(LPOV)
"Rose...Stop" I said as I wrapped my hand around her fist attempting to stop her from punching one of seven guardians surrounding us as we stood, backed up against a car on the empty street. I could feel her confusion pulsating through the bond.
"Rose you know as well as I do that we are going to need a lot of help in the next couple of months."
"Yes, but that doesn't mean that it's this group, that are the ones we need, we know nothing about them." Rose argued with me.
I could see the Guardians all standing there watching us like we are insane, as Rose and I had our own conversation they couldn't possible understand, through the bond they knew nothing about. "Liss do you really believe the Academy's Guardians are good enough to protect us in what is to come in next couple of months?" Rose asked me without realizing she had it out loud.
"Excuse me just who in the hell do you think you are, saying we are not good enough to protect the Prin-"
"Shut up! Do not say her full name out on the street where other people or even Strigoi can hear you, you idiot. God, did whatever academy you went not teach you anything?" Rose interrupted the now flustered guardian, with a frustrated growl.
"Liss, how are we supposed to find out if we can trust them?"
"Well, I could use compulsion on them get them to answer any questions you may have about them, their motives, their past whatever it takes for you to be comfortable with them, until we can get back to the academy. Will that work for you?" I said to her through the bond.
"Yea, that would work. Can you do them all at once or do you need to do it in smaller groups."
"I can compel them all at the same time. You can do the questioning and when we have the information we need. I can make them think it never happened. I think that would work far better than having them know we used compulsion on them. Don't you?"
"Yea that shou...We are about to have company."
"How many?"
"8-10, alright you six this is your first test, on whether or not you can protect her. Anything goes wrong and I mean anything it will be the end of you! Do you understand me?"
"We don't have to listen to you. You are a runaway novice turned bloodwhore, your useless." The youngest guardian spat at Rose. She turns to me and laughs.
"Boy, they really have no idea who they are fucking with do they?" RoRo asked me with a huge smirk on her face.
"No, Rose they don't you show them and I'll tell them, then we'll see who's really running this show." I laugh at faces they are making now and the ones they are about to make when they find out what they've just stumbled into.
Rose puts her hair up in a bun so the guardians can see her neck. "Rose take off your top shirt please. Now gentlemen please let me introduce to you, THE DEADLIEST ROSE."
"Turn around and let them see what we have been dealing with for the last two years." Rose slowly turns around so that all the guardians can see her neck and back. There are gasps, grunts, and groans from all of the guardians including the one that is to be Rose's true love. I can already see their aura's reaching for each other. It won't be long now a few hours or a few days but he is definitely THE CRADLE.
And he chooses this moment to speak, "Rosemarie, would you mind if I..."
He is interrupted by the lady herself, "Rose... just Rose not Rosemarie."
"Alright Roza, do you mind if I touch your moljina marks." I can see his hand trembling as he raises it to touch her skin. The touch that started out examining Rose's marks, quickly became one of just caressing her skin. His guardian mask never slips but in his eyes I can see that the caressing of her skin is getting to him. I can see lust, need and desire shinning bright. That was step one but by Rose's immediate reaction it seems step two will have to wait.
"You six surround her, let nothing and no one get to her. If there is one hair on her pretty little head out of place, you'll all wish that it had been strigoi that got to you do you understand? I am not talking to you as novice I'm ordering you as THE DEADLIEST ROSE."
"Yes, ma'ma we understand your orders."
"Good so carry them out starting now, they'll be here in less than a minute so circle up."
Rose to the guardian that asked to touch her tattoos, "What's your name?"
"Guardian Dimitri Belikov" he replied in a heavy accented voice. I could hear the thoughts going through Rose's head when he spoke, and it took everything I had in me not to roll on the ground laughing at her.
Oh. My. God. He's already walk out in middle of traffic, pantie dropping, get run over by a steam roller a hundred time gorgeous, does he really need that voice and accent to go with it. He so fucking sexy, I just want to jump him right here in the middle of the damn street for anyone and everyone to see. I wonder what those hands would feel like roaming over my breast down my chest and stomach to...
"ROSE!" I whisper-yell at her.
"What!?"
"Did you forget that I can hear your thoughts, read your emotions, and see through your eyes now too?"
"No, why would I forget that?'
"Because of what you were just thinking"
"Ugh, use the bond Liss, that's what it's for."
"Now what are you going on about Lis...never mind they are almost here."
"You six guardians surround and protect Liss with your lives do you understand me?"
"Yes ma'ma" came from the guardians.
"Alright comrade it looks like you and I are going hunting, follow me...no wait they are changing tactics. Dimitri go to alleyway on the other side of the house, but stay in the road, once they are all in front of you lead them here. When you get them here I should be finished leading mine. Alright go on 3 1...2...3"
The same time Rose says go strigoi come barreling out the alleyways on each side of the house just like RoRo said they would. Dimitri has three attacking him while he's leading them down the street to the meet up point. He ends up having to stake two of them before he can get them where Rose wants them but finally his last one joins her six.
"Ok Roza he's here like you wanted, now care to explain why we rounded them up instead of just staking them?" Dimitri asks Rose.
"Well, comrade we have been being chased by large groups of strigoi and psi-hounds for the last two years. And myself and the rest of team Thorn are tired of it, so I'm about to find out why."
"Roza, we can't do something like that out in the middle of the street."
"That's right, and we aren't going to. We are taking them to an abandon house we use for interrogations. Liss call Addie tell him to get the rest of team Thorn together and for them to get to the academy and not to forget the boxes or the scrolls. Comrade how long is the flight to the academy's airstrip?"
"Ok, Rose I'm calling him now"
"It's a four-hour flight"
"Ok, Liss tell them to be there in less than ten hours"
"Ok Rose" I get on my phone to call in team Thorn.
Rose and all of the Guardians herd the strigoi into a nearby deserted house, we had setup, to begin the interrogations. We both noticed that no one asked how she got the strigoi to just go where she wants them to. "Liss are you finished on the phone yet we need to begin?"
"Yea, Rose I just hung up."
"What info did you get?"
"Aunt Janien is in New York and about to catch a plane to Missoula. The others are on their way they should all get there in about eight hours"
(RPO)
"Great, now let's get started shall we. All Guardians get on the far side of the room Liss go with Dimitri. And comrade you better keep her safe. Now let me explain something to you guardians, being shadow kissed gives me many, many powers some I have not fully developed yet. Some can be very useful, as you are about to witness. Some of my more useful ones can only be seen by the dead, me and Liss through my eyes. The first one I'm going to use is quiet funny to watch, but not at all funny to experience. Ok, here we go people." I reach over and slip a silver ring, charmed with spirt, off of my finger and into my pocket. As soon as it's off the strigoi start screaming bloody murder. They are all swatting around their heads at the ghost's that no one but them and me and Lissa can see. I hear everyone behind me laughing so I turn and ask if they would like to see why they are acting this way and they all do. Lissa and I link hands like we are holding up computer screen for them to look through but they are just looking through my magic, they see the ghost's attack the strigoi. The guardians watch for a good ten minutes then Lissa and I dissolve the "screen."
While I let the Ghost torture the strigoi as long as they want, it's time for Liss and I to get to know this team. I ask Liss through the bond if she's ready to politely interrogate the guardians. She nods her head at me so I get their attention, "Guardians, Lissa would like to speak to you in another room please, so follow us." We turn and walk out of the room and into the next one, with a two-way mirror so we can still see what's going on with the strigoi.
"First I would like to thank each and every one of you for putting your lives on the line to protect me and Rose, although she doesn't usually need protecting, I still want to thank you. I would like to ask each of you some questions and I would like you to answer truthfully because with our powers we can tell when someone lies to us. And if you lie, there will be consequences and Rose will be the one delivering them and trust me you won't like them. The last strigoi that lied to us had his balls and dick cut off and shoved down his throat before he was stacked by THE DEADLIEST ROSE." I saw each of the guardians cover themselves and groan, except Dimitri. "So I recommend you tell the complete, whole, and honest truth. Now everyone write your name on this piece of paper, and we'll go from there. Dimitri will you do me a favor and contact the pilot tell him to get the jet ready, thank you."
"Yes Prin-"
"Dimitri please call me Lissa"
"Alright Lissa, I'll contact the plane"
"Liss while you get this ready to start I'm going to check on our strigoi friends." I tell her as I walk out of the room to go and check on our 'guests'.
"Hey guys are you all having fun? Did you know that ghosts don't really like you guys much? I guess you figured it out, huh? These guys can go for hours and hours just depends on when I ask them to stop. Anybody want to tell me why the strigoi keep coming after me and my friends? …No, well trust me you will... I'll be back soon have fun."
I turn walk out of the room, and walk right into a wall of Dimitri Belikov, "hey comrade how's the weather up there?"
I get a small smile and a kind of funny reply, "it's fine up here how is it down there?" I try to stifle a small laugh but it doesn't work to well. I look up into his eyes and I see so many emotions ranging from laughter, to lust, desire, and is that... no it can't be... I just meet the man, but it looks like love. I can't seem to force my eyes to look away from his. Next thing I'm aware of is my tongue slips from between my teeth and licks my already lush lips, just hoping he will kiss me, but knowing he won't. Then suddenly I'm being pressed up against the wall and Dimitri's lips are crushing mine. It's not a sweet little first kiss, it the type of kiss that could set the solar system ablaze. His hands are knotting themselves in my hair pulling it free of its confines. While pulling me even closer to him, like I'm the air he needs to breath. Slowly he lowers his right hand to the small of my back and pulls my body flush against his, he lets out the most animalistic growl anyone has ever heard. He lifted me by my hips so I can wrap my legs around his waist and when my center makes contact with the ever growing bulge in his pants we both moan. We continue to try to get closer and closer to each other with our clothes still on. His lips leave mine and travel across my check and down my neck then to my earlobe which he nibbles and sucks on, wrenching another loud moan from me. I decide two can play this little game. Turning my head, I start kissing his neck down to his collar bone then back up to his ear and bite his earlobe after each bite I lick his skin. I can feel him start shaking with desire so I go one step further. I slide my hand down his chest down past his wonderfully sculpted abs down to the button on his jeans but I don't unbutton it I let my hand travel a little further to the zipper of his jeans. Slowly I unzip them and slide my hand inside. And just as I am about to grasp his manhood I feel his lips on my breast and it takes my breath away he is sucking on my nipple through my shirt. A moan escapes from somewhere deep down inside me but I continue my exploration. I grasp Dimitri's manhood hard, and start rubbing up and down over and over again. Then very carefully I slide my hand inside his boxer briefs and touch his actual skin and when I do that Dimitri groans so loud everyone in the building had to have heard him. He leans up from sucking on my breast and I take my hand out of his pants.
We stand there staring at each other finally he says, "I'm sorry I don't know what came over me I've never done anything like that in my life."
"Oh well that make me feel so much better, now I am someone's mistake, that really helps my ego. Just let go and you can pretend this never happened."
"NO! that's not what I meant. I just didn't want you to think I that I do that to every woman I meet. I don't understand what happened I've never felt like this before, actually I've never felt any sexual attraction to ANYONE before I meet you. Oh God, the things that go through my mind that I want to do to you and with you, well you just wouldn't believe. Do mind if I ask you a VERYYY personal question?"
"No, I don't guess go ahead" I'm a little afraid of what the question is he's going to ask, but oh well I already agreed to it.
"Roza, baby, are you a virgin?"
I couldn't speak so I just looked at the floor and nod my head.
"Oh, baby there's nothing to be ashamed of. It just makes you a thousand times sexier. I'll tell you a secret about me if it'll make you feel better." He placed his finger under my chin raising my eyes to look into his, he leans down to my ear and says, "Me too."
"That's impossible there's no way, you are too damn sexy to be a virgin, maybe you just forgot." He laughed so loud that Liss and all the guardians came running out the door to see what was going on.
"Sorry guys she just told a really funny joke we'll be inside in a few minutes." Everyone went back in the room except me and Dimitri.
"I'll prove it to you, you wait for me and I'll wait for you. How's that?"
"Deal want shake on it?"
"Deal. No, Roza I don't want to shake on it, but we will seal it with a kiss if that's ok with you?"
Next thing I know I am in his arms again receiving a kiss that could burn through space and time.
"I hope it's not a long wait. I can't wait to have my hands, mouth, tongue, and cock all over your ohhh sooo luscious body baby. I already want you so bad I can barely walk." He said as he leans down and kisses me again. Taking my hand, he leads me back to the room where Liss and the other guardians are.
"Well, I think I have given my ghost friend's enough time to make their point, don't you think so Liss?" She nods her head at me. So I turn to leave when I get to the door I think everyone is watching the strigoi. But apparently Dimitri is watching me from the corner of his eye, so when I pass by him I feel his hand slid across my thigh. Looking up at him the lust, desire, and maybe love, I see there makes it almost impossible to breath. Walking on out the door I stop myself from entering the torture room until I am 100% THE DEADLIEST ROSE again, because if they smell fear or sense weakness, and I lose control of them, then we are all dead.
"Hello boy's and girl anyone ready to answer my questions now? I'm Waiting...well let me help you along." Walking to where all of them can see me I bend over my ass towards the window, just to tease Dimitri. I pull my short sword out of my right boot.
"That won't hurt us you stupid bitch only charmed silver can harm us." The female said with a maniacal laugh.
"Really?... well that is something I did not know." I could feel Lissa laughing through the bond and I see the others also laughing through her eyes so I turned to the mirror and gave them my famous man-eater-smile looking right where I know Dimitri is standing and slip my tongue out the tiniest bit and run it along my lips. Looking through Lissa's eyes I saw lust flood his eyes. "I want to try it anyway, just to see if it will hurt if that's ok with you I mean...no let me change that I don't care if it's ok with you or not. I'm going to give it a try so brace yourselves here goes." And with that I cut her head off with one swing.
"Oh, look at that...I guess this will hurt you. Now I want to know why the strigoi are trying to kill me and my friend so badly? Answer me quickly or the next one dies soooo much slower?"
"The prophecy, we don't want you to make the prophecy come to pass. All the masters are afraid; we don't want to die." Said the one who looked like he used to be a fifteen-year-old damphire.
"Well to bad because after my count from today I will have killed 153 of you bastards in the last two years so see ya'...never." And with that I went into my dance of chopping of the heads of the remaining 6 strigoi.
Lissa, Dimitri, and the other guardians all came into the room I'm in and the guardians asked what to do with the body's.
"Liss can call and check on the progress of team Thorn. I need to get rid of the body's. Everyone go back into the other room please. I don't trust all of you yet but I don't want any of you injured. Dimitri can you stay I need some help."
"Sure Roza what do you need?"
"Can you hold open your coat and block me from the mirror I need to take this undershirt off, it's bloody." I hear him swallow hard but he moves to do as I ask.
"God Roza you are so beautiful." I look at him over my shoulder as I remove my bloody shirt and look him up and down before saying.
"You're not so bad yourself there comrade." I say to him giving him a saucy smile. After I put my outer shirt back on we walk out the door. I turn back around and using my shadow kissed powers, I set the body's on fire using a fast and intense burning flame but a very controlled one.