Author Note: There are three new characters that make a brief appearance, but, I do not own them! I wish I did. They belong to Spelling Entertainment and Warner Brothers. They may make another appearance, but I haven't decided on that far ahead.

Author Note 2: I will be going on vacation in about 8 days and I will not have time to write another chapter. I will be doing that when I get back. Of course, I'm always thinking of different situations to put them in.

Chapter 6-

We looked out the window once again, searching for anything that stood out, and there was it, a man, Strogoi, stepped out of the shadows, then another, and another. I couldn't keep count of how many of them had come out of the woods. It was going to be a massacre and we were in the middle of it again!

I couldn't believe that they found us. How did that happen? Was it because of Katie? Did they follow her or was it that they followed us? The guardian in me didn't care how they found us, it just wanted to fight, but the other part of me, the panicked part of me, said lets get the hell out of here!

"Dimitri..." My voice sounded panicked. God I hated that.

"What is it?" I heard Dimitri say.

"Strogoi found us..." That was all I heard Katie say.

The guys were by our sides in less than a second. Or at least it seemed like that. "They've found us!" I never took my eyes off of the window., but I knew they were near us!

"How did they find us?" I heard Christian ask but it didn't matter the answer. The Strogoi were already here.

I didn't even realize it but I had started crying. It was good while it lasted even for a day or so. Wait, what's going on I was beginning to feel stronger physically and emotionally. What could it be? Then it hit me: Lissa. She squeezed my hand and glanced down at our joined hands and then back up at her reassuring smile.

I reinforced your bracelet. I could feel how stressed you were becoming. I wanted to help in some way.

Thank god for her healing! I didn't know what I was going to do! Thanks! I glanced at Katie. It didn't take a scientist to figure out how guilty she was feeling. No one was blaming her though. It wasn't the time to! We had to figure out what we were going to do! We couldn't stand around gaping out the window, afraid, and looking like idiots!

"God, I can't believe I led them here." Katie ran a hand through her. "I'm so sorry!" She turned to face us.

It didn't matter who led them here, they're here! "It's not your fault, its no ones fault." Katie just glanced at me and the look on her face said she wasn't believing that. "We're gonna get through this. We just have to work together." Even that I didn't believe, but we still had to try! Even if we had to use offensive magic, though only one of us was really efficient at that! Christian!

"What are we going to do?" Lissa glanced at each of us.

There was only one thing we could do...

"We fight." Dimitri had finished my sentence for me. "We do what we can to stay alive!"

Stepping away from us, Katie had begun to pace nervously. "I've got to fix this."

"How are you going to fix this?" I didn't know what she was talking about but she beginning to panic, though she didn't answer me. She headed towards the kitchen and ruffling through the drawers before she found what she was looking for. "What are you going to d?" I saw the candles in her hands. "What are you going to do with candles?"

"I"m going to summon some friends that can help them!" Katie finally said as she set the candles in a circle around her, lighting them along the way.

Summon? Why am I debating this? In the human world, this would be a myth. In my world, this was really happening! Vampire's were going to attack us in less than three days?

Dimitri shook his head. He didn't want any part of that. "We don't have time for this." He glanced out the window, thinking strategy. "Magic is not going to help us now even if we use offensive magic!"

On some level, I could understand where Dimitri was coming from, but if these people could help us, why not? It looked like we're going to need all the help we can get.

"What can these friends do?" Lissa asked curiously.

I sure wanted to know!

"Things you wouldn't believe!" Katie said in a matter-of-fact way.

Lissa wanted to take part some how. "What do you want us to do?"

Glancing at Christian and I, and said, "You two keep the Strogoi away while I summon my friends." She tucked a strand of hair behind her hair, looking nervous as we were feeling. "Lissa, you do nothing, but keep yourself safe."

Christian and I nodded. Dimitri still kept quiet. I don't think that he thought magic was appropriate at this time. I watched Katie's lifted her hands in the hair, and closed her eyes. It looks as though she was concentrating on something. Maybe her summoning spell?

"Power of three I summon three, Power of three come to me." The wind began to whip our hair around. I was a little freaked about this, but I'd seen magic before. Dimitri finally glanced over at Katie as she repeated her spell over and over again, but he didn't have time to think anymore about it when we heard the door being ripped off its hinges. I knew that meant the Strogoi were here, coming for us! I could hear the elevator come to life and hit our floor a moment later. Dimitri placed his hand on me, I wasn't even sure when he'd came to stand next to me. "Are you okay to fight?" He glanced at me thoughtfully.

Actually! Yes! I was! Thanks to Lissa! Otherwise, I'd be a puddle of goo on the floor!

The door suddenly flew open and eight large Strogoi entered. I was ready for a fight. I could hear the Strogoi climbing up the building and trying to break the glass, but having no luck! They weren't my concern at the moment. Dimitri and I moved in front of Lissa and Christian.

I glanced over at Katie briefly and I thought I saw something flicker near her but I didn't have time to really worry about that with a Strogoi coming at me.

"Christian..." I said over my shoulder. "Keep her safe!"

"Count on it!" I knew that Christian would keep his word. We just had to stop the Strogoi in their tracks.

I moved forward and the Strogoi and I danced around, studying each other, and he took the first punched, but I ducked, and hit him with a low sweeping kick. It knocked him on his ass. It was kind of strange! He was light on his feet, literally and wasn't really as strong as before. Weird. Then it hit me, these were decoy's. The bigger ones were coming! I pushed the thought of my mind and reached for my back pocked for a stake! Shit! No stake! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid.

The Strogoi flipped up to his feet and reached out and grabbed me by the neck. I flashed back to the Strogoi who pulled me out of the car and before I knew it, we were on the ground. I was gasping for air, but I knew that I couldn't let what happened before, happen now. I had to turn the tables. Somehow!

There was only one surefire way to take down any man, Strogoi included, knee him in the balls. I brought my knee up as hard as I could. I saw the look in his eye as he let go and I punched him in the face. He went flying against the wall. As I stood up, he was crispy vampire. What the hell?

It was Christian. It reminded me of the time he and I worked together when our school was being attacked. I glanced back at him and nodded my thanks! I made a quick sweep around the room and saw Dimitri holding his own. Out of no where, Katie rushed over and started fighting with a Strogoi, also holding her own.

I was momentarily in shock when I saw a ripple in the air. I had no idea what it was. Maybe it was the way Katie's friends were going to arrive. I didn't come up with an answer and turned to my next Strogoi. We danced around for a bit, studying each other, much like I had with the last one. I saw my in and I took it. I punched him in the face, though it wasn't as effective as I had hoped it would be. This Strogoi was going to be tough one to beat.

Out of the corner of my eye, an even larger Strogoi came through the door. The real fight was coming at us. I couldn't think of that now. I weaved and dodged away from the vampire in front of me and managed to kick some kicks and punches in on him, but it still wasn't enough. How was I going to take the rest of them out without a stake? I didn't even know where one was to begin with or even if we had one.

There it was, a frame made of wood hanging by the door. I was so close. If I could just reach it, this vampire would be out of its misery. I ducked out of the way and rolled towards the wall, and I couldn't got to my feet, grabbed the frame, broke it over my knee, and thankfully there was a point sharp enough to stake the Strogoi through the heart. I didn't have to do much, he came at me, and I shoved the damn thing in his hard and twisted it back and forth. It took him by surprise, he stopped, stood there for a moment, before falling to the floor, dead.

Glancing over at Katie and Dimitri, they'd taken out their Strogoi. That was two down, and many more to go. The other Strogoi were still trying to get inside through the window. There was no way the three of us could make it. Where the hell where those friends of Katie's? We could use them about now!

I saw Katie fly over my head and land on the sofa. Dimitri went next, but he hit the wall instead. Oh no! I turned back to see the Strogoi edging in on me. I couldn't even count how many there were. A memory flashed before me, Dimitri had one told me that the best thing to do in a situation like this was was run. But there was no where to run and I certainly couldn't leave anyone by themselves.

DUCK! A voice inside my head ordered.

Duck? Huh! That was a not a voice I was familiar with! I glanced around and found three women, all with dark hair standing behind me! They looked like sisters. Maybe these were the friends Katie had been talking about.

The middle one with the longest of dark hair raised her hands out in front of her. "Say good bye Gracey!" She flicked them and as I turned my head, the Strogoi had been blow up in one big, fiery display. Wow! I was totally sunned. That was some power. Who the hell where these women? They weren't any Strogoi outside either when I turned to look at the women again.

"What the hell..." I was totally amazed. I never seen anyone with that kind of fire power before. I always assumed that Moroi with Spirit were pretty powerful but this woman, was beyond powerful! Nothing I'd ever seen.

"Paige!" The one on the right had said. She looked to be 4 months along. "Help them!" They rushed over to Katie first.

I slowly made my way over to Katie and watched, assuming this woman kneeling next to Katie, was Paige. She held up her hands and they began glowing.

"She's healing her, isn't she?" Lissa had asked. I could tell that she was sensing that and all their power. Hell I could feel it too, but I was still awestruck.

"Yes." The pregnant replied hurriedly. She watched Lissa carefully. "You're a healer too!"

"I am...how did you know?" Lissa asked curiously.

"I'm Phoebe by the way..." She said. "And I am empath. Currently I am learning how to read auras. Yours is very bright much like a powerful witches would be."

Lissa was so excited to find out that someone else had a similar power than she had, even the power that she and I shared. "I'm not so good at it, but I'm still learning. Better at it than I was a year ago!" Lissa was just being modest, when she was concentrating, she was good! After all, she learned from the best.

I couldn't believe that they were talking shop when Dimitri was hurt. He hadn't woken up yet. I knelt down next to him, and made him comfortable. With the blood at his hairline, I guess that Dimitri hit his head pretty hard. "Dimitri..." I whispered, I couldn't deal with losing him again. "Someone please heal him."

The sisters, Lissa, Katie, and Christian rushed to our side. Lissa knelt down next to Dimitri and I. She glanced up, "Now you can see what I can do." She placed her hand at his hairline, and closed her eyes. I could tell that she was concentrating on healing him. After a moment, Dimitri's eyes fluttered open, and he glanced up at me. I leaned in and kissed him.

"Are they gone?" Lissa finally asked, giving us a moment to Dimitri and I.

"Pretty much," Phoebe had said. "We'll check the perimeter."

The sisters disappeared out the door. I helped Dimitri stand. He glanced at Lissa, knowing she had helped him. "Thanks!" He hugged her.

"You know I would have done it any how!" Lissa smiled at him.

"It looks like the Strogoi are gone..." Katie said, she was nodding to herself. I knew that look, did she had another power we weren't aware of? "The sisters are coming back." They walked through the front door and Paige stood by the door. She was chanting something quietly and the door suddenly, slowly, went back in place. It was like someone hit rewind. Cool! She walked back over to us.

Nope, she doesn't have the power, I do!

It was that same voice in my head. I glanced around and knew it was Paige. Interesting!

"We took care of any stragglers out there, but they could be back," the elders sister had said. She'd realized she hadn't given her name. "Oh I'm, Piper by the way."

"I think there's something else we could do that would protect you." Phoebe tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "You got a pad and pen?"

"Yes!" Katie said and headed for the kitchen. She went through the doors and a moment later, she brought back a pen and pad, handing it to Phoebe.

Quickly, Phoebe jotted something down, and the sisters stood in the center of the room with their eyes closed, and began chanting something that I could not understand. After they'd said the chat a few times, a purplish-blue haze build up within them and it grew and grew until it enveloped the whole building. The haze popped and they opened their eyes and let go of each others hands.

They were so professional about magic, it was almost like they did this thing regularly.

"Pretty much," Paige had replied aloud.

I was beginning to hate when this woman, Paige, got in my head. It wasn't so bad when Lissa did it. At least she was learning to give me privacy. I imagined the door in front of me and I closed and locked it. I just hoped that it kept her out.

"Thank you," Katie said. "I appreciate this!"

"You better!" Piper narrowed her eyes at her friend. We've saved your ass like twice now! You owe is something dinner, lady!" She smiled jokingly.

"What did she do?" I was interested.

"Nope!" Katie shook her head with a smile. "You don't get to know that!" She laughed. "I'll just say that I met them a few years ago and they're the ones who got me interested in the supernatural."

"As I said, we saved your ass!" Piper raised her eye brown!

Katie just rolled her eyes. It was as if Katie was apart of their family. Maybe she was. Who knew?

Paige smirked. "Aww, why don't you just tell them, Katie!"

A story. An interesting one at that! The sisters seemed different, like they weren't off this realm but that was not possible, was it? Aww, who am I kidding. There are vampires, ghosts, and alchemist! The next logical conclusions were witches! Why not? My world was crazy enough!

"That's a story for another time!" Katie dodged. "Have you heard anymore about the Strogoi!"

"None in our..." Piper stopped herself. None in our, what was that supposed to mean? "We haven't run into many vampires but if we do, we'll let you know."

"None in our, what?" I had to ask. That was just fishy if you ask me!

"It's best not to say too much," She replied cryptically.

Okay, we're going to play that game!

"Do you know why some Strogoi are stronger than others?" That was a question that had nagged me from the beginning. They had to have known or Katie wouldn't have called them.

"From what we've been able to gather," Piper slowly began, I could tell she was debating how much to tell us, "a witch had enhanced them magically."

Figures! "Do you know who this witch is?" Dimitri had asked.

"No, but we're trying to narrow it down!" Phoebe replied cautiously. "It's gonna take some time!"

Take some time? Are you kidding me? We don't have much time! So many people – human, guardian, and Moroi – have all died. Someone had to stop it and it didn't look like these three sisters were doing much of anything!

Paige glanced at each of us, nervous look on her face, and she then glanced over at her sisters. "We've got to go!"

"Wait..." Lissa stepped forward.

"Our window of opportunity is slipping by," Paige tried to explain, just as cryptic as her sister. "I'm sorry, we must go!"

"We'll keep in contact." Piper took each of her sisters hands and they disappeared in a bright blue white light. We stood there stunned, we'd never seen magic like that, nor did we ever imagine it ever existed.

"Now that the Strogoi are gone for now, what do we do?" Lissa had finally asked.

"We wait," Dimitri had simply said.

TBC