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Author's Note: Hi, everyone, I'm back with a new chapter. Sorry for the long wait, I had writer's block. I've made this chapter longer to make up for it. And there will be a twist in this chapter, so look forward to that. Anyway, merry Christmas and I hope you enjoy the chapter! And please, PM me or review and tell me what you think.

Chapter Eleven

At dinner, everyone wanted to know about my trip to Texas. I explained everything to them again, and they were excited to hear about the possible breakthrough.

After dinner, I did some homework. Although I had already been through high school, I still needed to go through the motions of doing the work. Fortunately, I'd done most of these topics before so it was easy and didn't require a lot of effort.

While I was typing out the final paragraph in my English essay, I heard a knock at my door. Frowning, I opened it to find Sydney, her face as white as snow.

"Sydney?" I asked her, surprised. "What's the matter?"

"It's Jill and Zoe!" Sydney exclaimed breathlessly, "They've disappeared!"

It didn't take long to gather the rest of our group together and put the pieces together. Jill and zoe had been paired up to do an assignment, and when Sydney had gone to find them in the library, they'd been gone. Trey Juarez, a good friend of Sydney's had seen them leaving the library, with a strange man that he'd never seen before. According to Trey, their expressions had been somewhat glazed and blank.

"Compulsion," Said Eddie right away, "It must have been a powerful moroi who took them."

"A spirit user, maybe?" I asked. I really couldn't believe this, my charge was gone. And they had been no guardians around to prevent this. I had failed. And I could see from Eddie's look of pain that he shared my guilt. No, not shared it, his was clearly on a more personal level than mine. So, that left only one thing to do: get them back.

"It could have been a spirit user," Eddie said at last. "But who? We don't know of many spirit users, and none of the ones we do know would've done this."

"We should tell Lissa right away," Adrian said. We'd called him straight away, and he'd rushed to Amberwood as fast as he could. "She needs to know what's going on."

Everyone agreed and Adrian quickly dialed the queen's number. After a hushed conversation, he turned back to us with the most serious expression I'd ever seen on his face.

"She's sending Dimitri and Rose to help us look for them," He said. "She's sure it's a spirit user from the information that I could give her."

Just then, the dorm matron, Mrs Weathers, called over to us. "Are you looking for your sister and cousin?" She asked us, "They've left you a note."

In a flash, Eddie had taken the note from her and returned to us. We crowded around and shivered on the words written on the note: Poor, poor fools. I've got the Dragomir princess and I'm not going to waste my time. My brother's life was cut short the last time we tried to capture her, but this time, I will succeed. Good luck finding her before it's too late.

-R.D.

Author's Note: OK, so I hope you enjoyed the chapter and a special mention to whoever can figure out who RD is. Thanks for reading, and remember to tell me what you thought in a review! hunterofartemis126