A/N: Updated, I put the whole Night has chosen thee thing, thank you familiar stranger, I had completely forgotten about it. I left out my full name because I am terrified of stalkers. Like you. No, don't cry, move over. Okay, you. Yeah you can go ahead and cry sparkly pedophile. That's right I know its you Edward Cullen! Hehehe, I put book posters, and Half of Twin knows where I got that from!

Chapter 1

"Hayley. Night has chosen thee, thy death will be thy birth. Night calls to thee, hearken to her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the house of night." The tracker said as I received my mark.

I went home uncertain how to tell my mom, but I don't have time to rearrange my hair before my mom opens the door and sees my mark. A look of shock comes and passes her face.

"Hayley, you're marked?"

"As of today, yeah." I was waiting for her reaction.

"Well I guess we need to get you to a house of night right?" Well, that's better than I thought it would go.

I nodded as I started uncontrollably coughing.

My mother left with a goodbye as I got out of the car, she said she would visit me as much as possible which I knew she would.

"You must be Hayley, I'm Zoey Redbird, the high priestess here." She looked Cherokee, which I was. I noticed how long her hair was. I think it was a vampire thing. "A high priestess is somewhat like a principle." She explained as I stood there not responding what so ever, lost in my thoughts as I normally was. "You must me angry about having to leave all of your friends and family." She was obviously trying to get me to speak.

"It's not that, I was just thinking about stuff. Nothing in particular. Um, sorry to be so rude, but are you Cherokee?" I asked her, trying to tackle one thing at a time, starting with the smallest.

"It's alright, yes I am Cherokee, are you?" I wasn't completely Cherokee, so no one really noticed.

"Yeah, I'm part Cherokee." I was trying my best not to think about what I heard about kids dying here.

"Well, I must inform you that some kids reject the change and die. I know this is probably scary-." I cut her off.

"Not really, it just adds another risk. It's not like I couldn't have died about an hour ago." I told her my opinion, I don't want to die, but there's no reason worrying if it gets nothing done. I just try to force it out of my mind.

"Well, lets just move on then. You may change your name if you would like, legally of course." She acted as though we never brought it up.

"Well, I can't choose between Delilah or Lilith. Lilith means from the night, Delilah means night. Which one do you think I should go with?" It was weird asking a high priestess about my name. But I was forcing the increased chance of death out of my mind too.

"Well, I like how you incorporated meanings. How about Delilah, but think of a nickname too." She was so nice.

"How about Delilah and Lilah for short so my name is Delilah Sv-no-yi" She looked like she recognized the Cherokee word for night.

"I like it and oh, looks like a cat has chosen you."

"Oh yeah, the cats choose you here. I want to name him Milo, if that's alright."

"Yes of course, let me show you to your room."

"Okay." I picked up Milo, my beautiful new Calico cat when Zoey stopped at an orange door.

"How do you know that cat is a boy?" Zoey seemed curious.

"I just like the name Milo, but now that I'm checking he is a boy." I did a pump fist and when the high priestess laughed I blushed.

"It's okay, I think you and your roommate will be good friends." Zoey left to do other priestess stuff I guess.

"Hello?" I knocked on the door.

"Hi!" A ordinary looking girl came out of the room. "I'm Brook." She invited me in and I put all my stuff including Milo down. I looked around the room, half of it was bare, only a bed, my old desk, and a dresser. The other half was painted with different water symbols and had some book posters.

"So did you change your name to Brook?"

"Yeah, I like water. Whats your old and new name?"

"Hayley was my old one but now I'm Delilah Sv-no-yi or just Lilah."

"Cool, oh our full moon ritual is tonight! It's fun, and that's how you can find out if you have an affinity, this will be my fist one too!"

"Affinity?"

She explained affinities were gifts by the goddess of night, you could have them for several things. The drama teacher had one for acting, Zoey had one for all five of the elements, and they were other one's too. She explained almost everything so I didn't expect to learn so much in my first Vamp Sociology class but I did. It turned out we had the exact same schedule, which was awesome.

"Brook, Lilah? Will you come here?" Zoey wanted to see us after class. "Brook I expect you to show Lilah around, and Lilah?"

"Yes Priestess?"

"I'm the only mentor left so if you have any questions, come to me, okay?"

"Okay."

"Hurry, don't want to be late for Drama on the first day."

"Yes I do." I joked with Brook as we walked out. We both hated drama and when we got there we were disgusted by all the girls looking at the teacher. Honestly, he's a teacher. But that's probably just our opinions, because no other girl had a problem with it.

"Lilah, would you like to come up here?"

I don't know why but when he called me Lilah I couldn't stand it, for whatever reason. "No I wouldn't and I don't recall saying you could call me Lilah, it's Delilah."

"Well, would you like to stay after class?" Professor Night said as everyone left for their next class.

"Nope." With that I got up and left with Brook.

"Wow. What got into you?"

"I have no idea, but when he said Lilah, it made me so mad for some reason."

"Delilah Sv-no-yi." I could tell Professor Night was mad. And his pronunciation was way off.

"What?"

"The high priestess would like to see you."

"Great, and I actually liked her, unlike someone." I said it loud enough for the whole hall to hear it.

"Lilah, why did you have an outburst in Drama?"

"Two reasons. One, he called me Lilah, which makes me think he's a stalker, since I never told him about that. Two, It's drama, I was just showing off my acting skills." I noticed she couldn't help but chuckle, but Professor Night wasn't laughing.

"Well, whens the ritual?" I asked my mentor, completely ignoring the drama teacher.

"Tonight after your last class, which is fencing."

"Okay. Bye."

"Bye."

"What?" I could tell Professor Night was wondering why my mentor let me go and so I laughed all the way to the dining hall.

Everyone was looking at me and I was rushed with a bunch of what happened? Are you in trouble? Why did you do that? This was my response. "They have shiny spoons here." I then sat down with Brook and we ate lunch together all excited about the ritual. Everyone let the whole I told off the drama teacher thing go and the rest of the day flew by fast. Before I knew it I was at the ritual, while Zoey danced and Professor Night recited a poem, moving around the circle of students. Just to be me, when he passed by me I smirked at him as if I was taunting him about how I got away with it, which I was.

"Air, you sustain us and give us life. I call you to our circle." This was the cool part, and after lighting a yellow candle, she moved towards a red one. "Fire, you warm and comfort us, I call you to our circle." She moved over to the blue one. "Water, you cleans us and wash away our pain. I call you to our circle." She moved towards the green one but I didn't hear.

"Did you feel warmer when she said fire?"

"No, but I felt like I was in a river when she said water!"

"Cool!"

"We have to tell the high priestess we have affinities!"

So after the ritual was over we approached the high priestess.

"We have affinities!" Brook and I said it at the same time..

"For?" Zoey looked happy.

"I have water!"

"And I have fire!"

"That's great! Besides me no one has had an affinity on their first ritual! How would you like to help me on the next one?"

"Sure!" We were both so excited!

"Okay, well since there are more affinities to explore, how would you to like to take tomorrow off and see about the other ones?"

"Duh!" Like she even needed to ask.

"Hi!" Brook said from out of nowhere. I looked down and there was a calico just like Milo, but the cat was different of course, because Milo just jumped into my arms.

"Cool! Milo has a friend!"

"Okay is it a boy or a girl?"

I checked real quick. "Boy!"

"Sweet! Rufus!"

"No way that was my second choice for Milo!"

"Milo would be my second choice!"

"Have fun with your cats, good night." Zoey walked away from us.

We both went to sleep with our cats next to us.

"Wake up Lilah!"

"We get to take the day off!"

"Yup! Hooray!"

We got up and got dressed, we both preferred taking showers before bed, so we were good to go.

"Hello High Priestess Zoey." I said as we walked into her office.

"Call me Zoey, Lilah."

"Okay."

"First we will see if you have an acting ability, we decided everyone could have the day off while you too tested."

"Sounds unfair but since this testing is awesome, I'm cool with it!" Brook was pumped.

"Okay, go to Professor Nights room."

"Crap." I said as soon as Zoey couldn't hear me.

"Oh well, once you get enough power just catch his butt on fire."

"Can do." I replied laughing.

"So, you're going to catch my but on fire?" Professor Night said from behind us.

"Yup, and just remember to not call me Lilah." I told him as I walked into his room.

"Well, either you do have an acting ability. Or your just not good with authority."

"Well, I was two years advanced in math, and was completely capable of going to Harvard on a scholarship before I got marked, so I can't be that bad." I said turning to face him.

"Okay, well tell me your sorry and that should actually be your test."

"I'm sorry." I said in a totally believable way, until I started cracking up.

"Well, you don't." He tested Brook and she didn't either.

"Well, your off to healing, Brook and Lilah." I turned to face him and was right next to him in a second even though I was almost down the hallway from his room.

"Do. Not. Call. Me. Lilah." I said and that wiped the smile off his face, for a second.

"Sorry Lilah. Won't happen again."

I was so mad that my vision got a reddish tint.

"Delilah, stop!" Brook said.

I realized Professor Night had backed up and that my hands were on fire.

"Professor Night, why did you do that?"

"What!"

"She told you not to call her Lilah." Zoey said as she approached us. "Go off to healing girls, I will notify teachers to ask before they call you Lilah." She was gone.

"Lets go." Brook said, obviously nervous.

"Sorry about that." I told Brook as we entered healing.

"It's okay, we should talk to Zoey about how unusually mad you get when he calls you that."

"We should." I said as the nurse showed us to a kid who had a small bruise.

"Is it okay if I call you Lilah?" The nurse asked.

"Yes."

"Lilah, concentrate on the bruise, and try to heal it." I did, no luck.

"Brook, go ahead."

"Okay." Brook said as she looked at the bruise. Her hands glowed a soft blue and the bruise was gone. "Cool." Brook said as we left again, this time for archery.

"So you have water and healing, maybe I get another one too!" I said as we went to the field.

"That would be awesome!" Brook exclaimed.

"Hello girls, so Brook. You have water and healing. And so far you have fire, is it okay to call you Lilah?" Stark said. Stark was the archery teacher.

"Yes that's fine."

"Okay, Lilah, try to hit the center of that target." Start told me handing a bow and arrow over.

"Okay." I strung the bow and let it fly, I pictured the center and how my bow would hit it. And it did.

"Okay, now face away and picture it hitting that same target."

"Okay?" I did it and somehow it still hit. "Sweet!"

"You definitely have an affinity for archery." Stark said as he gave a bow and arrow to Brook and she missed the target.

"So, we have a fire and archery, and a water and healing." I said to Brook and as we were about to go I remembered something.

"Can I try something Professor Stark?"

"As long as you won't hit Professor Night." He handed me the bow and arrow.

I concentrated and my finger caught on fire and I lit the arrow. "Sweetness!" I said as I split my other arrow in half and the fire died out.

Zoey made us preform a circle to check, although I definitely have one for fire. And Brook did have one for water. We ate our dinner and took our showers and were about to go to bed when I remembered I had to talk to Zoey. "I need to talk to Zoey about the Lilah thing, okay?" I told Brook.

"Okay. Night." She said as I left.