Chapter 11

"What? No! Not Viktoria! Why would she do such a thing?" Dimitri yelled. His eyes went from a chocolate brown to tints of red in them. What was going on?"

"Dimitri. Calm down your scaring me." I say. He looks at me and looks at the floor. I couldn't see the red in his eyes any longer. He pulled me into a hug.

"I'm sorry, Roza. I just don't understand why Viktoria would do such a thing." He said softly.

"I'm sorry I didn't remember until now." I sobbed. Dimitri wrapped his arms around me tighter and laid down on the bed.

"It's okay Roza it isn't your fault. Go to sleep." He said and kissed my forehead. I stayed there trying to remember anything further but yet nothing else came. I finally gave up and fell into a dark dream.

I finally emerged in a meadow.

"Adrian? Get you butt out here now!" I demanded. Nothing. Suddenly I heard a twig snap behind me. I whipped around just as a figure came out of the shadows. That figure wasn't Adrian. It was a little girl.

"You must Rose. I'm Mai." The girl said.

"Okay how do you know my name?" I asked.

"I was sent to find you from Vladimir and Anna. Surely you've heard of them. They need you to complete a mission for them." She said.

"Why me? And yes I have heard of them. Anna is Shadow kissed like me." I said not looking away from her.

"Exactly! Now if you will please follow me." She said turning back towards the shadows.

"Wait. Are you dead?" I ask immediately wishing I could take it back.

" I am much more alive that you think, but you can say I am dead. But so are you Rose." Mai said.

"No I am breathing and my heart is beating. I am alive!" I snap.

"Here you are known as dead seeing as no living person may enter and leave again to live except the very few shadow kissed people." Mai said and she grabbed my hand. We were I guess you could say In the clouds and finally we fell to the ground. I looked up and saw Vlad and Anna sitting on a cliff overlooking the ocean.

"Hello Rosemarie." A woman says.

" What am I doing here?" I ask.

"You have a mission to save the world, Rose." Vald said.

"okay but why me? There are plenty of Shadow kissed people out there." I say.

" We feel you have the destiny the others do not. Now Rose we have knowledge about a strigoi uprising on our hands. You may have just killed their second leader, Nathan and brought Daniel back to his Miori being, however, strigoi numbers are increasing very quickly." Anna said.

"So.. I am supposed to.." I start.

"So you must make a decision. Sacrifice yourself and save the world or let the world go into war killing humans, moiri, and dhampir." Vlad finished.

"What? But my life is perfect right now!" I cry out.

"You don't have to decide right now Rose. But soon." Anna said.

"We will be in touch. So will Mai." Vlad said nodding towards Mai. I looked back at Vlad and Anna who were now fading. I didn't want to lose Lissa or Dimitri. But either way I would loose them. I knew which way I had to choose but I had to speak to them both before finalizing my choice.