My version of burned

Stark

I lay there with her in my arms; I just couldn't let her go. She couldn't be dead. She just couldn't. She would come back to me. She always came back, stronger and better. She was the best. She was always there for me when I needed her, now it was my turn to be there for her, she would need me when she came back, it would be heel for her. No heath, her consort, her first love.

Darius put his hand on my shoulder, 'Stark, come, let her go, we must get the Vampyre healers come to her. They can help her.' I could hear his words, but didn't he realise? I couldn't let her go. She was too important to me. I had failed to protect her earlier; I couldn't let her go now.

Darius seemed to realise I wasn't going to let go. He let go of my shoulder and went over to Aphrodite, she looked a mess, but I couldn't see her clearly due to the tears that were falling down my face, she had mascara running down her cheeks, her eyes were bloodshot. When I noticed that, I looked around at the others, they all looked pretty similar, and the twins were holding each other.

I looked at Zoey, she looked so beautiful. So at peace. My tears were falling onto her shirt; it was changing the colour a bit. But I couldn't be concerned by that now, not when I realised that I was feeling someone else's emotions... confusion… worry... then it turned to something else.. Familiarity… happiness. At least she was happy, the corners of her mouth twitched up.

She looked so beautiful. It almost hurt. It wasn't fair that she should be punished like she was simply because I was an awful warrior and had failed her. She shouldn't have to deal with Heath dieing. Her life would be so much better if I wasn't in it. She would be happy. She would have Heath and they would be together, like they were before I came along.

Darius

It was horrible to see the pain that Stark was going through. I couldn't even begin to imagine the pain that I would go through if it was Aphrodite not Zoey. It would be really horrible. I could see that he didn't want to leave her. If she was dead, I would have been happy to let him lay there cradling her in his arms, but I could tell that she was alive. If we could just get her to the healers. Then maybe we could bring her back. We really needed her back. If Aphrodite's vision and Karishma's poem were correct, then she was the only one who could get rid of Kalona once and for all.

Aphrodite came up to me; she put her hand through mine and squeezed my fingers. I looked into her eyes; she had tears running down them. It was causing her mascara to run, but she still looked beautiful. I tried to smile at her, but I couldn't, not with the situation that we were in. we were in grave danger. No one knew where Kalona was. If he chose to come back, we had no Stark, who was one of our greatest warriors. He would be the one that we needed most in the fight. There would be a fight; it just came down to if Zoey would be there, because if she isn't, I know that Stark won't be able to fight properly. Which will put us all in danger, and I had to so what I could to get Aphrodite out of danger... I wondered about sending her back to Tulsa, but the thought of her being away from me was painful. I couldn't be away from her, what if something happened and I couldn't get to her in time?

Aphrodite

I took Darius' hand. I squeezed it. He looked into my eyes. We didn't need to speak; we both had the same things on out mind. I was feeling so sorry for Stark; he was crying his eyes out. If the situation wasn't as it is, I would have made a joke about him being like a girl or something. But I couldn't bring myself to it. Not with the way I felt. Zoey was my best friend. I didn't want to lose her. She was the one who had helped me through hard times; she had been so nice to me when everyone else had been bitches. When I started thinking of our memories, of the laughs we had, the tears started to come over my eyes again. I hadn't noticed that I had managed to stop. But they were back now. I felt so weak. But I just couldn't stop the tears. Darius squeezed my hand tighter. I didn't know what to do. I couldn't stand to be here, over on the other side, there was Heaths body.

I saw that there was a sheet over a tree. I picked it up and went and paced it over heath. I couldn't stand to look at that dead face, not when Zoey was so near to looking like it too. I bent down and kissed my fingers and put them on his forehead. I couldn't kiss his head properly, no way.

I thought that to save Zoey a job when she got back. I might go and ring Stevie Rae and Lenobia and see how everything at Tulsa was. Then I thought about ringing heaths mum and dad. But I thought it was properly better coming from Z's grandma. I walked off to my room.

'Hey Aphrodite. Is everything ok with Z? She isn't answering her phone.'

'No Stevie Rae it isn't.' I told her what had happened. She was crying down the line.

'I'll come and we can cast the circle.' She wanted to come over, but I thought that it was properly best if she didn't. She should stay with her red fledglings. They needed her.

'No Stevie Rae, you stay there, there is no need to come here. We're doing everything we can for Z.'

'Ok. But you'd better ring me if anything changes.' She said. I promised her I would.

'Oh hey, do you have Zoey's grandma's number? I was going to ring her and tell her.'

'Oh, didn't you hear?' she asked. Her voice sounded sad.

Stevie Rae

After talking with Aphrodite, I had no clue what to do. I thought about going to find Lenobia, but I wasn't ready for that yet. So I went to find Dallas. He could always cheer me up.

'Hey Stevie Rae!' I heard Dallas call.

'Hey Dallas!' I called back. He came up and he hugged me and gave me a kiss on the lips. He could always cheer me up. We walked round the school; we stopped in front of Nyx's temple. We sat on the bench in front of it. I told him about the phone call with Aphrodite. He took it well. He said that we needed to tell Lenobia so that she could ring Heath's mum and dad. He said that it was only fair that they found out before they brought his body back.

So we went to Lenobia's office. When we saw her, she looked worried. None of the other fledglings have come out of the spell of Kalona yet. We told her about the phone call.

She said that she would ring heaths mum and dad. I was glad that she was going to do it. I couldn't of. Telling parents that their only son had been murdered. It would be the horrible thing ever. Poor Lenobia.

Zoey

The other world…. This cant be right. I can't be dead. I'm needed on the other side, the twins, Aphrodite, Damien, jack, Darius, Steve Rae and I couldn't even think about the pain he was in, Stark. We hadn't been apart long, but I missed him; everything about him, his smell, his arms wrapped around me, his lips on my lips… the memories we shared.

'Zo!! Hey Zo!' it was heath… I recognised him easily… I would always know that voice.

'Hey heath' he ran up to me and put his arms around me. He put his lips to mine. I wasn't in the mood. I didn't need to be here. But I didn't know how to get back.

'Zo, there is something I need to tell you before you go back.'

'What is it Heath?' I wanted to just keep him talking before I knew what would soon happen, he would be taken from me again.

'Z, its Kalona, he is evil. Pure evil. Nothing you do will change it. He has a plan to get you. He thinks that you are just going to go to him, he has set a plan in action Z, and I think, with the way you feel about him, it'll work.' He looked worried, as if he thought that he had just offended me, but he hadn't. In a way, I knew he was right.

'Heath, I'm so sorry you had to die for me to realise this. This isn't what I wanted to happen. You didn't deserve this.' I started to cry. I felt so guilty. I had taken his future away, and I had taken him away from his parents. They would be so sad.

'Z, no worries, it isn't your fault. It was my stupid fault. I should have been more careful, but hey, you better tell stark that if he doesn't look after you, he is going to get some serious haunting!' I couldn't help but laugh at heath. But I knew that Stark would look after me.

Heath and I just stood there, he looked into my eyes, I couldn't tell what he was thinking, but then he just leaned in and gave me a big hug. I felt that I didn't deserve this hug. But I wound my arms around his neck and let the kiss deepen.

Then when heath let me go, I noticed it behind him, the big glowing ball of gold; I stepped around heath and went to the ball of gold. Out of it came Nyx, she looked beautiful, in a white dress, it went to just above her knee and had no sleeves, just straps over the shoulder. 'Zoey Redbird, you have done well. I'm sorry for the loss of your consort. But do not worry; I will take good care of him until you come to be with him again.' She walked over to heath and said ' you need to say your goodbyes now' I went to heath and hugged him, he smashed his lips to my mouth, we stayed like this for about 5 minutes, then he stepped back with my favourite grin and turned to Nyx. She waved her hand and the golden ball turned to blue, she beckoned to heath to go through, he went through, as he went he turned to wave goodbye, as he slowly faded, I realised that I was crying.

Nyx put her hand on my shoulder as comfort. After a few minutes I was recovered.

'How do I get back?' I asked. I wanted nothing more than to get back to stark to hug him and just sleep in his arms.

'You must find the pieces of your soul, when you find them; you will be able to go back to your warrior.'

'But how do I know where my soul is?' I had no idea how to find it.

'You must find the things that mean the most to you, when you find them, you will be able to piece your should back together. Goodbye and good luck Zoey Redbird.'

I was then stood there alone, in the dark; I had no clue what I was going to do. That's when the light started to come, and I was in the sun it a familiar place. This was my favourite place in the world. I was so glad to be here.