I feel like there's something dark swirling around inside me. I take another sip of my bottle of vodka trying to get rid of it, but it doesn't do anything. I'm sitting on the couch in my hotel room. Sighing, I stand up and walk over to the window, pulling it open. I take out my packet of cloves and light one of them up. I take a long drag. I start to feel better.

I look out over the snow, and see a group of novices skiing. I don't think much of it, until I notice one imparticular. She has long dark brown hair, almost black, and was shorted that the rest. I smiled as rose completed a trick she was doing. Man, her body was so great! I wish she'd let me look at it…

Come on Adrian, get your head out of the gutter, I told myself. I took another sip of vodka, my way of telling myself to shut up.

I put the cigarette in my mouth, leaving it their, and pick up my black tie, and put it around my neck. I tie it quickly, and then straighten out the sleeves of my tux.

I hear footsteps approaching, and turn towards the door.

"Adrian, you ready? Its time to", a female voice calls through the door.

I sigh again. Time for another stupid royal dinner party. Well, technically, this is a luncheon. But it's just as bad. It's being held by the Contas. I open the door, to find Sasha standing their. Sasha is a royal moroi, from the Zeklos bloodline. I had asked her to accompany me to the luncheon. Sasha and I had been friends for a while now. She was tall, like most moroi, and had short honey brown hair, and light green eyes.

"You look so good", she says, as I step out, lock the door, and start walking down the hall.

"Thanks babe, you're looking pretty damn hot yourself, I tell her, looking her up and down. For a moroi, she looked pretty average. Nothing like that rose girl I met the other night.

Sasha smiled at me, and put her arms around my arm, and lent her head on my shoulder. I could feel her warm breath against my neck. Sasha liked me. A lot. I could tell by the way she looked at me, and I was sure that, if I looked down now, she would have the same look of love and lust on her face. But I didn't look down. I admit, I have a small… reputation with the ladies. Ok, it was a bit more than I small reputation. It was more like if its female, I've been with it. Sasha and I had even had a weekend together. Ok, a few weekends…. And some afternoons… but now, we were friends. I know she wanted us to be more again, but I was quite happy with only being friends.

We reached the room were the Contas were having their luncheon, and Sasha and I entered. We were some of the last to get there. We sat down at our tables. I look around to see who else is their.

I notice two young royals. Princess Vasilisa Dragomir, and Christian Ozera.

Well, that's interesting. I guess they must be a couple, because the Contas would not have invited Christian. Although he was a royal, his family was disgraced, after what his parents had done. Curiously, I decided to look at him. Although, not with my eyes.

I have never specialized in one of the main 4 elements, but I could do other things…. I could use compulsion, not as much as a strogoi, but a hell of a lot more than a moroi should. I could also see auras. Auras are mainly one colour, for moroi, it is the colour of the element the person specialises in. the other colours around this show the moods and how they are feeling. I don't really understand all the emotions though. Looking at Christian, I could see that he was a fire user, but that wasn't what I found interesting. The girl sitting next to him, princess Vasilisa… her aura is gold…. The same colour as mine. I've only ever met people who have gold auras a few times. And all of them do weird things. I need to talk to her, but first I should have sure. I tap the man next to me on the shoulder. He is about twice my age, and a Badica. He turns and looks at me.

"Excuse me sir", I say politely, "would you be able to enlighten me as to which element princess Vasilisa has specialized in?" I ask him. Yes, I can be polite. My auntie had made me take etiquette lessons. I was pretty good at it, too, only… I was never able to remember which fork to use.

The man looked at me, surprised. "lord Ivashkov… to the best of my knowledge, princess Dragomir has not specialized. It's rather sad. She already has so much pressure, and the fact that she hasn't specialized only attracts more unwanted attention", he told me.

I nodded back thoughtfully. Then a voice behind me calls out.

"P-lease, if anything's going to get the princess unwanted attention, its going to be that guardian of hers. Rose Hathaway. She's pretty much a blood whore already". I turn around and see a young moroi; he's probably a few years younger than me. He has brown hair is tall, like most moroi.

"and it rose doesn't, that Christian does. Its disgusting, dating a strogoi's kid… " said his friend, shaking his head.

I started shaking. I was really angry now. How could they say things like that about those young girls! And the blood whore reference…. That just really ticked me off. I stood up. I was about an inch taller than them, and unlike most moroi, I worked out had a six pack.

"Do not say those things about my cousin", I tell then, glaring down at them. I used the name the royals use for each other. Princess Vasilisa looks so innocent. I couldn't stand people saying those bad things about her. Or about rose…

I could feel the darkness swirling around inside of me. It was brimming to the surface.

"Why, do you have a crush on her? Or is in the blood whore you want? She's easy, so don't worry to much. I'm sure she'd love you, after all, you both have reputations.." said the first one to talk, the brown haired one.

"Jesse!" said Sasha, shocked.

Jesse, I thought, as in her little brother Jesse? All well. It doesn't matter. No one gets away with saying those sorts of things. I bring back my fist, and slam it into Jesse's face. He staggered back. I heard Sasha scream. I walked out of the room, going to find somewhere to have a smoke. I had to dull this darkness inside of me, before I did something id regret.

Well theirs the second chapter I would have had it up sooner, but it didn't save when I wrote It, and I was to angry at my computer to re write it them. So yea… hope you guys all liked it

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Next chapter will be dream walking