10 MINUTES LATER
"Rose, top" Dimitri said pulling me back through the door pointing to my unbuttoned shirt.
"Shit" I said dropping everything in my hands and did up my shirt. Dimitri picked up everything I dropped and carried it out the door.
"Hurry up, you don't want them leaving without you." he called back to me. I finished and pulled the door shut behind me and hurried down the hall after Dimitri.
"You're late!" Hans said impatiently
"Good morning to you too Hans, what a great day it is today?" I smiled trying to annoy him. He just turned away and chucked my stuff on the cart to be loaded
"Hans I have good news and bad" a guardian I didn't know said
"You know I like my desert first" Hans replied
"Well if we leave now we will arrive at Lehigh on time" the guardian said
"And the veges?" Hans asked
"The plane is not functional," the guardian replied
"By that you mean the plane is stuffed and we won't get there in time" I said putting what the guardian said in my words
"No! We have to get there so I'm there for all the orientations" Lissa said like she showed up out of nowhere
"I'm sorry your majesty but we have no other way to get there" Hans said politely
"Yes we do we can drive" Lissa said, but by 'can' she means will, we will drive.
"I'm sorry your majesty but we can't drive it's also most dark" Hans said
"Actually it is 4 hours until dark and it exactly 3 1/2 hours to Lehigh. So Hans are you going to get the car or am I?" Lissa said putting her hands on her hips. Hans just sighed and drove towards the garage. Man I love Lis, she is awesome.
After we had all said our goodbyes, well mine took the longest I just didn't want to let Dimitri go for 3 months, we were on the road. Two hours had gone by and we weren't even half way.
"I think we should turn back your majesty" guardian Johnston said while driving.
"No, we will be ok we'll make it, just keep going" Lissa said
"Lis are you sure we aren't even half way yet and it's going to be dark in an hour and a half" I asked her, my guardian instincts were kicking in and I was starting to question this trip.
"No, it's alright calm down we will make it there on time" Lissa replied to me.
An hour had passed and still we weren't there and to make matters we were on a long stretch of road no one in sight and we were out of gas. With an hour till dark, no fuel station in miles and three hours from the court and god knows how long to Lehigh we were screwed, also we can't get a hold of our follow vehicle and our front vehicle has gone in search of some fuel, so we are sitting in the middle of nowhere with no fuel, this is going to end well. Half an hour had passed with sign of either vehicle this was when all my guardian instincts kicked in, I was alert to any sounds had my stack in my hand and ready to pounce on anything that moved. The sun slowly faded behind the mountains.
"Guardian Johnston, do you read me" a weak voice said over the radio. Johnston rushed to the car to grab the radio
"Yea I read you Stevens"
"They're coming your way, protect the queen" guardian Stevens said weakly
"Who's coming? Richard who is coming? Richard, are you there?" guardian Johnston said worried which made me worry too
"Strigoi" Richard said quietly
"Rose" Johnston turned and said. I nodded
"Lissa run" I said grabbing her hand and stated to run as fast as Lissa could down the road trying to get as far away as possible from the car and the guardians. The screams of guardians and Strigoi rung out through the dark night.
The moon was the only light in the sky when it came out from behind the clouds. I looked behind me and saw two figures running well sprinting towards us. I turn towards them flashing my stake in a beam of moonlight