Words in parentheses are Russian.

I woke up with my vision blurred. I strained. My limbs were attached to the chair I was on. Ivan was behind me bound also. I kicked him.

"What?" he asked annoyed. Once he took in our surroundings he. Began to whimper

"I don't wanna die!" he wailed.

" Were not gonna die, not if we play smart." I told him.

He sighed and took a deep breath. We suddenly heard a door slam. Before us stood a tall man with long blond hair. He had a long scar around the front of his neck. His eyes were awful. They were bright red. Behind him was a small woman with the same features except brown hair.

" Hello there " he cooed. Touching my face. His skin my ice cold. I shivered.

" Belikov's little girl." he said in an admiring tone.

" Don't touch her!" yelled Ivan.

" you must take after your mother." he said in disgust.

"Who are you and what do you want?" I demanded. He laughed coldy.

"Well, Daddy and I have some unfinished business,and the only way to get him here, was you." he grinned, his fanged bared.

I winced at his closeness.

"To hell with you." Ivan spat.

"Very well." he said. He then turned towards the door,but stopped by the woman.

"This is Inna, she will give you what you need." he said gesturing towards her.

"How about a door out ,and a shot at your face." snickered Ivan. The male strigoi narrowed his eyes at him and began charging toward us. He slapped Ivan.

"You'll eventually learn some manners." he spat.

The day that followed was awful. Inna gave us water and over cooked noodles for food. Ivan kicked over the bowl and she retreated to find something to clean it with.

I suddenly heard a beeping from Ivan.

"What's that?" I asked.

Ivan's face lit up.

"It's Dad's work pager. I picked it off of him during combat training."

He reached down and finally retrieved it.

"Hello?" It was guardian Hans.

"Mr. Hans! It's Ivan Belikov."

"Belikov? What are you doing? I've been trying to get a hold of your father all day. You better believe he'll be hearing about this." he said before he hung up.

I slammed my hand in frustration.

Dimitri's POV

I sighed and stared at the map. I had searched every place on the school's perimeter. Rose was so upset. I as well. I hand' slept since they went missing. I thought back over the years. Their first birthday. Ivan's first haircut. Christmas in Russia.

I was brought out of my day dreaming by a door slamming.

"Belikov!" said Hans.

I turned to him. "Yes Hans?" I said quite Annoyed.

"I tried to reach you on your pager and guess who answered? Your kid,whining about to tell you something." He slammed his pager onto the desk. that's it!

"Hans, can you track the signal?" I asked. He looked at me stupidly but put my code into his pager. On the small screen it read "Noviskibrisk,Russia"

I bolted out of the office to the air strip.

Anya's POV

Dad's pager had died and that discouraged us. I slammed my feet against the chair leg and heard a creak.

"Ivan!" I gasped looking at the crack on the rusted chair leg.

He stirred from his dazed state and crained his neck to look. We exchanged glances and he got the idea. We rocked back and forth.

Unfortunately we tipped over from Ivan's weight. The leg had broken!.

" Keep watch I'll work on the ropes. I did so. and began working on his. Just as I cut the last rope we heard foot steps. It was Inna from the sounds of it. Ivan sat back down on the three legged chair and laid the ropes as if they were tied. I stood behind the door and waited for her to open it.

"(Where's your sister?)" she asked.

Ivan looked at her sickly and she began to search around. I slammed her with the chair leg. She wailed in pain. I kept beating her and Ivan came to hold her down. I couldn't incapacitate her,and beating the hell out of her wasn't going to do much.

"Drop and run!" I told Ivan. We did so and bolted. We didn't get far. Nathan was in the door way pushing me back down the stairs.

"Now now, I can't have you running off. You want to stay and meet Daddy don't you?" he said stroking my cheek. I pulled away and backed into Ivan.

Nathan had now bolted the door and taken away all forms of weapons,but at least we were able to use our limbs. We had no hope in breaking the blacked window. I sighed.

"Well,this is and epic fail. The children of the world's greatest guardians failed at escape,I wonder what dad would say." I said propping my head in my hand. Ivan then cleared his throat and put on Dad's guardian face.

"In Russia vwe do not quit,quitting is not and option. You have to be avware of every think , because in Russia the guardians train in snow and that is why lotion won't help my dry hands,because I'm Dimitri Belikov, and in Russia we do not use lotion." he impersonated Dad so well. I doubled over laughing.

"Is that what you really think I sound like?"

We both turned in surprise. Dad was standing next to the window with a perfectly cut hole. Behind him Mom was climbing in.

"Well comrade, you have to admit you are up tight sometimes." she said. We both ruses to hug dad. His thick duster was warm in this wet basement.

"Where are they?" he asked drawing his stake.

"We don't know,Nathan comes every day late,but Inna comes every 3 hours." said Ivan. Mom and Dad froze at this.

"N….Nathan and…Inna." said Dad. Mom grasped his hand.

"How can this be?" he almost whispered. We suddenly heard a bang from the stairs.

"You both get outside, Adrian is waiting for you. Send in the other guardians." she said drawing her stake as well.

"But we want to help!" we pleaded.

Mom rubbed out faces."You've done beautifully,now let us take it from here."

It was too late Inna opened the door. Her face was filled with rage . Mom rushed her and staked her quickly. Nathan suddenly descended the stairs slowly,almost as if someone coming home from work.

"Ahh, Belikov, I was hopping you'd show. And you brought Rose!" he said turning to Mom.

"How are you here?" he demanded. I honestly never heard dad's speech that laced in Russian except when he was speaking it.

Nathan rose his neck showing the scar.

"Funny thing about decapitation, you have to really disconnect the head and burn or it heals." he said smiling fangs and all. Dad grimaced and gripped his stake harder.

"Oh and by the way, I enjoyed your daughter…." he ventured over to me. " She will make a very good addition,and her brother as well."

In and instant dad flew at him,duster wiping as he went. Mom came over to us trying to get us away toward the window.

Dad had Nathan down bucking wildly,but he dropped his stake. Mom rushed over to help. Nathan backhanded . She went flying against the wall. Ivan took off toward Mom. Dad was currently on the bad end of the sword with Nathan. His teeth were bared to Dad's neck. I rushed to him. Grabbing Nathan by the hair. He wailed in pain. He turned to me. towering over me in the corner.

"No more toying you die now!" he said. I curled up and waited for death to consume me. I felt a thud at my feet. Nathan' body sat lifeless with a stake through his chest. His open eyes had chained from the awful red to a whitish blue.

Dad walked over to me and scooped me up in his arms like I was little again. He murmured in Russian. I was so shocked I couldn't flip through my mind translator to find out what he was saying.

The other guardians searched the house while we had been taken to a hotel. Uncle Adrian had of course bought us clothes and watched us and Elise while Mom and Dad gave the other guardians the story.

The next Day we were going to take a train to Gran's since we were on her side of the world