Heyy, this is my first ever story so go easy on me! My version of hunted...

Zoey

The sun was rising outside the tunnels where I had saved heath from Stevie Rae and the red fledglings. But of course then they did not have their humanity. I was sat leaning against one of the dirty tunnel walls and was looking around the place. I have to say them red fledglings had done a lot for the place. It wasn't dark anymore because of the lanterns which had been hung from the roof, there was an old fashioned pink flowery sofa (the kind you'd expect to see in an old women's house) in the middle. It was dirty and obviously from a scrap yard, but it was an improvement.

On the sofa was Aphrodite and Darius kissing passionately. Earlier today Darius had pledged to be Aphrodite's warrior. They basically protect them and love them. The warrior can feel his lady's emotions so knows to go to her when she's scared or sad. They reminded me of Stark. I'd only known the guy about one week and he died in my arms. But then of course he almost killed my best friend Stevie Rae. He'd shot an arrow at her under the influence of Neferet, he also was a new born red fledgling so didn't have his humanity. I wonder how he missed his target? Which by the way was her heart. He'd told me it was his gift to never miss. Hmm...

I wondered to myself whilst tracing my new marks on my hand which curled delicately matching my other marks. They tell me I'm on the right path, the good path, the one which Neferet had drifted from. I say drifted but she more or less ran the hell away from it!

I know I'm doing the right thing and Nyx has rewarded me for it, but what do I do now? Oh Nyx, I sent up my silent prayer, please help me think of a plan to save everyone. I knew she wouldn't answer because she likes me to figure things out on my own.

I knew one thing for sure though, I was going to save Stark. I would not let Neferet wipe away his humanity. From the moment we met we had something, something me and Loren never had, something me and heath would never have, something me and Erik could have had. Yet we found it after a week. Tears formed in the corners of my eyes and started to silently overflow.

"Zoey," Erik called from in front of Stevie Rae. He turned and so I was crying. "Zoey! What the matter?" he rushed over to me, "don't worry, we'll figure everything out. Come on," He helped me up and wiped away my tears and pressed me against him in a hug. That just made me cry even more, because even though I liked Erik a lot, I loved Stark already.

"I'm fine," I urged "what did you want anyway?" I changed the subject before he could ask me why I was crying.

His ice blue eyes looked concerned but answered my question, "I've been talking to Stevie Rae and she's agreed to let Darius take out the arrow now. We thought Darius would be best because he is a son of Erebus so is trained in the medicine field. Darius agreed so is now preparing his tools."

"Ok," I agreed to their plan. I smiled, at least I wouldn't have to do it now.

"Z, he's gonna need help keeping her still and stuff," Oh no! I knew where this was going! "So we figured since you're her best friend you should do it."

He waited for my reply, I thought it over, she will only bleed a little I told myself, you will be able to control yourself. Reassured I nodded "Ok," I agreed.

"Great, just go over to Darius and he'll brief you."

I smiled at Erik then slowly plodded towards Darius. "Ok, what do you want me to do?"

"Well first I'll chop the feathered end of the arrow off which as you can see goes in the front of her chest off and then whilst another person holds her I will push it out. Then really quickly you hold half my shirt against the hole in her back and I'll hold it to the front. It should slow the bleeding." He took off his shirt and ripped it in half. He had an eight pack and had massive muscles. Me and Stevie Rae stared in awe but Aphrodite looked like she'd seen them before...

"He's taken morons," she said and he met her eyes with a gooey look.

"Anyway talking about bleeding isn't she going to be bleeding a lot?" I asked taking them out of their trance.

"Yes, that's the next problem I've been thinking about." He agreed "She should take blood off someone whilst me and Zoey block her wounds."

"Well maybe Erik will-"

"Human blood would be strongest." We looked at Aphrodite.

"Oh fine," She rolled her sleeve up. "I should have guessed I'd have some part to play in saving her, I've done it how many times?"

"I can hold her whilst I press my shirt against her," Darius said.

At this time Erin and Shaunee came in chatting about shoes and how much they already missed their shoe collection.

"Twins, could you take everyone out the room please, we are going to take out Stevie Rae's arrow and it's not going to be pretty." I informed them.

"Yeah sure," They replied and bustled everyone out.

"I'm afraid we're going to have to remove your shirt priestess," Said Darius.

"That's okay, you're a doctor right? Doctors don't care about that kind of stuff." She replied in her okie fied voice.

"Ok," Said Darius and ripped her shirt down the middle at the front and the back so he could just pull it off, "On the count of three. I saw Stevie Rae brace herself for the pain which was surely ahead. One... Two..."

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