Prologue

Nine year old, Skyler Shadow danced across the living room as her mother washed dishes in the kitchen. Her dark braids bounced around her face as she skips into the kitchen and watches her mother clean the dishes from their super.

"Mommy?" Skyler asks.

"Yes Sky?" Her mother asks, keeping her eyes on the dishes.

"When is Daddy coming home?" Her mother suddenly stops, making Skyler wonder if she did something bad.

"I don't know sweetie but, he'll come home soon" She says but, doesn't mean it. Before Skyler was born, her true love left her and she's never seen him since. Her mother sighs and turns to the little girl standing in front of her "Well, it's time for bed, Sky".

"Okay" Skyler says and she races up the stairs to her bedroom with her mother close behind. The little girl jumps into her bed and pulls the warm covers over her then smiles up at her mother as she kisses her Good-Night.

"Night Sky" Her mother says as she leaves the room and closes the door. Skyler lays there for a while before a sudden breeze flows through her room, making her shiver and hide under the covers. A cold voice soon follows.

"Ah, hello little one. So you're going to be the one who helps the seven when they come for me. I can't let that happen sadly so I must make your life harder than it already is. I hope you'll like my "Gift" demigod" Silence followed and Skyler peeks her head out from under the covers and looks around, wondering if her ADHD pulled that off.

Suddenly her mother's scream can be heard and Skyler jumps out of bed and races to the door, trying to open it as smoke comes through the cracks in the door. The young girl sudden feels a tug in her stomach and water comes flying through the open window and slams against the door, breaking it open.

Skyler dashes down the stairs into a burned living room and kitchen, a note hanging on the inside of the front door. She walks over, holding back tears, while she picks up the note and reads the Greek writing saying "Hope you like the gift, Skyler".

The tears begin to fall and she races outside toward the small barn in the back where her weird blue roan horse grazes. The horse looks up to see its owner crying as she climbs onto her back.

"Let's go Arrow" She says and the blue roan trots to the road.

The little girl looks back once more at the burned house before turning and tapping her horse which gallops quickly down the dark empty road.