"Hanna Bates! Night has chosen thee; thy death will be their birth. Night calls to thee; hearken to her sweet voice. Your destiny awaits you at the House of Night!"

I turned around as I heard my name and saw a handsome man with brown hair and blue eyes pointing at me. He smiled, and the next thing I knew, I didn't know anything.

I had just been walking in my front yard, and this guy finds me!?

Whaaaaat?

I didn't even want to be a vampyre! That was my sisters job!

I woke in a field. It was a wonderful, beautiful field. And to nicely compliment it, there was a beautiful lady standing near me in it. I couldn't really tell what she looked like; only that she was beautiful. And definitely supernatural.

"Hanna, you are special to me. I need you to do some."

I blinked and realized something. "Nyx!" I blurted loudly. I stared at her with wide eyes. Wow, was I surprised. I didn't even believe in this shit!

Nyx chuckled. "Well, start believing, dear."

"B-b-b-b-" I stuttered.

"You can see me, therefore I am real."

I noticed something- our words seemed to dance in front of us, in beautiful golds and silvers and purples and greens. I watched her words, which seemed so much more beautiful that mine, mesmerized.

"You're special, dear," said Nyx. I looked away from the words, turning a bit pink because I felt childish.

I looked at her. "I'm Hanna. Not special."

"You're special, and you'll learn that you are soon."

I didn't say anything.

"I have a mission for you."

"What is it?" I asked, not insanely curious, but curious enough to ask.

"Find Professor Lenobia. Tell her to get you on a private jet to Venice, Italy."

"Italy?! I'm not going to Italy!"

"Calm, young Priestess."

Priestess?

"Yes. Priestess."

Hey look, she could read my thoughts. Fun.

"O…kay…"

"Tell Lenobia that you must find Zoey Redbird."

Zoey? Zoey! I knew Zoey! Oh my gosh! She was the one marked like a year ago in the middle of school!

"Yes, Nyx." I said, putting my fist over my heart in what I instinctively knew was a respectful signal in the vampyre community.

She smiled a heartbreakingly beautiful smile and I woke up.

And when I woke up, all I knew was that I was in severe pain and there was a prickling sensation in my forehead.

I felt like Harry Potter saying that, but it was true. That's exactly how I felt.

I sat up in the little bed -cot?- and looked around.

Well, it wasn't a cot I was laying in. It was a big armchair that I was snuggled up in.

I think I was in a bedroom. A very, very dark bedroom.

There was a made-up twin bed on the far right and a closet in the opposite wall. The bed had a neon pink comforter on it. The room was painted a light purple. There was a side table next to my bed which held a vase with a solitary pink carnation in it and a lamp with a sparkly/furry neon green shade. It was my lamp from home. And that was my side table. And that was my comforter.

I looked at a picture on the wall. It was a picture of me and Airy. She didn't like me calling her Airy, though, now that she's found out she has an affinity for water. Whoop-de-do.

I looked at the alarm clock next to my bed and saw it was ten in the morning. Or afternoon. The clock didn't say.

It may be morning, but it shouldn't be sunny. There had been ice storms, and just plain storms, constantly for the past few days. It was cold and dark outside. It was warm and dark inside.

And I was glad it was warm, too. Because I was sick of being cold and, well, freezing. I scrambled out of bed and ran to the nearest mirror to look at myself.

As expected, I had a crescent moon in the center of my forehead.

But, something was wrong with it.

It was filled in! And I had tattoos spiraling delicately down either side of my face!

How long had I been asleep?

I erased the thought from my mind. Right now, I had to go call my mother and father, and then find Lenobia.

I looked around the room to see if I could find a phone.

Once I located one, I dialed my home phone number. It rang half of a time and then my frantic mother picked up.

"HANNA IS THAT YOU WHERE ARE YOU WHAT'S HAPPENING DID THEY TAKE YOU TO THE HOUSE OF NIGHT ARE YOU OKAY WHAT HAPPENED ARE YOU OKAY?"

"Mom--"

"HANNA ARE YOU OKAY?"

"Mom, you asked that three times--" "ARE YOU AT THE HOUSE OF NIGHT?"

"MOM. SETTLE DOWN."

She went quiet, and I exhaled.

"Thank you. Yes it is me. I am at the House of Night. I…had a dream. Or vision. It was from Nyx." Thankfully, my mother believed in all of this, seeing as my sister was a vampyre, too. Or, a fledging.

"Oh, honey, you did?! What did she say?"

"She told me to find Lenobia. And that I was going to Italy. And then I had to find Zoey Redbird."

"Zoey Redbird…" my mother muttered to herself as if the name was familiar.

"I think she's one of Airy's friends."

"She's the special one; the one with all the affinities and the full tattoos even though she's a fledging."

"I think so. And, mom, I have the tattoos, too."

"Oh. Oh wow. Oh…Just…Wow."

"Yeah."

"You're going to be a High Priestess."

"I guess so. Is it day or night right now?"

"It's night time."

"Okay."

"Go find Lenobia. Call me when you're in Italy okay?"

"I will mom."

I hung up and took a deep breath, then I stepped into the hall, waiting for my destiny to be revealed.