Since the last chapter already had such a long authors note/summary i decided to save this stuff for this chapter.
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Chapter 2…What if
Christian and I were kicking ass like we do every time we are in a battle together, and as I look around I see that we were not the only guardian Moroi pair, there are others that Mia and Christian have been teaching, but obviously we were the best. I couldn't help but think that if we had more Moroi in the previous battles that we would have won a lot faster.
That wasn't the case for this one though because there are so many more Strigoi than the other times. This was definitely going to last until the sun came up, all we had to do was kill as many as we could, and keep as many guardians as we could alive.
Christian and I never got a break, once we finished with one Strigoi; there was another in his place. I had good stamina, but not this good. All of the guardians looked like that. With so many Strigoi, they just kept coming, but we had the same people fighting since the very beginning.
"Christian, we have to get more of the novices involved. Only the ones that are ready like me and you were. I don't like it, but we aren't going to last much longer unless we replenish out numbers."
"I think we should too Rose, are you okay if I leave you alone for a while?" Christian asked
"Yeah I will be fine, Christian, only get the best, I can't have this on my conscience, we only have about another hour till the sun comes up." I told him, and just like that he ran to the dorms where the novices were keeping watch.
I was still staking Strigoi after Strigoi, but I could tell that I was taking more hits, and giving less, and then one by one I started to see novices coming out of the building stakes in hand. They were full of energy, and also eager to prove themselves. It did take them longer to stake the Strigoi, but they were still new, and more bodies.
A little while later Christian came back to me, and I didn't realize how much I relied on him until he came back. It seemed like it went so much faster when he was there, and I couldn't even think of fighting in a battle without him.
It seemed like I got a new burst of energy realizing that all of the Strigoi that I killed would be one less for the novices to fight off. Christian and I went back to the rhythm that we had at the beginning of the battle when we were killing them by the dozens, because that's just how many there were, hundreds, and they just kept coming.
After what seemed like an eternity, the sun started to come up and the Strigoi dispersed. I just collapsed on the ground, Christian right beside me, and for a second I wasn't thinking about anything, no one else's safety, not how many guardians died, not all of the cleanup that would have to be done, I just sat. Then the one person who always brings me out of my "me" time, Dimitri. I had to know if he was okay, I jumped up, and so did Christian, he looked at me, and it was like we had the same thought, I looked into Lissa's head real quick and she was safe and in her room.
"She's in her room" I said, and just like that I went one way and Christian went the other way. I ran over the entire campus looking for Dimitri, I found Alberta and asked if she knew where he was, and she said he was doing cleanup in the forest.
I ran to the forest as quickly as I could, and it wasn't easy to find him, considering the forest circled the entire freaking school, but at least I had a place to start. I saw other guardians cleaning and asked them if any had seen Dimitri, and eventually I got to where I could see him.
I ran up to him and jumped in his arms and kissed him. I know I say this all the time, but the kiss was filled with so much love, and I was just so happy that he was okay. Then I pulled away, got down, and slapped him. "OWWW! What was that for?" he asked completely shocked. "For not coming to find me, and just doing damage control in the woods!" I said. "Well I figured if we were both running around the campus we would never find each other." He said in a very calm voice. "Oh, okay" I said and then went back to kissing him, and I felt him chuckle.
"Oh yeah, and sorry about hitting you Comrade" I said as we were walking back to the commons area to see what had to be done. "I forgive you Roza" Dimitri said with a smile.
We went and saw Alberta, and as expected we were put on cleanup duty, the Strigoi would just turn into ash in the sun, but the dead guardians had to be properly buried, and the buildings had to be repaired. It took us hours to clean everything up, even with the help of the janitorial staff, and after all of the bodies were gone, we requited the help of the students to just go around and pick up all of the trash that was made.
It was still hours until we were done, and without all of the adrenalin going through my veins, I could have dropped down any second. But somehow I made it until it was as clean as it was going to get until later, and I went with Dimitri up into our room.
Once I was up there and in the shower I checked in with Lissa and saw that she was in the infirmary healing all of the people with deathly injuries, and Adrian was there healing all of the people with minor ones.
I felt so much better now that I knew that everything was over and that Lissa was safe. Now all I wanted to do was sleep, and sleep, and sleep. I was so exhausted that I couldn't think straight, and that was the first thing I did when I got out of the shower.
When I woke up it was in the middle of the night (vampire time.) And I wasn't tired at all anymore because my sleep schedule got messed up by the battle. Dimitri was beside me, and he was still asleep, so I just laid there and thought. I thought about everything starting months ago when I killed Klaus. He said there were more and I didn't know what he was talking about, I still don't know what he was talking about. But with how many Strigoi I saw working together tonight, I was afraid.
I didn't know what to do, how I could know what he meant, what he was thinking, if he was dead. I almost wish that I hadn't killed him, I needed answers. Then I remembered what Dimitri said, that the potion thing the alchemists use didn't work on him, and the sun didn't burn him, so they buried him with the stake in him, and they thought that was that, but what if…
Don't you just LOVE the cliffhanger ;P
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