This is my first Vampire Academy fanfic, I've only ever written for the Bloodlines series.

Sorry if I have any mistakes. I'm not the best writer :)

Lissa's POV

As a queen, I had many priorities, and one of them involved going through a series of papers. I didn't mind much simply because it was better than dealing with all those royal snobs. Tough, looking at the piles and piles of papers, made me reconsider if I was better off dealing with snobs.

After signing off potential future laws to discuss with the rest of the council. I moved on to my least favorite part of the job. This part involved reading horrific crime scenes, most involved Strigoi murdering innocent (obviously), but sometimes it was Moroi and dhampirs who committed such crime (Its quite idiotic, do they not realize our race numbers are dropping?). I was reading about a murder that occurred 6 days ago were a Moroi family of 5 was on their way to visit a relative when they got a flat tire, and as they waited for a replacement they were attacked by 4 Strigoi. Their guardians managed to kill them all, but sadly, 1 guardian and the youngest of their 3 kids died in the process. It always brought me a sickening feeling when a child was involved. As I signed off to confirm that I've read and been thoroughly informed, a knock on the door startled me.

"Come in!"

It was one of the assistants I acquired from getting this job. He was a really old moroi, "ancient" as Rose liked to called him, he had grey hair and pale blue eyes and walked with a limp.

"Hello Albert" I smiled

"Queen Vasilisa" he bowed

No matter how many times I told him to just call me Lissa and that he didn't need to bow, he insisted.

"I have more papers for you my queen." he handed me a stack of papers.

Great. I thought. After he left, I began to put the papers in their precise pile. Each paper was color coded with a stamp, green stood for solved case, red stood for "Working on it" or "Close to it", and blue stood for unsolved. As I looked through, I realized most of these were unsolved and were recent.

One of the papers really intrigued me and I began to read:

Date of crime: December 31

Place of crime: wooded area, California

Amount murdered: 10 moroi and 14 dhampirs

Crime scene:

We received a frantic call one day from a moroi named Elisa, claiming there's been homicide in her aunts house. As we arrived, everything appeared normal. Walking in, we instantly noticed the bodies laying around. By looking at the bodies, they looked as if they've been drained of blood, our immediate thought was a strigoi attack. But a closer inspection of the bodies, we didn't see any bite marks. Looking around the house, (besides the slight display of forced entry) everything seemed to be in place. It was as if there was almost no struggle, which is quite bizarre with so many dhampirs in hand. After clearing the place, we sent the bodies for closer evaluation. The results were quite startling, the moroi were in fact, not, drained in blood. Everything seemed normal, it was as if they died of natural causes. How could all 24 died simultaneously of 'natural causes'? It remains a mystery, the lack of any clue, witnesses, and any leads is what makes this case unsolved.

Guardian Bukov

After reading the paper, I began to read the other unsolved crimes. They were all too similar, bodies that looked as if they've been drained, no witnesses, no clues, not a single lead. I felt a bit nauseated and even though I had given Rose a break, I needed my best friend. I made a call and she arrived in less than 8 minutes. Unlike my assistant, or majority who work for me. Rose always let herself in.

"Hey Lissa. What's the urgency? I had to give away a very delicious cake." crossing her arms she made a sad face.

Taking a look at me. "What's wrong?" she asked concerned, even without the bond she always knew when something was wrong.

Giving her the papers I just read. "Read this."

She groaned. "I thought after high school I would be done with reading."

I rolled my eyes. "You always read those Vladimir books."

"That's different. I had too."

"Whatever. Just read the papers."

After a while she sighed in defeat. "Fine. You're majesty." she bowed and sat down. She knew very well that I hated when she used royal terms.

After ten minutes, she looked confused. "This is weird."

"I know."

"How could somebody murder someone without leaving any clues or a mark on these people?" she still looked puzzled.

"I don't know." We stayed silent for a while.

"I think we should look more into this." I said breaking the silence.

"Well, I think we should leave it alone."

"Rose!"

"Come on Lissa. How-" at that moment we heard a crash from outside. Instantly, Rose put herself in front of me. The door opened and there was a lot of smoke. Rose prepared to attack but it was only a guardian.

The guardian looked at me with all seriousness "Queen Vasilisa, strigoi have broken in.

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