Rose POV

'Christian! Are you trying to make me sick?' I heard Lissa scream. We were sitting in the throne room in the middle of the night, or the middle of the day. Christian was telling us a gross ghost story. I knew that it would send a chill down Lissa's spine. But to me, it was just another story. 'Do you really think I would do that?' Christian laughed. I chuckled with him and saw Lissa with a serious look on her face, but she started to laugh with us. I heard someone coming. 'Someone's coming,' I whispered, 'Hide!' Lissa and I jumped up and rang behind the throne. Christian ran behind a plant. It was just Mia.

'I've got an idea,' Lissa whispered. I nod and took my phone out. I texted Christian about our plan. Mia was walking slowly, not lifting a foot. I saw Christian getting his flames ready. I take out my stake and Lissa was getting her water ready. 'On three, one,' I whispered. 'Two,' Lissa whispered. 'Three,' Christian screamed. We jump right in front of her. 'Strigoi attack!' we all yelled. She screamed and fell to the ground. She was gasping for breath. We all laughed and Lissa helped her up. 'You scared the hell out of me,' she said. We just kept laughing and sooner than later, Mia started to laugh along. That's when we heard a voice. 'What are you doing up this late?' the voice asked.

We all froze and there was a long silence. That is when he broke the silence. 'You all have to be in bed.' 'Aww, Comrade. We're just having some fun. Why don't you join us?' I say. Dimitri just smiled. 'Now Roza, you know that you're not allowed to be up this late,' he said. I wrap my arms around his neck. 'Pretty please,' I say in my best little girl voice. I pouted and flashed my puppy eyes at him. He just laughed. I knew he what he was thinking. 'Well it was worth a try,' I laughed as he kissed my forehead. 'Now, back to bed,' he said. I walked back to Lissa and hooked my arm around her. 'But I don't wanna!' I say. I heard Lissa chuckle. 'Well then,' he said, 'we'll just have to do this he hard way!' He runs to me and I immediately unhook from Lissa and run. Dimitri grabs me from behind and pulls me in a tight bear hug. I kick my legs rapidly and laughing. 'Stranger danger, stranger danger!' I yell playfully.

'What's going on here?' another voice said. 'Dammit,' I whispered. I see Christian and Mia quickly running away. Headmistress Kirova! 'Belikov, Hathaway!' another voice said. This time, Dimitri quickly let me fall. I fall to my knees and quickly stand up and dust myself off. 'Explain to me what this is!' Hans demanded. Once again, Dimitri took the blow. 'Sir, I was the one that-' 'Save it, Belikov!' Kirova yelled. 'I will deal with the two of you tommrow!' She turned around and walked back to her room, but Hans stayed for a while longer. 'I expect more from you, Belikov,' he said before he walked away. I ignored Dimitri as I walked away. It was all my fault. He tried to help me, and for that he got in trouble.

I started to jog because I was getting cold and ran through the sun all the way to my dorm that I shared with Lissa.

Lissa POV

I felt sorry for Rose and Dimitri. I got out the trouble because I was the princess. I walked to Dimitri and putted my hand on his shoulder. 'Don't worry,' I said softly, 'I'll go talk to her.' And with that and ran after her. I took my shortcut out the sun and looked out the window. I could see our dorm from here and I saw Rose through the window. She was taking deep breaths and massaging her temples. I feared the worst and ran as fast as I could.

I ran and hit the door. I tried to open the door, but it was locked. 'Rose, open up!' I yelled, knocking hard on the door. After ten minutes, she didn't answer, so I decided to go through the window. I grabbed something to hide under and ran to the other side of the school. Luckily, our dorm was on the first floor so I didn't have to climb. Before I jumped through, I heard a sound. There was no time to see what it was, so I quickly jumped through. Rose was under her covers, snoring. She looked so sweet. I bet Dimitri would say the same. I heard a soft voice behind me. 'Vasilisa Dragomir,' the voice said. I turned around and saw a Strigoi. I almost fell over something as I walked back.

'It's an honour to meet you, princess. And sure enough, the leader would be too,' he said as he launched at me. I screamed so hard that Rose jumped up with her stake in her hand. She stood right in front of me and fell to the ground with the Strigoi. 'Lissa, run! Go get Dimitri!' She yelled. I refused, but two more Strigoi came through the window. 'Lissa, go!' she yelled. I nod and ran away. While I was running I was screaming: 'Strigoi attack! Strigoi attack!' I heard the alarm and ran faster. I saw Dimitri bursting through the doors and looking for me. I run into his arms a gasp for air. 'Where's Roza?' he asked. 'In our dorm. She's fighting off three Strigoi and demanded me to find you,' I said hastily. Two Strigoi ran up to us and Dimitri staked them, not breaking a sweat. I saw Hans in the throne room. He looked up and had a questioning look on his face. He shrugged and I stood up properly. He grabbed my arm and took me to the safest place there is in St. Vladimir's. Underground. We ran down to an elevator and quickly go down.

Rose POV

I just killed three Strigoi and went to find Lissa and Dimitri. I knew where they were. I ran and saw Hans. He looked like he could use a hand so I jumped down and helped him. After the first wave of Strigoi was killed, Hans ordered me to go find Lissa. While I ran to the elevator. The door opened and Lissa and Dimitri ran out. 'What happened,' I asked immediately. 'Strigoi has invaded the underground centre,' Lissa said. That's when five Strigoi run up to us, but stopped right in front of us. 'Give us the princess, guardians. And we will spare your life!' one said. I gave him a death glare and he just laughed.

'Suit yourself,' he said as he tried to launch at her. I just staked him. Dimitri and I just grew apart and we forgot about Lissa, until we heard a scream behind us. We looked behind us and saw how far we spread from each other. And then we saw a Strigoi's arm around Lissa with a rope in his other hand that lead through the now broken roof. She was kicking rapidly and tried to get free, but it was no use. The rope rose. I ran as quickly as I could and launched at them. I had him around his chest, but he punched me in my stomach and I fall to the ground. I hit my back hard and screamed in pain as I landed on the rubble. I was out cold when Dimitri ran to me and checked if I was okay while the other Strigoi ran away. I didn't care if I was dying or not. My best friend was just kidnapped by Strigoi!