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Chapter 10-Not Everyone Agrees

Adrian and I arrived back yesterday after taking a trip to Mount Zavno and telling the Elders of our discoveries when interrogating the vampires. Since then the both of us told the others of what happened and what Sydney found out about the dhampirs. I told them all about the teams of Hunters and Elementals being sent to Moroi and dhampir academies to stop any creatures from getting to the people there. We got back just before dinner yesterday and I had spent the rest of the day over the phone with Sydney to go over any problems that could arise from the teams outside the academies and how to solve them quickly.

At least I don't have the vampires to worry about anymore. No... but instead I get even more creatures coming to destroy the academies and the people inside. Great. With that as well as the end the vampires told us about, all the problems with Lissa, Viktor Dashkov in the school, and the war. Not even mentioning the fact that in a month, dhampir novices will be sent to hunt us for 'field experience'. I don't know how any of us are going to deal with this. At least Emily and Scott don't have to go out there with them, but seeing how Eddie, Shane, Tyler, Jacob and I are posing as dhampirs, we sort of don't have a choice. Unless we want to expose ourselves.

That reminds me. Lissa. I haven't talked to her in a week now. She hasn't said a word to me and has avoided me at every turn. Apparently her and Christian are still broken up and she is now best friends with all the Royal snobby Moroi. I just don't understand her sometimes. And the fact that she hasn't freaked out about Viktor either. I got a peek into the bond earlier and she seemed fine. Absolutely fine.

I should talk to her. Try to figure this out. I know there's no point. I won't be here after the school year has ended. I'll never see her again. But still... she is my bond mate. I need her as much as she needs me. So I should talk to her. Now.

Rapidly, I walk to the cafeteria where I can sense Lissa is currently sitting a table. Across the cafeteria, I see her platinum blonde hair sitting with Camille Conta and Aaron Badica as well as other royals. I vaguely notice Adrian and Christian in our little secluded corner sending Lissa evil looks into the back of her head that she somehow doesn't seem to notice.

I walk up behind her and I can see Adrian and Christian with confused looks on their faces at my actions.

What are you doing Charlie? Why are you going to Lissa? I hear Adrian say through his mind.

To talk. It should of happened a while ago. I need to sort this. I tell him and confidently saunter up to Lissa and her brand new gang.

"Oh look. The blood whore's here. Hide your fangs." Jesse Zeklos says with a smirk causing the whole group, including Lissa, to laugh out loud. The small phrase already has people looking at us.

"Shut the fuck up Jesse." I tell him with an annoyed tone before turning to Lissa. I fucking hate Jesse. Self-pretentious spoilt Royal.

"Or what?" He says, interrupting me. I manage to ignore him and turn back to Lissa.

"Liss. We need to talk. Now." I tell her, trying to convey my urgency to sort this out.

"Uh. No thanks." She says to me without even looking at me. Coward. She can't even look at me. I'd be lying if I said that it didn't hurt.

"Don't waste your breath on her Rose. She's not worth it." I hear from behind me. Viktor Dashkov. I was starting to wonder when I'd see him around. I can see Lissa visibly shrink into herself at the sight of him. Is she still scared of him? No. That can't be it. Her aura doesn't suggest fear for him... more like humiliation. Why?

"No. We need to talk." I tell her sounding as confident as I can.

"Go away Rose. I don't want to talk to someone like you." She says with venom laced through her voice. Someone like me? Little bitch.

"Leave her alone Rose. She doesn't need a little slut like you following her around." A woman says from behind me. Her voice is spiking with hatred and I can feel it coming off of her in waves towards me. Turning around, I see Tasha Ozera standing behind me. Arms crossed and legs shoulder width apart, trying and failing to intimidate me. Please. I've fought demons. I will not let myself be scared of a Moroi.

"Come on Rose. I need to talk to you." Viktor says. I'll just have to talk to Lissa another time. When we're alone.

"Like hell." I tell him, narrowing my dark brown eyes at him before walking away to where Adrian and Christian are sitting.

What does Viktor want to talk about? Christian and Adrian keep looking at me sympathetically. I hate it.

"Stop looking at me like that." I snap at them both. "Sorry. I'm just pissed off." I tell them whilst putting my head into my hands and closing my eyes.

"Just ignore them Rose. Lissa isn't the girl we thought she was." Adrian says to me trying to get me to understand. Trying to get me to believe but I can tell that he doesn't believe himself. How does he expect me to believe him if he can't believe himself?

"But that's the thing. Two weeks ago everything was fine. Lissa was normal and with Christian. Everything was fine. Then I go to New York and I come back to... this. Things can't change that fast. Not like this." I ramble on to the both and I know just by looking into both of their eyes, Adrian's emerald green and Christian's ice-blue, that they agree.

"So what do we do?" Christian says. Hope is written all over his face. He misses Lissa. The Lissa he fell in love with.

"I don't know. I just don't know." I say to them before I feel myself being pulled deep into Spirit darkness. Not now. Not here. Shit. This can't be happening. Suddenly, voices start filling my head. Starting as whispers but turning into shouts within seconds. I know that I'm visibly wincing right now because I can hear Christian and Adrian asking me if I'm okay.

It's too much. The voices keep increasing, more whispers and shouts being added to the mix while I hear other people's voices. It hurts so much. I'd rather be set on fire than this. It's never been like this before. It usually builds up much slower than this but somehow I know this is just the start. It'll be awhile until I lose control.

"Fine. Just a really bad headache." I tell them through clenched teeth. Christian doesn't believe me but Adrian tells him to leave it. I think he knows that something is wrong. Something concerning Spirit. "I need to go lie down. I'm tired and need to rest. I'll be fine later." With that said, I quickly turn around and leave with my head down. I try to avoid the gazes of those around me. I can feel them burning into the back of my skull. Lissa, Tasha, the Royals, Guardians and students alike. From their thoughts I know it's because of the confrontation with Lissa a few minutes ago.

I walk out into the cold winter air and the cold hits me like a wave. I shudder where I'm standing and clench my fists to try and stop the pain. It doesn't work though and I have to just live through it. I dodge through the groups of Moroi and dhampirs, seemingly unnoticed by everyone around me. To them I probably just look like a dhampir novice rushing to get somewhere. If only they knew the pain I'm currently in.

I don't how long it takes me but I suddenly find myself in my dorm, leaning against the door and sliding down the hard surface trying to hold the tears in. I can feel Adrian trying to talk to me through my head but it just adds to the pain. Pulling my phone out, I text him to make sure he knows what's happening.

From:Rose

To:Adrian

Hey. Sorry about that but I'm sort of losing control over my powers. Don't try and talk to me telepathically. It just adds to the pain. I'll be fine. It'll pass. I'll talk to you in the morning. Please don't come and see if i'm okay. I'm fine. Trust me. I just need to rest.

I send him hoping no-one else see's the message but I'm probably just being paranoid. His reply is almost instant.

From:Adrian

To:Rose

Okay. If anything changes tell me.

I quickly switch my phone off. Not wanting to be interrupted right now. I try to go to sleep after a hot shower but nothing works. I even try to count sheep. It's useless so I just stay awake all night hoping the voices will leave before anything bad happens.

The next day comes and I'm still wide awake and being tormented by the thoughts of everyone withing a 50 mile radius at least. Why don't people just shut up? I feel hatred and love and anger and compassion filling me with all the thoughts. I can't help but be affected. Some thoughts show me just how great people are and they reinstate my determination to rid this world of all supernatural evil. But then there are the thoughts that are so dark, so filled with evil and rage that I can't help but fear people themselves. I hear the passion the Moroi and dhampirs have for the goal of my people becoming extinct and how some of them plan to kill us if they ever come across a Hunter or Elemental. I hear the thoughts of humans so evil that they deserve to be killed by ghosts or drained by vampires. It just reminds me that all the evil that we fight against, isn't as bad as what the people we protect are capable of.

I can't help but feel conflicted. It's at times like these where I doubt everything. Why we protect these people or why we don't just kill them all? We'd be saving ourselves a lot of grief that way. But it's the people who are selfless, brave, peaceful and caring that reaffirm my faith in humanity. In humans, Moroi and dhampirs. People who don't act the way I have come to expect from their species. Who don't want to hurt people in any way. But those people are rare and my faith is starting to diminish over time.

Sometimes I don't know what to do.

I put my clothes on and brush my hair before checking the time. 6:00 pm. But to everyone else here it's nearly morning. I quietly walk outside to go to the gym and beat away my pain with a punching bag. That's what I need right now. With my gym bag around my shoulders, I run to the gym where it is surprisingly quiet at the moment. I go to the lockers to get changed and make my way to the punching bag which is suspended from the roof.

With every ounce of strength I have I hit the bag. Over and over again. Trying to rid myself of the pain. It's usually gone by now. It's nearly as long as last time. Is this how it's going to be now? I'm just going to feel this pain without being able to stop it on a moments notice.

Every hit I give I can feel the punching bag coming loose from where it's suspended. My strength increases from the average dhampir strength I have to keep up to all the way to a full blown Hunter punch. The large blue bag falls to the floor with a large thud. I broke it. I fall to my knees where I can't help but keep on pounding the floor with my hands.

I feel myself shaking but it's not of my own accord. I see Eddie looking into my eyes with worry written across his face. "Clary. Are you okay?"

"It hurts. The voices. They hurt so bad Eddie." I tell him trying to not lose control. My resolve is strong at the moment but I can feel it slipping away, thread by thread.

"Okay. Let's get you to somewhere quiet. Where do you want to go?" He asks me whilst pulling me off of the floor and putting the bag back on it's chain.

"The church attic." I tell him and I don't know why but I feel I need to go there.

We make our way to the attic and sneak past any guardians on duty. We both plopped down onto the chairs and my head falls straight into my hands for a few seconds before pulling my head back up. Just moving my head feels like I'm being weighed down.

"Wanna talk?" Eddie asks.

"I lost control. I tried to talk to Lissa and then things happened and I started to hear everyone's thoughts and the pain. God. The pain is so much. I don't think I can do it anymore." I tell him and he puts his arms around me like Dean used to do when things got too much for me when I was a kid.

"Look. If anyone can do this it's you. Okay Charlie. I don't know anyone as strong as you. You will get through this. I swear." Eddie tells me, seriousness all over his face.

"Well. It's not like I have a choice. I can't help being shadowkissed." I say with a small smile on my face. He shakes his head while grinning. "I just. We need to tell people Eddie. And fast. But we need to be careful. We are only here for another few months. After that we might not have a choice. Who do we trust Eddie?" I tell him and all traces of happiness are gone.

"I don't know. I really don't. But this we can fight. You can fight this. Just try. You're strong." He says and I can't. It's not possible. Trust me I've tried.

"No, I can't. But I can deal with it. So that's what I'm going to do." I say standing up and steeling myself with a new found determination yet again. I can get through this. No matter how much it hurts.

So both I and Eddie walk to the cafeteria for breakfast. I must of been in the gym for a while then if it's already time for breakfast. We walk to our table in the corner which we have claimed as ours. I sit down with the others and explain to them that it's fine and tell them what's going on. I am determined today to sort things out. I'll talk to Lissa and figure out what Viktor wants.

I have to.

We have no classes today seeing as everyone is still on edge from the attack. Surely it would be easier to protect everyone if we were all in lessons instead of wandering around the academy but oh well. These are idiots we're dealing with. Plus I'm not going to say no to going without lessons. I'd be crazy to do that. But this also makes it easier for us to guard the academy from any creatures that are stupid enough to attack.

Jacob tells us all that there could be a possibility that the dhampir novices may be going out to hunt our people sooner than we first thought and that they are now seriously thinking about letting the Moroi who want to go along with them go and use their magic. It's about time the Moroi did this. Thankfully, Jacob was spying on the Queen while she's still here along with Tyler.

"You know what this means right?" Jacob enthusiastically tells us. I feel a pressure on the back of my head from all the thoughts of other people. "Scott and Emily can come with us too." Oh My God. I didn't think of that.

"Yes. Some action for once." Emily says banging her fist in the air. At that we all laugh. All around the table I see the people I trust the most grinning like Cheshire cats. If Emily and Scott can come with us on this field experience then we have water, earth and fire to use in public with the dhampirs and Moroi. Well, not Earth seeing as Scott is a 'fire' Moroi... Wait. Adrian. He'd be aloud to go with us...Right?

"And Adrian." I tell them proudly. Everyone but Adrian is sitting around the table with understanding faces. Adrian just looks confused as hell.

"Yeah. But Spirit doesn't really do anything." Adrian says cautiously, raising his eyebrows at us all. What is he talking about? Spirit can do anything...

"I think it's time we had another lesson Adrian." I tell him vaguely. Standing up to leave, I walk out of the cafeteria with Adrian hot on my heels. At that the voices miraculously stop. Thank God. At least I didn't lose control this time. I let the others all know telepathically and I'm thankful for the pain to have gone. For now.

"So what are you teaching me?" He asks looking at me with a smile. I can already see the love he has for me start to turn into a brotherly affection instead. Even if he doesn't know it yet.

"Well, you've already mastered telepathy, it's just a matter of strength now but that can only happen with practice on your part so I can't really help you there." I say whilst slipping into a serious voice. "But..."I say in a singing voice. A complete opposite to what I've just sounded like. "I told you I was also telekinetic right?"

"Yep." Adrian says happily.

"Well. I'm gonna help you, Adrian Ivashkov, to use telekinesis. If you can do it or even better, master it, by the time we go out on these 'missions', you may be able to go with us and ultimately help us make sure they never catch our people."

"I'll do it. But... won't Lissa know that there's other parts of Spirit this way?" Oh shit. I hadn't thought of that. I'll have to figure out a way to make sure Lissa never learns this. I don't know why but I feel like it would be used against her by people and she's not strong enough.

"I'll figure that out later. Right now, we're going to do some telekinesis." I say with a slight skip in my step.

"So, the lake I'm guessing? That's where we're going right." He says whilst catching up to me. I hadn't noticed I'd gone ahead.

"Are you asking me or telling me?" I say with a smirk. "Come on, let's go." Looking around to make sure no-one follows us or sees us, Adrian and I hurriedly make our way to the lake where he first learnt telepathy. Just like last time, Toothless is there to fly us to the lake. "Hey buddy." I say to the black dragon in front of me. He purrs in satisfaction when I rub behind his ears.

Quickly like we've both done this a million times before, Adrian and I climb onto Toothless's back and we reach the lake in no time. Both of us jump off and Toothless runs to the rocks where we sat last time Adrian had a Spirit lesson.

Making our way over there, Adrian sits down on the rocks next to Toothless while I stay standing.

"Okay then. Telekinesis. Well, it's easier if I show you first." I say, smirking. With a slight lift of my hand, the large rocks at the lake's edge start to lift and float in the air. Adrian looks in awe at the rocks while Toothless is just sitting there with his head lifted in pride for his rider. Oh thanks, Toothless. "Telekinesis is easy to learn. It's just that to do it on a scale where it's effective in battle takes practice. But once you've mastered it then you can be unstoppable. With telekinesis, you don't need any other element because you can easily move them with Spirit."

"So. When do I get to learn how to do that?" Adrian says, nearly jumping out of his seat on the rocks.

"Patience." I say with a smile across my face. "Like I said. Telekinesis can be substituted for the other elements. It allows you to move the other elements but not shape them. It doesn't really effect air because Telekinesis is different. Telekinesis can't effect air as much. That we know of anyway. But with water, earth and fire... it becomes extremely useful. Here look at the rocks. They're earth. But I can't shape them. Or change them. Just move them but it's handy. There's a lot of tricks with this sort of telekinesis that I'll teach later on. Water you can shape. Because it's liquid. So basically, water magic is the same as telekinesis except that it only affects liquid. Fire's the same. But forget about that for now. I want you to picture moving this rock in front of you, in your mind." I tell him, making sure he's paying attention to everything I'm saying.

"And I do that how?" He says in annoyance. The concept is hard to grasp at first but once you can do it, it becomes easier.

"Just picture it." I tell him and he immediately looks at the fist-sized rock I threw in front of him. With a flick of my wrist, the rocks that are in the air fall to the ground. I go to sit next to Adrian but pull out my phone and message the teams in the academies to make sure everything is fine. Nothing big has happened yet. A few werewolves were found in an academy in Italy but they were quickly sorted out. They didn't even get near the academy. Apparently the same thing was said from the werewolves. The end is coming. Whatever that is...

I look at Adrian and can see him trying to picture the rock in his mind. "Don't worry. It's hard to do for everyone at first. Even me. Just practice at it and it'll happen." I tell him, trying to give him some sort of confidence boost. He smiles back at me, grateful for the boost. "I'll be back in a bit. I'm just going to check the borders of the academy." I say. He nods at me and I turn around to find Toothless already there, waiting for me to hop on. So I do.

He takes off into the sky with a few beats of his large wings and we quickly fly around the academy. I'm trying to sense anything that could be coming to attack us but there's nothing there. So after about 30 minutes of flying we turn back to the lake where Adrian is still trying to move the rock.

Toothless lands with a thud on the rocks and I step down from his saddle to walk over to Adrian. "Any luck?" I ask him.

"Nope." He says, still in concentration. He'll get it soon. I know he will. He just needs to practice.

"Well, we have to go. I have to do something at the academy and I can't leave you here." I say to him and he immediately stands up, still holding the rock and concentrating on trying to picture it in his mind. We both get on Toothless and quickly fly to the trees just outside the academy. We both hop off and after a quick goodbye with Toothless, we both walk out, and Adrian puts the rock in his pocket.

"You'll get it soon. Just keep trying." I tell him.

"Will do. I'm off to my room to practice okay. I'll see you later." Adrian says with a smirk before heading in the opposite direction.

"See ya." I call after him. He waves back and I head to where Lissa is. Hopefully alone. Before I can get there though, the guardians all shout to us to go to the large hall. Why? What's going on now? I run to where everybody else is heading, pushing through the Moroi and dhampirs to get in the front. I meet up with Emily at the front of the hall and she gives me a slight shrug to indicate she doesn't know what's going on.

Looking into her pale blue eyes, I ask her where the others are.

"I don't know. They'll probably meet us inside. Come on." She tells me and pulls my hand inside the hall. We find a place to sit in the back and everyone one quickly joins us here. First Eddie and Shane, then Tyler, Jacob and Scott and lastly Adrian.

"What's going on?" Eddie asks. We all shrug at that. It looks like no-one knows what's going on.

"Okay, everybody quieten down. There is an important message from our queen." I hear Headmistress Kirova say over the loud murmurings of the crowd. After a few minutes everybody quietens down. Tatiana Ivashkov steps up to the podium then to address her people. I nearly forgot she was here. Adrian told me earlier that she is staying in St Vladimir's until things calm down a bit.

"I'm sure you all are wondering why we are here." Tatiana says in that air of elegance and confidence that I have come to admire about her. "Well. As you all know, the dhampir novices are going out into the field for experience in a month. Well. That date has been moved up. Within a week, dhampir novices will be going to their field experiences." With that said, the whole crowd errupts in cheers and whoops. From novices, Moroi and guardians alike. The eight of us in the back stay silent. Watching the reactions of everyone. Both Adrian and I are checking their auras to see if anyone disagrees with them and could be on our side. No luck so far.

"Yes. I know it's exciting." The queen says with a smile. I check her aura but I don't see what I expect. Doubt. But why would she... I'll have to keep an eye on her. "But there is other news. Dhampirs alone won't be able to destroy this threat to our races." I see despair and uneasiness in her aura now. "Moroi who choose to, will be aloud to fight with the dhampirs on these missions. Students included. But only if they are skilled in their element. That's all. if anyone wants to sign up, you should go see Guardian Petrov before the end of this week. That's all." And with that she steps down from the podium and walks through the backdoor.

Everyone is talking about how excited this is and some royal Moroi are saying how they shouldn't have to fight. Spoilt brats. I scan the crowd again for any signs of a potential ally and I'm shocked at what I find. Christian doesn't agree. But why? I'll have to find out later. But he's not the one I'm shocked at the most.

"He doesn't agree." Adrian says quietly to all of us.

"Neither does Christian." I tell them. But how can he not agree? He's a man full of hatred and darkness.

The man is Viktor Dashkov. His aura is full of hatred but not for us. For the fact that we are being hunted and he doesn't agree on the whole thing. But this is scary. Why is this scary? Because he's looking right at me...

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