Written in the Stars

Prologue

*Isi (short for Isabella) doesn't know what is happening to her. All of a sudden there is a voice in her head, telling her to come meet him at Delphi in Greece. Why would a random voice, evidence of the great need for a psychologist visit, suggest such a straightforward, kind of reasonable thing? One day that thing just showed up outside the fence around her house. Somehow Isi feels drawn to it but her completely logical and reasonable, if a beyond average IQ was reasonable, brain kept telling her it was some kind of trap. The thing must've weighed close to an elephants weight but looked like a majestic albino lion, fully grown and with glowing red eyes. In fact, it reminded her of a certain Greek myth she had just recently read when she did a project on Heracles (Hercules in roman myths).

*J (short for Jayce) has a problem. It showed up two nights ago and had come back to haunt him every night since. All he knew about it was it was huge, midnight black, and very interested in getting over the fence to him. After that, well only the creature knew. J doesn't know what is happening to him. Whenever he gets close he hears a deep, kind of reassuring voice in his head, but the beast's mouth never opens. The kids at the boarding school didn't seem to notice the voice, much less see the beast itself. J has a sneaking suspicion the voice is the beast's. Oh man. He was in trouble. It looked like a wolf- manish thing from an old roman myth he had read online for an extra credit project, Lycaon or something. The very first werewolf (lycanthrope).

*Aria (short for Ariana) didn't know where she was. She had woken up here with her last memory being seeing a monster from her nightmares and running, only to fall to the pavement and black out. She had no way of transportation. She was just about to go back to sleep, she was so tired, when she started thinking through the problem. Climb a tree her brain commanded. So she did. She saw a small town in the distance. Walk there her brain thought. So she walked. From what she could tell it took her about a half week to get there. Once she was there she got a hotel room at the small inn. Then she slept for what felt like hours but was actually about two days. As soon as she woke up she tried to think what her plan should be now. Just like in the forest, her brain was slowly getting her through things, like getting a job. Over the course of a week she had come to realize that the voice in her head getting her through things wasn't her own. It seemed ancient and powerful. Just last night the creature had shown up and somehow the Voice, as she called it, knew what it was and what to do with it. She, the Voice was a lady, said it was a friend and messenger, although for what she wouldn't tell. She also said to just wait until the time was right to approach it and it wouldn't attack. For now just wait and observe. And observe she did. The creature was massive. It was like a panther but was white and definitely way bigger than a normal Panther. Even though it was white, it seemed to blend in with its surroundings. It always took a few moments for Aria to find the thing and she had to concentrate really hard with no distractions. It, also, had great shining red eyes like the headlights of a car at night. You could tell this thing was a great ally but an even greater enemy. And yet, she got the sense the beast was waiting for something. Maybe a signal or a whole pack of her kind, she didn't know. All Aria knew was that if she wasn't ready for it when that thing was coming for her then she was toast.