Okey, here you go.. I decided to be lovally, 2 chapters in 1 eveing. You lucky devils.
Zoey
When I woke up, Stark was snoring. I wondered if he had dreamed. Then, I had an idea. I shut my eyes and thought of my memory of Stark. Then, a vision flashed through my mind.
Stark was sitting on a sofa looking over at something with a huge grin on his face, he looked so happy. I looked over to see what he was looking at, then, I couldn't help but laugh, it was me. I was dancing around the room with my friends just being idiots. When I looked back at Stark, he looked so happy, just happy to be watching me. He was the best.
Then, a thought hit me, could I go and sit next to him to talk? I was just about to, my foot was lifting off the floor and my mouth was opening, when the scene changed, all of a sudden, we were on san Clement Island, at the top of the castle.
Oh great. This was a Kalona dream right? But, surely Kalona wouldn't want to get into Starks dreams? I mean, he was straight; Kalona wouldn't have the appeal to him would he?
With all the questions running through my head, I hadn't noticed Stark standing at the edge of the castle, obviously wondering if it would hurt if he jumped. I knew it didn't hurt, but it sure as hell scared you when you woke up.
Then, before anything could happen I heard Kalona 'if you jump, I'll just come to your next dream, you might as well get it over with now.' I turned around; there he was, in his black trousers and nothing else, just watching Stark.
'What do you want?' Stark asked him. I then turned to look at Stark; I decided it was safer to look at him than Kalona.
'My A-ya' he said. He was really annoying with the whole my bit, and the A-ya bit; he really got on my nerves.
'She is not yours. And her name is Zoey' Stark said. See, him I liked, no my Zoey. He was the best warrior ever.
'We will see. But anyway, I called you to me to tell you that if you stay by her side as her warrior and her consort, I will kill you. She has not got enough room for you. She is in love with me. 'He said. This brought back the memory of Aphrodite's vision. But, I wouldn't let Kalona hurt Stark, not after what happened with Heath. Plus, if Aphrodite was right, then I was going to be there. I could save Stark.
'I won't leave her. As long as you are here, she needs a warrior. As for the consort, I'm not her consort. I'm her boyfriend.' He smiled when he said that. So did I, we hadn't made it official or anything, but we kind of were boyfriend and girlfriend.
'I would not hurt my A-ya. A-'he was about to continue when Stark cut him off.
'You did hurt her. You killed her consort. You nearly killed her when you killed him. All so that she wouldn't find out your little secret, although, unluckily for you, she did. She and Heath had an imprint; they could talk through their minds. He told her. You killed him too late' Stark said. He was clearly enjoying winding Kalona up. It made me want to laugh, but they might see me.
When I thought of them seeing me, I wondered why they couldn't, I was here, and they should be able to right? But, oh well, not the time to think about it.
'When I killed the human' he said the word with distaste 'I did it because it is what is best for her. She just doesn't know it yet. I mean, clearly, my killing her consort has helped your relationship with her has it not? I mean, you are now girlfriend and boyfriend.' It is what is best for me? Ha. Yeah right.
'How would breaking her soul and her heart be best for her? She is devastated, she will never be fully over the loss of Heath, and she loved him.' Stark was always so good, sticking up for Heath was really sweet of him. 'and, as for his death helping our relationship, I would rather things were how they used to be, she was happy then, she had Heath, I'd do anything to make it how it should be, if it was that you killed me and she was happy with Heath.' My mouth was literally open when he said this. He had never told me this, I was happy, I missed Heath a lot, but being able to say goodbye and see him one last time, it really helped and I was now happy. I was happy with my life with Stark. It hurt to think that he wasn't.
'She didn't really love him, she just thought she did, and yes, it may have hurt her soul when he died, but she recovered, she is fine now. And he is forgotten. Just as you will be when I kill you' Kalona said to Stark. I didn't really love Heath? That was a load of bullpoopie.
'She did love him, you can't say she didn't, even you know that she did. Heath will never be forgotten, not by Zoey, not by me and not by his friends, he will live on in our memories and hearts, we all really liked him' Stark was so good defending Heath, I never knew he liked him that much.
'He will live on in our memories and hearts, what are you? A sappy girl? Your hardly fit to be a warrior' that was it for me, he had insulted Heath and now he was saying Stark wasn't fit to be a warrior, he was the best warrior anyone could have. I called the elements to me and I aimed them all at Kalona, I could see when he felt them, air blew him away from Stark, earth took him into the ground, fire burned him, water made it harder for him to breath and spirit made him feel guilty.
Stark looked surprised, I mean, Kalona had just been taken away by the ground and burnt had trouble breathing, been made guilty and he had been blown away from him by air. Stark just stood there and blinked a few times, then he looked straight at where I was standing, he looked straight at me, but it didn't look like he was looking at me, so I guess I couldn't be seen here. I didn't know how I was supposed to get out, so I did what I did to get in, except I thought of myself, I felt my feet leave the ground, then hit ground again, when I opened my eyes I was stood in mine and Starks room, right where I had been when I tried to get into his dream.
He was still asleep so I decided that I would go and have a shower. I spent a long time in the shower, I just stood there like an idiot thinking about Starks dream and Aphrodite's vision, when I finally snapped out of it, I still hadn't made my mind up, and so I decided that I would get out the shower now. So I got out and looked in the mirror, Uggh, I looked like absolute crap. I looked really tired and had big bags under my eyes; my skin looked awful and really pale. I wondered how Stark could ever have feelings for me if I looked like this?
So, I decided for his sake that I was going to look nice today, after all, that wasn't exactly the best of dreams. So I put on foundation and powder, I looked a nice tan colour, it took a lot of foundation to cover up the bags under my eyes, then I decided that I would go for a nice calm and relaxing blue eye shadow, then I put some eyeliner on, I decided to do my top and bottom, then I put on my best mascara, it was in this red bottle and said eye me up it made my lashes look amazing.
When I had done my make up I went into the room, Stark was still asleep so I decided that I would go to the wardrobe. I found a really nice pair of jeans, they were dark blue with cuts up the legs, then I decided to put on my Abercrombie top that said flirts well with others it was blue and it was really tight.
When I came out of the wardrobe, Stark was just yawning and starting to stretch. I smiled and grinned at him. 'Morning sleepy' I said to him.
'Morning beautiful' he said and pulled me down to him. He kissed me on the lips and hugged me.
'Nice dreams?' I asked. I wondered if he was going to tell me about his Kalona dream.
'Yeah. Shouldn't it be me asking you that though? It's your dreams Kalona wants to get into, not mine.' He was trying to joke, but because I knew about his dream, I couldn't smile back.
'I had a wonderful dream. I'm glad you did' I said. I raised my eyebrows at him.
'What? What are you looking at me like that for?' he asked.
'No reason.' I kissed him on the lips. 'Come on. Its breakfast time and I'm hungry' I told him. He seemed to find this funny and he laughed at me.
'You're always hungry' he joked.
'Well, thank you very much. I think I'm going to be having breakfast on my own then' I teased.
'Don't. I like having breakfast with you. Just give me a minute and I'll be ready.' He got up and went to the draws and got out a pair of jeans and a hoody, then he went into the bathroom, I hoped he would take a shower, he kind of needed one. I was relieved when I heard the shower running.
He was only in there five minutes, so I didn't have to wait long. I had just sat on the bed looking at nothing in particular. Then he came out the door, man, and those jeans just made him look so good.
'What?' he asked.
'Huh? Oh – err, nothing. Come on breakfast' I said. I got up to leave but he caught my wrist and caused me to spin around so I was wrapped up in his arms.
'What were you thinking?' he asked me. I blushed.
'Nothing' I said, but I still had the blush on my cheeks.
'You were obviously thinking something, what was it?' he asked again.
I decided I might as well answer, he wasn't one to give up 'I was just noticing how the jeans make you look really good' I said. Then I blushed again.
'Thank you. Your jeans don't make you look to bad yourself either' he said and he leant down and kissed me.
'Come on, breakfast.' I said.
'Yeah.' He said. We were walking out of the room and heading to the kitchen when I heard Stark going 'Uggh.' I turned quickly, I thought something was wrong.
I was right in his face; I thought he was in pain 'what, what's wrong?' I asked him.
'Nothing. I just realised we then have fighting practice' he said. Oh, was that all? I thought it was something bad, like Kalona was torturing him or something.
'Oh. You had me worried.' I said.
'I didn't knew you cared so much' he joked, but that brought back the memories of his dream.
'Of course I care. I love you, a lot. You know that right?' I asked him.
'Of course I know that. I love you too, a lot.' Then he reached down to me and kissed me again. I took his hand and we walked to the kitchen.
I sat down at the table next to Stark and Aphrodite.
'Morning. Ready for practice?' she asked.
'Morning. Yeah, I am, are you?' I asked her
'Yeah, I am. Are we doing the same as yesterday?' she asked.
'Yeah, I think so. You'd have to ask Darius.' I bent forward to look around the table for him, but he wasn't there. 'Speaking of, where is he?' I asked her, she was bound to know.
'Oh, he got up extra early so that he could go set everything up' she said.
'Oh right. When did he go?' I asked her. 'Did he have breakfast?'
'He went like 10 minutes ago, no he didn't. I might take him a sandwich' she leant across the table and got two pieces of bread and some butter and ham. She made them into a sandwich for him.
'Right nerd herd, are you ready for fighting practice' she said.
We all got up and headed out to the field for practice. When we got out there Darius was waiting for us.
'Stark, you go back to where you were practicing yesterday' Stark started to head off to where he was going, when I grabbed his wrist and pulled him back round.
'See you later. I'll miss you.' I said, and then I got up onto my tiptoes and kissed him on the lips.
'See you later. If you want, I'll help you later? After I've had enough.' He asked me.
'I'd like that very much warrior' I said. Then I leant up on my tiptoes to give him another kiss.
'Alright then. I'm going to go and do some practices, I won't be long.' He bent down to give me a kiss again.
He then turned to walk off to his target. I watched him walk; man did his arse look well.
I suddenly noticed Aphrodite shaking my arm. 'Yeah, as great as Stark's arse is, it isn't going to help us defeat Kalona. Come on Zoey, time to practice.' She said.
'Huh? What?' I said turning to face her.
She laughed at me. 'Come on' she said. I turned back to watch Stark for one more second, when I did I noticed him looking back at me, he was clearly laughing.
Then I got a mental thought from him watching my arse were you?
Shut up. I was observing, that's all. Go shoot some arrows. Then hurry over to me. I couldn't help but smile at the thought of him coming to help me again.
Right away my lady he said.
See you later. Love you I thought back to him. Then turned to go with Aphrodite.
The whole time we were practicing all I wanted to do was send a mental note to Stark to tell him to hurry, but I couldn't, in case he was just letting an arrow go and it shot me. I didn't want to die, so I just had to be patient.
I was thinking of Stark when I felt a strong pair of arms wrap around my waist.
'Daydreaming my lady?' he asked. I turned and smiled at him.
'Yes. Thank goddess you're finished. I missed you' I reached up and kissed him.
'You should've said. I would have come over' he said. Then he bent down to kiss me again.
'Yeah, but if I sent you a mental note just as you were letting an arrow go, I'd become a kebab. So I decided that I just had to be patient. Which, apparently paid off. You came soon enough' I said. I noticed the sadness in his eyes, I know he was thinking of how I could never watch him practice, in case he got distracted by me and accidentally shot me.
The stupid thing was, if I was to die, at least it would be him. He would be the last thing I saw. That was a better option than Kalona. Thinking of Kalona, it reminded me of Starks dream, I reached up to kiss him again. I wanted him to know that I really was happy that I was with him and that I was over Heath, but I didn't want to tell him I was spying on him in his dream.
'Come one. You need to practice' he said. 'I saw some of those arrows you shot, they were awful' he teased.
'If you'd prefer, you could go help Aphrodite' I said. He looked that way and saw Aphrodite.
'You know what, I think I'm ok here thanks' he said.
'You know, I may be human, but I'm not deaf' she said.
'Sorry' Stark said. He was looking away from her and towards me, so I was the only one who could see the big grin on his face. It was so nice to see him smile; he looked seriously hot when he smiled.
'Come on' I said. He put an arm around my waist and kissed me on the cheek. Then he let go and stood behind me and put his hand over mine, then he loaded the arrow into the bow, he showed me the aim thing we had done yesterday, then he told me to let it go, when I did, it hit the centre of the target.
I was so happy. I was jumping up and down. Then Stark pulled me into a nig hug, my feet were off of the floor. I was so comfy in his arms. I was level with his face for once; I was usually around his chin. So I used this to my advantage and kissed him on the lips. He returned my kiss. We stayed like that for a few minutes, and then I heard Aphrodite clearing her throat.
Stark then put me back on my feet, we were both panting. I smiled though. He gave me a quick hug, and then we started shooting arrows again.
We spent the rest of the day shooting arrows; I had no idea what the others were doing with their targets. Stark had spent the whole time teaching me and Aphrodite, so Darius was able to help the others. I liked having Stark as a teacher, he was really good. Me and Aphrodite were really getting the hang of it.
'When we have done this, what are we going to do?' I asked.
Stark gave me a question mark look.
'Come on, we can't just be shooting arrows and whatever they're doing in this battle. Surely were going to fight, as in proper fight' I explained
'Yeah, I guess your right' he said.
'Someone is going to have to teach us. Do you know how to fight?' I asked him.
'Yeah, I know a bit, not loads though' he said.
'You could teach me' I said
'No' he said really quickly, I was rather insulted that he didn't want to teach me.
'Why not?' I asked him.
'Because, to teach you, I would have to show you stuff, I would have to attack you. I am never going to fight you.' he said.
'You're being stupid. If you taught me, you'd probably be saving my life' I told him.
'Yeah, as great as that is, I'm still not teaching you. And when Darius teaches you, I shall be inside reading' he said. What?! He wasn't going to watch me?!
'Your not even going to watch me fight?!' I asked.
'Zoey, I would love to see you fight. But I don't want to see someone attacking you, as your warrior, I'm supposed to protect you, I'd probably end up attacking Darius for trying to hurt you' he said to me.
'You're so overprotective' I grumbled.
'I'm trying to keep you safe.' He said, then he bent down to give me a kiss, I decided that I wasn't going to let him kiss me unless he watched me, so I ducked down so he tried kissing air.
He looked at me with a question mark on his face. 'Watch me fight and you can have as many kisses as you want' I tried to bargain.
It didn't work. He crouched down and put his hand under my chin, then he brought his face closer to mine, then he kissed me. I was going to push him off, but once his lips touched mine, my resistance crumbled. I ended up kissing him back.
I got a bit to into the kiss; I ended up pushing him onto the floor and was lying on top of him making out. I only stopped because I heard Aphrodite 'err, you two, there is a battle we're trying to make sure we don't die in. get up and work'
So I rolled off of Stark onto my back. He jumped up and offered me his hand, I took it and he pulled me up quickly, I almost jumped into his arms.
Then Darius came over. 'I think that is enough for the day. You can go inside now.' We all headed back into our rooms. I went in and crashed on the bed.
'Aphrodite is so grumpy' Stark said.
'She is worried about Darius. He is going to be our main fighter, he will be in the most danger, they'll try to take him out first, plus, he wont let her come to the battle, he said that as a human she will be in too much danger.' I told him.
Then I realised something. Stark was our other main fighter, he would be killing most of the raven mockers with his arrow; they'd aim to take him out first as well. Stark noticed that I had frozen. He shook my shoulders gently.
'Zoey, what is it?' he asked worrying about me.
I shook my head, trying to clear it. 'I just realised something.' I said to him.
'What Zo, what have you realised?' he asked.
'You're going to be out other main fighter, you'll be killing loads of raven mockers with your arrow, you'll be the one they take out first.' By the end I was in tears. I was amazed he understood.
'Zo. Calm down, don't worry about me. I told you, I'm not using my arrow anyway. I don't want to be thinking of you and accidentally shoot you' he said and he pulled me against him.
'You have to. Otherwise you're weaker, and then they could kill you. I'd rather you shot me accidentally and lived' I said
'Zoey, don't be so stupid. It would kill me if I killed you' he said. I knew it would kill him if after all his effort to keep me alive, he killed me himself.
'I know, but I don't want to lose you. If you then die, it will be because of me, because you didn't want to use your arrow in case you shoot me accidentally.' I was crying again.
He pulled me against his chest and held me there. I cried for a long time. When my tears finally went, I was exhausted.
'Are you hungry?' Stark asked me. It was dinner time.
I wasn't but I needed dinner anyway. I got up and left our room with Stark. I sat next to him, I was so tired, and I didn't even notice what I was eating. When I was done, I left with Stark; he had his arm around me and was pretty much carrying me.
When we got into our room I went into the bathroom and got in the shower. When I was out I then wrapped a towel around myself and went into the room, in the corner of my eye, I noticed Stark watching me, but I was too tired to do anything. I went into the wardrobe and put on some sweats and a hoody.
When I came out Stark was just pulling a shirt over his head. He was in sweats too. Then I walked over to him and he wrapped his arm around my waist and led me to the bed. I was pretty much asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow.
I was too exhausted to dream. I had a great night sleep, safe in my warrior's arms.