Chapter 14… Then he locked the door

I stomped down my foot and a blade popped out of the back, and I kicked back my leg and it got him right in the shin. He screamed and let go of me, I was out of all of my blades, swords, daggers, all I had left was my original stake.

He looked even more pissed off now that I got away from him, and that is a good thing, because when they get mad, they get sloppy. But even a sloppy original is better than any well trained regular Strigoi. We went back and forth giving and receiving punches and kicks.

I caught him once off guard and kicked him once with all of my might, and he stumbled. That little stumble was all I needed, I punched and kicked in so many combinations, I threw together everything I had learned that year into a 5 second match. I finally got to a place where he left his chest open blocking one of my punch kick combinations and I pulled my stake out from its place on my leg and stabbed him in the heart.

At first he had a look of surprise, and then I heard a hoarse whisper.

"There are more of them" and then he was dead. I wasn't sure what he meant by that, but it couldn't have been good.

When I killed him, I thought everything was going to go away, I thought the rest of the Strigoi were going to go away, I thought that this meant that we won, but I was wrong, dead wrong. The Strigoi were confused, they obviously didn't think that their leader was going to die, so they stayed and fought. It was the quickest thing I had ever seen, they had a new leader up and barking orders within a matter of seconds, and they were going to do anything but leave.

I was absolutely exhausted, and wasn't sure I was ready to go up against a still full army of Strigoi, and it didn't look like any of the other guardians were either. But then I had an idea, a brilliant idea actually.

I radioed Jill and Mia "hey don't put the silver powder on the Strigoi anymore put it on all of the guardians, they won't be able to touch us, and Adrian come down here and help Lissa, bring her back up to the roof, the boundaries should still be in place, I don't know how he passed them."

"Got it" And with that I felt the cool water come over me, and it was time to put my theory to the test. I walked off of the holy ground and right up to a Strigoi to start my fighting.

One good punch to the face and he started to scream in agony, that's when I knew that it worked. While he was distracted I easily staked him, and I got a chance to look around at the other guardians, and most of them were wet now too, meaning that they were also untouchable.

The Strigoi soon figured out that they couldn't touch us and they fled, the battle was over about 15 minutes after I killed the original.

Not many guardians died, only 11, I can't say the same for the Strigoi, there were at least 100, if not more. All of the guardians went inside, and I went straight up to Lissa to make sure she was safe.

I got up to the roof and was tackled by none other than the one person I was coming to check on. "I'm so glad you're okay" we said at the same time, and then we both started to laugh. I didn't really know what we were laughing at, I was just so glad that everything was over.

I got up and went to give Mia and Jill a hug too, because if it wasn't for them than we never would have won.

"Hey we kicked ass this time too" I said to Christian "Yeah, as long as you don't give me a hug, I'll admit that we kicked MAJOR ass."

"Hey what about me?"

"You were pretty good to Adrian" I said with a smile and went to give him a hug.

"Now if you would all excuse me, now that I know that you are all okay, I am going to go shower and change."

Went to the shower and was in and out in about a minute, because all I wanted to do was go see Dimitri, and believe it or not get back to St. Vlads.

When I got out of the shower the first person I saw was Alberta "Where is Dimitri?" She didn't ask why I wanted to know where he was and I suspected that she knew about us, she just pointed to the left and off I was.

When I got to him he was all alone, and we were somewhere that it didn't look like anybody would come around, so I ran up to him and jumped in his arms. For the longest time he just hugged me with my legs wrapped around his waist and my head on his shoulder. Then we started to kiss and it was filled with so much love, but I was too tired so I just laid my head back on his shoulder.

"I don't have to tell you how good you did out there today do i?" Dimitri asked

"mnmm" "What was that" "mnmmmm" I replied again. "I'm guessing you're tired "mhmm" he just chuckled and switched me so that he was carrying me bridal style so that it wouldn't look as suspicious, and before I could count to ten I was asleep.

When I woke up I was in my bed at the academy, and it was sunset meaning that I slept the rest of the human night, and all of the human day and was back onto vampire time. I got out of bed, took another shower and got dressed. I went down to the cafeteria and found that I was the first one there and they hadn't even set out the food yet so I decided to go to the gym until the cafeteria opened.

When I got there what do you know, Dimitri was there. I needed to talk to him anyway, I had to be filled in on what happened while I was asleep. I was still unnerved about what the original vampire meant when he said that "there were more" but I just needed to put that on the back burner.

"How many" It was the first thing I asked and the only thing I cared about seeing as Dimitri looked okay.

"Fifteen, it's amazing that we only lost that many with such a large number of Strigoi"

"It still doesn't make it right, we shouldn't have lost any, it's all my fault" I said as I leaned my head into his chest.

"Oh really and how can you possibly justify that?"

"Simple, he was after me, sure he asked for you and Eddie too, but he said it himself you messed up, how else do you explain why I was the only one allowed in the wards once he was in them—you are going to have to tell me how he did that—and if something would have happened to Lissa, she could be dead because of me, because he needed bait, and leverage, it is my fault"

"It is in no shape way or form your fault, you were just a victim, and we think that he could do it because he was an original, and once he got in there then he had the ability to affect the wards and decide who could go in and out, and he wanted to fight you, to prove that he was the best… but he wasn't"

"What is 'his' name anyway?" I asked

"Klaus"

"Klaus is one son of a bitch and I am just glad that I killed him. So did the alchemists get all of the bodies?"

"Yes, but when they used the serum that makes them turn to ash, well, it didn't work on him, and so they left him out in the sun for him to burn, but that didn't work either, so they left the stake in him and buried him." This also made me uneasy but I just couldn't think about it, the guardians could handle it.

"What about field testing?" I asked, I think that since I did that whole battle, and came up most of the plans that I shouldn't have to do it, but you know guardians, and there stupid rules.

"You don't have to do the field experience, neither does Eddie, and the final qualifying test is optional, you can take it, just to see where you rank with the rest of your classmates, or if you already know you are the best you don't have to do it."

"Well, it would be nice to get it in writing that I am better than everyone in this school." Dimitri chuckled, and I leaned in to kiss him. It was quick and he pulled away, and it took me a while to remember that we were back at the academy and in the middle of the gym. So he picked me up and brought me to the storage room, and then locked the door. (A/N: And you dirty minded people can make up what they did in the storage room)