HAPPY NEW YEAR! Okay I know it's a little late for that but I figure it's the new year, so how do I celebrate it for all of ya? By creating a new, epic story for all of you to enjoy. Hope you love it. This first chapter should take place around Burned and Awakened. Zoey has come back to the real world alive and safe, but before everyone discovers Stevie Rae's big secret. Oh and p.s. this first chapter is, yes, a prologue.

Disclaimer: I own nothing related to House of Night.

*Aphrodite-5 years prior*

Hey, my name is Aphrodite. I'm a non-fledgling. It's a long story, but while I don't have any physical mark, I am touched by the Vampyre Goddess Nyx. I have visions that forewarn me of terrible events to come. And I am now celebrating the fact Zoey has now come back to us safe and sound to help fight against an evil force known as Neferet.

So let me recap; Because of a poem Kramisha wrote, Stark brought back Zoey to consciousness, sorta, by bringing her soul back together, and now she's fully alive so she can get back to kicking Nefert's evil ass. But at the same time that means that Kalona's soul is now back in his body and in this world again too. Well I guess one had to balance to good with the bad. At least that's what I've been doing ever since this whole fucked up battle began.

And hey with Zoey back at least that means none of that effed up vision I had coming true. I mean ugh.. who needed any of THAT coming true. I mean it was one thing being tortured by being burned by Kalona, THEN being whipped and exposed to that Darkness crap that looked like it was taking orders from Neferet claiming everyone, but having a Raven Mocker take Stevie Rae as it's lover. One word; EWW!

As usual I was celebrating the only way I knew how; by getting myself wasted, and hanging out with my sexy warrior, Darius.

"I know that this battle between Light and Darkness is still going hard and all, but I would seriously pay anything to see Neferet's face when she found out that her evil plan to kill Zoey did not work out." I said out loud to anyone who would listen and agree. Oh wait I was talking on the phone wasn't I?

"Hehe, yeah. I'd bet that even she would be like a little girl in denial when she's told 'No-no'." Stevie Rae said from the other side of the phone.

Though I knew she was joking, with the state of my mind, I couldn't help but think up of the image doing that, and belted out a laugh.

"My love, I think you should hang up now. We are almost ready to leave." My man reminded me.

"Huh? Oh sure. Listen Bumpkin, I gotta go, 'sides, I think I'm getting a little too tipsy to talk." I said.

"No problem. Besides I gotta go to. I'll be sure to spread the good news." She said that Oakie twang drowning in her voice. Then we both hung up.

"Are you sure you are alright Love?" Darius asked me.

"Fine. A little tipsy, but who cares?" I simply replied, with what I was sure was a goofy and totally unattractive smile on my face.

"Anyone who relay's on your visions to help us keep ahead of all of the baddies." I heard Zoey say. She sounded breathless, and seeing as how as she and Stark were both leaning on each other, like they couldn't support each other without the other supporting them.. Woah.. Head hammering thought there.

"Relax. When has me getting visions ever effected my drunk?" I asked. Wait that didn't sound right.(A/N writing drunk people is fun! :D)

In return I got an eye-brow raised from Zoey clearly saying she was un-amused.

"I think you've had enough." She said while taking my wine away.

"Alright, fine. No more for the prophetess. I get it. Can you at least let me…" Was all I could say before my mind literally went blank for a moment.

"Let you what?" I heard Zoey ask, but it sounded way, way, way, far off. Like I was hearing her from miles away.

Next thing I knew my entire body was shaking, like I was having a seizure, only worse.

"Aphrodite!" I heard Zoey and Stark both scream from a far-away distance. Darius was doing his best to keep me up and alert, calling me "Love", my name, and such. But I could barely hear him, or anyone else. What was even scarier, was that I couldn't feel anything else either.

Then an all too familiar pain arose to my eyes, like they were on fire. I couldn't help but belt out a scream. And somewhere within in my scream it was like my soul was forcefully ejected from my body. Next thing I knew I was standing/floating in a dark space, like I was waiting for something to show me something. And what was really strange, I couldn't feel any pain any more.

"What's going on?" I asked, even though I knew what was happening. I was having another pain-in-the-ass vision!

But this was WAY different. I didn't hear the Goddess tell me what was happening, or anything like that. It was different. Wrong. Because, one moment I was all alone in a dark space, next thing I knew a scene looked like it was trying to force itself into my line of vision.

I also wasn't a part of it. Just an innocent on-looker. Except what I was seeing wasn't all that innocent.

What I was looking at was Hell.

The entire earth looked ravaged, like it just went through three different types of apocalypses, and trying to make sure it still had enough strength to keep everyone alive but failed.

The sky was dark, but not like night time, midnight, new moon sky, dark, no dark as in evil dark. The sky looked like dried, spilled blood, and wasn't changing anytime soon.

There were also bodies everywhere. But they looked as alive as the world around the poor corpses.

'But how. How could all of this happen? Zoey's alive. And even when I saw what happened to her dead, it wasn't ANYTHING like this!' My mind screeched out... or was that my voice? Fuck! I couldn't tell.

Then I saw something that sorta put everything into understanding. Sorta.

I saw the House of Night, back in Tulsa. And it looked like an impenetrable fortress. But it was wrong.

For starters, Neferet was at the top, like a queen looking down at the world she either created or destroyed, and was laughing gleefully. Below her was what looked like an army, but something was wrong with that scene too.

After a closer look, I saw the reason why. That army was entirely composed of all of the Red Fledglings, the good ones, and the bad ones(I assumed) that Stevie Rae warned us about. But something was off, a lot of them looked like they already completed the change. Including Dallas, Kramisha, and even Stark. But Stark and Dallas looked like they were leading the army. The entire red army was dismissed like it needed to find more land to destroy. Leaving only Dallas and Stark. They didn't look happy with each other. Stark looked broken and annoyed. Dallas, looked annoyed too, but for a different reason.

Before the scene changed, I saw that they were arguing, but I couldn't WHAT they were saying to each other exactly. All I knew was that they were going at each other's throat.

And when the new scene changed I almost choked on a ball of tears I didn't know were forming in my eyes.

Zoey was in a cage like a freak show performer. She looked so broken, and used that it was heart breaking, but like the other Red Fledglings, I mean vampyres, she looked older somewhat. I mean… It was hard to see her like this. I may not admit it openly, but I loved her like a sister. She was the only one who stood by me knowing I spoke the truth when Neferet striped all credibility from me. And to see her like this, was hard.

She looked like she was crying, but with black tears. Or it could be the incredibly heavy black make-up that was plastered all over her face running. Seriously. Whoever put that make up her needs to learn that there is a word such as "over-doing-it" when it comes to make-up.

I knew it was pointless, but I couldn't help myself. I made myself float to the bars blocking her from the world.

"Zoey? Please what's going on? Who put you here?" I asked knowing she couldn't hear me. But then she cringed away like I was some kind of evil spirit come to torment her. Or even more so than she already was.

"Zoey?" I tried to reason with her, but she still cringed, and I understood as soon as I saw a shadow fall over her.

I turned around and saw Neferet looking even more evil then I ever thought possible. She looked like she really did come from hell. Dark tendrils coated her entire body, like snakes obeying their mistress. I saw her flash her teeth in a feral smile that positively oozed evil.

"I would think you would get used to this." I heard her say to Zoey, who was still shaking in fear. But before I could see what Neferet was talking about, the scene changed again. This time in an altogether different location.

I don't know where I was all I knew what I was seeing. Kalona and all of his Raven Mocker children causing chaos I could only guess they made before Kalona was entrapped for the first time. It was terrible to watch, I couldn't look. There was just so many things one could view before it made one puke their guts up. So I blocked the scene from view, not noticing several things that should have been noticed. Then I felt the scene change one more time. But this time when I looked, I was in that same black moment again, but I saw a woman fallen like she was poisoned or something. But she looked so familiar, I just couldn't stand by and watch. I ran over to her side, even before I heard her voice.

"Aphrodite, my daughter, I'm sorry you had to see this, but I'm afraid there isn't anything you can do to stop this horrible future."

"Nyx?" I said in a breathless voice.

The woman raised her head, and I knew I was right. It was Nyx, but she looked defeated, and I couldn't help but release the tears that were forming in my head.

"Yes."

"What happened? How can we prevent this? What's going on?" I asked rapidly, not knowing if any of those questions, would be answered.

I'm afraid none of the answers you seek can stop this future. It is to come weather you try to stop it or not. I heard another voice inside my head boom. It was a deep voice that was filled with a wisdom that no one singular person could have but it also was filled with sorrow.

Next thing I knew, a giant black bull formed around the Goddess' fallen form, as if he was trying to protect her, or give her some of its strength.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"This future is inevitable. The only way this horror will ever end is for it to happen for someone with its army of believers to fix it." I heard the Goddess say with what sounded like forcing back tears.

"But… but…" I tried to say something, but found myself unable.

The Goddess of Night and of the Vampyres speaks the truth. You can and may tell you allies, but it will be all for not. Unless afterwards any of you can solve a plan to restore order young prophetess. The enormous black bull told me, warning me.

"But that doesn't make any sense! How can we fix something that seems so repairable? Aren't the points of these vision's to make sure they don't happen?" I asked.

"They are there for warning Aphrodite. For now you are the only one to see this future. Do not fear it, learn it." I heard the Goddess forewarn.

"Yes." Was all I could muster.

Now you must return. Remember the words of warning we gave you. Do not let this new wisdom fall in vein. The black bull said before returning to the Goddess to heal her.

Next thing I knew I was being propelled backwards at supersonic speed. Then crashing back into my body with what felt like a crash.

I sat strait up screaming. I felt unbearable pain again. Mostly around my eye area, and my eyes. But I couldn't see a single thing!

"Aphrodite? Calm down. What do you see?" I heard Zoey say, with slurred words, like she was repeating herself over and over again.

"Nothing! I can't see anything! Oh Goddess my eyes!" I screamed.

"Stark, go get some help. Darius, go get some water and a wet rag." I heard Zoey command, then I heard their footsteps retreating.

"Aphrodite, please calm down, I'm right here." I heard her saying these words with some kind of soothing tone, then I heard her channel spirit into me to calm me. Which it did slightly. But I was still in pain and shaking.

"Aphrodite?" Zoey asked.

"Yeah… I'm here." I answered shakingly, with even more shaking breaths.

"While we're waiting, can you tell me what you saw?" She asked.

"No… They… Need to… All hear." I said as calmly as I could. Next thing I knew I heard frantic footsteps, sounding like they were running towards this room.

"What's going on?" I heard Sgiach ask.

"Aphordite had a vision. A really bad one from the looks of it." I heard Stark explain.

Without helping myself I barked out a laugh. "Hah! You don't know the half of it." I said while I felt a warm/cool cloth wrap around my eyes, and soon the pain started to fade away.

"Shhh. My love. You need to rest your eyes." I heard Darius tell me.

"Is it really that bad?" I asked sooo dumbly.

"Uh, yes. Your eyes are bleeding so badly we almost thought that your eyes were going to fall out." I heard Zoey scoff.

"Fuck." I said, temporally forgetting that Sgiach was in the room.

"Aphrodite, I know you have been through a lot but could you tell us what you saw." I heard the queen ask.

"Yes,"

"Good."

"But I need to tell everyone. Where the hell is the phone? Or a laptop with skype?" I asked, trying to sit up even though I could feel Darius forcing me down.

"Oh no you don't. You need your rest you can tell us now and we'll tell the others later while you're resting.

"NO!" I screamed while forcing myself up, getting really dizzy in the process, but I kept myself up.

"I need to tell everybody. They all need to know."

"Why so forceful in this Aphrodite?" I heard Stark say.

"Because everyone needs to be aware. They all need to know that hope is still there." I said, with the Black Bull and Nyx's word flitting through my mind.

"What do you mean?" I heard Zoey ask.

"Because there's no way any of us can prevent what's going to happen what I just saw. But we can fix it after wards." I said, more to myself then, since even I heard how dreamy my voice sounded.

"Aphrodite, you're not making any sense." Zoey said.

"Fine." I said, taking off the rag, seeing a blood red outline of the room that, thankfully, was fading quickly. "But I gotta warn ya, it aint pretty." I warned then continued to explaining my vision to everyone.

"So the fallen high priestess of your House of Night succeeds in taking over the world?" Sgiach asked.

"And there's not a damn thing we can do about it?" Stark finished for her.

I shook my head no lightly.

"Unfortunately that's correct. It's what I saw, it's what I was told, it's what's going to happen." I said.

"But how?" I heard Darius ask from behind me.

"Like I said, I don't know how. All I know is that it happened. And you're her puppet," I said pointing to Zoey. "And your one of her soldiers." I finished, pointing to Stark this time.

"No way can that happen." Stark said, so full of himself.

"I saw what I saw." I said, a little more forcefully then I intended to.

"We know, and we're not denying that, but don't you think that this vision is a little…" I heard Zoey stammer, like she didn't know what word to use.

"A little what?" I asked, but it sounded more like I was daring her to say something.

"Out there. Okay true you've had some pretty bad visions, but at least there were reasons for how, and why they happened. This time, we've got nothing." Zoey explained. And I hated myself for it, but it made sense to me.

"Yes I know but like I said, there's nothing we can do to prevent this. This vision is going to happen, no matter what we do." I explained yet again.

"It seems strange that the Goddess herself, and even Light given form would give you a vision of this apocalypse just to tell you that it's unavoidable." Sgiach said.

'Great, even the warrior queen who is one of the only people left who serves the Black Bull finds all of this bull.' Was all a I could think.

"And I told you that they told me that while that future is unavoidable, they also said that we can't give up hope and do what we can to fix it and destroy Neferet in the middle of all of that crap." I said my version of what I was told, ignoring yet again, who I was speaking to.

Sgiach just sighed and walked away.

"Aphrodite, even you have to admit that, that all seems so far off." Zoey said, sounding disappointed in herself for saying the words.

"True, but when have my visions have ever let any of us astray?" I asked, or dared her to answer.

"Okay, point taken, but even you said, that this couldn't be stop weather we tried anything or not." She reminded me.

"Are you suggesting that we just ignore this?" Darius asked her, clearly saying what I was thinking.

"I'm saying we have no choice but to do so, yes." I heard her say, it almost sounded apologetic. But with what I say, almost was nothing.

"Aphrodite," I heard Zoey try to say something else, but I was sooo not in the mood to hear it.

"No your right. I mean you are the priestess in training here. I'm just the silly-vision-having-human. And what good am I if I can't even say how terrible events happen when that's all I'm good for." I said, standing u and walking away. Jeesh, even to me that sounded bitchy.

"That's not what I,"

"No forget. We should get going. You all said so. So let's go." I said, grabbing my things blindly and heading out the door.

After we left it seemed that my little bitch performance told everyone to be quite. And because of that it was a quick trip back home. And a nice little, nappy-pappy, reunion was insured between the Nerd Herd and the ones left behind.

I guess it wasn't all surprising that I was sooo not getting myself involved in that kind of sappy crap. But I couldn't help but wonder if ANYONE noticed my even bigger distaste for all of this happy times crap. I mean I just had the worst kind of vision I could ever have, and it was unavoidable, and here was everyone else… Hugging, talking, laughing, and all that kind of shit while they were still unaware of the hell to come. Goddess I sounded so emo.

"Maybe it would help if you were to actually be a part of this good time." I heard someone say, I wasn't paying attention to the voice so I only knew it was Zoey when I looked up.

"Or maybe it would it help if this world wasn't going to be straight to hell." I said.

"Okay, since when did you turn into The People of Faith." Zoey asked distastefully. Hmm... Maybe she's been hanging out with me a little too much.

"Since I actually say it happen." I said even what I thought was more disdainful. "Hey where's Stevie Rae?" I asked, noticing that with all of the people here, she wasn't.

"Humph. Maybe if you were to actually lighten up, you would've noticed that Stevie Rae said that she had business to take care of. She said she'll be back soon. Maybe you should enjoy yourself for the time being." Zoey told me.

I didn't take her advice. I just couldn't. But that didn't stop me from trying to warn everyone else. Unfortunately, it was all the same. It was either the same reaction from Zoey and Stark, or they would just say I made it up completely.

It was in the end, of course, pointless. My vision came true soon enough.

I still don't know how Neferet managed to do it; all I know was that she did it. She finally took over the world. It was in her palm, to be done with what she will.

The only comfort I could possibly confine in was that Zoey was still alive. Alright she was now Neferet's puppet, but she was still alive.

"My love are you..?" I heard Darius start.

"No. No visions now. Just looking back." I told him. Oh yeah, and the fact that I still had my warrior with me through and through.

"I know how easy it could be for one to look back on the good times, my love, but now is not the time for that." He told me as he strapped up his ammo alongside his guns.

"I know. And I'm coming." I said as I strapped my set of weapons of knives and guns around my torso.

"Besides, we need to get moving. No telling what scumball is lurking around here." I said as I started heading towards him. "Were you able to..?"

"I managed to find an old cave. It's deep, but it looks like it went through a lot of damage. I suspect anyone who sees it will think death." He told me.

"What part of this world doesn't?" I mumbled. "Good. We'll rest there for the while."

"Of course." He said as he lead me to the cave he told me about.

Hey, my name is Aphrodite. I'm a non-fledgling. It's a long story, but while I don't have any physical mark, I am touched by the Vampyre Goddess Nyx. I have visions that forewarn me of terrible events to come. I had a vision of this time a while ago, but instead of avoiding it, I have to fix it. So now instead taking in small victories, I'm being trained to find some way to fight against the newest embodiment of Darkness itself. It takes the name of Neferet.

Did you see what I did there? Well did ya? I really hope you liked this, and yes more chapters will follow. I hoped you enjoyed this foreshadowed chapter of Post Apocalypse. More will sure to follow. R&R and see if you can spot the little tid bit that will be shown in WAY future chapters. Stay in tuned. SEE YA!