Children of the Harvest (rewritten)

by Angel Cauldwell

It had been over a year and a half since the battle of Manhattan of when the avengers were formed. Of when it was revealed that Lieutenant USA and Captain America still live.

28. Chapter 28

Bucky's pov

As soon as they got back from the palace that the rest of the crew asked of what happened back there. Bucky looked at Arabella and Nico, both of them seem uncomfortable with this much attention on them. He wanted to tell them it was all right and that they could tell the crew, but he didn't want them to feel uncomfortable. Not only that b he also wanted Arabella and Nico to trust the crew, that was something he wasn't sure how to do. Bucky wanted to say of what happened but he was unsure if he was able to say what back there with Eros, or Cupid. It was rather disturbing of what happened back there, more so with that message he got from Eros about what else waited for him in the future. He wondered if that means that he would be taken away from Emily again or if she would be taken away from him or even both. He didn't want to think about that at the moment, however after a minute of asking questions that Bucky told them of a basic idea of what happened. He didn't bring up Eros or of how they exactly got the sceptre, he basically told them that the sceptre was else where. That the four of them had to face a challenge in order to get to the ancient staff, Arabella and Nico seem grateful when Bucky said that. For it sounded more they each had to go through something that would be hard for other people to understand unless if they had to go through it. Honestly, that was basically happen with Cupid that not very people would go through that or lens that Bucky was aware of.

Bucky refused to answer the questions of how they got it, the only thing he said that if they wanted to say what it was that they would say when they were ready. When the rest of the crew realized that they were not going to get any more answers from the four of them that they went back to what they doing. Jason, Piper, Phil, Frank, Gleeson and Aubrey went down below while Leo went to the helm of the ship. So that pretty much left Bucky, Lauren, Nico, Arabella, Jennifer and Hazel standing there, Bucky looked at the five but he didn't say anything. Arabella smiled a little at him, but Nico was looking down at his feet with the sceptre in his hands. He was no champion of Hestia or any God or goddess that can sense feelings or families but Bucky knows that Jennifer and Hazel were worried about Nico and Arabella and what really happened back in Spilt. Looking at Jennifer and Hazel that Bucky knew that they were not going to norther Arabella and Nico about what happened back in Spilt not till the were ready to talk about it. Bucky would admit that he only said what he said because he wanted to give Arabella and Nico a chance to say it when they were ready to do so. He was sure that this was more of an awkward stage for the two of them because of what happen just now. When Bucky looked back at Nico that Nico looked up at Bucky and spoke.

"Thanks for saying that."

"No problem, not saying it wasn't easy for Jason and myself. I am not sure if I can forget of what happened just now." What happened next was unexpected, of who expected the least was most likely Bucky. The only one that seem to expect of what happen next was Nico, for he ran over to Bucky and hugged. Bucky stiffen slightly, not because he didn't like people touching him or anything, it was just unexpected. But Bucky quickly relax and hugged Nico back, it was odd that not too long that Nico said that he didn't like people touching him. Yet here he was hugging Bucky willing, it was clear before that Nico didn't like people being near him or touching him all that much. After a minute that Nico let go of Bucky as the ship started to move once more heading towards the door of death. Bucky looked at Nico, Hazel, Arabella and Jennifer, as he looked at them that they seen some of his memories as well as Lauren's but he never saw any of their memories or at least some of their memories of Emily. "I was thinking." The five of them looked at Bucky. "You four saw our memories of Emily. Some of the memories were not of Emily. I was wondering if you guys can show Lauren and me some of your memories." Hazel nodded and spoke.

"That seems fair. Come on." The six of them joined hands and as soon as Bucky and Lauren took Hazel's hands that the wold around them dissolved like it did before. When the world reappeared that they were in a meadow of some kind, Bucky looked around wondering were they were. He was about ready to ask of where they were when he heard a woman calling out to someone.

"Hazel, come on." Bucky turned to the voice and saw a woman, the woman was pretty there was no denying that. The woman seem to hold herself with a grace that seem rather old compare to how woman walk now a days. The woman had shoulder length curly cinnamon brown hair and gold eyes that seem familiar to Bucky. The woman was dark skin, she seem as dark as Hazel was and the woman was wearing a good dress with a basket on her arm. When the woman called out that a girl, no more than six, came running up the hill to join her mother. Bucky heard Hazel grasp, Bucky knows why that was, for there was no mistake that the little girl was Hazel for it couldn't be anyone else. Bucky figured that the woman was Hazel's mother, Hazel looked much like her mother and Bucky couldn't blame Hades, well in this case Pluto, for falling for Hazel's mother. Laurie looked at Hazel and spoke.

"That's your mother?" Hazel nodded and they watched as Hazel and her mother sit down and eat. Hazel's mother spoke once more.

"This is for when that diamond was sold." As Hazel's mother handed Hazel a sandwich that past Hazel spoke up.

"Mom, what happen to dad?" Hazel's mother froze when past Hazel said that, Bucky looked at the young Hazel, of who was looking innocently at her mother. Hazel's mother brush some of Hazel's hair back before she spoke.

"That is a long story, Hazel." The rest of time that Hazel and her mother spoke and played a couple of games of questions and a few others before Hazel's mother started putting everything away. It was than that the world dissolved, when it reappeared that they were in some sort of field, as Bucky looked around that he gulped realizing of where he was, for they were in the underworld. As he looked that he saw a tree and a ghost was sitting under the tree, Bucky recognize the ghost at once for ti was Hazel. She was just sitting there with her hands together and she was looking down at the ground, Bucky wondered why they were. So he spoke up.

"Why are we here?"

"This is when I go back to the world of the living." Bucky was about ready to say something but that was he noticed two figures walking towards the tree, the two figures were the only ones that were not spirits, ghosts or at least dead. One was a girl of no more than fourteen with dark red hair, purple eyes with flecks of green, and pale skin. The other figure was a woman no more than twenty two and once more there was no mistake of who the woman was. Provided that the know of what Emily's daughter of Hades appearance looks like, and the ones who are aware of it know what that appearance looks like. For the woman has black curly hair that was about halfway down her back, her eyes were dark that golems with madness and her skin was pale. Bucky looked at Emily in her daughter of Hades of Hades appearance as she and Arabella approached the dead Hazel. When Emily and Arabella reached Ghost Hazel that Emily spoke.

"Hazel Levesque." The ghost Hazel looked up at Emily and Arabella with some surprise in her eyes.

"Yes. Who are you?" Emiky lowered her hand, Hazel looked at her hand before Hazel placed he hand in Emily's hand but Hazel looked doubtful. That was till her hand was able to touch Emily's hand, as Emily helped ghost Hazel up that ghost Hazel seem utterly surprised by that. How are you able to do that?" Emily smiled lightly wen ghost Hazel said that.

"I am Rachel Balckthrone and this ... " Emily gestured to Arabella. "Arabella Evans and we are daughters of Pluto." Ghost Hazel seem surprised by that.

"Why are you here?"

"Our father told us about you. Arabella and I what to help you redeem of what happen in the past."

"You mean Alaska?" Emily nodded when ghost Hazel said that.

"Yes, we also know what you did when you dead as well as what you did for your mother and that took a lot of courage. Something that will help you on this journey provided that you are willing to accept our help to return you to the world of the living."

"But doesn't that go against the laws?" Emily looked around before she spoke quietly.

"Only if it comes to light." Emily held out her other hand before spoke. "So are you willing and ready to accept our help and to redeem yourself."

Ghost Hazel looked at Emily before she smiled lightly and took Emily's other hand, it was than that the world dissolved again. When the world reappeared that they were in some sort of park, Bucky looked around as he did so that he saw rustling form the brushes. When he looked over there that Jennifer came running out, she was a year or two younger but it was clear that this was Jennifer. From the brushes that a monster came running out, it was the chimera and it was about ready to breath fire when it yelped suddenly. The chimera went to one side as Emily, in her daughter of Hades appearance, came out of the brushes with her stygian iron sword with Arabella next to her and Haze just behind them. Emily and Arabella fought the chimera together, Arabella managed to shoot an arrow at its head as Emily out her sword through it's stomach. With the work of both the arrow and the sword that the chimera was killed, Emily fell from the where the back of the chimera as the monster turned into gold dust. Jennifer got up as Hazel, Emily and Arabella walked over to her.

"Who are you three?" Once more it was Emily that spoke.

"I am Rachel Blackthrone and this two are Arabella Evans and Hazel Levesque." Jennifer looked to where the chimera was.

"What was that?"

"The Chimera. It can smell demigods." Jennifer looked over at Emily.

"Demigods? Are you saying that I am a demigod?" Emily nodded when Jennifer said that. It seems that Jennifer didn't want to believe that but it was clear that she seem to realize that she was one. After having the chimera try to kill you that it would be easier to accept. "If I am one, than who is my godly parent?"

"Pluto." Jennifer looked at Arabella when she said that.

"You know this because?" It was Emily that answered.

"Because he told us about you and where you were. Just like with your other sister, Hazel." Emily nodded to Hazel. Jennifer looked at Hazel before looking at Emily and Arabella.

"But why would he send you two?"

"For we are daughters of Pluto, ourselves." Jennifer seem surprise, but there was another roar, Emily put one of her hands on Jennifer's shoulder. "We need to go though, a child of the big three attracts the bigger threats but four attracts a lot more and even bigger monsters. So we need to get going to the wolf house." Emily run down the path with the others, Bucky and the other five followed as past Jennifer spoke.

"The wolf house." It was Arabella that responded.

"That is where all demigods start their journey." Emily nodded and took it from there.

"That is where I started but much later than most other demigods. After the training there that you will make your way to Camp Jupiter. On your journey that your skills will be tested." The world dissolved again, when the world reappeared that they were standing in a hotel lobby of some kind. That was not the only thing, for it was clear that this memory was from the 1940s, judging from the looks of the memory. Bucky knows that this was not memory for he never been in a hotel like this in his life time, even back in the war for he didn't have much of a reason. As Bucky looked around that he noticed two small children about nine and seven, maybe or a little younger, and they were chasing each other around the marble columns. He would that the boy looked oddly familiar to Bucky, he was unsure of why that was and that was when He heard Nico gasp and spoke.

"Bianca!" Bucky looked at the little girl, he remembered Emily bringing up that Nico had a full sister but Nico's full sister was dead. Bucky figured that was Bianca, he looked at the young boy hat was chasing the young girl and realized that must be Nico. Bucky was about ready to ask if that was Nico when he heard a male's voice.

"Please, my dear. You must come to the Underworld. I don't care what Persephone thinks! I can keep you safe there." Bucky looked away from the tow children and he noticed a couple, the man was sitting on a chair. He was large oily man in a black pinstriped suit, Bucky only saw this god twice, once was in the throne room and the other time when they were fighting the monsters. It was Hades and there was a woman sitting next to him on the sofa and they were close to where Nico and Bianca were playing, the woman was wearing a black dress, gloves and a black veiled hat. The woman looked like she stepped out of a 1940s movie from the 1940s or even from this time, she has a pretty smile and her eyes looked like Nico's. Bucky watched Hades when he spoke and noticed that he was using his hands when he spoke to this woman, that Bucky figured was Nico's mother.

"No, my love. Raise our children in the land of the dead? I will not do this." She spoke with an Italian accent, Nico made it plain that he knows Italian, so this has to be Nico's mother.

"Maria, listen to me. The war in Europe has turned the other gods against me. A prophecy has been made. My children are no longer safe. Poseidon and Zeus have forced me into an agreement. None of us are to have demigod children ever again."

"But you already have Nico and Bianca. Surely - "

"No! The prophecy warns of a child who turns sixteen. Zeus has decreed that the children I currently have must be turned over to Camp Half-Blood for proper training, but I know what he means. At best they'll be watched, imprisoned, turned against their father. Even more likely, he will not take a chance. He won't allow my demigod children to reach sixteen. He'll find a way to destroy them, and I won't risk that!"

"Certamente, We will stay together. Zeus is un imbecile." Bucky smiled slightly, in that way that Nico's mother reminded him of Emily or his mother that they stay with their families no matter what. Bucky did notice that Hades glanced nervously at the ceiling, Bucky has a feeling that was because of Zeus. However Lauren spoke up.

"When does this take place? Not only that but what happens?"

"You will see, Lauren, I block Emily told you about this from the one dream she had." Bucky looked at Nico, he remembered Emily bring ing up that Lauren's tried to kill a couple of children just to make sure the one prophecy doesn't come to past. Emily never went into full detail about the dream, he was wondering if this was what Emily saw in her dream. Than Hades spoke to Nico's mother.

"Maria, please. I told you, Zeus gave me a deadline of last week to turn over the children. His wrath will be horrible, and I cannot hide you forever. As long as you are with the children, you are in danger too."

"You are a god, my love. You will protect us. But I will not take Nico and Bianca to the Underworld." Hades wring his hands together.

"Then, there is another option. I know a place in the desert where time stands still. I could send the children there, just for a while, for their own safety, and we could be together. I will build you a golden palace by the Styx."

"You are a kind man, my love. A generous man. The other gods should see you as I do, and they would not fear you so. But Nico and Bianca need their mother. Besides, they are only children. The gods wouldn't really hurt them." Bucky heard much of Hades from Emily,s he told them of what the gods say about him and what she saw in seventy years. Emily made it clear that there fights between herself and Hades about certain things that Hades did in the past. But overall, Emily said similar things about Hades as Nico's mother did, Emily also brought up of what he did for Bucky. Bucky could see why the gods didn't have a high opinion of Hades due to his status, but from the couple of times Bucky seen him and from what Emily told him about Hades that Hades had a rather unfair life.

"You don't know my family. Please, Maria, I can't lose you." Hades spoke darkly, however Maria touched Hades's lips with her fingers.

"You will not lose me. Wait for me while I get my purse. Watch the children." Maria kissed Hades before she rose from the sofa that she was sitting in a few moments before. Hades watched Maria walk upstairs as of her every step caused him pain, than a moment later, Hades tensed. Bucky tensed at the same moment as Nico and Bianca stopped playing as if they sense something was off as well. Hades yelled out.

"No!" Hades godly powers were too slow though. For Hades only managed to have the time to put a wall of black energy around Nico and Bianca before the hotel exploded. Bucky was glad of the fact that he was a ghost in his memory otherwise he would have been killed easily. The force of the explosion was so violet that Bucky couldn't seen though the dust from the explosion, when the dust clears that Hades was kneeling in the ruins of the hotel. Hades was holding the broken form of Maria di Angelo, fires were still burning all around him and lightning was flashing across the sky of which was followed by thunder. Bucky and Lauren took a sharp intake of breath at the scene before them, than Lauren spoke in a whisper but everyone could hear her.

"Oh father, how could you. I know you tried to kill two demigods but you killed a bunch of innocents just to get to two demigods." Bucky was looking at Hades, from what Emily told him that it was clear that Hades loves Persephone. But it was clear from this memory that he loved Nico's mother just as much as he loved Persephone. Bucky remembered emits telling one that one thing that bonded and helped formed her relationship was a loss of a lover. Though that lost was different for both of them, for Bucky never died while Nico's mother did die. The young Nico and Bianca were in the black wall staring at their mother, it was clear that neither one understood of what just happened. Than one of the furies appeared behind Bianca and Nico, the fury was hissing and flapping her leathery wings. Nico and Bianca didn't seem to notice her or the two of them were aware they were demigods and were used to having a fury watch them. Hades looked up at the sky and there were tears in his eyes

"Zeus! I will crush you for this! I will bring her back!" Hades shook his fist at the sky as he spoke.

"My lord, you cannot. You of all immortals must respect the laws of death." Hades glowed with rage, Bucky thought that he might show his true form and vaporize his own children. Thankfully Hades managed to regain control of himself.

"Take them. Wash their memories clean in the Lethe and bring them to the Lotus Hotel. Zeus will not harm them there." Hades was holding back a sob as he spoke.

"As you wish, my lord. And the woman's body?

"Take her as well. Give her the ancient rites." Alecto, Nico, Bianca and Maria's body dissolved into shades leaving Hades alone, kneeling, in the ruins. Bucky looked at the form of Hades, the way he was holding himself was similar to how Emily was holding herself after Steve crashed into the ice and water all those years ago. Bucky expect the world to dissolved but it didn't, instead a new voice spoke up.

"I warned you." Hades got up and turned around, Bucky looked towards the sound of the new voice, it was clear a girl's voice. Standing by the smoldering remains of the sofa that Nico's mother was sitting on was a girl no more than twelve years old. She was wearing a multicolored dress, her hair was short and black, her eyes were rather sad, it was like she knew that this was going to happen.

"You dare come here? I should blast you to dust!"

"You cannot. The power of Delphi protects me." Bucky gasp when the girl said that, this girl was the last oracle, the one before Rachel become the next host of the oracle spirit.

"You've killed the woman I loved! Your prophecy brought us to this." Hades roared at the oracle, he was looming over the girl but she didn't flinch.

"Zeus ordained the explosion to destroy the children, because you defied his will. I had nothing to do with it. And I did warn you to hide them sooner."

"I couldn't! Maria would not let me! Besides, they were innocent."

"Nevertheless, they are your children, which makes them dangerous. Even if you put them away in the Lotus Hotel, you only delay the problem. Nico and Bianca will never be able to rejoin the world lest they turn sixteen."

"Because of your so-called Great Prophecy. And you have forced me into an oath to have no other children. You have left me with nothing!"

"I foresee the future, I cannot change it." It was than that Bucky noticed that there was black fire in Hades's eyes, Bucky has a bad feeling about this. He has a basic idea of what was going to happen next, it was one of the things that Emily and Hades argued about.

"Then, Oracle, hear the words of Hades. I cannot bring back Maria. Nor can I bring you an early death. But your soul is still mortal, and I can curse you."

"You would not - "

"I swear, as long as my children remain outcasts, as long as I labor under the curse of your Great Prophecy, the Oracle of Delphi will never have another mortal host. You will never rest in peace. No other will take your place. Your body will wither and die, and still the Oracle's spirit will be locked inside you. You will speak your bitter prophecies until you crumble to nothing. The Oracle will die with you!" The world dissolved as the oracle screamed, Bucky expected them to go back to the Argo II. But when he world reappeared that they were in a hospital room of some kind, there was a woman and a man in there. The woman was pregnant, so Bucky figured that the man and woman were husband and wife, or that is what he was going to assume. It was clear the woman was in Labor and her husband was pacing by the woman's side, as Bucky watched the man that Arabella gasp. Bucky looked at Arabella.

"What is it?" Arabella looked at Bucky.

"That is my mother and step father. This is when I was born." Bucky opened his mouth to say something when the woman spoke.

"James!" The man stopped pacing and walked to the woman.

"Yes Lily-Flower?" Lily, Bucky was going to guess that was her name, screamed. Bucky shivered, Emily was pregnant and he hoped that it wouldn't be this painful.

"I have to..." Lily paused before she grunts from pain. "..tell you the truth about what I'm having..." Lily grunted again. "...today. James keep in mind that one night when I stormed out on you. Well that night..." Lily grunted again, James, apparently that was his name, grabs Lily's hand before he started stroking her hair. "...I met a man at a bar and he bought me some drinks and well.." Bucky watched as James looked at his wife before he spoke

"Lily-Flower are you telling me that this baby is his?"

"No...well not both babies..." James was looking at Lily in shock and faltered with his stroking of Lily's hair. Bucky couldn't blame James for being shocked by the news that Lily just gave him to be told that one baby was his and another one was someone else's baby.

"How is this possible?" It was Lauren that spoke.

"I am tempting to say it but I am not going to, if this was just Emily and me this I would say what is my mind." Bucky rolled his eyes when Lauren said that.

"James because both times were so close the two sperms took one egg which means..." When Lily stops to grunt again, that it seems that James tries to wrap around his mind how his wife is having twins that have different dads. James than pulled out a stick and waved it, a silver stag came out, Bucky stared at as James spoke to it before the stag split four different stags. Everyone looked at Arabella, Arabella looked at them before she spoke.

"That was a Patronus, one thing it can do is send out messages to people. But that is advance magic." A few minutes later that an older man, that looked like he could be a hundred, came over to where James of who was standing outside of the room. Bucky, Lauren and the other four were out of the room as well haut to see who showed up, when the older man walked to James that Arabella spoke.

"That is Albus Dumbledore."

"Are you kidding me? He' still alive?" Bucky and the others looked at Lauren, Laurie went on. "The Wizarding war, at the time of World War II, was in their own war against another dark lord. For the most part Project Demigod fought against HYDRA but there were a few times we had to team up with the Wizards and witches for some of the Wizards and witches were part of HYDRA. It seems that the wizarding people were working with the demigods, when it seem that that area was getting to powerful that Project demigod and the wizarding people that followed Dumbledore would team up to fight them. So hate howling commandos and Steve never meet them before you ask. Didn't Emily tell you about that?"

"Not in so many words, for she didn't like to talk about he war too much or at least the battle parts. But she did say that she meet Dumbeldore in the war. But that is Dumbeldore but he died a few months ago."

"Oh." As they spoke that other four showed up, Arabella told them of who the four were, though tow of them she only say pictures of. When everyone gathered just outside of the room that James told them of what Lily told him so far. Once James finished that, that all of them but Alice went into the room as Lily screamed and grunted in pain,

"Lily-Flower almost all our friends are here and we want to know what is so different about this other baby that your having..." Bucky watched Lily as managed to speak.

"...The father isn't a muggle or even a wizard...he's a..a...a god!" Lily grunted before she screams again. "He's a Greek god...the father is Hades the Greek god of the underworld." Silence followed that statement, Bucky wasn't sure if he should break the silence with the other five that were that could see him as oppose to the ones who couldn't see him. But Dumbeldore broke the silence.

"That baby can't be raised with you all. I'm sorry but it needs to be trained properly. I believe I know a legacy of Hades that can take the child to its father and be able to contact it when it's time for Hogwarts." When Dumbeldore finished that Lauren spoke.

"Oh whoops." Arabella looked at Lauren.

"Whoops what?" Lauren looked at Arsbella.

"Look, I know you are aware of how demigods are normally raised, unless if there is a reason of why the demigod needs to be raised by their godly parent. I don't blame Dumbledore for having this legacy to your father. More so considering you are a rare demigod, a demiwitch. But Emily and I spend enough time with Dumbledore that there was one thing we forget to mention to him. That is Camp Halfblood where all Halfblood are trained."

"I thought Emily told Dumbeldore that you two went to camp."

"What we told him was that we were trained, we never brought how, when or by who." It was than that Lily that spoke.

"Only if we can have the godparents be accepted now." Bucky looked back at Dumbledore as Dumbledore nodded, than Lily turned to Remus and Frank. "Remus can you be the godfather of the child please?"

"Uh sure, Lily but are you sure you want me to be the godfather?" Bucky looked at Remus, wondering of why he would ask such a question.

"Yes I do. Frank can you go ask Alice if she will be the godmother please?" Frank nodded before he walked off to go ask Alice. While Frank went to get Alice that Dumbledore sent his Patronus to the legacy of Hades asking the legacy to come. When Alice came into the room that a nurse came in to check if Lily was ready but not quite so the nurse. When Alice was filled in of what was going on that alice accepted of being he godmother, than the doctor came in and shooed everyone away but James and the ghost form the future. Bucky and the other five went to one corner to watch the birth. It didn't take long before Lily to grabbed James hand and started to scream profanities that no one would expect to hear. Lily also kept promising to cut off his family jewels and never allow him to near her again but James didn't believe that. Bucky looked at Lauren.

"I hope you and Emily don't do this." Lauren merely shrugged.

"That is still like another eight or seven months off." It was than that Bucky heard a baby's cry, than the doctor held up a baby girl, there was no mistake of who the baby was. For the baby girl has dark red hair, even from where he was standing that Bucky could see her eyes were purple with flecks of green. James looked at Lily.

"She looks kind of like you. We should name her Arabella."

"Ok James. if you want." It wasn't till thirty minutes later a boy was born. The baby boy looks just like James but with Lily's eyes. Bucky remembers Emily telling him that Arabella has a half twin brother, but Bucky never saw the twin brother before than. Lily looked at James and said softly "Lets name him Harry James."

"I'll go get everyone then love." The first one that entered the room after James went to get the others was Sirius, than Remus, Alice, Frank carrying his newborn baby boy, Dumbeldore and lastly a man with greasy black hair and black billowing robes entered. While James was last but they expected James to come back and was either going to be first or last. It was Dumbeldore that spoke up.

"James, Lily the legacy of Hades has arrived to take the child. Which one is it?" James looked at Dumbledore before James replied.

"The girl is to be taken. She is the daughter of Hades." The others in the room looked at the baby girl and gasp, Bucky rolled his eyes when they did that. They sounded surprise by the fact there was two babies or something. Than the legacy of Hades spoke up.

"Name her Persephone to please her stepmother. She more likely won't kill the child because of it and might care for her more." Bucky raised an eyebrow when the legacy said that, honestly he thinks Persephone would be happy with the first name of Arabella. Of which was a name of a flower, as Bucky thought that, that he smiled lightly, it just funny to think of many girls seem to have nicknames or names related to the flowers. James looked at Lily before Lily spoke,

"Arabella Persephone Evans...it has a nice ring to it." Than Lily looked over at Alice and Remus, "It's time to do the godparents christening." Alice and Remus nodded before they placed their hands on Arabella, who was in Lily's arms at the moment. Than Dumbledore stepped up and raised his wand.

"With the magic in me I bind Remus John Lupin and Alice Prewett Longbottom to be the godparents of Arabella Persephone Evans if they accept the responsibility now." They both said yes at the same time and Dumbledore finished the spell. When Dumbledore finished the spell that Severus stepped up and spoke in his low smooth voice.

"I'll take Arabella to Hades now and then shall meet with you later Dumbledore." On that note Severus disappeared into the shadows with Arabella. Shadows engulf the six of them, when the shadows retreated that the were in a hallway, Bucky and the others followed the legacy into a throne room. There two gods in the throne room and there was no mistake of who they were, it was Hades and Persephone. The legacy knelt down in front of them, Hades and Persephone looked at him before they noticed the little girl.

"Severus do tell me what is that in your arm that you brought here?" He looked up at Hades before he rose.

"Lord this is Arabella Persephone Evans. Her mother can not raise her as a demigod child of yours and ask that you raise her and let her stay her with you. I will come as much as possible but the child is also a witch and so must go to Hogwarts when she reaches the age of eleven. I will take her wherever she needs to go to buy her supplies and if you want I could add my last name to her name. I can pose as her uncle when she goes to Hogwarts if you like Grandfather." Hades looked at Persephone of who sighed before she took the child from Severus and left the room, Hades looked at Severus.

"Adding your last name to hers would not be needed. However it would be a good idea to pose as her uncle at Hogwarts, if people ask just say that her mother is your sister. However it would be better for her to think of you as an uncle anyway." Severus's nodded and ran into the shadows and left. Bucky expected the world to dissolve but it didn't do that, instead there was a shout from the door.

"Father!" Bucky turned away from looking at Hades to do as Emily, in her daughter of Hades Appearance, walked in and towards Hades as she spoke. "Why was Severus here?" Hades lowered his head a little.

"Remember that one night I spend with that red head woman named Lily?"

"Yes, it is a little hard to forget." Bucky figures that Persephone got mad at Hades and yelled at him that he might broke his oath.

"Apparently, she become pregnant with my child that night as well as her husband's child. You know what is like for a child of Hades living in the world of the living and how hard it is for a Halfblood to be raised. So Severus brought her down here to be trained."

"Where is she?" Bucky and the others followed Emily, when emiky reached the room that opened the door. Bucky and the others followed Emily in, Persephone was sitting in a chair holding Arabella in her arms. Emily crossed the room and looked at the baby Arabella, baby Arabella cooed when she saw Emily. Than Arabella moved her arms till her arms were out and she was trying to reach out to Emily, so Persephone handed baby Arabella to Emily. When Arabella was in Emily's arms that Arabella cuddled into Emily, Bucky smiled at the sight of that. He remembered Emily telling him that when she touch someone that she can sense their family or connection if they are standing close enough, Bucky was sure that Emily picked up Arabella's family connections when Emily took her from Persephone. Than Emily looked at Persephone.

"What is her name?"

"Arabella Persephone Evans. She is was born to a witch as well as to Hades. You most likely knew the last part." Bucky watched Emily looked at the baby girl again of who closed her eyes once more, Emily touched Arabella's face softly.

"Arabella Persephone Evans, that is a name you don't hear often. I am curious where does the mother live?" Persephone merely shrugged, after a while Arabella fell asleep in her arms and it was during that time that Persephone left. Bucky and the others watched this play out without saying a word to each other, Emily carried Arabella over to the crib and put her gentle down into the crib before putting a blanket over Arabella. Emily lean forward and kissed Arabella's forehead, an orange glow washed over Arabella's forehead before the Orange light faded. Emily touched Arabella's cheek softly and spoke softly to Arabella. "You may not be a child of the great prophecy but I think you may just be as important, I don't know why I think that. It's a feeling that I have and you will have a role to play, no matter what though, I hope that you become another light in this gloomy world down here as well hope that one day you will find your half twin brother. That glow was that gift that you will find your half twin brother, even if you don't know it at first." Emily pulled her hand away before leaving the nursery to go to her own room. It was than that the world dissolved, when the world reappeared that they were back in the throne room. Hades and Severus were in there, an eleven year old Arabella walked in and hugged them both before Severus lead past Arabella to a couple of chairs before sitting down. Bucky and the others sat down on the steps close to the thrones, Hades remained close by and it was Hades that spoke first.

"Arabella, when Severus brought you down here, it was to train you in the ways of the demigods and to learn how to use the powers given you at birth. But there is one thing we never told you." Arabella looked between her uncle and father.

"Is this about my mother?"

"In a way, yes. You have been down here long enough to hear the dead talk about wizards and witches."

"I have heard them use the terms but I never really gave it much thought about it. What does this have to do with my mother?" It was Severus that answered.

"Simple, your mother was a witch and you are one, yourself. It is time for you to learn how to use your magic." Uncle Sev pulled out an envelope and handed it to her. It was yellow and there was emerald ink on it, Arabella turned the envelope over to look at the other side and opened it. She pulled out a couple pieces of parchments and unfolded the letters to read them. When Arabella finished that she looked up, it looked like last Arabella expect this to be some kind of joke judging from her face. But it was clear that Severus and Hades were serious about this.

"What I am, a demiwitch?"

"Yes, there were a couple others like you but they have long been dead though." Arabella looked at Uncle Sev when he said that.

"But aren't you one?"

"Not exactly, I am a legacy and a wizard. I have some demigod abilities but not all of them. I can shadow travel as you know." Bucky watched as past Arabella looked at the letters in her hands before looking back at her Uncle Severus.

"Where will I got the supply for the school?"

"I will take you to Diagon Alley. So are you ready to buy the supplies and go to Hogwarts?" Arabella looks at the letters before looking back at her uncle.

"I am ready." Uncle Severus held out his hand and stood as she took it, than they ran at a shadow and they were engulf in shadows. It was than that the world dissolved and they were in a train station, there was a lot of people there, Bucky and the others looked around, Bucky was the one that spoke up.

"Where are we?" It was Arabella that spoke.

"Kings Cross, platform nine and three quarters." Lauren spoke up.

"There is no such platform." Bucky saw a scarlet train and he looked up to see a sign that said Hogwarts Express and nine and three quarters. Bucky pointed to it and the others looked up at it a ps he spoke.

"Yes, there is."

"How is that possible?" Bucky looked at Lauren.

"How is that God don't have DNA?" Lauren looked thoughtful before she spoke.

"Good point." Than Hazel spoke up.

"Look!" Bucky turned to where Hazel was pointing, sure enough Arabella was walking along to find an empty carriage compartment. Bucky and the others followed Arabella down the Tarim till she find an empty compartment, Arabella put her truck and cage away before sitting by he window. It was moments later that a black hair boy with green eyes came in without noticed last Arabella, two redheads came and help the boy. Bucky looked at the boy and knew at once that this was the twin brother, for he has the same hair and eyes as the baby boy. When Harry turned around that he noticed her.

"Hi I'm Harry. Harry Potter."

"Hello Harry. My name is Arabella. Arabella Evans." Harry was looking at past Arabella as he sat down. Bucky would admit that last Arabella would stood out wearing with what she was wearing no matter what world she would be in.

"Well Arabella its nice to meet you." Past Arabella nodded before she leaned back. Bucky looked out of the compartment as he saw the two redheads go over to a group of redheads. The mother, or he assumed it was the mother, took out a handkerchief and spoke to the younger male.

"Ron, you've got something on your nose." Ron, apparently was his name, tried to jerk out of the way, but the mother grabbed him and started rubbing the end of his nose.

"Mum -geroff." Ron managed to wiggled free from hi mother's grasp, Bucky smiled slightly as he watched that. Than one of the red hair twins spoke.

"Aaah, has ickle Ronnie got somefink on his nose?"

"Shut up."

"Where's Percy? He's coming now." Another red hair boy came into sight, it was clear that he was the oldest of the redheads that were going to Hogwarts. There was a shiny silver bandage on his chest with the letter P on it. He was wearing black robes,

"Can't stay long, Mother. I'm up front, the prefects have got two compartments to themselves-" one of the twins spoke up with an air of great surprise.

"Oh, are you a prefect, Percy?"

"You should have said something, we had no idea."

"Hang on I think I remember him saying something about it," said the other twin. "Once-"

"Or twice-"

"A minute-"

"All summer-"

"Oh, shut up."

"How come Percy gets new robes, anyway?"

"Because he's a prefect. All right, dear, well, have a good term- send me an owl when you get there." She kissed Percy on the cheek and he left. Then the mother turned to the twins. "Now, you two- this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you've- you've blown up a toilet or -"

"Blown up a toilet? We've never blown up a toilet."

"Great idea though, thanks Mum."

"It's not funny. and look after Ron."

"Don't worry ickle Ronniekins is safe with us."

"Shut up." Bucky looked at Ron, Ron was about as tall as the twins and his nose was still pink where his mother rubbed it trying to get the dirt off.

"Hey, Mum, guess what? Guess who we just met on the train?" Bucky noticed that Harry leaned back, he also noticed the look of sympathy that Arabella gave him. "You know that black-haired boy who was near us in the station? Know who he is?"

"Who?"

"Harry Potter!" Suddenly Bucky heard a little girl's voice.

"Oh, Mum, can I go on the train and see him, Mum, oh please…"

"You've already seen him, Ginny, and the poor boy isn't something you google at in a zoo. Is he really, Fred? How do you know?"

"Asked him. Saw his scar. It's really there- like lightning."

"Poor dear- no wonder he was alone. I wondered. He was ever so polite when he asked how to get on to the platform."

"Never mind that, do you think that he remembers what You-Know-Who looks like?" Bucky snorted when one of the twins said that, he heard about the attack from Emily of who heard it from Lily. Bucky knows that Harry won't remember that night. The mother become very stern.

"I forbid you to ask him, Fred. No, don't you dare. As though he needs reminding of that on his first day at school."

"All right, keep your hair on." Suddenly there was a whistle that sounded. "Hurry up!" The three red hair boys clambered on to the train. The doors were starting to close, Bucky watched as the three boys leant out of the window for her to kiss them goodbye and their younger sister began to cry.

"Don't cry Ginny, we'll send you loads of owls."

"We'll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat."

"George!"

"Only joking, Mum." The train began to move. The mother waved, while their sister was running to keep up with the train, she was half laughing and half crying. After a while the little girl fell back and waved, as the train rounded the corner that the mother and little girl disappeared. It was than at Harry and past Arabella looked at each other, Bucky was sure that they were wondering what will happen now. Hahn the compartment door slid open and the youngest red hair boy came in, he pointed to the seat next to past Arabella. "Can I sit here?" They shook their heads and the boy sat down, he looked at Harry and Arabella before looking out of the window, it was than that Bucky spoke.

"When was this?" Arabella spoke up.

"My first year." Bucky nodded, it was than the door opened again, but this time that the twins.

"Hey, Ron."

"Listen we're going down the middle of the train- Lee Jordan's got a giant tarantula down there."

"Right."

"Harry, did we introduce ourselves? Fred and George Weasley. And this is Ron, our brother." The one that spoke pointed at Ron before his eyes travelled to past Arabella, the one twin stopped. The other twin followed the other twin's gaze to see Arabella sitting there. Past Arabella looked at them before she spoke in a soft and light voice of which sounded odd coming from Arabella.

"Hello, I'm Arabella. Arabella Evans." The twin that introduce the twins and Ron spoke without thinking.

"You're beautiful." Bucky and Lauren looked at each other before they started laughing, getting funny looks from at least Hazel, Nico and Jennifer. Arabella was smiling, Bucky was sure that she heard enough of what happen with Emily, Steve, Lauren and himself that she knows what they found so funny. Bucky spoke up between laughter.

"Sorry but that reminded me during the war with Emily and Steve."

"How is that possible?" It was Lauren that spoke.

"Because Bucky kissed Emily right after they got out of the HYDRA base that Emily and Steve rescued Bucky from and he wasn't thinking clearly at that time. Just like the one twin was not thinking." It was than that the other twin nudged his brother before he turned to Harry.

"See you lot later mate." Than the one twin dragged the other twin away. As soon as the twins left that Ron blurted out.

"Are you really Harry Potter?" Past Arabella glared at Ron and while Harry nodded than past Arabella yelled at Ron.

"Don't be so bloody rude Ronald! For Ze-Merlin's sake treat him like you would treat any other normal mort-human!" When past Arabella said that Bucky was close of laughing, it was clear that Arabella didn't want her heritage know to the other world she was part of. Past Arabella was close of using normal demigod terms, Bucky wondered if Arabella ever used wizarding terms at Camp Halfblood. Bucky spoke up.

"So I assume that they don't know about your heritage?" Arabella nodded as Harry and Ron looked at past Arabella in surprise, Ron apologized while Harry changed the subject.

"So are all your families wizards?"

"Er – yes, I think so, I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him."

"My mum and dad were wizards. My uncle is one too but my stepmom who raised me is not one." Bucky looked over at Arabella.

"What about Emily?"

"Well, I wasn't sure if I should brought her up at that time. Not only that but my uncle and I were unsure of how to bring her into that story. But it was easy to add in with saying we both had the same father but different mothers, we just said that Emily's mother died at childhood birth. Than he married my mother before they died shortly after my birth. Though before my father die that he got married again. So when he died that I was giving to my step mother, she raised me with the help of Emily. That is how the story goes basically." Before anything else could be said that Harry spoke up.

"So you guys must know loads of magic already."

"I heard you went to live with Muggles. What are they like?"

"Horrible – well, not all of them. My aunt and uncle are though, wish I'd had three wizard brothers or even a wizard uncle."

"Five," Ron looked jealous, Bucky did kinda of wish that he has at least one sibling but he was happy with having Steve as a brother. "I'm the sixth in our family to go to Hogwarts. You could say I've got a lot to live up to. Bill and Charlie have already left – Bill was head boy and Charlie was captain of the Quidditch team. Now Percy's a prefect. Fred and George mess around a lot, but they still get really good marks and everyone thinks they're really funny. Everyone expects me to do as well as the others, but if I do, it's no big deal, because they did it first. You never get anything new, either, with five brothers. I've got Bill's old robes, Charlie's old wand and Percy's old rat." Ron reached inside his jacket and pulled out a fat grey rat, of who was fast asleep. "His name's Scabbers and he's useless, he hardly ever wakes up. Percy got an owl from my dad for being made a prefect, but they couldn't aff – I mean, I got Scabbers instead." Ron's ears suddenly went pink before he looked out of the window. Bucky wondered why Ron would be embarrassment, honestly he could think of a lot more embarrassing things than that.

"So what's your stepmum like, Arabella?"

"Well she tries to teach me to be proper all the time as if I'm under bloody surveillance…" The two boys looked at her with sympathy as Bucky looked at them that he tow boys didn't understand the hidden reason behind the statement. Bucky did though as well as the others, for Arabella was raised in the underworld as a princess along side Emily. Though Emily was not under surveillance that Emily still felt like she was being watched by her sister that she doesn't act like she not suppose to. Though Emily and Persephone know that won't always happen, but Emily knows how she was suppose to act when she needs to as the princess of the underworld and heir. Than Ron spoke up of who turned away from the window.

"So what happened to your mum and dad, Arabella?"

"Oh, my mum and dad died when I born and I have been raised by my stepmum my whole life." They all listened as Harry told them about his life with the Dursleys, having to wear his cousin's old clothes and never getting proper birthdays presents. That seem to cheer Ron up for some odd reason, but past Arabella was appalled, Bucky has no idea of why Ron would be so happy about that.

"… and until Hagrid told me, I didn't know anything about being a wizard or about my parents or Voldemort's." Ron gasped, Bucky didn't get of why Ron gasp, though he did noticed that past Arabella rolled her eyes. "What?"

"You said You-Know-Who's name!" Ron sounded both shocked and impressed. "I'd have thought you, of all people – "

"I'm not trying to be brave or anything, saying the name. I just never knew you shouldn't. See what I mean? I've got loads to learn… I bet, I bet I'm the worst in the class."

"Harry, don't worry about being the worse in the class. We all start out on the same level and lots of people come from Muggle families and they learn quickly." Harry nodded. It was than that Bucky noticed that he train carried them out of London, that the train was going past fields that were full of Cows and Sheep. Harry, Ron and Arabella were quite for some time watching the fields and lanes go past, Bucky looked at the others before he spoke.

"Does Emily knows this two?"

"Yes, but they only know her as Rachel James Blackthrone."

"James?" Arabella nodded.

"Becky, another friend of my, asked her about the wedding rings. So Emily made up a story about her husband. She said that both her husband had herself were travelers and that they travel half of the time and the other half that they travel by themselves."

"Emily never brought this up to me." However Lauren spoke up.

"I think she didn't have a reason to, I think she made that story up as to explain of why no one has ever meet her husband." Lauren looked at Arabella. "I am going to assume that Emily made that story up before she learned of what happened to Bucky?" Arabella nodded.

"Yes. That was in my third year, so it was even before she learned of what happened to Steve." Lauren nodded, it was than that there was a great clattering outside in the corridor. A smiling dimpled woman slid back the door before she spoke to them.

"Anything off the trolley, dears?" Harry leapt to his feet as well as past Arabella, Bucky guessed that they were hungry or something. Ron's ears went pink again and muttered that he brought sandwiches, past Arabella and Harry went into the corridor. It seems that Harry brought a bit of everything while Arabella told a few things, when past Arabella and Harry came back that Ron was staring at them. Harry tripped his candy onto an empty seat between himself and Ron while past Arabella kept hers next to her on the opposite seat.

"Hungry, are you?"

"Starving." Harry took a large bite of the pumpkin pasty while past Arabella started to eat her Chocolate Frog. Bucky never seen or heard about the candy that Arabella and Harry brought from the woman at asked them if they wanted anything. Meanwhile Ron took out a lumpy package and unwrapped it, there was four sandwiches in there and he pulled one apart before he spoke.

"She always forgets I don't like corned beef."

"Here why don't we trade? Have some chocolate." Past Arabella was holding a Chocolate Frog towards Ron to be nice to her other new friend. "Go on."

"You don't want this, it's all dry. She hasn't got much time, you know, with the five of us." Past Arabella gave him a look and forced Ron to switch with her, past Arabella took a bite from the sandwich. Bucky merely smiled, he was unsure of what to make of Ron but it was amusing to watch as past Arabella interacted with her two new friends.

"Go on, have a pasty." After harry told Ron that Harry turned to Arabella while holding a pack of Chocolate Frogs before he asked Arabella a question. "Those weren't really frogs were they?" Bucky hoped that they were not, Bucky has a feeling that the wizarding world was just as strange as the demigod world

"No. It's the card you really want." Ron was starting to eat his second piece of chocolate.

"What?"

"Oh, of course, you wouldn't know – Chocolate Frogs have cards inside them, you know, to collect – famous witches and wizards. I've got about five hundred, but I haven't got Agrippa or Ptolemy." Harry unwrapped his chocolate frog and picked up the card, past Arabella walked over to see the card, Bucky did the same thing as well. It showed a man's face, he was wearing a half moon glasses, a long crooked nose and flowing silver hair, beard and mustache. It was Dumbeldore, Bucky walked back over to the other five when he saw the card as Harry spoke.

"So this is Dumbledore!" Bucky could hear past Arabella muttering as she went back to her seat.

"Glad to finally put a face with the name.."

"Don't tell me you'd never heard of Dumbledore!" Harry turned over his card and read out loud:

'Albus Dumbledore, currently Headmaster of Hogwarts.

Considered by many the greatest wizard of modern times, Dumbledore is particularly famous for his defeat of the dark wizard Grindelwald in 1945, for the discovery of the twelve uses of dragon's blood and his work on alchemy with his partner, Nicholas Flamel.(Arabella let out a growl at the name since she knew he defied death.) Professor Dumbledore enjoys chamber music and tenpin bowling.' When Harry turned the card over that he shouted in surprise.

"He's gone!"

"In the wizarding world pictures move all the time." Past Arabella had some chocolate in her mouth when she said that.

"Don't worry he'll be back. No, I've got Morgana again and I've got about six of her… do you want it? You can start collecting." Ron gave the card to Harry while eating the chocolate frog before he stares at the pile of Chocolate frogs waiting to be unwrapped. Past Arabella was almost it done with her small pile that she brought.

"Help yourselves. But in, you know, the Muggle world, people just stay put in photos."

"Do they? What, they don't move at all? Weird!" Ron sounded amazed while past Arabella rolled her eyes and chuckled at Ron's antics, while muttering lowly to herself. "There are weirder things.." Harry looked at past Arabella it seems that past Arabella guessed he probably heard her. Of which Bucky figured Harry heard her as well, Bucky spoke up after past Arabella said that.

"No kidding, who would have thought that there are weirder things than a picture not moving." The other five started laughing, when they managed to stop that Arabella spoke.

"You spend a lot of time with Emily."

"Hard not to, since she is my wife." They went back to watching the three in the compartment, Ron and past Arabella were more interested in eating the frogs than looking at the famous witches and wizards cards. But Harry couldn't keep his eyes off the cards. Soon not only did Harry haveDumbledore and Morgana but others like Hengist of Woodcroft, Circe and Merlin among others. When Harry looked away from his latest cars that he opened a bag of Bertie Bott's every flavor beans.

"You want to be more careful with those. When they say every flavour, they mean every flavour – you know you get all the ordinary one like chocolate and peppermint and marmalade, but then you can get spinach and liver and tripe. George reckons he had a bogey-flavoured one once."

"Come off it. Bogey-flavoured? I highly doubt that Ron. It's disgusting!" Arabella picked up a bean and chewing one end of it. "Chocolate, mmm…"

"Bit of a chocolate lover aren't you?" Ron picked up a green bean and carefully bit into a corner of it.

"Of course I am! It's the best thing in the world! And it's dark!" Arabella went for another chocolate frog.

"Baleegh – see? Sprouts." Bucky looked at Arabella.

"You did know that there is dark chocolate and white chocolate out there right?" Arabella nodded when he said that. It was clear that the three of them had a good time eating the every flavor beans, there were many flavones. Strawberry, curry, coffee, dirt, and pepper. The pepper one was the one that Arabella tried since the other tow wouldn't touch it, the countryside was flying last the window was getting wilder. So that there was woods, twisting rivers, dark green hills, as well as a few animals here and there. A couple of times Bucky noticed a creature from ancient Greece running by the train, centaurs mostly. Suddenly there was a knock, Bucky looked at the door as the door opened to reveal a round face boy.

"Sorry, but have you seen a toad at all?" Harry, Ron and past Arabella shook their heads, the round face boy wailed, "I've lost him! He keeps getting away from me!"

"He'll turn up." Bucky was surprise to hear Arabella with a shaky voice as she tried to reassure the poor boy.

"Well, if you see him…" The round face boy left.

"Don't know why he's so bothered. If I'd brought a toad I'd lose it as quick as I could. Mind you, I brought Scabbers, so I can't talk." Bucky looked at the rat and it was still snoozing on Ron's lap.

"He might have died and you wouldn't know the difference."

"He's alive for now." Bucky figured that Arabella used her demigod abilities to see if the rat was alive or not.

"I tried to turn him yellow yesterday to make him more interesting, but the spell didn't work. I'll show you, look…" Ron started to rummage around his trunk till he pulled out a very battered looking stick, Bucky raised an eyebrow when he saw the stick. Honestly he wasn't sure of what to think of that stick, though it's really a wand, for he was sure Arabella would correct him if he called it a stick. The wand was chipped in places and there was something white glinting at the end of the wand that looked like it could be white feathers or something.

"Are you sure that wand's safe? It has some of the feathers sticking out of it." Past Arabella was eyeing the end of the wand with uncertainty.

"It's fine. Unicorn hair's just poking out. Anyway –" Ron just raised his wand when the compartment door slid open again, the toadless boy was back but this time he has a girl with him and she was already wearing her new robes.

"Has anyone seen a toad? Neville's lost one." The girl has a bossy sort of a voice, she also has lots of bushy brown hair and rather large front teeth. From what Emily told him about certain traits of some of the demigods that if this girl has blond hair and grey eyes that she could be a daughter of Athena.

"We've already told him we haven't seen it." It seems that the girl wasn't listening to what Ron said, for she was looking at the wand in his hand.

"Oh, are you doing magic? Let's see it, then." The girl sat down. Ron looked taken aback.

"Er – all right." Ron cleared his throat.

"Sunshine, daisies, butter mellow,

Turn this stupid, fat rat yellow." Ron waved his wand but nothing happened, Bucky was close of laughing. Somehow Bucky knew that spell wouldn't work for it did t sound like a spell to him, like he expected that Scabbers stayed grey and fast asleep.

"Are you sure that's a real spell? Well, it's not very good, is it? I've tried a few simple spells just for practice and it's all worked for me. Nobody in my family's magic at all, it was ever such a surprise when I got my letter, but I was ever so pleased, of course, I mean, it's the very best school of witchcraft there is, I've heard – I've learnt all our set books off by heart, of course, I just hope it will be enough – I'm Hermione Granger, by the way, who are you?" The girl said this all very fast, Bucky was stunned of how fast that this girl spoke. Past Arabella looked at Harry or Ron, she seems relieved to see their stunned faces, Bucky figured that they hadn't learned the set books by heart either.

"I'm Arabella. Arabella Evans."

"Ron Weasley."

"Harry Potter."

"Are you really? I know all about you, of course – I got a few extra books for background reading, and you're in Modern Magical History and The Rise and Fall of the Dark Arts and Great Wizarding Events of the Twentieth Century."

"Am I?"

"Goodness, didn't you know, I'd have found out everything I could if it was me. Do any of you know what house you'll be in? I've been asking around and I hope I'm in Gryffindor, it sounds by far the best, I hear Dumbledore himself was one, but I suppose Ravenclaw wouldn't be too bad… Anyway, we'd better go and look for Neville's toad. You three had better change, you know, I expect we'll be there soon." With that Hermione left, taking the toadless boy with her.

"Whatever house I'm in, I hope she's not in it."

"Ronald Weasley be nice to her! She probably doesn't have any friends and doesn't know how to make friends! Be nice Ugh Merlin!" Ron threw his wand back into his trunk while Arabella ranted. When Arabella was finished that Ron spoke.

"Stupid spell – George gave it to me, bet you he knew it was a dud."

"What house are your brothers in?" Harry turned to Ron.

"Gryffindor, Mum and Dad were in it too. I don't know what they'll say if I'm not. I don't suppose Ravenclaw would be too bad."

"What about you Arabella?" Harry said that as he turned back to Arabella.

"Well, my mom was in Gryffindor, but most of my family were in Slytherin."

"Your family was in Slytherin?" Ron looked a bit astonished. Bucky was wondering why Ron seems astonished by that fact.

"Why did he react like that? It is a house for a group of students like with the houses in College."

"That is because Slytheirn is well known for bringing out the most dark wizards but there are dark wizards from other houses as well. But it seems that Slytheirn has more than their fair share of them." Past Arabella spoke.

"Um… well… yeah… they're really nice people, so I don't know where I might go. I just hope it's not Hufflepuff." Past Arabella looked a bit embarrassed talking about her family.

"Vol –I mean, You-Know-Who was in Slytherin, right?"

"Yeah." Ron flopped back into his seat, looking a bit depressed.

"You know, I think the ends of Scabbers' whiskers are a bit lighter." Bucky figures that Harry was trying to make Ron feel better or he was trying to take Ron's mind off houses. "So what do your oldest brothers do now they've left, anyway?"

"Charlie's in Romania studying dragons and Bill's in Africa doing something for Gringotts. Did you hear about Gringotts? It's been all over the Daily Prophet, but I don't suppose you get that with the Muggles – someone tried to rob a high security vault." Harry and past Arabella stared at Ron.

"What happened?"

"Nothing, that's why it's such big news. They haven't been caught. My dad says it must've been a powerful Dark wizard to get round Gringotts, but they don't think they took anything, that's what's odd. 'Course, everyone gets scared when something like this happened in case You-Know-Who's behind it."

"What's your Quidditch team?"

"Not interested in Quidditch." Bucky smiled a little when Past Arabella said that, for he has an idea of why Arabella or the couple of reasons behind at. "Er – I don't know any."

"What!" Ron looked dumbfounded. "Oh, you wait, it's the best game in the world –" Suddenly Rom was off explaining he game to them, unknowingly to six other people. Bucky didn't like the sound of the game for it sounded dangerous, more so than some of the games he watched. Ron also described some of the famous games that he went to with his brothers as well as the broomstick he wanted if he has the money to buy it. Than the compartment door slid open, he thought it would be Neville or Hermione again but it was neither one of them. Three boys entered, two huge big boys and a thin pale boy in the middle, looking at the boy at he dislike him at once. It was the way he held himself, for it was much like he way hat the bullies, that best up Emily, while she was with them, and Steve before they became Captain America and Lieutenant USA. He was looking at Harry with a lot of interest.

"Is it true? They're saying all down the train that Harry Potter's in this compartment. So it's you, is it?"

"Yes." It was clear that Ron, Harry and past Arabella were looking at the other two boys. Both boys were the thickest and looked extremely mean, built much like the bullies that beat up Steve and they looked just as stupid. They were standing either side of Draco so that they looked like bodyguards.

"Oh, this is Crabbe and this is Goyle. And my name's Malfoy, Draco Malfoy." Bucky snorted when Draco said that and Bucky spoke.

"And I am Bond, James Bond." The six of them burst into laughter when Bucky said that. It was even more funnier thinking that if they were really there that none of the others would get the joke. Though none of them missed when Ron gave a slight cough of which was hiding a snigger, Draoc looked at Ron. The six of them stopped laughing long for them to hear what Draco said next. "Think my name's funny, do you? No need to ask who you are. My father told me all the Weasleys have red hair, freckles and more children than they can afford." When Draco finished saying that, that Bucky spoke.

"Yes your name is funny and lame." All six of them snorted, it was na that Draco turned to Arabella.

"And you are Snape's niece right?"

"Yes. Evans. Arabella Evans." Past Arabella was looking at Draco.

"Why are you hanging out with people like him?" he pointed to Ron. "You should be hanging out with us." Past Arabella looked furious when Draco said that and Bucky couldn't blame her for it, more so with high and mighty that he was acting. Than Draco turned back to Harry. "You'll soon find out some wizarding families are better than others, Potter. You don't want to go making friends with the wrong sort. I can help you there." He looked at Ron when he said the wrong sort before he looked back at Harry and held his hand to shake Harry's but harry didn't take it.

"I think I can tell who the wrong sort are for myself, thanks." Harry spoke coolly. ThanDraco turned back to Arabella.

"What about you? We are family. I'll guide you along the right path considering my godfather is your Uncle."

"I'm fine thank you very much." Draco didn't go red, but a pink tinge appeared in his pale cheeks when he got rejected twice. Bucky was surprised that Draco's skin could even have a color. Draco spoke slowly as he turned back to Harry.

"I'd be careful if I were you, Potter. Unless you're a bit politer you'll go the same way as your parents. They didn't know what was good for them, either. You hang around riff-raff like the Weasleys and that Hagrid and it'll rub off on you. But if you hang around people like Evans and me, they get you before you get them." Harry, Ron and past Arabella stood up. Past Arabella's face just as red as Ron's hair.

"I think it's time you leave Draco."

"Oh, you're going to fight us, are you?" As Draco sneered that Bucky spoke.

"If I was there, you wish that you never said that." True he was still not as close to Arabella as he would like to be, but he never liked bullies and he didn't want to see anyone that he was related or close to to get pushed around. Though he knows that Arabella can take care of herself, though if it was just Draco that would be easy for Arabella to overtake him. Though he was unsure of how well she could do with Crabbe and Goyle.

"Unless you get out now." Harry spoke rather bravely, even if Crabbe and Goyle were a lot bigger than Harry or Ron. And they were certainly bigger than Arabella at the time.

"But we don't feel like leaving, do we, boys? We've eaten all our food and you still seen to have some." Goyle reached towards the Chocolate Frogs next to Ron, so Ron leapt forward, but before he'd so much as touch Goyle that Goyle let out a horrible yell. Bucky was surprised to see Scabbers hanging off Goyke's finger with his sharp little teeth sunk deep into Goyle's knuckle. Crabbe and Malfoy backed away as if they were afraid that there more rats, Goyke swung Scabbers round and round while Goyle was howling. When Scabbers flew odd and hit the window that all three of them disappeared as if they were afraid that there were more rats. As the footsteps came down the hall that Bucky spoke.

"You know, I prefer how that turned out, it was a lot funnier." The other five smiled when Bucky said that. A second later Hermione came in, she looked at the sweets all over the floor as Ron picked up Scabbers.

"What has been going on?" Ron paid no heed to Hermione and spoke to Harry and Arsbella.

"I think he's been knocked out." Ron looked closer to Scabbers. "No – I don't believe it – he's gone back to sleep." So scabbers had.

"You've meet Malfoy before?" Past Arabella and Harry explained about their meeting in Diagon Alley with the pale boy. "I've heard of his family. They were some of the first to come back to our side after You-Know-Who disappeared. Said they'd been bewitched. My dad doesn't believe it. He says Malfoy's father didn't need an excuse to go over to the Dark Side."

"Don't worry. You don't need people like him." Ron turned to look at Hermione.

"Can we help you with something?"

"You'd better hurry up and put your robes on, I've just been up front to ask the driver and he says we're nearly there. You haven't been fighting, have you? You'll be in trouble before we even get there!"

"Scabbers has been fighting, not us." Ron scowled at her. "Would you mind leaving while we change?"

"All right – I only came in here because people outside are behaving very childishly, racing up and down the corridors. And you've got dirt on your nose, by the way, did you know?" Ron glared at Hermione as she left while past Arabella and Harry peered out of the window. Bucky looked out of the window and it was getting dark. The mountains and forests could been seen under a deep purple sky and the train did seem to be slowing down. It was than that the world dissolved and they found themselves back in the Argo II.

It has been two days since the day he went to Spilt and saw those memories of Nico, Hazel, Jennifer and Arabella. At the moment, Bucky was up on the deck with nothing much to do, expect for watching for attacks and the country to go by. Bucky didn't know the weather over the Mediterranean as well as other parts in the world but he was sure that it wasn't suppose to be freezing in July. The cold didn't bother him to much but to seem to bother the rest of the crew, that was mainly because he was a fire user, even though he cold seems to bother Leo. Bucky guessed that might be because of the fact Leo wasn't a child of Notus, like Bucky was a child of Notus but than again he might be wrong. That Leo was just making it seem like the cold was bothering to make the others feel better, but Bucky wasn't going to bother figuring out which one it was. There were grey clouds that swallowed the sky and the waves were choppy, cold drizzle sprayed across the deck of which formed ice on the rails and the ropes. Since the Argo II left split that Arabella came out of Hazel's cabin a little more often and mostly spoke to Bucky, Nico or Phil a little of which was an improvement since Emily fell into Tartarus. However it seems that Phil seem to be getting along with the other children of Hades/Pluto besides Emily. But it seems that Bucky, Nico and Arabella were starting to get closer to each other, he was glad of that. For one thing that Bucky finds them not as creepy as once did when this quest started a few weeks before or even before. At the moment, Bucky was standing close to Nico, Piper, Leo and Jason, Nico was carrying the ancient staff.

"It's the sceptre, it has to be." Bucky noticed some changes in Nico, for one thing he seem to be more affectionate with his sisters then he has before. It seems that Nico accepted the fact that he does or use to have a crush on Percy, Bucky wasn't sure if Nico did get over Percy or not. Honestly Bucky didn't care and he wasn't going to tell Nico to tell Percy that or anything, not till Nico was ready to do so and move on if he hasn't already. The same went for Arabella, after Bucky telling the rest of the crew that they each face something that none of them spoke of what happened in Split. It seem to be a silence understand between Bucky, Jason, Nico and Arabella, that when they were ready that they would talk about it. Bucky looked at the sceptre, the sceptre could have caused the weather changes, for the black orb seems to leach the color right out of the air. The golden eagles seem to glint coldly and supposedly the sceptre could control the dead, the sceptre did give off bad vibes, without a doubt. Glesson took one look at the thing before he turned pale and announced that he was going to his room to console himself with Chuck Norris videos. Though Bucky has a hunch that Glesson went to do something else than what he said of what he was going to do, somehow Bucky felt that the sceptre has nothing to do with the ice storm and that it was something else and it was much worse.

"We can't talk up here. Let's postpone the meeting." They gathered on the quarterdeck to discuss strategy as they got closer to Epirus, Bucky wasn't sure of it was a good place to be, wind swept frost across the deck and the sea was churning beneath them. Bucky didn't mind the waves all that much but he could feel that something was going to happen and soon. Hazel gagged and pointed down below.

"Need to –"

"Yeah, go." Nico kissed Hazel's cheek, of which was surprising when it comes to Nico for Nico hates physical contact or at least from what Bucky could figure out. That was so surprising about the hug Nico gave Bucky a couple of days ago when Bucky told the crew of a challenge they had to face. For Nico hardly made gestures of affection, even to any of his half sisters, including Emily but it seems that Nico doesn't mind the physical contact with Emily as much he does with anyone else. Though when Nico kissed Hazel that it seems like Nico he was saying goodbye to Hazel in a sense.

"I'll walk you down." Frank put his arm around Hazel's waist before helped her to the stairs. Bucky hoped that Hazel would be okay, Bucky knows that Aubrey, Lauren, Piper, Jennifer, and Hazel been having good talks with each other of late. He was sure that they shared stories of their boyfriends or husbands and complained about the gross things guys do, whatever that was. He knows that Emily and Lauren have done that since before Emily and Bucky were married and he was sure they still do that now. But he was unsure of what the two of them talk about when they talk about Bucky and Steve, there was a chance that they could talk about their time at camp and what they did there. Nico brushed some ice from his hair before frowning at the sceptre.

"I should put this thing away. If it's really causing the weather, maybe taking it below deck will help …"

"Sure." Nico glanced at Piper and Leo as if he was worried of what they may say when he was gone. Bucky was worried and concern about Nico, he wanted to comfort and help Nico as well as to tell him that no one would care about what happen at Spilt. Bucky didn't care about that for that was who Nico was and Bucky accept that and was willing to help as well as that he would be there for Nico and Arabella. It seems Nico understood that in the last couple of days that Bucky doesn't mind about what Nico was. Arabella seems to understand that as well, Bucky was at least glad that he was bonding with Nico and Arabella more than he has since his memories returned. When Nico left that it was pretty much Bucky, Leo, Piper and Jason that were above on the deck while everyone else was below.

"So much for the big team meeting. Looks like it's just us again." Bucky looked at the three of them, he remembers when he first meet them on their quest to save Hera about six or seven months ago. All three of them have changed since that first quest they did together, just like Bucky, Steve and Emily changed in the war. But yet Bucky, Emily and Steve kept some of their old traits, just like Piper, Jason and Leo kept some of their old traits. Piper changed, now she seems more confident in what she does and using her Charmspeak, Leo didn't change much expect he was more comfortable in his role as a child of Hephaestus and knows how to use his nervous energy now since he was always tinkering with things on the ship. Jason changed the most, he was thinner, taller and more careworn, his hair grew longer and shaggier. Jason seems to be more Greek than a Roman now, for when Bucky first meet him just before the battle of Manhattan that Jason seemed too roman for his taste but there seem to be hints to a Greek in him back than. For the God of boundary was always telling to stuck to the rules and such during the times he was there with Emily. Now it seems that old Jason was gone and he was more like a Greek version of himself instead of being the roman version of himself.

Bucky heard what everyone has said about Jason since the quest started, that Jason was too perfect, too straitlaced. But that was no longer true now, Bucky knows that for a fact, yes at once point that Jason seemed too perfect, too straitlaced and too serious. Sure Steve seem to be too serious as times and was everything a leader should be, just like Jason. Unlike Jason that Steve doesn't always follow the rules at all times or even most of the time, he does what is best for the howling commandos and he country. Steve was able to have fun when he wanted to and Emily helps Steve to relax when they were not on missions during the war. Bucky knows that Steve was not perfect, no one ever comment that Steve was too perfect or straitlaced for Steve made comments about not knowing certain things that he should know by now or he would allow his sense to humor to show. Besides Steve seem to let it go by the way he acts and talks that he knows he was not a perfect man or the perfect soldier that instead he a good man and a leader who tries to do the right thing but knew that at times he would to have to do something that he didn't want to do in order to make sure the freedom was still there. As Bucky thought of Steve that he looked into the cold rain, he would give anything to go Emily's cabin or back to World War II to be with Emily and Steve again. Out of the corner of his eye that he saw Jason squeezed Piper's shoulder.

"Hey, it'll be fine. We're close to Epirus now. Another day or so, if Nico's directions are right." Leo was tinkering with his sphere, tapping and nudging one of the jewels on it's surface, Bucky still didn't like that thing. That thing unnerves him and it has done since Leo took it out of that one room that they were in while they were in room.

"Yep. By tomorrow morning, we'll reach the western coast of Greece. Then another hour inland, and bang – House of Hades! I'ma get me the T-shirt!"

"Yay." Bucky was sure Piper wasn't thrilled about going to the house of Hades, neither was he. But he wanted to see Emily again as well as Steve, he knows Emily was still alive down there or that was the last thing he knew or heard at any rate. It would take one more day, one more day till he reaches the house of Hades and Emily would back in his arms where she belongs.

"Guys, I've been thinking about the Prophecy of eight." Leo managed to look away from he was doing, Bucky looked at Piper when she brought up the prophecy.

"What about it? Like … good stuff, I hope?" Piper readjusted the cornucopia's shoulder strap that Emily gave it to Piper just before the ship fired at the parking lot of which caused four members to go to Tartarus.

"In Katoptris, I keep seeing that giant Clytius – the guy who's wrapped in shadows. I know his weakness is fire, but in my visions he snuffs out flames wherever he goes. Any kind of light just gets sucked into his cloud of darkness."

"Sounds like Nico. You think they're related?" Bucky was about ready to respond but Jason scowled and beat Bucky to the punch.

"Hey, man, cut Nico some slack. So, Piper, what about this giant? What are you thinking?" Bucky looked at Piper and Leo as the two of them exchanged quizzical looks, if the two of them only knew half of it. Bucky knows it was unfair with the rumors that spread around about Nico and Arabella but it seems even more unfair now than ever. He was glad that Jason went to Nico's defense.

"I keep thinking about fire. How we expect Leo to beat this giant because he's …"

"Hot?" It was funny in a way that they expect Leo to deal with the giant more than Bucky since they both could use fire, when Leo spoke that he has a grin on his face.

"Um, let's go with flammable. Anyway, that line from the prophecy bothers me: To storm or fire the world must fall."

"Yeah, we know all about it. You're gonna say I'm fire. And Jason here is storm." Piper nodded reluctantly, of course there was one other person that it could be, Percy, unless if they add Bucky, Emily, Lauren and Steve to it. Emily could be storm or fire since she has some control over the seasons and can add to the storms. Bucky wasn't sure if Steve could do the seasons yet or if there were only a few children of Demeter of who could do that. Lauren was a daughter of Zeus so she could create a storm and Bucky has control over fire because he was a son of Notus. At that moment that the ship pitched to starboard, Bucky grabbed the ice railing before he could lose his balance.

"So you're worried one of us will endanger the quest, maybe accidentally destroy the world?"

"No, I think we've been reading that line the wrong way. The world … the earth. In Greek, the word for that would be …" Piper hesitated, Bucky could see where she was getting at with this, Bucky knows that there was double meanings for the prophecies. For that is one thing Emily told him that can be double meanings to prophecies.

"Gaea. You mean, to storm or fire Gaea must fall?" Leo grinned even wider than before.

"Oh … You know, I like your version a lot better. 'Cause if Gaea falls to me, Mr Fire, that is absolutely copacetic." Jason kissed Piper, Bucky wanted to say something but he was unsure of what to say at the moment.

"Or to me … storm. Piper, that's brilliant! If you're right, this is great news. We just have to figure out which of us destroys Gaea."

"Maybe. But, see, it's storm or fire …" Piper unsheathed Katoptris before setting it on the console, the blade flickered showing the dark shape of the giant Clytius moving through a corridor snuffing out torches.

"I'm worried about Leo and this fight with Clytius. That line in the prophecy makes it sound like only one of you can succeed. And if the storm or fire part is connected to the third line, an oath to keep with a final breath …" Piper didn't need to finish of what he was saying however that doesn't mean that the storm and fire part was connected to the third line. It was never a good thing to try to figure out a prophecy till after it happens.

"Piper." The three of them looked at Bucky when he spoke up. "It is possible of what you say about the fire and storm part, but that doesn't mean that the third line is connected to the fire and storm line. Prophecies have double meaning." The three understood where Bucky was coming from but the news as a whole wasn't very good. The others look back at the dagger.

"Okay … so I don't like your idea as much as I thought. You think one of us defeats Gaea and the other one dies? Or maybe one of us dies while defeating her? Or –"

"Guys, we'll drive ourselves crazy overthinking it. You know how prophecies are. Heroes always get into trouble trying to thwart them."

"Yeah. We'd hate to get into trouble. We've got it so good right now."

"You know what I mean. Like Bucky said, the final breath line might not be connected to the storm and fire part. For all we know, the two of us aren't even storm and fire. Percy can raise hurricanes."

"And I could always set Coach Hedge on fire. Then he can be fire." Bucky shook his head when Leo said that, it was a funny thought of a blazing satyr screaming die as he attacked Gaea.

"I hope I'm wrong. But the whole quest started with us finding Hera and waking that giant king Porphyrion. I have a feeling the war will end with us too. For better or worse."

"Hey, personally, I like us."

"Agreed. Us is my favourite people." Bucky figured that Gaea may try to stop them or get rid of Leo, Jason or even Percy due to the fact that they could be storm or fire. Bucky knew enough from Emily to know that if one tries to focus too much on a prophecy or even a line that it may backfire on them or even if one expected something while it was something else entirely. Bucky noticed that Piper suddenly to tense up, he was about ready to ask what was wrong but Piper spoke up using charmspeak without meaning to.

"Leo, sound the alarm." Leo dropped his screwdriver at once before he punched the alarm button. He frowned when nothing happened, it was that Leo and Bucky remembered that it was disconnected.

"Uh, it's is shut down. Gimme a minute to get the system back online."

"We don't have a minute! Fires – we need vials of Greek fire. Jason, Bucky, call the winds. Warm, southerly winds." Bucky and Jason were looking at Piper in confusion.

"Wait, what? Piper, what's wrong?" Piper snatched her dagger up.

"It's her! She's back! We have to –" it was than that Bucky understood what Piper meant now, the sudden weather change made sense now. Before Piper could finish saying that, that the Argo II listed to port and the temperature dropped so fast that the sails crackled with ice. The bronze shields along with the rails popped like over pressurized soda cans. Bucky and Jason drew their swords but it was too late for Jason. A wave of ice particles swept over him costing him like a glazed doughnut, freezing Jason in place, under the layer of ice that his eyes were wide with amazement. "Leo! Bucky! Flames! Now!" Bucky lit his flesh hand up with his sword in his metal hand, while Leo's right hand blazed, however the wind swirled around Bucky and Leo and the wind doused the fires. Bucky was clutching onto his sword while Leo was clutching his Archimedes sphere as a funnel cloud of sleet lifted them off their feet. Bucky struggled against the sleet and tried to hit it with his sword but that did no good what so ever since he hit nothing but sleet.

"Hey! Hey! Let me go!" Bucky kept hitting the sleet as he spoke.

"You better let us go." Piper ran over to the railing, but a female's voice in the storm spoke.

"Oh, yes, Leo Valdez and James Barnes. I will let you two go permanently." Suddenly Leo and Bucky shot skywards like they been launched from a catapult. Bucky managed to use his wind powers and managed to change the course of their flight, but just barely in time though. When he managed to gain full control of the winds that Bucky wasn't sure of where the Argo II was now. Looking around in the sky that he wasn't sure if there was a way to get back to the Argo II, he was hoping that something or someone would find them. Thinking of it, Bucky wasn't even sure of where Leo and himself were, suddenly a storm spirit ran over to them. It was a horse, Bucky knows this horse, it was one of the ones he tamed during one of the attacks from the storm spirits. Bucky flew over to the horse along with Leo right besides him, Bucky got onto the horse first before he helped Leo into the back of the horse. The horse shook it's mane, Bucky looked around, wondering what to do now, it seemed that Leo was thinking along the same lines as Bucky.

"What now?"

"I don't know. We need to find a place to go to though." Bucky leaned forward and spoke to the horse. "Take us somewhere where we won't be found by Khione." The horse neighed and ran across the clouds, after a few minutes that the clouds parted and Bucky saw a Helicarrier. Bucky sighed in relief when he saw it, when the horse landed on the Helicarrier that Bucky got off the horse as well as Leo. Just as they barely got off that the horse ran off, not only that but the other avengers came through the door, Tony, Natasha, Clint, Thor and Bruce ran over to them. It was Thor that reached him first and clapped him on the back.

"Son of Notus, I am surprised you found us so quickly."

"Well in this case we were not trying to find you even if you were told to bring help." Tony was looking around before looking at Bucky.

"Where is Lightning Girl, Vine Plant and Capsicle? Not only that but who is this?" Tony pointed at Leo of who was looking at the Helicarrier in wonder.

"We need to go inside and I will explain everything." So they went inside, Bucky pulled Leo inside the Helicarrier as Leo started talking of the things he could do with the Helicarrier. The last thing Bucky wanted was for Leo to start messing with the Helicarrier.

Emily's pov

Emily was unsure of how much time went by while they were down there but there was two things for sure. Her birthday past and Emily was missing the swamp already, she wanted to go back to that swamp for when she was there that she felt better and safer. That was partly because to all the plants there, now she feels weak, even with the darkness that was there around them. Emily and the others kept stumbling along in the darkness even with the small amount of lint that there was. The air was thick and cold, the ground was alternating between patches of pointy rocks and pool of muck of some kind. The terrain seem to be designed so that none of them could let their guards down at any given point, even ten feet. The stop at giant's hut was a better stop than the one at Hermes' shrine, not just because two more were added to the group but because Emily felt more like herself once more there. Since they left the hut that Colonel Phillips gave Annabeth the laptop and dagger she lost as she fell into Tartarus that he somehow found after he entered Tartarus. Emily told Annabeth to keep the dagger Emily gave to her, for Emily didn't need that dagger, it it was not like as if she couldn't get another one.

There was few times she felt Steve grasp her hand, there were other times that Emily felt Dr. Erskine's hand or even Colonel Phillips's hand towing her other hand. She couldn't even begin to think of what is must be like for Dr. Erskine, when she entered the underworld as the princess for the first time that she avoided his spirit for as much as she could. That was more for her sake than his, for she knew her pain of losing three closest to her before knowing what happen to them would be painful to bear if she even looked at his spirit. After she got Lauren, Bucky and Steve back that she thought of seeing him but she was unsure if she was ready to do that. Though it was still mystery of how Colonel Phillips and Dr. Erskine even entered Tartarus at this point in time. Emily was worried mostly about Annabeth for the talk with Damasen seem to bother Annabeth the most. Emily knows, as well as Annabeth, that they needed Damasen's help to get to the doors, but they were unable to get his help because he turned them down. Emily wanted to go back to the surface and see Bucky again but the pit was still affecting her, for the pit kept telling her that she was in the real world and that this was death as it was meant to be.

Emily kept pushing that back to the back of her mind trying not to think about that, it was maddening, frustrating, the pit kept gnawing at her trying to get her to lose hope. At times she felt like she was going to give up hope, but she made herself to remain walking and going in, not for her own sake but for her child's sake as well. Emily tried to raise her spirits up but she was having a hard time of doing that, for Tartarus kept on trying to get to her. Not only that but her vision kept changing to allow her to see what Tartarus and to how the others see Tartarus and that didn't help Emily. While they walked that they managed to switch their clothes around, Emily kept the jacket that Bucky gave her, in the war on for she wasn't just going to dump it in Tartarus or do anything of the sort. Besides the jacket wasn't as tattered as her shirt or jeans were, at the moment she was wearing a darken leather tunic and drakon leather pants. To her surprise that they were rather comfortable and soft, she didn't expect anything in Tartarus to be comfortable and soft. It was a nice change from all the hardness and roughness that they came across in Tartarus so far.

"This place is worse than the River Cocytus."

"Yes. Much worse! It means we are close." Emily knew what Bon meant though Percy didn't know, not for sure since Percy was sleeping at the time. However Small Bob and Sarah were hiding in Bob's coveralls again. As they walked that she felt Steve grasping her hand once more, Emily looked over at Steve and he looked worried.

"How close are we, Bob?" It sounded so odd to hear the slight fear in Steve's voice, Emily knows that he been scared before on missions and such in World War II but he never showed it before. It was clear from the fear in Steve's voice that Tartarus was getting to him as well as Emily and the others.

"We are close." In the glow of the bronze swords that Emily could see that Annabeth and Percy were holding hands, Dr. Erskine and Colonel Phillips were standing close together. Emily still couldn't help but wondered of how Dr. Erskine and Colonel Phillips got down here, they were both in the underworld last she knew when she was there a couple of weeks ago just before the Argo II entered New Rome.

"We're together. We'll get through this."

"Yeah. Piece of cake."

"But next time, I want to go somewhere different on a date."

"Paris was nice."

"I'd settle for New Rome. As long as you're there with me." When Annabeth brought New Rome that Colonel Phillips spoke up.

"Hang on a second, you know about the Romans?" Before Annabeth could say anything that Emily spoke up.

"Yes." Emily pulled her two bracelets down and rolled up her sleeve to reveal her SPQR tattoo, from the look on Colonel Phillips' face that it was one of surprise. "If I didn't know about them than I wouldn't have this tattoo that is permanently on my skin. Despite the fact that I am Greek." Emily rolled up her sleeve and put her bracelets back down over the tattoo as well. Colonel Phillips was about ready to say something but it was than that the darkness seem to disperse like a massive sigh, like it was the last breath of a dying god. In front of them was a clearing, a barren field of dust and stones, in the center about twenty feet away knelt the gruesome figure of a woman. Her clothes were tattered, her limbs were emaciated and her skin was leathery green, her head was bent as she sobbed quietly, Emily felt her hopes shattered as she looked at the woman in front of her. As Emily looked at the woman that she heard a woman's voice, one that sounded familiar to Emily but she couldn't place it.

'You managed this long on hope, don't let Akhlys destroy it.' Emily looked around trying to locate that voice, the others noticed this too for Dr. Erskine spoke up.

"Agent Rogers, what are you doing?" Emily looked at him with a look of confusing, partly because of what he just called her, for the last time she was called Agent Rogers was in World War II even after she left a Project demigod and become a member of the howling commandos that she still had that name till she married Bucky.

"First off, the SSR disbanded in the war. Second, Rogers is my maiden name now. But didn't you hear that voice?" Bob looked at Emily when she said that.

"You may have heard the voice in your mind but we're here. Akhlys can help." Emily wasn't sure if she liked the idea of Akhlys helping them. Never the less, Bob trudged forward towards the woman, the area was not as dark as the other areas but it was not as light as it was out of this oit. "Akhlys!" The woman raised her head, Emily was wanted to scream when the woman lifted her head but couldn't, but her body wouldn't let her. But the woman looked like the victim of a famine, limbs like sticks, swollen knees, knobby elbows, rags for clothes, broken fingernails and toenails. Dust was caked on her skin and it was piled on her shoulders as if she hadn't taken a shower in years. Her face was utter desolation, her eyes were sunken and rheumy as they been pouring out tears for years and her nose dropped like a waterfall. Her stringy grey hair was matted to her skull in greasy tufts, her cheeks were rakes and bleeding as though she been clawing at herself. Emily lowered her gaze and saw an ancient shield across her knees, it was battered circle of wood and bronze that was painted with the likeness of Akhlys herself holding a shield. The image on the shield seem to go on forever and just went on going smaller and smaller as she looked at it. Emily knew what that shield was, apparently so did Colonel Phillips for she heard him take a sharp intake of breath when he saw it, Not only that but Annabeth knew, as well, of what that shield was and who it belonged to at one point.

"That shield. That's his. I thought it was just a story."

"Oh, no. The shield of Hercules. He painted me on its surface, so his enemies would see me in their final moments – the goddess of misery." Ashly's coughed so hard that it made Emily winched. "As if Hercules knew true misery. It's not even a good likeness!" Emily remembered that encounter she had with Hercules, honestly he was a jerk that has nothing better to do than stay on that island.

"What's his shield doing here?" The goddess was staring at Percy with her wet milky eyes, her cheeks dripped blood so that it made red polka dots on her tattered dress.

"He doesn't need it any more, does he? It came here when his mortal body was burned. A reminder, I suppose, that no shield is sufficient. In the end, misery overtakes all of you. Even Hercules." Steve inched closer to Emily, Percy inched closer to Annabeth while Dr. Erskine and Colonel Phillips inched closer to each other. It was difficult to think with the despair around them but for some reason Emily's mind was clearing up. The pure pain, misery and despair was not effecting her as it was when she first saw Akhlys, it was like that there was something there that was helping her fighting against it.

"Bob, we shouldn't have come here." Emily heard Sarah and Small Bob meowed in agreement when Annabeth said that. The Titan shifted and winced as Akhlys looked at the six of them, before Bob could say anything that Akhlys's eyes landed on Emily. As soon as Akhlys's eyes landed on Emily that the unexpected happen, for Akhlys shrieked and jumped up from where she was kneeling and the shield dropped from her knees as she jumped up from where she was. That settled Emily so much at she grasp her poppy so that the poppy become her bronze sword, Emily was pointing at Akhlys of who was looking at Emily in great fear. Emily took a few deep breathes, trying to calm herself down of what just happened, Emily has no idea of why Akhlys reacted that way when Akhlys saw her. But it scared Emily quite badly when Akhlys did that. Emily let go of her sword and it back to being a poppy, Steve, Dr. Erskine, Colonel Phillips, Percy, Annabeth and Bob were looking at her confused. Emily shrugged, for she has no idea of why Akhlys acted that way as soon as she saw Emily standing there. Akhlys backed up away from Emily before she spoke.

"What do you want? Why have you come here? To torment me?" Emily raised her eyebrow when Akhlys said that, Emily looked at the others of who looked just as confused as she felt. Emily looked back at Akhlys before she spoke.

"I didn't came here to torment you, I fell down here because a monster dragged me down here. Bob says you can control the death mist and that you can hide us in it." Akhlys seem a bit confused when Emily said that, she took a few steps forward before she spoke.

"Hide you six in the death mist? Why would I do that, Elpis? Why do you even need to death mist? You could hid them better than I could." Emily was taken back when Akhlys called her Elpis.

"We must reached the doors of death to return to the mortal world. Why did you call me Elpis?" Akhlys seem taken back when Emily said that.

"Because you are Elpis. That is impossible of what you asking me to do, Elpis. You should know that by now. For the armies of Tartarus will find you and kill you." Emily was about ready to say something when Annabeth spoke up.

"So I guess your Death Mist is pretty useless, then." Annabeth turned over the blade of her drakon bone sword, but her knife as well as Emily's knife was on Annabeth's belt. It seem that Akhlys didn't pay much heed to Emily when Annabeth spoke for she looked over at Annbaeth and bared her broken yellow teeth.

"Useless? Who are you?"

"A daughter of Athena. I didn't walk halfway across Tartarus to be told what's impossible by some minor goddess." Annabeth sounded brave but Emily knew that Annabeth was just as scared as the others and that her plan might fail. The dust was quivering at their feet, there was fog swirling around them with a sound like agonized wailing.

"Minor goddess? I was old before the Titans were born, you ignorant girl. I was old when Gaia first woke. Misery is eternal. Existence is misery. I was born of the eldest ones – of Chaos and Night. I was –"

"Yes, yes. Sadness and misery, blah blah blah. But you still don't have enough power to hide two demigods with your Death Mist. Like I said: useless." Percy cleared his throat.

"Uh, Annabeth –" Annabeth flashed them all with a warning look telling them to work with her. Emily didn't like the plan Annabeth came up with but what other choice did they have at the moment. "I mean … Annabeth is right! Bob brought us all this way because he thought you could help. But I guess you're too busy staring at that shield and crying. I can't blame you. It looks just like you." Akhlys wailed and glared at Bob.

"Why did you inflict these annoying children on me?" Bob made a sound between a rumble and a whimper.

"I thought – I thought –"

"The Death Mist is not for helping! It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!"

"Awesome, Could we get six orders of that to go?" Akhlys hissed.

"Ask me for a more sensible gift. I am also the goddess of poisons. I could give you death – thousands of ways to die less painful than the one you have chosen by marching into the heart of the pit." Around the goddess flowers bloomed in the dust, dark purple, orange and red blossoms that smelled sickly sweet. But it has no effect on Emily or Steve, unlike with the others for the others seem to be staggering a bit under the smell of nightshade and the other poisonous plants. Steve looked around and looked like he was about ready to say something when when Akhlys spoke up again.

"Nightshade, Hemlock, Belladonna, henbane or strychnine. I can dissolve your innards, boil your blood." Emily spoke up first.

"No thanks, besides I can't be killed by plant poison for I am a daughter of Demeter." Akhlys looked at her in disbelief when Emily said that, as though she still thinks that Emily was still Elpis. However Percy spoke up before Akhlys could say anything.

"That's very nice of you. But I've had enough poison for one trip. Now, can you hide us in your Death Mist, or not?"

"Yeah, it'll be fun." The goddess's eyes narrowed.

"Fun?"

"Sure. If we fail, think how great it will be for you, gloating over our spirits when we die in agony. You'll get to say I told you so for eternity."

"Or, if we succeed, think of all the suffering you'll bring to the monsters down here. We intend to seal the Doors of Death. That's going to cause a lot of wailing and moaning."

"I enjoy suffering. Wailing is also good."

"Then it's settled. Make us invisible."

"It is not so simple. The Death Mist comes at the moment you are closest to your end. Your eyes will be clouded only then. The world will fade."

"Okay. But … we'll be shrouded from the monsters?"

"Oh, yes. If you survive the process, you will be able to pass unnoticed among the armies of Tartarus. It is hopeless, of course, but if you are determined, then come. I will show you the way." Akhlys looked at Emily before she spoke. "I know who you are, Elpis, at the moment you must come with us since you are in your mortal's form." Emily raised an eyebrow when Akhlys said that.

"The way to where, exactly?" The goddess was already shuffling into the gloom. Emily turned to look at Bob but he was gone, Percy noticed it as well for he yelled at Akhlys.

"Hey! Where's our friend?"

"He cannot take this path. He is not mortal. Come, little fools. Come, experience the Death Mist." Steve grabbed her hand as Annabeth spoke.

"Well … how bad can it be?"

"Yeah. Next date, though – dinner in New Rome." They followed the goddess's dusty footprints through the poison flowers deeper into the fog. Emily wished that Bob was here for Akhlys was making her feel uncomfortable. As they struggled across the dusty plain that the fog become thicker and thicker, Emily was force to resist the urge to swat the fog out of her way. The only reason she could follow Akhlys now was because of the trail of poisonous plants that sprang up no matter wherever she walked. Emily tried not to think of where they were in Tartarus, Emily could see of how Tartarus was like to the others but she could see of what Tartarus was really like or at times. She could only see what it was like because she was a child of the underworld, she kept her mind focus on what she needed to do in order not to think about what Tartarus was really like and focus more on getting out of here to see Bucky, Arabella, and her other half siblings again. After a while the six of them arrived at some sort of location that the fog dissipated and they found themselves on a peninsula that jutted out over a pitch black void.

"Here we are." Akhlys turned around before she leered at them. Blood was still coming her cheeks and was still dripping on her dress. Her sickly eyes looked moist and swollen yew somehow in someway that her eyes looked excited.

"Uh … great. Where is here?"

"The verge of final death. Where Night meets the void below Tartarus." Annabeth inched forward and looked over the edge of the cliff, it was than that Emily realized a few things. First the void seem to pulling at her, leaching the breath from her lungs and the oxygen from her blood. Not only that but she noticed that Percy's and Annabeth's lips were tinged blue.

"I thought that there was nothing below Tartarus." Akhlys coughed.

"Oh, certainly there is … Even Tartarus had to rise from somewhere. This is the edge of the earliest darkness, which was my mother. Below lies the realm of Chaos, my father. Here, you are closer to nothingness than any mortal has ever been. Can you not feel it?"

"We can't stay here."

"No, indeed! Don't you feel the Death Mist? Even now, you pass between. Look!" Emily noticed the white smoke when she felt the void pulling her breath out of her. She knows that smoke wasn't surrounding her but it was coming from her but she didn't look at herself till Akhlys said that. Emily held her hands up and saw that they were fuzzy and indistinct, it was hard to see of how many fingers she has, Percy than yelped and spoke.

"You're – uh –" Percy didn't need to finish it and she didn't know need to look at Annabeth to know that she looks dead. It was than that Emily looked over at Steve to see what he looked like, at he moment Steve has his hands in front of his face looking at them. He looked dead, it was like when she went to where SHIELD found Steve and watched as he was pulled from the ice. However he looked move alive than when he was being pulled out of the ice than he does at the moment. His hair dried into a skein of cowebs, he looked like if he might be mummified and been stuck in a cool dark mausoleum for decades as oppose being stuck in ice for seventy years.

"Steve, you look like you could pass for the oracle's, the one before Rachel, older brother or even father." Steve looked over at Emily and shield lightly of which was rather creepy, before he spoke.

"You look like you could be the older sister or mother." Colonel Phillips laughed when Steve said that and Emily looked at him. Colonel Phillips looked similar to Steve, Dr. Erskine also looked similar to them as well. Colonel Phillips looked over at her and spoke.

"You haven't changed much even down here in Tartarus." Emily looked at herself before looking back at Colonel Phillips.

"True, but I am not sure if I would be the same after we get out of here." However Percy spoke up.

"But we'll pass unseen now? We can get to the Doors of Death?"

"Well, perhaps you could, if you lived that long, which you won't." Akhlys spread her gnarled fingers and more plants bloomed along the edge of the pit, hemlock, nightshade and oleander spreading towards their feet like a deadly carpet of plants.

"The Death Mist is not simply a disguise, you see. It is a state of being. I could not bring you this gift unless death followed – true death."

"It's a trap." Akhlys cackled.

"Didn't you expect me to betray you?" All of them spoke at the same time, though Dr, Erskine didn't say anything.

"Yes."

"Well, then, it was hardly a trap! More of an inevitability. Misery is inevitable. Pain is –"

"Yeah, yeah. Let's get to the fighting." Percy drew riptide but the blade was made of smoke, when he slashed at Akhlys that the sword just floated across her like a breeze. Akhlys ruined mouth split into a grin.

"Did I forget to mention? You are only mist now – a shadow before death. Perhaps if you had time, you could learn to control your new form. But you do not have time. Since you cannot touch me, I fear any fight with Misery will be quite one-sided. So I will kill you slowly! I will cut you into pieces as a sacrifice to Night!" Her fingernails grew into Talons, her jaw unhinged and her yellow teeth elongated into fangs. Emily grasp her poppy and the poppy turned into her sword once more, Emily wasn't sure of what made her do next. She pushed Percy out of the way as Akhlys lunged at him, Emily blocked the attack and she slash her sword across Akhlys. As Emily did that, that she remembered what Akhlys said just moments before she lunged at Percy. But once more of what happened was unexpected like when Akhlys first saw Emily, even though her sword was like Percy's sword that her sword managed to cut off Akhlys's claws. Akhlys screamed in surprise and rage, she took a few steps back from Emily, Emily stomped her foot and the poisonous plants disappeared.

Akhlys tried to get the plants back but nothing she did would make them grow since Emily was not allowing it. For Emily was using her plants powers to make them form growing as well as having a fine line of death over the plants to make sure the plants didn't grow. Akhlys looked at Emily with rage but than her expression changed to fear, Emily looked down and notice the smoke was still coming from her but that was not all. Emily was cast in some kind of an orange glow, Emily could move more freely like she did before the death mist surrounded her. Not only that but she couldn't feel the misery coming from Akhlys at all or anything else from Akhlys. For some reason, Emily was starting to feel stronger, she couldn't explain it but she felt hope was wrapping itself around her. Akhlys crouched down and was about ready to attack her again when suddenly there was soft humming coming from above them. Suddenly an orange light come down over Emily and something float through the light, after being in Tartarus for so long that the light was blinding to her and Emily was forced to close her eyes. After a few moments that the light faded, when the light faded that Emily opened her eyes and she nearly screamed her head off. But she was shocked enough that she took a couple of steps back and fell onto the ground right next to Steve. When Emily let go of her sword, out of shock, that her sword turned back into the poppy, the others were shock as well but they remained where they were standing.

Standing between Emily and Akhlys was a woman of no more than twenty years of age, and it wasn't just any woman either that was standing between Akhlys and Emily. The woman that was standing between Emily and Akhlys was Emily, yeah that made no sense what so ever but there are weirder things that have happen or could happen. The other Emily was covered in soft orange light that seem to light up the darkness surrounding the six of them. Not only that but her skin was slightly tanned just like Emily's own skin, her hair was just as long straight and blond as Emily's hair was. Emily couldn't see the woman's eyes or much of her face but from what Emily could see that she had the same facial features as Emily. So Emily figured that the woman has the same eye color as Emily does, just from what Emily could make out of the woman. The woman also has the same build as Emily does, an athlete or a warrior's build, like she been training her whole life. However the woman's hair was tied up in an old fashion Greek pony tail from ancient Greek times. She was wearing a peplos, an old Greek dress wore in an Ancient Greek times and draped around her shoulders was a himation. The peplos was purple but the himation was white, the woman seem to be glowering at Akhlys. Than the woman spoke in the same voice as Emily's and with the same old Brooklyn accent from the 1940s.

"Leave Akhlys or I will drown you in hope." Akhlys looked fearful at the woman like she was scared of the woman, Akhlys wailed before she went running down the path that she took them on. She fell on her face a couple of times as she sped into the darkness, as soon as she was gone that the flowers grew back around them, the flowers were roses, poppies, and carnations. Annabeth stumbled over to where Percy was on the ground and helped him up, while Steve, Colonel Philips and Dr. Erskine ran over to Emily to help her up. Emily looked at the woman, when she was on her feet, the woman turned around to face her since Emily opened her eyes, form the bright light, and fell to the ground. Blue eyes meet blue eyes, Emily took a shape intake of breath as she looked at the woman in front of her. It was like looking into a trick mirror in the magical world of where the mirror can change your image and talked back to her. It was Annabeth who spoke up first.

"Who are you?" The woman looked at Annabeth, she was standing up with Percy next to her holding his hand. The woman spoke once more before she looked back at Emily.

"I am Hope."