Hey humanoids! So, this is a rewrite of my first ever completed story. I like the original, but so far I love this new version. If you read the original, great just a warning though, it's basically the same plot just better written, with a few different characters, and much more dramatized. If you haven't read it, just please give Xia a chance. Also, just a fair warning, I never finished reading the series, stopped at the beginning of Tempted, so please don't tell me I have some flaw in the world. I was never much a fan of the Cast's characters or plot, but the world, their mythology still has my heart which is why I originally created this story. Wow this A/N is getting long, I'll talk at more after the chapter.
Things change; they change all the time. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse, and maybe life just becomes different. It's hard to tell which until you're living in a back alley or are on national TV.
But then of course there are those to whom the Fates are simply cunts. Kaine Macabre didn't know it, but she was one of these unlucky sons of bitches.
While she was sitting in class texting her recently Marked friends, she wasn't even this Kaine person. She was just some simple girl with short ruddy brown hair and bright green eyes that missed her friends. The only thing she had hinting to her that her life was going to change was the fact that her friends were different. And she had to be next.
Circe and Cleo were first, almost two months prior. One only a few days after the other. Then Eden and Tilla, last month. Yesterday, yesterday, her best friend Kimi had become a Vampyre fledgling. They were paired up right? Vampyres were all about fate and stuff.
The next day she had her answer. As she stood at the gates of the Baltimore House of Night, she took a deep breath and reached a hand up to touch the new sapphire crescent on her forehead with a smile. She'd only been Marked long enough to pack a bag and drive down there from Pennsylvania, and looking into the sun-lit grounds she felt at home.
The feeling grew as she walked through the gates onto the unfamiliar grounds, trying to find where to go, along the garden lines paths and past modern style buildings. Before she got too far, she was intercepted by a tall woman with long blonde curls and warm brown eyes. She smiled at the young girl as she smoothed out her long, tight black dress; her other hand to move her bangs from her filled in crescent surrounded by delicate but simple spirals.
"Hello, you must be the new arrival. I'm Anmarie Rumsfeld , the High Priestess of this House of Night."
Kaine smiled back shakily and nodded, she was always a little uncomfortable with authority figures despite her outward brazen mannerisms. "Yeah… It's nice to meet you."
Nodding, Anmarie turned slightly. "Let's get out of this sun." The young girl nodded again also.
They came up on what the fledging assumed was the temple and she frowned, the sense of home fading away. Her eyes were heavy as she stared at the statue in the center of the space.
"That's Nyx… Our goddess, the goddess of night."
"Yeah… I know. There's just something..."
Anmarie laughed, and it was obvious that the priestess misinterpreted what that something was in the fledging's mind was. "She is your Goddess now; many fledglings have felt drawn to images of her."
Then, the High Priestess headed upstairs and Kaine followed her into an office. The Vampyre sat behind the desk and held out a folder and a small book. Kaine took them and sat across from her.
"Do you want to change name, first off, Brittany?"
She smiled and nodded; she'd been thinking of this since Circe got Marked. "Kaine Macabre."
Shrugging, Anmarie jotted it down. "Alright, the book i-…"
"The fledgling handbook, and there's probably my schedule and things in the folder."
"Right, you're from there…" She didn't look happy about the anomaly that was her and her friends. It didn't take a genius to figure out their situation wasn't average.
"Yeah… A-Am I rooming with Kimi?" She needed to room with Kimi-Kimi, they were basically twins.
Anmarie nodded. "Yes, she's the only other person without a roommate currently. She hasn't gotten her bearings yet either, so after dusk, my warrior and I will give the pair of you a tour around campus." Then she got up and motioned for Kaine to follow her.
When Kaine entered the dorm room, she saw the dirty blond puff of one of her best friends sitting at the desk, absently paging through her own copy of the handbook. She looked up and her eyes locked onto Kaine's.
"Hey Kimi," She smiled at her friend as the slightly older girl got up and hugged her tightly.
"I knew I'd be seeing you soon!" Kimi squealed. "You change your name?"
"Yep, Kaine. We're going to room together."
She smiled brighter, looking to the priestess for confirmation.
"I'll let you two alone. I'll see you both at sundown." Then the adult Vampyre left.
Kimi pushed Kaine onto the bed and sat next to her. "Want to wake up the rest and show off?"
Kaine shook her head. "Let them sleep, I want to absolutely freak them out when they randomly see me around."
Sneering, the blonde nodded. "You're so evil sissy."
As they talked, Kimi talking about the things she'd noticed since getting there and more detail of how everyone else was, since communication was lessened once each of them got there, Kaine felt less and less secure about how she felt while in the temple. She just kept smiling and putting her clothes away and unearthing her "uniform" with the third former insignia.
Cleo had gotten herself a familiar, an orange tabby male named Kyo, and Circe had bought a Chinchilla named Humphrey at a pet store. Tilla was in love with the Moon Goddess worship, having been a Wiccan before becoming a fledgling, but Eden wasn't in the best health recently (not that she had ever been). Kimi herself hadn't been there long enough to really feel anything, but was in general comfortable, especially knowing her home life wasn't ideal.
Kaine just smiled and nodded. "Anything else special?"
Kimi thought for a while. "Oh, yeah, apparently, Cleo and Circe both got infinities at the second ritual or something."
"Affinities. Which elements?"
"Not sure, you'll have to ask them when you see them."
Finally dusk came around and both girls headed out, making their way to the temple. Anmarie was up in her office, with a very muscular man with very short brown hair and almost yellow eyes with what looked to be the muscles of the face in blue coming from his Mark. Kaine assumed that this was the priestess's warrior.
"Kaine, this is Andus. He teaches several classes here and is in charge of security." Kaine smiled and nodded.
Then they started the tour. Anmarie breezed through the main building, motioning to the separate wings and saying the numbering system was pretty simplistic. She pointed to the cafeteria, mentioning some of its specialties. The boys' and professors' dorms, the infirmary and morgue, most of the gyms were grouped together and connected but she mentioned which was for which. It wasn't a particularly long tour, but just long enough to miss breakfast.
Please review. If you hated it, be constructive. If you loved it, be constructive. If you're comparing it to the original, be constructive. Also be coherent. Just review, please? I have the next two and a half chapters finished, but I'll make you wait. If there's anyone here .