RPOV

I stood up; expecting Adrian to come out, but when I did my jeans and bikini top turned into a dress. It was one that Lissa was trying to get me to buy at the mall. How did Adrian know about this dress? The beach then turned into a meadow with flowers and really cool looking trees. What is going on in Adrian's mind? Suddenly I saw a person come out from behind one of the trees.

"Adrian, what's with the meadow and this dre- Lissa??" she ran over and gave me a hug. Well that explains the dress. But how is she in my dreams?

"Rose! I can go into dreams now!" I laughed.

"I can see that much." She rolled her eyes at me.

"Adrian showed me how to do it, and now I'm trying it out!"

"So now I'm your experiment guinea pig?" I said with sarcasm. She rolled her eyes again.

"Isn't it great though?! I'm going to try it on Christian next." This time I rolled my eyes.

"Uggh. Well you have fun with that." She started talking about how she got into my dream and how she can control the clothes and setting. As she said that, my dress turned into a really cute top that I would love to have in the real world and a good fitting jeans.

"Could you make the clothes appear in real life? These are amazing!" We both laughed and talked for a while but then I saw something by the tree.

"Could Adrian come into the dream too? Like when you're already in here?" Her eyebrows scrunched.

"I don't know. I guess he could." I looked at the tree more closely. There was a figure coming out of the tree. Literally popping out from the tree. I recognized the face.

"Lissa! You need to get out of here! Now!" I whispered urgently at her.

"But why? This is so fun!"

"Trust me." I said grabbing her arms. "I'll explain later." If I even make it out, but I didn't tell that to her.

"Okay, I guess." She vanished, with disappointment. I then looked back at the tree. The person came out of the tree and was leaning against it.

"What do you want, Victor. Why do you keep showing up?" I screamed at him. He smiled and clapped his hands together. Everything went white.

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I woke up startled. What just happened? I looked at my clock and saw I needed to get up. I took a shower and got ready in a haze. I walked downstairs to get some breakfast when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I turned around gasping. It was Lissa.

"Sorry, are you okay? What happened last night?" I started breathing again. What should I tell Lissa? I didn't want to tell her it was Victor, she would freak.

"Oh. Uhh I just felt like I was waking up." She eyed me.

"You were freaking out last night. What happened?" she grabbed my shoulders.

"It-it was nothing. Hey, shouldn't you be getting to church." I said trying to change the subject. She had a look that said we would get back to that subject.

"Yeah, I was getting some breakfast. Oh I have and idea! You should come to church with me!" I sighed.

"Sure, I have nothing else to do today." She smiled and we got some breakfast. We then went to the feeders for Lissa and headed off to the church that was on campus. The service was long and boring. We were about half way through when I noticed that Dimitri was sitting in the back like he usually does. I looked at Lissa.

"I'll be right back." I whispered. She raised and eyebrow but I got up and walked to the back and sat next to Dimitri.

"Hey comrade." He smiled and my heartbeat kicked up a notch.

"What are you doing here? I thought you'd rather be breaking hearts then be here."

"We'll the heart I would break for is in here. Why are you in here? I don't see how you can sit through this every week." He laughed softly.

"It takes my mind off things." I was about to say how could a god need to take his mind off things, but the Priest started talking again.

"Things always change. Sometimes in a bad way, but most of the time good ways. Most people don't appreciate God. They don't come to the service, and those are the people that usually change the bad way. God isn't with them. The people that do come, even if they just started coming, will now be under Gods wing. They will be protected from danger." He was looking right at me, like he knew what was going on with me.

"People are like flowers." He reached over and grabbed a rose from the vase on the table. It was like he was trying to tell me something. "There fragile, but still strong. It may not seem like it, but they have bad days just like us. There still living. You need to take care of them, and watch out for them." He looked directly at me and nodded. He then ended his little speech and went on about something with Vladimir.

"What the hell." I murmured. Dimitri looked at me confused.

"You okay?" I nodded slowly. Trying to figure out what he meant.

"Rose, please, tell me if you're okay. And please tell the truth."

"I'm fine. Promise." Well, for now I'm okay. I woulnt when Victor gets his hands on me. The rest of the service, I tried to figure out what all the Priest could mean. When the service ended, I stood up and was going to talk to the Priest.

"Are you on shift later?" I asked Dimitri, hoping he would so I could see him.

"Yeah. On the west side of campus." I smiled.

"Cool. I'll see you later then." I really wanted to kiss him right there, but I couldn't. Damn rules. I walked to try and find the Priest and then I spotted him talking to another student. I waited, and finally the person left.

"Rose, it's good to see you here."

"Oh, yeah. So what was the whole flower thing about?" He winked.

"Just something I wanted to throw in. Oh and I wanted to tell you that in the cellar, there's some more books on St. Vladimir and Anna, if you still wanted to know more about them.

"Oh, cool. Thanks. I'll go get them now." He led me to the door of the cellar and then walked away. Who knew that the church had a cellar? Oh well. I opened the door and flipped on the light. It was creepy looking, but I went down anyways. I got down and saw that not a lot of people come down here. There were dust and spider webs everywhere. I looked around the boxes for the books and saw one labeled St. Vladimir so I picked it up and put it at the stairs. I went back down the stairs to see if there were anymore when something caught my eye. It was a necklace under one of the boxes in the corner. I went over and picked it up. It was a locket. I tried to open it, but it was stuck. I frowned and put it in my pocket to try and open later. I then saw words on the wall. What the hell? I walked over and saw that it was carved into the wall.

You better run and hide, because here I come.

-Jeremy

I took a step back. This can not be good. I took my eyes off the wall and ran up the stairs as fast as I could. I got up and put my back against the wall from the door. I sank down onto the floor. Oh God. Are they coming to the school? There here. How else would he have gotten the note on the wall? I stood up slowly and slammed the door closed. I started running to get to the school and warn the guardians. No, no, no, no, no. This could not be happening. But it was.

It was happening.