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Zoey's POV

"NO!" the hollow noise bounced around in my head. I couldn't give up; I couldn't die.

"I WON'T LET MYSELF DIE!" I screeched. The noise was so loud; the darkness around me seemed to shatter.

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"Zoeybird... Open your eyes." I knew that voice, I was sure of it. But who was it, and how did I open my eyes? A hand caressed my face and suddenly my eyes sprang open.

"Nyx!" the words seemed to shimmer in the air between us and the sound of them made me marvel. "Am I... Am I dead?" my voice broke on the last word and silent tears ran from the corners of my eyes.

Nyx's own eyes were filled with compassion as she came into a sitting position next to me. "No, my dear child, you are not dead. You are far from it, but you need strength before you can return to reality. Loss has brought you down; and now you are in need of help. Retrieve strength from your affinity with the elements and you will never go wrong. With this I must depart though so I say goodbye Zoey Redbird and good luck." Her image wavered as she started to disappear.

"NYX! I need help! How am I to do this? I am... lost and have no idea of how to do ANYTHING let alone save myself!" I tried to keep my voice from breaking and shaking, but the statement still sounded as though I was pleading.

"Zoey; look ahead, not behind and seek strength to find of what you are searching for." Then with one last shimmer, Nyx, my Goddess disappeared.

Realisation crashed over me, after Nyx left, and I fell to my knees with a sob. Yet when I opened my eyes once more, I was not in the Goddess's realm. Instead, I was kneeling near the edge of a castle, and below, I saw a group of mourning people.

I looked a little closer and saw that the people where my friends; all of them. Then, in the heap on the floor, looking completely broken, I saw stark. At the sight of him, my mind screamed and I whispered in a broken voice his name. "Stark."

He suddenly looked up and his eyes searched around him. I called out to him louder, yet he couldn't hear me. I waved my arms and shouted him again, but his eyes dropped back down to what he was cradling in my arms. It was me; or my body anyway. My hollow, empty body.

With this freshly burned picture in my mind, I knew of what I needed to do now. Quickly, I called the five elements to me, and when I was fully surrounded by them, threw myself backwards off the castle. As I plunged down, the elements smashed into me, trying to save me, but I sent them away, ordering them to send my apologises to my friends.

Then everything went black once more, but there was a distant sound of sobs and people screeching my name. But all I could do was wait until my body comprehended that I, Zoey Redbird, was back.

Stark's POV

Mumbled words and muffled cries were all I could hear. Words were spoken yet nothing registered and all I could feel was Zoey, lying lifeless in my arms. I buried my head into her neck and sobbed.

"Zoey... Zoey please wake up. Zoey, I love you; I'm so sorry." I said, repeating myself again and again.

"Stark..." was the first thing I heard, yet it wasn't the voice I wanted. It was, for sure, a male; Darius. "Stark, you need to help us carry the body inside. If you are sure that Zoey isn't there then we need to make sure her body is ready for when she does come back."

I felt a hand come down on my shoulder and I looked up to see Aphrodite, Ice queen, kneeling next to me. "Please Stark, if you value Zoey's life at all, you'll let us fix her," she whispered through the constant tears that leaked from her eyes.

"No. We can't move her; I'm not sure why but I know that we can't move her." My voice was cracked and hoarse; red streaks, from my blood-tinged tears, lining my face and my hair sticking to my forehead.

Darius was silent for a while and then I heard him mumble a few words to someone, probably Damien, before taking off in the direction of the castle. Damien walked slowly over to me, or Zoey, and crouched down feeling Zoey's forehead and pulse.

The twins stayed in the same position, arms wrapped around each other's waist, crying into each other's shoulder. That, once again, made me think of Zoey. When things went wrong, when one of us were ill, upset or in my case dying, we had been together and made the way through together. But I wasn't there when it really mattered. I was feeling sorry for myself when I should have been there for Zoey but I wasn't and now she's gone.

I heard Damien gasp, pulling my attention away from The Twins and to Damien. His eyes were wide when I heard a broken voice whisper my name. I searched frantically around me not trusting myself. There was nothing there. I heard it again, but there was for sure, nobody there. My head drooped forward and my eyes returned back to Zoey. Her lifeless body still lay limp in my arms.

I was about to place one final kiss on her lips when I heard her take a shallow breath in. Darius was running back, shouting Zoey's name, closely followed by a female vamp. Damien whispered her name and Aphrodite clutched Zoey's hand, begging her to wake up while The Twins sobs continued.

She took another breath in, deeper this time, and I felt my spirit lift again. She was alive.

Zoey Redbird, My Lady, was alive.

Aphrodite's POV

"Stark! Let go of her! We need to get her to a healer!" I was shouting, over and over again. I was getting tired of repeating myself when Darius put a restraining hand on my shoulder.

"Speak in soothing words to him, we need him to release the body, not feel like he needs to protect it from us. Here dry your tears and blow your nose." He handed me a handkerchief before trying to communicate with and incoherent mumbling Stark.

Stark buried his head into Zoey's neck and spoke his first understandable sentence.

"Zoey... Zoey please wake up. Zoey, I love you; I'm so sorry." His voice was strained and rough and was filled with agonising pain which made fresh tears leak from my eyes. This worried me. I am Aphrodite, I never cry! Okay, of all the times to think of myself now was not the time. Zoey needed me, she needed us.

"Nerd herd!" I shouted. "Channel your elements to Zoey. We will bring her back." I hadn't realised my voice was so rough. If I sounded this bad, I wonder how bad I look.

I turned back to Zoey and Stark as The Twins and Damien started sending their elements to Zoey.

The elements swarmed around us before hurling themselves at Zoey. At this point, Darius found the need to try and break through Stark's barrier and make him see sense. "Stark... Stark, you need to help us carry the body inside. If you are sure that Zoey isn't there then we need to make sure her body is ready for when she does come back."

I bent down beside Stark and laid my hand on his shoulder and before I had fully comprehended what I needed to say I was speaking. "Please Stark, if you value Zoey's life at all, you'll let us fix her," tears still leaving tracks down my face.

He looked up to face me, anger, pain and guilt twisting his face; red tear tinged tear tracks all down his face. "No. We can't move her; I'm not sure why but I know that we can't move her." He whispered; his voice hoarse but he sounded so sure.

Darius stood quickly, spoke quickly to Damien before running in the direction of the castle; hopefully getting a healer. Damien slowly walked towards Zoey, crouching near her head and checking her pulse.

The Twins stayed in their same position, hugging each other, crying on each other's shoulder. The one person Zoey would have wanted to be here wasn't. Stevie Rae was back in Tulsa probably thinking everything was going well. How would we explain that her best friend died? I zoned out thinking about this, only coming back when I heard Damien's shocked gasp.

He sat with his eyes wide, mouth gaping. Then Stark lifted his head high, searching for something. What the hell?! Stark must have realised there was nothing there as his face dropped, his head lolling forward and he was back facing Zoey.

A lone tear ran down his face and landed on Zoey's cheek. He leaned forward; placing his lips on Zoey's and kissed her. One last kiss... I thought. I was thinking about wrapping Stark in my arms and telling him everything was going to be okay (what the hell was I thinking?) when Zoey took in one shallow breath.

Darius was running forward, closely followed by a female vamp who was probably a healer, shouting Zoey's name. I clutched her hand tightly as Damien whispered her name. Another breath came, deeper this time and her hand twitched slightly in mine.

She was waking. She was alive!