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"What!" Zoey Redbird asked, alarmed at the news Nyx was giving her.
The goddess chuckled, "My dear child, must I repeat myself?" she asked with a cheerful gleam in her eyes.
"No, it's just a lot to take in." Zoey muttered, furrowing her brow and thinking about the new fledgling. Zoey had yet to get much information from her goddess except that the girl was, well, a girl and she was powerful. No location, no name, no nothing. Nyx kept calling her the "Treasure". She wouldn't tell Zoey anything else. Why did gods always feel the need to be so obscure about things? It was really annoying.
"My apologies for being so obscure. But I fear if I give too much information she will be in danger. There are spies in my realm." Nyx's expression was sad. "I can tell you she is safely at a House of Night, on what the mortals call the East Coast. She was reborn last Friday at around eight thirty." the Goddess added pleasantly.
Blinking, Zoey paused, shocked at getting some actual information "Uh thanks, I'll get on it." she said, bowing.
"Zoey, please hurry. I fear for her. She has yet to discover her gifts and only suffers pain from one. If they come for her she will be defenseless." Nyx warned, her Savior nodded, closing her eyes, falling back into reality.
Nyx glanced down at a river of water that showed Zoey, calling her companions to her, "Oh dear one, please save her as she saved you so many times before." the Goddess whispered, looking at another image of a young girl laughing with friends.
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"Z, what's happening?" Stevie Rae asked, watching her friend pace the length of the room. The rest of the gang sat around her.
"We need to call Erik." Zoey muttered to herself.
"Whoa! I thought you hated him," Aphrodite commented, leaning against her boyfriend, "Anyways, he's back in Tulsa, teaching." she added. The blond scrunched up her nose at the thought of him teaching.
"I don't care, he's our only hope for this. She needs to be found quickly." the fledging murmured, stopping and glaring out a window.
"Z, you have to calm down. Now, what happened and what can we do to help?" Stark questioned calmly.
A flutter went through Zoey's stomach, "Uh, are any of you guys good at Treasure hunts?" she asked, cocking a brow.
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"Wakie, wakie!" someone shouted in Nina's ear, letting loose a hacking cough a second later. Shooting up in bed, Nina glared at her roommate. Cain was giggling insanely at her friend's attempt at a menacing appearance, she couldn't really pull it off with her dark red hair sticking up in all directions.
"Wha time isit?" Nina asked through a yawn, shoving her friend out of the way and stumbling to her new dresser.
"7:30." her roommate answered casually, giggling as her friend yelped and started racing around the room to get ready.
Cain turned some music on, letting the rock fill the room as her roommate rushed around, muttering angrily to herself. Nina seethed as Cain nodded her blond, black streaked head, fluffing her multicolored hair and flattening her black jeans. Cain was, as always, already prepared for the day. She also noted that Cain's skin was paler and her eyes darker, she looked sick.
After a few minutes of dashing around, the red head was finally ready. She wore a pair of black jeans with a green tank top and black jacket, simple.
"You are so going to pay for that." Nina said as they walked to the café. "Are you okay, by the way?" she added nervously when her friend didn't respond right away.
Shrugging, Cain smirked, "Yeah, but I was hoping you'd sleep in so we'd miss Drama." she said with an anguished sigh.
"Ugh, that's today." Nina groaned, "I hear we're getting a new teacher."
"Yep, hope he's not as boring as the last guy." the blond commented, scrunching up her nose. As they neared the cafeteria door a man strode around the corner, slamming into Nina. Falling on her butt with a painful thump, the still groggy youth groaned.
"Sorry, wasn't looking where I was going." a male voice said from above her. He placed a hand in front of her face, offering it's services. Scrambling up, Nina tried to brush off any dirt from her favorite jacket.
"Well look next time, please." she said, irritated at being embarrassed but surprised Cain hadn't said it first. Glancing over at her friend Nina saw that Cain's eyes were glazed over and her friend was staring at the man who had knocked her down. Furrowing her dark brows, Nina turned to the man. Scratch that, not a man, a piece of smoking hot goodness.
He was tall and had black hair curling around his ears. He wore a navy blue t-shirt showing off his lightly muscular body and his dark wash bluejeans showcased his long legs. Eventually Nina's appreciative gaze found his face. Around his eyes was an intricate mask like tattoo coming from the mark of a fully changed vampyr. Crap, she had hit a Professor. Wait, they didn't have this hot of a Professor here the whole time, did they?
Well it didn't really matter to her anyway. She wasn't interested in dating. Even so, she could still appreciate how hot he is, along with Cain, of course. "Uh, don't be sorry, I should have been looking, too." Nina said with a shrug, surreptitiously knocking her elbow into Cain's rib before she could start drooling.
"Hey," her friend yelped, letting out a cough, "That was uncalled for! I was in a hot guy stupor." she defended.
"Yeah, I was making sure it didn't progress into a coma." Nina shot back with a grin. She turned to the man, continuing, "I'm Nina, and your new stalker is Cain." she introduced them. "You must be the new Professor, right?" she asked.
"Yep, Erik Night, I'll be teaching you drama." a grin spread across his face as the two girls exchanged glances, "No, I won't make you read Shakespeare, you'll act it out." he added, much to their relief.
"Thank Goddess," Cain said, putting a black nailed hand over her heart, "I don't think we could take anymore, Nina got a twitch from reading Hamlet!" she exclaimed.
"It's true," the red head confirmed, nodding sagely, "Got me out of two classes. Teacher thought I was having a seizure."
Erik stared at the two girls with amusement, "Well I promise you won't develop a… a twitch from my class."
"Good, now we can move onto the subject of how hot you are." Cain said matter of factually, even in her sickly state she was boy obsessed. "I give you a 10. 5."
Rolling her eyes, Nina said, "Psh, stop being mean, he has a good personality, 10.7 at least."
"What are you two talking about?" Erik asked, thoroughly confused.
"5 is super cute, 10 is hotter than the sun." Cain replied, smiling flirtatiously.
"Then there's the point system, personality from 1-9. 1 bad, 9 awesome. So your really hot, 10, you have a good personality, 7, 10.7." Nina added seriously.
"Get it?" Cain asked.
Erik shook his head and laughed, "Not really, but thank you." he said.
"No prob." Cain said winking at him. Mr. Night arched a brow, although his expression seemed to become troubled after giving her a once over.
Groaning, Nina took her friend's hand, "Come along, my dear sickly stalker. I'm starving. See you first period Professor." she threw over her shoulder, dragging her friend to the lunch line.
"He is smoking." Cain commented as they exited the line, trays piled with food.
"Uh huh." Nina said, hungrily looking at her pancakes. Pulling a chair out with her leg, she plopped down and started scarfing down the cold pancakes. "Mmmm still good." she mumbled.
"You disgust me, Nins." a male voice said from the other side of her. Glancing up she saw Cain's twin, Riley. He had the same platinum blond hair, without the black highlights his sister had; his grey eyes were laughing at her.
After gulping down her bite, she said, "Riley, some of us have a very high metabolism." Nina dove back into her food and didn't return until her plate was clear.
"Yeah, and some of us aren't lucky enough to have one that also keeps us skinny." Cain muttered, glaring at her salad.
Holding in a burp, Nina continued, "Genetics rock." She grinned contentedly as everyone else went back to eating. They'd finished watching their new favorite show, Nina eating half her weight. It was like a car wreck, horrible but you just couldn't stop watching.
"Whatever, what was the sociology homework?" Jordan, Riley's best friend, asked, pushing his black dread locks to the side.
The rest of breakfast was spent catching up on the homework due that day, although Cain got the rest of the female fledglings into a conversation on Professor Night. Twenty minutes later Nina found herself sitting next to her best friend in Drama, waiting for the teacher to arrive. The red head glanced at her friend nervously, Cain seemed to be getting even worse. Her eyes had become hollow and blood shot, and her smile didn't reach her grey eyes. Coughing fits came more regularly.
"I'm fine Nina," Cain assured, although there was a flicker of pain in her eyes as she leaned over to pat her friend's hand. Nina felt a twinge in her stomach and her throat become drier, aching all over. "Hey you don't look so hot yourself." Cain pointed out worriedly, sitting up straighter as some of her pain reseeded.
"Fine, I'm fine." Nina muttered, taking her hand away to cough into her arm. A second later the door opened at the bottom of the bowl like classroom and Professor Night walked in. A whisper went up from the girls across the room as he introduced himself and called role.
"Nina?" he called last, seeing as she changed her last name back to her Dad's. Her mother had originally kept her maiden name but given her kids their father's last name. After he died she changed them back, not wanting painful memories lingering. His last name was Watson, so Nina Court Watson was her new name.
"Uhm here." she called, clearing her throat. Cain threw her a concerned look. Erik marked her down then proceeded with class. As it turned out, he was a good teacher and class flew by. Before Nina knew it, she and Cain were in Sociology, sitting next to Jordan and his girlfriend, Jade.
"Blah, blah, blah." Jordan muttered as Jade started dozing, her purple head resting on his shoulder. Luckily they were all in the back, best seats ever.
"Yep, green." Cain said, leaning back and watching Nina's fortune teller flash. "1" another movement then, "6".
Nina unfolded her fortune as Cain shifted, sucking in a breath, a pang went through Nina's stomach. "You will marry Justin Beiber." she read, ignoring the pain and grinning at her friend.
"Hey, I got that too." Jade spoke up, awake again.
"Hmmm problem," Nina said thoughtfully, "Got it, Jade will marry him, divorce him then Cain will marry him and kill him for his money." she said finally. Several snorts could be heard from the group of friends.
Cain laughed only to have it change into a hacking cough. The cough dissolved into a doubled over gasps for air as they got wetter, "C-Cain?" Jade stuttered, watching their friend as blood slipped between her lips. "Oh shit." the Asian girl muttered, blinking back tears as Jordan put his arm around her.
"What's going on, guys?" Nina asked, panicking as she felt pain course through her body in a distant way. The pain was muffled, but still there, it felt like life was slipping from her. Urgently raising her hand she shouted, "Hey, Ms. K! Cain's not feeling so good. Can we go to the nurse, like now?" she asked.
The teacher glanced at the young girl, watching the other convulsing up dribble and blood. "Yes, hurry." she said, rushing up to them and helping Nina support Cain. "Now go, she needs to be somewhere nice." the teacher said, watching as the friends limped from the room.
"Not another." she muttered before going back to teaching, ignoring the blood the best she could. The woman hoped the janitors would come early today.
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