After the truce party left that Emily, Bucky, Steve and Lauren managed to get some more sleep before they were woken up by Thor once more. Once they got ready that that they went down to where the enemy would be coming from of which was apparently the reservoir. It was twilight once more, of which means that was when the enemy would be attacking again. The lights of the city were blinking as twilight came upon the city, Emily preferred to enjoy the night without having to go to battle. When Emily and the others reached the reservoir that Percy, Annabeth, Thalia and the head counselors were there, Thalia pointed north with a silver arrow in her hand.
"They're coming. One of my scouts just reported they've crossed the Harlem River. There was no way to hold them back. The army . . . It's huge."
"We'll hold them at the park. Grover, you ready?"
"As ready as we'll ever be. If my nature spirits can stop them anywhere, this is the place."
"Yes, we will!" Emily looked back, a very old and fat satyr pushed thought the crowd of demigods and nature spirits. Emily rolled her eyes when she saw the satyr for she knows it was, Leneus, he was dressed in wool bark armor that only covered half of his belly. Honestly if she wanted another satyr here, besides Grover, it would be Gleeson for she knows Gleeson was in much better shape as well as a better fighter. Though she would not tell either one of them that fact, for Leneus would throw a fit while it just add to Gleeson's ego. Besides Gleeson would be more willing to fight than Leneus and would have come sooner as well.
"Leneus?"
"Don't act so surprised, I am a leader of the Council, and you did tell me to find Grover. Well, I found him, and I'm not going to let a mere outcast lead the satyrs without my help!" Emily smiled slightly as Grover made gagging motions behind Leneus's back, she could tell that Lauren, Steve and Bucky were close of laughing as grover made the gagging motions. Thor was just standing there looking confused, Emily will have to remember to explain some things to Thor about the mortal world as well as the godly world. It was hard not to laugh at Leneus at the moment with how he looks, but the only reason they were not laughing was because of the battle that was coming. "Never fear! We'll show those Titans!"
"Um . . . yeah. Well, Grover, you won't be alone. Annabeth and the Athena cabin will make their stand here. And me, and . . . Thalia?" Thalia patted Percy on his shoulder.
"Say no more. The Hunters are ready." Percy looked at the other counselors.
"That leaves the rest of you with a job just as important. You have to guard the other entrances to Manhattan. You know how tricky Kronos is. He'll hope to distract us with this big army and sneak another force in somewhere else. It's up to you to make sure that doesn't happen. Has each cabin chosen a bridge or tunnel?" Everyone nodded when Percy said that. "Then let's do it, Good hunting, everybody!"
The campers went to the other entrances into Manhattan, Steve and Lauren went with one of the cabins to help. While Emily, Bucky, and Thor remained at the reservoir to help them, for they would need the extra help. Not only that but Emily believes that they would send the biggest part of the army down here to to come this way. It would be best if Thor, Emily and Bucky stay here while Steve and Lauren went with the cabins. Steve and Bucky were not up to the level they should be with their training but they were good enough for the time being. Emily knew that Steve wasn't going to leave Lauren's side, Steve didn't want to leave Emily's side but as long as he knows Thor and Bucky, or at least Bucky, were with her that he was fine with it. As they waited that Emily was getting nervous, Emily felt Bucky take her hand. Emily looked at their hands before looking at Bucky of who was looking at her, Emily smiled slightly before looking away from him. Emily was glad that Bucky was at her side once more, when she lost Bucky and Steve that felt like she lost a big piece of herself. It filled somewhat with Phil and Arabella but without not knowing of what happen to them that she knew that the wound would never heal. Soon the army started to come, they heard the army before they saw the army since to sounded like the cheering of fans at a baseball game. At the north end of the reservoir that the enemy broke through the woods. Emily took a sharp intake of breath when she saw the Titan in the golden armor that was leading a battalion of Laistrygonain giants with other monsters pouring out behind them.
"Positions!" The Athena cabin scrambled, the plan seem to work or at first at any rate, the enemy divided and streamed towards them along the shore. Halfway across that the defense kicked in, the jogging trails that they were using erupted in Greek fire. Emily raised her hands, black fire shot out of her hands and joined the Greek fire on the jogging trail. Thankfully Emily had enough energy to do what she just done, with her hellfire and the Greek fire that the monsters were either incinerated, melted, engulfed or a mixture of all three. The Athena campers threw grappling hooks around the largest giants before pulling the giants to the ground. In the woods, on the right, that the hunters sent a volley of silver arrows into the enemy line, destroying a good amount of Dracaenae but more were coming. A few times a gold arrow went last Emily as she used shadows or darkness to push back or kill monsters,
At times a bolt of lightning would crackled out of the sky, the first time a lightning bolt did that and fried a Laistrygonian giant to ashes that Emily looked at Thor, of who looked confused. From that look that Emily knew that it was Thalia that fried the Laistrygonian, every time lightning would hit a monster that Emily knew it has to be one of them. Since than Thor started to swing his hammer and clouds formed above them, of which made more lightning appear above and started to hit the monsters. Grover raised his pipers and played a quick tune, a roar went up from the woods on both sides as every tree, rock and bush seem to sprout a spirit, the dryads and satyrs raised their clubs, if they have one, and charges at the enemy. The trees started to wrap themselves around the monsters strangling them, grass grew around the feet of the enemy archers and stones were up in the air hitting the Dracaenaes in the face. Bucky lead towards Emily before he spoke.
"Can you do any of that?"
"I am not sure if I could lift a stone like that but everything else, yes." Bucky merely nodded when Emily sisd that, the enemy were slogging forward. The giants were smashing though the trees, the naiads and dryads fades as their life sources were destroyed. The hellhounds lunged at the timberwolves knocking them aside, Emily used her powers of the underworld to send the hellhounds to the underworld. The hellhounds had no choice but to listen to that command. The enemy archers started to return fire once more, a hunter fell from a high branch.
"Percy!" Emily looked across the reservoir when Annabeth grabbed Percy's arm before she pointed at the reservoir. The Titan in gold armor was waiting for his forces to a dance around the sides before he charged towards them walking straight over the top of the lake. A greed firebomb exploded right on top of him but he raised his palm and sucked the flames out of the air, Emily but her bottom lip as she watched the Titan. She wanted to fight him but she couldn't walk on water, walk on fire yes but not on water.
"Hyperion, The lord of light. Titan of the east."
"Bad?"
"Next to Atlas, he's the greatest Titan warrior. In the old days, four Titans controlled the four corners of the world. Hyperion was the east - the most powerful. He was the father of Helios, the first sun god."
"I'll keep him busy."
"Percy, even you can't - "
"Just keep our forces together." Emily figured that there there just more than just the fact there was nature spirits were the reason of why they up at the reservoir, for Percy was the son of Poseidon, Percy stepped onto the water before he ran across it, Thor spoke up.
"He can walk on water." Emily looked over at Thor when he said that.
"You can fly." Thor looked over at her when she said that, he thought about that for a minute before he spoke
"Good point." When Percy was twenty feet away that Hyperion raised his sword.
"The sea god's brat, You're the one who trapped Atlas beneath the sky again?"
"It wasn't hard, you Titans are about as bright as my gym socks."
"You want bright?" Hyperion's body ignited in a column of light and hear, Emily was forced to look away because of how bright he was. She wasn't bothered by the heat or the fire, but her eyes couldn't stand that much not when it was surround someone other than herself. Despite that, she knows that she wouldn't gone blind unlike with most of the other demigods. Than Emily felt a shock wave that hit her and the others that at the edge of the lake, just as another one was about to hit that Emily felt the water going back. Emily looked up as she saw Percy in a tidal wave while Hyperion screamed as the wave smashed into him. "AHHHHH!" When he went under that his light went out Percy landed on the lake' surface as Hyperion struggled to his feet. His armor was dripping wet, he looked to Percy before he roared at Percy,
"You will burn, Jackson!" Emily looked away as the two of them started to fight with each other, Emily kept using her power of the shadows, darkness or plants to fight the monsters, she thought of using her fire powers but decided against it because of Hyperion. Bucky was using his wind power while Thor was fighting with the Athena cabin, of which Emily was glad of. Some of the enemies fell into the trees and were strangled or were entangled by the trees. As Emily and Bucky fought that she could hear Percy and Hyperion."Enough games, we fight on land." It was than that Emily heard a bangs she looked to see Percy getting smashed into the ground, Emily thought he was dead but she realize his life force was not gone. Than Percy stood up. As he stood up without any scars or cuts that Emily realized what Percy done, Percy dipped into the river Styx.
"I really hate it when you Titans do that." Hyperion closed in on Percy with blinding speed, Emily noticed that the water was rippling and she felt wind rushing around her. At first she thought that it was Thor, but it didn't seem like the thunderstorms that he would use. Emily looked over at Percy and her jaw was close of dropping, for Percy was standing in the middle of a hurricane, Emily looked at Bucky of who nodded in understanding and started to increase the wind around Percy, the storm above them increase and lightning started to hit the ground around Hyperion as Thor swung his hammer around. Emily was looking at the clouds and focus, it started to rain heavier and hail was coming down as well. The Titan started to roar at them though mostly at Percy than anyone else. "Stop it! Stop that wind!" Hyper stumbled back like he was being pushed away, water was sprayed into his face. The wind was picking up more, Hyperion staggered backwards more and he was starting to lose ground quickly.
"Percy! How are you doing that?" It was than at Percy looked down and realize what he was doing, he looked back up before he started to close in on Hyperion. The hurricane was blowing Hyperion off of his feet, the clouds were getting darker so Emily increased the hail, the lightning was coming more often, the wind was swirling very fast. The wind was so fast that she was surprised that the demigods were still standing or a good half of them at any rate. Grover shouted over at Percy again, "Percy! Bring him over here!" Percy was slashing and jabbing, Hyperion was having a hard time fighting back, left alone defending himself, Emily could see that Percy was weaken, Emily looked at Thor and he understood, the storm and the hurricane started to increase more, than Percy managed to propel Hyperion across the field to where Grover was waiting.
"I will not be toyed with!" Hyperion managed to get to his feet again but age over put his reeds to his lips before he started to play. Soon every satyr took up the song that Grover was playing, it was an eerie melody that they were playing. The storm and wind stopped as the melody started to play, Thor and Bucky looked confused as the melody went on, the ground around Hyperion's feet erupted and gnarled roots were wrapping around his legs. "What's this?" Hyperion tried to shake odd the roots but he was too weak from the fighting that he was doing as well as from the hurricane that send him over roots thickened till he looked like he was wearing wooden boots. "Stop this! Your woodland magic is no match for a Titan!" The more that Hyperion struggled that the roots grew faster. Emily used her Demeter powers to help with the growth, the satyrs noticed this for Grover winked at her. The other satyrs also winked at her as well, as the tree kept getting bigger that the forces of Hyperion started to back and stopped fighting. Soon enough all that they could see was Hyperion's face.
"You cannot imprison me! I am Hyperion! I am - " The bark closed over his face, Emily stopped using her Demeter powers at that point, she felt like she was going to fall down. She felt weak, partly from blacking out the battle from last night and partly because of the amount of powers she used so far that night. She wasn't going to deny that she was more stronger and powerful now than she was back in World War II. Though she was pretty strong and powerful back than after ten years of training in camp. Even after about seventy years of practicing and improving her skills and abilities, she still has her limits. When she felt like she was going to fall over that she managed to lean against Bucky and put her arms around his neck to keep herself steady. He put his arms around her to help her stay steady. Grover than took the pipes from his mouth before he spoke to the maple tree.
"You are a very nice maple tree." Several of the other satyrs passed out from exhaustion, but they did a good job considering that they just encased one of the most powerful titans in an enormous maple tree, the truck of the tree was twenty feet in diameter at least, the branches were as tall as any tree in the park. So that the tree looked like it might have been standing there for centuries instead of a few moments. Emily was sure when the spell lifted that the mortals would think that the tree been standing there for years, the titan's army started to retreat and a cheer went up from the Athena campers but it was short lives.
"REEEEET!" Emily looked up as all the monsters and demigods froze in terror. She heard a similar squeal before and dread filled her, the squealing was echoing though upper Manhattan. Shivers went down Emily's spine when the squealing started again,
"Why does that sound like . . . It can't be!"
"REEEEEET!" Than a huge pink pig soared over the reservoir.
"A sow! Take cover!" They all scattered as the sow swooped down Emily and Bucky just barley managed to make it behind a tree before it could hit them. Bucky was the one that pulled her along behind the tree since he has more of his strength than Emily does of hers. Emily looked out from behind the tree that they were using, more demigods scattered and a couple of the Athena campers were close of becoming pancakes. The wings were pink, of which matched the pink skin of the sow, than she started to smash the tree that Emily and Bucky were behind. Emily managed to use her power just long enough for them to get out from under the tree before it fell, Bucky was the one that pulled her away from the tree like he did when he pulled her behind it in the first place. Than the sow belched a cloud of noxious gas before taking off again for another strike, they managed to make it a little further in the woods before Bucky stopped and watched the sow. Bucky kept his arms around her pulling her close, Emily watched as the sow tried for another strike but this time it was some Athena campers and Thor that were close of become pancakes.
"What is that thing, Emily?" Emily looked up at the sow as it went up into the air once more to attack once more,
"It's the Clazmonian Sow, it terrorized Greek towns back in the day of old Greece."
"Has it ever been defeated?"
"As far as I know it hasn't." The titan's army was recovering from it's shock when they realized that the pig wasn't after them. However the campers and nature spirits were in a panic because of the sow, out of the corner of her eye that she saw Percy swinging a grappling hook like a lasso. When the sow came down for another pass that Percy tossed the grappling hook and wrapped itself around the base of the pig's wing. The pig or sow or whatever squealed before it veered off yanked the rope and Percy into the sky. Emily and Bucky managed to get back into the fighting when they sort of recovered from the sow and the Titan becoming a tree. The next hour or so was a blur for Emily, somehow Emily managed to stay with Bucky, but the other demigods kept changing around them. At times Emily could see Thron or Mrs. O'Leary bounded around before picking up a giant. They would treat the giant like a chew toy or a frisbee, the giant would be throw away before they repeat the process over. As the night wore on that they were being backed up till they were a block from the Empire State Building no matter which side it was.
"Hold your lines!" Emily was surprised to hear Katie over the noise of battle, that was going on. When Emily was twenty feet from the door that she saw a bright light that began to shine. Emily knew it wasn't the sun, otherwise the sky would be in different colors at the moment instead of it being just a bright light. It was Kronos, he was in a golden chariot, a dozen Laistrygonian giants were bearing torches in front of him and two Hyperborean giants were carrying his banner. He was taking his time to get to the Empire State Building, it was than that Emily notice Steve, Lauren, Thor and Bucky that were besides her. She also noticed that Percy was nearby and Annabeth appeared besides Percy, in her hands was her Yankees cap.
"We have to fall back to the doorway. Hold it at all costs!" Before Percy could say anything that a hunting horn sounded, it cut though the noise of the battle like a fire alarm. A chorus of horns answered from all around them, Emily looked at Lauren of who shook her head telling Emily that there was no way it could be the howling commandos. There was a fair chance that they may fell asleep if they enter Manhattan now, sure they had a similar blessing as the hunters and there were mortal hunters among the group. It was just question with Apollo's blessing of how it would affect the howling commandos when it comes to the spells around Manhattan. Emily noticed that Percy was looking at Thalia.
"Not the Hunters, we're all here."
"Then who?" The horns were getting louder were getting louder, the echo that the horns were making was making it hard to tell of where the horns were coming from. The first thought that enter Emily's mind was more enemies, but Kronos' forces looked as confused as the demigods did. From the sounds of the horn that it sounded like an entire army, giants lowered heir clubs, the Dracaenaes hissed, even Kronos's honor guard looked uneasy. Than to their left that a hundred monsters cried out at once, Kronos's entire northern flank surged forward, it looked like they were to it to attack for a minute but they ran past the demigods and crashed into their southern allies. A new blast of horns shattered the night air, the air shimmered and in a blur of movement that an entire cavalry appeared as though they were dropping out of light speed.
"Yeah, baby! PARTY!" Thor, Steve and Bucky seem confused, but Emily looked at Lauren and they both smiled, for they both knew what just happened and who was blowing the horns. Emily turned back as a shower of arrows arced over their heads and slammed into the enemy vaporizing hundreds of demons and monsters. But the arrows were not regular arrows, for the arrows made whizzy sounds as they flew in the air, some of them have pinwheels attached to them while others have gloves rather than points. As the arrows flew that Emily and Lauren were cheering along with some of the older campers that knew exactly of what just happened. One of the campers yelled out as they cheered.
"Centaurs!" The party pony army exploded into the battle in a riot of colors, tie dyed shirts, rainbow Afro wigs, oversized sunglasses and wait painted faces, some of the centaurs have slogans across their flanks like HORZEZ PWN or KONOUS SUX. There were hundreds of centaurs, they were filling the entire block, Emily was just glad it wasn't more enemies.
"Percy!" It was Chiron that shouted across the sea of wild centaurs, he looked funny among the centaur even with being one himself. He was dressed in regular armor from the waist up, his bow was in his hand with a quiver over his shoulders and he was grinning. "Sorry we're late!"
"DUDE! Talk later. WASTE MONSTERS NOW!" It was one of the centaurs that yelled at Chiron, the said centaur locked and loaded a double barrel paint gun before blasting an enemy hellhound bright pink. Making the hellhound look more like a giant poodle than a hellhound, Emily giggled when the pink paint hit the hellhound. When the paint hit the hellhound that the hellhound yelped before it dissolved into a pink and black puddle.
"PARTY PONIES. SOUTH FLORIDA!"
"HEART OF TEXAS CHAPTER!"
"HAWAII OWNS YOUR FACES!" It was the best thing Emily ever saw, the entire Titan army turned and fled from the multicolored centaurs. The monsters that stayed back were pushed back by a flood of paintballs, arrows, swords and NERF baseball bats. The centaurs were trampling everything in their path,
"Stop running, you fools! Stand and ACKK!" Emily laughed at what happened next for a panicked Hyperborean giant stumbled backwards and sat on top of Kronos before he could finish of what he was going to say. The Titan army was pushed back several blocks till Chiron started to yell at the party ponies.
"HOLD! On your promise, HOLD!" It took a little bit of time and a lot of effort for the order to get relayed up and down the ranks of centaurs, but the centaurs managed to pull back and allowed the enemy to flee.
"Chiron's smart. If we pursue, we'll get too spread out. We need to regroup."
"But the enemy - "
"They're not defeated. But the dawn is coming. At least we've bought some time." Emily never liked pulling back, that was the solider part of her from the war and she knows it. But she knows that they needed to attend to their wounded and dead so that they could be ready for the next battle that night most likely. She was sure that there campers that were worn out like Emily was, she knows that Bucky was worn out as well as well as herself. The demigods set up a two block perimeter with the command tent at the Empire State Building, of which means that they were able to use the avenger tower to help with giving more shelter for the wounded. Emily was standing close by Percy when Chiron went up to Percy and Annabeth, Bucky was standing next to her with his arms around her. Of which Emily was glad of, for she was tired as well as feeling weak, it felt a little like when she blacked out when they were on the one mission at Castle Zemo in the war. However Emily and Bucky were not even dating at that time. Bucky has some scars and cuts and they were healing fast from his blessing as well as from the nectar that he has. The same went for Emily, Steve was close by and like Bucky he has his arms around Lauren. Both of them looked worn out, more worn out than what Emily was feeling at the moment. Emily watched as Annabeth gave Chiron a big hug, though Thron and Mrs. O'Leary licked his face making Emily laugh.
"Ack. Enough of that, dogs. Yes, I'm glad to see you too."
"Chiron, thanks. Talk about saving the day."
"I'm sorry it took so long. Centaurs travel fast, as you know. We can bend distance as we ride. Even so, getting all the centaurs together was no easy task. The Party Ponies are not exactly organized."
"How'd you get through the magic defenses around the city?"
"They slowed us down a bit. but I think they're intended mostly to keep mortals out. Kronos doesn't want puny humans getting in the way of his great victory." When Chiron said that Emily looked over at Steve before she spoke up.
"Hey Steve, when was the last time we heard the term, puny humans?" Steve smiled slightly when Emily said that.
"I believe the last time we heard that term was the last battle of Manhattan that we fought in." Emily nodded when Steve said that.
"That battle feels like forever ago. Even if it was just over a year ago."
"Actually I think prefer to do that battle again than this battle,bat the moment." Emily looked over at Thor when he said that.
"Let me guess, this kind of battle is rather new to you, right? With the different monsters and there is a lot more unexpected and the mortals are sleeping."
"Yes."
"Figures." Chiron was looking over at Thor before he spoke.
"Who are you?" Emily realized that she never told him about the Norse gods so she spoke up.
"Oh yeah. Sorry, Chiron. I forget to tell you that after the battle of the labyrinth, a year ago, that the Norse gods were real." Emily nodded to Thor. "That is Thor, the Norse god of Thunder." Chiron looked at Thor and Emily in surprise when she said that.
"You mean the Norse gods are real?"
"Just as real as an military empire." Chiron looked back over at Emily when she said that with a surprised expression, it was clear that Chiron knew what that means but he didn't know she knows about it too.
"You know about that?"
"Yes, I know about that. I known since Hades adopted me. Or shortly afterwards." Chiron nodded than Percy spoke and changed the subject.
"So maybe other reinforcements can get through."
"Perhaps, though time is short. As soon as Kronos regroups, he will attack again. Without the element of surprise on our side . . ."
"And Typhon?"
"The gods are tiring. Dionysus was incapacitated yesterday. Typhon smashed his chariot, and the wine god went down somewhere in the Appalachians. No one has seen him since. Hephaestus is out of action as well. He was thrown from the battle so hard he created a new lake in West Virginia. He will heal, but not soon enough to help. The others still fight. They've managed to slow Typhon's approach. But the monster can not be stopped. He will arrive in New York by this time tomorrow. Once he and Kronos combine forces - "
"Then what chance do we have? We can't hold out another day."
"We'll have to, I'll see about setting some new traps around the perimeter." Thalia looked exhausted, her jacket was smeared in grime and monster dust, but she managed to get to her feet and stagger off to set up traps.
"I will help her. I should make sure my brethren don't go too overboard with the root beer." Chiron followed Thalia to help her with setting up the traps or make sure that the party ponies didn't go overboard with the root beer. Emily, Bucky, Steve, Lauren and Thor managed to get inside the Empire State Building. Emily did her best to help out the Apollo cabin as well as Bucky and Lauren, Thor also tried to help with some of the medical things he learned from Asgard. Some of the wounded was taken to the avenger tower when they were able to move, Emily was sure if the others woke up that they would be wondering about that. So she told J.A.R.V.I.S. to explain things to them when they woke up provided that they were not there when they woke up. However Steve was sitting in one of the chairs, when Emily managed to finish healing a camper. That the camper was taken to the avenger tower that she staggered over to where Steve was sitting before she saw down next to him, he looked over at her.
"Is this normal? When there is a battle against something from the godly war? World War II was not even this bad."
"Only in times of war or something similar depending on if we are in the states or a camp out of the country. Plus there was a difference between World War II and this, we were fighting HYDRA and project demigod was taking care of most of the monsters and other things that only demigods can fight." Before they could say anything else that they heard a strange noise form outside of the building. After two days of fighting and having it quiet that it was a strange to a helicopter enter New York of where it was normal to hear any other time.