Chapter 1:
I was panicking amongst the weirdly calm crowd of fledglings. My Cat had popped up next to me, the gray tabby stood hissing up at Nefert and the hot god who emerged from the ground.
My eyes moved towards Zoey and her friends standing in the circle also panicking. Then towards Aphrodite and the warrior she managed to wrap her arms around. Jack and his Lab were waiting on the sidelines too. Well it wasn't really his Lab it was Starks. But since Stark died it was Jacks since it stuck to him like glue. But apparently now thankx to the recent discovery made by Zoey the kids who died from their bodies not accepting the change, were just reborn into what they called red fledglings. And that includes Stark. So he's not really dead he's just a zombie? And conveniently Stark was standing next to the bitch her self-Nefert who ordered him to shoot Stevie Rae who was kind of looking all bloody and grim.
But everyone around me seemed to have trouble seeing how bad she was. After all they didn't have the "Gift" Nyx gave me. But the winged guy gave of an even bigger bad vive, telling me he's bad news. But his face was totally detailed beautifully how could someone so totally crazily perfect for me be evil.
His eyes moved to me and stopped, I saw a smile appear on his face. My heart raced even faster I felt heat go to my cheeks. But the vibe continued to get bigger and bigger and it made me want to through up. I turned to look at what the High High Priestess was doing. She started charging at the hot winged angel. But I saw Nefert come down from her perch to attack her. And with that she fell to the ground. DEAD.
My heart raced even faster as all of the people surrounding me bowed to him. It all went so fast. As the black winged god gaze went to me again sending bad waves all over my body. Then I heard footsteps retreating. I turned around to see Zoey and the others starting to retreat through the wall.
"Ah, hell no!" I said racing past the warriors now charging at the two bad aura catchers, "Come on Misa!" I said to my slinky cat racing behind me.
"Don't let her get away too!" I heard a deep beautiful voice say. It made me want to stop and turn to see whoever acknowledged me. But I knew better. I kept racing towards the open door barely squeezing through. I kept following the group barley keeping up.
I followed Zoey and her friends into a tunnel, looked like they were used for probation. They stopped at a dead end that was covered with a blanket. Some one gripped me and pulled me into the "room."
"Who the Heck are you?" I heard a familiar voice say.
I looked up to see Aphrodite come up from behind the warrior picking me up from my jackets collar. I guess it didn't help my hood was up. I could be a Nefert obsessed student. "Melody" I said relieved my hear beat was dropping to an extent though bid warrior dude wasn't helping me "Melody Lively and this is Misa" My perfectly fit cat muffled s meow.
"Why did you follow us?" That time it was Zoey looking at me as if I could be Nefert follower. These people obviously didn't know me.
"Cause I don't want to be bowing down to the bad ass vibe duo." I said pulling my hood down avoiding bumping the big guy. My long curly dirty blonde hair shot out.
"Oh!" said a familiar voice. I turned my head toward the blonde blue eye girl who I recognized from my Music class. "She's the girl that transferred this year. She can sing and dance, üpper good!"
The caramel skinned girl next to her also in my music class showed enlightenment, like she just solved a cross word or something. "Wow your right twin, plus I remember she had a fit with Nefert a while back."
"Um thankx" I said straining my neck to see if my headphones were in tacked. They were around my neck and connected to my I-pod like always.
"So your on our side young one?" said the warrior griping my jacket.
"If your against Nefert and the guy who came out of the ground, well yeah"
"Good" he said putting me down on the ground again giving an apologetic bow.
"Anyone have a pen and paper," Stevie Rae was up sitting on a bed. She defiantly had an Okie twang to her voice. "I need to make a list of supplies well need if we have to stay hidden for a while." her voice was totally calm despite her situation.
Zoey seemed plenty shocked at her request "Stevie Rae, I'm not so sure this is a good time to be making lists." She seemed pretty grossed out at the wound.
Stevie Rae was sitting in front of Zoey as the warrior ripped the back of her shirt off to expose the arrow. "Ouch! Dang that hurts worse than getting one of those goat head thistles stuck in your foot." she sucked in air and flinched but still managed to smile towards the warrior. "Sorry I didn't mean it's your fault that it hurts. What did you say your name was again?"
"I am Darius Priestess," The warrior said.
'Priestess?'
"He's a son of Erebus warrior," Aphrodite added giving him a smile.
'Oh.'
"Please. His warrior-ness is obvious. He's built like a mountain," The caramel skinned girl said giving Darius an appreciative look.
"A totally hot mountain," The blonde girl echoed making kiss noises at Darius.
"He's taken Twin freaks, so go play with each other" Aphrodite automatically snapped at them.
"Twins?" I asked.
"Erin and Shaunee are soul twins, not biological," Zoey said filling me in. "But genetics didn't matter with them- they might as well have been separated at birth and then rejoined by twin radar."
"Oh," I said, "I guess that makes sense"
"You bet it does" the caramel girl (Shaunee I think) threw her arm on my shoulder reassuringly. "Pretty soon you'll be a Zoey groupie too!"
Erin popped up (well, at least I think) next to Shaunee, "Yeap, you'll get use to all of us. Even the hag over there" she said gesturing towards Aphrodite, who responded with an eye roll.
Shaunee turned towards Aphrodite and pouted "oh yeah. Thanks for reminding us that our boy friends aren't here,"
"'Cause they're probably being eaten by man-bird freaks" Erin finished.
'Eaten? Man-bird freaks?'
"Hey cheer up. Zoey's grandma didn't say the Raven Mockers actually ate people. She said they just picked them up with their humongous beaks and throw them against a wall or whatever over and over again until every bone in their body was broken," Aphrodite told the twins with a lighthearted grin.
My heartbeat raced again.
'Shit'
"I got it! I got it!" Just then Jack had burst into the tunnel area closely by the yellow Lab that rarely let the Kid out of her sight.
He was flushed and brandishing a white briefcase looking thing that had a big red cross on it. "It was right where you said it'd be, Stevie Rae. In that kind of Kitchen tunnel place." He turned to me "Oh so it was Melody following us."
I waved to him and the brown hair guy who came in with him. "Ugh yeah"
"As soon as I get my breath I'll tell you how pleasantly surprised I was when I discovered the working refrigerator and microwaves." The brown hair guy said. He was as breathless as I was, holding Jack to his side.
"You'll have to explain to me how you managed to get all of that down here including the electricity to run it." He paused noticing Stevie Rae's wound. "You'll have to explain after you're fixed up and not en brochette anymore."
"En-huh?" Shaunee said crossing her arms.
"Bro-what?" Erin said, doing the same.
"It's French for something being skewered usually food Cretins. 'The world going insane and evil letting slip the birds of war'- he raised his brows at the Twins. Was he trying to pun something? The twins didn't seemed to get it either.-"does not excuse sloppy vocabulary." Then he turned back to Darius. "Oh and I found this in a not-so-sanitary pile of tools." And lifted what looked like giant scissors.
"Bring the wire cutters and the first aid kit here" Darius said in an all business voice.
"What are you going to do with the wire cutters?" Jack asked.
"I'm going to cut the quill end of the arrow so that I can pull it the rest of the way through the priestess body then she can begin to heal," Darius said simply.
Jack gasped and fell back against the brown eyed and brown hair guy who put an arm around him. I looked at them curiously.
"Oh Jack and Damien are a couple." Shaunee said filling me in.
"Which means they're gay." Erin said nodding.
"Damien maybe you and Jack could uh, go back to that kitchen you found and see if you can whip up something for us to eat," Zoey said (I think trying to get them away from Stevie Rae so she can feel cozy.) "I bet we'd all feel better if we ate something."
"I'd probably puke," Stevie Rae said. "That is unless it's blood." she said trying to shrug but stopped cause it hurt.
"Yeah, not really hungry over here, either," Shaunee said freaking at the arrow coming out of Stevie Rae.
"Maybe Damien and Jack are hungry," I said trying to be helpful to Zoey, but no one listened because Erik Night hurried into the room.
"Got it!" he said. He was holding a really old combo CD-cassette radio that was huge. He avoided eye contact with Stevie-Rae and Darius he sent it on the table and started fiddling with knobs and stuff.
"Where's Venus?" Stevie Rae asked Erik. It looked like it hurt for her to talk.
Erik glanced back towards the ground blanket draped entrance. "She was right behind me I thought she'd come in here and-" Then he looked at Stevie Rae "Ah man that must really hurt," he said quietly "You look bad, Stevie Rae"
"Well, I've felt better. I'm glad Venus helped you out with the boom box. Sometimes we can get radio stations down here," she said trying to smile at him.
"Yeah that's what Venus said, " Erik said vaguely. He was busy looking at the arrow sticking out of Stevie Rae's bare back.
Zoey looked like she had a twinge of jealousy for Venus. Every time Venus was mentioned she showed a slight look of disgust.
"Who's she " Erik said nodding towards me.
I looked at him at him a bit pissed; he did kinda interrupt me. "She is Melody Lively." I said giving him the I'm P.O.'Ed at you tone. "I transferred into the House of Night in Tulsa this year, which makes me a fifth-former. I can sing and dance like the Twins said, but I'm also a black belt, which is why I think Nefert wanted me there. I've hated her ever since my so-called gift from Nyx picked up bad vibes from her."
"Wait, gift?" Zoey asked.
"Yeah," I said kind of embarrassed that I went on a rant. "Apparently every time I go around someone I can pick up good or bad vibes from them depending on if they're good or bad. But I can also pick up feelings." I looked around the room for examples. "All of you give of good vibes." I looked a Stevie Rae "Pain"
Then Aphrodite and Darius. "Love but worried about Stevie Rae."
Damien and Jack "Love but worried about Stevie Rae."
The twins "Semi-pissed at Aphrodite still, but worried about Stevie Rae"
I turned to Erik "Confusion over…" he was harder to read his emotions were mixed up but then the answer popped in my head 'He's confused over Zoey' "A girl" I said trying not to ruin their relationship. "But also worried about Stevie Rae"
Then it was Zoey's turn. "Worried over the wing guy and Stevie Rae, also Jealous"
"Wow" they all said.
"Yeah but since your all worried about Stevie Rae can we focus on her." I said.
"Your right" Darius said putting the first aid kit on Stevie Rae's bed side table opened it and busily pulled out gauze and alcohol and some scary stuff.
Everyone was quiet in worry.
"You know I love y'all like white bread, don't you?" Stevie Rae said giving us a brave smile. They all nodded. "Okay, so you won't take it the wrong way if I say that y'all but Zoey need to go find somethin to keep your selves busy while Darius yanks this arrow outta my chest."
Zoey's turn to panic. "All of them except me? No no no no no. Why do toy want me to stay?"
Stevie Rae gave her the I need you look. "Cause you're our High Priestess, Z. You gotta stay and help Darius. Plus, you've already seen me die once. How much worse could this be than that?" Her eyes went to Zoey's palms.
"Holy crap, Z, look at your hands!"
She turned over her hand and stared at the blue lace work that proved she was Nxy's chosen one.
"Wow, Z, they're amazing" Damien said walking towards her.
"I felt it happening before, when we first got down here. I-I guess I just forgot." Zoey said.
"That's our Z," Jack said "Only she could forget something that's practically a miracle."
"More than practically" Shaunee said.
"But it's a Zoey miracle they happen pretty much all the time," Erin said smirking.
"I can't keep a tattoo and she's covered in them," Aphrodite sighed. "Figures"
My "gift" kicked in on her telling me that she really was in awe like the others.
I couldn't help but marvel a bit at it too.
"Wow" I managed to say.
"They are the Mark of our Goddess's favor showing that you are, indeed, traveling the path she would choose for you. You are our high Priestess" Darius spoke solemnly. "The one Nyx has chosen and priestess, I need your aid with Stevie Rae."
"Oh, for crap's sake! I'll stay and help" Aphrodite marched over to where Stevie Rae was sitting on the edge of her bed. "Blood and pain don't bother me at all as long as they're not mine."
"I should take this close to the entrance to the tunnels I'd probably have more luck getting reception there," Erik said and without so much as glancing at Zoey he left.
"You know, I think food really was a good idea," Damien said taking Jacks hand and following Erik's steps out the room.
"Yeah Damien and I are gay, that means that we are guaranteed to be good cooks," Jack said.
"We're with them," Shaunee said.
"Yeah, were not as convinced about the genetics of gay good cooking we'd better supervise," Erin said.
"I guess I'll go to," I said feeling a bit out of the loop. "She need's blood right?" I asked Darius.
"Yes laced with wine if you have it. She'll need it to recover he said.
"One of the refrigerators is full of blood. Then find Venus," Stevie Rae said through pain. Darius was cleaning her wound. "She likes wine. Tell her what you need and she'll get it for you."
The twins looked at each other with worry. Erin took the initiative to talk. "Stevie Rae are the red kids really okay? I mean, these are the kids who killed the union football player and grabbed Z's human boyfriend, aren't they?"
I felt my heart beat get quicker.
'Killed?'
"Ex-boyfriend," Zoey said but the twins didn't seem to notice.
"Venus just helped Erik," Stevie Rae said "and Aphrodite stayed here for two days. She's still in one piece," Stevie Rae said.
"Yeah, but Erik is a big, healthy male vamp. He'd be hard to bite" Shaunee said.
"Even though he is definitely yummy," Erin added.
"True Twin," Both of them gave Zoey apology shrugs. "And Aphrodite is so damn nasty that no one would want to bite her," Shaunee said confidently.
"But were little bits of vanilla and chocolate, plus a Melody appetizer, we'd tempt even the nicest blood sucking monster"
'Appetizer?'
"Your mom's a blood sucking monster," Aphrodite said, smiling sweetly back at them.
"If y'all don't stop bickering I'm gonna bite you! "Stevie Rae yelled, then winced again and started to pant a bit. My "Gift " kicked in and my hand went to where Stevie Rae's wound would be if it were on me.
"Guys, you're making her hurt herself, and you're giving me a headache she looked really worried about Stevie.
"Let's just go, the sooner we do the sooner Stevie Rae get's better" I said still feeling Stevie Rae's pain.
"Alright." Shaunee said walking with Erin who grabbed me "Come on Melody well make a groupie out of you yet!" she said as we raced out the room.
HEYA!!!!!!!!
This is basically the second chapter of Hunted but with my own extra character. Melody!
And mind you I did keep totally close to the story line I even copied all of the lines that didn't change with my character.
So I hope you liked it and sorry for my horrible spelling!
Peace out!!!!!!!
- Sami
