-Hey there!

Thanks for the response on my prologue you guys it means a lot. I might not always get to update as often as I would like cause I'm back to school and am in an exam year double crap! –ugh hate school. Disclaimer- Richelle Mead author of the Vampire Academy series owns everything. K so here is chapter 1 –enjoy.

-Please let me know what you think. I know i'ts alittle short but i'll try to make the chapter longer.

-Chapter 1

I walked back along the streets, pondering to myself –how I was going to kill Rose. She missed her chance on becoming Strigoi now she would never be awakened. I was furious, as the rage that I had stored inside broke free.

I needed to hunt –to kill. I needed to drink. I could smell the sweet intoxicating smell not far away. I slowed down to a gentle pace as I crept up to my prey. It was a girl about the same age as Rose.

Her back was turned as I swooped in for the kill –she didn't even see me coming. I drew her close to me and pierced the delicate skin on her neck. She tried to escape from my clutches but I held her tightly. She was only a mere human and my powerful Strigoi strength was too much for her.

"Pl….please, please let me go…" she pleaded with me.

Her eyes widen in fear as she looked up at my face. I knew she now realised that her death was upon her. She whimpered as I drank her warm blood, which quickly started to turn cold. I drank quickly as her body became limp in my arms.

I hadn't feed enough but I didn't want to drink blood from my now dead victim. I discarded her lifeless body carelessly before walking off.

I thought nothing of it –Humans, Moroi even Dhampirs. Blood was the most important thing that and the hunt. I craved it. When I had been turned it was like I had finally been awakened.

I was made for this life…for this existence. To feel my victims squirm knowing that they were close to their death

I looked up at the sky. It was close to daybreak and I would need to take cover. I moved quickly and found shelter in an old hotel.

I quickly wrote a note to Rose to inform her that she hadn't killed me. Oh how I wished that I could see her face when she received it. I reread it before enclosing along with the note the stake that she had tried, but failed to kill me with.

You forgot another lesson; Never turn your back until you know

Your enemy is dead. Looks like we'll have to go over the lesson again

The next time I see you –which will be soon.

Love, D.

I addressed it to St. Vladimir's Academy, which I knew she would have returned to by now.

I found a teenage boy –human of course. They were willing to do anything for the sake of being turned. He didn't know that I had no intension of ever turning him. I would use him for now and later discard of him in what ever way I pleased.

"I want you to keep a close eye on someone for me. Do you understand?" I asked the human.

"Ye—yes" he stuttered.

"I want you to follow a girl –Rose Hathaway. This is very important. You must follow her wherever she goes whatever she does. You must report back to me. I want to know the minute she steps foot outside the Academy gates".

"Yes –right away sir".

I knew that it was pointless in trying to go after Rose until she graduated due to all the wards that would be protecting the Academy. She would be safe for now but I would have my spies watching her –watching for the day that she would leave there….

Meanwhile I would need to leave Russia and travel back to America. I would need to build an army of Strigoi and find myself a hideout near enough to the Academy.

I was only back in America a few days and my spies had just checked in –no change she was still safe from me. For now anyway.

I walked along the streets looking for my next victim and found myself near the Academy like I was drawn to it some how.

I stood as close to the Academy as I could manage and looked up at the building. I saw a shadow in one of the windows I knew that of course, it was Rose. I knew which room was hers.

I had a strange sense of déjà vu as I watched from the street below. I remembered the time I had dragged both Rose and Lissa back to the Academy after two years of them being on the run.

I knew she wouldn't get much sleep tonight. Tomorrow she would be taking her trials. Typical Rose –I knew she would be going over everything I had ever taught her. I knew she would pass –hell she would sail through it.

I had written her another note and she would receive it tomorrow-

My dearest Rose,

One of the few downsides to being awakened is that we no longer

Require sleep; therefore we also no longer dream. It's a shame, because

If I could dream, I know I'd dream about you. I'd dream about the way you smell

And how your dark hair feels like silk between my fingers. I'd dream about the smoothness of your skin and the fierceness of your lips when we kiss.

Without dreams, I have to be content with my own imagination –which is almost as good. I can picture all of those things perfectly, as well as how it'll be when I take your life from this world. It's something I regret having to do, but you've made my choice inevitable. Your refusal to join me in eternal life and love leaves no other course of action, and I can't allow someone as dangerous as you to live. Besides, even

If I forced your awakening, you now have so many enemies among the Strigoi that one of them would kill you. If you must die, it'll be by my hand. No one else's.

Nonetheless, I wish you well today, as you take your trials –not that you need any luck.

If they're actually making you take them, it's a waste of everyone's time. You're the best in that group, and by this time evening you'll wear your promise mark. Of course, that means you'll be all that much more of a challenge when we meet again –which I'll definitely enjoy.

And we will be meeting again. With graduation, you'll be turned out of the Academy,

And once you're outside the wards, I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching.

Love,

Dimitri

I knew that she would fight me till the death –it would just the two of us like at practise in the gym.

Soon very soon my Roza….we will meet again. I thought to myself. I looked up one more time before I disappeared into the darkness of night…