G'day mates from all 'round, this is my continuation of the first chapter of Spirit bound. Go to for the excerpt of Spirit bound which is the first chapter. You will need to have read that to get my story.

This my first fanfic... ever so tell me what I need to do better, who's OOC etc, etc.

Disclaimer: Unfortunately, although I believe I'm awesome, I'm not awesome enough to have written this series. So the actual writer of this series is none other than Richelle Mead, who Is pretty awesome if I might say.

Oh yeah, the plot line in this mini story thing-o is all mine! Harrah and Hazar! ... Okay, I'll just go now...

I ran out onto the field, ready to beat this hell known as the final exam. I jogged out into the arena and went to where I was told to go.

The arena was made up of three different scenarios; a forest, a dark alley way and a junk yard. Don't ask me why Guardians would be chilling out in a junk yard, but whatever floats their boat. I heard people shout my name and I looked up to the podium and saw Adrian, Lissa, Christian and Abe.

Yay! At this rate I was going to have a kind-of-boyfriend who was a drunk, a best friend as a drug addict and a good friend as a smoker. I really needed to keep them away from Abe if I wanted to prevent this from happening.

Abe... my father. It sounded so weird in my mind, but also kind of nice, not that I would tell anyone that.

I shook my head and got into the zone of fighting. Die Strigoi die I chanted silently to myself. Roundhouse kick, uppercut, karate chop to the neck, spin kick... I recited different fighting moves to squash and kill the butterflies in my stomach. I was nervous much to my chagrin.

By now everyone was in their starting positions in different areas in each scenario. You were to prowl around from scenario to scenario trying to get out as many Strigoi as possible without getting killed or any of the Moroi getting killed. You see there were Moroi in the different areas and you had to protect them. The Strigoi will either attack you or a nearby Moroi.

Within the first two minutes a Moroi came strolling passed about ten meters in front of me. I scanned the area to see if there were any Strigoi around I began to follow the Moroi. As I followed the Moroi I realised it was a Queen Tatiana look-a-like.

Of course, I thought to myself, Queen bitch-face has a serious case of bitch-face syndrome. Why does it surprise me that she wouldn't actually be here like tradition?

It's tradition for the Queen to participate in the trials as a helpless Moroi.

Suddenly a 'Strigoi' jumped out of the bushes and ran towards 'Queen Tatiana'.

For a split moment I thought about not doing anything and sitting back whilst watching the joyous thing I like to call 'The death of Queen Tatiana'. However I quickly realised that that wouldn't help the case of letting me be Lissa's Guardian.

I leaped at the 'Strigoi' and stopped him from eating the bitch Queen. We rolled on the ground a few times then we both jumped up. We circled each other a few times before Mr 'Strigoi' (Who I had worked out was Stan) pounced at me. I dodged and plated a strong kick onto his chest which made his fall back a step. He then quickly launched forward and grabbed my elbow and leaned forward as if to suck my blood. I bent forward further and did a quick back flip getting me a good grip of his arms. He ripped free and I quickly pulled the stake out of its holder and faced it towards Stan as he turned towards me again. I successfully 'Killed' my first Strigoi of the game!

~*~

The game went on like this a while more. By the end of the trial I had saved eight Moroi, Killed five Strigoi and lost no Moroi. The trial had lasted eight hours and I was beat. On my way out of the arena something pounced at me. It was a 'Strigoi'. I dodged it and jumped on his back.

"Whoa boy, didn't you hear the sirens go off? The games over"

I got off him and put my hand out to help him up. The 'Strigoi' looked up at me and I saw two evil, red eyes and a white, papery face. This wasn't a teacher pretending to be a Strigoi, it was the real thing.

Oh crap!

I quickly reached into my weapon holder and ripped out my Stake.

The Strigoi smiled a sick, sardonic smile. "Don't you remember me little girl?" it hissed.

His voice suddenly brought back a memory of a night in an alley way when I was with the Strigoi hunters.

He was a Strigoi I didn't kill. I suddenly new why he was here.

"Don't worry" he told me. "I'm not here to kill you, only to relay this message. Dimitri says Good luck and that he will be seeing you soon"

"Wow, that's reassuring, now could you please come a little closer so I cane shove this stake through your heart?" I asked politely.

The Strigoi let out a hard laugh and then tackled me onto a tree. I felt my head bang into the tree. Bang into the tree really, really hard. But I was still on my game and fortunately the Strigoi didn't secure my arms so they were free to, I don't know, pierce it in the heart. I pressed the tip of the stake onto the Strigoi's back.

The Strigoi's eyes went wide. "You little Bi-"

But before it could react I plunged a stake into its back, let it fall to the ground and turned it over and then took the stake out and pushed it in again, harder, just to be safe.

"I learnt the hard way how things had to be done" I then took my stake back out, wiped the blood on the stake onto the grass and put it back into its holder.

I walked to the shelter where we stayed before the trial. I walked in and noticed everything was getting a little blurry.

"Rose?" I heard Lissa's voice "Are you okay?"

"You're walking like a drunken person" Adrian informed me, but I didn't really care because my head was suddenly pounding and I felt myself staggering around from dizziness.

"I'm okay" I felt myself slur just before the darkness enveloped me.

~*~

I was lying outside on my back just looking at the stars when I felt someone lay down beside me. I looked to my side and saw Dimitri.

"Hey, Roza, what are you doing?" he said to me in his sexy accent.

Sigh.

"Looking at the stars comrade, what 'bout you?" I asked in reply.

"Looking at something much, much more beautiful"

I gave Dimitri a look and then felt myself melt. The way he was looking at me, it was amazing.

"Rose" he said to me. "Rose? Rosemarie Hathaway!"

That voice wasn't Dimitri's.

"Rose, GET UP!"

Uh? What? What happened? Where am I?" I asked. I dragged my eyelids open to see Lisa, Adrian and me mothers faces looking down at me.

"I told ya you were hurt!" Lissa told me.

"I think it was the way you were walking like a drunken person that gave it away" Adrian informed me.

"Huh? Oh, yeah, you would know, Adrian, you're an expert on being drunk" I snapped at him.

My God, did my head hurt! It was like there were elves in my brain with mini jackhammers.

"Ha ha ha" he barked "See, she's fine, back to her old taunting self already". He put an arm around my shoulder and helped lift me up.

"I can stand myself!" I argued.

"Uhuh" Adrian let go of me and I nearly collapsed, nearly because Adrian caught me. He laughed and me as I narrowed my eyes at him.

"I'm getting a stake in a few hours, I wouldn't be pissing me off if I were you" I warned him.

"Oh, Little (insert name Adrian calls her that I can't remember), I'm quaking in my shoes"

"You should be!" I growled at him, pushed him away and stood on my own to feet, my own to wobbly feet.

"Please will you let me help you?" He asked grinning.

"Mum, can you send him away or something?' I begged.

My mother, the badass Janine Hathaway gave me a look. "I am your mother not your slave, if you want to become a Guardian you'll need to seriously work on your persuasive skills because if you can't get your own boyfriends to go away I can't imagine how you are going to go with Strigoi"

I gave her a sour look and face towards Lissa. She just gave me a shrug, a grin and then fussed over me as she used her healing gifts to de-concuss me... if that's a word.

"Adrian dear" I said.

"Yes Rose?" he responded.

"Can you please go get me a drink of water?" I fluttered my eyelashes and gave him a little feminine smile. Adrian blinked a couple of times and went to get me a drink as if he were compulsed.

"Lissa, did you just use compulsion on him?" I asked my best friend.

"Nope, why?"

"Oh, okay, no reason"

Hmm, either I just used a type of magic that I dhampir's don't have or he's just totally whipped.

This isn't good. Adrian is in LOVE WITH ME!

So not good!

I push that to the back of my mind and try and focus on why I, embarrassingly, passed out.

I closed my eyes. Think, I told myself, think!

Then I remembered.

"Janine" I quickly called to my mum. "There was a Strigoi that attacked me, and not a fake Strigoi"

"Are you sure it wasn't just another Guardian posing as a Strigoi?" she was standing next to me, almost shaking me.

"Yeah, I'm sure, It had red eyes, and" I swallowed and closed my eyes. "Dimitri sent it to me"

"He sent a Strigoi to you?"

"Yeah" I laughed in dark humour "To wish me good luck"

Dimitri says good luck at that he will be seeing you soon

I felt shivers go up my spine.

I needed to get Lissa as soon as possible. I needed to find Victor. I needed to save Dimitri, I needed to save myself.

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