Chapter 4

Zoey

I cried for goddess knows how long. I had to let it out. Stupid prophecy. I still had my face pressed against Stark's wet shirt when I heard footsteps running up to me.

"Priestess," said Darius. "We need you. " Then it hit me. Blood.

"Who is it?" I asked worriedly.

"Jack." We ran like hell to Jack and Damien's room, where Damien was sitting on the floor, Jack's head in his lap. Blood was running down his face. Damien's face was wet with tears.

"I will always love you," said Damien to Jack. "Always." Jack smiled up at him.

I stood next to him. "Jack, I wish I had the ability to make you become a red fledgling. But I can't do that."

"Um….," said Stevie Rae from behind us. "I was looking through Neferet's old stuff in Tulsa and I found this." She held up a crystal vial filled with a milky white substance. I gasped.

"That's not…"

"Yeah," she said. "Yeah, it is."

I took the vial and thought, Nyx, please help me to do the right thing. I suddenly knew what I had to say. I raised the vial high and said, "Nyx, Dea of Nox noctis, commodo utor mihi ut a tool. Nos must servo is puer, is fledgling, Jack Intorqueo. EGO scisco ut hac vial, vos beatus pro tutela. Hac substania, vos beatus pro vita. Orior oriri ortus quod exsisto rutilus, meus frater, quod vivo iterum." I poured the contents of the vial down his throat and then I called air. "Air, comfort Damien, so that he knows that he and Jack will soon be connected again." Damien took in a sharp breath. He sighed. And then Jack was still.

"I have to clean him up," said Damien. "I don't want him to wake up all bloody." He carried Jack's body into the bathroom. I looked at Stark. His face was sad.

"What's wrong?" I asked. "You can tell me."

"It was seeing Jack die. I felt like I was reliving my death."

"Stark," I said as I touched his face. "That will never have to happen again."

He looked at me. "Now might be a good time to tell everyone the new prophecy," he said.

"Huh?" Aphrodite, who was standing closest to us, asked. "Shit, did Kramisha have another one of her stupid poems?"

"Yeah."

"Well, shit. Nerd herd, there's a new prophecy," She looked back at me. "Who's it about?"

"We don't know yet, but whoever it's about will be super important." Everyone crowded around me and I told them the poem.

"Well, of course it's about you, Zoey," said Damien.

"Yeah," said Aphrodite. "I mean, it can only be you, me, Stevie Rae, or the Twins. It's not the Twins or Stevie Rae because they don't have the special connection to Nyx like we do."

"And it's not Aphrodite," said Shaunee, "because she doesn't have an enemy like you do."

I looked over at Stark, who had moved from behind me and was standing close to the door. His mouth was open with shock, but I couldn't read his face. Before I could say anything, he ran out of the room.

"OMG, Zoey, you're going to have a baby!" said Erin.

"Uh, don't mind me, but I think she's going to have 3," said Stevie Rae

"For once I agree with the bumpkin. There's going to be 3."

"Well, then we have a lot of shopping to do."

While Aphrodite and the Twins animatedly started talking about the baby and all of its needs, I knew now was the perfect time to leave. I looked at Stevie Rae. "Go on," she said. "Go to your Warrior." I got up and walked out of the room for the person I needed to see most in the world.