Vampire Academy Fanfiction

Prologue

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"My dearest daughter, If you are reading this, it means that you have found our family history and the also the price of damage it causes. It also means you know that the people you thought to be your parents, are not. For that I am sorry, I had no choice but you send you away to a family who can live out their lives long enough to raise you to the bright young woman I know you will be, as I cannot give you the life you need. Our family is one of many origins my dear, we are the Nesahlas. But between the greed of the royal families and the anguish our name has brought to us, I am saddened to say you never wear our family name. Through the years our family has had powers not many can quiet fathom, as the first name to bring out the element spirit and use our blood to forge the darkness that will soon plague our world, the king wants our line extinguished. You must not share this secret with anyone, and keep your new family name as it will bring you safety and your family for many years to come. By the time you may have found this, we will be gone, but my dear, dear daughter, do not worry or cry for us, for we are here.."

"Louella, we must hurry!

"..love always, your mother, Louella Nesalha"

"Louella, please!"

The shouting and the crashing and the plumes of smoke rose up around me.

"I'm coming, I'm coming!" I shouted.

Though the Kings army was here to kill us, I took slight comfort in knowing my last moments would be spent with my love.

"I must finish this. I need to seal the book."

I heard another panicked scream and knew our time was almost up. I rushed quickly to the desk where my families book sat, it had to be sealed.

"Occulta et ipse vivet vinctum" as I whispered the worlds I felt the book seal itself. It wasn't a simple spell. No one through other family lines or with any other power, will be able to open this book, unless a true Nesahla, counteracts the spell.

Shoving the book into the grey metal safe, I rushed over to my husband.

"Name, it is done. Our family will know. I love you." I said my last words right before the guardians came crashing in. All impeccably dressed with small red dots on the collars of the men and woman, carrying a startling array of weaponry, but inside their coats, they pulled out the silver stakes.

Chapter 1.

"Vienna Markson, booth 4 please"

Oh great, it's Alice! She is probably the only feeder I actually enjoy seeing, since she's kinda nuts. Feeders are a everyday thing for me. I'm a Moroi, a living vampire with elemental magic, which isn't that strong might I say, and the human are our feeders, needed to give blood to my race for us to survive, we don't drain, just a little sip. Today had been a commotion, running late this morning and had to skip a shower so I smell fantastic, spilt water on my schoolwork, and now the feeding room is full and I'm about to miss the rest of lunch in the cafeteria. Great. Just another day at St, vlads. After I'm done with Alice, I rush up to the cafeteria to sit with my only friend, Max, only to find he isn't here. Lining up to get what's left of the food I scan the room for him when the voice I know and love comes up behind me.

"Hey Ve, missed lunch too?" And here he is. All brown dough eyes, small smile and ruffled hair.

"Well I can see I'm not the only one," I laugh "what happened to you?" Looking more closely now I can see a slight red tinge to his face and his chest rising and falling abit faster.

"Had to do something for Mr Nagy and apparently I didn't do it right the first two times." The sarcasm in his voice makes me laugh. Honestly his second language may as well be sarcasm. No one can ever take him seriously, I don't even know if he's serious half the time. He's shorter then most so it's no surprise people can't take him seriously. His head stops slightly above mine. His build to match his height, he's not a very strong person considering I have to help him with heavier boxes. Only pale, as Moroi are. He's quiet normal really.

All of a sudden there's a commotion at the door and in walks to guardians, one with short hair and green eyes wearing the same black uniform they all do, the second fairly tall with long brown hair that sits just above his shoulders and dark, dark brown eyes they could be black. Pretty sure he is the new foreign guardian they brought in a while ago. Heard he was on some special assignment here but no one knows who. Then walk in the next people and who should it be but Rose Hathaway and Princess Lissa Dragomir. Well now it makes sense why everyone bailed on there food and stared at the door and the girls. Rose gave a lopsided smile, Lissa walked behind her looking frigid, and then they passed on through to the office. There was a slight pause before the room erupted into hushed conversations.

"Well I guess there goes the morning news, I wonder why they left? And how they got caught. And what they did for the last 2 years. You know, I heard the officials saying they were going to give the princess 5 guards as well as guardian Belikov. And that the queen is furious her pet blonde left school, oh and Kirova.." I zoned out at this point. Max's ramblings were horrific, he could go on for hours and if I wasn't his friend, I'd throw a brick as his face just to shut him up. So that's who the foreign guardian is. Dimitri Belikov, only one of the best guardians out there and he was recruited as the princesses protection once they found her. Wouldn't surprise me if they put an extra five guardians on her, and maybe Hathaway. I don't even get Royals, all this fuss for two girls, I mean I know why they went total code red on Dragomir and all, but Hathaway, really. The way they talk about her around here they make it sound like she's the next best thing to the queen.

Sitting in class was a total bore. I really don't see the point of a history class considering the history pretty much walks around the school and is is statues. In our society there are 12 royal families, a king and/or a queen, the 'non royal' common families, and the Dhampirs. I explained the Moroi, living vampires and what not, but the Dhampirs are different, a mixture of both, born from a Moroi and Dhampir mixing. They don't need blood to survive, but have a better build, stamina, and senses then a human. Dhampirs don't have powers either, in the Moroi world we have 4 elements for magic, earth, air, fire and water. I'm an air user, though not a very good one. Looking around the classroom to make sure no one is watching, I pull a slight breeze through my hair and sigh.

"And with the war, came destruction, multiple houses and cities had fallen but the most intriguing part of the war, was a book." A book, really? Couldn't there be something more interesting like, I don't no, a snake with feet, or a magic mirror? "But the book could not be opened, though something had sealed it so it was near impossible to open, many tried, the book now sits in the courts library for those of you that can try and be worlds strongest man to open it. Now after the war.."

A book that couldn't be opened? Well I suppose that's interesting. Sort of. I looked to max to see him furiously drawing and then to look up and wink at me. He is such an idiot. Though he is my only friend so I suppose I shouldn't say much. We had been more then friends once, he was my boyfriend a year and a half ago but it just didn't work. How he found interest in me I'll never know. I'm short, with blackish brown hair with hazel eyes, though they are more blue if you ask me. Max always said the cute thing about me was my pouty bottom lip and my dimples. I hated my dimples. Considering I'm pale I suppose I don't look that bad. Going through my flaws is easy but today is hard, I can't get that sealed book out of my head.

As I'm walking to my room, through all the puddles and dried leaves, I feel this weird flitting in my head and can feel a hum.

"Max, can you hear that?"

"Hm?" He stops walking and turns on his heal to look at me.

"The hum, can you not hear that?" I ask. Honestly how can he not, it's like 14 swarms of bees in my ears.

"Nope" he turns again and keeps walking. "Come on Ve I need to get to the feeders"

Casting a look around again I turn to keep walking. What in the hell is that? And what is this flitting thing in my head. I hope the feeders provide a distraction, even though I'm not feeding.

We walk into the feeders and there is another line up. God, why can't people just get their blood earlier? Max's name is called and he goes to his booth while I tell him I'll be outside. I need fresh air. As I walk out the door something hits me so hard, I can feel it reverberate through my whole body. A bright light flashes and suddenly images are pouring into my head. I don't no what they are, it's all blurry and it's giving me the worst head ache. All I can see are little snippets of something. There's a red pool around something yellow and an animal of some sort, I can hear someone crying but I can't make it out before another Image comes through. Red eyes, jail bars. And then something else. Fires, smoke, what I think are guardians and a book. It's just a plain book, brown and slightly worn around the edges. There isn't a title so I don't no what it is, and I can't see the pages either, it just looks like it in a brown box but I know it's a book. There's screaming and all of a sudden it's gone, all the images are gone, the sounds, the smells, everything. Just now Max walks out and I have to sit down. What in the world was that?

"Hey are you alright?" Max leans down to me, concern written all over his face.

"Yeah, um, I just think I need a drink." I stagger to stand up.