Aphrodite
Aphrodite was walking along outside heading for her dorm thinking to herself how nice it was that she wasn't required to take classes, being a vampyre now. How weird… I go from a human to a full fledged vamp in one day…
She was mid-thought when she detected a faint trace of dirt in the air. She looked around, nothing but concrete and a couple trees. That's odd… the last time she remembered the smell of dirt it had been ages ago when she was temporarily given the affinity for Earth. Something felt weird, she knew she was probably just being overly sensitive lately but she couldn't help the feeling that something was off. She brushed it off but her intuition was telling her that something was definitely wrong. She switched directions and headed to Zoey's room.
Zoey
Aphrodite barged into my room without even knocking.
"What's up?" I asked her, thinking she just had a vision or something that clearly couldn't wait for a knock.
"I don't know… something's wrong."
"Like what?"
"I can't describe it… just something really weird. I was walking outside and I like… started to smell dirt."
"Let me get this straight, you just busted into my room like a bat outta hell because you smelled dirt?" Jeez what was wrong with this girl?
"I'm telling you something's wrong! The last time I got that sensation was when you were casting a circle and I took Stevie-Rae's place for Earth," she admitted.
"What do you think this means? You don't think…" I couldn't say it out loud, "Well, before we start to worry, let's see if you actually do have an affinity for Earth."
Aphrodite
We decided to go outside to test my maybe-affinity. We were standing over by the ever-infamous East wall where Stevie-Rae knocked down that big tree.
"What should I do?" I asked Zoey.
"Well, first call Earth to you… and then I don't know ask it to do something simple like make a hole in the ground."
"Earth come to me," I said in a seriously shaky voice, this just did not feel right; immediately though I could smell it, it was overwhelming. Wheat fields and fresh dirt and a hint of lavender. My knees gave out, I didn't even have it in me to ask the Earth to move. I already knew it would. It wasn't until I could hear Zoey crying that I noticed I was too.
It was at that moment that both Stark and Darius showed up, out of breath like they just ran across the entire campus.
"What's wrong?!" they both asked at once.
"We-we…" Zoey said between sniffs.
"We think Stevie-Rae's dead." I finished for her.
"What? Why? How?" They both began shooting off questions.
"I don't know!" I snapped.
"We need to go to that abandoned house. Now." Stark said.
"Wait, Stark, how are you outside right now? The sun's up!" I noticed. He looked down at his arms in disbelief.
"Oh… I… I don't know! I could feel Zoey in pure agony and I just ran… I have no idea!"
"Nyx has gifted you, young warrior. I think she has noticed Zoey's need for you and has given you the ability to protect her at all times," Darius said. I went over to him and cuddled into his side as he wrapped his arms around me, "We do need to go to that building and find out what's going on, though. The sooner the better."