My dream was really messed up. Let's put it that way.

I was sitting in the window of a huge castle, staring out at the blue water of the ocean in the darkness of night. It was peaceful, and beautiful. My feet dangled over the sill, and my shoes fell some 50 feet below me to land in a rose bush. Oh well. I wiggled my toes in the air.

Sounds of arguing came from bellow me. I looked down and saw 3 people. There was one hiding behind a bush, watching the other 2. That one seemed perfectly normal. A human. I looked at the 2 who were arguing. One was a female vamp with thick auburn hair, and a look in her eyes of darkness. The other had his back to me, and he wasn't wearing a shirt. He had big black wings tucked neatly to his sides, and thick black hair fell to about his shoulders. I couldn't see his face, but knew he was gorgeous. And evil.

"I don't like you pretending to be something you're not for her," The vamp was saying. The man told her something I couldn't really hear.

"I killed the last man who tried to claim both me and Zoey for himself..." she said.

"Neferet..." I caught a snatch of his reply. I noticed the guy hiding in the bushes tensed up a lot. After a few more sentences I couldn't hear, the woman stalked into the bushes. The man with the wings turned very slowly to the guy in the bushes. The guy in the bushes got very pale.

"So you have a new story to go tell Zoey?" the wind carried the winged guy's voice to me. And immediatly I knew the guy in the bushes was gonna die.

"Kalona..." I heard the guy from the bushes say the other dude's name.

The bush-guy got up and walked towards Kalona. I saw another girl running through the bushes in their general direction, and saw another guy running towards them from the other directions. Kalona reached out to snap the bush-guy's neck just as the other two got to them. The guy started running toward the girl, and the girl raised her hands and yelled something about 'Spirit'. The Kalona guy snapped the bush-guy's neck, and then he stumbled back and the girl fell to the ground. Kalona screamed and flew away. Screamed -- like a full on girl scream.

"ZOEY!" The guy yelled, running towards the girl who had fallen, nearly tripping over the dead bush-guy's body. The girl didn't move and her eyes were open. Dead, maybe. A bunch of other people ran into the clearing area, and the vision shattered.

Now I was sitting on a table in a huge palace, watching a beautiful woman who looked kinda like the virgin Mary statue I saw in the church (that I never went to) by my house. She was talking stonily to Kalona. Except this Kalona had white wings.... and then a huge crack opened in the ground and he fell through it. I got up and ran to look and saw that when the ground opened up there was sky beneath it, and beneath that ground. We were in a castle. In. The. Air. I saw the guy hit the ground, and then saw the spiralling speck of white that was his wings disappear into darkness.... black. His wings turned black, just like before.

"Alex," a soft voice called. I wheeled around at my name, to stare straight into the face of the person who had sent Kalona to his death. But, unlike Kalona, I was getting a good vibe from her. That's when the dream stopped being so... dream like and it felt real.

"Who are you?" I meant to make my voice sound mean and not nearly as weirded out as I felt, but it came out as a whisper.

"I am Nyx," she said calmly.

"Oh... are you that chick they say is their goddess?" I asked.

"Yes," she laughed. "I am their Goddess."

"OK. What. Is. Going. On," I asked. "Why is my mark green? Why did some weird winged dude just fall? And why did I watch some girl just die?? And..."

"Calm down. All questions will be answered soon," she smiled kindly. "Your Mark is green because you are special. You are a new kind of vampyre. You are the ones who will cherish all 7 elements highly in regards and match them to their true points of the Circle. And you watched a flash back of Kalona falling from my realm. Make no mistake... he is evil. You watched Zoey die because you can save her. And you need to. You, Zoey, Jared, Stevie Rae, Damien, Erin, and Shaunee are destined for something great."

"Like WHAT?!" I yelled. "Why me? What's special about Jared and I?! Why did you choose us?! We can't drive, we can't vote, we can't drink, we can't control any of the elements, we can't even end up real vampyres!"

"You are real vampires. You are simply Emerald Vampyres." When she said that, the entire thing broke like a mirror and I woke up.