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Chapter 3

LOVE ALWAYS WINS

DPOV:

In an instance she was gone, I heard a commotion going on, I ran to the sound and saw the two girls about to enter an alley and two guards knocked out.

"Princess Vasilisa Dragomir" I boomed.

Both the girls turned to face me but Rose placed herself in front of the Princess.

"My name is Dimitri Belikov and I'm here to take you to St Basil's" Rosemarie turned around, back facing me and I assume said something to the princess because she dropped her head and nodded before Rosemarie faced me again still blocking the princess and responded to me with

"Guardian Belikov, we will come willingly"

That must have been what they were speaking about. Both the SUV's pulled up, I got into the driver's seat of one the vehicles. Rosemarie pushed Lissa into the middle seat at the back of the car and she got in after. After we started driving I saw the Princess and Rosemarie exchange words and they laughed, the Princess leaned her head on Rosemarie's shoulder. I couldn't help but smile a little. They loved each other, it was clear, a very strong bond. I noticed Rosemarie gawking at me, I tried hard not to notice but those are piercing. After a while, Rosemarie's gaze got interrupted by the Princess saying something to her in what believed to be Turkish?

Once we arrived via plane, Everyone piled into cars again like clockwork. We had been driving for an hour and still had an hour to go when Rose screamed to stop the car. Grabbing her stomach and looking like she was going to vomit, I started to speak before she interrupted.

"Strigoi, there are Strigoi here". She was looking at me with fear, had she ever come across them? I hope not.

"Stay here" I demanded not leaving any room for argument.

Before getting out of the car I alerted the other guardians in the adjacent car as to why we had stopped. All the Guardians got out and surrounded the car in circle form, it certainly didn't look like there was Strigoi here, two minutes had passed when four Strigoi appeared, one female and three males. I got into a defensive stance and saw the others do the same, when the female hissed.

"Hello guardians, we want the Princess and in return, we won't kill you or turn you"

I was about to say something when she shrieked. confused I turned around to see Rosemarie standing there with a glare on her face.

"Rosemarie"

"Rose" she corrected, she locked eyes and walked straight past me.

"If you want the princess, you have to get past me first" she declared.

"Silly girl" one of the Strigoi spoke "you don't have your stake" he smirked.

"I may not, but they do" they looked over at us, as they did that, she kicked one of the Strigoi in the stomach knocking him into the other two, they all fell over, she grabbed the stake from the female and instantly plunged into the chest of the first male and stood up with her stake.

"Anyone else want to play" she yelled daringly.

One of remaining Strigoi came over to her and she got into a defensive stance, where did she learn this?

He lunged at her, she dodged him, tripped him and then staked him, he didn't stand a chance. The last Strigoi made a run for the vehicles. I assume to get to the Princess. We all remained in a defensive stance, but before he made it to us, he fell face down and there was a stake in his back.

"Better call the alchemists" Rose said as she grabbed the stake from his back and made her way back to Lissa.

All the guardians looked between one another bewildered. One of the guardians called as we walked back to the cars. As a I got there I could see Rose had Lissa in her arms and she was crying.

We all got back in and started driving, no one saying a word, I think we were all trying to come to terms with what we just witnessed. When we arrived back at the school, we took them to straight to the Headmistress.

"I was very angry at hearing you that you somehow managed to convince Princess Vasilisa to leave a highly guarded facility with only you as a guard." Headmistress Kirova said.

The Princess was about to say something, but Rose scrunched up her face and shook her head at her as if telling her to keep it quiet.

"Princess Vasilisa you are next in line basically the last in your bloodline, you were so careless." Turning back to Rose.

"Rosemarie you are on probation, you are allowed no social events, you are to only go to classes, Vasilisa's dorm and likewise Vasilisa is allowed at yours, you are to train one on on with Guardian Belikov, as you have missed just over a year and a half you have a lot of school work and training to catch up on. Guardian Belikov will tutor you, on two days of your choosing, you will have to do two hours of study, you will also be doing two hours of training in the morning and two hours in the evening, on Saturdays you have 4 hours of training, study or both, and Sunday you get the day off. Understood?" Headmistress Kirova raised her eyebrow at Rose as if to suggest a verbal war, it seemed like she expected a fight because when Rose agreed she was visibly shocked and dismissed everyone, she had also given Rose and the Princess the rest of the week off to settle in here but apparently Rose is to start training tomorrow.

Bertie showed Rose and the Princess where they were staying, whereas I was asked to stay behind

"Guardian Belikov in the short time that you had with Rose how did you manage to teach her some manners" The Headmistress questioned.

"I don't follow" I replied confused.

"Rosemarie Mazur has a bad attitude, she's disobedient, she is attention seeking and she's a brat."

"She has been nothing but polite, I have not seen that behaviour from her" I retorted

"She probably knew she couldn't win so she's trying to get out of probation"

"Headmistress Kirova, she killed four Strigoi tonight, before we even got the chance too, from what I have observed so far she takes her duty of being a guardian very seriously, she will protect the Princess with her life" I exclaimed.

"SHE is a NOVICE not a Guardian, and I find it very hard to believe that, she's insubordinate, she lacks respect and she misbehaves in class. As far as I'm concerned, she needs much improvement. Dismissed."

I left thinking about everything that was said, I did not see that side of her at all. Can she fight? I didn't see her fight, just one kick, that was impressive though. As I was walking along the pathway, I saw Rose ahead on a bench, I couldn't stop myself staring her, she was so impressive and intriguing, I want to see her fight. I want her to prove them wrong. Why do I care so much? I stopped next to the bench.

"Rose what are you doing out here?" she looked up at me.

"I know I should be asleep, it's just we lived on human time so I'm finding it hard to adjust. I'm very sorry guardian Belikov, I will go back to my dorm now." Everyone said she was careless, reckless, ill-mannered but I see none of this.

"Rose I'm not here to reprimand you, I was making my back to my room as well. I'm just curious, why didn't you fight me, why did you come back willingly?"

She looked very surprised at the question, she opened her mouth to speak and then closed it again. It looked like she was fighting an internal battle but then she looked at me and spoke.

"I had been trying to ask her to come back, I want her to graduate, learn her magic, I want to become a guardian, I want my promise mark, hell even I want to graduate" She said with a laugh.

"We couldn't do those things out there" She looked into the distance with a sad look

"Where did you learn to throw a stake like that and where did you get a stake?" I had been wondering about that since it happened.

"Ms Karp, she helped us leave, it wasn't safe for us there, that's why we left. As for throwing the stake I went to the gym six days a week for at least four hours, I practiced 'knife' throwing, tennis ball dodging, running, cardio, learning moves using dummies, karate and gymnastics. I did anything and everything I could that I thought would help until I mastered them."

She knew her job and she took it on without hesitation.

"So, you can fight? But your schoolwork, you would be behind on that?"

"Ms Karp actually gave us textbooks, I needed to make sure that when we came back to the academy it wouldn't hinder us from graduating. I didn't think we would be away for as long as we were."

She studied hard and worked out? Admiring, is she telling the truth though or just saying this to get out of the extra sessions? For some reason I feel like she is telling the truth.