Awakened! My version, because, umm, P.C. cast is taking too long! Please leave a comment if you read it, let me know what's good and what's bad, thanks you beaudifulll h.o.n loverrss!

Kalona

Kalona felt a sharp jolt a searing pain as he was thrown back into his body. With a shudder he remembered the events that, like a wave in a sea of hatred, had just crushed him yet again. Nyx, whom he loved beyond the capacity a mere mortal could withstand, had rejected his plea for forgiveness yet again. With a look of disgust on her face, she corrected her mistake, banishing his soul as well as his body from her realm forever.

After centuries apart, her hatred for him burned him as painfully as ever.

Instead of opening his eyes, he shut them tight so that all he could see were light spots against darkness. He let out a yell, thick with tears and the agony that burned through his body, and his heart, would Nyx ever forgive him?

"Is she dead?"

Without looking up, Kalona responded. "Neferet." He said. his eyes opened slowly and he saw her dark figure looming in the corner of the cold stone room which his body had been kept in during his venture to the other world.

"I assume your task is accomplished, your cry could only signal the death of little Zoey Redbird."

He could practically hear the sneer that he knew lay on her face, that face, enhanced by darkness to make her evermore terrifyingly beautiful. For a moment he wondered if he could ever lie to Neferet. He didn't worry about his own conscience being affected by lying to his loved one, oh no. His discretion lay in the fact that he sensed she would be able to sniff out a lie in seconds. When he didn't answer Neferet broke the silence again.

"Do not feel he loss my love, think of all that we shall achieve now that she is gone. The silly schoolgirl was never a match for the two of us. Although it does sadden me to admit that I did sense you had feelings for her, obviously those feelings weren't strong enough! How silly for her followers to expect her to return from the otherworld! A child! Hilarious really"

"She has done and yet I do not laugh" Kalona said, sitting up, grimacing with the pain it caused him. There was a slight pause in which Kalona did not regret his words, but smirked silently at the annoyance they had caused Neferet.

"What?" she shrieked. She marched toward where Kalona sat and slapped him hard across the face. Kalona immediately leapt up and threw her to the floor. Seething, and wings flexing, he looked down at her, her face betrayed shock and anger.

"Do not talk of A-ya as if she is a pathetic child!" he spat. "She above all others is chosen by Nyx to possess gifts greater than you can imagine!"

Neferet laughed high and piercing. Kalona was incredulous.

"Here we go again with Nyx" she said. "Forget her, my love. She does not care for you. You make yourself a fool by placing her on a pedestal. And Zoey, or A-ya as you insist on calling her – she will never love you, she was created to trap you"

Kalona still stood over her, panting. He felt strangely small in Neferet's presence. His shoulders slumped in submission, he looked down, remembering the sweet face of A-ya as it shifted and turned to clay just inches from his own.

Neferet began swirling the air around her, the darkness instantly responded, and she was lifted eerily to her feet by the sticky dark tendril she had summoned. She now blocked out the stream of light that flickered from the lantern just outside the chamber door. Kalona didn't look up but he sensed that she was glaring at him, waiting for an explanation.

"I tried." He began solemnly. "The human boy sensed my presence and led her to cover in Nyx's grove, I could not enter there.

He felt burning pain in his heart as he remembered how a broken Zoey had fled from him; he had never wanted to hurt her.

"I hid my identity and called to the human boy. I told him that if he stayed in the Otherworld then Zoey would gather herself together and she would stay with him, and that they would be happy together." His head seared as he remembered having felt so much guilt when he observed how Zoey and her human consort had interacted. She had truly loved him, and he had stolen this from her. The pain felt strangely more physical than emotional though.

"So what happened?" Neferet spat.

"Her warrior entered the otherworld, to protect her from me."

"James Stark" Neferet said, she grimaced and nodded as if she were agreeing "yes I should've taken his grief as a warning. And to think – he was one of my own! Carry on, my Erebus"

"The warrior warned the human of my intentions, he convinced him that moving on was what was best for Zoey"

Pain suddenly set his body on fire. He cried out. His hands turned to fists which he shoved against his head as if to stop it exploding. His wings tensed and writhed,. And then it was over. Neferet looked him over. "Quickly, explain to me, what next" she said.

Kalona gasped. "What is this pain that I feel?" he choked.

Neferet's eyes darkened to deep scarlet again, with a scowl she said "tell me what happened." Her voice was distorted, deepened by darkness.

"The human departed, I duelled with the warrior, Zoey pulled her soul back together, and I killed the warrior."

"Surely the second death would have ensured Zoey's staying in the otherworld!" Neferet cried. "her soul should not have recovered!"

Kalona shook his head grimly. "She said I owed her a life debt, and demanded that I revive the warrior, I refused, but-"

"But what?" snapped Neferet.

"Nyx appeared, she told me to revive him, and so I did. And then –"

"And then what my love?" Neferet's concern was not extended to Kalona's well-being, he knew.

"And then she banished my spirit as well as my body from her realm." He wrenched the words out of his gut through his teeth. His body gave another shudder of pain and he gasped out. "Neferet, do you know why I suffer this pain?"

She looked at him through narrowed eyes and said "so you're saying your not allowed in the otherworld." cocking her head to one side curiously. Kalona looked at her incredulously. "Neferet my queen! I am in pain, I ask you, do you know why?"

She erupted in rage "You are bound by darkness to stay in the otherworld until your task to kill Zoey redbird in completed you fool! I can see darkness's chains under your skin. You cannot be here! You cannot be there!" he yelled.

Kalona stepped into the stream of light and sure enough he could see darkness's chain as if the were pulsing veins underneath his skin. "I beg of you Tsi Sgili, remove these chains!"

"Sorry my love, I cannot, we swore by oath, it cannot be broken."

Another wave of pain sent Kalona to his knees.

"There is hope for you though" said Neferet. "While Zoey Redbird lives there is always the opportunity to destroy her." She said, laughing wickedly, she threw her head back, and the darkness she had been toying with absently seized the chance to slide into her mouth, instantly making her look swollen with its power. She threw her head back further and there was no doubt in Kalona's mind that she was absolutely, beautifully, insane.

"Neferet" he said in an almost inaudible voice below her cackle. Her head snapped back at once, wide eyed she glowered at him as if he had interupted an intimate moment between her and the Darkness. Shoulders slumped and wings splayed, he continued. "Neferet" he had to choose his words carefully, he wasn't even sure of what he was going to say. "I fear that if I kill Zoey Redbird, then-"he gritted his teeth against the pain, and wondered whether to bear his thoughts to Neferet. He continued. "If I destroy Nyx's favourite daughter, then i suspect that she will never forgive me." He finished and his words, mixed with his pain, forced tears from his eyes.

Neferet placed her hand softly on his cheek, stroking down the line of his jaw, she spoke softly, but with so much menace, "Love, Nyx will never forgive you. She is forgotten. Now is the time for you and I to rule side by side in this world. Complete your task, and your chains will be removed, Zoey need mean nothing to us."

Kalona nodded, and let his head rest in her hand letting out a sigh. She whipped it away, and with a flick of her wrist the chains tightened all over his body. Blinding pain, white hot, seared through him, he doubled over and could distantly hear his own cry, through it all he saw a figure appear in the doorway. Hands fisted and body rolled into a ball of pain he cried out. Neferet sniffed the air. "For Darkness's sake!" she said as she whipped round to face the hallway. the figure spoke, a threatening hiss, Neferet retorted.

Through blurred vision, Kalona recognised the figure. Through the pain he managed a gurgling rasp. He called out. "Son?" . He saw black wings flex. And then darkness crashed over him.