Vampire Academy belongs to the wonderful Richelle Mead!

This was just a quick drabble I wrote that is not really gonna fit in with the seriess I'm currently writing...figured I'd post it anyway. Might add to it but then again might not.

It's set when Rose and Lissa first arrive in Portland, so before any of the books. It kind of came to me when I was reading VA and had just got back from Yoga and I read the line where Rose says she hadn't done any sport or training to Dimitri...and I was like 'Hey what if she did different kinds of exercise and would this affect how she fought back at the Academy'. If I get enough interest I would quite like to continue this to see if Rose having some extra skills changes anything...In my head the changes read pretty awesome!

Aaaanywho...I'll let you get on and read...please review, more about the plot and idea, Flames aren't really welcome but I'd like some pointers and tips on how to improve my writing :)

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I'd laughed at Lissa when she'd suggested it, she'd been watching that show...Charmed, the one with the three sister witches when she had her "stroke of brilliance", she saw the sister with the power of empathy (Phoebe?) turn to meditation to help her organise the flow of emotions she got from her gift. Lissa had suggested that I do the same, to try and separate my emotions from hers. I had resisted at first, almost choking at the hilarity of me trying to concentrate, but the hurt look on Lissas face meant I ended up giving it a go anyway.

I was crap at first, really really crap, as in I pushed the boundaries of crapness...Yep...I attempted to "centre" myself but after about seven minutes something would distract me...an itchy nose, a shout from out on the street...one of Lissas nightmares. But then it rained in Portland, yeah I know...not exactly unusual, but it rained on a day where we were meant to have gym outside. Which meant we had to do sport inside and the activity they gave us...Yoga.

I'd always thought that Yoga was a non-sport (like cheerleading), more of a spiritual exercise than anything else. But when I came to do it...Man, I realised how unfit I'd got from being away from the academy...every muscle hurt, while I was doing my sun-salutations I vowed never to do yoga again...ever. End of. Full stop. Period.

But then came the relaxtion part. It started badly, I caught Lissas eye and grinned at her while she (metaphorically) rolled her eyes in my mind, for the first few minutes we both lay on our mats giggling while the sounds of whales and dolphins screwing filled the room. But then, suddenly, I got it...I don't know how else to describe it...except that I felt centered, it wasn't that I couldn't feel Lissa...the bond was still there but instead of my head being just filled with thoughts and emotions...there was her and was still me...for the first time in a while I knew which emotions where hers and which emotions where mine.

I went to Yoga three times a week after that, soon I started to realise that not only was it helping my head be, my head again but I was regaining the speed and fitness I'd lost whilst on the run. I wasn't as I was before...the strength and power weren't there...but I was faster, more fexible. Lissa said I moved more like a cat, that there was something feline about my fighting now...whereas before I'd always looked more like a pittbull, all strength, diving into battle headfirst. She said watching me now...I looked more dangerous, agile. I decided this made me kinda ninja-esque, that all I was missing where the badass flips and tumbles. So I figured, hey I'm halfway there, why not learn how. And as I'd been proven wrong before about how I thought some sports didn't really count.

I joined the Cheersquad.

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