I swiftly got up from the couch.
"How many?" I demanded. Denis took a deep breath.
"We're surrounded," he informed me. Awe crap, how many guardians did they send?
"Have any been taken down?" I called over my shoulder, opening the door.
"Not yet," he dodged. I stopped in my tracks and whirled around.
"What do you mean not yet?" I interrogated. He shook his head, as if saying no time for that. He pushed me out the door, Viktoria following close behind. Immediately my stake was out. I took in the scene before me, counting the...Not guardians. These weren't guardians. They were Strigoi. All of them. There had to be at least one hundred of them. Only, they weren't doing anything. Suddenly I understood Denis and his use of not yet. It was as if there was a force field they wouldn't even dare penetrate.
"Do you have wards up?" I asked Denis. He shook his head. (A/N I can't remember any of the other unpromised hunters. So if you could tell me it, that be great. Right now I'm making up names.)
"It doesn't make any sense," Tamara whispered. Dex turned to me.
"Should we attack?" he asked.
"No!" I barked out, "They make the first move! This is not normal Strigoi behavior. Something or someone is commanding them. Until they attack we do nothing but keep up our defense. Got it?"
"Got it," the team mumbled.
Christian POV
Belikov stared at me, waiting with his arms crossed.
"Well?" he asked.
"Well what?" he clenched his fist together.
"Why did they leave? Where did they go?" he demanded.
"They went somewhere over there," I pointed in the direction they had gone, "and Rose received a threat. Not to herself, though, to us."
"Define us," Lissa asked, her face displaying guilt.
"Well you, me, Belikov, Adrian, those who are close to her," I explained. Then, getting a little frustrated I yelled, "but why the fuck does it matter right now? In case you haven't noticed, they're fucking getting away!" Lissa put a hand on my shoulder.
"Calm down, Chris," I shrugged it off. Nobody, even Lissa, calls me Chris. Lissa gasped, and her body went limp. It would have fallen had I not caught her. Her eyes were open, expression blank. I slapped her cheek lightly.
"Lissa, Lissa, Lissa, Liss, LISSA?" she blinked a few times, and clutched her head.
"What happened?" she asked.
"Uh, you tell me," she shook her head, trying to recall what happened.
"Well...I was in a dreamless sleep, then I was woken up. My thoughts were groggy, my hearing off, and I couldn't move. Then I spoke. I was talking to this guy, Denis I think I called him. I remember thinking Oh crap, how many guardians did they send?" I thought about this for a moment, my mind slowly connecting pieces together.
"Liss, you've been having weird moods and thoughts currently right?" she nodded.
"and dreams," she added, even though I couldn't explain that.
"You couldn't move your body?" she shook her head, "Do you and Rose have a one way or two way bond?" I asked.
"One way," she responded.
"Do you think it's possible to grow a one way bond into a two way bond?" I asked. She shrugged her shoulders.
"What are you getting at?" Dimitri asked suspiciously.
"I think she might be starting to get a two way bond into Rose's head," I explained. Dimitri's eyes lit up.
"Denis you say?" Lissa nodded. A grin spread across Dimitri's face.
"I know where she is. Follow me."
Rose POV
We had been standing here for the past hour, trying to provoke answers from the Strigoi. So far we have nothing. I stared down what appeared to be the leader.
"What do you want?" I demanded. A cold grin was held on his pale face.
"Why we are not aloud to stop by and pay a nice visit to the legendary Rose Hathaway?" he mocked. My eyes narrowed. I pointed up at the sky.
"See that? That's where the sun comes from. You know, the thing you will get incinerated by if it touches you? Yeah, it's coming soon. I mean, I have all day, I'm afraid you don't. So why don't you cut to the chase and tell what the hell you want?" his eyes narrowed but that grin stayed, it sickeningly reminded me of Isaiah. His red eyes followed my every move, every shift I make.
"Ah, Rosemary. You are so much like the plant you were named after. Look so delicate and pretty, but will try to fuck up who ever picks on you. That is until a challenging smarter person, uses a weed hacker. That's what's happening isn't it? Your perfect life slowly losing meaning, losing happiness?" I rolled my eyes. It is the same taunt he had been using since he had first opened his mouth. The only thing that stopped me from punching him in the face is two things. 1) it is what he is looking for so he has a reason to start a fight and 2) the shouting and footsteps coming from off in the distance. We looked up. It was the gang and a few other guardians. I knew I had to do something fast before... A scream ended any plan process coming to mind. I know that scream anywhere. It belonged to the one, the only Vasilissa Dragomir.
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