Hey I just thought of this idea after watching Vampire Academy trailers and reading both VA/BL. Do I though "Hey how about an AU where Sydney takes part in Roses dramatic life during VA?" Since of course Sydney's one of my favorite characters besides Rose, Adrian, Lissa, Eddie, Christian, Dimitri, Mason...Etc. Ok the rest! So here's a prequel on Sydney before we get to Lissa and Roses return to the Academy! I let on user jesspaige and I are hopefully collaborating the work on this story together!

Sydney portrayed here is different as you shall see. Enjoy and please Vote and review!

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Prologue

Sydney's POV

Love and Loyalty runs deeper than blood...

That's what we grow up believing in or find out on your own... the hard way. Yes that last bit implies toward me. I broke away from my supposed "loved" ones and the loyalty of my group known as Alchemist.

What is an Alchemist?

Five years ago I would have said as an elite member of humans charged with helping Moroi and dhampirs keeping their existence discreet.

Segregation much?

Each Alchemist bore a trademark symbol on their lower left cheek which is a golden lily. It's fused from Moroi blood, gold and the elements: earth and water. This of course gives us enchanting abilities like Moroi- well if you count never taking a trip to the doctors and extending our life hood- otherwise unfortunately you can't develop their body shape yet luckily their thirst for blood.

Of course everything comes with a price. While we are given a freebee of "invincibility" the beautiful tattoo was more of a curse. Never are we allowed to expose the supernatural to our fellow humans, or else the consequences are well ...unforgivable.

Dhampirs who are destined to become guardians for the Moroi, is exactly as the Alchemist "career" being fit for each my family there were three Alchemist: Jared my...father, me and my older sister Carly.

Actually the last bits a lie. Carly was in training to become an Alchemist more like forced into due to Jared. She didn't take it seriously but the beliefs stuck in her...

Anyway it all crumbled when that son of a bitch Keith Darnell did the unforgivable towards my sister.

See Jared always envied not having a son to pass the family name down. Shellfish bastard if you ask me, praising Satan's Spawn. He doted on Keith basically treating him as his own and gifting him places the rest of us Sage women longed for.

Oh Keith was living his precious life as if he were king, and that's when he took it overboard. Don't worry after Carly told me the night she came back I made sure he paid the price.

I wore the biggest grin that day where wee informed of Keith's mission gone wrong with a supposed "Strigoi" attack.

Carly got away so that left me to carry the duty at just the beginning if my teen years. While girls talked if makeup, or boys I was told this or that required for the Alchemist. For God sakes I knew the periodic table and five languages one of them being a dead language of Latin!

Alchemists' work connections amongst humans allowing to cover up for Moroi and dhampirs – they have "tricks and techniques" that allow them to dispose of Strigoi bodies. We are always for most to believe all vampires, even Moroi and dhampirs are evil "creatures of the night" and try to keep as distanced as possible. Obviously that was a problem to me I never saw anything problematic to an extent that we treat them like they're nothing.

I questioned a lot that was getting people suspicious and were considering to place me in "re-education." Thing of it like those mental hospitals except without the tight white wrapping. I knew at that moment I had to escape and I did. I won't tell you how...yet, I like to keep the suspense.

I got out made some contacts and was told to head to St. Valdimir's in Montana. I've been here for the last five or so years training and studying each wasn't easy at first but eventually Rose Hathaway, a Dhampir befriended me along with Lissa Dragomir, a Royal Moroi.

Last I saw then was Freshman year now it's Senior year and they are said to have returned.

Rose better give me a more straight-forward answer this time of that "sudden" departure two years back.

Well I hope you enjoyed this I'll try to update on Fridays since my stupid laptop is a piece of junk now... sigh yea so I'm at the library typing all this. Read and Review peeps! AssassinsVow2012