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The whole ballroom is a mass of colours and swirls. The lighting makes everything look magical and surreal.
There is strange yet…relaxing music playing from a stereo that has been hidden.
All of the soulmate couples and some of their siblings are here.
James is dressed as what looks like an FBI agent. Moulder! That's who he's dressed like, from the X-Files.
And Poppy must be Scully. She is wearing a black pantsuit, were James is wearing a dark grey suit.
Ash is dressed up as Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Half of his face is normal and the other half is grotesque.
Mary-Lynnette is dressed up as an astronaut, with an oxygen helmet and everything.
Rowan is dressed as Incan priestess, she has on a one piece thin white shift that only goes over one shoulder, and the other one is bare.
Kestrel is dressed, as I don't know what she's dressed as, she's wearing her normal clothes, black sleeveless top and a pair of black trousers and pair of black leather boots encases her feet.
I have to remember to ask her why she's dressed up as normal.
Mark is dressed as James Dean, he is wearing a white T-shirt and blue jeans.
Jade is dressed up as a fairy; a white dress with a pair of wings on her back, she is carrying a wand with a star on top in her hand.
Thea is dressed in her witch clothes; a white shift, sleeveless, made out of one piece of material. A soft white belt is around her waist and has a loop pointing up; the other end of the belt is tied around the base of the loop three times. A thet knot, Thea told me earlier this morning. Apparently witches have been using thet knots for four thousand years.
Blaise is dressed similar to Thea, but her shift is black instead of white. She is bare foot wearing one ankle bracelet. Her hair is loose with little bells woven into the strands, and her hair and bells go all the way down to her hips.
Eric is dressed as a seventeenth-century French soldier at Ronchain. He told me that he was going as a French soldier because he couldn't think of anything else to go as, and he also told me that he wore that very same costume helping Thea put back an angry spirit that had been accidentally let out a few years ago.
Gillian is dressed as a flapper, her lilac dress bringing out the violet in her eyes.
David is dressed as a badly wrapped mummy, he has bandages hanging loose over has black clothes underneath.
Quinn is dressed in normal clothes like Kestrel, but his hair is spiked up held in place by some hair gel.
Rashel is dressed normal too, except that she's dyed her hair blonde. And she has a wooden stake tucked into her belt. I know what she's supposed to be now! She's supposed to be Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and that must mean that Quinn is dressed as Buffy's ex, Angel.
Jez is dressed in black leather; black leather jacket over a black shirt, black leather trousers and black leather boots.
Morgead is dressed exactly the same. Bikers, that's what they're supposed to be.
Delos is dressed in some old fashioned clothing including a cloak.
Maggie look like a slave in her outfit.
Miles is dressed as…count Dracula?!? Black tuxedo, white shirt, with a black cloak with red underneath.
Keller is dressed in her normal black velvet jumpsuit with her hair loose to her hips.
Galen is dressed in his royal clothes, very expensive looking.
Nissa is dressed as some sort of secret agent, in a pantsuit.
Winnie is dressed as a Druid priestess, in a forest green dress.
And then there's Iliana. She's…wow. She's dressed as an angel and looks the part. She's wearing a plain white floor length dress with white feathery wings on back, and a solid gold band around her head. Her silvery white blonde hair is hanging loose over her shoulders and down her back. She looks extremely angelic like that.
I walk up to Kestrel, who is talking to Phil. Where did he come from? I never seen him in the room when I was looking at whom was dressed as what.
Phil is dressed as…Frankenstein's monster, with stitches and everything.
"Hey Kestrel. Hi Phil." I say.
"Hi Thie…uh Nila." Phil stutters.
Kestrel rolls her eyes. "Hi Nila."
"What are you supposed to be Kestrel?" I ask.
"I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else." She replies with a devilish grin.
"Oh." I reply.
At that moment Nilsson and Kali walk in through the door.
Nilsson is dressed in his usual CIA agent suit and Kali is dressed in a brief leather loincloth over her chest and around her waist, she looks like some sort of cavewoman.
"Hey Nilsson!" Ash comes over to Kestrel, Phil and I, where Nilsson and Kali are walking. "This is supposed to be a costume party, why are you wearing your CIA agent suit?"
"I am an MIB. You know, a Man In Black?" Nilsson replies. "Kali told me that I look like one, so I decided to say that I was one."
"Clever." I reply.
"Thanks." Nilsson gives me a wink.
"I like your costume Kali." I say.
"Thanks. It's what I wore in my last life." She replies.
At that precise moment Miles walks up to me.
"Can I talk to you for a minute Nila?" He asks.
"Sure. See you guys later." I reply.
Miles and I take a walk out of the ballroom, down the hall, through the kitchen and out of the back door, where we sit on the pool chairs.
"What's up?" I ask him.
"The sky is beautiful at twilight isn't it?" Miles changes the subject.
"Stop changing the subject please." I reply. "What did you want to talk about?"
"How long will it be before you get your body back?" he finally asks.
"I don't know. Mother Cybele and the Maiden Aradia are supposed to be coming out tomorrow afternoon sometime to see what they can do to reverse whatever…spell Thierry and I have cast." I reply.
"Do they know what kind of spell you two cast?" Miles turns to look at me.
"Not yet, but hopefully they will and know how to reverse it. The whole Inner Circle is coming the day after tomorrow to see if they can help." I reply, sighing.
"I hope they know how to reverse the spell." He mumbles.
"Why?" I ask.
"I sort of want to kiss you desperately but you said not to until you're in your own body." Miles says.
I lean towards him, and kiss him passionately. But I pull back before things get too much out of hand.
"What was that for?" He asks, catching his breath back.
"I sort of needed to kiss you desperately as well." I reply. "We better get back inside before Thierry sends out a search party for us."
"Okay." He replies.
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After Miles and I go back into the ballroom, there is a crash at the front door, and about three or four- dozen people dressed in black come rushing into the ballroom.
The leader of the gang walks a few steps in front and then I can see his face.
He has jet-black hair and ever changing eyes. He is tall, and extremely attractive.
"Where is Nila Snow?" He bellows.
Nobody says anything. A figure steps from behind the tall dark haired man.
"In the name of the great God Anubis. That's my mother." I whisper.
The figure has long jet-black hair, deep emerald green eyes, and incredibly long legs. She kisses the gang leader on the cheek.
So that's the guy she ran off with. I think to myself.
"Nila Nefertity Urbena Snow!" The voice rings with authority, and makes me shudder inside. "Come here this instant." My mother finishes.
I gulp down the bile that has raised in my throat, but other than that I don't move.
"Very well. I'll come and get you." Boy is she scary or what? No wonder why I was glad that she doesn't live with my father and I any more. How could he have stood that?
My mother walks towards me, and I try my best to stay put, and I am waiting for the steel grip on my arm, which never comes. I look at her and she walks on past me. I turn around and watch her stalk towards Thierry.
Great Isis, she's going to hurt him.
My mother grabs an astonished Thierry by the arm and drags him towards the tall dark haired man.
"I am not Nila." Thierry growls. "My name is Thierry Descouedres, Lord of the Night world and I would like it if you would be so kind as to let go of me!" That last part said in rising tones.
"Listen to me Nila, I am your mother now do as you are told!" Mother replies, seeming to ignore Thierry's protests.
Hannah runs up to me.
"Nila do something." She cries.
"Like what?" I reply.
She ignores me, and turns to my mother.
"Aunt Urbena, please let Thierry go. That's not Nila." Hannah screams.
"Ah Hannah. I thought Maya killed you." My mother replies.
"I killed Maya. Now unhand my soulmate right now!" Hannah screams again.
My mother throws back her head and laughs sending ice down my spine.
"Mother!" I yell. "Let Thierry go. Now!"
She turns towards me.
"Ah Lord Descouedres, what a pleasant surprise. I'll just be taking my daughter here and we'll be on our way." She sneeringly replies.
I play along, acting like Thierry.
"Urbena!" My voice rings with more authority than hers. "Let Nila go."
"She needs to be punished." My mother protests.
"What for?" I ask.
"She is half human, and she needs to be dealt with. So I'll just ta…"
"Don't forget it was you who married her father and who gave birth to Nila. You should be getting punished for that!" I growl in a dangerous voice.
"But I was raped, I didn't even want her. Her father raped me." She screams.
"Robert did not rape you, so do NOT try to blame this on him. If you don't let Nila go right now, I will personally kill you." I reply in an even deadlier voice.
"Kill them all!" my mother screams to the other Night People.
Approximately forty-eight people rush at the Daybreakers, but Thierry's guards come in to join the fight.
While all this is going on, my mother, the tall dark haired man and Thierry leave without anybody noticing.
As I rush to stop them, I see a brilliant blue light that blinds me. When I can see again, none of the Night People are left.
"Where's Thierry?" Hannah screams.
A scream suddenly erupts from the front hall, and everyone rushes to the foyer to see who is screaming.
My mother and the dark haired man are tying in vain to get Thierry out of the door before they are stopped.
I run over to them and scream at the top of my lungs in Egyptian:
"Mother! Leave him alone. I am Nila not him."
She turns around and tries to hit me, but I just swat her hand away.
"Red Fern! Help me!" My mother screams.
In the name of Amun Ra, the dark haired man is Maya's son!
Red Fern just looks at my mother, but before he has time to do anything, a ball of gold fire shoots out of the palms of my hands and hits both my Mother and Red Fern.
There is a flash of blinding light, and there is no trace of either of them left, when the flash has gone.
Thierry just looks at me.
"You were able to make that happen?" He asks bewildered.
"What was that?" I ask.
"Some form of ancient magic that I haven't been able to do for a long time, but you were able to pull it off." Thierry replies.
"Yeah well. She pissed me off. I really don't like that woman." I reply through gritted teeth.
"Let's finish the party!" Jez shouts.
We all go back inside and the party goes on long into the night.
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A/N: Please, please, please review!!! I need to know what people think of this story so far. I'm thinking of doing a sequel to this when I'm finished, but I need to know if people would like me to do one, or if the story is fine without a sequel. So please review, I'm begging you, I grovel at your feet. I'll be eternally grateful. I'll love you till the end of all time…L.O.Ll!!!!