Paul and Darius growled loud as one of them grabbed me and threw me behind them as they caught Alston and Jinson by surprise. "Don't hurt Alston, please! He's my brother!" I cried out.
"He's not the same Alston anymore." Jinson said darkly.
"The hell he's not!" I snarled out as I jumped to my feet setting the ground around Jinson on fire. "Say he's not the same again and your whole body will be in flames!" I shouted at him.
"He's right Stephen… I used our friendship to get him in here and kill you to relieve our curse of the sun." Alston said.
"W… why? I thought we were brothers… You lied to me!" I began to cry a little, it wasn't an easy thing to hear. The next thing I know is my gear shift for my anger shifted into over-drive because the fire soon spread around Alston and Jinson.
"Wait!" Lydia shouted as she ran up behind us.
"Get back inside!" Paul yelled.
"They don't want to kill him for his blood! They want to kill him because of spirit, they know that he can turn Strigoi into moroi or humans again!" She hollered out.
"I… I can?" I asked as the fire died a little.
"Yes, if we work together it'll be done in no time." She said as she laced her fingers around mine. Paul seemed to get jealous. I would too if that happened, but it was nothing like that.
"Alright. We'll try I guess." I said as I closed my eyes.
"Focus on them being moroi instead of hybrids, we can do this." Lydia said. We began to focus on them being moroi, our magic merged together, we began to flow the magic through us to Alston and Jinson.
"It's not working." Jinson said sarcastically.
"It will now" A male voice that I've only heard twice came into the picture.
"Kyle? Is that you?" Lydia asked.
"Yup, and I'm here to help… and I'm sober, so think of this as a treat." He said jokingly as I felt his hand on my shoulder, I would assume his other was on Lydia's. I felt his magic soon glow into us, it was a trio effort, but I soon heard Jinson and Alston groan slightly.
"Is it working?" I asked Paul or Darius. Hannah was just behind us.
"Yeah a little." Darius said
I felt a hand lace with my free one, who the hell was it? I opened my right eye to peer at who it was; it was Hannah. "How the hell, why are you helping?" I asked slightly shocked.
"the main reason I came here was to tell you that I'm a witch… It runs in my mom's family and it starts when you turn 16 and well I turned 16 last week." Shit I forgot her birthday.
"I'm so sorry I forgot your birthday." I said feeling ashamed, but happy for her at the same time.
"It's okay, being here was good enough." she said. "Now back to focusing."
All four of us focused on turning them to moroi, our efforts began working faster, they were groaning and grunting like someone was stabbing them.
"Stop!" Cried out Jinson.
We didn't listen.
About 20 minutes later we stopped when all was quiet and still. I opened my eyes and saw both of them on the ground in the ring of fire. I ceased the flames and ran up to Alston, I shook him "hey, are… are you okay?"
"Yeah…" Alston said as he began to sit up slowly, his eyes met mine and they weren't the red I was used to, they were grey… the color he told me they were. His skin was still pale, but it wasn't death pale, it was more like a fair color. Jinson's skin was the same.
"Hey, Jinson… Wake up." Alston said as he slapped Jinson's back. He jumped and sat up.
"What?" Jinson asked as his pale green eyes looked over at me.
I froze slightly, he looked completely different then what I was used to. "Thank you…" Alston finally said to me as he hugged me tight.
I got slightly teary eyed as he did, I had the person that originally came over from Rome back. "You're going to die when you're old with me. Got it? We're brothers until the end. Promise me that" I said as I held him close, I never wanted his to be a strigoi again. He was an evil bastard.
"I… I'm sorry." Jinson said as he looked at me with remorse in his eyes. "I really am."
"It's okay… Really it is." I started "you only made me kill an innocent girl because you turned her, but that's okay… She was a bitch anyway." we all chuckled a little.
"Must be the name." Alston said
"That's my aunt you're talking about you scum!" Kyle shouted at Alston.
I growled lightly at his outburst. "Kyle, knock it off… You can interfere with my dreams, but this is real life and I can fuck you up. Got it?" I threatened.
"You're a royal like myself, we don't fight."
"Yeah, well I'll change that." I hissed
Everyone laughed lightly as my threat clearly made Kyle cringe. I won that verbal fight, even though it wasn't that much of a fight. "Listen, no need to kill each other now…" Darius said.
"Yeah, really… Boys don't fight amongst yourselves, it's rather barbaric." Lydia said.
"Did… did she just call us boys?" Jinson asked in a violent shock.
"Yeah, she did…" Alston said.
"Listen here little miss priss, We are not boys. We can-" Jinson said before I cut him off with an obnoxious clearing of my throat.
"We don't need details on what you do on your free time Jinson… Really, save us the pain of the visuals." I said with a laugh.
Alston began cracking up so bad that he fell out of the hug and onto his back, he was laughing hysterically; I thought he was going to die.
Well with that everyone began laughing hysterically before Darius spoke again "Let's get to the ending part of the ceremony, we need you to be there Stephen." He said.
"Okay, let's go…" I said as I stood up and helped Alston up and them Jinson.
"is there going to be alcohol?" Kyle asked
I slapped the back of his head as I walked past "no need for anymore drunk dream visits from you." I laughed as all of us walked towards the gym.
"Well what if I want to visit you in your dreams while I'm drunk." Kyle said with a joking wink.
"You do that and I'll find you and make you wish you hadn't." Paul snarled out. Shit, way to go Paul, way to expose our relationship.
"Why would you do that?" Darius asked with a slight curiosity
"Because I'm supposed to protect him from danger and drunk moroi are dangerous with their magic and all…"
Phew, good save. "Right…" Hannah said, I shot her a warning glance before we went inside and the crowd was in a roar as the last name was called on the list. Our entrance soon shut them up.
"Mr. Vandermill, where have you been. We've been waiting for our guest of honor." Principal Kirova said into the microphone.
Paul and Darius picked me up from under my arms, I rested my face on my hand as the hauled me up to the stage that was set up. A few laughed in the crowd as I was carried like that and some just stayed quiet like they could care less about being here.
"Well, I'm here now…" I said as Paul and Darius set me down. I looked at Principal Kirova and fixed my shirt. "Well, what do I have to do?" I asked.
"You just have to be up here and give a speech. That's all, did I forget to inform you?" She asked
"Yeah, just a little…" I stated.
"terribly sorry. Well here's the microphone, the stage is yours." She said as she went back to her seat.
I sucked at giving speeches, but I would have to wing it. "Hey everyone, uh… As you know I'm Stephen Vandermill…" I cleared my throat a little. "I came here early in the year, but I wasn't like all of you, I was human… And I managed to get a Strigoi in here… His name is Alston." The crowd got into a roar of gasps and foul name calling. "But I trusted him, until he found out that I had changed into a moroi… I'm a Wechsler, for those you don't know what that means… It's German for changer… My genetic make-up changed itself and made my moroi side dominant, but at the same time kept my human shape and attributes." I took a breath, "as I've been here, I made some interesting friends. And when I say their names I want them to come up here…" I smiled over at the group I came in with. "But before I do… I'd like to recognize a few people…" I sighed lightly at what I was about to say was going to kill me. "I'd like to thank one special Guardian for her hard work even thought she can't be here with us… She was the hardest working guardian that I met this year and I thank her for that… May you rest in peace Guardian Alberta Perez." the crowd went silent as a few began to sob a little. "I would also like to recognize two students who can't be here for this glorious moment. Jason Minale and Tatiana Colonna. These two died because of the hands of Strigoi… Jason died in battle, but Tatiana… Well I killed her, she was turned while the wards were down and she came after me so I had to…" I wiped the base of my left eye as I felt a slight tear. "These three people should be here now, but sadly they can't be…" I sighed. "Now time to introduce the ones that have been here from the start. Let's here it for Guardian Saratan, Guardian Chivok, Lydia Fina, Paige Kiran Kyle Anstred, Kelli Benjamin, Hannah Kindley, Jinson Sarantenos, and lastly, but still as important, Alston Sarantenos." The crowd clapped loud until I mentioned Jinson and Alston. "These nine people have been here for me and I have a feeling they always will be. I just wanted to let them know that they're stuck with me and I hope all of you find great friend like these. Thank you." I handed the microphone back to principal Kirova as we made our way off of the stage.
"Thank you Mr. Vandermill" The rest of what Kirova was saying blurred into the background as I was smashed in the middle of a group hug with the nine I mentioned in the speech. Everything was muffled, even my own breathing.
"Love you guys too…" I said trying to get free.
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