K so here is chapter three. Thanks to everyone so far that has reviewed –your reviews mean a lot so please please review and let me know what you think.

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-Chapter 3

I quickly broke the streetlight leaving us in complete darkness, as we waited outside the restaurant for the Princess and her guardians to appear. I knew it wouldn't be long before her guardians realised we were there.

A good guardian always noticed their surrounds and I'm sure that Valisca's would have only the best considering she was the last surviving member of her family.

Just as I suspected two of them already had their stakes out and were preparing for battle. They were fast but us Strigoi were faster. We came at them from all sides, as if appearing out of thin air.

We took them down, one by one with little effort. One or two of my men died I didn't care they meant little if anything to me.

I noticed Lissa and Christian …both standing beside one of the SUV's. I moved quickly over to them. I grabbed Lissa's shoulder and spun her around to face me. She looked into my eyes, unable to speak.

Intense heat flared behinds us as Christian summoned his element –fire. I smiled as I moved my hand from her shoulder to her neck.

"Put it out," I said, "Put it out or she dies."

Finally Lissa found her voice having been probably too scared to talk before, "Don't listen to him," she gasped, "He's going to kill us anyway."

But Christian didn't listen to her…smart boy and the flames died just as quickly as they had appeared.

"Actually, I'd rather you two stay alive. At least for a little longer." I said.

They both looked at me wondering why I would want them alive.

"Why?" Christian asked.

I replied "Because I need you to be bait for Rose."

I knew that this would get back to her, maybe she already knew. I didn't know for sure but I did know that she would do anything to protect her best friend Lissa from being killed. It was the perfect opportunity and I wasn't going to waste it.

We dragged them both back to our hideout, which wasn't far from the university. Both of them tied up on the far side of the room. I walked back and forth as I argued with the other Strigoi –waiting for Rose to come.

" If the guardians really are coming," "then we should be posted outside."

"They're coming," I replied in a low voice.

"Then let me get out there and be useful!" "You don't need us to babysit these two."

"You don't know them," I said "They're dangerous. I'm not even sure that this is enough protection,"

"That's ridiculous!"

She was really starting to irritate me and finally I couldn't take her anymore and with that I turned and hit her so hard that she was knocked back a few feet.

"You will stay here, and you will guard them as long as I tell you to, do you understand?" I said before looking over at the others "and you'll stay too. If the guardians actually make it this far inside, you'll be needed for more than just guard duty."

"How do you know?" "How do you know they'll come?"

I turned and moved towards Lissa. I could see that she was trembling as I knelt down before her and peered into her eyes. I gripped my hand around her neck and tilted her face up so I could get a better look into her eyes.

"I know the guardians will come because Rose is watching," I said "Aren't you Rose?" I knew that she was watching through Lissa's eyes. That she could feel every touch of my hand.

"Your in there, Rose" "And you won't abandon either of them. You also aren't foolish enough to come alone are you? Maybe once you would have –but not anymore." I said as I though of the time when she had come to Russia –she had been alone then but she had learnt quickly.

Soon after that the guardians appeared just as I knew they would.

I waited for Rose to appear. I waited for her to cross the room to where I was standing beside both her friends. I watched her fight every movement swift and deadly just like I had taught her. She would have made a great Strigoi it was a petty that I would have to kill her…

"Your beautiful in battle," I said "Like an avenging angel come to deliver the justice to heaven."

"Funny," She said moving closer to me. "That is kind of why I'm here."

"Angels fall Rose."

"You've gone to a lot of trouble to get me here," she said.

"A lot of people are going to die –yours and mine." She added.

I shrugged that didn't concern me –I only wanted her.

"It doesn't matter" I replied, "None of them matter. If they die, then they obviously aren't worthy."

"Prey or predator" she muttered just before she reached me.

It was just us now –nobody else. I waited wanting her to make the first move but she was waiting for me to as well.

"All this death is because of you, you know," I said "If you'd let me awaken you…let us be together…well, none of this would have happened. We'd still be in Russia, in each other's arms, and all of your friends here would be safe. None of them would have died. It's your fault."

"And what about the people I would have had to kill in Russia?" she asked.

I moved a little before answering "They wouldn't be safe if I-"

Suddenly there was a crashing sound, which startled both of us. Christian had some how managed to free himself and Lissa. They wouldn't stand a chance against any Strigoi.

I heard Rose yell over to them "Stop it Stay out of the way!" With Rose distracted I moved in for the kill but somehow she managed to dodge my full force.

I laughed she should have been paying attention. Never take your eyes off your abontant. A distraction could cost you your life. I remembered telling her that during one of our lessons together.

"I'd be impressed if that wasn't something a ten year-old could do. Now your friends…well, they're also fighting at a ten-year-old level. And for Moroi? That's actually good."

"Yeah, well, we'll see what your assessment is when I kill you," she said.

"You can't Rose. Haven't you figured that out by now? Haven't you seen it? You can't defeat me. You can't kill me. Even if you could, you can't bring yourself to do it. You'll hesitate. Again."

I leapt out and pulled Rose towards me, ready to kill her for once and for all. Another one of my men had the same idea and tried to steal her away from me. How dare he. I shot him an evil glare and bared my fangs.

"Mine!" I hissed before lashing out at the Strigoi before me.

I had been distracted for mere seconds. Everything after that happen so fast, that I barely had time to react.

Rose was pushed out of the way by both Christian and Lissa. I wasn't expecting that to happen and from the look on Roses face I'd say she wasn't either. But I was defiantly not expecting to see Lissa running towards me with a stake in her hand.

This amused me, did she really think that she would stand a chance against me. After all she was a Moroi with no training. It took many years for a dhampir to be ready to fight.

"No!" Rose screamed. Trying to save her friend.

Suddenly, a blazing wall of heat and flame appeared before me. The fire had shot up from the floor, forming a ring around me. I heard voices –screams. The flames were closing in on me tighter and tighter.

"" I screamed out in agony.

It began to consume my coat. Oh God. The pain as the hot firey flames attacked my now already burnt skin.

"Aahhhhhhhh…..aaaahhhhhhh."

The flames were all around me and I felt something pierce my skin. I tried to struggle but Lissa used all her weight to shove the stake deep into my heart.

My life flashed before my very eyes. Every memory I ever had, but the ones that were more important linger there longer. The first time I had meet Rose, our first kiss and of course my most precious memory –the cabin. Oh how I wished that we had stayed there even a little longer.

The last thing I saw was my Roza –the love of my life…

The light had faded as quickly as it had appeared and I realised that I was in fact lying on the ground with my head resting in Lissa's lap. She gentle stroked my hair, as I wept for all those that I had tortured and killed …

Ok so what did you think? Was it crap? Please let me know what you think. I'll try to update as soon as possible but its difficult cause my teachers are putting a lot of pressure on us.

-J