AN: in the next few chapters that Arabella would be heading for Hogwarts. While Arabella is there that Emily would check up on her. There would be a week per school that Emily would make sure that Arabella has been keeping up her training. However, for the most part while Arabella is at school that Emily would be doing mostly SHIELD missions or taking down HYRDA. Phil will be appearing to help her. Plus some more Harry Potter will show up soon.
When her father told her to go to Castle Zemo that she thought he was crazy, thankfully he let Emily take Phil with her. But her father told her to have Phil swear on the river Styx not to tell anyone of what he will see and learn at Castle Zemo to anyone outside that knows already of which was only Hades and her two uncles apparently. So the next day, Emily and Phil meet at her chain and she repeated of what Hades told her and had Phil make the oath. Phil agreed to that and made the oath before the shadow travel to the castle, the castle looks rundown and no one has been leaving there for some time. As they went to the front doors that she saw the notice the castle and grounds were off bounds to everyone. Emily and Phil paid no heed to the notice and went inside, Emily and Phil searched castle. They were close of giving up when they reached the dungeons area, Emily closed her eyes as she felt herself shiver slightly as the cold air hit her along with the memories do this place.
"Emily. Look here." Emily opened her eyes and noticed that Phil entered one of the cells, as Emily entered the cell that she realized that it was the cell she was kept in when she was in here for that short amount of time.
"Look at what? Other than the fact it was the cell that I was held in while I was raiding it with the commandos." Phil turned to her.
"You were in a cell?"
"For a short of amount of time, Phil, or seems like it for I was blacked for much of it. But what it is?" Phil looked away and pointed to one of the bricks on the wall. Emily walked over to where the brick was and she was about ready to ask what was so important about this brick when she saw it. On the brick was a symbol, a symbol that she hadn't see since World War II and didn't expect to ever see again. It was a lightning boot that was wrapped by a poppy, under the symbol were words in ancient Greek, Αστραπές και Παπαρούνας. Emily reached out and touched the symbol with her hand. "I don't believe it."
"Do you know it?"
"Yes, the symbol and words were the unofficial symbol and motto or Project Demigod that started out as a joke." She placed her hand fully over the the symbol, Emily has no idea of why this was placed here but she closed her eyes thinking of her time in Project Demigod spoke the words anyway. "Αστραπές και Παπαρούνας." What happened next took Emily and Phil by surprise, she felt the floor under her leave her. She felt herself falling and she managed to open her eyes to see herself falling into some sort of slide or pipe. Emily cried out and started yelling, she heard Phil shout out in shock and was sliding just behind her in whatever they were in. The future they went down the faster they went, after who knows of how long that Emily landed on the floor face down. Emily managed to move out of the way just in time as Phil landed where she was a few moments before. Emily was on her side as she managed to sit up somewhat before she felt something sharp against her neck.
Emily looked up to where the sharp end was, Emily took an intake breath as she looked up at the old face of Robert Blackwood. Emily noticed that others entered the room but her eyes were focus on Robert, one of the few demigods that she grew up knowing in camp that hasn't dead yet. His once jet black hair was now white as snow, however his bright sea green eyes remained the same. He seem about eighty years in age, but Emily couldn't pinpoint the age per say, instead of the age she last saw him of which was twenty four. He was wrinkled but she could see that he still kept up with his training for he still has the athlete built of most demigods. However he was wearing a celestial bronze Greek armor, the sword of Theseus's was in his hands. Robert was looking down at her with a guarded expression on his face but she could tell that he has been under pressure from loss, sadness, leadership and other things. Emily would know for she saw it reflected back at her every time she looked in the mirror and wished so many times that it would go away.
"Robert Blackwood!" His guarded expression turned into puzzlement and he lowered his sword, Emily heard other swords being lowered as well. She could hear Phil say Emily softly. Robert tilted his head as he looked at her.
"Who are you?" Emily looked down at herself realizing that she was still in her daughter of Hades appearance before looking up at Robert.
"In this appearance that I gained when I was adopted after the war that I started to call myself, Rachel Emily James Blackthrone. But before I was adopted and the war ended, I had another appearance, one I can change into, and a different name."
"What is this other name?" Emily snapped her fingers, her appearance changed as soon as her appearance changed that Robert dropped the sword onto the ground. There was a shocked and disbelief expression on his face. "Emily?" Emily didn't bother to say anything, instead she held her hand and Robert took her hand and helped her to stand. As soon as Emily was standing that Robert looked amazed but still was somewhat in shock. "You're alive and real, how is this possible. You died in a suicide mission in Japan."
"Amazing what the mist does and if the god that adopts you is Hades the God of the underworld."
"Hades adopted you?" Emily merely nodded when Robert said that, Emily looked down at Phil of who was still on the ground with a sword on his throat, while the other demigods of different ages, were staring at her in surprise ago other emotions.
"He is with me." The demigod that had his sword against Phil's throat took it away and Phil stood up before he went behind her. Emily looked back at Phil of who seem unsure of what to do, for something like this never happened to her before. Emily looked back at Robert as he spoke.
"Who is this? A son of Hades? Does that mean that the prophecy is over?"
"No, he is not a son of Hades. But you are correct in assuming that he is my half brother." Robert looked back at Phil.
"A third child of Demeter. The last one I came across was Emily. So it took another twenty years before another one came along."
"Robert?" Robert looked back at Emily. "When was the last time you have been to the surface?" Robert shrugged.
"I don't know, I lost track of time since I was thirty. I don't even know how old I am now." Robert smirked but it quickly faded. "But how is it that you don't look any older than the last time I saw you?"
"Figures." Emily looked around at the demigods that still seem in shock and surprise. "So I assume that there is no other child of Demeter other than Phil and myself down here."
"Of course, we do you expect?"
"Considering that the Demeter cabin is being used by my half siblings that I thought you would have some of my other siblings down here by now in the last thirty years at least. Provided that you have being demigods down here, judging from the age of this demigods."
"And Legacies."
"Legacies! You mean you and the members of project demigod had children?" Robert nodded.
"Yes, come on let's show you tow around and catch up. First thing first, introductions." Each demigod or legacy introduce themselves while Phil introduce himself, when Robert showed them around that she quickly learned that there was roman demigods here as well. But thankfully the Romans and Greeks that live there were on good terms with each other and that none of the members of project demigod were aware of Camp Jupiter and were only aware of Camp Halfblood. It was during this time that she did reveal to Phil that she know about the Romans even before she meet him. After that reveal that Phil and Robert asked similar things included if there was another camp for Romans, Emily just told the two of them that there was a safe place for the Romans at least but she saw no reason to take the Romans in Project Demigod to the roman safe haven. Since it was clear that this place was just as safe for them as the two camps along with the fact that the Romans and the Greeks got along very well. She was surprised that the Romans seem happy about not going to the safe haven, just from that reaction that Emily knew that they considered this place their home. The last room they went into was an office, Robert sat on the desk just as Emily spoke.
"I never expected you to use this place for a base and a safe haven for any demigod."
"Originally, we were just going to use it as a base but as more demigods found their way to the castle and some of the demigods were married that it become another safe place." Robert looked between Emily and Phil. "Tell me what happen since you left the bar that night all those years ago."
"It's a long story. It started that night at that bar, I left the bar and James Howlett came after me to talk to me. He also gave me his dog tags." Emily pulled the dog tags from under her shirt to show them before she put them back under her shirt. "Than I went to the park where Hades found me and took me to the underworld and adopted me as well as making me the princess and heir of the underworld. Than Hestia made me her champion." Emily went on explaining the plan of the fake death, what her life was like after that and she told them everything including Camp Jupiter. The only thing she didn't include was the location of Camp Jupiter, or the wolf house, when they ask about where the camp was that she refused to tell them. When she was finished her story that ended a couple of days ago that no one spoke but it was Robert broke the silence.
"But how did you found this place?"
"That was not fully planned. You see yesterday, Phil and I were on a mission to protect Howard Stark and that mission was given to us by SHIELD. He was killed and as he was dying that he told me that HYDRA was still alive, after putting Arabella to bed that Hades told me to come here and look for help to take HYDRA since it was clear that there needs to be more than two demigods to take down HYRDA. He didn't say what I was looking for and I question him about it but he refused to answer my question and left me standing there. Yesterday, Phil and I said we would meet at my cabin to plan of what to do with HYRDA. Once we meet up there that we came here and started to search this place till Phil found the symbol, I touched and said the motto of Project Demigod and the floor fell from under us." Emily paused for a minute to let that sink in before she spoke again. "Will you help us tear down HYDRA again." Robert smiled before he spoke.
"That is one reason of why Project Demigod was created to take down HYDRA. What do you want us to do, Lieutenant." Emily smiled when Robert said that.
The following month was the most busiest Emily ever had since World War II, first off she spoke with Hades about Project demigod. He agreed on for the original members as well as the oldest members coils have temporary immortal, that they will go back to their prime and be immortal as long as HYRDA was out there. Of course it was a choice to everyone in project when hue are at a certain age, of course that when HYRDA was taken care of that the demigods would start aging again, that the ones that died and accepted to live again with the immortal that the would die when HYRDA would be gone. But it was still up for grabs if the ones that de age would age up to where they were before they were de aged or if they would start aging from their prime once more. This was done because Emily needed some commanders and units for she was sure that HYRDA had many different units. That some had something to do with some of the agencies while others didn't, it was just the question of finding the other agencies and weaving out as many as HYDRA out as possible from SHIELD.
Project demigod was a mix of how it was in the war along with how it was now, she kept the classes that the older members taught. Another difference was that there was different units some of the units had certain skills while the rest had general skills. What remained the same was the purpose and Emily being the leader of Project Demigod as well as the fact that Robert was the second in command of Project Demigod. Since Lauren was who knows where that Phil basically took Lauren's spot as the other leader of Project Demigod. They brought Melinda to Castle Zemo and she become the other second in command in Project Demigod. During the couple weeks that the three of them were there that a son of Mars that was only six attached himself to Melinda. Despite the fact that Melinda adopted a serious outlook, expect around Emily and Phil, that Emily and Phil couldn't help but laugh when her half brother would follow her or climb into her lap when she was eating. It was just so funny and cute for her half brother seem so happy around her while Melinda seem unsure of what to do. Despite the fact that Melinda seem unsure of what to do with her brother that it was clear that she was getting attached to him as he was to her.
After the first day that Melinda's half brother followed her around that she asked Robert of who it was. He told her that was David James, a son of Mars and his mother died a couple of months ago, since than that he kept to himself. Robert admitted that he never seen Eric so open in the last two months as the past day when Melinda came. In so many ways that Melinda's half brother reminded Emily of Arabella for he didn't have his mortal parent alive but he was surrounded by people who care for him and some might even love him. After the month ended for Phil and Emily and the two weeks ended for Melinda that it was time for them to go back to SHIELD or the underworld that the three of them went to the entrance. As they went to the entrance that Melinda's half brother was tagging along behind them, Emily told Melinda about Eric when she learned of what happen. Melinda seen even more unsure of what to do Han she was the day before when Eric started to follow her around. Melinda did admit to her that Andrew and herself talked of maybe having kids one day, Emily told her that it might be a good to get some practice and take Eric with them. So without two weeks it was settled, Eric was going to go with Melinda to be trained no as a demigod and a agent of SHIELD. Melinda, Phil and Eric used the normal way out for everyone else but Emily shadow travel to the underworld.
