This takes place during chapter 2 of untamed when stark first arrives. the story will mainly be based on Zoey and Stark. first fanfic, plz go easy on me! hope you enjoy!

Zoey

'What the-?' I began but didn't get the whole question out before at least a dozen cats streaked into the cafeteria, hissing and spitting like crazy.

Okay, at the House of Night, cats are everywhere. Literally. They follow us around, sleep with, and in my cat Nala's case, often complain at, the fledgling of their choice. In Vamp Soc class, one of the first cool things we learned about was that cats had long been familiars of vampyres. This meant that we were all majorly used to having cats everywhere. But I had never seen them act so absolutely insane. I think.

The Twin's huge gray tomcat, Beezlebub, jumped right up between them. He was puffed up to twice his already ginormously large size, and he stared back through the open door to the dining hall with amber eyes slit in anger. This felt like déjà vu in a way.

'Beezlebub, baby what's wrong?' Erin tried to soothe him. Nala leaped up on my lap. She put her little white-tipped paws on my shoulder and gave a scary, psycho-cat growl as she, too, stared at the door and the chaotic noise still coming from the hall. Okay, I was really getting freaked out now, what was up with the cats?

'Hey,' Jack said. 'I know what that sound is,'

And it hit me at the same time. 'it's a dog barking,' I said but not just any dog I thought. No- it couldn't be!

Then something that resembled a large yellow bear more closely than a dog burst into the cafeteria. It was Duchess! Oh how I loved that dog! She was followed closely by a kid who was being followed by several uncharacteristically frazzled-looking professors, including our fencing master, Dragon Lankford, our equestrian instructor, Lenobia, as well as several of the Sons of Erebus Warriors.

'Got ya!' the kid yelled once he caught up with the dog and came to a skidding halt not far from us while he swooped down, snagged the barking beast's collar (which I noted was pink leather with silver metallic spikes all around it), and neatly clipped a leash to it. The instant his leash was reattached, she stopped barking, plopped her round butt down on the floor, and stared, panting, up at the kid. 'Yeah, great. Now you want to act right,' I heard him mutter to the obviously grinning canine. It couldn't be him, yet it was.

Even though the barking had stopped, the cats in the cafeteria had definitely not stopped freaking. There was so much hissing around us, it sounded like air escaping from a punctured inner tube.

'You see, James,' stop freaking out I told myself, he just happens to have the same name as him,' this is what I was trying to explain to you earlier,' Dragon Lankford said as he stares, frowning, down at the dog. 'The animal just won't work at this House of Night.'

'It's Stark, not James,' it's him my mind screamed. It took all of my will power not to run into James' arms and cry. 'And like I was tiring to explain to you earlier – the dog has to stay with me. It's just the way it is. If you want me, you get her, too.' That was definitely James.

'My goodness, what is all this noise about?' Neferet swept into the room, looking beautiful and powerful and completely in control.

I watched his eyes widen as he took in her gorgeousness. It was soooo annoying that everybody automatically fell stupid at their first glimpse of our High Priestess and my nemesis Neferet.

'Neferet, I apologize for the disruption.' Dragon placed his fist over his heart and bowed respectfully to his High Priestess. 'This is my new fledgling. He arrived only moments ago.'

'That explains how he got here. It does not explain how that got here.' Neferet pointed at Duchess.

'She's with me,' he said. When Neferet turned her moss-coloured eyes on him, he mimicked Dragon's salute and bow. When he straightened, I was utterly shocked to see him give Neferet a lopsided grin that looked more than a little cocky. 'She's my version of a cat.'

'Really?' Neferet lifted one slim auburn brow. 'Yet she looks oddly like a bear.'

'Well, Priestess, she's a Lab, but you're not the first person who has said she looks bearlike. Her paws are definitely big enough to be a bears. Check it out.' At this, I looked away, knowing that he was going to show her the first trick he had ever taught her: a high-five. I had originally come up with the idea, but he thought it was stupid and didn't think she'd do it, so we taught her it and she learned after two lessons.

I watched as she high-fived him, but, to my utter shock, she ran over to me and leaned her head against my side, whimpering. I looked down and smiled at her and got a big sloppy kiss in return. I ruffled her head as Stark and Neferet came over to our table. When they arrived, Neferet's eyes skipped over me and Aphrodite to rest upon Damien.

'I'm glad you're here, Damien. I'd like you to show Stark his room, and help him find his way around campus.'

'I'd be happy to, Neferet,' Damien said quickly, looking all sparkly eyed when Neferet beamed her one-hundred-watt thank-you smile at him.

'Dragon will help you with the details,' she said. Then her green eyes moved to me. I braced myself. 'And Zoey, this is Stark. Stark, this is Zoey Redbird-'I saw him jerk at my name and he looked at me with sudden realisation in his eyes. '- the leader of our Dark Daughters.'

I smiled up at him and said in what I hoped was a strong voice. 'Long time no see, James.'

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~starkxz~