Chapter 20… The things in Kirova's office

My alarm went off at 4:30, I couldn't believe that I was getting up this early without being forced, but I had to, I had to be there first. I got dressed in something that I looked super hot in, but could also kick ass. (Pic on profile) I took the master key and headed down to Stan's room.

When I got to the hallway I unlocked all of the classrooms and then went back into Stan's room and grabbed an envelope. I put the key inside and on the front I wrote your move ;)

I then went and snuck into the guardians dorms, and taped the envelope to Dimitri's door. It was still only 4:50 when I was finished and so I went back again to Stan's room to wait for the other teams.

Obviously Eddie was the first one there and then the other teams slowly came in one at a time. Once all of the teams were there I had to give my final debrief.

"Okay so you are all going to go to breakfast and act normal, I am going to make an announcement and when I do the Alpha and Omega teams will leave along with all of the other students, but all of the other teams will stay and just continue eating like nothing happened.

Don't forget, keep your head in the game, your eyes open, and when we capture the guardians, take their earpieces and master keys, and lock the doors. We have to win this, from the way Alberta said it, the novices have ever won this, so we need to win. We need to prove we are the best of the best."

"Everyone go to breakfast, you know the drill about leaving. Eddie you and I need to go to Kirova's office." And with that I left the room. We ran down to the cafeteria so that I could grab a doughnut and then headed outside to climb once again through the window.

It was so early that it was still light outside, so it was harder to sneak past all of the guards to get to Kirova's office. So by the time we got there it was already 6, the sun was setting, and everyone should be out of Stan's classroom and in the cafeteria and once we got in the office and to the intercom, it should be closer to 7 and more people should be up.

It was relatively easy to get into Kirova's office since I had already done it before, and Kirova was not in there, so I figured that she was down at the cafeteria supervising.

When I got to the intercom I took out my iPod and played the theme song to jaws, Eddie just looked at me and shook his head. Right at the climax of the song I came on and said "Anyone who did not attend the meeting yesterday afternoon please report back to your dorms immediately and stay there until further notice."

DPOV back when he found the envelope

I walked out of my room at 5 so that I could go to the gym to train, and I saw an envelope on my door. It said "your move" and I was wondering what could be in it, and was this the start of the war? I opened it to find my master key, I will go back on what I said before, Rose is definitely unpredictable.

I put the master key back in my pocket and headed off to the gym. It was close to 6 o'clock when I finished and I went up to take a shower. After my shower I went to the cafeteria to do my watch duty. I get down there and about 5 minutes later the theme song to Jaws plays the cafeteria. All of the guardians immediately go on edge, because no one knows what is happening.

We figure out that it is coming from the intercom, and Kirova immediately takes off for her office. Right at the climax of the song Rose comes on and we all now know that this is the beginning of the end.

"Anyone who did not attend the meeting yesterday afternoon please report back to your dorms immediately and stay there until further notice." At least we know that she isn't going to involve any of the younger grades.

It was amazing to see how quickly people got up and left, I think they are all scared of her; she was going to make an amazing guardian when this was all over.

There were only about 50 people still in the cafeteria, and I was surprised to see that some of them were Moroi, and once I noticed that I was surprised to see that Christian was not part of them, but then I figured that he was probably on lookout for Rose while she was in Kirova's office, well she probably wasn't anymore considering she knew Kirova had to be on her way up there right now.

The 50 kids in the cafeteria just went on eating like nothing happened, and when they were done they just got up and threw away their trash and sat back down. The war had started and they weren't even trying to do anything to stop themselves from being captured, or capture us. Either Rose didn't think this part of the plan through, or she was just being cocky, knowing her, it's the second.

All of the guardians were just standing there, not knowing what to do. I mean we had a plan, when the novices start pranking us, the backup team will move in and capture the pranksters, but they weren't pranking us, and our plan was defensive, not offensive.

Then all of the sudden all of the kids got up at once, by the signal of a couple of-who I guessed were the leaders—kids and left out of all of the entrances. All of the guardians were looking around, and again I figured that Rose probably told them to do that either at a certain time, or by cell phone, or something like that.

Once all of the kids were gone, 10 new novices entered the cafeteria, and before we knew it we were all covered in paint. Paint balloons, and paint balls from paint ball guns, anything that could hold paint was thrown at us. "It's time, come out now, we have to attack them before they retreat" I heard the earpiece say, it was Alberta talking to the other team of guardians.

Team B of the guardians came in from everywhere, the entrances, the closet, everything that they could have hid behind they did. As soon as that happened the cafeteria filled with smoke.

RPOV from right after she gives the announcement

"Eddie we have to get out of here, Kirova is definitely going to come up here looking for us." I said, and just like that we left the same way we came. "Rose I can't believe you did that, you probably scared the shit out of the guardians when you played that song." I laughed "Yeah I probably did, but that was the point, to put them on edge"

The cafeteria should be cleared out by now, and it is only my people left, minus team Alpha and Omega. But it is time for them to get out "Alpha, Omega, are your teams ready?" I said into the walky talky "Yeah" "Affirmative" "Good, hey it's time for the rest of you guys to get out of the cafeteria, on my mark, and when they are out Omega, that will be your cue to go in guns blazing, ready 3… 2… 1!"

Eddie and I were still running, and we were only about 30 seconds from the cafeteria "Team Alpha, when you see the other guardians come out of hiding, go in and throw all the smoke bombs that you've got, Omega, when you see the smoke, STOP what you are doing and attack, make sure they are blindfolded before you take them to the classrooms, and only attack guardians on team B"

Right as I finished I arrived at the cafeteria and started looking for Tyler (Alpha's team captain) and I found him hiding in a bush and ran over to him. "You ready to kick some guardian ass?" "What kind of question is that? Of course I am" "Good, now give me and Eddie some smoke bombs" Right as I said that the walky went off saying that the team B guardians just came out of hiding. "Time for us to shine" I said and then we lit the smoke bombs and threw them into the cafeteria. It was really hard to see, but we figured it was even more disorienting for the guardians because they didn't know this was going to happen. Team Alpha, plus me and Eddie run in, and team Omega stops throwing any paint things, and we go into full battle mode, against well trained guardians with years of experience.

I'm fighting one, and I don't know who it is but he is really good, but not better than me, sure he gets a few hits in but I end up knocking him out hand cuffing him and blindfolding him. As soon as I'm done with that another one comes at me, this one is a girl, and better then the last, but again not better that me.

She actually gets me on the ground, and I am about to lose my other capture so I kick it into overdrive and do what I would like to call now my signature punch kick combination and I manage to knock her out, I do the same thing to her as I did to the guy and I notice that the smoke is clearing out, I order everyone to finish up, and head to put there POW's in the "prisons." I didn't want the guardians to know where we were keeping them or the blindfolds would be useless.

DPOV after the smoke bombs are set off

The smoke engulfs the entire cafeteria very quickly, and Alberta commands all of team A guardians to maintain positions, because we still have to be the ones getting pranked, but all of the getting hit with paint filled objects stops and I can't help but think that it wasn't a coincidence the timing of the smoke bombs. Rose somehow knew our plan and she is getting her people out. But by the time I figure this out the smoke is starting to clear so all I have to do is look. And what I see completely blows my mind.

All of the novices are gone, along with ALL of the team B guardians, they captured them all, and we didn't even capture one of them. "Alberta, we can't be defensive anymore, we have to go on the offense, and we have to get supplies, we have to get the things from Kirova's office