Daughters of the Moon
the Dark goddess
Dedicated to.. Britt Wade
Based on her, my best friend 4ever
Chapter 1: The Odd Ball
Jaime sat back in her chair chewing her pencil, thinking about how horrible the History test will be. She studied really hard last night, but when she woke up, she forgot almost everything. Maybe its just a mind freeze, she can get over it. Jaime tried to think of the chapter they were reading, but her mind was blank. Jaime looked up at the time, seeing how much longer she had. She searched the classroom to see if the other kids had problems like her. She noticed that Serena Killingsworth was staring at her, and her friend, Vanessa was too. They creeped her out. She wondered why they were staring at her. Did they know her secret?
Serena smiled at her, and looked back down at her paper as if nothing had happened. Vanessa still stared at her for a moment longer, and did the same.
She looked back down at her horror, the test. It was just lingering there like a juicy apple being wait to be eaten. "I'm so not getting principal honors.." she whispered to herself.
Jaime stood her pencil up, as if she was ready to right the answer, but just stayed that position.
'I don't know the answer..' she thought.
"Yes you do, remember the first president, and the first chapter we read? Give it a try, you know it.." said across her mind. Where the heck was that from? Jaime looked totally confused when she heard it. Who was saying that to her? Jaime started to chew her pencil again when another message went across her head, "Come on, Jaime, you know it, look harder." That really startled Jaime. She looked around the room to see if it was just her imagination playing tricks on her. Jaime saw Serena staring at her again. Was Serena talking to her in her thoughts? That was impossible.
When Jaime looked down back at her paper, the answer clicked in her head. She quickly wrote it down before she forgot, than the answer for number two came to her.
"No way.." she muttered. Jaime glanced up behind her, and Serena was smiling.
After the bell rung, she stuffed her books, and her binder in her backpack, and walked to the teachers desk, and put her test down. She was extremely proud of herself. But who was the person that encouraged her?
As Jaime walked to her locker, she felt a tap on her shoulder. It was Serena.
"Hi, I'm Serena." she greeted, in a happy tone.
"Hi, I'm Jaime.." she said back, in a puzzled way.
"Did you think you did well on the test?" she asked excitedly as if she knew she did.
Jaime shoved her History book in her locker, and started to put some chapstick on. Her locker was full of skateboarding pictures, with some surfing ones. There was a small mirror in the middle of it, barely sticking out. Jaime wondered why Serena all of a sudden wanted to be her friend.
"Good, I thought I wouldn't though.." Jaime answered.
Serena gave a sly smile. She pulled out a piece of blue paper and handed it to Jaime. She noticed that Serena's fingernails were painted all over with different dark colors. That interested her.
"Tonight's the Planet Bang, want to come with my friends and me?" she asked, with a nice smile across her face.
Jaime studied the paper. Now the Planet Bang? She was going to say yes, when she thought about not having a date. A frown went came on her face, than she tried to smile.
"Sure, thanks." she tried to saw with a happy voice, but instead came out in a worried tone.
Serena started to stare at her for a moment, the same way she did at History. Was she reading her thoughts? Jaime felt something pressuring inside her. It felt like works going through her brain, to her memory.
"I find you a date, or we can snatch a guy at the Bang, don't worry." Serena replied.
Did Serena just read her mind? Jaime backed away, scared that she just did. Maybe she had powers just like her?
Serena's eyes widened. She stepped forward, and stopped staring. Her eyes became glittery once again.
"Did you just read my mind?" Jaime asked.
She looked around her, making sure no one was listening. Than Serena nodded. So it was true, she had powers like her!
"You can-" Serena started to say, than stopped.
I nodded, knowing she knew that I had the power to shape-shift in anything. When I was 10, I was at a birthday party, and the girl got a kitten, and when I was in the bathroom, the kitten walked in, and jumped on the sink. I wished I could be a kitten, and right than I changed into that kitten. I was so scared I ran (in cat form) and went all the way home. After I got home, I pleaded to turne back, and I transformed back into my old self. My mom was so worried, she called the police, and they found me at my house. That's when I realized that I was different.
Chapter 2 One Dark One
I looked at my hands, than looked up at Serena. I felt a strange aura coming from her. I stared at her, as she did to me, when her friend Vanessa walked up.
"Serena, is she..?" Vanessa asked. Serena turned toward her and nodded. Vanessa's eyes went wide open. Serena looked around, and when most of the kids were in the classrooms.
Vanessa and Serena gave ach other a look, "Listen, we have gifts just like you, and we want you to meet someone who wants to help you, here's the place we want you to meet us at. Be there around the afternoon." Serena told her.
Jaime looked absolutely shocked. They both had powers? How insane is that.
She took the note, and ran to her class. Her P.E teacher hated her being late all the time, so she ran faster than she thought she could. Jaime clutched the note, and gusts of wind started to blow. Maybe it was time she learned something about herself..
After school, Jaime started walking home, awaiting a nice sandwich in the fridge. She was dying of hunger, and of all that happened, she needed her strength. Jaime snapped on her blades, and rolled down the hill. As the wind was blowing through her sun streaked hair, she felt someone stopping her from blading. Jaime jerked around, to see the stranger, hoping she didn't have to defend herself. "Bronxton!"
It was Josh. His black, curly hair swayed in the wind. His brown eyes melted her.
"Hey, what's up?" she answered, he frown turning into a smile.
He grinned at her, than came closer to her than usual. "I was thinking that, maybe you could go with me to the Planet Bang? If you don't want to I understand." he asked.
Jaime couldn't believe her ears. She had a small crush on him since the beginning of the year. She hesitated for a minute, than tried to answer, but nothing came out. She coughed a bit, than looked up at him and answered him calmly.
"Sure, Josh." she answered.
She noticed that Josh was red, and than a quick smile crept across his face with delight.
"Great, I'll pick you up around 5'?" he asked. Jaime nodded, and he waved as he walked the opposite direction of her.
Jaime's heart pumped of her excitement of being asked to the club. Her face went a bright red underneath her tan, and she skated the rest of the way home. She couldn't wait till the Bang. Than she remembered that she was supposed to meet Serena and Vanessa. Jaime shoved her hand into her pocket, and pulled out the note. It had an address on it, and she stared at it for a while. Why was that address so fimilar. Maybe she had been there before.
Jaime unlocked the door and swung her backpack to the side of the living room. "Mom, I'm home!" she shouted.
"I'm in the kitchen!" her mother shouted back.
Her mom adopted her from her birth mom who was actually related to them. Her mom was actually her Aunt, but she called her mom anyways. Her real mom went crazy and left her to them when she was born. Her blue moon amulet thumped on her chest as she ran to the kitchen. She received it when she was very young, by a women with some dogs she used to live by. Her memory was blurry of it, but she never took it off.
"Hey, mum, I'm going to meet some friends to go to the Planet Bang, alright?" she asked while grabbing an apple.
Her mom nodded, "Be home by 9' alright?" she called after her.
"I will!" Jaime shouted back while running up stairs to put on her clothes for the Bang.
She put on a red halter top, and some glittery tight hip huggers. She put her hair in more curls, than raced down stairs, and told her mom bye'.
Jaime remembered she had to call Josh to let him know to meet her at the Bang instead.
She beeped in his number, and told him. He agreed, and she ran across the street, to the boulevard that Serena gave her. The porch light was on, and before she knocked, Serena opened the door.
"Hey." Jaime greeted. Serena nodded in a welcome way and let her in.
Inside smelt fumes of perfumes and herbs. Vanessa, Catty, and the new girl Tianna sat at one table with a women she did not recognize. They all grinned at her, and pulled up a seat for her. She sat down and folded her hands.
"Hello, I'm Maggie.. We have found that you have special powers just like these girls. They all are Daughters of the Moon." she began. Jaime felt a chill go up her spine. Was she a Daughter too?
Her blue moon necklace dangled with another necklace she forgot she had on. It was Hekate"s orb that her mom gave her before she got the mom amulet. Maggie gasped when she saw the necklaces.
"Oh my.." Maggie said. The girls looked at each other and asked, "What?"
"She holds the dark moon and Hekate's orb.. She is not a Daughter of the Moon.." Maggie said. Jaime glanced around, looking at their expressions. Everyone stared at Maggie, than at Jaime.
"She is the Daughter of the Dark, or some say, Hekate." Maggie finished. Jaime stared into her eyes, thinking about all of this she had just said.
Everyone gasped, than calmed down.
"Is that bad..?" Tianna asked.
Maggie shook her head. "She is just like Serena, only she isn't apart of the moon.."
"So what do we do? Is she with us?" they all asked.
"That is her decision.. And only." Maggie replied.
"Mine? What? To be with you guys, or what else?" Jaime asked in a rough way.
Maggie looked down as if not wanting to mention it.
Serena stared at her and told her everything, about the Daughters of the Moon, their powers, the Atrox.. Everything. Than it came to the once have been Daughter, Jimena.
Serena's eyes began to water when she talked about her. She had the power of premonitions. She turned 17 before they all did, and when a Daughter turns 17, they either lose their power, or become a spirit.
"What choice do I have?" Jaime asked, with intense.
Maggie finally looked up. "You have the choice to either go with Hekate and her clan, or lose your memory, like the others."
Chapter 3 Dark moon rises….
Jaime thought to herself, "Should I choose now.. Or what? This came to me all to quickly." Serena glanced at her than shook her head. Maggie stared at Serena than turned toward Jaime.
"The Atrox will come after you, so the girls will protect you, but on the day of the eclipse on Saturday, you will have to choose to be with. Choose wisely because you can't turn back." Maggie replied, with sulleness in her voice.
"We should go to the Bang, it's getting late." Catty replied. They all agreed and said their good byes'
"Thank you , Maggie." Jaime said, Maggie nodded, and lead her to the door.
As the girls were walking towards the Bang, Jaime saw a shadow following them. She turned around, and searched the surroundings. But she couldn't see anything, not even that shadow.
"What is it, Jaime?" Vanessa asked. Than when Vanessa turned around to see what she saw, she grinned. Why in the would was she grinning? There was nothing funny.
"It's just Staton, come out Staton, she knows." Serena replied. The shadow turned into a guy with blondish hair that fell across his face. He walked cautiously to Serena, and hugged her. Jaime made a frightful look. Was Serena one of those creatures?
"He's not going to hurt us." Serena insisted. Vanessa shook her head in disbelief.
"Is he one of them?" Jaime whispered to Vanessa. She nodded.
"He's the Prince of the Night, but he won't harm us with Serena around, they love each other." That shocked Jaime. How could Serena, a warm hearted person, love evil?
"He isn't evil." Serena insisted again, but Jaime took caution anyways.
"Lets go." Staton replied. They all started walking toward the loud music, an dkids shouting over it.
As they stepped inside, and quickly went into the dancing crowd. Jaime didn't know what to do at first, but than just went with the beat. While she was dancing, someone tapped her. She turned around thinking it was Josh. Staton stood right in front of her.
He stared at her for a moment. He really creeped her out.
"I won't try to take you to my world, so don't be afraid." he replied in a dark voice.
She flinched when he touched her shoulder to reassure her. "Jaime?" some asked behind them. Josh stood right behind Jaime, with a sullen look on his face.
"Who's that?" he asked. Jaime turned around to Staton, than back.
"Oh, that's just Staton, my FRIEND's boyfriend." she replied, letting Staton know that he should go off with Serena now.
A crooked smile went apon Josh. "Alright, want to dance?" he asked.
She nodded, and he put his arms around her waist when the slow song came on. He rocked her to the beat of the music, enjoying his warm touch. She looked down, than up seeing the glittery brown eyes of his.
As the song stopped, she looked around to see where the girls were. They weren't their. But she spotted Staton giving her a sly smile of evil, than walked away. Did he do something to them?