New story Alert! So this is my second Vampire Academy story and I hope that you will all enjoy this one :) Also I hope to God I have became a better writer than I was when I wrote that one (I re-read and was shocked by how appalling it is, but don't worry I will be revising it because I like the plot I had for it)...

Disclaimer: I don't own the VA Characters unfortunately...

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Chapter 1

I cleared my mind listening out for the attack that would surely come any time soon. I heard him just a second before I was hit on my side. I growled at him rubbing my already bruising skin. He was starting to piss me off. "Rosie! You can do better than this..." He called tauntingly, trying to make me react to his nickname for me. However I was concentrating on where his voice had sounded from. 4 O'Clock. I slightly twisted my body to the right ready for the next time he would attack.

My ears picked up the slight shuffle of his feet as he moved towards me. I then heard the swoosh of an arm aimed at my stomach. I back flipped out of the way, bringing my legs up with force, hitting him. The noise of him being hit satisfied me to no end. Smiling, I landed in a crouched position and waited for his next move. I didn't hear anything but the hard breathing coming out of me. I was being too loud. I held my breath and waited for a sound. 6 O'Clock. He was trying to creep around to attack from behind me. I listened and heard exactly where he stopped: 2 metres away from me. I quickly thought through the moves I could do on him while listening out for any movement on his side. When he didn't, I launched into an attack. I turned quickly and propelled myself at him, seemingly surprising him from the way he gasped. Slamming into him, our fight became blurred with many hits and kicks on both sides. Suddenly I heard him move his arm again, leaving his chest wide open for an attack. Knowing I had to be quick, I knocked his hand away and roundhouse kicked my target. I heard him let out a big gruff. From there, I pounced on him, pinned him down and slapped my hand against his chest.

"Dead." I whispered and got off him, pulling off my blindfold in a huff. He laughed at my actions. Silent treatment for him then. I glared into his blue eyes letting him know I wasn't happy with him and proceeded to walk away to the weights. I went straight to the bench, needing to get rid off my anger directed at the only other person in the gym.

While I lifted the weight easily, I spaced out thinking about everything I've learnt over the last year. I had surpassed most guardians in only one year, or at least that was what my trainer told me. I hadn't actually seen another Moroi or Dhamphir in over a year apart from my soon to be charge Lissa.

I bet you're wondering about that last paragraph huh? I guess I should explain my world... Moroi are vampires. They need to drink blood to survive. However they don't kill. If they kill a victim while drinking, they turn into a bloodthirsty Strigoi. They lose all their personality and become a cold deceiving murderer - so basically everything you think a vampire is by the myths you have heard. They also lose their magic. Yes, magic. Moroi can control elements around them. There are five different elements: Earth, Water, Air, Fire and Spirit. Unfortunately, only few know about Spirit because it is a very uncommon for a Moroi to specialize in it. I know only one person who can do Spirit, that's how uncommon it is. No one knows how much the spirit entails but one of the many things it can do is 'super-compulsion'. This means they can control what people do. All Moroi can do a little compulsion; they can compel Humans and Dhamphirs, but can't compel other Moroi while Spirit users can control all three.

Dhamphirs. That's what I am. We are basically half-Human, half-Moroi. We have all the great characteristics of both kinds. We are fast, can hear really well and are strong. These are from the Moroi while from the Humans we can go out in sunlight without getting weak (Moroi get weak in sunlight), and look more like humans (Moroi have fangs and are pale white with a small build). Finally Dhamphirs don't need blood. Ever. In fact it makes me shiver just thinking about it. Blah. Dhamphirs are also the protectors of the Moroi race. We are trained from birth to be guardians. We protect them from Strigoi. Since a young age my aim has been to guard my best friend Lissa.

Lissa is a spirit user and also a princess. There are 12 royal families including hers and the oldest of the family gets the title. As she is the only one in her family, she is Princess Vasilisa of the Dragomir family. As a spirit user she can do super compulsion and she can heal. She can also bring back the dead. I am an example of this. A few years ago me, her parents and her brother Andre died in a car crash. Lissa was so distraught over losing me that her magic welled up into her and she saved me. From this we have a bond. This means that I feel everything she feels and I get pulled into her head when she gets emotional. It's probably one of the best things that could have happened in a guardians point of view: I know where my charge is all the time and I know when she is in danger.

Being the princess comes with a lot of responsibility and lots of danger. That's the reason we don't meet any of our kind. Instead Lissa and I have merged ourselves into the human world to keep her safe. She is my responsibility. She is my charge. And we have always been taught that Moroi come first. That is why when I noticed the amount of danger she was in from being the only spirit user that we know of, we ran. We ran away from our school, Saint Valdimir's and started our constant movement around the country to not be spotted.

For the first few months it was just us. The two of us partying and having fun on the road until we became too noticeable. We were attacked by Strigoi and I couldn't do anything. I wasn't trained. I hadn't realised how much work being a guardian would entail. I didn't know how to react. I didn't know how to fight. I was reckless. I almost got us killed.

Lissa and I stumbled out of the club laughing along the way. "Rose! I still don't understand how you attract so many males to you." She said giggly drunkenly.

I smirked at her and indicated to my body. "What can I say when you have a body this hot, you attract boys like a Moth to a flame." We burst out laughing again. We held one another close trying to keep ourselves steady as we strolled towards our hotel. I started to have a nauseous feeling I the pit of my stomach and straight after I noticed slight movement to the right of us, but my eyesight was so blurred that I just assumed it was my eyes were playing tricks and I probably drank one too many.

We continued on until we reached the side of an alley. The movement was there again and this time I turned my head to look into the shadows. The first thing I noticed was a tall shadow. My eyes unconsciously moved up to the top and that's when I spotted it. Red rimmed eyes. Strigoi. I shoved Lissa away from me and shouted at her to run while stayed where I was trying to recall anything from my years at Saint Vlad's. Nothing came to my mind. Knowing I had to be a distraction though I still stayed where I was and crouched down swaying slightly waiting for the Strigoi's first movement. Instead I heard a whimper from behind me. I looked to the noise and there was Lissa trying to pry the hands off of her neck. Hands that belonged to another Strigoi.

"Hmm… The last Dragomir. What a treat for us!" The Strigoi holding Lissa said with a slight hiss. I growled at him ignoring the other Strigoi. "Don't worry Dhamphir. We didn't forget you. You are a pretty thing aren't you?" He said grinning evilly. I shuddered not liking where his thoughts were.

"I have to agree with you there." The Strigoi replied breathing down my neck. I froze. I didn't know what to do. "I think we should leave this one as desert. She will be fun, I can see it already." He said stroking my neck. I closed my eyes briefly praying this was just a nightmare. I opened my eyes and looked into Lissas' eyes begging her to forgive me for putting us into this situation. We both communicated with our eyes saying our final goodbyes.

We were them both dragged by our necks into the alley. By then I had understood I was going to die but I could still have a chance at saving Lissas life, I waited for the Strigoi holding Lissa to come nearer. I then kicked him as hard as I could in his stomach. He let go of Lissa immediately cursing at me. "Lissa run!" I shouted to her watching her move quickly into the street until I felt the grip on my neck tighten and I was slammed into a wall.

I blacked for a few seconds and as my vision was coming back I heard a whisper in my ear. "A fighter I see. Don't worry I'll make you fear me." I gulped loudly making him laugh maliciously. "You'll be screaming soon." He said with no emotion. The back of my head throbbed and I felt it slowly become damper. I was bleeding. I heard the monster in front of me slowly smell me. "You smell delicious youngling." He then bit into my skin making me scream which then turned into a moan: the endorphins from the bite taking over the fear and turning it into bliss. My mind was telling me that this wasn't right while my body was enjoying it. As he pulled more of my blood, my body was slowly winning the fight and I slumped into the Strigoi's arms.

While I was in my 'happy place' grunts and thuds interrupted the silence. This lasted for a few minutes as I was gradually losing consciousness until suddenly I was ripped out of my heaven and brought back to the real world. I couldn't see. I was in pain. I was dying. The last thing I heard was my name:

"Rose." Rob, my trainer said. The same voice I heard that night - My saviour. He was the one to save both me and Lissa from death. I owe him, but he just says it was his duty. He used to be a guardian but fell out of the system when his charge, his love died on his account. He knew what it was like to lose someone you love. He's been with us ever since training me to be ready for anything because ever since that night I haven't slacked in my duties. I can't lose Lissa, she is my sister.

Rob also helped me and Lissa with researching Spirit. He was someone with experience. In other words when he saved us, he was looking for us. He knew what Lissa was specialized in and he knew about me being shadow kissed. He was looking for us to help us because he had been in the same situation. He was shadow kissed. Was being the term. When his charge died he felt an indescribable pain as his bond broke. He looked at out for to stop that happening to us.

He also helped me with being shadow kissed. He knew that every time Lissa used her magic, it would make her darkness appear and we had heard legends of many spirit users going mad from it so I learnt to take it away. Rob taught me how to store it use it to my advantage. If I used it in a fight it made me stronger and more accurate because the darkness was pointed at something else. It was my secret weapon whenever I fought Rob or hunted Strigoi…

"Rose, come on. You need to go soon. Lissa will have finished her lessons in thirty minutes." Rob explained. My annoyance with him had diminished to the usual irritation level so I smirked up to him.

"Aww Robbie annoyed that I beat you even when I was blindfolded?" My smirk developed into a grin as I started on my cool down. He didn't respond so I looked at him noticing he was deep in thought. "I have a question, how is it fair that I wear a blindfold and you don't? How is that fair?"

Rob looked at me seriously. "Think of this scenario: if you were fighting in the dark who will be able to see and who will be have to rely on other senses. You want to be the best so you need get an advantage every time you are put into a disadvantaged situation." He broke off and muttered to himself. "With a few more practises with the blindfold you will be ready." I looked at him funny wondering what he meant but he was already walking to the exit.