Chapter 11:

Dimitri's point of view:

There were lots of guardians missing today; they just never turned up for their shifts and classes. This meant that I had to take over the combat classes. It took all myself control not to jump Roza when I saw her I mean she was wearing black booty shorts and the equivalent of a sports bra, she looked absolutely gorgeous. Teaching that class and staying focused on the other students was definitely hard, as was I by that point.

I decided that to teach class I would just let them get into pairs and spar, unfortunately no one really wanted to spar with Rose as she just beats the crap out of them, sure Mason and Eddie sometimes have a crack at it, but everyone loses, even me. I had forgotten that there were an uneven number of students in the class, Rose always complained to me about it because she always had to spar with the teacher. This just made it really awkward because everyone was going to be watching us spar and my badass God reputation was going to be destroyed.

I think that the only other problem was that Roza could always tell when I was aroused, so this was going to be extremely awkward. But something was off about her today, she wasn't acting normal. Instead of sparring with me she went and sparred with Mason making sure that she didn't hit him too hard.

I knew something was up when I was the only guardian in Stan's class, not even Stan was here, what was going on. I got a call from Alberta halfway through the lesson saying that we had basically lost 18 guardians and needed to have an emergency meeting at the beginning of lunch. When it was the beginning all of the remaining guards made their way to the meeting rooms, we noticed a severe lack of novices where were they all.

The meeting was as boring as I thought it would be though, I needed to blow off some steam, I was lucky that I didn't have a shift the next lesson otherwise I would have been so worked. I heard yelling as I got to the gym, I think we found the novices, I could see through the doors that Roza was standing on a block and yelling at them all. There was definitely something going on here that wasn't normal.

Rose's point of view:

We managed to get through the rest of the lessons till lunch with little suspicion falling on us, I mean none of the guardians had thought that we had anything to do with this but then there were also a lot of strange looks that my group got in particular. This was going perfectly to plan. Everyone who was in on the plan brought down supplies to the jail cells meaning we wouldn't have to risk trips to the cafeteria to get food and risk getting court.

At the beginning of lunch we practically sprinted down to the gym, we had to be there first so that we could organise people. About five minutes into lunch we had everyone in the hall, or at least everyone we had planned on being a part of the war.

Mase got me a box to stand on and some smaller boxes for them meaning that we were taller than everyone else and therefore were able to command the army to be. Unfortunately there were about 7 of us to sort out roughly 160 students, this made it extremely complicated.

Luckily for me I had one of the biggest gobs in the year so, "Everyone shut up and listen if you want to have some fun for the next week." Gradually everyone decided to shut up and we were able to get started. "Okay well first things first, we have to be as quiet as possible about this meeting for now and believe me you will know when what I am talking about happens, but also you are not allowed to mention any of this around any guardians because I will personally cause you immense pain." Everyone looked frightened enough which was perfect.

Seeing the looks on all the people's faces caused Vika to turn towards me and whisper, "you really do have a bad reputation don't you?" she sounded surprised, I said back "Of course I do otherwise this plan would be completely useless." I needed to try and sort everything out in only an hour, this was going to be a challenge, but of course I love challenges.

"Everyone, I am officially declaring war on the guardians." Everyone just looked completely shocked.

"Wait what?"

"Seriously, what do you mean?"

"Crazy!"

"You guys have obviously never heard of this being done before then?" everyone still looked at me like I was crazy. "Okay what happens is we basically prank the guardians and we have to try and get all of them captive, but they will be doing the same and whichever side catches all of the other by the end of the week wins." They all started to look more excited about this. "Oh and it means we get to get payback on the guardians for being complete assholes." Everyone suddenly started cheering until of course Jesse asked the stupid question.

"How are we supposed to win though, the Moroi can't fight and they have Belikov?" He seriously thought he had got one over on me; he was going to be so wrong now it was funny. I mean come on he is so arrogant, he never understood why I didn't like him.

"Yes but if you would have paid attention earlier on in the week, I took him down in the field experience and I know all his moves so that helps. Oh and I would like to take this time to introduce my friend Viktoria." Again the whole crowd just stared at her and didn't say a word until Ralph stepped up and started speaking.

"Yeah, but what can two little girls do against a 6'7 Russian God, I mean it is slightly pathetic and Rose you know all his fighting moves no one here actually knows what he is like when he plays pranks." I nodded to Viktoria who finally spoke up, although only to me.

"People really call my brother a Russian God, that's actually weird, I thought you were just exaggerating." Once people registered what Vika had just said their jaws went slack, this made them look like lovesick puppies but it was so funny to watch.

"As I was saying before Ralph stepped in this is Viktoria Belikov, she is Guardian Belikov's younger sister and is my second in command for this mission along with Eddie and Mason for the dhampirs anyway." This group of people were really starting to annoy me they couldn't keep their mouths closed to save their lives I swear. "Okay shut your traps or you'll catch flies." Mason and Eddie along with Christian just burst into hysterical laughing.

"Here's the plan, I need dhampirs on this side pointing to my right and the Moroi to my left. Chop chop get to it otherwise we'll waste more time. And Moroi if you could get into specialised groups that would be extremely helpful." Once everyone was done I handed the lists that we had made previously to Eddie and Mason, and the Christian and Lissa seeing as they would be in control of the Moroi. "Now basically we have combat teams set up, these will consist of both Moroi and Dhampir but you have to report to both Christian and Lissa or Eddie and Mason depending on is you're Moroi or Dhampir."

Several people grumbled and things really started to get heated when some royal shouted, "Why do we have to be put with the Strigoi lover, I would much rather be able to stare at your ass all day?" I found the culprit of the comment as soon as he finished the sentence. He was one of Jesse's friends and had a very smug look on his face, or he did before I basically charged at him. I punched him in the face and practically yelled, Christian, his name is Christian and he doesn't love Strigoi he has been more use against them then you will ever be and if you want to stare at my ass I'll let you take it up with my boyfriend." When I said I had a boyfriend everyone immediately glanced at Adrian and Mason. "You'll know who soon and no it isn't anyone in this room."

When I reached back to the podium, I declared that the war would start about halfway through the next lesson so that we would be able to catch the guardians when they were not as prepared. "But the guardians are going to be too focused on finding the other guardians so they won't join in." that's when I showed them the pictures we had taken. "Now to help us along a bit, the main team which I would like to inform you would be Me, Vika, Mason, Eddie, Lissa, Christian, Adrian and Mia spent most of yesterday rounding up a total of eighteen guardians and they are at our POW camp now which is the jail cells." Suddenly the whole room was filled with the sound of uncontrollable laughter, it was perfect.

Well it was until one of the lookouts came running in through the beams supporting the gym roof, obviously coming from his post yelling "GUARDIAN!" Crap infiltration. "Everyone try to get to the camp after the announcement is made and stay there until I make it there, make sure you are not followed." I ran through the doors to see Dimitri stood there. I hope he didn't hear what we were talking about but it didn't seem as if he was there for long enough to cause us any trouble.

"Roza what are you doing in there?" I tried to look as innocent as possible, which was funny as he knew full well that I really wasn't innocent, especially after everything that we have done. He looked at me like he thought I was crazy, why was everyone doing that today I mean I am a normal person who is just a tiny bit evil?

"Don't worry Comrade I was just introducing Viktoria to everyone as she would be around a lot of them for the next few years." He raised one eyebrow, man I really needed to learn how to do that I swear that everyone else could do that apart from me. It really wasn't fair.

"Okay then why is Viktoria coming this way with a guilty look on her face?" He said smiling obviously thinking that he had outwitted me.

"Because I think she thinks you saw me punch Mark Voda in the face." He suddenly turned his gaze on me looking shocked. I knew why, it was one of the worst things to do to beat up a royal Moroi, and everyone knew it. I was going to be in serious trouble when I left this room.

Suddenly the room got extremely warm, the fear in Dimitri's face actually scared the hell out of me, I spun around violently to see Mark Voda go up in flames. It was so obviously Christian's work of art so Dimitri called down a lot seeing as it wasn't going to hurt him. We both stalked into the other room. "Okay why is Mr Voda on fire?" Dimitri glared pointedly at Christian who was once again laughing his ass off, but what was the most shocking was that everyone else in my group was laughing with him, even Lissa.

"What's so funny?" Lissa came running over. I knew she would tell me the whole story but I could feel through the bond, happiness and anger both together as well as relief.

"Well, Mark thought it would be funny to insult yours and Christian's honour once you left the room thinking that Christian didn't have the balls to do anything about it. So he basically called you a 'Stupid blood whore who doesn't know when to shut her gob'." This was really upsetting because it was Jesse who had started that rumour up, and I felt Dimitri tense next to me. "But then he called Christian a fire using brat who should just turn Strigoi and save us the waste of time." At this I was truly fuming and I even found funny what had happened to him.

While this exchange was going on it seemed that Mia realised that Mark was still on fire. "Hey everyone, Mark's on fire isn't he, how about we cool him down?" Everyone looked confused at Mia of course she really never was the really loud one after what happened to her mother. Then suddenly all the water from outside seemed to flow through the doors and the flames went out on Mark for him to be smothered with water. He walked out of the water completely drenched which just made all 8 of us laugh harder. That's when Dimitri started laughing as well, which made 9 people laughing while the other 150 just stood and gaped at us.

Dimitri lent down to whisper in my ear, "I think he definitely deserved that." Then Dimitri's arm was grabbed from behind him, he spun round to look at the intruder to be faced with a wet royal, not every day that happens. "Aren't you going to do anything about that?" He hissed trying to put some authority behind his voice, but it really wasn't working which was so funny. "What would you be talking about Mr Voda; I can assure you I have no idea what you are talking about." Mark was practically fuming by now.

"Hey Mark, if you keep fuming like that then you might end up getting dry after all, and anyway everyone always knew you were wet." The whole room burst into laughter and Mark just stormed out, that god we hadn't put him or any of Jesse's friends on the list.

We all made our way to period five; I planned on getting out of this lesson before making the announcement through Kirova's microphone which should basically transmit the message around the whole school which would be a good thing. We made sure that we got all of the guardians from this lesson meaning that we could just leave when we wanted and I was sure that Kirova would agree as she has done in the past, and I think she really wanted the novice's to win for once over the guardians.