Vampire Academy - I Don't Want This

My head spun around the world and suddenly I was back with Lissa.

Lissa! I'm okay! I'm a Strigoi but I still feel like a dhampir! I sounded so excited, I think Lissa thought I was lying.

I'll save you some day…okay Rose? She disappeared from my mind and I was suddenly back in my world.

Strangely, I was still running after Dylan, even though my mind had just vanished from this world.

Dylan was talking away to Sasha and me, "It'll be day in a few hours so we gotta speed up a bit."

I sighed heavily in frustration, "I'm sick of this. Where are we going?" I demanded.

He stared at me, "Fine Rose, ruin the surprise." He mumbled, "We're going to Siberia."

A whole load of memories came back to me from when I was a Dhampir as he said Siberia.

Sydney, Moroi night clubs, Strigoi on the streets, the Belikov family…and Dimitri as a Strigoi.

"Oh." I muttered, "Whats in Siberia?"

Sasha laughed, "His 'lair'."

Dylan joined in with the laughing, "Its not really a lair Rose, its more of a huge house."

I nodded, "We're gonna stay there for a while?"

"Yeah, we can leave when ever." Dylan told me, "We won't hold you against your will."

With that, we continued running along the rough grass,

Dylan explained to me and Sasha that we needed to respect human life, I agreed to this immediately seeing as I am in control of my actions, but Sasha had a hard time thinking about it. But finally we came to an agreement for her.

And then finally, I realised that we were now in Siberia.

"Home sweet home," Dylan whispered, and with a sigh he started walking at a humans' pace.

Sasha and me quickly did the same.

I recognised other Strigoi looking at us and starting to follow after. We walked straight and ignored the humans. The Moroi stared at us with scared expressions but the Guardians with them glared at us. The three of the five Guardians followed behind us, Dylan turned around and faced them.

He nodded politely at them with a smiling look, we decided to do the same, "Guardians," He started, "We are not here to attack human life. We wish to destroy other Strigoi that harms you, Moroi or humans."

The Guardians were listening but didn't believe him, so as they started to attack I stepped forward.

"Uuh," I said hesitating, "Hi. I used to be a Guardian for the Dragomir Princess, Vasilisa." I paused as the Guardians gasped in shock, I started to continue but I was interrupted by one of the Guardians speaking to me.

"Your Rosemarie Hathaway? You were captured by a Strigoi army right?" His eyes went into shock as well, "Everyone knows about you and Vasilisa…"

The Strigoi behind us started to back off as they listened to all of this.

"Didn't Vasilisa bring that Belikov guy back from Strigoi state?" Another Guardian questioned.

"Yeah! That means she could change you back Rosemarie…"

I stared at them, trying to keep my face natural, "Yes, but I was told that I have to wait for Lisa…I mean Vasilisa to leave the academy so that I won't be destroyed."

The few Moroi started to come over with their guardians with curiosity.

"Rosemarie Hathaway from St Vladmirs right?" One Moroi asked, I nodded so he continued, "Why are you with these two Strigoi?"

I turned my head around to see Sasha and Dylan shaking nervously with fear, "We're helping each other out. We've sworn to protect humans, Moroi and Dhampirs."

"Ah," The Moroi replied kindly, "I wish all of you good luck, kind Strigoi. I certainly hope you can be changed."

We thanked them for their kindness and walked off towards Dylan's place.

We spoke about how our lives would have to be if we wanted to continue protecting others until we heard a female scream.

We followed the noise to find a small human girl in a dark alley with blood on her face. She was with a Strigoi man who welcomed us in. The girl cried when she saw us and wished to die.

We stared at the Strigoi who quickly, without us even realising it, clawed at the girls leg trying to rip it off. A scream followed after that so we got into attack mode.

Dylan ran forward towards the Strigoi, but was pulled off and threw against the brick wall, Sasha ran to his protection as I started attacking the Strigoi.

"A newbie?" He scoffed, "Good luck defeating me!"

I glared at him, he use to be a dhampir I saw, he was changed at a fairly young age, "You think that your experiences with being changed to Strigoi would influence the situation." I shot back at him as I kicked him in the gut, sending him flying towards the girl. I reacted quickly, I reached out for him and threw him to the ground, "Dylan, if your in control take her to the hospital. Make up an excuse that doesn't involve Strigoi. Use compulsion on them if you have to, just move quickly!"

Dylan picked up the unconscious human, and ran her at human pace towards a hospital.

I stepped on the Strigoi, crushing his neck, the last thing that he could say was, "Why?"

I understood what he meant, but had no time to lose, "C'mon Sasha! We gotta get rid of his body."

Sasha nodded, but we both heard a sound of footsteps coming towards us. Our heads snapped towards the sound and saw her looking at us.

She laughed, "Oh Rose. You crack me up. When you were a dhampir you could not remember any of this, but now you're a Strigoi, it's the first thing you think of."

She walked out of the darkness and looked at me with a shaky smile, "Hey Sydney." I said grinning.