I'm back! Did you miss me? I'm so sorry it's taken so long! I'll be updating The Vampyre's Daughter soon, too, if your also reading that. If you're not aware, that is the story I told you guys about back in Destined. All right, chapter notes. Umm, this chapter is mostly in Layla's POV. The part with Kalona at the reception was supposed to be in the last chapter, but I forgot it. I liked the idea so it's here. All right, so here it goes! Read On!
Chapter 2: Dreamed
Kalona
Kalona looked down at the happy party-goers. He didn't even know why he was here, only that he had felt the pull again. To Layla. He looked down at her now. And, as if she felt it too, she looked up at him. But, only his wings were visible.
"Look, Mama. It's a birdie." she said to Zoey. Zoey looked up but Kalona pulled his wings closer so they, too, were invisible.
"Sorry, honey. I didn't see it. It must've flown away." The little girl kept looking regardless, a faint look of recognition on her face. But she's never seen me, not even in her dreams. he thought. He was right that she'd never seen him. Only glimpses of his wings. Layla continued to look up at him until the groom- Alex?- came up to her.
"And my other favorite girl. Wanna dance, Lay-Lay?" he asked, smiling.
Layla smiled back up at him and accepted the hand he had extended. "Yep." she replied. He led her away and she laughed as he twirled her around and lifted her feet off the ground. Unknown to him, he smiled slightly as he unfurled his wings. She looked at him again but said nothing. See you in your dreams. Kalona thought and flew away, silently.
(2 hours later) Layla (Layla's dreams)
Layla looked around and saw herself in the cave where Aunt Stevie Rae and Uncle Rephaim lived. She looked directly in front of her and saw a man who looked a lot like Kalleb and Uncle Rephaim.
"Hello, child." he said, arms crossed in front of his chest.
"Hello. Who are you?" she asked. She saw him frown as if he were considering something.
"I am Kalona, child. You are Layla, correct?" She nodded at him once. She had heard her mommy and daddy talking about him before. She could tell he wasn't very nice. "Are you scared of me?"
"No. But Mommy and Daaddy talk about you a lot. They said you're bad." He frown got deeper.
"Child, I've done bad things but there is no need for you to be afraid of me."
Kalona
Kalona looked at the little girl in front of him and thought only of how he could use her in the future. If her got her to trust him, he'd be able to do a lot with her. But, because of the enchantment put on her by Zoey's gang, if he did anything untruthful, he'd be cast out.
"Why shouldn't I be scared of you?" she asked him, fiddling with the braid she often wore her hair in.
"I'm not entirely sure, child." It was the truth.
"Stop calling me child! My name's Layla!" she snapped. He was taken aback. Well, she was certainly her mother's child.
"Of course, Layla." he sneered.
"Don't be rude." she sneered right back. She looked as if she was getting more comfortable and less frightened.
"I wasn-" he began but stopped. "Fine." She smiled.
"Why are you here, anyway?" she asked. "I heard Uncle Rephaim say you weren't allowed in the tunnels." she said.
Kalona had to be careful not to lose his temper. "You're dreaming, child."
"Don't call me chi-" she began before she was cut off, "I meant Layla." She cooled back down.
"I'm here because I pulled here by something."
"By what?"
"I'm not sure, child." He was pretty sure she would have yelled at him again had she not been woken up.
Layla
As Layla fell back to sleep, she had a vision.
She sees a woman. She looks up and she knows her immediately as Nyx, her Goddess. She's writing something on purple paper. Her vision zooms in and she can read it.
The Four stand as one.
Though only one can save him.
But, can he be saved?
The Goddess looks at her and says four words. "Who can save him?"
When Layla woke up again she went straight to her mother to tell her about her vision.
Stevie Rae
Stevie Rae got a call from Kramisha in the middle of the day.
"What is it?" she asked angrily. She didn't like to be woken up.
"I got another poem. I called you first but I'm about to call Zoey. You might want to get ever here as soon as the sun sets." she said.
"'Kay. I'll be there." Stevie Rae promptly hung up the phone and fell back asleep.
I know it's short, don't yell at me. I'm tired and it's all I could think up. Sorry for switching the PoV in the middle of Layla and Kalona's conversation, but it was just easier in his. All right, I gotta get to bed before my mother beats me so, yeah. Very tired, StevieRae2011, signing off!
