Quest for Hera

A quest taken up by Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, and Piper McLean to save the goddess Hera from Porphyrion in The Lost Hero. The prophecy given to Jason by Rachel, the current Oracle.

"Child of lightning, beware the earth, The giants' revenge, the seven shall birth,' The forge and dove shall break the cage,' And death unleash through Hera's rage."

This prophecy unravels throughout the book until it is completed:


 * The first line warns Jason (a child of lightning) son of Jupiter/Zeus, to beware Gaia, the mother of the Titans and the Goddess/personification of the earth.
 * The giants Gaia created to take revenge on Olympus. Jason, Piper and Leo are the first three of the seven.
 * Leo, son of Hephaestus, God of the forges, and Piper, daughter of Aphrodite, Lady of the Doves work together to free Hera.
 * Hera reveals to her true form to destroy the minions of Khione (This could also refer to Jason Grace, as he accidentally looked at Hera's divine form and he almost died until Piper was so forceful in her charmspeak that she convinced him to 'wake up').

The Lost Hero
Jason Grace, a demigod son of Jupiter, the Roman counterpart of Zeus, took his first quest from Camp Half-Blood along with Piper McLean, a demigod daughter of Aphrodite, and Leo Valdez, a demigod son of Hephaestus to save Hera, the queen of heaven and the sister-wife of Zeus from imprisonment by Khione, the minor goddess of ﻿snow and a traitor to Olympus in the original place where Jason was before he was at the Roman Camp Half-Blood near San Francisco (the Wolf House).

Along the way, they run into various gods, monsters, and supposedly dead mortals, including Medea and Midas.

Before saving Hera, Jason, Piper, and Leo had to fight Khione who had betrayed the Olympian gods and joined the Giants' side when they realized that she had trailed them to the Wolf House. Leo fought her with his fiery aura and things that were useful such as his two hammers which he set them ablaze. However, Khione turned to snow which showed a mirror image of herself but it didn't work at all because the hammers broke the image of her into streams of mush.

While Jason tried his best to fight Porphyrion, Leo and Piper tried their best to break open the cage where Hera was imprisoned in. Leo sawed through the base of the thickest tendril which was touching the ground closest to the earth while Piper charmspeaks the cage to fall asleep to allow an easy cut on the tendril. The cut severed the cage's connection to Gaia which freed Hera. Afterwards, the mud surrounding Hera disintegrated letting Hera to grow in size and making her glow with her power.

Soon after the goddess was free, Hera throwed off her black robes revealing a white gown and her arms bedecked with golden jewelery. Her face was both terrible and beautiful, and a golden crown glowed in her long black hair. Once she was free, Hera screamed "...Now I shall have my revenge!.." However, the giant Porphyrion backed away and disappeared away into the ground (evidently he appeared somewhere else in Greece) before Hera could vaporize him along with every other monster. After he left, the other monsters were panicking and in retreat but they didn't have room to escape. Hera glowed brighter and turned into a supernova and shouted, "...Cover your eyes, my heroes!..." The goddess began to turn into her godly form and beginning to vaporize the monsters.

However, Jason was too late to cover his eyes because he was in shock and understood too late. He watched as Hera glowed into her godly form vaporizing a row of monsters. He was not destroyed by this, but he appeared dead. The power of Piper McLean 's Charmspeak was able to bring him back from the brink of death. Hera/Juno then teleported the heroes back to camp.