Epilogue: It's Not Over Yet

Elise couldn't stop crying and running at the same time the moment she resurfaced from the river. Her long black hair was a mess she didn't bother trying to fix. She didn't ask herself the questions:

How did they get their hands on the Apple of Eden?

How is it that her Leap of Faith caused her to land in the Hudson River?

Is Bran still alive?

And can Lianna still be saved from the Apple's control?

Only time will tell as she collapsed on the ground in exhaustion and several figures found her.

Aelin may have been all alone in a wooden hut in another planet, but she couldn't shake off the feeling that something was wrong. Every time she slept, all she had were dreams of Poseidon marching throughout her home kingdom, killing those she loved, including her own children, and every time, she ignored them, believing they could not harm her. Still, her gut said something bad just happened and out of haste, she returned to Terrasen.

With haste, she marched to her children's rooms only to find them empty, and a note was sprawled on Elise's room's floor. It said,

Elise,

If you're reading this, then I'm in Earth trying to stop Poseidon. Mother refused to help the other gods opposing him, but in my eyes, if Poseidon isn't stopped, his hunger for power will lead to interplanetary war with our own home. Yes, I know my theory sounds like it doesn't make sense, but if nothing is done, who knows what could happen. Billions of innocent lives lost, so much destruction on one planet, I can't think about it.

Bran

P.S. Mother, if you're reading this, then I just want to say I'm sorry for getting involved in all this, but this is what Father would've done. He'd be selfless and do what is always right, not hide from a problem because of an eternal grudge. In case I die, I just want you to remember that I'll always be your son.

The queen's eyes widened and she dropped the note on the ground, a lone tear escaped her eye as she ran out the room.

"AEDION! GET YOUR FLEET READY!"

Somewhere outside Earth, a fleet of around ten green and silver battleships with enough firepower to level a continent arrived. It was being led by a bigger bird shaped ship with hints of gold along the green and silver hull.

"Are we good to go?" Aelin asked her cousin. They were on the bridge of the commanding ship, with a bunch of crew members managing the ship's movements. With the two demi-Fae in the ship were Lysandra and Sorscha. They all prepared for battle.

"We should be good to go in a few." Aedion replied. "Dorian and Rowan will be sending their forces in a few minutes."

"Thank the gods." Aelin sighed.

"Hey, what's that?" Lysandra asked, pointing at Earth. Three light sources from the California area, Hong Kong, and England were seen. Suddenly, the Earth was covered in a yellowish transparent barrier.

"What the hell?" Aedion cursed.

"Do we fire?" a crew member asked.

"Fire all!" Aelin screamed, nearly losing her temper. "Give your all to save my children!"

"Fire all weapons on the barrier!" the same crew member communicated the message to the rest of the ships. Their main positron cannons, their topside and underside laser cannons, and their missiles were all fired from all ships towards the barrier. A flash of light nearly blinded everyone on board the ships, but when it died down, the barrier didn't break, not even a little.

"No effect, at all!" the crew member announced, extremely shocked like everyone else.

"This isn't like the force fields we dealt with." Aedion gasped.

"What do we do?" Lysandra asked, worried.

"There has to be a way." Sorscha said.

Aelin didn't say anything. All she did was run off from the bridge and to an empty room, to cry her heart out.

"Someone...anyone...please...help me and my children...Percy...if you're out there...please help." she muttered as she continued sobbing.

What they completely missed out was a mysterious meteor flying into Earth right before the barrier closed.

Wales Atlantean base...

"Planetary Barrier is up and running." an Atlantean soldier confirmed from a console in the technical room.

"Alright. Nothing is getting past this thing." his fellow soldier said. "Only sunlight. Special Agent Lianna Trine is confirmed to be KIA and Project-001 is in the freezer."

Right as he said that, an alarm blared across the base. The two hastily armed themselves with Laser Tridents and walked out to investigate. Screams were heard from their right.

"The freezer room?" one asked, then it clicked on both of them.

"Project-001!" they both gasped before running to the freezer room. The door was open and there were dead Atlanteans and demigods everywhere. A lone female figure stood in the middle, holding a katana while muttering "Lianna...killed..." over and over again. She stepped forward and revealed herself to the gasping soldiers.

She looked EXACTLY like Lianna, except her left eye was brown and not silver, her brown hair was a mess with white streaks all around it, and she wore blue and gold robes.

"DIE!" she screamed, slashing up the two soldiers before they could even react.

No one heard their screams of agony as all the soldiers in the base were being cut up to death by Project-001.

Somewhere off the coast of Norway...

A small group of around three Atlanteans and an Atlantean officer walked through the night on a beach. It didn't take long for them to find a mysterious looking pod. It was pitch black and was shaped like a pill with a flattened ceiling and floor. They couldn't see through the glass doors as it was so foggy.

"What is this?" one soldier asked.

"Hold on. I'm going to report this." the officer said as he walked away from the beach to contact the nearest base.

Meanwhile, the pod's doors opened up with a hiss and the soldiers stood there and prepared their swords for whatever was inside.

The officer was too busy to hear the painless deaths of his recruits as a mysterious shape burst out of the pod and pounced on them.

"Hello? Hello? Damn it." the officer cursed as he tried to form a communication line with the nearest base. What he didn't see was a mysterious figure behind him armed with a sleek gray bladed sword.