I'm soooooo sorry that I took so long to get this chapter out. I can't believe that it's actully been like -what- a month(?) and a half since I last updated. Anyways I'll try to update sooner so I hope that this chapter with Damien's POV (!!!!!!!!!!) helps gain forgivness so you can put your knives away now.

Oh and for those of you who PM-ed me about it Damien is not going to turn straight to date Lela. He loves her like a sister not a girlfriend!

On with the story ...

Turn of Events

I blinked at my reflection in the compact and I immediately froze. The air was still heavy. I could feel a pressure building up on the back of my neck, and the deafening silence wasn't helping my nerves at all. I could feel Zoey's eyes boring into the back of my head as she tried to catch my eye, but my gaze stood locked on the tiny mirror.

Staring back at me were multicolored orbs that I didn't recognize. For a minute I believed that I was imagining things but everything was still silent. The pressure building up on my neck was creeping towards my shoulders. Damien started blabbing, most likely trying to explain the new "progress" but I was still stunned. After a while Damien's tone changed, and the next words he said made me mad as hell.

"She never should have been included in this!"

Damien's POV (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

This should have never happened. Lela was supposed to lead a completely different life. No one was supposed to come with me or follow me when I was Marked. This was a different life for me. Don't get me wrong, of course I loved Lela like a sister, but she wasn't supposed to become a vampyre fledgling- especially now, when things had just gotten so dangerous in the "vamp world". Now she was supposed to be one of the Chosen? It was wonderful that she was, she was and amazing person and she definitely deserved some reward for being the caring, selfless, beautiful person that she was, but now was not the right time. She was going to get hurt, or worse, it was possible that she wouldn't make the Change. I couldn't stand losing her to that kind of death. It just wasn't a choice for her or for me.

This was all wrong. As soon as I realized this I stopped my educational lecture short. I then started ranting about how this was a horrible thing. Some of the things I was saying were a bit harsh, I knew that, but I couldn't stop the words that flew out of my mouth. It was like word vomit. The second I thought that it would stop more just came gushing out. I could tell that Lela snapped out of the dream world that she was captured in because she suddenly tuned in to my talk near the very end of the rant because she looked positively furious.

"She should never have been included in this!" I very nearly shouted. Whoa, that sounded not only harsh but just plain cruel. Lela's eyes widened in hurt and then flattened out to anger almost instantly. I knew at that very second that she was blazing mad at me. There was no denying the betrayed look in her eyes. Getting her upset wasn't the best idea at the moment, considering the fact that we just found that she had some type of "power" and we had no idea what she was capable of. Her eyes flashed at me; turning from black to red and then back again. In that second I felt a shiver of genuine fear flash down my spine, which was completely ridiculous. She was my best friend and here I was- afraid of her. Her body took on a red tinged glow. I knew that if she didn't calm down then we might get a small dose of her soon-to-be-revealed "power".

She must have seen me start to shake and she seemed horrified that she was the source of my fright. She then tried to calm herself. It was interesting to watch. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath but she still glowed red. Zoey, Shaunee, and Erin were watching us as well. Erin was the first to process the fact that she was actually glowing which was entirely abnormal for anyone- vampyre or not. Lela started to sway in her concentrated state and Erin put a hand on her shoulder to steady her. Erin's touch seemed to send a rippling effect through Lela's body and at first Erin was frightened that she had hurt her but she didn't let go. As Erin held on Lela looked like she was absorbing some of the calming energy that she had sent out and the red tinge turned blue instead. One second her eyes were flashing and the next she was completely still. When she opened her eyes again Erin and I gasped.

Zoey and Shaunee were on the opposite side of the room, still in their semi-circled position from the discussion of Lela's power and had no way of seeing Lela's face but Erin and I had the perfect view.

Lela's normally hazel eyes (well before they turned multicolored, of course) were now a shockingly, icy blue color. As was the 'aura' that now surrounded her. When we gasped you could tell that she tensed up and was anxious. As soon as the new (anxious) mood was all the way processed she shivered and her eyes took on a clear gray/gold color. Again we were struck by the impossibility of the events that were taking place. As far as I knew (and, not trying to brag or anything, but that's pretty far) there were no vampyres that could change their physical appearance unless they were heavily gifted by Nyx and, according to the Vampyre Historical Text books, even if they were that was only a small portion of the power that they had control over.

My face must have given away the fact that, even though I was upset about her being in danger, I was stunned. Her expression turned smug and her smirk wasn't warming me up to her either. You could tell that even though she was happy that I was in awe of her, instead of the other way around for once, she was still apprehensive of what I was in awe about. But dear Nyx- she was frikken glowing! From what I read this couldn't mean anything good. It meant that she was showing only a fraction of the power that she had and it was the least physical as well as the weakest of her many powers. In a way she was completely equal to Zoey when she was engaged in a battle, as all female vampyres could be (joy, yet another thing to worry about, like I needed to think about her getting hurt at all). My little rant was becoming a worse idea by the second because this definitely meant that she had more power than me and we were only just discovering it. She hadn't even reached full potential yet! And if her powers had anything to do with the elements, then I was in trouble. She could wash me away with water or send flames on me with fire. She could flatten me with Earth in less than 5 seconds. She could blow me away with my own wind in even less time than that.

Zoey looked at my still-in-awe expression for about 1.3 seconds before she came to stand at my side instantly to see what was up. She and Shaunee looked at Lela and of course Shaunee; being her usual rude-crude self was the first to come up with a biting sentence to break the never ending silence.

"Well, fuck, if that ain't an insane situation then I don't know what is."