Disclaimer- i don't own any of The Marked Series characters. I wish i did. I do own Lela, Jasmin, Nirall, and Katelin along with some other characters.

YEA! I finally finished this chapter and it's the longest one yet.

Chapter 6/7(???)

New Arrival

As I walked to the front gate of the House of Night in Tulsa I was picturing my mother's face. She had walked into Sharland like she was scared stiff. She had always had the face of a fierce, strong person- nothing like how she had looked then. She also looked like she had been crying. When I got home I found that my little brother had taken a cab to get to the house since mom had called his school and told him. He started crying that he had been sorry about all the stupid things he'd ever done. Somehow it didn't make it seem any better but worse.

Now I looked up to the gate and the security cameras. Everything gave me a sense of dread, it looked dark and foreboding. I looked back to my mom's face, peering out of the car window, and tried to smile. After I had gotten into the school grounds my mom drove away- by the look of it she was sobbing by the time she was around the corner. A tall, beautiful woman with auburn hair and a great body came out and greeted me.

"I am Neferet, High Priestess of this House of Night. Blessed be, young fledgling, you must be Lela."

"I am, Priestess." I gulped too loudly, "So what happens now?" She had a warm smile on her face, but something was off. Not in the sense that everything was wrong, but just that something about her wasn't right.

"Now, dear fledgling, you are home. You will be able to see your dorm room but I will let your mentor explain everything else."

"My mentor?" Why did I need was mentor and what were they supposed to explain to me? None of this was making sense. As if she could understand the turmoil that was building inside me, she tried to help.

"I know this must all be very confusing," That was the understatement of the year; "You see here at the House of Night every fledgling has a mentor to help him or her with their problems. We usually try to let fledgling work out their own problems but sometimes things become too difficult to understand, and that is where your mentor comes in." I was starting to get this but everything else was one big jumbled mess. I was getting another major migraine; I just hoped that this time it meant something other than getting Marked.

She continued to explain to me that Lenobia- the equestrian studies teacher would be my mentor and that it would stay that way until I made the change or I died. She was straight forward about the fact that there was a good chance that one day I would probably die. I have to admit that by the end of her little lecture, she had me scared crapless. She walked me to the girl's dorm rooms.

"This shall be your new official home. I hope you will enjoy. You are allowed to visit your mentor at any time that you please. My fledgling, Zoey Redbird, will help you around." As she said this, a girl with amazingly long dark, curly hair came over to us. Oh, duh, this must be Zoey. She smiled at Neferet warmly but there was something wrong. There was a sense of falsehood, like she was pretending to like her mentor instead of having a genuine bond with her.

"Hi, I'm Zoey. But you must have already figured that out." She was really nice and she actually seemed to like me instead of showing me the same fake/warm smile she gave to Neferet. So that must not be her normal behavior towards people. How weird. What was going on? I realized that both Neferet and Zoey were waiting for me to speak.

"Right, umm hi I'm Lela. Uhh, this is a really cool dorm." My God I was the biggest idiot that I had ever known. She ignored my stupidity. It was then that I realized that her Mark was colored in. We had all heard about it at Sharland. Everybody there had called her a freak even when they didn't know her. I had thought it was cool, so people thought that I was crazy. Back then only Jasmin, Katelin, and Nirall had stood by me. I was smart enough not to stare now at the kind girl's unusual appearance. She stuck her hand out to me. It was a common gesture but little did I know that I would be starting a whole new insane chapter of my life by taking her hand in mine.

I reached out to take her hand and as soon as it was in my hand I was shocked. In the literal sense. Seriously, I mean there was this horrible jolt that went through my body and at first I could feel it but then there was this weird period of time where my head seemed disconnected from my body. I could think more clearly because the blinding pain was erased. I felt as light as a feather but I could still tell that there was a pain coming from my body. I could also see my body. I watched as I fell to the floor but it was weird because I could see myself but I felt nothing as I watch myself hit the floor with a sickening THUD.

I could see Zoey and Neferet standing beside my fallen body with dumbfounded expressions- still taking in the scene that had just played out before them. I watched as Neferet summoned the Sons of Erebus. They came immediately as they saw her expression which must have shown horror. I watched as they picked me up as if my 112lbs was nothing. Zoey followed, looking numb and then there were other girls from the dorm that had stood by while the havoc was happening. They seemed more afraid then curious. What they were afraid of I couldn't tell. I was perfectly fine but then it hit me. No one could see the ghost of my body floating around watching this turmoil spread.

As I watched I became aware that there was a humming coming from behind me. It was strange, there was a small crack in the wall and one of the "feelings" hit my gut. It was telling me to go to the wall but there was no way that I was going to fit through that tiny crack. It wasn't even small enough for a roach to fit through. I went anyway because whenever I tried to ignore one of the "feelings" then I was bombarded with it until I paid attention. I floated over to the crack in the wall and surprisingly as I reached over with my hand it just slipped through. I gasped in surprise but it came out not as a sound but as written words, as in the fact that my gasp was written in the air. As I sucked in a breath the air was tinged pink and I could see it entering and leaving my mouth. Because I had proved that I could float through walls, I kept going. I slipped my body through and found myself on the other side of the school wall except instead of a classroom I was outside in the open air next to a strange oak tree. Under the surrounding branches a timeless woman sat. She was tangled in the roots and it seemed as though she had been there and that she was part of the tree. Not that she came by one day and never got up but that she was part of the tree and that she had always been there.

She motioned for me to sit next to her. She was someone that I could trust. I don't know how I knew, I just did. I went and sat. We were there for an immeasurable period of time. As we sat she hummed a melody that seemed familiar to me but I couldn't be sure. Finally she spoke.

"Daughter you have met my eyes and ears of today." Well how was I supposed to respond to that? Was I supposed to say yes when I didn't even know what she was talking about or, for that matter, when I didn't even know who she was? She sensed my hesitation and said;

"I mean to say that you have met Zoey Redbird. Is this correct young fledgling?"

"Yes I have. She is very kind, uh…?"

"I am known as many things young one but today many know me as Nyx."

"Right, Nyx, so why am I here what happened?"
"You, daughter, are here to help. The world will soon be in grave danger and Zoey shall need your help. She has become my eyes and ears of this generation. You shall help her; you will be my will and touch. From now on you shall listen to your intuition and follow speak my decisions. You must convince those who deliver evil to understand my will and intentions."

"But why me Goddess? Why do you choose me for this task? There must be many strong, adult vampyres who would happily do your will. I'm only a fledgling- and a newly Marked fledgling at that. What can I do that others can't?"

"Daughter, you have criticized yourself far too much in the past and because of that you have lost faith in yourself. You are not "just some fledgling" because you are special. You see the truth immediately while others linger on false pretenses. For this you are now my purpose and my connection to all vampyres of this new age. Now you must go and help Zoey to understand my decisions." She was ready for me to go but I still understood nothing and she wasn't going to say anything more about impending catastrophe.

"Blessed be Lela, my daughter, my will." She kissed my forehead while saying this and though it burned, I felt no pain.

What did she mean the world would soon be in grave danger? What the hell was that supposed to mean? I was confused and as I watched her she smiled. As she began to fade I found myself zooming backwards through the halls and into a hospital-like room, back to what I assumed was my body but it didn't look like me. I was pale and yet green at the same time. There was a light sheen of sweat across my face and neck but I couldn't see any of my features- everything was becoming blurry. I streaked into my body and awoke in a coughing fit.

As I sat up vampyres and fledgling alike, that surrounded me gasped in surprise. Someone pointed and whispered the Mark. I reached up and my hand automatically found my forehead. I felt no difference, though I had suspected that I wouldn't- my Mark was a part of me now and it wasn't engraved in my skin or anything. What was the big deal- so I fainted or something and had a mildly insane meeting with some kind of spirit thing. That was normal right? I was still normal it must have been a dream.

Right?

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