Chapter 10:

Rose's point of view:

Three days have gone since games night, I swear we have spent every spare minutes planning, we are the only people who know about the plans for the war. We were counting on everyone in our year (well the novices anyway) to take part as we have teams already sorted out and we have the perfect plan, we also have the two spirit teachers on our side so we should be able to get pretty far with their help.

Today was graduation and we planned to put our plan into action straight after the ceremony which meant that today was going to be very fast moving. We all had parts that we had to play. We needed to get as many guardians todays as POWs before the other guardians noticed that anything was wrong that would mean that we would have an advantage when it came to trying to take them all out. At the moment they had no idea what was happening which was the best thing that could have happened in the world.

Me and Lissa were getting ready for graduation in my room with Mia and Vika, we had all come so close over the last few days that we decided we really were going to miss everyone when we all move mainly because Liss and I are going to court and then on to Lehigh, Mia was going to a college over the other side of the country with Christian, whilst Vika was still going here. Dimitri was also going over the other side of the country as Christian's guardian. Everyone was going to be split up in about a month and a half, as there was still the holidays in the middle. It was going to be horrible.

When we were all ready in our dresses which we had brought earlier in the week, we left the room, we knew that people were going to love what we looked like, Dimitri was going to completely lose it, which I think was the main reason we were going to wear these dresses, they were also going to be a distraction.

We had to walk to the main hall which I swear in these 8 inch heels was so hard that I had to lean on Lissa to walk properly. That's when we were joined by Mason, Eddie and Christian, they were all wearing tuxes. I swear we all just swapped each other for a guy. I used Mason's shoulder to hold me up while I was walking just like the night of the school dance. We walked in past all the guardians and I could tell this was going to work so well, if people thought that my dress for the night of the lust charm was going t challenge the dress code then this was just going to eliminate it.

I saw Dimitri from across the room, looking as stoic as ever but then suddenly as I entered his face lifted up in a smile and he shifted his weight from foot to foot which was basically showing me that he really couldn't concentrate the perfect response. We went and took our assigned seats before the room filled up.

Dimitri's point of view:

Oh my god, I had completely forgotten about that dress. I seriously need to focus on something else. I started shifting my feet and trying to look at the wall in front of me but it was so hard to do when she was walking near me.

Luckily for me they decided to sit down, although I couldn't stop thinking of Rose sitting down in that dress, I mean it barely covers her ass, why is she getting away with it, it shouldn't be happening but still I am so thankful that it is. But I can't help thinking about whether that dress covers her ass when she sits down.

Thankfully the guardian next to me moved closer so that we could talk, finally a distraction from Rose. "Hey Belikov, have you seen what Hathaway was wearing, seriously someone might need a fire extinguisher." I groaned inwardly it seems that everyone was talking about Rose and what she was wearing. I bet you she knew that this was happening.

The Moroi got called up first to get their diplomas so of course when Lissa was called Rose made the loudest amount of noise possible, for her best friend. Lissa blushed and tried to refrain from sticking up her finger at Rose. That was funny. The next time Rose made an effort with the applause was when Christian was called, Rose stood up and shouted "Woo, get in their Sparky!" Of course Christian didn't have the restraint to stop from swearing at Rose. This went on for a while until Roza got up again but this time put lots of positive energy into clapping, it seems Mia had just been called.

Finally the dhampirs were being called to receive their promise marks and their stakes and guns; this really shouldn't have been a good idea to provide Rose with a gun on the school site. Mason was the first person to be called and of course Rose made a commotion, this carried on until her name was called. When she went up, as if everyone had planned it, everyone that she normally messes around with (Mia, Eddie, Mason, Lissa, Christian, Adrian and even Vika) all suddenly yelled, "Finally Rosie, didn't think you'd make it, don't trip!" She quickly received the tattoo, I was so proud but then when she went to Kirova she asked if she could quickly use the microphone, and she already had her gun and stake. When Kirova gave her the microphone she quickly said, "Hey listen up dudes, Sparky needs the love." With that she skipped off stage leaving all the students and teachers in a fit of giggles except for Christian of course.

Everyone finally stopped laughing and when graduation finished all the guardians were let off duty to go and socialise with the other students who were now their equals. I was so proud of Roza that I had even got her a present. I wound round the other students trying to find Roza; of course she was going to be the one surrounded by all of the other novices. I leant down and whispered in her ear how proud I was and I slipped the bracelet into her hand.

Rose's point of view:

I felt a hand on the small of my back, then I smelt the scent of the aftershave that I knew so well, then his mouth was by my ear, instantly making me want him just on principle. He told me how proud he was of me which just made me that much happier, I felt something cold touch my hand and when I looked down there was this beautiful diamond bracelet. It was just plain and simple but it was absolutely gorgeous.

I span around to try and see him but he had his back to me and was walking off. I pushed my way through the crowd to reach him which was extremely difficult because of the heels; I mean I think I really needed his help to walk in these things. When I reached him I slipped under his arm and hugged him, I must have been about 6'2 now so I was a lot taller than he was expecting, he looked down and noticed the shoes that I was wearing.

"So I see why they told you not to trip." He said this with a smirk on his face and just burst out laughing. "I mean seriously I do not understand how girls walk in those things it's basically impossible." He was so cute when he was rambling, I could tell that my dress was having a good effect on him which was what I needed.

There was supposed to be a pre-graduation party in the dorms starting in about ten minutes but we had decided not to go because they are going to have the two best guardians on patrol tonight, I knew that for sure which meant that Dimitri and Alberta would be busy meaning we could start getting the guardians tonight without much resistance.

I nodded to the others around the room, we had been scoping out guardians all day to see which of them would be the hardest to take out, we all rushed back to the dorms, we were going to need distractions so to get some of the male guardians distracted we were wearing the skimpiest dresses we could find, this unfortunately meant that I would stay in this dress but everyone else had to get changed into their dresses. We needed to come off as vulnerable and innocent while still being able to kick ass. To do this we all had on the dresses and the high heels that were the highest making us extremely tall, I didn't need to get changed at all which was good.

Today throughout the whole ceremony we made sure that the people around us thought that I could hardly walk in these shoes so they would be expecting me to attack wearing them which would be a good thing. The others shouting out at the ceremony made sure that everyone noticed how wobbly I was in these shoes which were just the perfect timing for this whole thing to take place.

When we had all met each other in the corner, we decided that the best way to get a guardian out of the room would be to act really suspicious, when we saw one of the new guardians staring our way we started whispering and we sneaked out the back door, we knew that he would follow us. He was a new guardian so he was obviously oblivious to the pranks that we can play.

When we saw him leave the building with another guardian in tow we thought about how lucky we were because we needed as many guardians as we could get. We had sent Mason and Eddie down to the schools jail cells with Christian. We decided to move the base because it would be easier to hold the POWs there and if the guardians found us then we could get to the basement and we wouldn't be found.

"Hey excuse me, we have a small problem…" the guardians turned to look at us and that was when they really saw us. I mean what would you do if you were a male and then four girls walked out of the trees wearing next to nothing. Well these guardians' jaws dropped to the floor before regaining their composure. We walked slowly towards them to gauge their reactions; they just looked at each other and smirked like crazy.

That was when all hell broke loose, we managed to subdue the guardians with the use of compulsion and brute force, it was really good as well because Vika, Mia and I didn't have to do excessive amounts of fighting so we still looked really good. This was how the night progressed and we blindfolded all the guardians we had caught and we span them in circles before we led them to the cells. We had 17 guardians captured out of around eighty; we made sure that we put them in different cells because otherwise they could have escaped. We eighteen cells so that was useful because it meant we could get one more then declare war.

We finally spotted the last guardian that we agreed to take down, he was Stan Alto so that just made it better seeing as he was such a pain in the ass and deserved to be locked up. We managed to get him down, but unfortunately he screamed at just the wrong moment. We knew that taking him down this close to the dhampir dorms would be difficult because we had the guardians patrolling the area, more precisely Dimitri so we planned on taking Stan quietly. Everyone just froze after he screamed before I told them to get moving and put him with the others.

But we were too late, just at the end of my speech Dimitri rounded the corner. "GO!" I shouted at them, they took the hint and sprinted off in the other direction towards my dorm; we figured they could loop round and get back to the camp that way. Now I just had to face the wrath of Dimitri, he was going to blow this whole thing.

Before he reached me I texted Mase, 'Hey Mase, get Adrian outside the dhampir dorms I need some compulsion.' Luckily Adrian was already out apparently so he arrived quickly. Just as Dimitri saw me and had reached me Adrian had jogged up. "Hey what's up little dhampir?" just at the same time as Dimitri said, "Roza, why were you dragging Stan away?" Adrian just looked at me shocked, "You're getting sloppy Rose, and you need to get your act together. Now Dimitri you didn't see anything here, you saw Rose in a dress and now you are going to take her back to her room and have your way with her." I glared at him intensely and realised that suddenly I was being dragged to my dorm room. Damn you Ivashkov, I needed to be there tonight.

-Morning the next day -

Luckily I had been able to get away from Dimitri in the middle of the night, I went and checked on all the guardians that we had captive, I think that getting 18 out of around 65 was rather good even though it hardly made a dent in their numbers, there were still about 98 novices which was very good.

I had to get everyone up, I decided to send a year wide text, and we need all the help we could get to beat the guardians at their own game. I told everyone to meet in the gym and make sure that none of the guardians noticed the sheer amount of us. This would have to be after all the classes today, although we only play games now, there's nothing else to do. We decided to meet at lunch and then we could declare war at the beginning of period five.

As we started going through the first lessons we noticed the lack of guardians in the lessons, now if all went to plan and the other guardians noticed then they would most likely hold a meeting at lunch which would make it possible to get all the students from our year down the hall, I mean in our year there were about 160 of us with 98 being novices, this was because of the sheer amount of dhampir and Moroi hook-ups resulting in an increasing dhampir population although many still didn't make it so only half of our year would really guard someone.

As lessons started the guardians actually noticed something was wrong but only because most of the guardians that were caught last night were actually our teacher, Dimitri had to take over the combat classes for today because no one else turned up. Stan's class was the best though because Dimitri was so confused being convinced that something had happened to Stan but he just couldn't remember.

The guardians then called an emergency meeting to take place at lunch. Perfect this was definitely going to work if the meeting didn't end to early I mean we still had to convince people to join in discuss the tactics and the pranks and get people sorted out into groups.