Prologue

The boy was wondering alone in a forest just outside of New York. The cold night air was laden with the pungent smell of fire & ashes. The red glow of the dying fire at a distance had painted the dark horizon in bright crimson. The green grass was painted red with the blood of the people lying at his feet. His bare feet were carrying him among the pile of lifeless bodies. His dark brown eyes were searching among the bodies lying on the ground. His half burnt jeans trailing on the floor slightly behind him, while his night black hair was flying in the wind. He stopped near a body lying in the sea of blood. He tried to look at face of the dead man. Impossible.

Nisroc woke up gasping, blood from his eyes covered his pillow and duvet. He'd had a vision. How far into the future, he wasn't sure. Who he was, he wasn't sure. He hadn't a good look at any of the faces, except that last one. It was him. His charred face. Among the many others who were dead.

He began to contemplate it being a strange memory. Perhaps he'd looked into a mirror. He remembered dozens of people dying in the mass fire, before the agreement was made. He wasn't sure though, maybe Nyx had shown him this memory to prevent another day or night like that.

Maybe.

The Girl From Tulsa

Chapter One

Stevie Rae

Stevie Rae sobbed on her way to New York from Tulsa. She already missed her friends and only said goodbye to them a couple of hours ago. This knew house of night could be awful, what if nobody liked her? Then again, she reminded herself, that was the question she was asking herself when she was marked. She tried to make light of moving. She wouldn't see Neferet anymore, yay! She wouldn't hear Aphrodite's insults to her outfits anymore, another plus. However, she'd also miss Zoey, her best friend, Dallas, her, now, ex-boyfriend, the Twins, Erin and Shaunee, and obviously, the carbon copies of Blaine and Kurt off Glee - Jack and Damien. That made her giggle in the car, but it was true.

She sighed. Maybe she could make veen more happy memories at this house of night. She was determined to. She already had a rommmate, maybe they'd like her, she was pretty exicted to get a roommate. Even if they didn't like each other, oh well, surely there would be someone at this new school who'd like to be friends with her. There were even more fledgings at this school, there was a pretty good chance of making one friend, and making one friend leads to more friends they say.

It was another few hours before they got to New York. When they did get there, Stevie Rae's family cheered. As Stevie Rae was a fledging and it was dangerous for them to be far away from vampyres, as they could die because they haven't completed the change yet, the family headed to the New York Hour of Night before heading to their new home. From her car seat, Stevie Rae saw a Red-haired woman standing outside who she assumed was her new High Priestess. She stepped out of the car nervously, her things had been sent with the moving van and the driver was given specific intructions to drop them off at the house of night. The woman smiled at her as Stevie rae made her way up to her. "Merry Meet, Stevie Rae." The Priestess greeted, with her hand on her heart. "My name is Priestess Lena, but I prefer it much better if everyone calls me Lena. I don't like feeling superior, everyone here is equal."

Stevie Rae smiled at her. "Merry Meet, Lena." She too folded her hand over her heart, she quickly waved to her family as her father beeped the car's horn impatiently, and went back to her conversation with Lena. "I'm really excited to start school here!" She beamed. Lena laughed, and guided her inside.

It was five a.m., and as it was Winter, so the sun came up later than usual, everyone was in their dormitories, lights were still on and noise could be heard, but anyone walking around the corridors seemed quite disciplined and smiled at Stevie Rae. Lena walked her around the school for an hour, explaining that after a long car journey the best thing to do is walk around for an hour. She showed Stevie Rae the grand library, with more books than Steviue Rae ever imagined possible in one room, the courtyard stretch which wasn't anything special, but it was easy to locate where you were on the courtyard as you could view every building.

They were discussing the Tulsa House of Night, when Lena interrupted with a question. "Is I may ask-" Gosh she was so polite! "-Do you like it here at the New York House of Night?"

"Like it? I love it!" They both laughed as they neared a building with the sign DORMITORIES M-Z Stevie Rae already knew there were a lot of fledgings here. Plus there were blocks with Alphabetical dormitories and blocks with Numerical dormitories. The Numbers went up to 26, while the alphabetical domitories, obviously, went up to Z. "Which dormitory is mine?" Lena smiled at her.

"Letter R which I think you'll find on the second floor, it's all on one corridor so no turning lefts or anything. Your roommate is Rephaim." Stevie Rae smiled at her new High Priestess and then headed into the dormitory block labelled 'M to Z'. Eventually she reached letter R, the corridor was quite spooky and dark, she felt as though someone was watching her, but didn't want to think too much about it.

She walked inside and saw a tall, muscular Native american boy. His hair was thick and long and as black as the night sky. Stevie Rae lost her breath for a moment, but quickly headed inside. "Hello, I'm Stevie Rae." She said, smiling at him.

"I'm Rephaim." He replied, turning around on his bed to meet her. "That wardrobe there is yours." he nodded at a wardrobe about a half metre from her bed. She creaked open one of the doors to find her things, already unpacked. "Where you from? Somewhere okie I guess." Stevie Rae sat opposite him on her bed.

"I'm from Tulsa, just moved here. Have you lived here all of your life?" He scoffed.

"No, I've moved from city to city this is actually my fifth house of night. I've been here about three months now." Stevie Rae nodded and tried to think of any more questions to ask. "Why did you move here?" Rephaim asked her.

"Oh my Daddy, he got a job here...what about you?" Rephaim shrugged. He'd already said this was his fifth house of night, and Stevie Rae thought leaving one was hard enough.

Rephaim left Stevie Rae to get changed before dawn, she'd had a long day and obviously felt quite tired. When she did go to bed though, she repeated her question. "Why did you move here again?"

She saw Rephaim bite his lip and looked upwards. He paused for a while before answering. "My, uh, Father moved us here." Great. Already her roommate was lying to her.

Update: 14/05/2012: Rewrote chapter, added prologue and extra information in paragraphs. Corrected some information.