Night

Ch. 2: Olympus

After I explained everything to my adopted parents as best I could and they let me go. I got my stuff and moved back into my bedroom in The Otherworld, then I had to go to Olympus for the winter solstice, which is tonight. I’m a goddess, and now that I have my memories and am sixteen millenniums years old, don't tell Sammie, I can now, OK I have to, attend the council meetings on Olympus. At least I know one thing though, with my family, they will not be boring.

I sat down next to my mother and crossed my legs waiting for the council meeting, I didn't want to attend, to start. Before the meeting even started Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon all got into a fight, about nonsense, causing Hera and Demeter to have to take Hestia out of the room, she doesn't like fighting and had started to cry. When Hera came back in, while Demeter was getting Hestia to calm down and come back in, she yelled at the boys and told them to shut up, stop fighting, and sit down, to which they did. Then after Demeter and Hestia came back, the meeting commenced.

After six hours of fighting, yelling, arguments, decisions, absolute boredom, and hilarity the council meeting ended. It was about five in the morning and I knew Sammie had been out of class for about two hours so I headed back to the Tulsa House of Night to tell him what he was so dying to know.

*At the House of Night*

“Sammie! Oh Sammie where are you?” I called as I walked around the campus looking for him. As I walked I heard a lot of whispers and saw a lot of pointing at me. I heard things like 'OH, that's the daughter of Nyx, I’m so happy she got her memories back,' and 'She's the daughter of Nyx,' and 'She's the new kid, Sam's, best friend, He's so lucky to know her,' and that was just some of it. Which is why I didn't go ask anyone if they knew where he was, I was worried they might faint if I talked to them. I could only hope that someone would tell him that I’m looking for him.

“Sammie!” I yelled when I saw him, he turned around and came to meet me.

“Hey, Selene, I've been looking for you.” He told me.

“Oh really, I’ve been looking for you too. Do you still want me to tell you?”

“Yes I still want you to tell me, it's all I could think of.”

“Really Sammie? You need to pay attention in class.” I told him, disapprovingly, “But alright I’ll still tell you, come on we need to go somewhere private. I know this campus like the back of my hand, I was here when they opened it as a House of Night.”

“Really?” he asked me.

“Yep, and I explored every crack and crevice, I was quite little then, and liked playing exploration.” I told him leading him to the teachers building. I opened the door, walked in like I owned the place, said hello the the vamps in the sitting room, and kept on walking. I led Sammie up the stairs and down the hall, then into a little flight of stairs behind a door, I could tell it wasn't used because their was a lot of dust. I dragged Sammie up the stairs and come to another door, but this one was locked. “Wait here.” I told him and ran back down to the sitting room, knowing where they kept all the keys and what the one for that door looked like. I went over to the draws and opened the one they kept the keys in, they don't have many because the vamps know when someone is lying, but there are a few places that fledgelings aren't supposed to go.

“What are you doing?” said Professor P. coming up behind me. I jumped in surprise and turned around.

“Trying to find a key,” I said, “what are you doing?”

“I am asking what you're doing and trying to keep you out of trouble like your parents asked me to do 20 years ago.”she said, “now, what key are you looking for?”

“Oh it doesn't matter, don't worry, I’m not getting myself into any trouble.” I said hiding the key in my pants and running away, back to Sammie. I bolted up the stairs and unlocked the door pulling Sammie in with me and re-locking it. “So, how are you tonight?”

“I'm good now stop stalling and talk.” Sammie said.

“OK, where to begin, I really don't know,” I said looking at him, “Um, OK, I was born in ancient Greece, where the first human became a fledgeling and then a vampire.”

“So if you were born in ancient Greece how old are you exactly?” Sammie asked me.

“ I am not going to tell you exactly how old I am, you'll just freak out. OK, so it's not like this for every god, their years can be different, it also depends on how powerful they are, but at least with me I age one human year in every millennium, until I lost my memories, but whatever. So in ancient Greece when I was a baby, I turned the first vampire, I give off this chemical or hormone, and it caused the first humans to turn into vampires, but they were people I was with almost all they time, so they didn't reject the change, then after they changed, they gave of the chemical so that fledgelings wont die too. For many years they looked for someone, a mother to be connected to, to explain everything, and finally they found Nyx, and she accepted them. I still give off the chemical to make humans fledgelings, they can only be between the ages of 16 and 17 though.” I told him, “And now mother has trackers, they go out and mark the humans meant to be fledgelings, she also chooses some of them, and she gives them special gifts and abilities. From time to time, she doesn't gift everyone.”

“So if I weren't friends with you, I may not have been marked?” Sammie asked.

“Not necessary,” I told him, “You still could have been marked, depending on mother.”

“But wait why didn't the others in our school or classes get marked?”

“Some of them might, but not because of me. Some of them were too old to be marked or too young. But for you to be marked because of me you'd have to have spent a lot of time with me, like you. Now that I’m immortal again the hormone is a lot stronger and potent, so you wouldn't have to spend as much time with me, but when I was human before I got my memories back it was weaker, it took a lot more time for it to accumulate in your body enough to turn you into a fledgeling, sense the day we met it was accumulating, and still their was barely enough to change you. One less hour and you may not have been marked.” I told him. “Now however, if a human spends about 6 hours with me maybe less, they will have enough in their system to be marked, even if they have to wait years to finish

puberty and be of age.”

“Wow, OK. So you really are the mother of vampires.” Sammie said amazed.

“Yep, that's one reason why they love me so much, they all know, every fully changed vamp does. They don't learn it until they complete the change, if they complete it though. So you can't tell any of the other fledgelings here, or anywhere, there not allowed to know yet.” I told him sternly.

“Well why not?” asked Sammie, “Why aren't we allowed to know until after we complete the change?”

“Um, ask Thanatos, or one of the other vamps that one. OK I told you, were done here I said unlocking and opening the door, and what do you know there was professor P., Thanatos, and my parents.