Emily was worried and concern, Emily could tell that Jason, Piper and Leo have been though a lot in the last few days and that this was the last thing that any of them needed. Emily was sure that it was not much better for Steve, it was already bad enough for him to be in the ice for about seventy years. But seeing his wife in the ice in a similar state as he has been would be the final blow if Steve have been on the quest this whole time with the other three. It didn't help Emily to see Thalia and Lauren like this, however Emily was sure that this was worse for Jason than Steve. For Emily could sense that Jason's family connection to Thalia and Camp Jupiter growing more since entering this building. She knew from that, that Jason was gaining more memories, of which memories that he was gaining back were unknown to her. Khione smiled as a dagger of ice grew in her hand.
"What've you done?"
"Oh, so many things, your sisters are not dead, if that's what you mean. They and the Hunters will make fine toys for our wolves. I thought we'd defrost them one at a time and hunt them down for amusement. Let them be the prey for once." The wolves snarled at them, Khione kept her eyes on Jason. Emily wasn't sure if Jason wanted that or not, she was just glad that she wasn't keeping her eyes on Steve or Bucky.
"Yes, my dears. Your sister almost killed their king, you know. Lycaon's off in a cave somewhere, no doubt licking his wounds, but his minions have joined us to take revenge for their master. And soon Porphyrion will arise, and we shall rule the world."
"Traitor! You meddlesome, D-list goddess! You aren't worthy to pour my wine, much less rule the world." There was many things that Emily disagreed with Hera, but this one of the few times that Emily agreed with Hera.
"Tiresome as ever, Queen Hera. I've been wanting to shut you up for millennia." Khione waved her hand and ice encased the prison sealing the spaces between the earthen tendrils.
"That's better. Now, demigods, about your death—"
"You're the one who tricked Hera into coming here. You gave Zeus the idea of closing Olympus." The wolves snarled and the storm spirits whinnied, all of them were ready for an attack but Khione held her hand up.
"Patience, my loves. If he wants to talk, what matter? The sun is setting, and time is on our side. Of course, Jason Grace. Like snow, my voice is quiet and gentle, and very cold. It's easy for me to whisper to the other gods, especially when I am only confirming their own deepest fears. I also whispered in Aeolus's ear that he should issue an order to kill demigods. It is a small service for Gaea, but I'm sure I will be well rewarded when her sons the giants come to power."
"You could've killed us in Quebec. Why let us live?" Emily looked at Jason in surprise, she didn't expect Jason to go to Quebec, she expected them to see Bucky's father or someone other than the god of the north wind.
"Messy business, killing you in my father's house, especially when he insists on meeting all visitors. I did try, you remember. It would've been lovely if he'd agreed to turn you to ice. But once he'd given you guarantee of safe passage, I couldn't openly disobey him. My father is an old fool. He lives in fear of Zeus and Aeolus, but he's still powerful. Soon enough, when my new masters have awakened, I will depose Boreas and take the throne of the North Wind, but not just yet. Besides, my father did have a point. Your quest was suicidal. I fully expected you to fail."
"And to help us with that, you knocked our dragon out of the sky over Detroit. Those frozen wires in his head—that was your fault. You're gonna pay for that."
"You're also the one who kept Enceladus informed about us. We've been plagued by snowstorms the whole trip." Khione smiled at Jason, Emily was surprised that Khione hadn't noticed or said anything to Emily, Steve or Bucky. But it was not a surprise that the three of them hadn't said anything.
"Yes, I feel so close to all of you now! Once you made it past Omaha, I decided to asked Lycaon to track you down so Jason could die here, at the Wolf House. You see, Jason, your blood spilled on this sacred ground will taint it for generations. Your demigod brethren will be outraged, especially when they find the bodies of these two from Camp Half-Blood. They'll believe the Greeks have conspired with giants. It will be … delicious." Emily looked at all of them, it was clear that Steve, Piper and Leo didn't understand of what Khione meant, but Jason, Bucky and Emily understood what she was talking about.
"You'll set demigods against demigods."
"It's so easy! As I told you, I only encourage what you would do anyway."
"But why? Khione, you'll tear the world apart. The giants will destroy everything. You don't want that. Call off your monsters." Khione hesitated before she laughed.
"Your persuasive powers are improving, girl. But I am a goddess. You can't charm-speak me. We wind gods are creatures of chaos! I'll overthrow Aeolus and let the storms run free. If we destroy the mortal world, all the better! They never honored me, even in Greek times. Humans and their talk of global warming. Pah! I'll cool them down quickly enough. When we retake the ancient places, I will cover the Acropolis in snow."
"The ancient places. That's what Enceladus meant about destroy the roots of the gods. He meant Greece."
"You could join me, son of Hephaestus, I know you find me beautiful. It would be enough for my plan if these other two were to die. Reject that ridiculous destiny the Fates have given you. Live and be my champion, instead. Your skills would be quite useful." Emily looked at Leo when Khione said that, he looked stunned, he glanced behind him as to make sure Khione wasn't talking to someone else. Emily was worried and thought Leo might accept her offer but than the words of Hestia rang in her mind. Words that Hestia told her shortly after making Emily her champion and Emily remembered thinking of why Hestia told her this since it was obvious, but Emily figure she must have seen this day coming.
'Emily, now that your a fire user, you must remember that ice and fire don't mix.' Emily was about ready to open her mouth to say something to Leo but she was stopped short by what Leo did. Leo laughed, he was laughing so hard that he double over, after a minute that he gained enough control of his laughter that he looked at Khione and spoke.
"Yeah, join you. Right. Until you get bored of me and turn me into a Leosicle? Lady, nobody messes with my dragon and gets away with it. I can't believe I thought you were hot." Emily looked over at Steve when Leo said Leosicle, Steve was shaking his head in disbelief than he looked at her and mouth, is he related to Tony. Emily shook her head when Steve mouthed that, Emily would have known by now if Tony have some godly connections. Not only that but if he was a legacy or a demigod he wouldn't have fallen asleep during the second battle of Manhattan. For put a sleeping spell on a legacy can be as difficult and powerful as putting one on a demigod. Emily looked back at Khione and Khione's face turned red.
"Hot? You dare insult me? I am cold, Leo Valdez. Very, very cold." Emily wasn't at all surprised that Khione considered that as an insult, she was the goddess of snow after all. She shot a blast of wintry sleet at them, Emily was about ready to send fire at it but Leo beat her to it. Leo raised his hand and a wall of fire had roared to life in front of them, Emily raised her eyebrow. After about three days that Leo was able to do this of which was surprising. She could tell that Leo's power over fire was strong but it was no where near her level of control nor was it as strong and powerful hers was. The snow dissolved into a steamy cloud, Leo was grinning the grin that he has that was similar to Hermes or his children. It was a bit weird to know Leo was a son of Hephaestus but looked like and acted like a son of Hermes.
"See, lady, that's what happens to snow in Texas. It—freaking—melts." Khione hissed when Leo said that.
"Enough of this. Hera is failing. Porphyrion is rising. Kill the demigods. Let them be our king's first meal!" The monsters charged at them, Leo was about ready to start fighting with Khione when she throw an ice dagger at Leo. But Emily jumped in front of him and throw a flame dagger at the ice dagger and the ice dagger melted when the fire dagger hit it. Leo looked at her in surprise as well as Khione, Emily let go of her sword and it went back to being a poppy. She spoke as the poppy return to it's normal state.
"I will take care of her, you fight with the monsters and make sure no one is turned into ice." Leo was about ready to argue but the death glare she gave him that he joined in the fighting with everyone else. Emily could see Jason using her sword while Steve kept using his shield and gun before knocking the monsters to their feet. A few of the monsters were knocked into Bucky's sword and they turned into gold dust covering Bucky gold dust. Khione smiled as she looked at Emily, as she realized who Emily was.
"Well isn't it Lieutenant USA, daughter of Demeter and champion of Hestia I see. I would never thought that I would see the day that Hestia would have a champion. Let's see what you are made of." Khione summoned ice daggers, she felt blasts of winter air and there was snow tornadoes. Emily tugged her blue bracelet up and her lieutenant America uniform, the one that Daedalus made, covered her. Than Emily lit herself up, two infernos appeared besides Emily, Emily could see the worry in Khione's eyes.
"I am ready for it." She started throwing ice daggers at Emily but Emily used the fire daggers to melt them and she walked forward as she did so making the infernos walking along with her. Out of the corner of her eyes that she could see Leo throwing fire or using his two hammers. Steve and Bucky were fighting side by side knocking monsters out of the way or killing them depending on which one the monster jumped towards them. Emily could see a shield of fire around Steve and Bucky, Emily figured that was coming from Bucky. Piper was glowing with beauty of which Emily found odd but the Earthborn were so distract with her beauty that she charged them and they hadn't realized what she was doing till it was too late. Jason was on a storm spirit and charging around the room cutting down monsters with her sword. With Leo's fire and her fire were the cause of the whole courtyard heating up countering Khione's winter magic like Emily expected it to.
Emily noticed that Le set himself on fire as well, so that Emily and Leo looked more like walking flames than demigods. Emily knew that Leo and herself were among the reasons of why no one was frozen like the hunters. She knew Bucky has control over fire and that his fire allow was another reason of why no one froze yet. But Bucky rarely used the fire power unless if he has to even though fire was one of his more powerful powers since his father was the god of summer as well as the south wind. As Emily stepped closer to Thalia and Lauren that they started to defrost a little, as Emily walked forward, and send a blast of fire at another monster when they jumped at her, that Khione was slowly backing away from her. Her expression changed as the fight went on, first it was enraged than to shocked and now it was slightly panicked as Emily drew closer to her. When Emily reached Khione at the fighting stopped around her and they both know that meant that all of the monsters there were killed.
"You're too late, He's awake! And don't think you've won anything here, demigods. Hera's plan will never work. You'll be at each other's throats before you can ever stop us." Emily made two balls of fire appear above her hands and threw the balls at Khione. But she turned into snow and her balls slammed into the show woman breaking it into a steaming mound of mush.
"Nice horse." Emily turned and looked at the horse Jason was on, it seemed that it was under his control now. The horse reared on his hind legs. Than there was a cracking sound from Hera's cage. Emily looked at the cage as the melting ice started to fall from the cage that Hera was in.
"Oh, don't mind me! Just the queen of the heavens, dying over here!" Jason dismounted the storm spirit and told the horse to stay put, than the six of them jumped into the pool and ran to the spire.
"Uh, Tía Callida, are you getting shorter?"
"No, you dolt! The earth is claiming me. Hurry!" Emily saw Hera was sinking into the earth, the dirt looked like water. "The giant wakes! You only have seconds!"
"On it. Piper, I need your help. Talk to the cage."
"What?"
"Talk to it. Use everything you've got. Convince Gaea to sleep. Lull her into a daze. Just slow her down, try to get the tendrils to loosen while I ... "
"Right! Hey, Gaea. Nice night, huh? Boy, I'm tired. How about you? Ready for some sleep?" Emily smiled as Piper spoke, the more Piper spoke the more confident she sounded. She was putting almost everyone to sleep, Emily had to snap Steve and Bucky out of it. Leo pulled out a circular saw out of his tool belt and it has a cord on it.
"I don't have anywhere to plug it in!" The storm horse jumped into the pit and whined. Bucky backed up, he looked surprise but Emily smiled and laughed before she spoke.
"I forget to mention since you ever ran into a storm spirit before that you most likely understand them provided they are a horse instead of a man." Bucky raised an eyebrow when Emily said that. "You can also control them too but Jason has control over that one though since they also have some wind power." Bucky nodded when she whispered that to him. Than Jason spoke.
"Really?" The horse dipped his head and trotted over to Leo, he looked doubtful but held the plug up none the less. A breeze whisked it into the horse's flank, lighting sparked connecting the plug and the circular saw whirred to life.
"Sweet! Your horse comes with AC outlets!" All the sudden there a sound like a tree snapping in half as the giants a spire crumbled. It's sheath of tendrils exploded from top to bottom, stone and wood shard rained on them as the giant shook himself free and climbed out of the earth. Emily heard Steve and Bucky gasp, Emily stepped back as she looked at Porphyrion. She never seen one of the giants, from the giant war, before. Porphyrion was taller than she thought he would be, he has a kind of strength that it seemed like he has his own gravitational field. Porphyrion was humanoid from the waist up clad in bronze armor. From the waist down that he has scaly dragon legs but his skin was the color of lima beans. His hair was as green as summer leaves, braided in his hair was different weapons that were most likely from demigods in the past. When he opened his eyes that they were blank white like polished.
"Alive! Praise to Gaea!" Emily heard the whimpering sound that come from Jason, Emily didn't say anything when she heard that.
"Leo."
"Huh?"
"You guys keep working. Get Hera free!"
"What are you going to do? You can't seriously—"
"Entertain a giant? I've got no choice." Steve and Bucky were about ready to follow Jason but Emily put hands on their arms and they looked at her as Jason approached the Giant.
"He needs to do this himself. This is his quest, not ours." The giant roared as Jason approached him.
"Excellent! An appetizer! Who are you—Hermes? Ares?" Emily wondered of how Jason would respond to that, she almost expected him to say that he was a son of Ares or any other god but his own father. But when Jason spoke that Emily was surprised.
"I'm Jason Grace, Son of Jupiter." Emily didn't move, she just watched. Than Porphyrio threw his head back and laughed before looking up at the cloudy night air.
"Outstanding! So, Zeus, you sacrifice a son to me? The gesture is appreciated, but it will not save you." The sky didn't rumble, Emily knew that meant no help from his father. Jason gripped her sword tighter before he spoke.
"If you knew who I was, you'd be worried about me, not my father. I hope you enjoyed your two and a half minutes of rebirth, giant, because I'm going to send you right back to Tartarus." Porphyrion planted one foot outside of the pool and crouched to get a better look at Jason.
"So … we'll start by boasting, will we? Just like old times! Very well, demigod. I am Porphryion, king of the giants, son of Gaea. In olden times, I rose from Tatarus, the abyss of my father, to challenge the gods. To start the war, I stole Zeus's queen. Hello, Hera."
"My husband destroyed you once, monster! He'll do it again!"
"But he didn't, my dear! Zeus wasn't powerful enough to kill me. He had to rely on a puny demigod to help, and even then, we almost won. This time, we will complete what we started. Gaea is waking. She has provisioned us with many fine servants. Our armies will shake the earth—and we will destroy you at the roots."
"You wouldn't dare."
"Oh, yes. The Titans sought to attack your new home in New York. Bold, but ineffective. Gaea is wiser and more patient. And we, her greatest children, are much, much stronger than Kronos. We know how to kill you Olympians once and for all. You must be dug up completely like rotten trees—your eldest roots torn out and burned." The giant looked at Leo and Piper before he looked at Emily, Steve and Bucky. He looked he was about ready to say something but Jason spoke.
"You said a demigod killed you. How, if we're so puny?" That got Porphyrion's attention back on Jason.
"Ha! You think I would explain it to you? I was created to be Zeus's replacement, born to destroy the lord of the sky. I shall take his throne. I shall take his wife—or, if she will not have me, I will let the earth consume her life force. What you see before you, child, is only my weakened form. I will grow stronger by the hour, until I am invincible. But I am already quite capable of smashing you to a grease spot!" He rose to his full height and held out his hand, a twenty foot spear shot from the earth. He grasped it and stomped the ground and the monsters started to regathering answering his call, as the monsters gathered that Bucky spoke.
"This makes World War II look like a game."
"No kidding."
"Great. We needed more enemies."
"Hurry."
"I know!"
"Go to sleep, cage, Nice, sleepy cage. Yes, I'm talking to a bunch of earthen tendrils. This isn't weird at all." Porphyrion used his spear across the top of the ruins destroying a chimney and spraying wood and stone across the courtyard.
"So, child of Zeus! I have finished my boasting. Now it's your turn. What were you saying about destroying me?" Emily looked at Jason, wondering what he was going to do now.
"I'm the son of Jupiter!" As Jason said that, that she felt the winds around her and he rose a few feet off the ground. "I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion." Emily smiled when Jason said that, he remembered the legion but didn't remember the name though. But she knows he wanted the legion to be called the first legion as a new start for Rome. He held out his arm that has the tattoo, Emily could see that Porphyrion recognize it and he looked uneasy about it. "I slew the Trojan sea monster, I toppled the black throne of Kronos, and destroyed the Titan Krios with my own hands. And now I'm going to destroy you, Porphyrion, and feed you to your own wolves."
"Wow, dude, You been eating red meat?" Emily smiled, Jason might be a roman that acted more like a Greek, but he knew how to boast and how to scare any enemy but boasting the right things. Even if his memories were still not fully there of yet, however she was unsure if it would be a good for Jason to remember his past. When Jason finished that Jason launched himself at the giant. Jason managed to land on the giant's knee and climbed up his arm before Porphyrion could reactor realized what happening.
"You dare?"
"For Rome!" Jason drove her sword into his ear. Lightning streaked out of the sky and blasted the sword throwing Jason and the sword free. The sword landed in front of Emily, Jason rolled when he hit the ground, the Giant was staggering, his hair was on fire. Half of his face was blackened from the lightning, golden ichor was running down his jaw. Porphyrion almost fell, the monsters growled and started towards Jason but Porphyrion spoke.
"No! I will kill him myself. You want to play with lightning, boy? You forget. I am the bane of Zeus. I was created to destroy your father, which means I know exactly what will kill you." Emily hoped and prayed that something will happen to make sure Jason wasn't killed. Than Leo yelled at that moment.
"Got it!"
"Sleep!" When Piper said that, that the nearest wolves fell to the ground snoring, the stone and wood cage crumbled. The tendril turned to dust and the mud around Hera disintegrated, she grew in size glowing with power.
"Yes!" She throw off her black robes to reveal of what she looked like normally. She was wearing a white gown, her arms were bedecked with golden jewelry and a golden crown glowed in her brown hair. Looking at Hera's face told Emily of what she was going to do. "Now I shall have my revenge!" Porphyrion backed away and said nothing, he gave Jason one last look of hatred before he slammed his spear against the earth and he disappeared into the ground. The monsters started to panic and retreat. Hera glow brighter, Steve, Bucky and Emily closed their eyes as well as everyone else as Hera spoke. "Cover your eyes, my heroes!" When the light died down that Emily opened her eyes and gasp as she saw Jason laying there died. There was no life aura in him, Piper ran over to him as the hunters started to get up.
"JASON!" Piper kept shouting his name for the next couple of minutes, his body was steaming and his eyes were rolled back into his head.
"It's no use, child." Hera was back in her robes and shawl, Emily wasn't sure if she liked the black robes or not.
"This is your fault. Do something!"
"Do not address me that way, girl. I am the queen ... "
"Fix him!"
"I did warn him. I would never intentionally hurt the boy. He was to be my champion. I told them to close their eyes before I revealed my true form."
"Um … True form is bad, right? So why did you do it?"
"I unleashed my power to help you, fool! I became pure energy so I could disintegrate the monsters, restore this place, and even save these miserable Hunters from the ice."
"But mortals can't look upon you in that form! You've killed him!"
"That's what our prophecy meant. Death unleash, through Hera's rage. Come on, lady. You're a goddess. Do some voodoo magic on him! Bring him back." Emily looked away from Hera, Thalia, and Leo as they spoke for the life aura in Jason started to come back. It was barely there, Piper must have notice Jason's breathing or something.
"He's breathing!"
"Impossible, I wish it were true, child, but no mortal has ever ..."
"Jason, Listen to me. You can do this. Come back. You're going to be fine." Emily ran over to Jason and placed her hand on his forehead as Hera spoke.
"Healing is not a power of Aphrodite, Even I cannot fix this, girl. His mortal spirit ... " as Hera spoke that Emily poured hope into Jason and pour hope towards the underworld hoping that Jason would hear Piper. Before Hera could finish that Piper spoke once more.
"Jason, Wake up." Jason gasped and his eyes flew open, for a moment they were full of light that was glowing pure gold. When the light faded that his eyes were back normal, Emily removed her hand from his forehead.
"What—what happened?"
"Impossible!" Emily stood up and walked back over to Steve, Bucky and Lauren. Lauren was hugging Steve for dear life. Bucky wrapped his arms around Emily when she reached him and hugged her as well, Emily could hear Jason talking.
"Crushing me."
"Sorry." Emily looked back at Jason, Thalia and Piper as Thalia gripped Jason's hand.
"How do you feel?"
"Hot. Mouth is dry. And I saw something… really terrible."
"That was Hera. Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon."
"That's it, Thalia Grace, I will turn you into an aardvark, so help me—"
"Stop it, you two." Both Thalia and Hera stopped at once. Piper helped Jason to his feet and gave him some nectar before she faced Hera and Thalia.
"Now … Hera—Your Majesty—we couldn't have rescued you without the Hunters. And Thalia, you never would've seen Jason again—I wouldn't have met him—if it weren't for Hera. You two make nice, because we've got bigger problems." Hera and Thalia glared at her, than Thalia grunted.
"You've got spirit, Piper." Thalia pulled a silver card from her parka and tucked it into the pocket of Piper's snowboarding jacket. "You ever want to be a Hunter, call me. We could use you." Hera crossed her arms
"Fortunately for this Hunter, you have a point, daughter of Aphrodite. You wondered, Piper, why I chose you for this quest, why I didn't reveal your secret in the beginning, even when I knew Enceladus was using you. I must admit, until this moment I was not sure. Something told me you would be vital to the quest. Now I see I was right. You're even stronger than I realized. And you are correct about the dangers to come. We must work together."
"Yeah, I don't suppose that Porphyrion guy just melted and died, huh?"
"No. By saving me, and saving this place, you prevented Gaea from waking. You have bought us some time. But Porphyrion has risen. He simply knew better than to stay here, especially since he has not yet regained his full power. Giants can only be killed by a combination of god and demigod, working together. Once you freed me—"
"He ran away. But to where?"
Hera didn't answer, but a sense of dread washed over Piper. She remembered what Porphyrion had said about killing the Olympians by pulling up their roots. Greece." Emily looked at Thalia's grim expression, and guessed the Hunter had come to the same conclusion.
"I need to find Annabeth. She has to know what's happened here."
"Thalia … We never got to talk about this place, or ... "
"I know. I lost you here once. I don't want to leave you again. But we'll meet soon. I'll rendezvous with you back at Camp Half-Blood. You'll see them there safely? It's the least you can do."
"It's not your place to tell me ... "
"Queen Hera,"
"Fine. Yes. Just off with you, Hunter!" Thalia gave Jason a hug as well as Emily and Lauren before saying goodbye. When the hunters were gone that everything was strangely quiet there was no sign of what took place at the wolf house that night. The night sky as clear and starry, the wind rustled in the redwoods, Emily leaned against Bucky happy that for the time being that they have a break from this. Emily could still feel the earth stirring but it wasn't like it was earlier that day, even an hour ago. Not only that but emily realized that day was the first time she missed an solstice meeting for about seventy years.
"Jason, what happened to you here? I mean ... I know your mom abandoned you here. But you said it was sacred ground for demigods. Why? What happened after you were on your own?"
"It's still murky. The wolves …"
"You were given a destiny. You were given into my service."
"Because you forced my mom to do that. You couldn't stand knowing Zeus had two children with my mom. Knowing that he'd fallen for her twice. I was the price you demanded for leaving the rest of my family alone. "
"It was the right choice for you as well, Jason, The second time your mother managed to snare Zeus's affections, it was because she imagined him in a different aspect—the aspect of Jupiter. Never before had this happened—two children, Greek and Roman, born into the same family. You had to be separated from Thalia. This is where all demigods of your kind start their journey."
"Of his kind?"
"She means Roman. Demigods are left here. We meet the she-wolf goddess, Lupa, the same immortal wolf that raised Romulus and Remus."
"And if you are strong enough, you live."
"But … What happened after that? I mean, Jason never made it to camp."
"Not to Camp Half-Blood, no."
"You went somewhere else. That's where you've been all these years. Somewhere else for demigods—but where?"
"The memories are coming back, but not the location. You're not going to tell me, are you?"
"No. That is part of your destiny, Jason. You must find your own way back. But when you do … you will unite two great powers. You will give us hope against the giants, and more importantly—against Gaea herself." Jason looked over at Emily, Emily looked over at Jason before he spoke once more.
"But you know where it is though."
"Of course, but I have swore under the river Styx not to speak of it or even tell anyone of the location. When I found one of your kind that I can't tell them where the camp is, I just lead them here if they run away or rescue them depending on what has happen in their lives. I am sorry I can't tell you, otherwise I would. Though Hera and I don't always agree, she has a point here Jason, you have to find your own way back. The only other way for you to know is if I am given permission to tell you or anyone of what I swore on the river Styx." Jason nodded when Emily said that, Jason knows her well enough to know that she couldn't tell him everything even if she wanted to tell him than what she could. Than he looked back at Hera.
"You want us to help you, but you're holding back information."
"Giving you answers would make those answers invalid. That is the way of the Fates. You must forge your own path for it to mean anything. Already, you three have surprised me. I would not have thought it possible … Suffice to say, you have performed well, demigods. But this is only the beginning. Now you must return to Camp Half-Blood, where you will begin planning for the next phase."
"Which you won't tell us about. And I suppose you destroyed my nice storm spirit horse, so we'll have to walk home?"
"Storm spirits are creatures of chaos. I did not destroy that one, though I have no idea where he went, or whether you'll see him again. But there is an easier way home for you. As you have done me a great service, so I can help you—at least this once. Farewell, demigods, for now." Light surrounded Jason, Piper, and Leo and they vanished. Than Hera looked over at Emily, Emily pulled away from Bucky and walked over to Hera. "Emily, I need to ask you of something."
"Depending on what it is, I may do it. But I can't promise if I will do it willingly or not."
"You will be willingly to do this. I need you to go to Camp Jupiter." Emily raised an eyebrow when Hera said that.
"I don't need to go there, not now at any rate. Not till Hestia needs me to go there. Nico took over my old ambassador duties."
"True, before I came down here that Hestia ask me to tell you to go to Camp Jupiter when I got down here that I went looking around here."
"Why didn't you say that in that vision at the big house than?"
"Jason was there and you know he had no memories than."
"Why does Hestia want me to go to Camp Jupiter?"
"For two reasons, one because she wanted to make one of your jobs officially and two there is a traitor in the ranks of the Romans and you must take care of him." Emily was surprised slightly by this, she knew what Hera was talking about and she figured of which roman was the traitor.
"All right, but the traitor, is he the one that has been blackmailing my half sisters?" Hera nodded when Emily said that. "I will do it only if you take Bucky, Steve and Lauren back to the avenger tower and allow Bucky to explain fully about the Greeks and Romans."
"All right fine. You better get going." Hera waved her hand and Steve, Lauren and Bucky disappeared along with Hera and Emily ran into a shadow to go to Camp Jupiter.