Fanfiction Title: My Immortal
A Vampire Academy Romance Fanfic
Main Characters: CHRISTIAN AND OC (GAIA STARLIGHT IVASHKOV)


Chapter 3 – Equinox Dance

The girls all pile themselves into Gaia's room. Gaia had the largest collection of dresses. As Grand Duchess, Gaia tends to wear dresses to suit her status as the granddaughter of Queen Tatiana. She is fetching in anything she wears, from short mini princess dress to smart black coated outfit and long dresses. Hell, she even looks good when she is in her nighties!

"Natalie, darling, this is for you," she said to Natalie and gave her a sleek black box. It is Tiffany.

"And this is for you and you…" she gave each box to Lissa and Rose. They open the box and gasped.

Natalie had a heart shaped diamond necklace from Gaia, while Lissa had a rose corsage with a single diamond drop in the centre of the flower and Rose got a huge diamond ring from her.

"Is this real?" Rose said to her skeptically. Gaia laughs out loud and patted Rose's back.

"I assure you, this is worth billions. You can sell it if you're dirt poor…" she said to her, and Rose widens her eyes in shock.

"Billions…!" Rose gulped in shock. Gaia nodded her head earnestly.

"Yeah... My family is damn rich. We had a whole oil rig to our own and a diamond mine somewhere in the world. We are too rich… I need to do something to my vaults of money. I had a whole separate account with the Ivashkov family. My parents are still alive, though, but they do leave me with a separate personal account. It's worth… well… more than the kind of amount of money you could ever imagine a 16 year old Moroi owns… I mean, people would rob me if they knew just how rich I am…"

"So you want people to rob me off my ring now as well?" Rose said to her with a smile. Gaia laughs at her.

"No, silly… It is a token of my love for you, Rosa dear. You are a dear friend of mine. I want you to be happy. Know that my family is open to any one of you. Dhampirs or not, you are a family of mine. We are sisters. I will protect all of you if that is the last thing on earth that I can do… I swear upon the stars…" Gaia said to her, and Rose tears up at her touching words.

Rose is practically homeless, except for her busy, busy Dhampir mother. She would always crash with Lissa at her home with the Dragomirs, but now that all the Dragomirs have gone, all that is left is Lissa being all alone as the last princess of the Dragomir line, while she herself is better off without parents seeing as none of them came to see her anyway.

"Oh, Rosa, why ever do you cry?" Gaia said to her and hugged Rose tightly in her arms. Rose sobbed into her shoulders, and Natalie and Lissa came and hug her as well and sobbed with Rose. "You should be happy. My family is your family as well. You are welcome to my home anytime, anywhere, and for all of eternity. My grandmamma adores all of you, you know? She is the one who buys you the diamond ring, and the necklace and the rose corsage… I just deliver it to you all… that are all… My parents is dying to meet you all as well, but just not now. On the holidays we're all gonna have fun at my villa somewhere. Lissa, come please, alright?"

"She… she bought these for us?" Rose said to her and detaches herself from her arms. "She brought a billion dollar worth of diamond ring for me? A dhampir…?"

"You are no ordinary Dhampir, Rose…" Gaia said to her with a smile and wipes away her tears. "You are Shadow-Kissed Rose. All Shadow-Kissed Dhampirs are valuable assets to our kingdom. Shadow-Kissed Dhampirs are… well… in a way… they are royalties too, alongside the royals they protect…"

"Oh, Gaia," Lissa hugged Gaia as well. "Thank you, for offering the love of a family again…my family is gone now, and I am all alone with Rose here…"

"Don't fret my damsel…"she said to her with a smile. "We're all gonna have a great holiday together at my villa. My parents and brothers are coming as well. My big, big brother, Peter... and my little baby brother, Michael. We're all happy and gooey all the time, just like me. My parents are busy all the time, but they do spend time with us when we need it. So you all can just have fun and don't be sad now, alright? Come, come, and stop crying. We're all sisters, yeah? So we should go down to this ball with the best style we have. Hips, hips, lips and ahh!"

"Hips, hips, lips and ahh!" the other girls chimed with her and walked with the styles of their slogan. They laughed and giggled to themselves.

"You know what?" Rose started to them. "I don't know what's gonna happen tonight. At this point, I can't remember who hates us or who loves us. But I do know we're gonna own this dance. Let's make tonight our bitch…"

"That's my girl, babeh!" Gaia rhymes up to her and high fived them all.

And so, they walked into the ballroom. Rose is wearing a deep dark purple dress, and is gorgeous with her huge boobs and her shapely ass. Lissa is wearing a green dress with a sheer black transparent material on the outer side of her dress, while Natalie is wearing a laced blue dress with a plunging neckline that reveals her cleavages.

Gaia, on the other hand, is wearing a dark blue dress that bare up her shoulders. Her back is bare, and it plunges deep down to her small waist and it is covered with crisscrossed pearls. Her hair is donned up in pearls, and there are braids of them braided into her French braids and they are piled up into a bun that rests at the nape of her neck. Strands of her hair are framing her hair in carefully curled curls, and she is beautiful with her red, red lips.

"Not much a reaction from your boyfriend there," Gaia teases Rose. Rose laughs with Lissa.

"He's not my boyfriend," Rose started, and dances with Lissa and Gaia. Natalie had gone and joined her other friends, and is dancing with them. "But grading on the Demitri curves, a huge reaction… mammoth, gargantuan..."

They laughed to themselves silly and suddenly, Rose pushes Gaia towards Christian Ozera, who had slipped up to her from behind and with it, he spins her into his arms and they started to dance.

"Your highness…!" Gaia exclaims happily at the sight of him smiling down at her. "Oh, you look so yummy tonight…"

"Yummy?" Christian raised one eyebrow and laughed at her. "Seriously, yummy…?"

"Well, it applies to men like you. Dripping with wealth, power, status, brains and most of all, drop dead gorgeous…"

"You think I'm gorgeous?" Christian said to her with a small smile. She smiles at him.

"Yeah, and you do strut in a sexy way…" she said to him, and realizes too late that it actually came out from her mouth.

Christian laughed out loud at her. "You think I strut in a sexy way?"

"Stop it…" she said to him and slapped his arms. He stopped laughing and turned all serious.

"Gaia Starlight Ivashkov…" he calls her seriously. She became serious as well and looked up to him.

"What is it?" she asks him.

He begun to smile and laugh again and said, "You seriously think I strut in a sexy way?"

Gaia slapped his arm again and he laughs at her.

"Oh, you are the most adorable person I've ever met…" he said to her and leaned onto her forehead with his own. She dances with him underneath the chandeliers, and together, they were happy.

"You're beautiful tonight…" he said to her.

She smiles at him. "Thank you. You look gorgeous yourself as well…"

He laughs at her and they dances. He spins her out of his arms and into his arms again, and this time, he held her tightly.

"You are so like starlight, just like your name, Gaia Starlight…" he said to her. "Gaia is mother earth they said, and also the name of a famous star out there… Gaia Starlight… It suits you so well, your name…"

She smiles at him and leans into him. She places her head on his shoulders and they dances happily.

"You made me happy. I've never known how it feels like to be so happy. I laugh all the time with you by my side, and you introduced me to all of your wonderful friends, no questions asked. I am grateful to you. You made me happy once more, and I am alive again…" he said to her, and she looked up to him.

He stares into her eyes and swiped the hair that frames her hair around her face. "And I think I am falling in love with you…"

Gaia blinked her eyes in surprise. Christian Ozera, the renowned Crown Prince of the vampire world is falling in love with her?

"You… really do?" she said to him and looks up into his eyes. She knew he is telling her the truth, but she wanted to hear it once more. Just once more, lest her feelings betrays what she wants to hear and distorts her power over emotions reading.

"I love you…" Christian said to her, and leans down to capture her lips in his.

Just then, Mia came up to Lissa and attacks her verbally. "Why were you in the hospital? Pregnant?"

Those who stood at their sides stopped dancing and looked at them, listening to what Mia is saying. Gaia stopped dancing with Christian and they went over to where Lissa is having a conversation with Mia.

"Herpes?" Mia continues. "Maybe your babies have herpes. I don't care if it's true, I'll tell…"

"Go away, Mia," Lissa said to her.

"Why are you Dragomirs such drags!?" Mia exclaims angrily. "First Andre, then you steal Aaron from me and don't even keep him!"

"I don't need this…" Lissa said to her and walked away from Mia.

"I vow to take down the entire-"

"Mia," Gaia stepped up in front of her and Mia stopped speaking at the sudden appearance of Gaia. "Stop. You're making yourself a fool here. You've lost this one, biatch."

Mia screams at her, and Rose came and punches Mia in the face, knocking her out in one punch.

"Everyone saw that I tried to take the high road there…" Rose said to everyone.

"Rose," Christian started. "If Mia didn't do it then it means there is a bigger threat out there… Lissa's run off, I didn't see where…"

"Try her sanctuary," Gaia said to Christian. "Let's go. Rose, go find her as well. We'll be going to her secret place…"

Somehow, in a way or two, Rose had gotten into the car of Demitri and found Gaia and Christian snuggling behind the seats.

"Holy shit, I cannot believe this…" Rose said to herself.

"What is it?" Demitri asks.

"Nothing, just let me concentrate," Rose said after Christian shushes her up with a finger on his lips.

They arrives soon at the place of Prince Dashkov and storms into the manor. Rose is ordered to stay in the car by Demitri, but she breaks the rules anyway and goes into the manor ground with Christian and Gaia flanked by her sides.

"Feel free to chime in at any time with some fire magic there. Maybe a flame of ring around the knob?" Rose said to Christian, and he held out his hand at the doorknobs with a troubled expression on his face.

"I've never really worked outside a classroom setting before…" he said to her helplessly.

"Forget it, she's gone. Stop trying to save yourself, Liss! Stupid one way bond!" Rose cursed and rushes out of the manor with Christian and Gaia at her back.

They rushes out and find that there is a helicopter landing right in front of Lissa. Two Psi-hounds flanked at her sides and she is stuck in the middle of nowhere. The pilot came out and prepares to bundle Lissa into the helicopter before they came crashing into the scene with Rose tackling the pilot.

Christian tried to use his fire on the man, but he only manages to make out a small pitiful flame.

"That's it?" Rose asks him. "Seriously?"

"Did you see what Victor did?" Lissa asks Gaia and Rose.

"I know what an asshole!" Rose said to her.

"He would have hell to pay if Grandmamma caught him! Hell doesn't even begin to cover the word!" Gaia said to her soothingly.

"I hate to interrupt," Christian started. "But unless either one of you can fly a chopper, maybe we should get going-"

A loud sound of a gunshot rang in the night and the girls scream in surprise and shock. Victor held out a gun in his hand and had been the one who had shot Christian. Gaia knelt down on the grass and tends to him, pressing one hand onto his wounds.

"Christian… oh… Christian…" she calls his name.

"Rose," Victor said to them. "Be a dear and step away from Lissa. I don't want to accidentally shot her when I'm shooting you…"

"You heard him!" Lissa said and stood in front of Rose protectively. "He won't shoot me."

"I am your guardian!" Rose said to her and stood in front of her.

"No, Rose, you can't do this!" Lissa fought with her and tried to stand in front of her and protect Rose.

"Lissa, don't you dare fight! Lissa!" Rose exclaims, and fought with Lissa.

Victor prepares to fire another shot of gun when suddenly, Gaia stood up in front of both Lissa and Rose.

"Who are you?" Victor said to her. "Get out of the way…"

"I am Starlight," Gaia said to him and floats up all by herself. "I am Gaia Starlight Ivashkov, and I am the Duchess of Kiev in the Ivashkov household. I wield the power of the Starlight, and I will not allow you to harm my friends!"

Then, he is held up by a sudden supernatural power that stopped him from moving at all. He forces himself to move, but he just couldn't.

Lissa and Rose gaped as they saw how Gaia shines brilliantly with the intensity of a star. She is floating, and her hair has been set loose all around her, and it flows around her like tendrils of ribbons.

On the last day on the earth,

All I wanna do is share a smile with you,

Till I cross the twilight,

Nothing could be truer than this love I have for you,

My love will testify and last through the ages…

She sings a beautiful note of song, and Victor is again shriveled up in his diseased state. He screams, and he covers his face with his hands.

"Nooo!" Victor screams and glares at Gaia. "Starlight! Starlight! They are extinct! Starlights are extinct! It is impossible!"

Gaia floated back down onto the grass and stares up at Victor. Victor, in his last moment, brought up the gun and points it to her, but is defeated when Dimitri came and took him under his hands.

"You are worse than a Strigoi," Dimitri said to him.

"Christian!" Gaia exclaims and knelt down onto the grass.

"Do you know what I like most about psi-hounds?" Victor said to Dimitri. "They're wonderful at tracking. They're even better at killing. Attack!"

The psi-hounds barked and their blue eyes turned red. They are activated into killing mode, and they charges at Lissa, Gaia, Christian and Rose.

Rose protected Lissa and pushes her down onto the ground with her on top. Gaia, on the other hand, protected Christian, and covers his body with her own and held him tightly in her arms.

"I will protect you with my soul, Christian…" Gaia said to him by his ears fiercely and closes her eyes tightly as she awaits the psi-hounds to attack her first. "I swear with my soul and upon the stars!"

Christian heard her calling his name and he raises both of his arms up into the air and screams as he releases his fire powers and burned the psi-hounds in an impressive display of fire powers. The psi-hounds whined in pain from the fire and ran off somewhere, burning alight with the power of fire from Christian.

"Now that's some freakin' fire magic," Rose said to Christian and stares as the psi-hounds ran off.

"Rose, I need to save him, but I can't. Victor took everything, all my energies…" Lissa said to Rose, and Rose took off her jacket.

"Power up, Princess…" Rose said to her. Lissa quickly bites into Rose's shoulders and sucked a great amount of blood, causing Rose to faint.

Gaia had fainted from using her Starlight powers, and she is lying by Christian's side.

Lissa heals him up, and with it, she fainted as well. Christian is no longer hurt by the bullet gunshot, and they are all well and slumbering.

Everyone is escorted back to the academy. Dimitri carried Rose, while the rest of the guardians carried Christian, Lissa and Gaia into the car. Upon arriving at the Academy, they are escorted into the healing room, wherein Christian, Lissa and Gaia is given blood transfusions to revive back their lost energies while Rose, too, is given blood transfusion to refill back her lost blood.

They all woke up soon, and Lissa is well again in her bed in the infirmary. She and Gaia share the same room with Rose, while Christian is well enough to move around soon after he woke up. He visited the girls in their ward. After a while, Rose is declared free to go by the doctors and Lissa and Gaia threw oranges at her for being the first to leave amongst them girls.

"Hey, hey!" Rose defended herself. "I'm gonna leave and never come back again if you continue to throw oranges at me! At least threw me an apple so I can eat it!"

Dimitri brought Rose to the security dungeon system, and when Rose visits Victor in the dungeon, something happened, and the alarm is sounded.

"The alarm…" Christian said, and Gaia, who had been in bed with Christian flanked at her side protectively, stood up and rushes to the dungeon with Christian, still clad in her hospital gown.

They went down there and saw Dimitri heaving up a silver stake and prepare to drive it into Natalie's chest and Gaia screams.

"Stop!" she screams, and Dimitri, surprised with it, stopped.

"Don't! Please! Don't kill her!" Gaia said to him and quickly descends down the stairs.

"She is Strigoi now!" Dimitri said to her. "No one can save her!"

"I can," she said to him determinedly and raised both of her hands around her sides. "I can save her… I am Starlight, I can save her!"

Christian had never seen her use her Starlight powers, and he is more than impressed to see her floating up off the ground and glows with the intensity of a Starlight.

Like a star, she shines.

And like a star, she is brilliant.

She is beautiful. And she is Starlight…

On the last day on the earth,

All I wanna do is share a smile with you,

Till I cross the twilight,

Nothing could be truer than this love I have for you,

My love will testify and last through the ages…

She sings the beautiful song, and suddenly, Natalie's eyes are no longer red, and her fangs retracted. She fell down with a heap, and she sobbed sadly.

"No, no, no, no!" Natalie exclaims sadly. "Why! I want to be Strigoi! I want my eyesight back! I want my clarity of skin back! No!"

"Natalie? Natalie, listen to me," Gaia said to her and held her in her arms. Gaia gently pried Natalie's hands off her face and smiles up at her. "See? You can see. I gave you back your Moroi identity, but retain your eyesight and your smooth skin. You are beautiful now, see?"

"What?" Natalie said in surprise and looked at her hand. "I… I can see… I can see…!?"

"Yes you can," Gaia said to her. "I made you so… you can see clearly now… no more doubts, and no more tears…"

"Why…?" Natalie asks her tearfully. "Why… you could have just let him kill me…"

Gaia smiles at her and caresses her face gently in her hand. "I love you, Natalie. You are my besties as well. The girls would be sad if you're gone. Rose didn't mean to betray you either. You did her no good first right? She is just defending herself. We all love you, Natalie. We would be sad if you're gone… I want you to be happy, and happy you would be with us…"

Natalie broke down in tears and sobbed into Gaia's shoulders. Gaia held her gently and rocked the sad girl back and forth.

Demitri had never seen such a display of powers before. The Princess Vasilisa is powerful enough with her healing abilities, her mind powers and all of her elemental powers. Gaia here could transform a Strigoi back into a Moroi… and it is an amazing feat of powers…

Starlight… could she really is Starlight… just as her name depicts her to be?

Starlight is a legendary being. She is Moroi birth, and she is a descendent of a Star that fell down to earth 7000 years ago. Starlight is powerful beings. They are capable of many powers, though they choose only a fair few to be their harnessing main powers so as to make it individual and more powerful compared to when they are capable of controlling all sorts of powers in the world. To own two or less powers are much better than owning 10 different powers. The more powers you own, the less you are powerful and adept at controlling them. The less powers you own, the more powerful you are.

But Starlight is told to be extinct due to the Salem witch-hunt a long time ago. How could she be Starlight? She is the Queen's granddaughter! How could she be Starlight when the Queen herself is not Starlight?!

Unless… her name alone manages to bestows her the powers of Starlight?Thought Demitri. How oddly magical… to behold the name of Starlight and be bestowed the powers of Starlight just by name alone… how magical…

After comforting Natalie, Gaia fainted again. This time, Christian carries her back to her room in the royal palace, and Natalie and Rose is there as well to recuperate. Rose slept with Natalie and Lissa in Gaia's room, accompanying the now slumbering Lissa and Rose.

"I am so sorry," Natalie said to Rose and Lissa. "I… I'm tempted by papa's request… he said Strigoi powers can make me beautiful again… and I… I…"

"Forget it, Natalie," Rose said to her. "Gaia saves you. You owe your life to her now. From now on, you are her very own Moroi guardian. Don't ever leave her, and don't you ever forget how she has saved you when she could have let you be killed by Demitri… oh dear… stakes… I wonder how it feels…?"

"Cold and heartless maybe?" Lissa said to her, and they laughed. Natalie wipes her tears away from her eyes, which is now clear and she no longer needs to wear spectacles anymore. Her hair now shines radiantly, and her skin is beautiful. Natalie is now a gorgeous Moroi, and she has never been more grateful to Gaia…

"I will protect her from now on… I swear with my soul and upon the stars…" Natalie said to them and watches as Gaia slumbers peacefully.

"Swear upon the stars, huh?" Rose said to her with a smile.

"Well, she used to do it, swear upon the stars… was that the reason why she is Starlight?" Natalie asks them.

Rose shrugged her shoulders, and so does Lissa. "Don't know nothing about it. But it is best to leave it to Demitri and Christian to solve it. They'll tell us if there is anything they found out about how she came to have the powers of the Starlight. Demitri mentions that it might have been because she has the name of Starlight in her name, and she is bestowed powers from the Stars just from it…"

"Just by name!?" Natalie said incredulously. "Why, that is absurd!"

"Absurd it may be, but where can you find someone named Starlight in the world? The name Gaia is a star already, and with another name of Starlight, she might just be the star that Demitri is saying…" Rose said to them.

"The star?" Lissa started. Rose nodded her head.

"She might just be the Star of Hope everyone is waiting for in this time of the era. She might just be the one person to be able to defeat the Strigoi, alongside with you, Princess…" Rose said to her.

With it ends their long night. Christian came in and found the girls sleeping beside Gaia. He smiles and places a woolen blanket on each girl's back. He left a rose on Gaia's bedside table, and left quietly back to his room, waiting for her to wake up again from her long slumber.

End of Chapter 3: Equinox Dance