A/N: I don't own Twilight and House of Night
Chapter 2
Zoey's POV
The journey back to House of Night was uneventful meaning we all managed to go back there unscathed (well, unscathed as we'll ever be at the time). When I saw the front gate of the school, I noticed that the professors that help us were waiting for us. The moment we came to the front gate, they all bowed their head and put their right hand to their heart as a sign of respect. I was so overwhelmed in what I saw that I didn't realized that I was crying.
"Welcome back priestess." They all said with relief in their voice.
"Thank you." I replied.
"I'm glad everything turn out well, priestess." I heard from Lenobia.
"Please Lenobia, just call me Zoey. I'm not done with my change yet and still have a lot learn." I said shyly.
"Regardless, you and your friends have to deal with difficult situations that not a lot of vampires experienced. Thank the goddess for that." She smiled.
As we were walking in the school to the stable to bring back the horses, I asked the professors about the outcome of the fight in the school and Stark's condition.
"Did Darius arrive already? Is Stark been taking cared for?" I asked.
"Priestess, the young warrior is been sent to the infirmary to take care of the wound. Your friends are also with him right now, waiting for your return." Anastasia informed me.
"Thank you professor Anastasia. How are things here when we were gone?" I asked.
"As soon as Kalona heard of you and your friends' escaped, he, Neferet, and all the raven mockers followed you to the monastery. There are no casualties and the injuries are not fatal." Lenobia said.
"That is good to hear, but it's not over yet. Kalona and Neferet will probably come back and we also have to deal with other students and accommodate the red vampires since they can't be expose to sunlight." I told them.
"Yes, we should not let our guard down. And about the red fledgling we do have a huge basement below the Nyx's temple. It's not much by now but we can fix it for them. We also have to meet with the other students to inform them on what happen." Lenobia said.
"OK. But first, I have to go to the infirmary to check on everybody. Professor Anastasia, you think you can lead Stevie Rae and the others to the basement? The sun is coming out soon and they have to out of the sun as soon as possible. Lenobia, can you post to the dorms that there will be a meeting that will be held in the temple later tonight?" They all nodded and Professor Anastasia started talking to the red fledglings.
"Are you sure you'll be fine?" Stevie Rae asked.
"Yeah, I'll be fine. Erik is with me." I looked at him and smiled. He smiled in return though it did not meet his eyes. "And besides, the others need you right now and you have to get off the sun pretty soon." I added.
"OK. But if you need anything for me. You know where to find me, right?" Stevie Rae said, concerned.
"I know. I promise to get you if anything happens." I said and hugged her tight. "I'm glad your back here".
"Me too. All right, I'll see you later tonight if nothing happens" Stevie Rae said then followed Professor Anastasia and the rest of the red vampires to the temple.
"I have to tend to the horses and post the announcement so I'll see you later tonight." Lenobia said to me. And out of nowhere she hugged and said "I'm proud of you." then left Erik and I alone.
"So... I guess we have to go to the infirmary now." I told Erik awkwardly.
"Yeah, I guess so." he whispered.
Bella's POV
As soon as Carlisle, Reneesme and Jacob came back, we all went to the dining room then Alice and Edward started to tell them about the new problem and a new breed of vampires. The three of them were frozen in shock. Jacob was the first one to thawed down and exclaimed, "Another type of leeches?! And she's like the key to stop the end of the world?!"
"That's really cool momma!" Reneesme said to me.
"I guess it is honey. But she is in danger and we have to go help her." I told her.
"OK but I wanna go with you and daddy. I wanna meet her too!" she said excitedly.
"I don't think so Nessie. We don't want you to get hurt and put in danger again." Edward said.
"But daddy, I'll be safest with you and momma and Jake is gonna go with us too. Right Jake?" Nessie said and look at Jake with spark in her eyes.
"Edward, what do you think? Maybe we should take Nessie with us. I feel a whole lot better anyway if she's by our side." I said to Edward who, in the end, reluctantly agreed.
"So Alice, did you see anything that will help us save this girl? Do we know who did this? Where are we going to go?" Carlisle asked Alice with the sound of urgency.
"All I saw is that our world is not what it is now. There are a lot of chaos and violence. I can't see who or what is the cause of this but I see where it all started; Tulsa, Oklahoma. I guess that's where we are going to locate this girl. I saw that she's going to die at a school." She stopped, thinking then added, "Well, it looks like a castle than a school. It's called House of Night."
"Did you find out the name of the girl that we're supposed to help?" Carlisle continued to asked.
"Yes. Her name is Zoey. On the vision of her death, her friends were shouting her name." Edward said.
"Well, that makes her easy to find. We know who and where but we still don't know the when." Emmet thought out loud.
"It's hard for Alice to identify when it is going to happen right now. But she saw it's going to be at night so it will be perfect for us." Edward said.
"Well, that's good to know. At least we don't have to hide out of the sun." Rosalie said.
All of a sudden, Alice became stiff which meant that she was having a vision and Edward was concentrating in seeing it along with her.
"What do you see now?" Jasper asked while stroking the back of his wife.
"We're going to meet her in two days. They're all going to be confused but they will handle it pretty well." Then Alice looked at Carlisle and added, "Your expertise as a doctor will be highly needed in the near future. Also, there's more going on besides the Zoey."
"What do you mean there's more?" Esme asked worried.
Before Alice answered her said, "Some of them have acquired injuries." then glanced at Edward and asked him "Did you noticed there are differences in some of them?"
Edward was thinking hard then raised an eyebrow and said "Some of them have dark blue tattoos while some have red. I don't think that was relevant..." I cut him off.
"I think it is. We don't really know much about them so I think that we don't have to ignore these small details." I said sounding like a teacher lecturing a student.
"She's right Edward. The scarlet tattoo's may have a big part of this mess and we don't want to miss anything that might save the world. " Jasper said with military authority.
Edward nodded then Alice continued, "They're in pretty bad shape right now and they probably needed help wherever they can take it. So, my suggestion is to go there now and help them as soon as we can."
We all nodded. While my family put the bags in the trunks of the cars that we're going to bring, I called my dad to tell him that we will be gone for a while and I'll call him whenever I can and Jacob tried to tie things up back in La Push and handed Leah his Alpha authority until he gets back. I have a feeling while staring at my family that we're going to have a big problem in our hands...
