Gods in Real Life
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Authors note: The original story was written from Zoey Redbird's point of view. Now it is changed to Tsuki Kurosu Yaryu's point of view. This takes place after Kalona is set free and after they send him away. (Directly after Hunted)
Warnings: This contains spoilers for all of the books in the HON series.
They Exist?
My name is Tsuki Kurosu Yaryu. I am a lycan and vampire fledgling. We look different from the other fledglings of both races. I am a rare genetic combo of both hormones. I was born in a half-lycan half-human form. My human family was completely human other than me, the youngest, so they pretended like they didn't have a monster child and deserted me to a lycan compound. They still support me with their money. When I arrived a fallen angel came and entered my body. With the invading of my body, she also gave me white wings. I use her knowledge to help me get rid of Kalona and to get through my change. The lycan family that took me in was the elder and his wife. I have long dark brown hair that shines blue. My eyes are a brilliant shade of sapphire blue. My body is covered in swirling lines of midnight blue. They cover all of my body, except my hands, feet and my face. When I was marked I was fifteen years old. I have been marked for two years now. My mark has expanded over my hands feet and face. I have an affinity for all five elements, but all lycans have feelings for earth, air, water, and fire. I would have the affinity for spirit technically. I also am the best at wielding a sword, and hand-to-hand combat. I was in a House of Night on the western side of the country and Neferet wanted me to switch and I agreed to do so against the wish of my warrior. I was given the task to bring the Fledgling Zoey Redbird to the compound in one piece or I wouldn't complete my change.
I quickly walked out of the shadows of the abbey to see Kalona and a woman fly away. When the moon reappeared I went back into the shadows to shield myself. I scanned the people to see who I was looking for. And there I found her. Zoey Redbird. I called out to her before she and her friends could go into the abbey. "Zoey Redbird." I called from the shadows. "I need to speak with you." She looked around and couldn't find me or my Son of Erebus protector Gabriel. I sighed and stepped out of the shadows and into the moon light as I bowed politely to her and crossed my fist over my heart. She saw me then and called her friends to stop. They were going to close their circle, but they didn't.
"Who are you?" she called.
"I'm just someone here to help and protect." I replied.
"Why are you here?" she asked.
I sighed again and explained, "I am a lycan and vampire fledgling. My protector sent me here to help you rid the Earth of that thing and his monstrosities. He is ruining our ability to protect you from the sidelines. You don't need to know any more about me than that. I will be transferring to your House of Night, though."
"That all sounds interesting, but why are you helping me?" she asked stupidly.
"Because my protector sent me to. I have no choice. To complete my change I have to follow everything my protector asks." I state simply.
"Oh." She says clearly stumped.
"Now, if you would please come with me, we have to move you and all of the nuns to a safe bunker in another place of power to my people. You can feel free to bring the red fledglings with you. We have everything that they could need. Yes I know about the red fledglings. No the Raven Mockers will not hurt you. We have the place protected with wards and such." I say trying to urge them to come with me quickly. "We don't have much time, by time you get everything you need to move, it will be light, and we need to get there before moonrise. It will take nights to get there by foot and a whole day to get there by vehicle, and that is going at the correct speed on the roads."
"But how are we all going to get there?" the boy standing in the place of air in the circle asks. Clearly he was a good looking boy with brown hair and eyes. I could tell he might be gay.
"If there are more of those things around," I say jerking my chin in the direction of the black Hummers, "We should be able to get everything safely there and protected before moonset and we can plan from there. If you don't follow me I will be forced to remove you by force and your friends might get hurt. The lycans won't hurt you or any of your friends. You will be completely safe."
Zoey sighs and simply says, "We will go, but if you try to hurt any of us I will call the elements and hurt you."
I simply smile and say, "Good. Then we are agreed. I will give you tonight to get all of the nuns and red fledglings ready to move for a while and we will get moving to the compound." And if they aren't done at the end of that time, I will make them move faster. I silently add to myself.
Zoey thanks the elements and walks into the abbey. I follow her and wait for her to get all of the people together. When they were together we walk out of the abbey to see two more black Hummers waiting for us. They must have thought I would bring them with me, so they sent extra room, I thought to myself. I smile and simply move Sylvia Redbird into the front seat of their black Hummer and put the wheel chair into the back. The kids all slid into the same Hummer and the Son of Erebus also slid in next to a pretty blonde. The Hummer was full then so my warrior went into the other vehicle with the nuns. I got into the black Hummer's driver seat and quickly pull out of the abbey and get on the way to the lycan compound. We traveled for hours on the express way out of Oklahoma and into New Mexico. We went farther and farther, until we were out of all of the cities and into the desert. When we came upon some mountains we pulled off the road and into the straight desert.
"I am sorry for the bumps Zoey; we must travel this way to get to the compound." I said over the rattling of the vehicle. The mountains came steadily closer and once we reached a close gathering of huts we slowed down and pulled into caves that covered the vehicles. "Let's get out of the cars and under ground. The sun will be on the horizon in ten minutes." I say to the fledglings and vampyres and human in the Hummer. I myself got out and informed the other drivers of what we were doing. Everyone got out of the vehicles and we proceeded into a hut that was one room. It had a small kitchen, a bathroom divided by a curtain, and a couple folding chairs for seating. There was also a loft with a ladder on the wall. That was the bedroom.
A blonde human said, "Are we supposed to share this small space for all of us and the nuns?" She spoke like she was expecting a mansion.
I smiled sarcastically and said, "Yes. You are expected to live in this hovel. No, what you are supposed to live in is below us and is much more lavish than this." I waved a hand around the hovel that was a cover for the real compound.
"Then where is it?" She demanded, looking around for a hidden place or doorway.
"Well if you would move your ass off of the door mat I can show you." I reply in a curt way. If she doesn't stop being this way I will make her live up here and slice that over inflated ego up. I bet she wouldn't even stand up to me in a fight of who is the strongest. I thought to myself. She gave me a very hateful look and twitched out of my way. I went over to the door mat and pulled up on one of the corners of it. A trap door swung up and out of the way revealing a set of circling stairs. The lower part was lit and exposed a warm flickering light and the smell of incense. I looked up at all of them and slid down the pole in the center. I was greeted by my husky, Stefan.
When they didn't move I called up, "If we were going to kill you, you would have been dead when you got out of the Hummer. Get down here please; we have to have the door closed before sunrise. And if you don't get down here before sunrise you are all going to sleep up there."
The blonde bitch came down the stairs quickly followed by a yellow lab and a boy. Then the warrior that was with them came down and wrapped an arm protectively around the blonde. Zoey came next followed by another blonde and a mocha colored girl. Then the brown haired boy came next. Then another blonde with red tattoos came down. Then Sylvia came down with Gabriel in tow. The red fledglings came after them and then the nuns came last. Once everyone was down the stairs I said, "This compound is almost completely under ground. We all will take part in keeping this place working. The huts above ground are for the humans to see what we supposedly have for the village. The compound is like the prohibition tunnels you are used to, except we have made it more like a bunker. This place can withstand a nuclear attack. The money we get from the government pays for the lighting of the passage ways. We have homes set up and there are two story places all over the place. There are also three story places, like mine, scattered randomly for the people who are respected. This is also at the base of a mountain range, so there are tunnels created by the miners. You will be sleeping in the guest quarters in another part of the compound. For now you will all be crammed into my house. I have gotten around some sleeping bags and you can fit into the guest rooms. The way to the bathrooms is simple, you go straight to those doors," I say as I point to a set of wooden doors, "And go through those and it is the third door on your left. The one on the right leads into my room, and if I catch any of you in there I will gut you alive. The only one allowed in there is my warrior, Gabriel." I turned to go and open the doors to let them into the hallway when a question bombarded me.
"When are we going to go back?"
"To the House of Night?" I turned around to see that it was the mocha colored one that spoke first and a blonde one finished. They didn't seem happy, but worried.
I sighed and said, "When the elder says so. And I have to have another lycan with me, or I will die. As soon as all of that is worked out we should be out of here for a while." I opened the door and said over my shoulder, "Follow me. You need to sleep. When you wake up the guest quarters will be vacated and you will move there. We have people getting your things from the tunnels. We will do introductions in the evening." I said as I went down the passageway that was lit by Christmas lights so that it was soft light that cast no shadows. I opened the first door on my left and said, "Guys in here." Then I went across the hallway and opened that door. "Girls in here." When they looked in and saw the bags they looked sad. "No switching rooms, I don't sleep, so I will know." They looked guilty and proceeded into the correct rooms.
Zoey was the only one left, and she said, "Kalona can get into your dreams if you aren't touching another person of the opposite sex. I'm not trying to persuade you to let us sleep with the others, I'm just saying."
I sighed. Well I'll be damned. I hate that demon he is always torturing women. I guess I can make an exception to the rules for tonight in my house. Heck I'm a hypocrite if I don't let them. I thought to myself. "Fine. You can be with the guys, but if I hear any noise your hides are skinned and tanned by myself." I said slightly annoyed. She looked sincere so I let her. The blonde bitch came out and sneered at me and went to the other warrior. The other girls went into the room and just rolled out their sleeping bags. When they were all down I closed the door and left the lights on inside to keep the shadows out. I went to my room and collapsed onto my bed and lay there. At time like these I wish I could sleep. I sighed to myself. Gabriel came into the room and sat next to me and pulled me against him. I looked up at my silent warrior and smiled slightly. He looked down at me and bent his shoulders to press his lips against mine.
I pulled away and went to the other side of the room and began pulling off the black material that covered my lycan markings until I was in my simple tank top and pants. He came up behind me to check my wound on my back. I undid the harness that held my wings down so I could look normal. His hands moved expertly around the nearly healed wound, checking for any infection. When he finished I turned to him and said, "You get some sleep. You did well protecting me." He then embraced me. He pulled back and bowed the vampyre salute and then turned on his heal and left the room. I watched silently as he left and then went to my bed and got my laptop out. While it booted up I changed into black cargo pants and a black tank top. I wiped the makeup from my face that covered the lycan markings and the unusual vampyre markings. I went back to my computer and began typing up the events of the night, along with a clear description of all of the people who arrived. I hate being an insomniac sometimes…
A/N: In here Tsuki talks about moonrise and moonset. These are the lycan way of keeping time. The days using the moon are longer, because the moon rises while the sun is still partially still up in the sky. Sun rise will also be used, but not as often.
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