Chapter 7

I walked over to the other room to find Christian and Lissa making-out. Gross. Seriously, I didn't know how to react about this I just stood there stunned. Well, let me rephrase this all; it wasn't a make-out but a total sex scene standing up.

"Oh my god!" I covered both of my eyes. "Jesus Christ!"

I heard Lissa giggling as I turned around and walked back into my room. Closing it behind me I slid down and wrapped my arms around my legs. They are so much in love and here I am, alone. All I live for is for Lissa. I have no one to love me back…I thought I did. But in the end love just stabbed me in the heart and twisted the knife so deeply that it almost killed me. I thought I was so deeply in love that he and I would be together forever but no. No, he went behind and fell for someone else. I should have seen it coming but I couldn't, I was to blinded by the truth.

Standing back up I stripped off my shirt and stood staring myself in a mirror. There were small black and blue marks on my body from the fight with Kyra. I grabbed a new black shirt and pulled it over my head. Quickly pulling my hair up into a bun I heard a knock from the door.

"You can come in." I was still facing the mirror and had a pretty good view of the door.

Walking in Dimitri stood there. He kept a steady hand on the doorknob. "Everyone is in position."

All I could do is nod. Passing by him I caught a hold of his after-shave scent. The scent brought back so many memories that clouded my eyes and formed stupid little moist bubbles in them.

"Shit." I muttered to myself rubbing my eyes.


Outside the sky finally became a deep black with some clouds rolling in. I could see some Guardians pacing throughout the forest with stakes in their hands. A thick scent of gasoline was lingering in the air giving me a huge headache. Behind me was the Guardian dormitory where I could easily spot Lissa sitting by the window looking down at us. I had to ignore all thoughts from her to keep me focused.

I spotted Christian out in the field. Next to him was Caden crouching, pointing, and waving his hands about. Strigois would have attacked by now, once the sun went down but they were nowhere in sight. What the hell?

Kyra was pacing back and forth at the edge of the woods. Princess Aubrey was pacing with her their eyes looking into the woods. A handful of bats flew out of the trees and into the sky. Audrey placed her hands beside Kyra and moved them about tracing her figure in it slowly moved into an hour glass figure. She ran her fingers down her spine and Kyra disappeared. Once her figure was gone a wall of fire went around the Princess.

Standing where I was I gasped.

"She can control air." Dimitri was next to me his hand at his sides. "She needs to use everything she has to control Kyra's air around her. That's why Tasha set a wall of fire around her so nobody could touch her."

"It's not that hard to figure out that he can use air." I scoffed and made my way over towards Christian but I was forced back. Looking down my wrist was covered by another hand. "What are you doing?"

"You, me, and Christian are being paired up to move around in the forest. So once we get the signal that's when we go out. For now you need to stay by my side."

I thought I was going to stay forever by your side. I retrieved my wrist back and crossed my arms over my chest. "When do you think we get to go out there?"

Dimitri tilted his head back and forth. "Whenever they decided to signal us in until then we are useless."

"Great."

Yards away the circle of fire was still going on perfectly protecting the princess. Staring out into the forest the Guardians were slowly moving about. Some were climbing the trees and making their position there in the high heights while the others scattered about the ground making their stances. I shifted my thoughts fast to Liss; I couldn't help to know who was protecting her. She was sitting on the sofa under the window staring down watching me. Fear was consuming her emotions, how I wanted to tell her I'm fine at the moment. She wouldn't move her eyes away from the window. Sighing I left her deep thoughts and let my mind emerged back onto the field.

Christian was making his way over to me past him Caden was making his way into the forest with the others. Staring at him I remembered how back at school we actually became pretty close friends but it was my mistake to ruin it to follow after Dimitri. After finding out about my return Christian beat the shit out of me in front of the Queen Tatiana, before her death. Yet now that I was to guard Lissa with my life we got closer once again…weird how stuff works out.

He stopped next to me rubbing his head. Christian looked down at me and smiled then gave me a light punch to the arm. Looking up at him I wanted to smack him upside the head but all I did was to give out a small chuckle. Shaking my head brightness caught my attention. From the corner of my eye a flare was shot up into the night sky casting a red light to shatter among the stars.

"That's our signal." From behind us Dimitri said. "Rose and Christian you two will be running my left and right flanks. We are going to cutting through the east side of the woods and coming in from the middle."

I quickly took Dimitri's left flank as we ran through the field and into the east of the woods. Entering we went straight for a mile or so then made a deep turn to the left sending us into the middle of burning woods and the smell of blood that was lingering into the deep air. Dimitri held a hand out to the side making us stop. We began walking slowly then stopped by a bush, crunching we peaked over the top to see where everyone was position. Feet in front of us the Guardians who took their spots in the trees were shooting silver bullets down to the Strigois while the others attacked the ones who didn't get impaled with a bullet. It was hard to make out whose body was lying on the snow-covered ground, Guardians or Strigois.

Dimitri moved his head towards the right to move us out. We walked with Christian between us knowing Strigois that once they smell a Moroi there was no doubt they would be on us in any second. Stake in hand I moved looking over the shoulder every so many inches to make sure no Strigois was lingering the area unnoticed.

As we moved closer to the battle field I scanned the area quickly to my right already knowing everything that was already happening around me. Soon something hard came at me hitting me straight on from my left. I hit the ground with an ump. Trying to turn my body it was pinned down by the waist.

"A pretty little girl like you should know how we are. Such a pretty, pretty, pretty girl."

"Get off of me!" I began to try to wiggle out of its grasp but I couldn't. Grasping a hold of my stake the attacker grabbed my wrist holding it down so I couldn't hit him. My only view I could see was Dimitri running over to me with Christian, his hands a blaze. Soon, my world went black when a deep pain struck into my collarbone and ran deeply down to my chest ripping my shirt.