Hey guys, I'm so sorry that I haven't updated like I said I would. I just finished HUNTED and Oh. My. God.

That was PHENOMENAL!!!!! I can't tell if there's another book after this one, cause it kinda just left you hanging, Does anyone know if another one is coming out after it? I'm not gonna discuss it on my review page since I don't want to give anything away but feel free to PM me if you know anything! I'm Hooked. Here's a nice, long chapter to make up for my stupid non-updating crap! I hope u guys liked Damien's POV and My next idea is being based off of this chapter so, with out further ado-

On With the Fanfic!

And yes the chapter's name really is in Cherokee (cool right?).

sv-a-yi u-lv

Sisters of Night

We all looked at Shaunee. Even me, who was totally freaked out by the recent events which had flipped my world upside down, turned to look at her, and I have to say, what she was saying didn't sound far off the mark. The thing was that we just didn't want to face the fact that this was one of the weirdest things that had ever happened in the history of all vampyres, besides what had already happened to Zoey, that is. Everything had gone so fast and there was no way to tell what was going to happen next. It was all so spontaneous and my head was still spinning but I couldn't look at the seemingly inoffensive compact mirror, I was too freaked out.

I couldn't really wrap my head around the whole "eye-changing/life-changing" events that had just occurred right in front of all of my new friends. What did they think of me now? Did they think that I had turned into a freak? While all of this was going through my head I could only comprehend the fact that everyone was still staring at Shaunee in silent awe and you could tell that it was getting really awkward for her. Zoey was the first to break the awkward silence.

"Okay, right well, now that said insane situation is over with we can move on right?" Yeah, right, that wasn't an awkward situation at all. Nope, not at all. I can't wait until this awkward stage of pre-friendship is over and done with and then we can just joke around. Unfortunately, right now I am swamped in some colossal crappy situation that probably isn't going to end soon.

"Anyways this may sound totally weird-especially coming from me- but I think that Shaunee is right." Damien said in a strained voice.

"Exactly what is she right about, Damien?" asked Zoey. There was this puzzled tone to whatever she said now. Like she wasn't exactly sure of what the outcome would be if she said something.

"Well quite obviously this is one of the weirdest things that has ever happened at the house of night before. Next thing you know cats will start talking to you!" I was still confused but I have to admit that this was entertaining. The way Shaunee and Erin's head kept bouncing back and forth between whoever was speaking. The way that Shaunee's eyes widened when Damien made the compliment about her being right for once in his book was way too amusing to miss out on.

I knew what was coming next no mattered what else happened; they were going to test me. Of course, being me it just had to be right (insert sigh here).

"We need to learn more about this," said Damien. Wow, were things really getting that predictable around here? I couldn't help but notice that he said, "We". This was NOT what I was hoping for.

"Uh, 'we'?" I asked, still keeping a small bit of hope in the back of my mind so that it wouldn't be completely hopeless. There was no way that they were going to watch me try some freaky new thing that I had no idea how to control. If they were going to get involved they would be afraid of me. I could just feel the amount of power swelling inside of me as we spoke. Right then I wondered if that was how it felt all the time to Zoey.

"Yes 'we', Lela. If you're going through this then you're not doing it alone. We aren't going to bail out on you, no matter what." Damien said, knowing full well what I was thinking.

"We're not going to leave you alone in this, Lela." He spoke again with a reassuring smile. It wasn't that I didn't think they were going to help; it was that I knew that when they helped me they would be scared of me. The only person I wanted there with me, if anyone at all, was Zoey, and if that couldn't happen then I didn't need any help.

"Wait, Lela thinks we're going to bail on her?" Erin asked in a confused voice.

"That's what I heard, Twin" Shaunee said.

"That's idiotic, we'd never do that!" Erin said with a huff.

"Duh, we wouldn't Twin. She probably thinks that were bumbling idiots by now." Shaunee went on to say.

"Well we may be two bumbling idiots, but we are two fine bumbling idiots." Said Erin.

"Would you two knock it off for one second?!" Damien shouted in an exasperated voice. I could practically feel my head swelling with the effort to keep up with their insistent chatter.

"Lela already has enough to think about without you two starting up with your mindless gossip and whatnot." Damien said. I glared at him as he turned back to look at me.

"What?" He asked, his tone changing from sharp to confused in an instant. I kept on glaring.

"Seriously, what'd I do this time?" He asked. I could practically see the wheels turning in his head trying to figure out why I was sending an icy glare his way.

"You know exactly what." I replied in a cold tone. His face turned into one of understanding and shame- Damien hadn't always been so nice. He would lash out at people who thought him being gay was disgusting and crude. That was how we met in the first place.

At first Damien had kept his feelings to himself when someone teased him but after a while he got tired of it. When I say he lashed out I meant it literally. He would get into loads of fights and his father had to take him out of school because he was earning a bad reputation for being a bad father and with him being an Elder of God, or whatever, he was forced to actually pay attention to Damien for once. My mother was a grief counselor back then when she had been nice to me. I felt sorry for him at first but he didn't want the pity. He just wanted to have people understand. He was using the same sharp tone from way back then, and it would lead to nothing good.

"Sorry," he mumbled, more to the floor than to me. I relaxed my facial muscles, now that he had calmed down enough to realize what was going on. I was surprised that something as simple as Shaunee and Erin babbling about their lives could set him off like that. It had never happened so suddenly before. Did your emotions become increased or something as you were going through the change? God, I can only imagine what a PMS-ing teenager girl would be like if her emotions were heightened even more. Jeez.

Zoey was looking back and forth in between with a look that went from fright, from Damien's mood swings, to pure puzzlement. I gave her a look that told her I would explain later. Obviously they had never seen Damien get that angry before, especially over such a small thing. Trying to help things along Zoey finished Damien's previous thought.

"Righhht, so anyways, like Damien was saying, were not going to leave you alone in this Lela. We're gonna do it together even if we have to force it on you." It was hilarious how her unconfident expression contradicted her sure tone, and although I felt like laughing at that moment I knew that there was no way that I was going to get out of it so I dropped the subject. Unfortunately, Zoey had other plans.

"Nuh uh, no way we are going to figure this out right now." Zoey said. And, darn it, just as I was about to make a mad dash for the door, Damien caught my arm and held me still. Shaunee and Erin started laughing at my panicked expression. I sighed, glanced longingly at the doors to the girl's main dorms and then looked back at Zoey.

"Alright, I guess I'll just have to get this over with."

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We walked down the stones of the hallway, our shoes making an echo in the dead of day (since we're vampyre fledglings, and night is day for us and day is night). I was glad that as we left the room Zoey hadn't tried to pull me along. Truthfully I had been scared ever since my first day here when Zoey tried to shake my hand. I had fallen into darkness as soon as our skin had touched. Which it barely had!

I was still scared of that darkness and what could possibly happen while I was submerged in it. I could be brain-dead by the time I was conscious enough to get up, that is, if I ever returned to conciousness. I knew that what I was thinking was not only irrational but illogical as well. Why would Nyx Mark me into this life if she was only going to take me out of the world once and for all? It made me scared because there was no telling what was going to come next.

In the next second I could remember all too clearly what happened.

My next thought was that I was sad that I still wasn't important enough for the Goddess to let me in on her plan for Zoey and me, and the rest of our "gang". At that moment Zoey took my hand. Although I was afraid of what might happen because of this I squeezed her hand back because she could probably tell how anxious I was and I wanted to reassure her. As soon as her flesh touched mine my worst nightmare seemed to become real. I felt the shock that was becoming familiar; go up through my arm and down my spine.

Zoey shuddered in time with me and at that moment I knew that nothing bad was going to happen. Nyx might have taken my life but there was no way that she would take Zoey's. I was of no importance, but the entire reason that Zoey was here was because our Goddess had special plans for her. I may as well have been the plain, unattractive sidekick, like in comics. From the way Zoey was shivering I could tell that she was going through the exact same thing.

The last thing I remember from before I blacked out was falling to the ground with Zoey and I still connected by our hands and a faint multicolored glow starting to form around us.

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As I awoke I could tell that I was somewhere entirely different than in the schools corridors. Somehow, even though my surroundings were unknown to me I felt like I had been here before, or at the very least, I had seen a picture of it. The shape of the land was what was the most familiar. I couldn't really explain it. I tried to get up to go and check what was past the hill that I was at the bottom of but I found that I was just an opaque creature… thing. I was basically a ghost, or spiritual energy or something.

I also discovered that someone was with me. Lying to my left was Zoey. She was still breathing (can ghosts breathe?) but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't manage to make her release her grasp on my hand. They stayed in the same position as when we collapsed in the hallway at school. After about two minutes of prying at her hand she woke up. She looked around in surprise, but it was obvious that she knew where we were. The look of recognition on her face was hard to miss.

There was a strange murmuring around me but it sounded like it was coming from inside my head, which was definitely beyond my norm. I looked at Zoey's wide eyes and mouth permanently O shaped mouth and I wished that I, desperately, that could hear her thoughts. Judging, by the way she stared back at me I could tell that we were thinking the same thing. In less than a second a flood of information overwhelmed my mind. I felt like I could scream from every ounce of knowledge that now filled all the gaps of my mind.

It was as if all my questions were answered, the only catch was that I had no idea where I had gotten all the answers from. I knew that we were in the spirit world and that it wasn't the easiest thing in the world to get here (note the sarcasm). There was only one person other than me that had been there before and that was Zoey. I was surprised that I could filter out what I had just learned and I could tell exactly what the situation had entailed. Something important was going to happen any minute.

"Oh, Goddess," I thought, "what now?"

"Lela?" Zoey asked.

"Yes?" I asked out loud, but there was no sound coming from my mouth. All that was there was a jade-colored spirally word forming in the air in the shape of the word "yes", like puffs of breath on a cold morning. I searched the depths of my newly acquired knowledge and I realized that no sound could come to be in this world of spirit. I looked around for the spirally letters in the air that signaled others when you spoke. Then it dawned on me that I had heard her speak which is why I had paid attention in the first place. She was looking at me in surprise.

What had just happened? I stared back at her. There was no sound in this world and yet I had just clearly heard her speak.

"I have no idea what's going on but I think that we can speak to each other in a non-verbal way now." Her voice came again and when I listened harder I found that the low murmuring sounds in the back of my head must have been her thoughts the entire time. I tentatively tried it out, pushing my thoughts away from me and towards her.

"Wait, so can you hear me now?" I asked, I felt kind of stupid saying this in my head because if it didn't work then I was probably becoming schizophrenic. Luckily, I was mentally healthy and her reply came when I "tuned" into the vague words that formed in the back of my head.

"Yes, and you can hear me as well. Correct?" She asked. It was kind of cool in a creepy, stalker-like way. Getting into people's heads all the time would be distracting and not to mention a violation of personal space.

"I agree." Came Zoey's voice, "And, yes, I realize that by saying that into your head I was just proving your point." She added in a smug tone. Suddenly I felt a slight breeze in the air and I knew that whatever event I had known was coming was here.

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Zoey stared over the hill. I had no idea how she knew that whatever it was, was coming from that direction but I followed her lead anyways. I turned and a few minutes afterwards I saw a bright light. It was too bright to identify the silvery silhouette until they were right in front of Zoey and me.

"Nyx!" We blurted out simultaneously. We smiled at each other as my jade-colored words and Zoey's lavender-colored words mingled together in the air. Although we had spoken "out loud" in this strange world Nyx soon showed us that it was completely unnecessary.

"Hello my daughters. I see you have found your way into the spirit realm." Somehow Nyx was projecting the thoughts into our minds because Zoey and I could both hear her, though she did not speak. We sat in awed silence for about 3. 5 seconds before our thoughts exploded into a full round of questions but before our loud, obnoxious minds could deafen the Goddess, she put a hand up, which immediately silenced us.

"Before I answer your questions I would like to make quite a few things clear, regarding your earlier thoughts from the mortal realm." Nyx fixed her gaze on me and held my eyes for a long moment in a hard stare. I could tell that something I had thought earlier, while I was still in the "mortal realm" at the House of Night had upset Nyx. You could see a great sadness in her eyes and the last thing that I had wanted to do was to cause our Goddess any harm.

"Stupid me, thinking of things that didn't concern me and then upsetting Nyx. What was my purpose anyway? To make life more difficult for the peaceful live of fledglings?" I scolded myself, but unfortunately, I had forgotten all about the fact that both Zoey and Nyx could hear my thoughts at the moment. Nyx eyes looked even more sad and Zoey was screaming at me in her head.

"How could you say that, Lela?!" She thought sadly, yet in a scream rather than a whisper. "You aren't stupid, and you've made everyone's life better at the House of Night, not more difficult…. Well maybe not Neferet's but you get my point." She went on to think. I looked down at my feet, at a loss for words. As Zoey scream/whispered/thought, Nyx was gliding over to me. She lifted my head up by putting a finger under my chin.

"This is what I spoke of a moment ago my daughter. As you came to this realm, your thoughts became clear to me and it saddened me to know that you don't think I believe in you. You think that I would take your life away? I have chosen you and I would never let anything happen to you if I could stop it. You are not Zoey's sidekick- you are her equal and she has never thought of you as a sidekick. And I have special plans for you as well, Lela." Nyx said in a soft voice with a sad smile.

Zoey stared at me in shock. I could hear the mumble of her thoughts in the back of my head. She was wondering what Nyx was talking about and then, as she comprehended what Nyx was saying she was became…well not mad but devastated that I would think such things about myself and make assumptions of what she thought of me. She was also hurt that I thought she cared so little about me. I finally looked up to meet Nyx's eyes.

"You are special, Lela. It's why you are one of my two Chosen Daughters." I smiled up at her thinking about sincere apologies and how I'd never think like that again, knowing that she would hear them as well ( I gotta admit, mind connections came in handy).

"You have nothing to apologies for, Daughter; I should have proven my love for you from the beginning." She said with a genuine smile this time. She then looked at Zoey who, despite her earlier horror from my previous thoughts, was beaming as our Goddess proved just how much she loved us. You could see it in Nyx's eyes and hear it in her sincere words. Nyx startled me with her next words.

"You two care deeply for each other. It reaches far beyond the workings of the close bonds that most vampyre fledgling friends hold." She observed in a curious tone. Then her swelled with understanding, and at that moment I still had no clue to what she could be thinking of. I looked towards Zoey and saw her turn to me at the same time. She had the same puzzled expression on her face. Neither of us had any idea what Nyx would be thinking.

Nyx saw our confused expressions.

"My children this is a completely new happening." She spoke in an awed voice, which was odd since I thought nothing could throw our Goddess. "You two have formed a bond that is one of the strongest I have sensed in my existence." She almost whispered (in minds it's kind of hard to tell). "You have become something known as sv-a-yi u-lv, in the ways of your people Zoey but, of course, I don't expect you to be familiar with it Le-"

"I know what your talking about." I interjected in a stunned voice that didn't sound at all like me. Nyx stared at me like I was crazy while Zoey looked like she was incapable of speaking at the moment. Nyx, being the amazing Goddess that she was, recovered first.

"What is this you speak of Lela?" She questioned me.

"It means Sisters of Night, doesn't it?" I asked Nyx, barely whispering the thought/question in my head, and disregarding her question for the moment.

"Yes, my daughter, but how could you have kno-"

"My dreams," I replied calmly, inturrupting her yet again. For one 1/2 second I thought about how rude and disrespectful I probably sounded to our Goddess and I felt guilty, but then as I thought about my dream I forgot all about it. I knew that I sounded completely crazy but it was completely true. I started having weird dreams about a week before I was Marked and thrown into a world of utter chaos that I didn't understand. In my dream, I would walk along a stone wall, that looked oddly similar to the campus grounds wall at the House Of Night, but something urged me forward. It felt like a strong pull, and not from a something but a someone- I could feel their presense. As soon as I turned around a corner that lead to a nook in the walls I would hear a voice whisper;

"Welcome, my u-lv. Sv-a-yi u-lv. Welcome home." Every single time I was about to round the corner and uncover who the mystery person was I woke up, to my disappointment. Oddly enough, in my dream I automatically knew what "sv-a-yi u-lv" meant. It was the Cherokee words for Night Sisters. Or translated into english it meant Sisters of Night.

"Your dreams?" Nyx repeated skeptically.

"Yes, I dreamt of Zoey's voice." I knew what I had just said was definitely the truth. The odd feeling in my stomach was strong and sure this time. Of course, they had already seen the dream in my memories. This whole read your mind in the Spirit world was helping a lot. Nyx gave Zoey an odd look. Nyx might be able to hide her thoughts from me because this was her domain but Zoey and I were connected, something she hadn't quite figured out yet. I looked to her head for the answers.

"But only Nyx has the power to connect creatures by mind and Lela hadn't been Marked yet. It shouldn't be possible." Her thoughts somewhat scared me because it meant that this was unknow grounds- even for Nyx. I turned to look up at the amazing goddess and she was smiling like a lunatic.

"It seems that Lela has a stronger power than we first thought. Now to explain this to Zoey. You seem a little lost, my daughter." Zoey nodded. Not only did she look confused but I could feel it rolling off of her in waves.

"Come daughters, all we be explained in the time that you are in the Spirit World." Nyx said, smiling.

AN//: Alright my people. In the next chapter it's up to you and I won't be able to write it until you've reviewed. The Next chapter will either be

a)Lela's POV, where she is still in the spirit world and everything is explained. But trouble arises.

or

b) Damien's POV in the "real" world where something weird is happening. He tells us what happens while Lela and Zoey are in the spirit world and it basically gives him a heart attack! LOL!

As always

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