I still don't own HON and everyone wants to but HON belongs to P.C and Kristen Cast but some things like the plot our own characters and original poems and songs are ours yeah! J

Chapter 1

Zoey's Pov

Hi, my name is Zoey Redbird, I'm no ordinary vampire fledgling and I'm a 17 year old girl who doesn't have to attend the house of night. Anyone would agree I'm not normal but I do have really cool affinities that my goddess gave me. But I do ask myself this one question why did I live when I should've died?

I woke up yet again asking myself this question, the question that I just couldn't answer. And yet again I thought back to that time 1 and a half years ago when I was marked. My mom and the step-loser had wanted me to stay at home, and it was known that if I didn't go to the house of night I would die. Well I'm an exception. I ran away and went to my grandma's house and I fainted thinking I was going to die, but I didn't because Nyx – our goddess gave me a gift so that I could live without needing to go to the house of night. Then I thought about the wacky turn my life took after I decided to try to be normal and fit in. I received several gifts, found out my boyfriend, Heath Luck, had cheated on me with my best friend, imprinted with him, became an outcast to the school and saved a fledgling with a red mark from eating a human and might have made him keep his humanity. So anyone would agree I'm far from normal.

"U-we-tsi-ge-ya!" my grandma called "Are you awake, you're going to be late for school," I had lived with her for the last year and a half because if I went back home my welcome would be 'get away from us Satan' well that was John Heffer, yes that is his last name and now it's my mom's last name too since she remarried, the step-loser for you. I sighed and got ready.

As I entered the kitchen, my grandma was making pancakes for us both. She was the perfect grandma you could have she stepped in and had been my mom since she married John and she always smelt of lavender since she owned her very own lavender farm. She handed me my share of the pancakes and a cup of tea and as always they were delicious. "Did you sleep well u-we-tsi-ge-ya," she said it was typical morning conversation but back in my old life the life when I was human there was no conversation at the breakfast table, we would have to pray to 'god' and say that we were thankful for the meal we just ate.

"I did Grandma but then again the fallen angel was in my dreams again, but it was different it was on top of a castle on some exotic island." A fallen angel had been in my dreams since I was 13 years old, for nearly all of the dreams, we were in some dark, earth smelling place and he told me times of when he was younger and he fell in love but he was in competition from his brothers, Eros, Draco and Erebus then he fell in love again but it hurt him more than the last, and so he had sworn that love wouldn't come as easy as he thought and he would have to wait years before he found the right person. He had seemed to live a very long time and he only survived because he was an immortal but the dream I had last night wasn't in the peaceful earthy place it was in the open air on the roof of an ancient castle in a very hot and exotic place.

"I wonder what had changed for this fallen angel, but be careful u-we-tsi-ge-ya he may not be all that he appears to be" she said her voice full of concern and worry, she really wanted me to be careful around the immortal who had been almost like a friend to me.

"I will be grandma I promise," I replied just to calm her and it did her face relaxed almost immediately because she trusted me and would be there for me if I made a mistake but she also gave me advice and for that I was grateful, it let me know that she was always there for me when I needed her. She was the mom I always wanted.

I packed my bag and headed over to the fridge, as a vampire I experienced bloodlust so we have blood. There was only one bottle left.

"Damn, this is the last one why hasn't he called to say he has more for me" I muttered, a teacher at the Tulsa House Of Night (called Loren Blake) had been sneaking blood out to me, every Thursday after school I would drive up there and collect it in secret but he hadn't been there or called to say why. And I was getting worried I have kinda a crush on him because he's smoking hot, intelligent, funny and kind.

"That's that last one, I think we'll have to get the blood on our own now u-we-tsi-ge-ya" she said as she calmly sipped her tea. I said my goodbyes not bothering to cover up my mark I never do its quite beautiful how it's coloured in and added to. I left and it was so annoying how I had to leave early because it was such a long drive to school but it was what it was. As I got there it was the usual people who would hang around the entrance of the school just to taunt me and try to mock me. But as usual my affinity of enhanced hearing made it worse I could hear every insult. My sister, Michelle Montgomery, was the first. "Oh look its little miss vampire who wants to bite my neck" she said saying it as if she was right out of Bram Stokers Dracula (which is my favourite book) I didn't say anything knowing that it just wasn't worth it. She than stuffed a cross and garlic right into my face, "I cast the demon out of you, oh wait that's all you are" she laughed than all of her friends laughed too.

"That doesn't do anything Michelle" I said and began to walk away when she threw a bottle of holy water all over me,

"Oops."

I growled and it was a good thing I had an affinity for the five elements air, fire, water, earth and spirit. "fire come to me" I whispered, quietly enough so that no-one could hear me"I need you to dry my clothes and rid them of the holy water." Once that was done I said it could depart and walked further in, I caught a glimpse of Kayla, my ex-best friend and Heath, my ex-boyfriend making out and I could sense his pleasure through the imprint and I wished I had never done it in the first place. They broke apart only to allow Kayla to glare at me, it was the I-don't-care-if-you-saw-us-because-you-don't-have-him look. While Heath on the other hand looked pained to see me, slivers of sadness registered through the imprint, now why was he sad? Did he regret cheating on me or the imprint? And I noticed that I was scowling while Kayla was grinning and it looked as if I was jealous oh boy.

They followed me to my locker and there was a vampire next to my locker and there was a familiarity of déjà vu. I thought about the last time when the dead guy was there to mark me and now this! But why was he here? And just like the last time we ignored him.

"So why are you jealous? Because you're the one who broke up with the hunk-a-delicious who is now mine." Kayla sneered, she just wasn't the same after I found out that she cheated and that she was a slut but maybe she was always that way.

"Kayla I could never be jealous just..." I couldn't put my finger on the word; maybe I was hurt, sad, angry, betrayed but I could never be jealous – well. Anyway I dropped her nickname which was K after I was marked and found her flirting with my almost boyfriend, I had actually had an argument with them then ran out of school and drove through Tulsa for the day. "Just drop it O.K I could never be jealous of the slut and her new toy" anger taking over and I just didn't care if it sounded as if I was jealous. "Was it my fault that I was marked, my fault that you's two cheated, my fault that everyone betrayed me for things that were beyond me and not my fault, no." Hot tears running down my cheeks and the elements at full power around me and they backed off and I felt everyone's eyes on us, watching us and gossiping about me. I looked at them, they all looked scared, horrified, terrified and I called off the elements I just couldn't do it. I couldn't become a monster, the monster that when I was marked I swore to myself that I would never become, I wouldn't be that monster because everything Nyx had gifted me with would be in the wrong hands and I didn't want that. They were safe in my hands as long I was me, I was still me right now. But I could care less what the people around thought and I couldn't take everyone's stares on me, so I swiped away the tears with the back of my hand and turned to address the vampire that was next to my locker. But I was interrupted by the bell, I wasn't going to go to class, I wasn't going to go to school today, no I was going to deal with this vampire and be what I was because we weren't much different I was a vampire and it's about time I embraced it.

"What do you want?" Not bothering to hide the irritation in my voice, the vampire was tall and resembled a mountain he had blonde hair and had lots of muscles making me think that he was one of the Warriors that Nyx had told me about. Everyone around us was still anticipating what he was going to say, I gave them a look over my shoulder, I glared at Kayla and Heath, but Heath held my gaze I didn't have to have the imprint to know he was sorry, "Zo please forgive me –" He pleaded but I stopped him. And turned around,

"It couldn't have worked even if I forgive you Heath I'm a vampire, I'm not a human anymore, and I'm not the girl you knew, the girl you love. Go be happy with the right girl a girl who can love you more than I can." I whispered looking at my feet, it was hard telling him to move on, that I wasn't the best he could have and that someone out there could love him more than I ever could. He walked towards me and kissed me, the kiss better than any other but it was possibly the last kiss we would ever have, his lips warm and igniting a passion which had lain down for a while. We broke, but our heads still touched. We were both panting but I didn't mind one bit.

"I love you forever and always," he stated as if it was so normal as if it was made to fit him,

"I love you too forever and always now go." I replied and let him go and with one last look he turned and walked past the star struck Kayla, whose face was now scrunched up in anger and frustration and two seconds later she turned and stormed away.

I put my bag down, took my bottle of blood out and took a drink before sliding down a locker and sitting myself on the floor in despair. "So what do you want," I said weakly I couldn't see hardly any colour anymore, when I found out that Heath had cheated on me I had been angry but I still cried for 4 hours and after that I had been put on autopilot doing things and not really knowing what I was doing or why and fortunately not feeling a thing. But now I could feel, and the first feelings were the worst, and because the last time I had hope that we could've kissed and make up it made me feel worse there wasn't any hope left in me. So that was it Heath had walked out of my life and I had told him to never return. I wanted to cry. Yet the tears refused to come I was just numb.

"Zoey Montgomery" The vampire said calmly taking a place next to me and offering a hand " I'm Darius and the Tulsa house of night has been overcome with darkness and the survivors need you, we need everyone we can get and your special you have powers no one thought you would have, it would be a huge favour if you joined us" I only nodded and I was worried that I could do nothing more, but I took his hand and let him pull me off of the ground and I walked. The feeling of being on autopilot came but this time I was left to feel every hurtful feeling. And he took me to start a new life, to hopefully start again and let all the hurt and loss wash away to leave a new Zoey.

A.N So that's the first chapter, tell me what you think did you like it and if you didn't like it tell me how to improve it and review. J

Born to be free x