When Emily got back to the avengers tower that everyone asked of what happen at camp, since she was there all day. Lauren couldn't tell them everything only of what she saw before she left the camp earlier that day. So Emily did her best to explain of what happened to the avengers but Emily couldn't tell them everything though. After she finished that emily and Bucky went to their level and she explained everything to Bucky since he was aware of the Romans. Not only that but he went to Camp Jupiter a few times before as well, Bucky loved the city but he didn't like of how the camp and New Rome was run. The next day that Emily wanted to look out for Jason, Leo and Piper, however Steve, Lauren and Bucky wanted to come along as well. So for the next few days that the four of them followed Jason, Leo, and Piper. Part of it was due to Lauren and Bucky using the wind to guide them and having some help from clear sighted mortals to find them.

They managed to find one crash sight near a car company and it's shops in Detroit, there were cyclops in the shops that were reforming quickly of which emily was worried about. That means that Gaea was coming back sooner than Emily thought she would be at this point in time. The four of them quickly left the car shops before the cyclops were fully reformed once more. It took a while to figure out of where Jason and the other two went till they reached San Francisco. There was a couple of places that they could have got by that pint in time, Steve and Lauren went on foot while Emily and Bucky borrowed a helicopter. Emily found it amusing that she was a daughter of Demeter was in a helicopter whirl Lauren was on the ground and she was a daughter of Zeus. However it wasn't as amusing as Thalia being scared of Heights.

Thankfully the cyclops that lived in the car shops didn't realized that they had company till after Emily and the others had left. After that it took a while to figure out of where Jason and the others went to till they reached San Francisco, there was two places that they could have gone. While Steve and Lauren had went on foot that Emily and Bucky had used a helicopter, Emily had found that amusing since Lauren was a daughter of Zeus. Though it wasn't as amusing as Thalia being scared of heights, Emily had found that out by accident. As they flew closer to Mount Diablo and keeping an eye out for the three questers that Bucky had spoke.

"Emily, how come you didn't bring up the Romans to the others? They are bound to find out soon enough."

"I know that they are going to find out soon, you know why I can't tell them because of the oath I had made."

Bucky was about ready to say something when she could hear shouts from what sounded like a bullhorn or something like that. Emily looked down and saw that it was Piper, Leo and Jason, Emily also notice Gleeson was down there as well. Emily was surprised to see Gleeson down there but she was glad to see him none the less, so Emily landed the helicopter, all four were surprised to see Emily in the pilot seat. Gleeson was the most surprised by this but he was glad to see her and greeted the usual way of which was banging the bat of his on the back of the seat she was in and went on a rant of not disappearing for seventy years. After Gleeson did that, Piper asked Emily to take them to the Oakland airport of which was just fine with Emily. However it was than that Emily realized that the four of the. were not the only ones there. Piper ran over to a man and helped him over to the helicopter. When she saw him that she knew who he was because he was from the movies not only that but his appearance was similar to Piper. It was Tristan McLean, honestly Emily expected him to be a little taller than what he was. He was about her height of 5'7" maybe an inch shorter than her. He has the same skin tone as Piper, he has black hair and black eyes.

"No, Piper, what—there were monsters—there were monsters—" Emily felt awful, it was clear that he was kidnapped by some Greek monsters or something Greek related but he was having a hard time dealing with it. Emily knew that some of the parents of demigods have a hard time dealing with the fact that their love ones were gods or goddess and that they don't tell them. As well as the fact that their child was a demigod, a son of a god or goddess, it was apparent that Piper's father was one of those parents that has a hard time of dealing with that fact. Sometimes the gods or goddess don't tell the mortals parent for one reason or another, other times that the mortal parents knew who they were. It was clear that Piper's parent was one of the ones that would have a hard time believing the truth from the state of mind he was in. As Piper, Leo and Jason helped Tristan over to the helicopter that she looked at Bucky of who looked surprised by the state that Tristan was in. Emily leaned to Bucky and whisper.

"There are those that have a hard time believing that the gods are still out there. Piper's father is proof of this, it is a lot to take in." Bucky merely nodded when Emily said that.

"It'll be okay, Dad. These people are my friends. We're going to help you. You're safe now." Emily could hear the soothing of the voice that Piper was using and she could tell that Piper improved her charmspeak once she realized that she could has it and use it. Tristan blinked before he looked at the helicopter rotors.

"Blades. They had a machine with so many blades. They had six arms …" When they reached the doors that Emily and Bucky helped them inside with Tristan before they took off into the air. As they took off that Bucky picked up the radio that Emily and Bucky brought with them so they could contact Lauren and Steve.

"Calling Howling commandos." Emily snorted and laughed when Bucky said that. Emily directed the helicopter towards Berkeley hills. Than Steve's voice come over.

"You know, you can use our names."

"What's the fun in that?"

"Have you found them yet?"

"We have, we are heading towards the Oakland airport, so get down here."

"We will meet you there." As Bucky put the radio down that Tristan was talking to Piper.

"Piper. It's you? They told me ... they told me you would die. They said … horrible things would happen."

"It's me, Dad. Everything's going to be okay."

"They were monsters. Real monsters. Earth spirits, right out of Grandpa Tom's stories ... and the Earth Mother was angry with me. And the giant, Tsul'k?l?, breathing fire—" He focused on Piper again, his eyes like broken glass, reflecting a crazy kind of light. "They said you were a demigod. Your mother was …"

"Aphrodite, Goddess of love."

"I—I—" Tristan took a shaky breath, if Emily wasn't driving she would have looked away by now, she knows Bucky wasn't looking at them. She hoped that the others were not watching either.

"I didn't know about Mom. Not until you were taken. When we found out where you were, we came right away. My friends helped me. No one will hurt you again."

"You're heroes—you and your friends. I can't believe it. You're a real hero, not like me. Not playing a part. I'm so proud of you, your mother never told me."

"She thought it was for the best." Emily glanced back at Piper and Tristan, her heart broke, it was clear this was hurting both of them. Emily hoped that Tristan would forget about this, unless if he drank some sort of potion that was unlikely to happen. Emily looked over at Bucky of who looked at her, it was clear that Bucky felt the same way as she did. That things won't be the same for Piper and her father ever again, even if he takes a forgetful potion of what happened. Emily looked away as Piper told her father of the things that happened since she last saw her father. As they past the hills into the Bay Area that Emily felt a slight change in weight, she looked back to see Jason own leaning out rather far out in the doorway. Than Jason pointed.

"What is that?" Emily looked at Bucky of who took over the controls and Emily went to the door and looked out as well as Piper. As Emily looked out that her breath was caught in her throat, she was sure Piper was wondering what Jason was looking at but Emily knew. For there was a hills, woods, houses and other things, among them was Caldecott tunnel.

"Where?"

"That road. The one that goes through the hills." Piper was about ready to pick up the com helmet when Emily spoke up.

"That is Highway 24 and that is the Caldecott Tunnel." Emily didn't need to ask why Jason wanted to know, Emily went back to her seat and took the controls back from Bucky. Emily was sure that Jason would keep staring at the tunnel till it was out of sight.

"Monsters, I live in a world of monsters." Emily didn't say anything when Piper's father said that, no one said anything after that expect for Piper's father mumbling into greek related. When they reached the airport that Emily was glad that Piper was with her, for she was able to get air traffic control to let the helicopter land at the Oakland airport. When they landed that Steve and Lauren were there waiting for them. When they got off that Emily went over and hugged both Lauren and Steve, Bucky did the same thing as well. When they hugged that Lauren watched as the others got off as Piper's father sat in the doorway of the helicopter. Lauren gestured to the three of them.

"I know the one had been claimed but what happen the other two?" Emily looked at the three of them before Emily spoke.

"Jason, the blond hair guy, is a son of Zeus and Piper, the girl, is a daughter of Aphrodite." It was than that the three of them notice Steve and Lauren and Jason had spoke.

"Who are you two?"

"I am Steve Rogers and is is my wife, Lauren. I am a son of Demeter and she is a daughter of Zeus." Jason was a bit surprised when Steve said that, it was clear that he didn't expect another child of Zeus. But she was unsure of the surprise was also because Steve was Captain America as well. Than Jason and the others looked at Piper. It was clear that Jason wanted to finish his quest and get his memories back.

"What now?" Emily could tell that she felt uncomfortable at the moment.

"First thing, I—I have to get my dad home. I'm sorry, guys."

"Oh, I mean, absolutely. He needs you right now. We can take it from here."

"Pipes, no." Emily looked over to Piper's father and he managed to stumble to his feet of how he was able to do that was beyond her. "You have a mission. A quest. I can't ... "

"I'll take care of him." Emily and Piper stared at Gleeson when he said that.

"You?"

"I'm a protector. That's my job, not fighting." Emily smiled and shook her head, Emily figure that Gleeson didn't like of what happen in that battle. "Of course, I'm good at fighting, too." Gleeson glared at them all, daring them to argue. Bucky and Steve looked at Emily with a look that said, are you kidding me. Emily merely shrugged when they looked at her but she didn't bother to say anything.

"Yes."

"Terrifying."

"But I'm a protector, and I can do this. Your dad's right, Piper. You need to carry on with the quest."

"But … Dad …" Tristan held his arms out to her and Piper hugged him.

"Let's give them a minute." All of them walked away a few yards and watched as the two interacted, be the champion of Hestia that she was able to tell of what kind relationship people have with their families. Emily knows that they had been closer but something happened that caused a rift between them and the rift was slowly closing in. Emily knew that rift would take a while to heal, Emily watched as Piper offered him a vial of which Tristan looked at before drinking it. Emily figured that was a forgetful potion, Emily never liked using that stuff but when it comes to something like this that Emily could understand of using it. Than Tristan slumped forward and Piper caught him, Emily and the others went over to help Tristan and Piper.

"Got him." Gleeson strumbled but managed to hold Tristan steady. "I already asked one of the workers to call up his plane. It's on the way now. Home address?" Piper checked her father's pocket and pulled out his blackberry and handed it to Gleeson.

"Everything's on here, Address, his chauffeur's number. Just watch out for Jane."

"Who's Jane?" Piper explained everything by the time the plane arrived. Before Gleeson could take Tristan to the plane that Emily walked over to Tristan and Piper than she placed her hands on their foreheads, an orange glow engulfed them before it disappeared. Than Glesson managed to got Piper's dad to the plane with the help of the attendant.

"You, cupcakes, take care of this girl, you hear? Or I'm gonna make you do push-ups."

"You got it, Coach."

"No push-ups." Piper hugged Gleeson once more.

"Thank you, Gleeson. Take care of him, please."

"I got this, McLean. They got root beer and veggie enchiladas on this flight, and one hundred percent linen napkins—yum! I could get used to this." As Gleeson went up the stairs that he lost a shoe before he manage to get it back on. As soon as Gleeson was inside the plane that Piper looked at Emily.

"What was that?"

"A blessing, being the champion of Hestia I can do that. I put the blessing on you two that when you and your father are ready that he would be able to handle knowing the godly world." Piper smiled slightly when Emily said that, Emily could tell that helped Piper feel better of what she did to her father. Emily wasn't sure if she could do that to Steve, Lauren, Bucky or even her own father. Thankfully, she never had to do that, the plane was heading down the runaway that Piper started to cry. Jason went over to her and hugged her, Leo was uncomfortable, however Emily, Steve, Lauren and Bucky were not as uncomfortable for they went though times of where they couldn't hold it in much longer. Emily leaned against Bucky as he put his arms around her, Emily was use to his metal arm and never gave it much thought expect when it needed repairs. Thankfully Hephaestus was willing to help with the repairs or Tony, of which Emily was glad of.

"Your dad's in good hands. You did amazing." Piper sobbed into Jason's shirt, after a couple of minutes that she was able to calm down.

"Thank you, guys. I ... " Emily smiled and nodded, Piper didn't need to say it for they already knew and understood. Than right next to Jason that the air began to shimmer and an Iris message appeared next to Jason, a girl was in the middle of the Iris message, it was Thalia. Jason stumbled back in surprise, Steve and Bucky looked surprised by the Iris message as well. Emily looked over at Lauren of who has her hand front of her mouth and was trying hard not to laugh at the reaction of the others. Even with how true that Steve and Bucky known for a while about the demigod world, there still plenty of things that they didn't know about it.

"Thalia!"

"Thank the gods." Emily could hear sounds of war from behind Thalia."We've found her. Where are you?"

"Oakland. Where are you?"

"The Wolf House! Oakland is good; you're not too far. We're holding off the giant's minions, but we can't hold them forever. Get here before sunset, or it's all over."

"Then it's not too late?"

"No, Jason—it's worse than I realized. Porphyrion is rising. Hurry."

"But where is the Wolf House?" Thalia looked about ready to respond but Emily stepped forward and spoke.

"Don't worry, I will get them there, I know where it is."

"Emily? What are you doing there?"

"Never mind that Thalia. I will get them there." Thalia nodded before Emily slash though the message making it disappear. Emily looked at the others before she spoke. "Let's go than." When everyone got on that Emily took off with Bucky in the co pilot seat as they took off that Emily told them of where they were going. When Emily said the words Sonoma Valley that Emily noticed that Jason was gaining more memories. When she looked back at him that Jason opened his mouth to say something but closed it again. Emily decided to see what she could to do to get him to talk and see how much he remembers.

"So, praetor, do you remember where the wolf house is now?

"An abandoned mansion in the Sonoma Valley. A demigod built it—Jack London, ambassador. Why didn't you tell me about Camp halfblood, ghost girl? It is you isn't?" Emily smiled when Jason said that and laughed, even since since Jason got to camp that he called her ghost girl since it was easier for him to say at three than Rachel. Emily wondered if he would recognize her voice when he started to regain his memories.

"Glad to have you back, lighting boy. Yes, it is me in my normal appearance. I was wondering if you might recognize my voice. So what can you remember?"

"I am not sure." Than Steve spoke.

"Emily, why did he call you ambassador and why did you call him praetor?" Emily sighed when Steve said that.

"When we get to Camp Halfblood, I will tell you." Before Steve could say or ask anything else that Leo spoke up and changed the subject.

"He an actor? Jack, I mean."

"Writer. Adventure stuff, right? Call of the Wild? White Fang?"

"Yeah, He was a son of Mercury—I mean, Hermes. He was an adventurer, traveled the world. He was even a hobo for a while. Then he made a fortune writing. He bought a big ranch in the country and decided to build this huge mansion—the Wolf House."

"Named that 'cause he wrote about wolves?"

"Partially. But the site, and the reason he wrote about wolves—he was dropping hints about his personal experience. There're a lot of holes in his life story—how he was born, who his dad was, why he wandered around so much—stuff you can only explain if you know he was a demigod." The bay was behind them as they went on north and hills were rolled out before them.

"So Jack London went to Camp Half-Blood."

"No. No, he didn't."

"Bro, you're freaking me out with the mysterious talk. How much are you remembering your past?"

"Pieces. Only pieces. None of it good. The Wolf House is on sacred ground. It's where London started his journey as a child—where he found out he was a demigod. That's why he returned there. He thought he could live there, claim that land, but it wasn't meant for him. The Wolf House was cursed. It burned in a fire a week before he and his wife were supposed to move in. A few years later, London died, and his ashes were buried on the site."

"So, how do you know all this?" Emily took a sharp intake of breath when Piper said that, even it wasn't for the fact that she could tell from his expression that he was remembering than she would have known with the connections he have to New Rome was coming back.

"I started my journey there too. It's a powerful place for demigods, a dangerous place. If Gaea can claim it, use its power to entomb Hera on the solstice and raise Porphyrion—that might be enough to awaken the earth goddess fully." Emily figured when she heard about the wolf house and Hera being trapped there that it was possible that Gaea might use Hera to wake up. Emily hopes it doesn't happen, not now, Emily put the chopper full speed so that she was racing it north and to the weather up ahead. As Emily directed the chopper that she could feel the heart break of not having a home from Leo, unlike with the other two, it seemed like Leo never have a home. Emily knew that demigods would run away from home, but it seemed like Leo did it more this once. Emily hoped that he would find a place and home in Camp Halfblood like the other Greek demigods. As they went closer to where they needed to go that Emily spoke.

"Thirty minutes out. If you want to get some rest, now's a good time." Jason strapped himself into the back of the helicopter and they passed out almost at once. Piper and Leo remained where they were as well as Steve and Lauren, though Emily hadn't been talking to them when she said to get some rest. After a few minutes that Emily spoke. "You two would need some rest."

"I am not sure if I would be able to go to sleep." Piper nodded when Leo said that, after a few moments that Leo spoke once more as he looked at Piper. "Your dad'll be fine, you know. Nobody's gonna mess with him with that crazy goat around."

"My dad. Yeah, I know. I was thinking about Jason. I'm worried about him."

"He's starting to remember. That's got to make him a little edgy."

"But what if … what if he's a different person?" Emily sighed as Piper said that, Emily knew for the fact that Jason was no pt any different, even though Jason was a son of Jupiter, he acted more like he was Greek than a Roman. Of which just made Jason stand out more at Camp Jupiter than he does as a son of Jupiter. Emily always been able to talk to Jason just as easily as she could with Lauren, Steve or Bucky.

"Nah. After all we've been through? I can't see it. We're a team. Jason can handle it."

"I hope you're right. I need him … I mean I need to trust him…" Emily looked over at Lauren and mouthed, oh gee, I wonder where I heard this before? Lauren rolled her eyes and smiled when Emily did that.

"I know. Hey, don't worry, Piper, you're the strongest, most powerful beauty queen I've ever met. You can trust yourself. For what it's worth, you can trust me too." Than Bucky spoke.

"Beauty Queen? Why did you pick the nickname Beauty Queen?" Before Leo or Piper could respond that Emily spoke.

"What about Flower Princess? Why did you pick that nickname for me? Besides that is what my dad called me." Emily looked over at Bucky, it was clear that he didn't expect her to say that, but he set himself up for that. Out of the corner of her eye at she could see the others trying not to laugh.

"I liked it so I kept using it."

"There you go, you just got your answer to your question." When Emily said that, that the others started to laugh and that was when they hit the storm clouds. Sleet was hitting the windshield, Emily used her powers over the season to gain some control over the storm. But it wasn't working too well, of which most likely means that one of the winter gods was close by and there only two that she could think of on top of her head of who it could be.

"An ice storm? Is it supposed to be this cold in Sonoma?" The others were unsure of how to respond but Emily did.

"It does get cold but not this cold. This storm was created by a god or goddess."

"How come you be sure?"

"I have some powers over the seasons and I have some control of what can fall from the clouds and those powers are hardly working. The only ones who have that kind of control are children of the big three, mainly Zeus or Poseidon, or one of the gods of one of the seasons." It was than that Jason woke up, he crawled forward and grabbed the seats for balance.

"We've got to be getting close." Emily was too busy to with the stick to reply, it wasn't as easy to drive the chopper has it been a few moments ago before hitting the storm. For the movements become sluggish and jerky, the whole chopper shuddered as the wind hit the chopper. Emily figure that half of the jerky was because the helicopter wasn't made for cold weather and the other half that it has to do with the storm being unnatural. It seem to only get worse, for the controls seem to refused to respond as she tried to control it. They started to lose altitude, as Emily tried to control it that she felt the winds helping her and she knew it was Lauren doing that. Maybe Bucky but she was unsure if he was able to use the winds here or not, or even have that kind of power yet.

"There!"

"I see it." A small valley opened up before them, there was a murky shape of a building in the middle of the valley. There was flashes of lights and some of the trees cracked and exploded at the edges of the clearing. Emily could see shapes moving though the mist, it seem like the fighting was everywhere in this valley. It seems that this was the only time that she has seen fighting here since she knows about this place. Emily managed to set the helicopter down on an icy field about fifty yards from the house. When Emily landed that she heard a whistling sound and saw a dark shape hurtling towards them out of the mist. Emily shouted to everyone in the chopper.

"Out!" They all leaped from the helicopter and barely cleared the rotors before a massive quake shook the ground, it felt like if Poseidon was shaking the earth under their feet. It knocked Emily and the others off their feet, ice splattered all over her, Emily could feel Bucky's arms around her with the hope to take most of the impact of which was mostly the snow. When Bucky let go of her that Emily got up shakily, when she looked to where the helicopter was that she realized of what hit the helicopter. It was the largest snowball she has ever see, made out of snow, ice and dirt, it was the size of a garage and it flattened the helicopter. Steve and Lauren ran over to them while Jason and Piper ran over to Leo of who was nearby.

"Bucky, Emily, are you all right?" Emily managed to get some snow off of her as Bucky spoke.

"Besides being covered with snow and dirt, we are fine." Emily heard Jason asking Leo the same thing, than Piper pointed south.

"Fighting's over there." Then she frowned. "No … it's all around us." Emily wasn't surprised by that since that was in the direction of the wolf house. Emily could barely make out a circle of fighting all around the wolf house, Emily would admit that she has night vision but it was rather difficult to see though a storm like this. The wolf house was a massive ruin of red and gray stones with rough-hewn timber beams. Emily remembers the first time she came to this place, Hades told her to come here to pass a test. He didn't explain of why that was or anything, when she reached here that Lupa put her to a test to prove herself. Lupa just started the test without warning, thankfully World War II had sharpen her senses and she was able to defend herself easy enough after the shock of surprise. It was only after she succeed that Lupa told her more about the Romans, for Hades only told her a little bit, than she told Emily of what Hades and Hestia wanted her to do there. Lupa also told her that she wanted to see what kind of warrior she was and how she would be able to handle herself.

So Lupa decided Emily tested, that was not the only thing that happened that day either, for Lupa did something else that Emily didn't expect her to do. That she walked up to Emily and changed into an appearance of a normal woman before she took her wrist and made sure that Emily's palm was up before speaking a few words in Latin. At the time Emily didn't understand all the words but she knew some of the words but that didn't prepare emily for what happened next. When Lupa said those words, that Emily felt a burning sensation on her forearm. And when Lupa let go that Emily gained ten bar marks, the SPQR letters, and two symbols, a fire, the symbol of Hestia or Vesta and a glyph that looked like it has a curves arms and a head, the symbol of Hades or Pluto. Emily still remembers of when she got that tattoo and it was painful, she tried to get rid of it but it can never come off. That is why she always kept her green and blue bracelet on over her tattoo, though most of the time her brown leather jacket would cover it. The only ones that ever saw her tattoo were the Romans and Chiron, after Arabella was discovered that she felt like she had to tell Chiron of which Hades was fine with. Lauren spoke, dragging Emily out of her thoughts.

"This place feels cursed."

"That is because it is cursed. Always has been and it always will be." Emily shivered as the feeling of the place entered her. It was a lonely and haunted feel, it always made Emily feel on edge when she comes here to take demigods here.

"Jason!" It was Thalia, she appeared from the fog and her parka was caked with snow. She has her bow in her hand and her quiver was almost empty. Thalia ran towards them but only made it a few steps before a six armed ogre, or Earthborn but Emily liked Orger better, burst out of the storm behind her. It raised club in each hand, Emily was about ready to say turn when Leo yelled.

"Look out!" Jason, Piper and Leo ran to help, but Bucky, Lauren, Steve and Emily remained where they were, since Emily and the others know Thalia can deal with the ogre easy enough. Sure enough Thalia launched herself into a flip and notched an arrow as she like she was a gymnast her whole life. She landed in a kneeling position and the ogre got a silver arrow between the eyes, the ogre melted into a pile of clay. Emily, Bucky, Steve and Lauren walked closer to where the others as Thalia stood up and went to retrieved her arrow. The point of the arrow snapped off, Thalia didn't look to happy about it, Thalia kicked the pile of clay.

"That was my last one. Stupid ogre."

"Nice shot, though." Emily was close of laughing when Thalia ignored Leo, it was clear Thalia didn't care about Leo in any way but it was clear that Leo has a crush on her. Thalia hugged Jason and nodded to Piper, than she walked over to Lauren and Emily and hugged them.

"Just in time. My Hunters are holding a perimeter around the mansion, but we'll be overrun any minute."

"By Earthborn?"

"And wolves—Lycaon's minions. Also storm spirits—"

"But we gave them to Aeolus!"

"Who tried to kill us. Maybe he's helping Gaea again."

"I don't know. But the monsters keep re-forming almost as fast as we can kill them. We took the Wolf House with no problem: surprised the guards and sent them straight to Tartarus. But then this freak snowstorm blew in. Wave after wave of monsters started attacking. Now we're surrounded. I don't know who or what is leading the assault, but I think they planned this. It was a trap to kill anyone who tried to rescue Hera."

"Where is she?" Jason asked.

"Inside, We tried to free her, but we can't figure out how to break the cage. It's only a few minutes until the sun goes down. Hera thinks that's the moment when Porphyrion will be reborn. Plus, most monsters are stronger at night. If we don't free Hera soon—" Thalia didn't need to finish what she was saying, they followed her into the wolf house and Jason was the last one to step over the threshold. When Jason stepped over the threshold that the unexpected happen, Jason collapsed and Leo barely managed to catch him before he could fall.

"Hey! None of that, man. What's wrong?" Emily knew what was wrong, more memories were coming back, more than before.

"This place … Sorry … It came rushing back to me."

"So you have been here."

"We both have," Thalia's expression was grim, it was like she was reliving someone's death. "This is where my mom took us when Jason was a child. She left him here, told me he was dead. He just disappeared."

"She gave me to the wolves. At Hera's insistence. She gave me to Lupa."

"That part I didn't know. Who is Lupa?"

"Lupa is the wolf goddess, she trains demigods. She is a counterpart to Chiron." Thalia looked at emily when she said thar, Thalia was about ready to say something when an explosion shook the building. Just outside a blue mushroom cloud billowed up, raining snowflakes and ice like a nuclear blast. But the blast was cold not heat like a nuclear blast would be like.

"Maybe this isn't the time for questions. Show us the goddess." It seemed that once inside that Jason seemed to get his bearings, for Jason lead them between the wings and wreckage to an outside courtyard. There was an empty reflecting pool in the courtyard, at the bottom of the pool were two spires of rock and root tendrils. The two spires cracked though the foundation. One of the spires was much bigger, it was a solid dark mass about twenty feet high. Looking at the bigger spire that Emily gasp and put her hands over her mouth from screaming. Emily knew that the giants were rising but seeing one raise was totally different and something she didn't expect to see. The giant was slowly rising from the earth.

On the opposite end of the pool, the other spire was smaller and more loosely woven than the other spire. Each tendril was thick as a telephone pole and there was little space between them, Emily knows she wouldn't be able to put her arm though the space of one of them. But she still could see inside of the spire though, for inside the cage was Hera, there was no mistake in that. Her hair was dark covered with a shawl of which Emily found odd, she was wearing a black dress of a widow, a wrinkled face with glinting and scary eyes. It was weird to see Hera looking like she did at the moment, for she usually has silver or brown hair, brown eyes, and a white dress. Leo dropped into the pool and approached the cage.

"Hola, Tía. Little bit of trouble?" Emily and the others jumped down and walked over to the cage while Hera crossed her arms and sighed in exasperation.

"Don't inspect me like I'm one of your machines, Leo Valdez. Get me out of here!" Thalia stepped next to Leo and looked at Hera with distaste of which was a similar look Lauren has on her face.

"We tried everything we could think of, Leo, but maybe my heart wasn't in it. If it was up to me, I'd just leave her in there."

"Ohh, Thalia Grace. When I get out of here, you'll be sorry you were ever born."

"Save it! You've been nothing but a curse to every child of Zeus for ages. You sent a bunch of intestinally challenged cows after my friend Annabeth—"

"She was disrespectful!"

"You dropped a statue on my legs."

"It was an accident!"

"And you took my brother! Here—on this spot. You ruined our lives. We should leave you to Gaea!"

"Hey, Thalia—Sis—I know. But this isn't the time. You should help your Hunters."

"Fine. For you, Jason. But if you ask me, she isn't worth it." Thalia turned and leaped out of the pool before she stormed out from the building. Emily wasn't one bit surprised that Lauren took out her bow and quiver of arrows and followed Thalia. When Lauren did that, that Bucky and Steve looked at Emily, Emily sighed before she spoke.

"Children of Zeus and Hera don't have good history. It is better if Lauren is outside and she knows it too." Before Steve or Bucky could say anything that Leo spoke.

"Intestinally challenged cows?"

"Focus on the cage, Leo. And Jason—you are wiser than your sister. I chose my champion well."

"I'm not your champion, I'm only helping you because you stole my memories and you're better than the alternative. Speaking of which, what's going on with that?" Emily looked over at the other spire and saw that it grown taller since they entered the building.

"That, Jason, is the king of the giants being reborn."

"Gross."

"Indeed, Porphyrion, the strongest of his kind. Gaea needed a great deal of power to raise him again —my power. For weeks I've grown weaker as my essence was used to grow him a new form."

"So you're like a heat lamp. Or fertilizer." Emily was close of laughing at what Leo said as well as the look at Hera's face, Emily wished that Lauren was here when Leo said that. The glare she was giving Leo looked so funny next to Emily's death glare.

"Joke all you wish. But at sundown, it will be too late. The giant will awake. He will offer me a choice: marry him, or be consumed by the earth. And I cannot marry him. We will all be destroyed. And as we die, Gaea will awaken."

"Can't we blow it up or something?"

"Without me, you do not have the power, You might as well try to destroy a mountain."

"Besides even if we did that, it wouldn't do any good unless if it was hellfire or Greek fire." Hera looked at Emily when she said. "Honestly, I am not sure if either one would work in this case. I never tried using it on a cage like this and I have no idea of how it will affect a goddess." Before Hera could say anything that Jason spoke.

"Done that once today."

"No kidding. That is just a daily day in the demigod world."

"Just hurry up and let me out!"

"Leo, can you do it?"

"I don't know. Besides, if she's a goddess, why hasn't she busted herself out?" Hera started to pace furiously around her cage cursing in Ancinet Greek.

"Use your brain, Leo Valdez. I picked you because you're intelligent. Once trapped, a god's power is useless. Your own father trapped me once in a golden chair. It was humiliating! I had to beg—beg him for my freedom and apologize for throwing him off Olympus."

"Sounds fair."

"I've watched you since you were a child, son of Hephaestus, because I knew you could aid me at this moment. If anyone can find a way to destroy this abomination, it is you."

"But it's not a machine. It's like Gaea thrust her hand out of the ground and … Hold on. I do have an idea. Piper, I'm going to need your help. And we're going to need time."

Before Leo could do or say anything that the air turned brittle with cold and the temperature dropped so fast that it was unbelievable. Their breath changed to mist, frost coated the walls of the wolf house. Storm spirits rushed in, the storm spirits were shaped like horses with dark storm cloud bodies and manes crackled with lighting. Some have silver arrows sticking out from their bodies, behind them came the wolves and the six armed Earthborn. Piper drew her dagger and Leo pulled out a hammer that looked small compared to Thor's hammer. Steve took his shield from his back as work as pulling a gun form his firearm belt while Bucky pulled his bow and quiver and hi sword that his father gave to him. However Jason grabbed an ice covered plank from the ground, it was than that Emily realized that he didn't have his weapon any more.

Emily took off her necklace and swished it so it become her Stygian iron sword. Emily tapped Jason's shoulder and handed him the sword, he looked surprised but he took it none the less and nodded in thanks. Jason looked like he was about ready to ask of what she was going to use but she grasp her poppy and it changed into her celestial bronze sword. He looked shocked when he saw the sword, Emily was sure that he heard about her sword for it was originally Persephone's sword till a thousand years ago when Persephone gave it back to Demeter. Demeter passed it on to one of her children and when the last legacy of that family died that Demeter took it back before she passed it to Emily. Emily knows it has history when she got it and it wasn't till she was adopted by Hades that she learned the history of the sword. There was a bunch of legends about the sword in Camp Jupiter and that was why she only used her Stygian iron sword for she made that sword herself. She was more comfortable with using the sword her mother gave her though, for it fit in her hands slightly better.

Two of the wolves padded forward and they were dragging two human sized statues by the legs. When the wolves reached the edge of the pool that they opened their mouths and dropped the statues into the pool. Emily gasp when she saw the two statues, the statues were ice sculpture of two girls, both archers. One of the archers has short and spiky black hair while the other one has long straight black hair and there were surprised looks on their faces. Steve was about ready to rush forward but Bucky and Emily held Steve back before he could move forward when he realized one was Lauren. The statue was already webbing the floor with ice and Emily was worried that Steve might turn into ice if he went near Thalia and Lauren. Apparently Jason was thinking along the same lines as Steve for he started to rush forward but Piper and Leo held him back as well. It was clear that Piper and Leo were thinking along the same lines as Bucky and Emily.

"Thalia! Who did this?" Jason yelled, Jason's body was crackling with electricity. "I'll kill you myself!" When Jason said that, that Emily heard a girl's laughter of which came from behind the monsters, the laughter was clear and cold. Than a girl stepped out of the mist, she has black hair, coffee brown eyes, white and pale skin, and she has a proud look. She was wearing a snowy white silk dress, a silver crown was on top of her hair, she was regarding them. Emily knew who was this, even though Emily never seen or meet her before.

"Bon soir, mes amis. Alas, son of Hephaestus, you say you need time? I'm afraid time is one tool you do not have."