The first time Emery felt the slightest surge of her powers, was the day that her adopted parents had gotten attacked by unlikely creatures that the young woman had never seen. Things one could only read about in books, or see in fantasy films. But apparently they were in her reality. Despite the fact that she managed to disintegrate the strange beings into pile of ashes; with the power of the light. It didn't stop her adoptive parents from thinking that she was a freak of nature. Feeling like she no longer belonged in the family she thought she was a part of. Emery kept her distance from everyone and anyone that came into her life from then on. Not wanting anyone to get hurt because she was around.

It was soon enough after that, she discovered whom she was. The God Apollo himself, visited her one evening. Telling her the truth about her parentage. She was his daughter. Or one of the offspring's anyways. Being a Demi-God, had at first shocked her. She wasn't human. Not fully.

With those events and truth about herself. Emery knew she needed to try and find more people like herself. It'd be the one place that she'd feel safe. To be able to learn and grow; and discover more about her abilities. Not many belongings with her, she decided to travel light. Keeping things that meant the most to her and some clothes, she set out to find Camp Half Blood.