This story starts on the Isle of Sgiach. I wouldn't say it is a pretty one. It is indeed pretty rough on the characters but hey, we don't live with the teletubbies anymore, sometimes life sucks… But our Goddess Nyx is always there to help us.

Zoey was walking peacefully on the island. She got lost in her thoughts, surrounded by happiness. She was just saved by her Guardian in the Otherworld and she saved him back in return. She could hear him shooting arrows in the distance. Somehow, she got lost. And what she found was the beginning of a real shit storm.

What she saw amazed her and scared her at the same time. Standing in front of her was a woman in a cocoon of elements. She was standing up in a blue dress just like they were made long before her time. The dress was simple, just satin floating down gracefully over the woman's body. Looking at her was like being under a spell, she would have looked peaceful and calm even during the apocalypse. She was so beautiful Zoey couldn't help but look at her: dark brown hair that looked a bit like the rising sun when touched by the light of the candles all around her, skin that looked so soft Zoey wanted to feel her. She couldn't really see it all but the woman was covered in tattoos. More than she had ever seen on anyone, vampire or human. More than herself. And she thought that woman must have been or still was really powerful. She raised her hand as if to touch hers but she couldn't because of the cocoon previously mentioned. It was like all the elements wanted to shield her from whatever was outside. And it wasn't like the elements Zoey controlled but more like the spirits she saw with Sgiach. All of them were floating around and bringing her peace, she could feel it.

"She's beautiful, isn't she?" That question startled Zoey. She turned around to see Sgiach facing the unknown woman and smiling gently like a daughter would smile to her mother.

"who is she?" asked Zoey.

"Her name is Elizabeth Eir. She is one of the wisest people I know. Her name means "peace". It is a Valkyrie name, that's telling you how old she is. She will never admit it though." She said grinning.

"But she looks so I'm-gonna-turn-twenty hot!" said Stark coming from behind a big tree. That made Zoey hit him on the shoulder the second he was close enough. "What happened to her? She looks like sorrow ate her soul." He said. And anyone could have seen the look on his face reflecting hers. Zoey could see it now, she was sad. Like really howling to the moon sad. How could she have missed that?

" She's waitin' for her Guardian." Seoras startled Zoey.

"Okay, I'm gonna get popcorn and pop for Z and I want to hear everything about her." Stark looked so curious Zoey couldn't possibly be mad.

That's how they all sat in a half circle around the strange woman called Elizabeth Eir. And Sgiach started to tell her story to strangers of the Isle of Skye. She was bound not to tell the story unless she was directly asked to. She hadn't done that in more than 200years which warmed her heart. "Maybe now is the time Elizabeth will be saved" she thought. Then wiping away the sadness she felt everytime she thought about that poor soul she started:

"Please don't interrupt me until I'm done otherwise I'm going to start crying for years again."

"This sounds bad but we promise we will just shut our pieholes!" Stark said. The look on his face said it all so the Queen continued.

"She was born about fifteen hundred years ago in a tiny Viking village that lived peacefully, fighting every other village around it just like they loved to do at that time. And I don't know that part of her past really well but I know she was the daughter of a beautiful woman that died short after she gave birth to her. Her father was always competing against his brother, the chief Gunnar. That mountain of a human had a son, Alexander Sigurd. She was madly in love with him and him with her. They were both Marked. He was a couple years before she was. At that time, you have to know that because they were warriors by their nature, they came here, on this island. It wasn't mine at the time, the queen who owned it, or rather was owned by it, was called Aeron. She welcomed them with open arms because she could feel the power these two had. Somehow, I forgot the details, when she changed Elizabeth had tattoos everywhere. A bit like you do Zoey." She smiled lovingly to her then she resumed to the story. "Darkness came once over this island and she defeated it with the help of her Warrior and lover, Alexander. She had to save his ass during the battle which hurt the ego of the little rooster, like she used to call him, so he decided to become her Guardian." They all laughed and Zoey looked at Stark who looked way too concerned to her. "He actually has a lot in common with that Alexander guy." she thought.

"After he changed the real nature of his soul for her, they lived and fought together as happy as can be."

Stark opened his mouth like he was going to say something but closed it back remembering what the queen said before she started. He looked at her and saw that she was taking real long breaths in order to focus.