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Chapter Twenty: Selenity and Serenity

?'s POV:

I felt the sun's ray's dance across my skin leaving trails of warmth in its path. The trickle of water playing in the stream wafted to my ears. The sweet perfume of lavenders and a musky cedar filled my sense of smell and reminded me of people who I couldn't fully remember at the moment. I could taste the refreshing dew from the grass on my tongue.

Our sense of sight deceives us. We must use our other senses to learn the truth.

I thoughtfully fluttered my eyes open already knowing that once they were open the place I would gaze at would be picturesque. I was right.

I sat up slowly on the cool mossy bed, feeling its smoothness between my fingers brought peace to me. I ogled at the beautiful meadow in front of me; there was a creek gushing along not far away from the lichen bed and the lush grass careening in the delicate breeze that caressed me gracefully.

I heard someone suck in a soft breath beside me and whirled to face the stranger. It was a girl. We blinked for a second; taking in one another, before she asked a question that had me stumbling for words.

"Who are you?" her voice was like chimes that clinked in the gentle wind.

I thought for a moment and assessed her. She seemed harmless enough and I was getting an extremely intense feeling of nostalgia from her, I knew somewhere deep in my core that I could trust her with my heart and soul. "I haven't the slightest idea of who I am. Do you know who you are?"

She thought for a few seconds before answering me. "No I don't actually. Where are we?"

"Do you really think that if I don't even know who I am that I would be able to identify where we are?" I offered sarcastically and we burst into a fit of giggles.

"Oh well this grove is peaceful and tranquil. It feels safe and like home; if that makes sense," I nodded in agreement with her and slipped off of the divan so I could float over to the rivulet. The other girl joined me at the banks.

"Well we should probably name ourselves until we remember our real names." I said turning to her.

She nodded her head in approval. The girl was gorgeous and had a sapphire outline of a crescent moon on her forehead. I looked at my reflection in the water and noticed that I, too, had the twin crescent to hers.

She had chocolate brown spirals spilling down her back and was wearing a gold and white sundress equal to my own. She wasn't very tall, also like me, and had bright blue eyes. I was practically identical to her except I had honey blonde hair.

The dresses we wore were exquisite. They were strapless; the chest was decorated in gold embroidery while the rest was sheer white material.

"I think I'll name myself Rini," she deliberated for a moment then bobbed her head making her long brunette curls bounce with the movement.

"That's pretty. I wish to be called Leni," I grinned, the name felt familiar and I like it a lot. My honey rings blew in front of me so I brushed it back to keep it out of my way.

We smiled widely and began talking about the beautiful grove and about aimless things. But I couldn't shake off the feeling that we were being watched...

Six days later...

Rini and I have been here for who knows how long. Ever since we woke up we don't have the slightest idea of what the true time is. It could have been hours, days, weeks, or even years since we roused; time flows oddly in this place.

Two of the main reasons we couldn't tell the time was the fact that the sun never set and Rini and I didn't rest. We couldn't stop fidgeting or moving, we didn't have the strength or will to, it was the same with sleep.

We were happy with each other's company, though we knew we couldn't leave and frankly we didn't want to. There was a presence outside of the grove that we sensed wanted to injure us. Also there was something or someone watching us within the grove but we sensed that thing didn't want to hurt us, just protect us from what was outside the grove.

At the moment we were strolling along the shore line together in comfortable silence, picking pretty flowers we found. The cool, gentle wind ruffled our curls and made our white sundresses sway; it felt dainty grazing my skin and calming the humidity that was created by the sun. Rini was just ahead of me bending down to pluck another red lily while juggling her half eaten apple and her bouquet of flowers.

A rustle in the bushes behind me had me reeling around at the noise. "Who's there?"

Rini dropped her forgotten apple and bouquet so she could dart to my side as we prepared to take on the oncoming enemy.

"Girls do not be alarmed, we wish you no harm," a smooth voice travelled from the brush which was shortly followed by a stunningly radiant woman who, in turn, was trailed after by an attractive, younger looking boy.

Rini clutched my hand and raised her voice so they could hear her. "Are you the people who've been creeping us since we woke up here?"

"Well I have, she showed up here a few minutes ago," the boy jerked his thumb at the woman while grinning at Rini's vocabulary. "By the way I'm Heath."

"And I am called Neferet. I can only stay for a little while and I have a story for the both of you," her smile was kind and very welcoming.

Neferet was dazzling; her pale complexion was literally glowing. She had thick burgundy hair that fell in waves to her mid-back. Her mossy green gaze was lit up by her million dollar smile but I could see the gloom of a gruesome past lurking in them. She looked like she was wearing a mask but the peculiar brandings were contoured to her delicate face. The mark looked like frothy waves leading up to the full crescent moon like ours, the tattoos were all the colour of sapphire.

Heath, on the other hand, was stocky and looked like any all American football hero. He had a sturdy face with high cheekbones and a strong chin that was all complimented by his glittering brown eyes. His blonde hair was cropped short but it wasn't a buzz cut. He didn't have any markings but his boyish grin said friend and brotherly.

"Well guess I should let you talk to them but I won't be far so if I hear anything like you're hurting them, I'm kicking your ass back to where you came from," he shouted over his shoulder as he jogged back into the trees leaving Neferet, Rini, and I in the meadow.

Neferet walked over to us. She was wearing a light gray gown that hugged her body perfectly and revealed her curvy hour-glass figure. The neckline of the dress hung low but wasn't too exposing of her breasts while a darker gray wrap was draped around her shoulders.

She motioned for us to sit with her at the edge of the brook. "You have no memory of whom or what you are, how you got here and why you are here, and of anything before you awoke here."

She was tucking her knees into her side, getting comfortable, while Rini and I were half way to being seated; frozen by her statement. We regained our composure and sat. "Yeah, how do you –"

My eyes widened, is she knew that then maybe who we were! But she cut in before I could finish the sentence. "I am very intuitive but I cannot tell you who you truly are." Neferet bowed her head making her locks fall therefore conceal her face.

"Why not?" Rini's tone was sharp and clipped but I couldn't disagree with her.

"It is not in my place to tell you for one," she lifted her head and brushed her hair back. "And you have to remember yourselves; I am merely here to give advice and guide you."

"On what?" I leaned forward so I could peer around Neferet to look at Rini being as the older woman was in the middle of us.

"On your destiny, though, I can't and won't control it or create it; I can give you guidance that may change it," her smile faltered and didn't brighten her eyes anymore.

Then she launched into her story about her struggle with Darkness. She told us about her mother and abusive father, when Nyx Marked her therefore saving her from her father, about her ascension as a High Priestess.

Then her tale turned into a sinister, evil nightmare. She started with her beginning to listen to Kalona instead of the goddess Nyx, about Kalona and the Raven Mockers, about her alliance with Darkness and all the lives she took and the lives that were ruined because of her. Lastly about the war she ignited between Darkness and Light.

When she was done she was sobbing, the pain, bemoan, and disappointment evident in her eyes and on her face was so strong that it made Rini and I cry.

"Darkness lost the war while Kalona and I along with many humans and vampyres died. Both of us truly regretted our actions and betraying Nyx, Zoey, and Light, we broke down when Nyx forgave us but she had to punish us for our crimes of course," Neferet dried the tears from her face after that she continued. "Nyx called her children and consort to decide on our punishment. Zoey and Stark were there much to my surprise, they were truly the children of Nyx and Erebus I learned. Finally, Nyx sentenced Kalona and I to 5 million years in Tartarus."

"Holy crap that's long!" I'm pretty sure Rini hadn't meant to say that, since she turned beet red after she'd realized her comment but Neferet grinned all the more.

"No actually it isn't, I think I deserved the rest of eternity in Tartarus. You see I can only tell you my story and allow you imaginations to paint a picture for you but in reality it was much worse than that. Nyx and her family took pity on us and I will forever be in debt to them," she was solemn but I could see she was also grateful. "Yes our sentence is very long and not even a hundred years have passed yet but once we get out we will serve Nyx for the rest of infinity."

"Nyx came to me earlier at my cell in Tartarus and asked me to come here and give you my story so that it might guide you," she stood and pulled us up with her. "It's best to take my leave now. Take my story of mistakes and learn from it so it may give you a better future."

She bent and kissed our heads. "Blessed be Princesses."

Then she was gone. But she'd left us with a clue! I looked to Rini with a huge smile and a certain gleam in her eyes that I'm sure I had too.

"OHMIGOD!" Rini jumped up and down with me as Heath reappeared. "We're Princesses!"
Heath blinked then muttered incredulously. "That'll probably get her another century or two in the slammer. She wasn't supposed to say anything!"

We ignored him and began our pacing again. I could barely hold still when Neferet was giving us her sad tale. It was hard to; we hadn't slept since we roused from our slumber and we couldn't hold still for a long period of time.

Also some of the names she had mentioned sparked familiarity inside of me. We chatted and annoyed Heath for a long while but then a shade past over the sun and lingered there. Heath positioned himself in front of us, blocking and protecting us from what may come. But after a moment the shadow moved and the sun shone brightly once again.

The threatening existence that we had felt for the past few days was mysteriously gone. Heath relaxed but a minute later tensed once again when two male voices yelled from the trees. "Chloe! Clover!"

He took charge right away, shouting at us not to move then dashing to grab a tree branch and into the cluster of trees. We heard grunts and groans followed by a string of colourful curses and cusses then Heath finally yelling. "Little bastards could've hollered that it was you two with all that noise you were making!"

Shuffling, then Heath emerging from the dimness of the vegetation; his face warped in distaste and his lips moving in hushed oaths.

But he wasn't alone. Two boys sauntered out of the forest, one rubbing the side of his head and the other rolling his right shoulder.

The one who was rolling his shoulder had fair-hair that was longer than heaths but not nearly as long as his friends. The other boy had jet black locks that hung in his eyes a bit and was currently tied back into a small, low pony with a few strands hanging freely. Both were hulky and at least six feet tall.

The dark haired boy raised his head; his piercing emerald orbs meeting my azure ones.

Derek.

My head exploded in searing pain, my hands flew to my head as I screamed in agony.

"Chloe!" I faintly heard Derek's shout then his arms enclosing around me. I could scarcely hear my sister going through the same thing I was and Seth consoling her.

My skull thudded with memories, thought invaded by my confusing mysterious past.

I was born as Selenity "Leni" Redbird, twin sister of Serenity "Rini" Redbird, younger sister of Helios and daughter of Jennifer and E-lo-hi. My aunts, uncles, grandparents, cousins, my friends and everything came flooding back to me like faucets liberating the torrent of ice water. I remember playing in the castle gardens with Serenity, Gea, Pyra, Hydra, Aera, Hephaestus, Zeus, Triton, Seth, Bryce, and Helios when I was four. My parents, aunts, uncle, grandparents, and their friends teaching all of us about the supernatural world, about vampyres and about our strange markings. The affinities Serenity and I had for the elements alike our grandma, Zoey, who was Queen of the elements, and also being able to raise the dead.

The two men playing with us when we were two and no one else knew about it.

The day my parents, Helios, Serenity and I were attacked; my parents dying, Helios screaming for us and the cloaked figure picking Serenity and I up. The person had been my grandmother who'd then changed us into humans for our safety. When mother and father had found us in New York on the shoreline and taking us in as our adoptive parents but actually we were their real children.

When my mother died but then again had only staged her death with father who'd been posing as Clover's human dad. The irony that Clover and I had always over looked as just us being so close as friends but we had a blood connection, we were twin sisters.

The day my Aunt Lauren had taken me to the Edison Group when I was six; everyone had been there, Clover, Rae, Simon, Tori, Liz, Derek, Celia, Chase, Bella, Jason, Logan, Bella, Ronnie, even Helios, Kit, Heidi, Jacinda, Iris, Noah, Demeter, Peyton, Derek's pack brothers, Diane Enright, Dr. Davidoff, all the other experiments and their parents. Logan and Bella were giving each other the puppy dog eyes at the time so had Derek and I as well as Simon and Celia. We were all so young and they parents had taken a picture of their children. But Clover and I hadn't truly been a part of the experiment, our mother had given us our power and they hadn't needed to teak our genes.

I remember first going to Lyle House then being thrust into the supernatural world when I had been a part of it all along. First meeting Simon, Tori, Rae, Liz (who was actually one of my vamp friends, Gea), and Derek... unconsciously I knew Derek had been my soul mate from the moment we'd met at the Edison Group back when we were six.

Grandmother Nyx whispering to me the Cherokee word for daughter, U-we-tsi-a-ge-ya, and the elements reassuring me and filling my body, making me feel safe and sound.

The dream Clover and I had, it had been us in our vampyre forms. Our encounter with the crazy ghost and our eight year old selves, the prophecies that we had heard had all come true. We danced with death, our souls had shattered and we were coming so close to death that Thanatos could practically touch us. We had to rely on each other as sisters to overcome our conflicts and problems. We had disclosed ourselves from our friends and that had shattered our souls.

Our pain the day we got to Skye was our bodies telling us that we needed to change back to our vampyre forms. Our necklaces had changed too, the pentagram signified the elements and for our amulets to revert into that symbol, it represented our closeness with the elements.

The reason why the name I'd chosen for myself when I got here was a nickname for me that my family called me by all the time. My sister and I were the exact opposites of each other. We needed the other to survive; like Darkness and Light, without the other there was no meaning to live. Two halves of a whole.

Serenity and I were vampyres and necromancers. The twins of Light and Darkness.

My vision cleared so I could see Derek leaning over me, tears streaming down his face and dripping onto mine and making his molten malachite orbs glossy with the water.

"Derek," I breathed, that was it; I leapt at him crashing my lips to his. Our tears, blood, pain, courage, strength, love; everything we ever felt and will ever feel for each other was all combined into that single most perfect kiss.

"God, you can't believe how much I've missed you and been worrying about you!" he mumbled into my hair and nuzzled my neck breathing deeply, taking in my scent. He lifted his head and his hands began to explore my face until they came upon the crescent outline settled between my brows. "You're different..."

I tore my eyes away from his face to look at my sister and Seth. Seth had known us before we'd been turned human, he was one of my brothers best friends, so he was fine with Serenity – or Clover as she was known by – being a vampyre and a necromancer. Derek, however, was a different story.

When I turned back to tell him I hadn't changed a lot, the words caught in my throat. The pure love that glowed in his vivid green eyes said he didn't care what I was or what I might become. All he cared about was me, it didn't matter what I was or what my name might be, just me.

"Look I love how we're all together again and everything all fine and dandy but you guys need to pull yourselves together or you'll die," Seth still had Serenity in his arms, reluctant to let her go again, but Serenity stepped out of his arms and walked over to me and held out her hand. Seth still thought Serenity's real name was Clover and I'm sure Derek still thought my name was Chloe.

"Right grandma made our souls shatter so we could return to our vamp forms," she said as I took her hand and stood with our backs to the three men. "At the moment we're in the "between" stage."

"Huh?" the guys said at the same time. We would tell them who we were after we pulled our souls together again. Wow is it just me or do I sound like Humpty Dumpty?

"Where we look like fledglings and humans too. Our human forms along with the tiniest bit of our vampyre forms," my fingers found their way to the outline on Serenity's forehead, ignoring our boyfriends. "To return to our full vampyre forms we need to pull the pieces of our souls back together and accept the pieces as who we are."

We entwined our hands, ready to face and fully accept the pieces of our souls.

"Leni?" I called out while Serenity called out to her own counterpart. "Rini?"

Our eight year old selves skipped into the grove and took their place in front of us.

Leni looked a lot like I did now except younger; honey blonde (which I got from my mom) navy crescent outline, same lapis lazuli round eyes. Then there was Rini who was chocolate brunette, navy crescent and the same eyes as her sister.

The fractions of our souls that made us able to feel joy.

"Without us you can never feel true happiness again," they said in unison then smiled when we opened our arms. They hurled themselves into our hugs and soaked into our skin. Joy and laughter coursed through my body.

I saw my honey locks get lighter and longer, now they reached to about my lower back and were a flaxen colour instead. My senses were slightly enhanced; my vision was clearer, smell better, and hearing improved too. I looked at Serenity; she looked taller, adding onto the 5" we once stood at was maybe an inch and a half more in height, and she was curvier but still was thin.

We knew the next pieces of our souls very well. Why wouldn't we? We were them for, like, ten years.

"Chloe, Clover?" we whispered together as the images of our human selves strode into the grove. I heard Derek and Seth suck in a shaky breath.

I couldn't blame them, though, the girls standing in front of us were the ones they fell in love with. Us but with a different appearance. Chloe was the part of my soul that made me able feel compassion and humanity; one that I spent most of my life as, a human.

Unlike our joy they didn't have any marking marring their faces. Serenity's part, Clover, had dark brown hair and looked exactly like mine except for hair colour. My humanity and compassion, Chloe as I liked to call her, had strawberry blonde hair but without any streaks of dye, barely five foot, and an overall childish shape. But she had my eyes. They all would; any parts of Serenity and my soul would have our strange, big, round lapis lazuli orbs. The most human piece of my soul, the necromantic chunk too.

"Ready to accept back you're compassion?" Clover looked between the two of us, and then Chloe finished off for her. "And you humanity, cause you know without us you can never feel that stuff ever again."

"Why didn't you come to us before?" Serenity demanded.

"You didn't ask," Chloe stated plainly and shrugged as if wasn't a big deal. They were also the arrogant and sarcastic parts too apparently.

I rolled my eyes but otherwise embraced Chloe, allowing her to merge into my soul again. Yet again we changed; it seems as with every piece we get back we change more and more into our vampyre forms. Warmth filled me as my compassion and humanity returned and I grew once again.

So now my hair was bordering on platinum and bleach blonde, the spirals tumbling just past my tiny waist and to my bum. Serenity's hair was the same length and her dark curls were the deepest brown, nearly black now. I felt myself grow, up and out like aunt Lauren would say. We were about 5'3" now and more proportioned out, meaning our breasts were bigger but not grossly huge. Average for our height, weight, and age.

"I don't know who's next..." Serenity trailed of starting to turn toward Seth, distraughtly. "I don't feel truly whole but I just don't know what other piece of me may be missing!"

"Me too," I muttered hysterically turning to Derek; desperate for an answer but I doubted that he held it. However, he didn't acknowledge me he was too busy gawking at my sister! "Derek! Why are you staring at her?"

"And you!" Serenity jabbed a finger at Seth who was currently ogling at me. "Why are you gaping at her?"

Serenity's posture was all business and anger but I could see the heart breaking hurt in her eyes. I'm sure I looked almost the exact same way. She was thinking that Seth might love me and I was considering that Derek may love her.

"Because you," Derek pointed to Serenity. "Look almost indefinitely like this girl I saw in a dream."

Before we could start chewing them out Seth hurried on. "Same but it was Princess Selenity who I saw and, Chloe, you look more or less like the Princess."

"Yeah and who do I look like?" Serenity snapped her lapis lazuli gaze hardened into blue diamond's skewering Seth from the inside out.

When Seth whirled his head back to look at her, and I mean really look at her, his eyes widened into saucers as he finally realized who she was. With her near black corkscrew ringlets flowing to her butt, her lean, statuesque figure, and her jewel like lapis eyes with the small sapphire crescent nestled between her darks brows.

Seth finally grasped that we looked most unerringly like the lost Princesses. Because we were them.

"Serenity..." Seth's hoarse tiny whisper trailed off and that was all he said. He just gawked at her.

My sister nodded, tears starting to sparkle in her eyes as they melted from hard as rock to molten azurite. She instantly regretted snapping at him.

Before we'd been turned human and everything got all messed up; Seth and Serenity, though they had only been the ages of 10 and 5 respectively at the time, had been casting shy little glances at each other. They'd been best friends, we all had been, but there was something more with Seth and Serenity. Then my sister came to me one night after mom and dad had tucked us into bed, she told me that she was starting to develop a crush on Seth. They hadn't been able to start anything because, for one, they were too young and we had disappeared a month later with our parents and brother.

"Goddess, how could I have been so blind!" Seth shook his head and starting muttering to himself about how stupid and what an idiot he was. Serenity rushed over and started consoling him that he wasn't.

"Your strength, the girls Derek and I saw were your strength," Seth said finally over his little fit. "But I don't know why I got Selenity when I'm the one protecting you and not your sister."

Seth brows pinched into a line and Derek just looked utterly lost. "Derek I'll explain everything later. Serenity."

She nodded and took my hand again; we turned our backs to the boys and called to our strength. "Selenity, Serenity."

The instant we muttered the last letter of their names they materialized in front of us.

Our strength, these two allowed us to be able to feel strength.

We called them Selenity and Serenity because they were the most vampyric pieces of our souls.

Selenity was beautiful. She stood slightly taller than me and I knew once she was back inside my soul I'd be as tall as her. Her silvery white tresses fell in coils to the backs of her knees; her hair was about the same colour of her white gown. Her heart shaped face was flawless aside from the single outlined black crescent that marred it. Like all the other pieces of my soul she had the same lapis lazuli eyes as I did. But she was standing not in front of me but diagonal, in front of Serenity.

It was the dark haired, silver crescent Serenity that stood in front of me. Shouldn't she be in front of my sister instead of me? Wow this is really confusing.

"We are your strength," they said simultaneously then Serenity began talking to me. "The reason why I went to Derek and why I am standing in front of you is because you need your sister for strength and comfort."

"It is the same with me," Selenity told the girl I was clutching my hands with. "You need each other to be complete. Without the other you can't survive."

"Like yin and yang," my sister whispered rubbing her hand on her mouth. "And good and evil!"

Our strengths nodded and beckoned for us to continue on so I did. "It's also like black and white. Or the dark side and light side of the moon."

Then apprehension dawned on my sister and me as we yelled to them concurrently. "Darkness and Light!"

Serenity embraced me as Selenity enfolded my sister and they absorbed into our souls. We filled with Light and Darkness because that's what we were.

The feminine personifications of Light and Darkness.

My vision was blinded by the radiating Light and then the void of Darkness. And I was whole once again. Serenity and I needed one another to live, just like we needed Seth and Derek to live as well.

My sight cleared to see my great grandmother standing above us.

"Grandmother!" Serenity and I leapt into her arms and she encased us with her adoring embrace. We called her grandmother because it was easier and we called our actually grandmother, Zoey, just by grandma.

"Ah my dearest great granddaughters how you've grown!" she squeezed us then let us go. She beckoned for us to sit with our boyfriends on the grass; she waved Heath away wanting to speak with us privately.

"Well done boys, you have truly deserved the titles of Warrior and Guardian," she beamed at them but then her dark brows furrowed together. "And yet you haven't given the girls your Oaths, therefore, ensuring that they still aren't complete."

"What?" Seth glanced at Nyx then back to Serenity, Derek's eyes were wide with fear for me. "But they're whole, they look healthy and fine."

"Yes but, girls, do the elements coursed through you? And your tattoos aren't all back yet," grandmother clenched our hands then leaned forward to place them in our boyfriends. "Give them your Warrior Oaths so that they may be truly whole once again."

Seth and Derek pulled us to our feet then got down on one knee and fisted over their hearts. Okay I'll admit I'm a wacked up person but if Derek's gonna ask me to marry him I think I might just detonate! This was way too much.

"Will you accept our Warrior's Oaths? And as your Guardians?" they asked at the same time. Oh. My. Goddess!

That was way better than any marriage proposal; well at least right now, when the time comes I'm sure it'll be just as good.

"Yes!" Serenity and I breathed enthusiastically.

Something rippled through us then. We felt the wind caress us but this time it clung to us. Air was soon replaced by warmth spreading through our bodies' signifying that fire had returned to us. It was followed by the cooling sensation of water cleansing our thoughts and bodies. Finally earth swept in filling our noses with the smell of fresh cut grass and the tickling of grass tickling our legs. Lastly spirit filled Serenity and I lifting our souls as they were completely strung back together.

But along with the sensation of the elements came pictures of our four best friends and sisters. With air came the image of Aera shouting with glee. As fire filled us a flash of Pyra pumping her fists flicked through our minds. When water entered a reflection of Hydra came accepting our apologies for being such asses to her. Then with earth came Gea tears streaming down her face as she laughed joyously.

I smiled at Derek and hugged him tightly. I felt like he was part of me now and I had given him a piece of my heart too. The searing pain that spilled down my body was only momentary and I knew that it was only my tattoos returning.

Derek and I untangled ourselves from each other and I stood to show him my new body. This is who I really was and I wanted to share it with him fully. His eyes gave me a quick once over then shot back to my face, his cheeks flushed with a deep red, then slowly went down my marked body again. He gulped.

I giggled as did my sister who'd done the same thing to Seth and we faced grandmother. She nodded in approval.

"You're finally complete," she squeezed us then kissed our foreheads. "You do not need any more of my guidance so I wish you luck and health for the future," she looked behind us to our Warriors. "All of you."

Then she walked over to Derek. "Your Ace and new vampyre family all have markings on their bodies. For your efforts I will grant you with similar marks but only if you wish to have them."

Is it just me or did hell just freeze over?

My jaw dropped, my great grandmother hasn't ever asked if someone wants to be marked or not, she just bestows them with being a vampyre.

"Y-you m-mean become a vampyre?" Derek rarely stuttered but I could understand the battle raging within him. In mythology vampyres and werewolves are supposed to be sworn enemies but in reality they actually got along with each other very well.

But for Derek it meant that there would be an even bigger rift in our relationship than there was when I was human. And now that I was a vampyre... if he got the opportunity to be closer to me, even if it meant changing who he was, he would jump at it no matter what.

"No of course not," I let out the breath I'd been holding. I didn't want him to change for me and grandmother didn't either apparently. "I meant that I will bestow tattoos that signify who you are and your Oath to Selenity."

He nodded and she bent to kiss his forehead too. "Well I must be going. Don't stay to long or you will be stuck here indefinitely so hurry along back to the world of the living."

We all waved our goodbyes to her as she faded into the grove. This place was Nyx's Sacred Grove.

I rushed to Derek, on his left bicep was a onyx wolf paw print but it wasn't fully obsidian, it had each of the elemental symbols on each of the paw finger but in the paw pad was a black crescent moon – just like mine. Tears were stinging my eyes as Derek inspected the new tattoo. Once he was done, he looked at me tears had started streaming down his face and I was crying too.

"Hey that's so cool!" Seth grumbled. "I want one too."

"Be happy with what you have," Serenity leaned up to gingerly kiss him but a gagging sound broke their display of affection. We all turned toward Heath who was starting to usher us out.

We'd basically forgotten of his presence when we were string our souls together but now he was trying to get rid of us. "Run along kiddies, spend any more time here and you all will die, at least your bodies will."

We all quickly told each other what had happened the past few days and a bit about the past, saying we'd go into more detail once back home. Derek showed me his uber cool and dangerous claymore he'd attained to protect me and I showed him my new necklace which was now encrusted with a single jewel for each of the elements.

Then we had to go. So Serenity and I devised that the guys would go first, they weren't happy about it but they couldn't think of any other way to get out of the Otherworld. We'd cast them off with our affinity for spirit then follow right behind them.

"Promise me that you'll be right behind me," Derek said holding my tiny hands in his meaty ones. I nodded but he dropped my hands and he with Seth walked over to the hanging tree and came back with golden strip of cloth.

Derek tied it to my wrist the held up his matching one. He was still grinning when I tilted up to kiss him; we kissed for a few seconds then I casted him away with my sister as she saw her Guardian off too.

"Thanks Heath, for everything," I turned toward him then ran into his open arms with Serenity.

"No problem but I'll only let you two go if ya promise to say hi to your grams for me," he ruffled our hair with his hands and we nodded. "You know she and I used to be in love."

"WHAT!" we screamed and he cringed then started laughing at our expressions of pure shock.

"That's something that your grams and gramps need to tell you about," he nuggied us again. "See ya round squirts."

Serenity and I clasped our hands together then called the element we were closest to. "Spirit, come to us."

When spirit filled us it made our souls pulse with joy, compassion, strength and love. "Take us home!"

Then we leapt into the never ending abyss but something held us there for a moment, and for a second time was still – stopped.

Take this experience and learn from it. You'll need everything you've learned to survive the world you're about to enter.

It wasn't our great grandmother's voice; in fact I couldn't tell if it was male or female even. But it was familiar and cared for us.

Then we opened our eyes into the living world that now thrummed with Darkness and Light.

A/N:

ZOMG ITS CHAPTER 20 ALREADY! WOOOOO AND LONGEST CHAPTER YET!

Okay so this'll probably be the last chappy until my exams are done and I know that y'all are absolutely confused. So let me clear some of the confusion.

Serenity = Rini = Clover. Serenity's nickname is Rini and Clover is the human version of Serenity.

Selenity = Leni = Chloe. Selenity's nickname is Leni and Chloe is the human version of Selenity.

Selenity + Serenity = twin sisters.

They're all the same person just with different names. So if you hear any of those names they're the same person. Sorry about the confusion but when you have a past life with different names and nicknames, like the twins, it can get confusing.

Also I noticed I haven't gone up once review since chapter 18! COME ON GUYS I'M BUSTING MY ASS HERE, I NEED REVIEWS! Or I won't write anymore.

R&R PLEASE or Circe will make a haunting appearance in you nightmares tonight.

Thanks a bunch, Shawna~~~ (don't forget to review!)