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Chapter thirty seven
Me and Dimitri quickly rummaged around gathering our stuff together whilst stealing kisses in between the rush we were in.
Once we were ready to leave Dimitri pulled me into his arms "I love you Roza, please be safe."
I closed my eyes as his lips pressed against mine.
All too soon he pulled away and I didn't want it to stop.
I pulled him back to me "I love you Dimitri Belikov and no matter what happens always...always remember that. Please be careful out there Dimitri, I cannot lose you"
We shared one last hug and one kiss that was filled with so much love it hurt to break it before we both headed out the door to find out where we were needed.
The walk to the main hall where everyone was gathering together felt like an eternity.
The weather was still miserable and bad as was the whole atmosphere of the place. I could sense the Strigoi close by because the nauseous feeling I got from being near them and that must have meant they were in court.
I could feel them here and the feeling has never been as bad as this, not even in the caves.
There must be many Strigoi here to make me feel like this.
Dimitri's hand was entwined in mine as we entered the main hall.
Eddie instantly ran up to us. The room was abuzz with conversation.
You could tell everyone was on high alert. Panic consumed the place.
"There here, a whole army of them. There surrounding the court. They aren't sure we have enough Guardians here to fight them. Most of the Royal Moroi have been flown of to safe places but there are still a lot of Moroi here that needs protection."
Just then a man stepped out on to the stage bit to stand at the podium. "I am sure you all know why we are gathered here at this moment in time. A great violation as been made which has sent our community into to tatter's. Strigoi have been finding ways to get into court and now what we feared the most is upon us."
The man took a deep breath before continuing.
"The people who have been looking over the gates and who have been doing routine checks of all areas of the court have brought it to our attention that there is at least one hundred and twenty Strigoi here tonight."
My mouth dropped open. I looked around the room trying to estimate how many guardians were here.
Not enough. I thought as the man at podium confirmed my answer.
"Our numbers are low for the amount of Strigoi that have turned up. There is just over one hundred and ninety of us to fight the Strigoi and that doesn't include the ones guarding the Moroi who are still here. One hundred and ninety guardians against one hundred and twenty Strigoi means that lives will be lost tonight."
I gasped out loud whilst closing my eyes.
"Everyone will be split into groups of seven or eight, each group will have a leader so I will call the leaders names out and then individual names followed by who you will be with."
I closed my eyes wondering who I would be put with has the man started to call the leaders out.
"The leaders are as follow Guardian Han's, Guardian Janine Hathaway, Guardian Conner's, Guardian Merzin'z, Guardian solace, Guardian Tanner's, Guardian Belikov, Guardian Harris, Guardian Castile_
And the list drowned on and on until he got to the very last name which was the thirty first in the list he spoke cautiously as he read
"And last but not least the very last leader will be Guardian Rosemarie Hathaway"
My mouth dropped open as did many others who though I was dead.
Dimitri squeezed my hand whilst I stood their dumbfounded that they had actually gave me a leader's position in this.
There were thirty one leaders for each team dedicated. Each group had six, seven or eight member each.
I had six under my watchful eye.
Our team was one that would be stationed on the front line so we would be one of the teams that would have to get ready for the attack.
We were to be positioned near the main entrance of the court.
After what sempt like ages of planning time each group slowly dispersed out of the main hall to go to their positions.
Before leaving Dimitri, we gave each other one last passionate kiss "Stay safe" we had said to each other before departing our separate ways.
I hoped and prayed he got through this.
Cal was going to Call me too him when he felt the pull, when he knew I had killed Victor.
"Let's do this" I screamed to my team as we went to position ourselves at the main gates for court.
When we got their fighting between the Strigoi and guardians had already started to break out.
There were Strigoi and guardians alike that lay dead on the floor and with each dead Guardian I passed I cringed.
Something kicked me in the side and it wasn't long before I realised it was a Strigoi. I instantly got into a defence stance as the Strigoi threw itself at me again.
I blocked the kicks it threw at me.
We sparred both trying to figure out what would be the best time to approach. I couldn't find one so I waited for the Strigoi's attack.
Within seconds he flew at me and I managed to land a full blown side kick to his ribs.
It got him by surprise but made him angrier. He fought and got a good flew blows in but I watched intently as he came for the last and final blow, he was aiming for the kill but I saw an opening he had stupidly left open and thrusted my stake straight into his chest.
a smile pursed my lips at the Strigoi's stupidity but as soon as it came it was wiped straight away as a Strigoi kicked me in the side knocking me flying on to the floor.
I jumped up into a defence stance and gasped.
I recognised the Strigoi from the night Dimitri got turned. He was one of the Strigoi who had gotten away in the cave and tonight I would beat his sorry ass or better still get his sorry as to turn me and then beat him.
He knocked me to the floor with one of his blows and was instantly on top of me so I encouraged him to change me knowing that it is what I needed him to do if I was to accomplish what was needed of me.
At first the Strigoi laughed "Hmmm but you smell perfectly like dinner."
I laughed nervously at that. "But wouldn't you prefer me for pudding every day? I could be by your side. Your side kick"
Then a thought come to me. Strigoi liked to think of other's as their property, what better way to persuade a Strigoi than to do what I was just about to do.
"Or" I seductively spoke "You could turn me and have me as your pet, I could be your personal property."
An evil, cold and maliciously smirk placed themselves upon his lips and...
The Strigoi didn't hesitate to do has I asked.
His head came down to my neck and bite right into it. After drinking from me to the point that I was barely aware of my surroundings he sliced his own wrist open and allowed the blood to flow into my mouth, causing me to choke on it.
"If you want to change you'll drink" he whispered to me and like that the blood flowed down my throat making me feel sick.
I felt the pain that flowed through my body has fighting continued around me. I heard the screams and those that fell. I heard the blows being hit but soon the noise became nothing as the pain erupted through my entire body making me concentrate on nothing but that.
I screamed out before dropping in submission and closing my eyes.
My eyes must have been closed for what sempt like ages until I heard a voice in my head pressing me to find Victor.
It was Cal trying to lead me in the right direction, first by getting me to open my eyes.
I could hear the fights that were still happening around me and I could hear the screams. They were a lot more vivid than what they had been.
I jumped up faster than what I have ever been able to move before and in an instant was knocked back down by another Strigoi.
I growled at him in a voice that was nothing like mine. It was cold and hard and sounded really malicious.
Has soon as the Strigoi came at me again I spoke few words to him "Now you're going to pay" and he stood dead in his tracks. Whilst he was stood like that for whatever reason I snapped his neck and decapitated him.
Has his body fell to the floor I saw the one that had actually changed me laid there.
An evil smile crept to my lips as I decided to go and play fight.
I was faster, more alert, stronger and could see better than what I had previously been able too but like Cal had warned, other than that I was the same.
I got a blow come to my side which instantly caught me off guard and before I knew it I was on the floor rolling around like some stupid school girl in a cat fight.
I was fighting with a young blonde Strigoi girl.
We fought and fought hard against each other but no Strigoi can beat me.
Whilst I was on top of her I repeatedly hit her head on a rock, until she was no longer conscious and then with this new found strength of mine I punched straight into her chest, it was really easy and on impact it took her breath. It gave me enough time to reach for a stake in close proxmority to me and stake her where she'd instantly fall and die.
"Way to go Rose" Mason screamed in my ear
I jumped up to be right in front of his face.
"Rose Victor's near Cal. You need to_
I didn't even give Mason time to finish before I was sprinting to where he was.
He was in the main building at court. The one his mother used to live at. I ran like mad to get to him. I was faster than I had ever been so I was there in seconds.
I was right in front of Cal.
I heard a loud gasp as Victor saw me enter.
I let out a loud chuckle as I saw the entire colour drain from his face.
"What's up Uncle Victor, did you not know Rose was alive again?"
"Impossible"
"Nope, obviously not, because here I am."
I walked straight up to Victor and picked him up, like he was nothing.
I don't know how he managed to look so well considering the illness he had that was supposedly killing him but then I realised of cause, someone must have healed him.
Victor's eyes went wide as he realised the strong grasp I had on him.
"Im...Imp...Impossible" he finally stuttered out.
I laughed again in his face.
"No Uncle Victor, Rose, Did what was needed." Cal spoke harshly to him but at the same time you could see the smugness that laced his words.
"So I guess your plan didn't work after all"
I had come up two or three flights of stairs to get here, I think, so throwing him out of the window was a great idea but I wanted to torture him first.
I slowly walked over to the window smashing it with Victor body. He screamed out in fear and Robert came to help him instantly as did the Strigoi that followed him around like some lost puppies but I hung him out the window and threatened to drop him if they came any closure.
Victor was screaming at me and begging me to pull him back inside but I just kept playing with him. "Oops I lost my grip" I said as I let him go. I let out a chuckle but my reflexes where faster than ever and I caught him again.
I saw the fear that radiated through him and it gave me pleasure at least now some of the fear that he has made Liss suffer he can suffer himself.
I saw one of the Strigoi edge towards Cal so in three swift moves I was in front of him.
I saw the stake that was positioned on the dressing table in Tatiana's old bedroom. I picked it up and threw it straight through one off the Strigoi's hearts.
"Now ever cross me again" I spoke as I moved myself to be stood in front of the last remaining Strigoi in the room other than myself "And I will kill you but make it slow and painful. Get it."
In an instant the Strigoi backed away from me in submission.
Robert stood there speechless.
He was shaking his head.
"Call the Strigoi off Victor now."
He laughed at that so I did what I had previously done to him earlier at the window apart from this time I dropped him right to the floor.
You heard his body hit with a thud and I could also hear the sound of bones breaking and shattering.
The Strigoi and Robert who were in the room was gone like a shot.
I left Cal stood there as I easily jumped out of the window.
Crowds had gathered around the main part now as I snatched the stake from one of the guardians closest to me and leant over Victor's crumpled body.
I picked him up of the floor like he was nothing and hung him to show everyone.
"This everyone, is who you have to thank for the queens death and for the war that has happened now."
I chucked him back to the floor as I raised the stake and brought it straight into his heart.
The last you could hear from Victor was the horrendous scream he made as his soul left his body.
Happiness flowed through me now that I knew Victor was dead.
But he had whispered something to me before he died and it started to bother me.
"You think you can trust him Rose but all he wants his to be king." That was what he got out on his last breath.
I didn't know Cal very well but since be bonded with him I felt I could trust him. There was an instant connection their between the two of us but I didn't know what it was.
It was like something pulled us together but not in a sexual tension kind of way more a brotherly, sisterly kind of way.
Could I trust Cal?
My answer was yes, I can trust Cal.
Victor just doesn't want it to end out it is suppose to.
I turned to look at me surroundings.
When I dropped Victor's body from the window the fighting had soon stopped. People wanted to witness Victor's death but as soon as it happened and Victor was no longer breathing it had begun again.
Through the corner of my eye I saw Robert etching closer and closer to Victor so I picked Victor's lifeless body up and decapitated him so that his body wasn't whole and couldn't be brought back.
I didn't do it with my hands this time though I did it with the sharp blades that had fell to the floor with all the fighting.
It gave me a pleasure that I can't describe to do it to the man that had caused so much pain and heartache in my life.
I heard another horrendous scream as Robert fell to the floor once he knew he could no longer bring Victor back to life.
I looked up to see Cal stood at the window with one of the biggest grins I have ever seen. Then flames engulfed around Victor and in a flash he was nothing but ashes. The only thing left of him was his head.
"Are you ready Rose?" I heard Cal ask as I took in what was happening around me.
There were many dead bodies lied all over and fighting still happening everywhere.
Many had died tonight but many would also live.
I closed my eyes and told Cal I was ready just has a hand grasped my shoulder.
It was Dimitri. He was covered in cuts and bruises.
He wrapped his arms around me and I leant my head on his shoulder just as Cal approached us.
"Do you have the stake?" I asked him as I pulled myself away from Dimitri allowing a tear to flow from my eye.
"I love you" I whispered to him as I went to stand up against the massive oak tree near the court yard.
Cal stood there waiting for me.
I stood back against the tree. I closed my eyes to take a huge breath before nodding at Cal.
"Wait" Dimitri screamed as he rushed to my side He pulled me into one of the biggest hugs I have ever had before bringing his lips down to mine. "Come back to me Roza" He said as he turned to stand where he had been.
I stood shocked staring at him as he left me near the oak tree.
"Rose" Cal said but all I did was nod to him. "I am ready" I whispered more to myself than anyone.
I would come back, I had to believe that.
I could trust Cal. He would bring me back. I hoped.
He stood in front of me with tears at the bottom of his eyes. "I will never forget what you did Rose and I will do my best to bring you back. I promise."
I nodded at him knowing that this needed to be done. If I didn't come back then at least I know I will have saved many lives. And...
And if I did come back then at least I could enjoy a life with Dimitri.
I looked towards Dimitri who was in tears now. "I love you Roza" He spoke and I could see the words he mimed to me "Please, please, please come back to me."
I looked away from him with tears in my eyes. As Cal asked me...
"Are you ready Rose" I nodded
And within seconds the stake was embedded my heart.
I fell to the floor but not because I was in pain because I wasn't.
A light like I had never seen before shone off every inch of my body and a feeling of pure happiness radiated through me as magic started to take effect.
The glow coming from the oak tree at the court made it so that people turned to look mesmerised.
They stood frozen to the spot as my body shone like nothing you had ever seen before.
I felt my soul leave my body and it was like I was stood there watching it with everyone else.
Someone tapped my shoulder and I turned to see Mason "You did it Rose"
I smiled at him "I sure did"
"I am so proud of you Rose" I turned to see Anna and Vlad there and alongside them was Drew.
They all had smiles on their faces.
I turned to look at my body now. The glow that was illuminating of it started to die down as the last few Strigoi around fell to the floor.
The ones who had been turned against their will shone like stars also and when the brightness left my body they instantly awoke in coughing fits.
Everyone was on high alert around them.
I started to fade then and that's when I felt the pain Corse through me.
I let out one deafening scream before my body went limb and I was consumed by darkness.
Nothing but Darkness.
It was nothing like last time.
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