Destined – house of night series

Aphrodite

She was having a good dream and then she felt shaking. She woke up instantly. 'Ok, who the hell woke me up?'

'It is me my queen. Stark is at the door and he wants to ask you a few questions.'

'Just tell him to wait a sec.' I got out from under my covers and walked to the bathroom. I never let anyone see me when I just woke up except for Darius. When I looked in the mirror, I was happy to see that my hair was not that big of a mess. I brushed my hair and teeth and then put on the clothes that I always keep in my bathroom. A pair of designer jeans, a black strapless bra and a purple body hugging shirt. Then I walked out the door to face whatever challenges today brought. At least the poem was easy to figure out. Still I needed to help Zoey out with the Kalona connection. I really needed to talk to her, but first I needed to see what Stark wanted. I saw that Stark was sitting on my bed. He looked very tired and hurt. Oh dear, this could not be good.' Hey Stark, what do you need?'

'What is Zoey telling you?'

'Nothing.' I tried to lie as good as Zoey was before, making the perfect faces. I guess that I failed since Stark was giving me a mean look.

'Please Aphrodite, can you please tell me.'

'Why don't you ask Zoey.'

'Because she says that if she does then the world will end, but I won't tell anyone, I can keep it a secret.' Stark looked at me hard again, and then he just seemed to zone out of it before he came back, but he looked more tense, then he returned back to normal, I could tell that Stark didn't feel anything or was just hiding his feeling really well.

'Stark, what Zoey is saying is true.'

'She is being controlled by Kalona, thats why Zoey is acting like that.' Stark stood up and started to pace up and down in front of me.' She was with Kalona in her dream. I went in with Rephiam, but Rephiam wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do until the end, I saw mostly the whole dream, they have another connection, she also read Kalona the poem, and Kalona said that she was close to being immortal, and so was Neferet, also I found out that Kalona was born an immortal, because his mom made a deal with Nyx.' I had to interrupt then,' What was the deal?'

'I don't know because Kalona said that he would rather only tell Zoey, and her alone, because they both knew that Rephiam and I were in her dream, they were talking about us being in it, and how Zoey did something very well.'

'Stark. Why don't we talk to Zoey.'

'She's sleeping when I left her.'

'So that Kalona can come in her dream.'

'He left before she kicked me out of my dream, did you know that when Zoey is around Kalona he makes her see him like he's 18?'

'What really, so as if he's her perfect age. No wonder. How do you know?'

'I saw most of the dream through Zoey's eyes.' Darius interrupted our conversation.

'Stark, my queen, how about we go and talk with Zoey to see her point of view.'

'Fine,' we both said. We walked out to Zoey's room, Darius leading. When we came in Zoey was still asleep. She looked so peaceful, she wondered if Kalona was in her dream still.'The cloud looks like Nyx' we heard her mumble. So she was dreaming of Nyx looking clouds, well that had nothing to do with Kalona.

'Hey guys, why are you all in my room?' I looked at her again and saw that she was awake, when she was awake, she looked so much older and more mature and stressed out. She actually looked a lot better when she was sleeping, she wondered if anyone could get her to look how she did when she was sleeping when she was awake. She realized that Stark was talking.

'Zoey please just tell us the truth.'

'I can't.'

'Ok Zoey there is obviously more to the Kalona business than you told us, so just spit it out, the world won't end because of it.' I wanted to know the full truth, hell, everyone did. If I was going to have to protect her I needed it.

'I can't.' She then started to sob.' I promised Nyx that I wouldn't.

'I can tell you guys something though, and Aphrodite I told you all about the Kalona business.' Ok so I knew it all.

'Fine what can you tell us,' I replied.

'Ok, first Stark, you're connected to Kalona also.'

'What! How?'

'When you died in the otherworld, Kalona breathed a bit of his immortal spirit in you to make you live again.' I felt someone wrap his arm around my waist, I looked up. It was Darius. How did Zoey know all of this. I felt as if I had to ask.

'Zoey, how do you know all of this information?'

'Through my connection with Kalona, I can feel all the connections he has. He has a connection to me, Stark, Neferet, Rephiam and all his other sons.' Darius then interrupted.

'How does he have so many connections when he isn't imprinted on anyone, or isn't anyones warrior?' That was a really good point. I saw that Zoey looked as if she was thinking about it.

'I really don't know. Stark, you saw most of my dream right.' I looked from Zoey to Stark. He seemed to have a pained look on his face for a second, but I might have just imagined it.

'Yes, I did.' I saw another pained look cross his face.

'Zoey. Are you becoming immortal, does Kalona really look 18 when you're around him and can you bring people and kick people out of your dream?' I had to ask those questions, they were practically killing me.

'Umm, yes Kalona does 18 to 21 when I see him, and yes I just learned that I could bring people in and out of my dreams.'

'You never answered my question about you almost being immortal.' She looked uncomfortable.

'Umm,I might be, but I don't really think so.' Before I could reply Stark butted in.

'Yes you are Zoey, I saw you and Kalona talking about it, thats how I know that Kalona was born immortal because his mother made a deal with Nyx.' I looked over at Zoey, she was looking down at her feet and mumbling something that we couldn't hear. After staring at her for a couple of minutes she lifted her head up and looked behind me. I turned around and saw that Nyx was over there.

'Hello my children, what Zoey has told you today is only the truth, yes Zoey you will be an immortal, but so will Neferet, she has a new helper, look in his soul and you will see light that surrounds him because of Neferet. Stark, once Zoey is immortal, you have to break the connection that makes you her guardian.'

'What? Why?'

'If you do not then it will cause you both major pain, it is not healthy for a human guardian to protect an immortal.' I looked over at Stark, he seemed to be crushed.

'Aphrodite my child, you have so far taken great care of my daughter. Darius, always follow your heart, and Zoey look don't be afraid to ask me questions or Kalona for that matter.' What the Fuck, she was supposed to ask Kalona questions, I thought that Nyx rejected him. I looked at Zoey, she was keeping a straight face that showed no expressions. How did she do that, she must have been thinking of something.

'Yes Nyx,' I heard her reply. I saw that Nyx was slowly fading away then in a flash of light she disappeared. Then I saw that Stark looked at Zoey once and then walked out of the room. She watched him go but didn't try to stop him. Before I knew it she looked at me and I saw that her eyes had tears in them. She walked up to her bed and then flopped down.

'Zoey, whats wrong?'

'Just leave me alone.'

'No. Zoey what really happened in your dream with Kalona? Please tell me the truth.'

'I will be in our room my queen,' I heard Darius whisper in my ear. I looked at him and saw him leave the room. Then I looked back at Zoey.

'Zoey how much do you like Kalona?'

'A lot more than I should.' Wow she actually was admitting that she liked him.

'Zoey I don't blaim you for liking him. Man if he looked 18 to me then I would have fallen for him in a second, one of he main reasons that I don't want him was that he was just way to old, like 30-40 years old. Maybe even older.' Zoey looked up and smiled,

'Ya that was how he looked like to me when he came out of the earth.' I smiled back at her.

'Zoey do you know how close Kalona is?'

'Ya, he's pretty close by. Why?'

'Maybe, we can both see him, or maybe the whole nerd herd should see him. You have to tell the nerd herd. Unless Nyx is telling you not to.'

'No I'm having no bad feelings that the world would end if I told them a bit of information. Wait, I think that Stark already told them, thats why I'm not getting any feelings.' Just then the nerd herd came in and they looked angry and upset.

'Oh great,' I heard Zoeysay before putting her head down into her pillows again.

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-Sinyu :)