Okay, so here is another chapter. Sorry I wasn't able to update sooner, but i don't have internet at home. That means that the only place i can update, is at school. I also had a bit of writers block and couldn't think of anything to write. Not even the chapters name. Okay, I have some good news and some bad news, the bad news is that there is a part in this chapter where Rose has to do a bit of fighting. The good news, well, I'll let you read and find out. (ha ha, I'm evil aren't I?)
Disclaimer: I do not own Vampire Academy, even though I would love to. It belongs to Richelle Mead, who also owns the Storm Born and Succubus Blues series.
CHAPTER 4: Vegas Surprises
ROSE POV
We landed in Vegas without any problems. After we got out of the airport, we immediately got in the first taxi we could find (we needed two taxi's to fit all of us). When we told the cab drivers our destination, they went right off their heads. We promised them extra if they would drive us there.
Our destination was Robert's house. It was basically, the only place we knew we could stay without anyone from the moroi world suspecting where we were.
When we got there, we paid the cab drivers and went inside. Surprisingly, the door was unlocked. And thankfully, the kitchen was full of food. We were all hungry, so Christian said he would make some dinner, but on one condition.
"What Christian? What is this condition?" I asked warily.
"Why Rose, my little condition is that you help me cook," he replied sweetly.
At that, Lissa burst out laughing.
"What is so funny Lissa?" Kaycee asked.
"She . . . she . . . she can't . . ." Lissa gave up trying so say anything. She was laughing too hard.
Rose, you tell them. Lissa told me in her mind.
"She was going to say that I can't cook. And she would be right. I can't cook." I told the others.
"Then how did you get by during the two years that you were gone from the Academy?" Abe asked.
"Easy, mostly she cooked. When she didn't feel like cooking, we ate out. But when we were living with some college students, we would ask them to cook." I said, trying not to laugh.
"Oh," the others all chorused.
"But, I can do some things, and I will help, I'm not completely useless." I added.
The others left the room, carrying Lissa, as she had fallen to the ground, clutching her stomach from laughing too hard. I got cooking with Christian.
After dinner, we grabbed our things and chose what room we wanted to stay in.
I fell asleep pretty quickly. I was exhausted. I woke up feeling nauseous. I got up quickly and grabbed my mother's stake that I still had. I walked out of my room and got everyone else up.
They were tired, but alert.
"What is it Rose? You better have a good reason for waking me up." Christian grumbled.
"Oh? I feel nauseous. I don't really feel nauseous unless I am sick, or there are strigoi near me. Is that reason enough?" I snapped.
"Are you sure that there are strigoi here?" Abe asked.
"I don't know. I – " I was cut off by Tatiana appearing in front of me. "You know, this is the second time you have done that?" I asked her.
"Second time who has done what Rose?" Adrian asked.
I waved him off and felt a weird probing in my mind. I looked over at Lissa and saw that her eyes were a blank.
"Wow," I murmured.
"Rose, there are strigoi here, there are wards around the house, but they are bringing humans. Be careful, I cannot do anything to help." Tatiana whispered.
I looked at her and was shocked at her expression. It was of fear, anxiety and shock.
"Oh my god!" Lissa suddenly gasped.
"What Lissa?" Kaycee asked.
"Queen Tatiana is here, I saw her!" everyone, including me, looked at her.
"How can you see her?" Adrian asked.
"Well, not me exactly, but Rose. I slipped into her mind and saw Tatiana." She explained.
"Okay, Tatiana, what do you propose we do?" I asked. I was trying to come up with a plan. I looked out of the window and saw – holy fucking mother of God – there were around thirty strigoi there. And about three humans. How was I supposed to keep the Moroi safe with that many strigoi just outside? I would be lucky if I got out of it alive with forty fully trained guardians there to help me and without any Moroi there to protect. Instead, I was here, by myself, with five Moroi to keep safe.
"Rose? What is it? Why do you look so panicked?" Abe asked me, worry was in his voice.
I looked at him, "Umm, trust me, you don't want to know." I said, my voice was trembling.
I felt even more nauseous. I looked back out the window and saw that the humans had broken the wards.
"Oh shit. Holy fucking mother of fucking god!" I cursed.
"Rose?" everyone chorused.
"AAHH!" Lissa screamed.
I whirled to look at her. Her eyes were hollow, scared. I realised that she wasn't being attacked, she had been in my mind again and had seen the strigoi.
"Rose, what are we going to do?" Lissa asked, she was terrified, you could hear t in her voice.
"I don't know Liss, I don't fucking know." I murmured back.
Tatiana appeared in front of me, along with Mason, Lissa's brother Andre, and three other Moroi I didn't know.
"Rose, we can help you, but you have to trust us," Mason said hurriedly.
"How? How could you possibly help me? You're dead." I whispered in shock.
"Rose, you can absorb us. Take us inside of you, and you will have our power. Our strength, our speed. But you need to trust us." Tatiana said.
"But how? I trust you will help me, but how?" I asked.
"All we needed to hear was that you trusted us." Andre said.
"Samuel, you first, then Nathan. Tia, you will go next, then Mason, Andre, and I will go last. Now hurry. Go!" Tatiana ordered.
The ghosts came right in front of me, and started to move into me. That was when I blacked out.
When I woke up, I immediately felt stronger. Everyone was looking down at me concerned.
"Oh thank God Rose, are you okay?" Lissa asked.
"Yeah, in fact, I feel fantastic. How long have I been out?"
"A few seconds, that's all," Christian answered.
"Yeah, but those few seconds scared the hell out of us all, and don't deny it. Any of you," added Lissa.
I was about to say something when I heard a voice in my head, and it wasn't Lissa's or mine.
Rose, trust us, you now have our powers. You can control all the elements. That was Tatiana's voice.
Yea, you are also faster and stronger than before. Okay, now I was freaking out. That was Mason's voice.
You can also use compulsion. We will give you the knowledge to use these powers. You will need them. I didn't know that voice, but it was female, so I guessed that it was that other ghost named Tia.
I suddenly felt a rush in my head and felt knowledge rain on me. Now I knew how to use all of the elements. Okay, this was great, I could use them to defeat the strigoi.
"Okay, be careful and don't get in my way. I am going to kill these strigoi. They are going to regret messing with Rose Hathaway." I told the Moroi.
Before I even finished my sentence, strigoi started pouring into the hallway.
"Hmm, what first?" I asked myself.
The strigoi were getting close, fast. I turned to Christian for help.
"So, would you like to help Christian?" I asked.
"Sure," and with that, he threw a fireball at the strigoi and I staked it.
We kept it up, but by the tenth strigoi, Christian was starting to tire out.
"Christian, take a break, you need to rest!" I gasped.
A strigoi had me around the neck, I threw him over my shoulder and staked him.
Another strigoi was coming up behind that one, I threw a ball of fire at him and burnt hm to a crisp.
The fight continued on like that, and before I knew it, it was over. The strigoi were dead and the Moroi were safe and unharmed. I was surprised that I got out of it with only a few scratches and cuts.
I was about to turn towards the Moroi when I saw one of the strigoi move slightly. I walked over to him, crouched down, and staked him.
I rose from my crouch and looked around the hallway. There were still some fires going, so I called on water to put the flames out.
I turned around and laughed at the expressions on the Moroi. I can't explain it, you had to see it. The closest i can get, is that their expressions had shock, fear, and confusion.
"You look . . . like . . . you just saw . . . two strigoi's . . . going at it!" I said between laughs.
Christian was the only one to actually snap out of it. "Rose, is it just me, or did you just use fire and water?"
I didn't say anything, I was wondering what I should tell them when I heard Tatiana in my head.
You can tell them everything. The truth, we will still be here. Don't worry, we won't abandon you when you need help. You need to find the other Dragomir and prove your innocence in my murder.
"I'll answer you, but do you want the hard truth or do you want it sugar coated?" I asked.
"Just answer me. The truth,"
"Okay, a warning, you might not belie – no, let me rephrase that, you won't believe me." I stalled.
"Stop stalling and just tell us," Christian said, barely controlling his annoyance.
"Okay! Okay, Tatiana, Ma . . . Mason and three other ghosts, all showed up. They told me that they could help me, but I would have to trust them. I told them that I trusted them, and I 'absorbed' them into me. That was when I passed out. When I woke up, they spoke to me in my head. They told me that I can now control the elements and I am now as fast and strong as a strigoi."
They looked at me like I had been hit in the head too hard.
"Rose, are you feeling okay? You're sounding a bit delusional."
Christian, you could trust him to be honest.
Before I could answer him, Lissa jumped in, "She's telling the truth, I can see it in her mind."
"I believe you Rose," Kaycee spoke up.
"I will trust in your judgement Rose. After what just happened, I cannot deny that what you said is true," Abe murmured. (A/N: I know, that sounds cheesy, but it sounded right in my head.)
"I will always believe you Rose, you know that," Adrian said, coming to me to give me a kiss.
We all looked at Christian, he was the only one left to agree.
He looked back at us, and I saw it when he gave in, "Okay, I guess you're right. So . . . what do we do now? We can't stay here,"
He was right. We couldn't stay here. What do we do now?
Go to Dallas, Texas. You will find a lead to the lost Dragomir there. Good luck.
I thought this over. It was the best lead we were going to get.
"We go to Dallas, Texas. Tatiana says that we will find a lead there." I told the others.
"A lead to what?" Abe asked.
"A lead to the lost Dragomir," Kaycee said quietly.
"The what?" Adrian asked.
"The Lost Dragomir. I'm sorry Liss, but your father had an affair in Vegas. The woman he was with, had his child nine months later. Andreas gave me a letter that Tatiana wrote before she died. It told me that there was another Dragomir and I had to find them so that I could get Lissa on the council. She doesn't know if it is Moroi, Dhampir, boy or girl, or how old they are. So it will be near impossible to find them. Tatiana says that my next lead is in Dallas." I told them.
"I have a brother or sister?" Lissa whispered in shock.
I went over to her and hugged her. Murmuring in her ear that everything was going to be okay.
All of a sudden, I felt a rush of happiness and excitement. "Ha ha, I have a brother or sister!" Lissa exclaimed.
"Yeah, I guess so!" I said back. Lissa and I started jumping up and down squealing.
"I guess that settles it, we are going to Dallas!" Adrian yelled over the noise we were making.
We packed our stuff up, called a taxi, called the airport and ordered plane tickets.
When the taxi arrived, we got in and started off to the airport.
Yay! We were on our way to find the lost Dragomir child!
A/N: okay, so there we go. I am a little worried about how people will react to this chapter. At the moment, this is my favorite chapter. It was hard to write, as I am not very good at writing long chapters. Please review and tell me what you think. By the way. I need some more people to be strigoi. If no one wants to be the strigoi, I might need to change people who wanted to be dhampir into strigoi instead. I also need two to three more people who want to be moroi. No more dhampir as I have enough. The first three people to review that they want to be moroi, win. Same with those who choose strigoi.
Also, i am sry, but i won't be able to update regularly anymore, as i am in yr 10 at school and need to do homework, assignments, etc. I will try and update as much as I can, but another problem, is that some people want me to write longer chapters. It took me, like, almost a week to write this chap. And it is hardly anything by some peoples standards. Again, i am sry for not updating sooner. Ok, i need to go now. Dinner is here! Yumm! Spinach and fetta pizza! (i'm a vege head, i don't eat meat. YUK!)
