Hey everyone, so I am writing this fanfiction on Vampire Academy! Well I dont want to ruin it for you but basically it takes place somewhere in the middle of the second book, Frostbite. I hope you like it! I do not own any of the wonderful characters, Richelle does! (:

Constructive criticism always helps so please review! I love these books and love Rose so let me know what you think about this story. And you can suggest things that you want to see happen in here as well. So please, review! (:

CHAPTER 1

PROLOGUE

THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM.

Like me for example. If you look at me from a distance, all you would see is an ordinary dark haired human-looking girl. Except that I am not. Not human I mean. I am dhampir. Something that you would call a hybrid species in the world that I come from. There are three types of people who live in my world. Strigois, Morois and dhampirs. The first two are two types of vampires. Strigois are the evil vampires who are literally the undead. They walk the earth in nighttime and feed on blood. Usually just human but sometimes, Moroi. Moroi blood makes them the powerfully deadly vampires that they tend to be. Morois are the nice vampires. They also feed on blood but don't do so in a savage way like the Strigois. Morois have earthly elemental powers which are fire, water, air, and spirit. Most Moroi specialize in any one of these powers. Spirit is an unusual type of magic which is very rare among the Moroi. Of course rare being that it is, my best friend Lissa has specialized in it. And that is the reason why she was able to save me. Or bring me back from the dead. Making me shadow-kissed. When Lissa's parents had died, I was in the car crash too and if Lissa hadn't used her spirit to heal me, I would have died as well. And so technically, though I was half dead, she healed me and brought me back to life which made a shadow-kissed. This allows me to be bonded with Lissa. Not physically, but mentally which lets me see things that Lissa sees and read her thoughts and stuff, which can be a good thing sometimes like when I need to find her and stuff but a total pain in the butt when she is having some wonderful time with her boyfriend, Christian Ozera. Dhampirs are usually appointed as guards to Royal Morois in our world. Due to our half vampire, half human DNA, we are fast and strong fighters. Moroi vampires use their magic for the betterment of our world whereas the Strigoi wish to dominate the world by killing all the Morois and dhampirs. Majority of dhampirs become what's called a guardian. Right now, Lissa and I are both at St. Vladimir's Academy in Montana where we go to school and where I train as a guardian. Ideally, I want to be Lissa's guardian but it didn't help matters when we both left the academy for two years to get away from the powers of the Spirit – which we did not know of back then.

Anyways, so it's Christmas break at the moment and our school, St. Vladimir's has taken us out to Idaho where we get to spend the two weeks. And yeah, sounds like a total holiday and all right? Except my life is a totally disaster. My mother intentionally punched me in the eye (so now I have one black eye thanks to her), my best friend seems engrossed in her love life, and the guy I love doesn't want to talk to me. That's right; Christmas is going to be jolly good this year.

So what do you guys think? Please review! And I thank my friend Mellie for the title of the story ;)