Chapter Five -Cold- Blooded Part One

All at once, I could feel my body respond to the threat that is Neferet. My senses have a mind of its own. My body starting to tremble, my hands grew cold, this shaking was not something borne from fear that I will normally feel.

What's happening to me, my thoughts are echoing my concern for the unnatural feelings my body is exhibiting. Was this why Nyx was concerned, what the hell is happening!? My hands, without my conscious consent, curls inwards as my nails lengthens to that of deadly claws.

Neferet's grin slowly, but surely, slid off her face as she stood ramrod straight. Her lips pulled back to reveal twin fangs that gleams with menacing light, or that could be- because of the lights in the hallway. I could not be sure, but I swore I could hear her snarling like she was some bat-shit crazy cat.

However, while I noticed this; I could not ignore the changes happening in my own body. I could not get my body to do what I want it to, like getting the hell away from Neferet's crazy ass. Slowly, my focus turns from the immediate external threat, Neferet; towards my body's reactions.

My breath was coming out quicker than it should- almost like I ran a 600-meter dash, I am panting now. The suddenness of the change in my body's behavior has me worried. The mental anticipation of what may or may not happen did not escape me. Strangely enough, Neferet had not moved, but that did very little to calm me from my internal freak out.

Wait- WHAT THE HELL! She is changing, could it be darkness' influence?

Her, once, green-emerald eyes that shined like a cat's would, started shift; wait no flicker. The colors in her eyes flickered between the original green, to a new disturbing color- blood red. The snarling is coming with every other breath, her posture is mirroring mine now, and holy crap she is taking a step forward.

The odd changes began to migrate to my chest, and a sort of burning sensation is heading to my chest. My veins were shaking like I haven't slept in days, my eyes watering at the dire pain.

My mouth opens, I thought a scream would release, but a growl that sound it belong to a tiger or even a wolf erupts. Neferet stops further movement as the shadows, I didn't notice before began to swirl around her.

The feeling of wind picking up my hair and rushing around me in curiosity, and warning swirled around me. The smell of the ocean, and the feeling of heat opposite of the one in my chest also came around me.

The sound of feet pounding away on the ground, as the swirls of darkness grew larger; is faint but noticeable.

"ZOEY," I heard release into the air as a group of individuals rounds the corner. Damien, Shaunee, Erin, Darius, Jack, and Stark- breathing heavily while each held a weapon in their hands. Damien and the Twins were wielding their elements. The warriors Darius and Stark, held physical weapons; Darius held a sword, and Stark his bow. In Jack's hands was a small- grenade looking device, had I a sound mind I would have questioned it.

The movement of Neferet caught my attention once more. Her threatening snarl turns into a feral smile- time seem to slow at that moment. The moment her hand starts to raise in their direction- it was here. It was that moment something snapped, something shifts inside like a predator slithering forward.

I heard it.

Kill…...

My eyes narrow in confusion, my hands shake they heat unbearable.

Kill…. kill….

I breathe heavier than before my teeth grinding hard against my clenching teeth. Bowing forward, the growls became louder.

Neferet stops moving my eyes search fervently, looking for any sudden movements; I'm cautious as my instincts went haywire.

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, Kill, KILL, KILL, KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

"Zoey?" The frightened voice of Jack sounds behind me. I did not notice that my friends were no longer looking at Neferet. Something is tugging, at first it was a light tug.

Neferet lifts her hand, a swirling mass of darkness, that had spikes protruding from the goop. She throws it, it swirls, and a piercing buzzing sound follows- in my direction. I didn't know how, but my body reacts without my frozen brain's input.

[Damien]

"Zoey," Damien asked never taking his eyes from Neferet.

Damien ran his eyes over the situation and couldn't help the help the shiver in fright, as he witnessed the creepy glory of darkness that surrounds Neferet. Looking towards his friend Zoey didn't help either as she is behaving like a wild rabid dog, or dare he say, a hungry wolf.

The others in the group were thinking along the same lines as he was.

Damien's instincts went hay wire as he saw Neferet's hand lift with a swirling mass of darkness in her hand. His eyes caught the mass twist unnaturally and taking the form of a spiked ball. It looked menacing and deadly, like that of the feral grin stretched over Neferet's face.

A whimper caught his attention and he directed his eyes towards the source. Jack. Jake stood there with an object in his hands. The object Jack and his long time best friend, Amy called the "light-smoker." He claimed he received the final product as a gift from this programming friend of his, who went to the army this week. It wasn't by means deadly, just meant to be used as a distraction when needed. Jack must have brought it with him when he noticed the Damien rush out the door screaming Zoey's name. They both exited the dorms, the same time the Twins did.

[Back a few minutes ago, Nerd Herd]

Back in his dorm that he shared with Jack, Damien was laying on his bed reading one of the assigned books for one of his advanced classes- when he felt it.

He shot up as the feeling in him in his baser vampiric senses- felt the call of alarm in him. Like a tug from a rope around his soul he felt the surge of all the elements calling out to him. Only one person who can summon all five of the elements at once. "ZOEY!"

Damien's scream causes Jack to jump in his chair, Jack staring in wide eyed- panic stares after Damien. "Damien wha-!?" before Jack could question Damien's sudden change in demeanor. Damien shoots up running out the door like the gates of hell had opened, and the arms demons were trying to take him. Jack runs after him in confusion and worry. Bursting through the doors of the male dormitory on the west wing, past the Sons of Erebus Warriors guarding the doors- they took off towards the call. The warriors rushing to question them quickly were looking at an empty space as the element of wind give them flight in their haste- kicking up dirt as the element directs them.

Jack notices that Damien was glowing a little pulsing a light blue and grey, like it was heartbeat. Swinging his head around, he turns his head to look at the twins that follows closely behind them. Just the same as Damien the twins were also glowing the respectful colors of their elements. Shaunee is a pulsing red and orange; and Erin was a deeper and darker blue. As the panicked Nerd Herd ran, they were passing by one of the gate entrances to the older section of the school. Darius, the older warrior that was hooked up with the prophetess, Aphrodite- the bitcher head of the Nerd Herd. Whom was also by the warrior with her long blonde hair swaying in the wind, with a scared look etching across her face. Both look up to see the rushing Nerd herd, then look to each other. "Zoey." They both said with a grim look in their eyes, gripping the handle of his sword in one hand; and the other grabbing Aphrodite's hand, they quickly follow.

A flicker of white caught Jack's eye to the right, glancing over he sees Stark with a hard look across his face running then passing the Nerd Herd, possibly using the curse and blessing as a Red Fledgling. Running like his very life depended on reaching the shared destination of their friend.

No one spokes as the panic and fear churns through their guts like bile from one suffering from the flu. As the Nerd herd closes in on the hallway were the pulse is the strongest. No one was prepared for the scene that they were about to witness.

[End of part one]

[warning the story will get darker from this point on.]