"Mother! I'm going now, tell dad that I'll be home soon!" Irene Hemera, a small girl with flowing feiry hair, that seemed to glow at night; called up the stairs to her foster parents. She smiled when there was no reply, grabbed her canvas bag and ran out of the door, grinning to herself. The last day of school before the summer, the best day ever, you get to do whatever you like in school. Irene slammed the door shut behind her, and left to go to her new school, Yancy Academy. She recently started this school, about a month previously, and since then she made loads of friends, but the best of those are Percy Jackson and Grover Underwood, she chose her friends wisely, this is because, despite looking like a normal child, Irene Hemera isn't a normal girl; she's a Goddess, the Goddess of Shadows and Stars, she knows that they are an odd mix, but she just doesn't know how powerful she can be. Irene believes that she is a normal demi-god after meeting another on her travels by accident. They were going on a field trip that day, I know, stupid, huh? But, hey, that was the school's choice , not hers. They were off to Metropolitan Museum of Art to look at stuff on Ancient Rome and Greece, typical, huh? They were being led on this field trip by Mr Brunner, their Latin teacher; but there was something off about the latin teacher, something didn't feel right about him... almost something magical, sounds crazy, right? Well, once they got on the coach, she knew something was wrong, Mrs Dodds, their algebra teacher, was going on the trip, she despised the children and she realised that this visit would either be torture, or something worse, like the unveiling of a big adventure...
There are a few downers to this trip though, I have to put up with Nancy Bobofer, she's a foul creature, that doesn't desrve to be a little piece of dirt on the terrain my mother has walked. My mother is the Goddess side... I think, but I can't be sure, I have never met my parents. As soon as I got on the coach, I travelled to the middle and took a singular seat opposite a two-seater. Two people slid into the two-seater, and I immediatly rcognised them as Grover and Percy. The two seemed to radiate with energy, jeez, great. 'I bet a monster will show up soon, I better be prepared!' I thought to myself as I checked my pocket for my little hair-pin that changed into my massive bow and my quiver with my ever-lasting arrows. Then there's my necklace that turns into a sword and my watch that becomes my shadow-shield. I sighed in fustration as Nancy started to pelt Grover with little pieces of her peanut-butter and ketchup sandwhich. I heard Grover mutter to Percy "Don't worry, I like peanut-butter." I snorte and the two turned to me, looking as though they had seen a ghost.
"What?" I asked the two, turning my head to the side.
"You weren't there a minute ago!" Grover hissed, looking around and spotting Mrs Dodds grinning evilly from the front of the coach, he gulped and sunk back into his seat. I shook my head while laughing.
"You dope, I have been here this WHOLE time." I laughed again, but stopping when Nancy threw her apple at my head.
"I need to talk to you, Percy." Mrs Dodds, the most hated teacher, wanting to talk to Percy...? This can't be good! I followed them through the museum and watched as Mrs Dodds exclaimed something in another language and then launched at Percy attemoting to attack him. He clicked his pen and Riptide came out, in all it's Celestial Bronze glory, I stopped to look at what he was going to do next, but aparently, he had no idea. Just before she could attack Percy again, I jumped in front and shot an arrow into her neck, the Fury screamed and disintergrated.
"Come on Percy, follow me!" I took his hand and ran him right through a wall, appearing next to Grover. "Grover, it was a Fury. Get him out of here!"
"How did you get there?"
"Shadow-travel, just get him and go. I'll talk to Chiron." Grover looked suprised at the thought of me Shadow-travelling. And with that, him and Percy ran, I have a feeling I will have to go to Camp Half-Blood now, great.