Prologue:

Two teenagers walk onto the Chicago House of Night campus with a fully grown wolf following after them but they didn't seem affected by the wolf. They're whispering to each other and laughing at what the other says. They enter the Teacher's section of the House of Night though they walked towards the emptier section of the teacher's section.

"I really enjoyed tonight James," Athea said looking into James' brown eyes. He raised an eyebrow at her, she knew that he wanted to be called Stark but she refused to call him that. "I'm going to miss you when you got to the Tulsa House of Night." Athea looks down to her feet, letting her emotions take over and a single tear went down her face. Stark grabbed her chin, making her look him in the eyes, green eyes meeting brown eyes.

"Athea, you and Accalia could come to Tulsa with me and I'm a sixth-former, I'll be completing the change soon." Athea interrupts Stark.

"You know Tulsa wouldn't accept Accalia and I would have to have Achak travel there as well. Neferet barely accepted Duchess how would she feel about two fully grown wolves. You're forgetting that I'm now a professor here. I can't leave." More tears fall from Athea's eyes as she looks away from Stark. He kisses her on her forehead and hugs her close. Accalia who was resting by Athea's feet, whimpers, sensing Athea's sadness. Athea reaches down and pets Accalia's white ears.

Athea kisses Stark, her lips molding perfectly onto his. He quickly kisses her back, each of them fighting for dominance. Stark grabs Athea's thighs and picks her up, pushing her against the wall. "Stark if we don't stop now I can't get my work done," Athea gasps out as Stark kisses her neck.

"Is that such a bad thing," Stark states as he moves his hand to Athea's ass.

"I have to plan my class schedule for the week."

"Way to kill the mood Athea," Stark jokingly glares at her.

"I could spare a few minutes," Athea says as kisses Stark again pulling him into her room. Accalia sits outside, acting as guard. Around an hour later Stark walks out Athea's room and allows Accalia to walk inside.

Athea sat at her desk, her Animal Studies course work laid out in front of her. Since the majority of Vampyres wouldn't be interested in Animal Studies, Athea has a small number of students. About ten in each of her three classes so thirty students in total. Which was a class size at her High School back in Minnesota. It doesn't take long to plan since she used to help High Priestess Vasilisa plan some of her classes as practice.

Around 8:00 am Athea fell asleep with Accalia laying at the foot of her bed. At 4:00 pm Athea awoke to knocking at her door. Accalia growls out a warning to whoever is outside her door. "Who's there," Athea calls out but the only response she gets is the door getting kicked in. Three men stood in the doorway, all three were human. Athea grabs the sword that's next to her bed, a gift from the Head Warrior, Sólyom. Accalia attacks the shortest man of the three and rips out his throat since she will do anything to protect Athea.

Athea goes after the tallest man, slicing his arm with her sword, but as she was preparing for the next blow the other man grabs her from behind and drugs her. The man Athea sliced with her sword kicks Accalia away causing her to hit the desk and passing out for several minutes. The men fled carrying Athea and their dead friend.

Athea awakes in a dark cell that doesn't have any windows. A man stands in front of the bars to Athea's cell.

"Do you know why you are here," He asks her but he wasn't looking for a response. "Of course you don't. You are now my test subject to find a cure for several diseases. My name is Dr. Ryan and I'll be the only person you will see until you die. Though I plan on keeping you here for a while because your wolf killed my friend Ethan. For that, you will pay." He opens the door to her cell and before Athea could even get up he injects a needle into her arm and she starts to convulse and passes out.

Stark wakes up at 6:30 pm since him and Athea had plans to get breakfast before they had their classes for the day. The walk to the Teacher's section of the House of Night from the Student's section took five minutes. As soon as Stark got to her floor he could smell blood. He walked over to her door seeing a trail of blood leading out of it and the door was broken down. He sees High Priestess Vasilisa in there with Head Warrior Sólyom. Sólyom was picking up Athea's shortsword, a few drops of blood hit the floor as he did so. Several pieces of flesh were on the floor, clearly torn off by a wolf. There were also claws marks on the floor.

"Stark," High Priestess Vasilisa says as she walks over to him. "We will find Athea and Accalia. I have called upon the Sons of Erebus as well as the Vampyre High Council and they will be arriving as soon as they can. You still are being transferred to the Tulsa House of Night, I'm sorry about that."

*Eighteen months later*

Athea watches as the men drag out Willow's bruised and bloody body. Dr. Ryan's testing had gone too far just as it had with Savannah and Maia. Layla whimpers in the corner of their shared cell, Layla knows she will have an injection soon and is scared that it will be her last.

"Layla," Athea calls for her. "You've only been here for three weeks hun, the other girls have each been here for six months. Your next injection will go fine." Athea's last injection was two months ago but she knows that she will have another one soon.

*Three weeks prior*

Zoey Redbird was rearranging her and Stark's things in their room. She finds a photo of him with another girl. She's kissing his cheek, a full vampyre tattoo marks her face. Her eyes are closed, showing perfectly done makeup. There was a note on the back of the photo, 'thank you for the amazing date. Love, Athea.' There was a date on the back of the photo dated two weeks before Stark's move to Tulsa.

At that moment Stark walks into their room, seeing Zoey holding the photo of him and Athea. "Z, I can explain. After that photo was taken Athea went missing, High Priestess Vasilisa told me that she would find her with the help of the Sons Erebus and the High Council but that never happened. No one knows if Athea is alive or dead, Athea was also bonded to a wolf who she named Accalia who also hasn't been seen since."

Zoey walks out of the room as soon as Stark was done with his explanation, needing time to process what he told her. As soon as she leaves the room her phone starts ringing, noticing it's a number that's not on her phone she nervously answers the phone. "Hello?"

"Hello, Zoey Redbird. I am Vasilisa, High Priestess of the Chicago House of Night and we need your help. Eighteen months ago a fully changed Vampyre went missing and about every six months a fledging would go missing. We need you and anyone else you would like to bring with you to help us locate the missing vampyre and fledglings."

"I will be on the first flight that can Vasilisa," Zoey says and ends the call. She walks back into the room. Zoey and Stark make eye contact, Stark's brown eyes convey that he is sorry for not telling her about Athea. "Stark pack your bags, we're going to Chicago to help find Athea and the other missing fledglings."