Chapter One - Kalona
I knew I was dreaming right away. I was sitting on the empty beach, staring out at the ocean. How could I feel so at peace? I knew who - no, what was coming. It just felt so right for the moment. I'd deal with that when it came to it.
Then I saw him. The beautiful being moved across the sand so beautifully.
"A-ya, my love!" He walked towards me, reaching for me. I stepped back.
"I am NOT your A-ya!" I shouted, for the millionth time. "And I am NOT your love!"
Then I looked up his perfect body, into his eyes and immediately felt him drawing me towards him. I walked to him, not taking my eyes away from his, and pressed my body against his. I hadn't noticed we were both naked until then, but I didn't care. It felt so right.
Kalona was a fallen angel, but I couldn't bring myself to believe he was all bad. Not with the way he made me feel.
We kissed passionately, my tongue playing gently with his. He lifted me up as I wrapped my legs tightly around him, feeling him against me. This made me kiss him harder as he pulled me down onto the sand. He ran his hand through my hair.
I woke up with a start, gasping. I squeezed my eyes shut tight.
No! Kalona was EVIL. Okay, I know it was a dream, but he's had a way of getting into my dreams, and at that moment I knew it was me and him. My instinct was running a bad feeling through my stomach, as tears ran down my cheeks. I knew that Kalona had this draw on me, but up until now I'd always been able to resist him. I looked over at Stevie-Rae - my best friend, snoring gently on her bed. I'd hoped that I wasn't moaning out loud, then shook my head. That wouldn't have woke her up, she could sleep through an apocolypse. (Which might be very soon if I didn't track down Kalona and find a way to kill him... great.)
I sat up, too scared to go back to sleep, and thought about the past few months. Neferet had been like a mother to me, so faithful to Nyx - then Kalona began to draw her in. She then turned to him instead of the Goddess, which left us in a mess. I've temporarily made them both flee, but wasn't sure how long they would be gone for. I had to find a way to stop it for good.
Lenobia had taken over the House of Night as the Head - High Priestess not a title she wanted, as the position was only temporary and someone needed to run the school. The good news was, the spell Neferet and Kalona had on everyone had broken - the Red Fledglings were now allowed in the school, and I got my old room mate back. The bad news was that if Kalona were to return, I believe he wouldn't have a hard time convincing people they were wrong. Also, the Red Fledglings... I still had no idea what I was going to do about them. I glanced at Stevie-Rae, a fully Changed Vampyre... her moon was filled in, and her mark was Red. I was still to figure out what that meant.
Stevie-Rae, though fully Changed, still had to attend classes, however these were more research classes than anything. Lenobia brought her friend in, who replaced Neferet in Vamp Soc. Her name was Ayethna. She explained that she chose her name after the Greek Goddess Athena. Ayethna was trying to research Red Fledglings/Vampyres with Stevie-Rae and Stark, the only other Red Vampyre, as the Red Fledglings attended normal classes. There were a lot of similarities between the Red Fledglings and us, however their bloodlust was worse, they actually burned up in the sunlight as opposed to just feeling uncomfortable, and there was something dark about them. Everyone sensed it.
So that's what's happening right now. I sighed. It was going to be difficult, but someone had to get rid of Kalona.
Stevie-Rae opened her eyes as her alarm clock started to go off. I hadn't woken up too early, then. I tried to look as if I'd just woken up.
On top of it all I still had boyfriend troubles. Erik and I had decided to be friends when I confessed to him I was in love with Stark, however Heath and I had imprinted again. Not good. Unfortunately that meant that he was my boyfriend, by default. Don't get me wrong - I love Heath, I really do... but in that sort of childhood friend way.
Stevie-Rae nudged me to interrupt my thoughts.
"Zoey, it's time to get dressed. We need to go to class."
Okay, so I wanted to start a new project - and I decided that what the hell, might as well do a House of Night story. I intend to make this really long.
Please, please, please read and reply - I always reply to fics I read and I bet you get annoyed when you've got loads of hits but no replies. Annoying, isn't it? =)
Anyway, new chapters will hopefully be uploaded frequently. They will be a lot longer than this one - this is just an intro, really.
Enjoy!
Kayle
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