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Here is chapter 29 and this one is in two POV's: Dimitri's and Ivan's (Ivan is the older Konnikov brother that protects Rose).

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DIMITRI

This waiting is killing me. Not knowing when to attack is worse. Thinking of how is everyone in there, is making me crazy.

"We'll save them all." Karolina whispers and brushes my shoulder. I only nod.

"Rose just came." Victoria gave us the news.

Will Lissa be fine? She is the Queen. And a very good Queen. People are starting to appreciate her hard work about strigoi and they are starting to love her. She is a good person and my saviour. She turned me back in a dhampir. She freed my soul and helped it to get control of my body again. I have to save her.

Will Christian be fine? I'm his Guardian. He is a good moroi and a good friend. I wasn't there when he was taken. I should be there. I lost a moroi before and I'm not letting it happen again.

I even heard Sonya was taken.

But... will I save my Roza? Will I be able to save her and my child? I can't stand the thought of losing her and the baby. My lovely Roza. The most dangerous woman I have met in my life. The most beautiful, brave person that I love so much, but so fragile now when she is carrying our child. I have to save her. I WILL save her.

Music of an orchestra just started. I quickly react and I get ready to attack.

"No!" Kaya says but quietly so they won't hear us. She is higher watching through a hole in the wall. "It's just music."

"Strigoi are fast. I think we should still go in and attack-"

"No, Dimitri-" Karolina says.

"-until it's too late!"

"DON'T TOUCH HER!" Rose yelled. Now is the time. Without even looking if Kaya said anything I ran and others behind me.

I didn't even look for strigoi. I am going to run till I see them.

And there they were. In a big ball room. Rose just turned around to see what is going on. Lissa, Christian and Sonya are tight on chairs looking awful. Robert is standing behind Lissa. And all I can think of right now, is killing that bastard.

In the next second strigoi were coming from every corner of the room. There were more strigoi then dhampir. I hope we'll make it through. I hope they are not old and strong...

Rose and I looked at each other and that's when I felt big relief from seeing her alright. I will save you. Both. I swear.

I wanted to finish that Robert off first, but captures were in danger. Strigoi were getting closer to them and I could see that they want to feed on them. I run closer and finish one strigoi with little effort. A new one probably.

The other was harder to kill. He was stronger. But he was very hungry. Strigoi was going for my neck all the time. It looks like it didn't feed for a long time. Robert wanted them to fight more.

I let him bite my neck but in the next secont of it liking the blood, it relaxed and it was my turn. I pushed it on the table and by his surprise quickly pushed the stake in its chest, through its heart.

When I stand back up I see Robert talking to Rose. This is the time.

"ROBERT!" I yell. He turns around. I was so pissed that I didn't run to fight him, throwing a stake was enough. The stake wasn't deep enough. It only made him to fall on his knees and scream loudly from pain.

I get closer now thinking of all that horror that he has done. I punch him in the face and push the stake deeper in his heart.

IVAN

Dimitri starts running like a lunatic inside the building and that meant only one thing - the battle is on. Yulian and I give ourselves one last glance and then we go after everybody else. While running down stairs, this huge ballroom started to fill with strigoi. Plenty more of them then all of us.

I start to feel nervous and I start to worry. If these strigoi are old and strong there isn't any chance for us to win. I will keep close to Yulian just in case. So I can protect him in a possibility of him getting hurt. I can't lose him. He is the only family I have.

"Ready to party?" Yulian asked while our backs were together for a better view. I laugh, but I actually feel horrible. I have a bad feeling about this.

We both killed 3 strigoi already. We are a good team. I have a chance to look around. I see Rose trying to untie the Queen, Dimitri fighting with a strigoi, Kaya and her guardians killing it, finishing a strigoi after a strigoi... Some of our fighters have bleeding wounds but none of them are too serious.

There's one strigoi that I saw... and recognized. It's my sister Yuliya. And she was supposed to be dead. Not a strigoi.

Another two strigoi came to fight us. While fighting I couldn't stop looking after her. She was standing behind tables, not really wanting to fight. She has an evil smile on her face. Like she waited for everyone to kill each other and then get the reward. The blood.

The strigoi I was fighting just fell and then I ran to help Yulian. Strigoi just knocked him down and now she's trying to suck his blood. I staked her and helped Yulian to stand.

"She's vicious." he said.

"Why did you lie to me?"

"About what?"

"About our whole family being dead."

"What? I didn't..."

"Then why is OUR SISTER in this room, on our enemies' side, in a strigoi from!" I yell at him. Yulian gave me a shocked look. Then he starts to look around the place to find her but none of us seem to find her.

I wish I could kick his ass right now but others need us. I see Dimitri's sister Victoria with a big cut on her leg trying to run for her life. I run to help her.

Victoria sits on the floor left without any strenght, all beaten up. I am fighting a very strong strigoi. It is fast, strong and smart. He knew how to block my attacks.

"Yuliya, it's me! Your brother!" I heard Yulian yelling. I quickly turn around and see them fighting. I want to help him but that strigoi is too strong to finish him right now. I keep fighting and try to listen what is happening over there.

"Yuliya, please! We can fix you. We can make you a dhampir again!" Yulian was begging her to stop fighting him.

"Do you know why I am like this? I mean it's not that I don't enjoy it... But our whole family is dead because of your stupidity." I hear her say in her laugh. But now Yulian stopped fighting her. This hurt him more than any cut or punch.

I saw her pressing him on the wall and starting to drink his blood. I can't let her kill him. I can't!

I fight the strigoi as strong as I can and try to wake Yulian up at the same time.

"Yulian, kill her! Kill her or she will kill you!" I was yelling but he didn't move. It's lasting too long. He will die if I don't do something fast. I have to make my move.

I escape strigoi's attack and push him down around the table. Then I take a hard grip on my stake and push it in my sister's back. She screamed pulling her fangs of Yulians neck and fell down on the floor. I was trying to keep Yulian standing.

"Come on, bro. You're strong enough." I try to encourage him. He did open his eyes. But his look was full of sorrow. He was looking from me to our dead sister.

"I'm sorry." was the only thing he was saying. And I could see how sorry he was. He was desperately asking me to forgive him and his face was wet with tears (and blood from cuts and bruises).

Of course I will forgive him. He is my brother. He used to be a rebel and troubled but he changed. He has learned his lesson. I could see that in the time we were protecting Rose. He is responsible and caring. I love him and I could never hate him for the past.

I feel somebody grabbing me by my hair and pulling me away from Yulian. I turn around and punch that dead piece back. The strigoi I was fighting came back. At one second I saw he had my stake in his hands and in other I felt this huge pain in my stomach.

I look down and see my stake was stabbed through my stomach. The pain was horrible. I felt my blood pouring down my body and I couldn't stand on my feet anymore. I fall back and Yulian catches me.

"Ivan! What?... NO!" I hear him scream loudly.

He fell on his knees and I find myself lying with my head in his lap.

"Brother, stay strong..." he said. "Help!"

"Ivan!" I hear another voice. I couldn't even see clearly anymore. The pain was making me weaker and weaker. But I could recognize that voice anywhere. It's Rose.

"Rose... Run..." I think I said. I couldn't hear well either. I try to say something else but I started caughting blood and I couldn't breathe.

"This is my fault..." Yulian cried. "Ivan, please forgive me..."

"It... isn't... your... fault..."

And I take a breath one last time before my eyes close.