Chapter One The sun set behind the mountain tops in the distance slowly. As night fell, a beautiful woman appeared right inside the walls of Tulsa's House of Night. She could sense her children guarding the borders of the school as well as inside their dorms, all not yet awake. As she walked through the the grounds, the veil of Darkness covering her from any and all eyes. She finally found her way to the stables, the summer warm, the air caressing her skin. She walked in through the doors, happy that Lenobia was still asleep as she made her way to the last stall on the right. "Persephone," she breathed a sigh of relief, looking down at the goddess's animal form. Within seconds, the beautiful midnight black mare glowed so brightly as the goddess revealed her true form before the brightness faded, a beautiful pale woman with dark hair and hazel eyes stood in front of the Goddess of Night, a long white dress covering her body. "Nyx. How did you find me?" the goddess asked curiously. "I came here so my husband couldn't find me." Persephone brushed some hay from her dress and moved out of the stall standing beside her friend.
"Well Persephone, you have been staying at a school of my children. I do watch over them now and again. And I just happened to be watching over Zoey Redbird last night when she mentioned a beautiful mare named Persephone," she raised a delicate eyebrow. "I knew it must have been you." Persephone groaned softly and looked up at Nyx, pleadingly. "Please, please don't tell Hades. I like it here where I'm away from my husband and my mother once in a while. No one knows who I am," she took a deep breath, shaking her head. Nyx looked at her fellow goddess sadly, keeping the calm composure she was known for. "I understand how you feel. But there was another reason I came here tonight...Kalona is rising, as well as the Titans. The Olympians have been oblivious to my children throughout the decades, but now...I think my children are the only way we will be able to survive the upcoming war with the Titans. My fledglings and vampyres need to know the truth about what they are, and why they cannot afford to be outside of the schools borders any longer, as well as away from vampyres. As the most evil of monsters resurface, all demigods are now in even more danger, and I cannot bear to see another of my children fall." Persephone listened to the goddesses speech in silence, her emotions showing only slightly on her soft features. "Nyx, do you know about what Neferet has been doing?" was all she asked. There was a look of pure confusion on the deity's face as she looked at the Queen of the Underworld. "What about my high priestess?" "She must have been hiding her actions from you but I have seen it, everything...Once a fledgling dies, Neferet brings them back and turning them into some...twisted sort of cliché vampyre. Her loyalties now lie with Kalona," she said sadly. She could almost see Nyx's anger flare up inside of the goddess. There was a mixture of the five elements swirling around her like a whirlwind. "She needs to be stopped," she said simply, clenching her teeth angrily, controlling her voice to be quiet, deathly quiet. And with that, she walked away from her fellow goddess and disappeared into the night. ((I'm wicked sorry this took so long, I couldn't think about how I should start this and I finally had this...whatever to start off like this. Please review!))