Italicized dialogue being heard as German in story. For reasons of my inability to speak German and so you don't have to look it up.

Berlin, Germany.

Steffi was sitting on a stoop in front of one of her friend's house, a cigarette hanging from her lips idly as she joked around with her friends. She was pale and had short dark brown hair with bleached to death tips. Her eyes were light brown and her build was very petite.

Someone called her name behind her.

"Who's asking?"She called back, her friends laughed.

"I am." A woman whispered in her ear. Steffi turned to look at a tall slutty woman many know as Bitch.

"And just who the fuck are you?"

"Your worst nightmare." Xia smirked and jabbed the girl in the forehead with the nail of her index finger. Blood sprouted from the prick as a blue crescent form. The goddess wiped the blood across Steffi's forehead as the girl lost consciousness.

Xia looked to two burly boys gawking at her. "If you care about her, you'll take her to the House of Night." With that she plucked the death stick from the girl's mouth, placed it in her own, and walked away.

When Steffi came to she was lying on a bed with three Vampyres arguing in, what as far as she could tell, was English.

"What happened?" She asked, sitting up.

The female vampyre smiled at her. "You've been Marked. Welcome to the House of Night. I'm Cleo, high priestess."

Steffi nodded. "I thought I was too old to get Marked."

"How old are you?"

"Eighteen."

Cleo sighed and looked at the two males. "She's eighteen."

"She's a special case, Cleo. You can't exactly expect Xia to just pick fifteen/sixteen year olds." Vlad replied.

"Oh, my dear deluded Mirror, you don't know Xia's tastes."

"Her tastes?"

"In people. For females it's fourteen through twenty and males it's forty to sixty, preferably with no kids and lots of cash."

Vlad grimaced.

"His Mark is backwards…" Steffi commented, nodding toward Vlad.

"She says your Mark's backwards, Vlad." Siegfried snickered.

"So is yours. You're different from other fledglings. He can help you but right now I think you should just work on fitting in at school. What's your name?" Cleo tried to smile as she told the girl that.

"Steffi. How can I fit in with a backwards Mark?"

"You just need the right friends." Siegfried informed her, handing her a handbook.

Steffi stared at the book. "How much of this will apply since I'm different from other fledglings?"

Cleo laughed. "Not much. The rules and rituals."

Steffi frowned, not finding it as funny as Cleo.

"Anyway, the male with normal Mark is my warrior, Siegfried, and the other is your mentor, Vlad."

"Can he even speak German? How exactly can we communicate?" Steffi scoffed.

Cleo smiled. "We'll worry about that later. Why don't I show you to your room?"

Steffi nodded and got up from the bed. Cleo talked at her as they walked across the grounds of the Berlin HON under the almost full moon. The fledgling wasn't listening as she looked around at the fledglings walking between classes. They all spared her a glance and looked back again to gawk after noting her strange mark.

"They're staring at me…"

"Yeah. They do that sometimes." Cleo laughed as she walked into a building. They kept walking until the priestess spotted her fledgling.

"Oh! Do I get a roommate finally!" A girl with long, bleached to death blonde hair asked, approaching the two. The tips of her hair were dyed to resemble a rainbow. She was tan and had dark green eyes.

Cleo nodded. "Steffi, this is Adelle. Adelle, Steffi. Be good friends and stuff. Oh! Schedule! Um…" The high priestess pulled a piece of paper and pen out of nowhere, scribbling down classes and then handed it to the girl with the backwards mark. "Ciao!" And she ran off to her own homeroom.

"How about I show you to our room then you can try to see how that schedule works out?" Adelle smiled, glad of any excuse to get out of taking classes. The fourth former symbol was on her paint splatter sweatshirt.

"Sounds good." Steffi pulled a pack of cigarettes and a lighter from her pocket. She followed the girl as she lit up.

"Ew, don't smoke in the room okay? I'm really sensitive to that." Adelle skipped backwards, a few feet in front of her new roommate. "Do you mind me blaring metal at all hours of the day?"

"Hell to the no! I'd kill you if you played anything else!"

Adelle laughed and nodded. "I think we'll get along splendidly!"

Also note that I am not writing the intros for my main characters in order but as I have epic ideas as how to introduce them. I also generally can't count because the American school system has left me behind. (Chappies 6 and 7 finished~) I'll characterize Steffi more later. Also I don't feel like making everyone else's roommates. If you want give me a female with or without a name, thanks! If I get multiple entries I'll pick the one I like the most or just make it up anyway. Or maybe use them as other roommates… Name, hair, eyes, personality, clothing style, whether you want them to have a familiar or not. I will hit you if you give me character with a name the same as your username.