened that he doesn't like Arabella, Emily knows that there was chance he wouldn't get a pay rise any time soon or ever, judging from what he said as he was leaving the Rome that ages knows for sure he would not get a pay rise. Since he insulted a child of Hades, when he called her a stupid kid just as he left the throne room. Arabella climbed into Emily's lap before she spoke.
"Do you see?" Arabella pointed to where Charon just left, Emily ruffled her hair before she spoke.
"Yes, I did see what just happened." Arabella smiled and clapped her little hands.
