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Hi guys. This is our first story on this that we're actually not going to basically abandon. Anyway, we'd like to thank our beta Nicia for helping us with this prologue. Please no flames, but constructive criticism is allowed. Read & Review people!

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Full summary:

Zoey has always been on the side of darkness, working with Kalona & Neferet, but stumbles into light with a little from a few unexpected friends. Will she be able to stand back by Nyx even if when everyone she's ever known leaves her side, incluing Stark? Or will she turn back into the darkness she's always known?

The Good, The Bad and The Slightly Crazy

Prologue

Zoey

Planning, planning and more planning! I'm about to go mad. Between Neferet and Kalona arguing and the raven mockers constantly cawing, hissing and making all the other noises that they do, we're not getting very far. So far this little 'planning' session has been a failure. Want to know what we've gotten done? Nothing. Absolutely nothing. We would've gotten a hell of a lot moredone had Kalona not let some of his sons sit in on our session. Earlier they were cawing in our faces, and by ours, I mean mainly mine.

"Get those stupid mutated birds out of here so we can actually get something done!" See what I mean? Arguments and idiotic bickering. Oh, that was Neferet, just to let you know. She looks like she's about to blow a fuse. I'd say I feel sorry for her, and to be completely honest I do. She's more of a mother than my own is. I just realized after all the time I've been talking to you that I haven't told what we were planning. Do you want to know? Well, whether you do or not doesn't matter to me. We're plotting world domination.

A thought suddenly occurred to me, though I wasn't sure how much use it would be. "Do you think we could get those Scottish twins to help us?" I always notice these two girls who walk around campus together, I think they're twins. I'm not sure what their names are but I know that they both start with the letter S. That's all I know.

"Why in the name of the Goddess herself would they help us? They're too stuck in what they do every day," Neferet said back to me as I walked out the door.

*Later that day*

I walked into the common room to hear a conversation going on between a bunch of people who I don't really know.

"I hear Neffy, Birdboy and Redbird are plotting world domination again."

"You'd think they'd give up wouldn't you? The Romans and the English tried and, well, we all know how great both of those attempts worked out."

I'd tell you who said what but I have absolutely no clue as to what came out of whose mouth. Talk about being identical. As I stepped a little closer to get a better look, I found that they actually have quite a few differences. One has longer hair and paler skin. The group they're with seems to be an unusual lot. One of them, a guy, has orange hair and I'm not joking, it's actually bright orange. At least his eyes are normal.

Randomly, the twin with the shorter hair said, "Those raven mockers were good for something after all!"

Her sister looked at her and replied, "What do you mean?"

"Did you not see them earlier?"

"See them doing what earlier? What are you talking about?"

"Skylar, Storm's having one of her days where she becomes quite unobservant,so you just might have to tell her what happened," said one person in the group, which I noticed were actually two separate groups.

"Ugh, fine. Right. Well, earlier I was passing by the small neglected shed when I heard voices and decided to do a little bit of eavesdropping and found out that Neffy, Birdboy and Redbird were doing a bit of, hm, shall we say planning - as I told you earlier on in this conversation. If they were planning they weren't doing a good job because all I heard was raised voices, exasperated sighs and cawing. I wouldn't think they got anything done. The entire thing was very interesting altogether." So her name was Skylar and then Storm must be the sister. "Oh, yes, before I forget, the raven mockers were cawing in Redbird's face." Before she could say another word her sister started to speak.

"Oh, yeah. Now I remember. That was really something to laugh at. Next time you're telling a story try to not forget to mention meif I'm there." Well, she doesn't sound annoyed at all. Note the sarcasm.

"Hey, you! What do you think you're doing?" Orange hair shouted.

"Who are you talking t-"

"What do you want Zoey? We have better things to be doing than telling you to get lost-"

"Why don't you just go away and save us the trouble of having to waste our energy on removing you from the room!"

Everything was shouted by people I didn't know, apart from the first speaker that is, and even then I didn't know him as anything other than Orange hair. "Woah, woah, woah, cool down guys. She's just standing here. She's not doing anything."

Thank the Goddess that my Warrior and Guardian James Stark came to my rescue. He turned to me and asked, ''So how are you m'lady?'' he leaned in and kissed me. I blushed.

Gagging sounds and complaints filled the air as a guy with black hair said, ''Ahem - no pda please.''

''You will understand when you find your true love.'' Stark explained.

''Save the old-man wisdom crap for someone who cares!'' Skylar shouted.

Stark chuckled and gave a light hearted sigh.

"Je m'appelle Storm. J'ai dix-sept ans. Je-"

"Stop speaking French with a Polish accent!" they all screamed.

And with that Stark and I walked away.