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Chapter 3-The revelation

After I reached my room after the little 'confrontation' with Dimitri, I had about an hour left until my classes would start. I went for a nice quick hot shower and quickly changed my clothes in to something more appropriate for the weather. Once I walked out of the dhampirs dorm, I am greeted by cold water hitting me in the face. After a second glance I could tell it was snow. And it was starting to snow heavily. Thank God I wore my burgundy jumper today. Walking to the gym where my first class of the day would be, I am met with a sea of smiles. The one that stuck out most was a boy with red fiery locks. Mason. After everything that happened in Spokane he has been constantly trying to make sure I'm ok the whole time. I can tell he worries but there really is no need. I've been through worse...

"Where the hell have you been?" He says laughing.

"Well. Hello, to you too Mase." I say with a large grin.

"Come here Rose." He pulls me into a large hug that I give back.

"I've missed you, Rose. Tell me everything." He says with a hint of curiosity in his aura.

"Sure." That's when the instructors tell us to get to work immediately. "Later Mase, I'll tell you later."

The instructors tell us to pair up and I immediately go to Masons side.

"I'm gonna kick your ass today Mase." I whisper in his ear.

"Sure because the last time you missed school you were pretty bad at all this when you got back. You remember that 2 year break right. With you and Lissa." He says slyly hinting at our little disappearance two years ago. I wasn't supposed to go, but something didn't feel right and I had to get Lissa out of here. She is my best friend after all. In those two years, I never stopped hunting but I would go out when Lissa was sleeping and go after a demon or two. I know. It was a bad idea. What if a strigoi came for Lissa? Well that's why I left Toothless there, hiding in the shadows, watching Lissa.

"Right, of course." We quickly get into fighting stances. The dhampir way of fighting that is. It's so bad. I mean the dhampirs are good fighters, no doubt about that, but they aren't good enough. That's why they are losing the fight against the strigoi.

Once the lesson is over, Mason lies on the floor, tired out. I don't know why. It's not like he did anything. All he did was get his ass kicked... Multiple times.

"Well, it's good to see that you haven't lost your awesome fighting skills Rose." Mason says with a smile.

"Thanks Mase, but if you don't mind me saying, it seems your skills have mysteriously disappeared." I say with a grin.

"So... where have you been?" He finally asks after a few seconds of heavy silence.

"Yeah Rose, where have you been?" Eddie says when he reaches us with a knowing look in his eyes. Like he doesn't already know.

"New York. An old friend needed help." I am so gonna get sick of telling this story to everyone today.

"Nice, well you can tell me the rest later, but first I want to know what's the plan with Lissa. She's so pissed off at you. I mean she even said she doesn't want you as her guardian anymore." Mason says sympathetically.

"Yeah I know. I'll talk to her at lunch." I'm seriously regretting not telling her anything about my trip right now. It might not have been the smartest thing to do.

"Well good luck. You're gonna need it." We all laugh at that while making our way to our next class with Stan Alto. Yay...

Stan's class was just the same as always with him acting the same way to me as he did when I first came back with Lissa. He is such a dick. Most of the novices hate him and his superior attitude. The amount of times I've been closed to punching him is too many to remember. All through class Eddie, Mason, the other novices and I are going out of our way to annoy him. Mason keeps asking about my trip to New York and every time I'd say ' I'll tell you at lunch'.

The whole lesson I could feel Dimitri's eyes burning into my back. It didn't help that I could hear his mind as well as everyone's around me. It happens sometimes. The darkness I take from Lissa has started to make me lose control over my powers at certain moments. But only my telepathy. It doesn't happen often but it's still happens. Eddie, Shane, Emily, Scott, Tyler and Jacob know about it along with my family and the Hunters and Elementals closest to me. And not forgetting the Elders council as well. They are our version of government but we get a lot more say in everything unlike the Moroi, Dhampirs and humans. They also seem to know everything. Literally...

All through class I could hear everyone's voices.

I can't wait till lunch. I need to know what happened in New York.

God, can't Mason wait a few lessons. He's so enthusiastic just to hear about my week-long trip. But so is every other novice except for my team of course.

I know she loves me. I just know. I know her better than anyone. Without her I don't know what I'd do. Why does she seem so distant right now? Look at me Roza.

Don't look at him. I repeat to myself. It's hard not to. Especially as I can feel the love he has for me radiating off of him.

She thinks she can do whatever she likes because she's an amazing novice. Rose needs to be taught discipline. NOW!

He really does hate me. Well, I can safely say the feelings mutual.

Eddie-Clary, you lost control again, didn't you?

What? Eddie. How does he know?

Yeah, how did you know?

Eddie-I can tell. I just know you that well.

Shane-Keep calm Clary. It'll be over soon.

Shane too. Great. Is it that obvious? Well to them it probably is.

Jacob-If it's too much, leave the class Clary. Say you don't feel well.

Tyler-Yeah, we'll cover for you dude. No worries.

Thanks guys, but I'll be fine. It's not the first time.

I won't be fine. Every time this happens I feel pain all the way through my body, from head to toe. It's worst at my head but not by much. They know this as well but I won't let it get to me. I'll battle through it like I do each time. They don't usually last longer than an hour anyway.

Eddie-Ok but if you need us, we're here.

Two lessons later and it hasn't stopped. Everywhere I go I hear their thoughts. The Moroi in the hallways. Nearly all of them thinking about the same thing when they see me.

Oh my God Rose is back.

Where the hell has she been?

She probably got pregnant and had an abortion.

Here's the blood whore.

This is one of the reasons I hate most of the Moroi. They always believe rumours and it's annoying.

The dhampirs all thought the same thing really.

Look Rose is back. I wonder where she went.

And that was it. They are pretty laid back with that sort of stuff. It's one of the reasons I liked them so much.

My team's auras all showed they were worried and there thoughts were the same. But Dimitri's was the worst. He was in each of my classes, even though I was sure he was assigned different classes at those times. I'd have to check into that. Someone probably moved him to keep an eye on me. His thoughts were all over the place, a mess. One minute he was trying to figure out why I had acted the way I had since our reunion, the next he was reliving what had happened earlier today, then he was thinking about how he wanted it to happen, me and him declaring our love for each other to one another and being all in love and then he went into a few M rated thoughts, if you know what I mean, and then he blames himself for everything. That it was his fault. That was the most prominent thought of them all. It was also a lie. It's not his fault... It's mine.

It started to get too much after a while. It was ten minutes to the bell when the pain became too much. I'm trying hard not too scream out in pain. As a Hunter I am highly tolerant to pain but this was something I'd never experienced before and I nearly let it overtake me. Tyler noticing my expression that I have so well hid from everyone else but him because he's right next to me asks,

"Clary, are you okay?" He says in a whisper only a Hunters ears can hear. And to prove that only we can hear the rest of my team except for Emily and Scott who are with the Moroi turn around with worried looks on their faces but quickly covered before anyone notices. If I wasn't in pain right now, I would shout at Tyler for calling me by my real name even though no one else heard.

I can't talk the pain is so strong so I answer him by putting my index finger to the side of my head to indicate that it's the voices causing this.

"Okay, look there's only a few minutes left till lunch can you hold until then?" He says worried and casting a glance at the others to let them know what's going on. Shaking my head to say yes but only slightly because just the movement is painful.

"Just wait a bit. You're strong, you'll be fine." He says trying to convince me but I can see through the obvious lie that he doesn't believe it himself.

Words. All jumbled up in my head. I can't think straight. Wait... scratch that. I can't think at all.

The school bell goes off five minutes later which to me seems like an eternity right now. I quickly get out of class and run outside, trying not to draw any attention to myself, with the others following me. I need to scream. Running at the fastest speed I can possibly manage, I arrive deep in the cold forest where I fall to the snow-covered ground and scream. When the others including Scott and Emily arrive a minute later they all are shocked to find me in so much pain. They all come to me and hold me all saying soothing words to me but I don't hear them. The pain is all there is right now. All I can concentrate on.

Suddenly, I stop. Taking control again. I gather myself up with Toothless rising with me. He must of arrived before. His big cat-like eyes portraying the grief he feels for me. He always knows how I feel. The pain is still there but is manageable now. I must of subconsciously overtaken it. The others are looking at me with confused and anxious looks in their eyes. Toothless is rubbing his head into my side and I find peace in that small gesture. Breathing calmly now, I look at the others.

"I'm okay, slightly." I say with a smile but I know it's not real.

"Hey, you can tell us the truth Clary." Emily asks with friendly affection in her voice.

"It hurt. More than anything I've ever felt. It still does but not as much. Just enough for me to take control. I don't know what happened. All I know was I couldn't hear anything or see anything and then it decreased enough for it to not effect me as much."

"But you can still hear the voices?"

"Yeah, but they are dying down slowly."

Quickly, they all hug me knowing exactly what I need. Then Toothless curls up around me, just like he always does when I'm upset or in pain.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Shane asks obviously tense from what just happened.

"No but I'm as good as I can be." I say with a genuine smile which I receive back from all of them. There is no point in me lying to them by saying everything's fine because they'd just see right through it.

"Well, we should go to the canteen. I'm starving." Says Eddie.

"As am I." I say with mock seriousness even though I am.

"Nothing new there then." Says Jacob. We all laugh at that.

Leaving after saying goodbye to Toothless who was reluctant to leave my side, we run to the canteen with Hunter speed making sure we are not seen. And thankfully we're not. Outside, everyone is throwing snowballs at each other and looking at the wonder which is snow. Reaching the canteen we all walk through the doors and are met with the whole canteen staring at me. Wow! I didn't think they'd care this much about my disappearance but I bet some rumour has got a part to play in this.

Ignoring them all I head to the lunch queue which isn't very long seeing as it has been only like five minutes since the bell when off. Funny that. I swear it felt like centuries had past with all that pain. Just after I had gotten my food, everyone's thoughts in my head had stopped. Just like that. They went from being so loud that I can't think clearly to nothing in less than a second, thankfully the pain going with it. It always surprises me when that happens. Everytime I do a little flinch that you wouldn't notice if you didn't know.

They stopped. I say through a psychic message to the others.

"Good." Emily says with a thankful look on her face.

"Rose! Over here.!" Shouts Mason from the other side of the canteen. He's sitting at our usual table with everyone else I have dreaded seeing for days.

I send him a smile in his direction, glad to have someone who isn't pissed at me for leaving. Walking to the table with the other six in tow, we all sit down to what's going to be a welcoming conversation... Note the sarcasm... Lissa and Adrian with furious faces. Whereas Christian and Mia look at me with slightly happy and slightly frustrated faces. Probably because of the fact that I didn't tell them I went.

"Where the hell have you been?" Lissa says almost shouting. Her jade green eyes flashing with anger. I know it's not the darkness causing this and just me and my actions. I must have really pissed her off to make her react like this.

"New York." I say reluctantly.

"New York, what the fuck were you doing in New York, Little Dhampir?" Adrian says with a angry look on his face when I know by looking at his aura he isn't angry at me, but just worried.

"Probably getting some scumbag Moroi to feed off her. You know, blood whore things." Lissa says with a look of pure hatred on her face.

Blood whore? Did I hear that right?

"What?" I say, quickly getting angry myself.

"I said, blood whore." She shouts across the canteen so loud that now everyone is watching our little exchange.

What the fuck? What's wrong with Liss? Around the table I can see that everyone is shocked by what she has said. Looking at her aura I can see hatred written right across it.

"Blood whore? How the fuck am I a fucking blood whore?" I ask quickly standing up and shouting as loud as I can.

"You are a blood whore and I'm just thankful that you won't be my guardian anymore. Who knows what would of happened with you as a guardian?" A smug look crosses her face.

"Why don't you shut your royal mouth?" Says Emily quickly coming to my side to back me up.

"And who the fuck do you think you are?" Says Liss looking at Emily. But before either of us can answer she says,

"You know what. I don't care any more. I am done with you Rose. Go and be a little bitch with someone else." And with that she walks away. Christian following her but not before saying,

"I'm sorry Rose. She'll come around soon. She's just angry. It's good that you're back. I'll talk to you later." He says with an apologetic glance.

Falling to my seat. I put my head in my hands frustrated at Lissa and everything else. Blood whore. She called me a blood whore. What is going on with her?

"Rose, are you ok?" Adrian asks me coming to sit next to me. I look up to meet his face shrouded with concern.

"I'm fine. Really." He smiles at me sympathetically.

"So what were you doing in New York, Little Dhampir?" He asks. All traces of anger gone without a trace. I smile at him. Thankful for the sudden change of topic.

"I was helping a friend get away from her family for a bit. They were having a few problems." Lying easily. They all believe it but Adrian. Thankfully he doesn't say anything though.

"What else were you doing?" Mia asks me. Excited for some gossip.

"You know. The usual. We were shopping and hanging out." It's the truth. We did shop a bit. Sydney needed more bad ass clothes for hunting.

"Really? Lucky." She says with mock jealously.

"I know. But we were mainly just hanging out." Well, if you count hunting evil supernatural creatures hanging out then, yeah.

After our lunch which was spent debating whether or not Lissa would forgive me and catching up on the latest school gossip, the others all go off to do their own thing, leaving me with Adrian on my own.

"Why were you really in New York, Rose?" Here comes the questioning.

"I told you. I was..."

"Don't lie to me Rose. Your aura is telling me you're lying and the aura never lies." He says trying to lighten the situation. Thank God he does as well. I don't think I could of taken another serious conversation today.

What do I say? I can't tell him the truth. Or can I? Can I trust Adrian?

"Rose, whatever it is you can tell me." He says like he trusts me more than anything.

"No, I can't."

"What are you Rose?" What? I was not expecting that.

"I'm a dhampir. Obviously." What is he getting at?

"You're lying. I can see it."

"No. I'm not. Have you had too much to drink, Adrian?" He looks at me like he's debating whether or not to go on.

"In every single person's aura, there is a certain colour surrounding it," Wait, what? How does he know that? Only exceptionally strong spirit users can see that." and I believe that the colour surrounding a persons aura shows what species that person is. From what I've seen, Moroi have the colour light pink, dhampirs have purple and humans have dark orange. When I first saw you, I didn't see purple like I should for a dhampir." I'm trying my hardest not to look distressed but I know that it's not working. How does he know that? Adrian is a lot smarter than people give him credit for if he can work that out.

"What did you see?" Don't say sky blue. Please, don't say sky blue.

"Sky Blue." Fuck. " At first, I didn't think much of it. I just passed it off as a symptom of the darkness you have. But then, I saw Eddie and realised he was the same. He had sky blue surrounding his aura too. And so does Shane, and Tyler, and Jacob. If you five weren't as close as you are, I probably wouldn't of thought much about it. But you five are hiding something and I have a good guess that Emily Hawthorne and Scott Michaels are in on whatever your secret is. Especially when I saw you all earlier. Laughing like best friends when I have never seen you all hang out together" Oh shit. "They have gold surrounding their aura by the way." Gold... that's the colour surrounding an Elementals aura. Hopefully he hasn't made the connection between us and the Hunters and Elementals.

Guys, Adrian's on to us. I say through a psychic message to my team.

Emily-What?

Yeah. He's starting to figure it out. He already knows we aren't Moroi or Dhampir.

Scott-How?

He says he can see it in our auras.

Shane-Wait. Like you can?

Yes.

Emily-Can he sense it like you?

I don't know. What should I do?

Eddie-The Elders.

Good idea, I'll message Gaius.

Gaius...?

Gaius-Yes, what's wrong?

Adrian Ivashkov knows we aren't dhampir or Moroi.

Gaius-What? How?

He can see it, sky blue for Eddie, Shane, Tyler, Jacob and I, and gold for Emily and Scott.

Gaius-He must be a powerful spirit user to do that.

Do I tell him the truth or not?

Gaius-I don't know. Wait a second. I shall ask the Elder's council now.

Okay. I'll wait

"I haven't told anyone Rose. I won't tell anyone. You can trust me." Adrian says in a way that shows me I can, indeed, trust him. But should I risk it?

"Can I?" I need to be sure. If I tell him and it backfires... then everything is over.

"Of course." He says, nearly pleading with me to trust him.

"When I tell you. You won't trust ME. You'll want me dead." Probably. I wouldn't blame him for it either... Well, maybe a little bit.

"Why would I want that Rose? I could never want that. I love you Rose." No, you don't Adrian. Not the real me.

"You won't when you know the truth."

"What do you mean Rose?" I mean I'm the person you Moroi and Dhampirs are hunting. This situation is just great. Where the hell are the Elders? I need help!

Elder-Can we trust him?

"Can we trust you Adrian, like really trust you?" Please say yes.

"Yes." He says we can trust him. His aura says we can trust him. My instincts say we can trust him, but I don't want to risk it at the same time.

"You have to promise me that you won't tell anyone ever."

"I won't."

Yes. We can.

Elder-Tell him. If he reacts badly, compell him to forget.

He's a spirit user and a powerful one at that. It might not work.

Elder-Then, you may have to kill him. Unless you find another way. This is your choice Clary. But having a Moroi, and the great-grandson of the queen at that, on our side will help immensely. Your choice. Choose wisely.

I'm gonna tell him.

Tyler-Are you sure?

Yes.

Shane-Then we are with you all the way.

Jacob-100%.

Thanks guys.

Emily-Good luck, Charlie.

Thanks Em.

"Emily and Scott are Elementals and Eddie, Shane, Jacob, Tyler and I are Hunters." Phew. I've said it. I just hope it wasn't a huge mistake.

"What?" Yep. We are going to die. He's going to tell everyone now, isn't he.

"We are Hunters and Elementals."

"Why are you here?"

"To try and stop this war."

"Why? I thought you wanted us dead." I accidentally scoff at that remark. And in comes the true idiocy of the Moroi. Always believe what they are told by their superiors.

"No. We haven't killed any of your kind in centuries." I say with a slight smile from the unbelievable situation we are in right now.

"So everything they say is a lie."

"Yes." I say anxiously. Why is he not screaming his head off? Why is he so calm?

"Those deaths. They were strigoi attacks, weren't they?" What? That was not what I expected. Maybe Adrian really is smarter than anyone gives him credit for.

"Yes."

"You aren't working with them, are you?" No. No way in hell. But he doesn't ask it like a question. More like a statement.

"Nope. The complete opposite. We hunt them down and kill them." A lot better than the dhampirs, if I do say so myself.

"Tell me everything."

"Wait. So you don't want to kill us." I'm shocked. I never expected Adrian to react like this.

"No, you may not realise this, but a few Moroi and Dhampirs don't want to kill you and don't believe you want us dead." What? This is news to us. Every Moroi or Dhampir we've come across have wanted us dead. It can't be. That's impossible.

"Really? And you probably shouldn't believe everything they told you about us in general, to be honest. It's all fake."

"Yes, really. And what do you mean?" He asks curiously.

"What do you know about us? What did they teach you?" I say wanting to hear what the Moroi and Dhampirs claim as fact.

"They say that you, the Hunters, and the Elementals are emotionless, which I can see is a lie, and that silver stakes are the only way to kill you as they have the same effect on you as Strigoi but I have seen you touch a silver stake so that's a lie. Another one it seems. The Elementals can control an element and that they use it to kill us. Apparently, you have teamed up with the Strigoi to bring the Moroi and dhampirs to extinction and have been hunting us for centuries now. 500 years ago, there was a battle where you attacked us and we won. I never believed that. If you were so powerful, how could we have won. So I'm assuming that there was no battle." He's right, slightly. How did he work all that out?

"There was, but not the same one as you were told. I'll explain later." It's complicated. Like really complicated. We don't even know the full story yet.

"Okay. So what else? Let me think. Nothing else really. Just that the Hunters and Elementals are the children of the Strigoi and how you are just mortal Strigoi. Oh and you also apparently drink blood. Let me guess. All lies."

"Every single bit." I say laughing. And I mean really laughing, like on the floor, holding my stomach, can't breathe laughing. "First things first. We aren't emotionless as you can see." He nods and laughs. "Secondly, silver stakes don't do shit to us unless you staked us through the heart but that would kill anyone. Also, you should know that it's possible for an Elemental to control either one, two, three, four or five elements."

"Wait, what?"

"Yep."

"So Elementals can control Spirit."

"Yes, a few can and so can I. But most Elementals only control one or two these days. With the population of the Elementals decreasing, so has the amount of them that can control three or more elements."

"You have spirit! How? They didn't teach us anything about Hunters using the elements in school."

"Yeah. I bet they didn't. I can also control fire by the way."

"What? Rose, that's awesome." Enthusiasm is spiking all the way through his aura now.

"Yeah. I know." I say proudly.

"What else?" He says, just wanting more information more than anything.

And then the bell rang signalling the end of lunch and the start of the rest of the lessons.

"I'll explain the rest later but right now I have lessons to get too. But I can tell you what's wrong with what you told me you were all taught. We haven't killed a Moroi or dhampir in 300 years and even then it was an accident. We don't work with the Strigoi but actively kill them instead. A lot better than the dhampirs as well, if you don't mind me saying. We don't drink blood and we aren't the children of the Strigoi but Hunters are half Elemental and half human. And the battle and everything else I promise I'll explain later."

"Okay. Thank you for trusting me Rose." He says reluctant to not ask another question.

"Thank you for letting me trust you Adrian." And with that I quickly run off. Trying not to be late for my lesson. I hope I haven't just made a huge mistake. But I don't think I have.