Thank you guys so much for the really kind reviews. This is my first fan fiction but I have already written out the plot and will be updating at least once a week. Hope you enjoy and if you are confused just send me a review but there is some mystery and you might have to wait to find out.

CHAPTER 2

I wake up in an hour or so in the car journey back. Lissa and Adrian look at me with a perplex look and I immediately become defensive.

"What? What happened? All I remember is being frozen, then spirit induced darkness and then blacking out." I say and I can still feel darkness but it isn't effecting me anymore it is like I have built a mental wall around it. Well, I wasn't really complaining about not being crazy.

"Well I got no clue but lets just say your aura right now is like a storm cloud. Black swirls but no other colours just pure black." What the fuck. Why is my aura all darkness? I thought I got rid of that problem when I got unbonded from Lissa.

Really my life just had to get more complicated didn't it. Couldn't God or whatever just looked down and gone 'hey look seems like she has been through a lot maybe we should give her a break' but no my life just had to be screwed up now didn't it.

"Also" Adrian and Lissa say nervously. Also there is a fucking also, do they want to shove more crap onto my plate or what but I take a deep breath and listen. "Our auras no longer have any spirit darkness so I think it went into you" Lissa says with a slight frown but she won't meet my gaze.

"Well its better than getting it from a stranger" is all I say.

We sit in silence for the next half hour all contemplating what this means and I'm thinking why haven't I gone crazy. Like if I took as much as they say I did why am I not rambling or crazy angry or I don't know we haven't really figured out the details yet. As we turn into the woods, I see another flash of something in the corner of my eye and a familiar nausea settles over me. Strigoi and they must have been stalking us all day.

"Strigoi." I say. One word but the Guardians know what to do. The driver speeds up and we all take protective stances around the two moroi.

One jumps out and smashes our van onto the side crushing one of the exits. As the leader I need to think on my feet. The van can no longer move so we obviously have to fight but somehow get the moroi out of here.

"Okay listen up, You, you and you" I point to 3 of the best guardians "get the Queen and Lord Ivashkov to safety. Just get them under the ward and come back with reinforcements. I can feel there are a lot of them. The rest of us form a turtle combination to fight off the strigoi and just hold them off until reinforcements come." This should hopefully work. Now all we need is a diversion to get the moroi to safety and I know just the one.

I jump out of the side window only to be faced by about 30 strigoi. Shit this is going to be harder than I thought. Its fine I've got back up and my fine ass skills. Confidence and stupidity in the face of danger, my speciality.

I run up to what seems the youngest and immediately stake him. This scares some but a lot just look on not even fighting. What the fuck! Are they really that cocky. However, when Lissa starts to leave that gets them excited and they start circling the van.

"Now!" I yell with authority and all the guardians except the ones to get the moray back jump out and form a formation. Giving us space to fight using our manoeuvrability and teamwork against the strigoi. I stake a few but more keep pouring out. I hadn't seen this amount in ages. They must be getting pissed with these new readily available spirit wards. Also I think they kind of want to kill Lissa for one being Queen and two she is about to pass a law making it mandatory for moroi to be trained to fight with their magic. Yeh, they must be shitting themselves. The fight cools off as someone, whom I presume is the leader and an old one at that, holds up a hand. I look around and see that most of the guardians are dead. Shit, the other 2 are panting catching the breath, one with a large gash down the side of his face and the other clutching his limp arm. I turn back to the leader and sneer at him.

"And who is this beautiful lady in front of me?" He asks in a sickly sweet voice.

I just give him a Hathaway glare which he only seems to laugh at. Stupid Strigoi they should have learnt by now that you don't mess with a Hathaway especially an angry one.

However, a high pitched scream from my right distracts me as I turn to see 2 strigoi holding Lissa up by her elbows as she struggles to get free. Damn damn damn. Somehow I was going to get out of here. Or at least Lissa was…

I run over to the 2 strigoi and immediately stake one and the other drops Lissa. She falls on her head and blacks out. Darn it I was really hoping I could just scream at her to run and hold them off for a while but an unconscious Dragomir was really going to be an effort. As I fight off the second strigoi I realise I am being surrounded and quickly finish off mine to look up into the eyes of a hundred strigoi. They really were getting desperate weren't they. I start fighting them but its no use and before I even get few good hits on them they encircle me grabbing my limbs.

They start punching me and breaking me until I am left on there ground in a pool of my own blood and barely conscious. I start getting angrier and angrier as I see them encircle Lissa and I push myself up onto my broken leg and hobble over to them as one of them bites into Lissa.

It's as if in that moment all my emotion erupts out of me and I scream. A maniac scream which would send chills down any undead lowlifes back. Lissa grumbles and looks up at me and suddenly my vision turns red and black. I can't feel pain. I can't feel anything but this darkness.

I realise it is the darkness I took earlier and I channel it and well lets just say it explodes out of me. It feels as if my heart is being ripped out of my chest over and over again as all the strigoi seem to die around me. They just fall to the ground completely intact but their undead heart no longer beats.

As all the darkness and energy is drained from me. I look down at a conscious Lissa who seems fine and I collapse. The last thing I see before everything goes black are those beautiful piercing green eyes that look at me with a pained confused look. Now it is off to the land of unconscious. Twice in 3 hours must be some sort of a record.