Happy birthday to me haha, it's not until tomorrow still but I'm being just a little too impatient about it. Other updated stories will be up soon either today, tomorrow, Friday and Saturday. I'm just going by what Google tells me for the Greek language so sue them.


Nova POV

I looked at the female vampire named Isabella if Lilian told us correctly. I had a bad habit of thinking of something else at the same time making me sometimes forget about what's in front of me; it's the one thing I always abhorred. Judging from Isabella's eyes staring down at the dirt path and her posture suggesting that she didn't know what to do and the lost gaze that seemed to her that Lilian used her gift on her; something Athenodora had something to hide and she didn't want Isabella found out.

I felt a small pull that felt so odd when she finally met my gaze for a few seconds, looking up from the dirt path after the pregnant pause filled the air, hovering closely as if death was close by you waiting until you dropped dead. It wasn't like the mating bond or something at least from what Danny told me once he and Serafina met with something that made the world stop but I wouldn't know. I've been here since the ancient times back when Spartans and Athens existed but I let go of my memories. It was like a sisterly bond or something. It was like I couldn't place my finger but it was there ready to flourish into a butterfly or something like that.

"Settle in and do something that doesn't involve leaving the property at least... Not yet until nightfall," Lilian said in a disdainful way which no one really got along to her. Her past was in fragments like broken peices of the ornament but no one really knew how she came to be in existence; there was a rumour going around saying that Lilian was abandoned by her village and left to live in a forest growing to abhor people but that was a ridiculous rumour at least from my perspective.

It wasn't my job to question her; we were the pawns on Athenodora's chessboard with her calling the shots, dragging her pawns and damaging her enemies trying to be one step closer. I was the only that didn't fall into Athenodora's trap as it was helpful being able to see past all those lies but one of my endeavors was to have freedom once more.

"Come," I said with a smile on my face bringing my mask that cloaked my sadness and my loathe for this place; the newbie shouldn't be in full trepidation here even though it was a natural reaction for newcomers to have such dread to fill them up as if they ate a rich dinner that made them fill up quickly.

"Don't worry 'bout Lilia', she's just a kópanos who shows her ego a lot... None of us could stand her anóteri stási," I said to Isabella hoping she could relax just a tad bit that no one was going to harm her here much.

"What does those two different words mean because they aren't in English?" questioned Isabella, with her red eyes staring at me taking in what I look like.

I laughed, "It's a habit of speaking my native tongue: Greek. Anóteri stási means superior attitude and kópanos means jerk."

"Oh," Isabella said, with a neutral tone in her voice when she said that.

"You'll soon won't feel like an outcast anymore... You'll grow used to it, maybe who knows someone will rescue you in this hell of a prison. Just don't get on anyone's nerves and maybe befriend at least Danny or Chris as they aren't that bad. We're all some sort of family that protects each other...

"Chris is distrustful at first but he'll soon grow to you hopefully and Tessa is an iffy at least from my perspective. Serafina is actually kinda crazy but that's just a façade while deep down, she's caring as she doesn't remember her human life and sometimes acts like an older sister which I'm grateful for as I've been an only child from what I known before..." I trailed off, my gaze distant as I remembered something important that I never knew actually existed. My family: a woman with the haunting blonde hair and emeralds for eyes with a smile that looked all too real with a guy with black hair reaching to his shoulders, with an amuse glint in his brown eyes, something that I missed dearly before everything changed to quickly and I knew I could never get it back. "Anyways... Here's where I'll leave you."

Isabella glanced at the small house with a faded, brown bricks and a somewhat decayed roof that could probably be salvageable if using the right materials but she had to do it from somewhat scratch like we all did when we arrived here for about a few months after Athenodora kinda kidnapped us from our coven but I was already here long before she came into the territory I claimed.


Bella POV

Nova left without a response as I looked at the somewhat of a decrepit shack it was from the roof nearly looking like it could collapse and the faded bricks looking like it would fall, leaving it in pieces like broken glass on the sidewalk, impossible to fix.

"Wonderful," I murmured to myself, silently praying to myself that the inside actually looked decent and better than the inside once I stepped forward, trying to muster the courage and face whatever that maybe located inside.

Surprisingly, the inside looked like a better place but I wasn't expecting a few posters that wasn't covered in a collection of dust and grime and books that were in good condition aligned up against the mattress, creating the illusion that someone might live along with me which I hoped not. There was a few drawings that looked kinda creepy with one showing a dark canvas painted in dark blue and black with a collection of skeletons in the water; the skeletons were missing things like, hands, heads, legs anything I like that instantly gave me a small shiver as I looked at that. It seemed somewhat terrifying but yet someone who was good at creating wonderful art pieces.

"Oh hello there... I didn't seem to hear you. The silent elves must have cloaked your presence when you entered through here..." a girl said that made me stiff up. She seemed a little crazy. I turned around a saw a short, petite girl with angelic like features with her way blonde hair reaching her waist with a few flowers in her hair and a light green marks near her eyes, probably marker was noticeable.

"I'm Iris and you must be Isabella," she continued on which made me really bewildered about this girl. "Lilian told me I was going to have company to assuage my craziness or what I'm told." She scoffed before continuing on, "Do you what a garland. I made it myself... It's supposed to be a symbol of our friendship and make our relationships grow stronger."

I accepted it which made Iris beam at the acceptance of someone wanting her gift that she made. She was defiantly an odd girl maybe I could grow to like her.

"Bella," a voice cried out inside my head which wasn't mine and someone encroached into it but that voice called me Bella; was it a familiar moniker or something like that. "Where are you?" the same voice hissed in a somewhat impatient tone which made me want to think about why someone might want to talk to me. Maybe I was going crazy?