Uprising

By: TheCuriousCircusOfKateandMeg

A Kate Chapter

Welcome to My Life

Assholes. Every single one of them. Okay, maybe not every single one of them but most of them. Who are them, you ask? The human population are them. Yeah, I'm a human too but excluding myself, well not really since I can be a real bitch if I wanted to be. But that's not the point here. Every single human being I have met has some problem with me, even though I don't do anything. It was annoying. No matter what I did, I got no respect. Ha! Some sob story, right? No. This was my life. Oh, don't even bother asking who I am since I don't know who I am.

Yeah, that's right. I'm eighteen and I don't know who I am. Pathetic, right? I don't give a fuck. I don't care about knowing who I am. I see what it does to people and I am not interested. Besides, orphans aren't supposed to know who they are. Oh, did I forget that on top of all this, I'm an orphan. Well…surprise! "Sad" little eighteen year old girl over here is an orphan. Whoop-di-doo. Oh, and don't bother asking my name either since I don't got one. Even more sad, huh? Too bad. So people call me "that girl". No big deal. I really don't care. I'd rather not have a name than have someone mispronounce it like little Miss. Maslin. I wonder how long it'll be until someone realizes that they're saying her name wrong.

I watched as Alyssa gave her presentation about Dante or more like the Seven Deadly Sins. I also noticed how the teacher was shaking her head as the girl gave her presentation. I personally thought it was better than all the other ones because of the simple fact that it was different. Different was good. I raised an eyebrow slightly when the teacher said her name wrong and I fought the urge to snicker when I saw that Alyssa was trying to keep her anger under control. I knew this girl for a long time…if you count knowing her since freshman year a long time. I watched as Alyssa talked back to the teacher and I personally thought it was real clever. I enjoyed when Alyssa lost her temper. It was interesting.

Like all things in the world, when good things happen something bad comes along and ruins it. Alyssa's brother came into the room and stopped the whole argument going on between the two; well you couldn't really call it an argument since Alyssa was winning by a long shot. The whole classroom was murmuring when they saw that Gerard had been…Marked. That was when the Tracker came in and Marked Alyssa. That was when things really took a turn for the worse. Alyssa was having an asthma attack and no one was helping as Gerard screamed for someone to help. I would have helped in the Tracker hadn't been watching me.

I squirmed uncomfortably under his gaze before I grabbed my backpack and left the room through the back door. I walked quickly down the halls, trying to get away from the room that held the Tracker. I heard footsteps following after me, so naturally my footsteps quickened to get away from, who I assumed to be, the Tracker. I turned the corner and ended up bumping right into him. 'Nice job slick,' my mind told me as the other part of my brain screamed at me to run but I just stayed there staring up at the Tracker as he pointed a finger at my forehead. I was fully aware of what he was doing so I just stared at him. I didn't hear what the fuck he had said but I didn't need to be a rocket scientist to know what he was doing.

I had shut my eyes expecting it to hurt but nothing happened. I opened my eyes and saw that the Tracker was gone. I looked around but I saw no one in the hallway. I was the only one. I assumed that school was over and I made my way over to my car, which was the most stupid thing I could have ever done. The sun was burning me, or it felt like it was. I backed up into the shade and I looked at my pale skin. It was smoking. That certainly wasn't normal. I pulled out my compact mirror and I stared at the ocean blue crescent moon on my forehead. It was just an outline of it but yeah…I was Marked now, like Alyssa and Gerard. I had half a mind to go back into the classroom to see if the two were alright but I stopped myself. Why did I care? I didn't know them well enough and they didn't know me. If anything it would be a mistake. They were probably long gone by now.

I shook my head and forced myself to walk to my car as quickly as I could and bit down on my lower lip so I wouldn't scream out in pain. I knew where I was supposed to go. The Orphanage that I lived at explained situations like this so I knew what to do and where to go. I was thankful that my piece of crap car has tinted windows but the little sunlight still made my head spin. I would have to deal with it if I was supposed to go home and get my stuff.

One step out of the car was my second dumb move. I took maybe three steps before I just passed out on the ground feeling my skin burn…but it was weird. It was as if I was in a dream and I looked up to see there was someone in front of me, blocking the sun from my view. I sat up with great difficulty and I tried my hardest to see who was in front of me but their figure was dark. I knew it was a female though because of the curves and because of the voice.

She had said a name but I didn't hear the name and I stared up at her in complete confusion. "Me?" I asked her dumbly.

The woman smiled kindly at me and replied with a yes. Her voice was heavenly so I guessed it was Nyx. The Vampyre High Priestess or whatever she was. I was hardly listening to what my foster parent was saying about these myths.

"What happened?" I asked her in groggy voice as I rubbed the back of my head that was throbbing. I guessed that it was from the sun.

She didn't answer my question which irritated me. I wanted to know what happened but simply what she said was, "I'm proud of you."

Proud of me? What the fuck did I do? I hardly do anything. "What the fuck are you talking about?"

She seemed like she didn't mind my language; well if she did, she hid it pretty well. All she did was trace her finger around the Mark on my forehead and she caressed my cheek softly. That was all that had happened. All that I remember anyway.

It seemed that my skin felt like it was going to just melt off of my body. As soon as my skin felt like it couldn't take anymore burning from the sun, a cloud passed over the sun and it began to rain. My grey-blue eyes snapped open as I felt one drop of rain hit my back. I sat up quickly and I regretted it when I felt my head throb more. I stood up and saw that I wasn't in front of my house. I was in front of a weird castle looking thing.

"Oh great," I mumbled as I walked towards whatever my gut feeling was telling me to go. I knew I was at the House of Night but I don't know how I ended up there. I guess someone found me and decided to take me to the school after they saw my Mark.

Mark…that word was so casual but now it was like a curse word. I pulled the compact mirror from my back pocket and I saw that my Mark had been filled in but it was still the color of the ocean. My eyebrows furrowed at that. It was odd but it was different. Different was good.

Okay, now I don't really care what's going on around me but when you walk in on two people laughing with two people not laughing. I looked to see that I knew two of those people as Alyssa and Gerard. I assumed that the woman was the High Priestess of the House of Night and that the other person was Alyssa and Gerard's adoptive parent.

I looked to the woman and she smiled kindly at me but I didn't like the smile so I narrowed my eyes at her. I don't know what it was but the smile seemed fake to me and I didn't like it. Something didn't feel right about this woman. My gut was telling me this and I always followed what my gut was telling me.

"Hello. Welcome to House of Night," she welcomed me, even though I didn't find it welcoming. "I'm Zoey and I'm the--"

I cut her off, "I know who you are. You're the High Priestess of the House of Night. You're the first fledging to ever get her Mark filled in," I said in a rude tone before I looked at Alyssa and Gerard. "I guess that isn't such a big deal anymore," I said as I looked back at Zoey. I knew I was being rude but I didn't care. I had a strong feeling that there wasn't something right and I followed that feeling.

Zoey didn't seem fazed at all. "Well, I'm glad that you know so much already. That's great. What's your name?"

"Don't have one," I told her as I crossed my arms.

"Oh, well you can change your name, or in this case, make up your own name," she replied with a smile on her face.

Damn. I just wanted to smack that fucking smile off of her face. It was really pissing me off. "Pandora," I said simply.

Zoey tilted her head to side as if expecting me to continue saying what the rest of my name was. But I kept my face straight and it suddenly dawned on her. "Oh. Pandora is all you're going to have?"

"Why not? It's just a name. It's not important. Besides, Pandora doesn't need a last name." I was done talking to this dimwit so I turned my head to look at Alyssa, but I assumed she changed her name since I knew it annoyed her when people pronounced it wrong. "I'm guessing your new name has to do with one of the Seven Deadly Sins. Can I take a guess?" I didn't pause long enough for her answer of course. "Let me guess…Envy, right?" I smirked slightly at her before I turned my head to look around the room.

This was going to be my new home. Someone fucking help me.