I'm glad you liked the last chapter, so here is the rest of it
RPOV
The ride to the Mall was extraordinarily awkward. I was seated between Adrian and Dimitri in the back, with my arms touching both of them. Yes, really top of that, I had to deal with the headache and the ghosts which would come to swarm around me. Lissa and I had found out about this a week after the Spokane incident and had been working on ways to dampen the effects. What worked best was to concentrate on something else, and I learned a way to put up mental Barriers which kept almost all the ghosts from bothering me. To pass the time I turned my back to Dimitri and started a conversation with Dimitri until, at last, The car pulled in to the parking lot.
"Okay, we have five hours, where do you want to go?" Asked Lissa
"The essentials." I said and grabbed her wrist pulling her into the first store I saw.
The next three hours we spent stocking up on getting me a new wardrobe, filled worth the most revealing, tight clothes we could find. With each new item we added to our many bags made me feel that much more uncomfortable. What made it worse was that I couldn't show any of this on my face and I was going to have to act like I wanted to be in the clothes.
"Wow rose, I know you said you were going to bring back the old you and make him Jealous, but are you sure you want to do this, I know you hate the clothes." Lissa whispered.
"Yeah, I'm sure. I really need to do this."
"Okay, If you say so, hey how about this?" She said holding up a purple tank top with a neckline really far down.
I grimaced, "Looks great Liss."
Your face is really funny. she sent through the bond with a picture.
I laughed, she was right, my face was priceless.
"Hey, if you two girls are done for now, the rest of us are hungry, so can we eat?"
"Sure, I'm pretty hungry myself actually." I turned to Lissa. "Pizza or Pasta?"
"Pizza, definitely Pizza."
All of a sudden I felt a nauseous felling in my stomach. I winced.
"Are you okay Rose?" Said Lissa, through the bond she added, is it the headache? we could go back if it's too bad.
"No, it's not that I just fell a little sick, I think I'll skip pizza." Then I noticed the strigoi looking at us from across the mall.
"Strigoi, across the mall, watch out." I said to Alberta and she nodded, pressing a silver stake in my hand as I passed her "Just in case."
"okay" I said then took Lissa over to the pizza shop where she got a Hawaiian pizza. then the nausea doubled, and to make it worse, the strigoi was right in front of us. I quickly stood up and pushed Lissa behind me stake in hand. he lunged forward and again my nausea increased, making me feel like I was going to puke
I thrust upward with my stake bet he turned at the last moment and I hit his shoulder instead. It wasn't the heart so it wouldn't kill him, but that didn't mean it didn't hurt. he jumped back and amazingly, the nausea dimmed a little, but was replaced when he lunged again. he knocked the stake out of my hand and it slid under a counter I noticed a fire axe in a glass case used for chopping holes in burning doors and I smashed the glass, grabbing the axe and using it to chop off his head, right before the next one stepped out from the shadows. I also noticed how I felt half as nauseous before I killed the first strigoi.
By that time the other guardians had come over. One grabbed the strigoi from behind and Alberta went in to stake him. It was neat, clean, as if they had it planned for years.
"Wait." I said. "I want to try something."
I walked towards the strigoi and felt the Nausea increase. When I walked away it ebbed.
"Interesting." I muttered.
"What's interesting?" Asked Dimitri.
I was about to answer when the strigoi broke free and grabbed Lissa, running away. I knew we would never be able to catch him when I had an idea. a wonderful crazy insane idea. How would Ghosts and strigoi react to each other?
The guardians were about to chase them but I stopped them." I think I can stop this." I said and let down my mental barriers.
The effect was instantaneous. The ghosts swarmed towards me, but I didn't shy away. instead, I tried to talk to them.
"Get her." my voice was nothing like my own, dark and sinister, full of command. the ghost looked after Lissa and for a moment I was afraid they would just stand there, but they turned and assaulted the Strigoi. I smiled, I could control the ghosts.
The strigoi dropped Lissa and started batting away at the ghosts like flies, running away, all previous thoughts forgotten. I didn't wanted him to get away though, it made me angry, I WANTED to kill him myself so I had the ghosts chase him towards me while the guardians went after Lissa.
When the strigoi came I didn't kill him quickly, I first drew a cut along his face on the left, then an Identical one on the other side. I made lots of cuts here and there, always keeping my work symmetrical.
I would also torture by swarming him with ghosts then taking them away to wound him myself and I found that in fact, death was not my intention, It was way to kind, he deserved torture, not death.
I didn't know where all this anger was coming from, but at that moment I didn't care. All that mattered was that he got what he deserved. \
Then I was being pulled back, and someone staked the strigoi.
"I WASN"T FINISHED, HE NEEDED TO PAY!!! LET ME GO!! HE DIDN"T DESERVE DEATH SO SOON!!!" I ascreamed
"Little Dhampir, It's okay." Adrian said dragging me away from the group, surprisingly strong for a Moroi.
"NO IT"S NOT."
"Yes it is, Your fine, relax." said Adrian in the same calm voice, but this time I did.
"What happened to me?"I asked, my voice shaking.
"I don't know but it wasn't natural anger. your Aura wasn't red like it would be if you were angry normally."
"Let me guess, it was black?"
"And then some, your eyes too. they were black as well."
"WHat's happening to me?"
"I don't know, but I'll always be here." and he gave me a hug which I immediately returned.
"Is he watching?"I whispered
"Yes." he whispered back, so I pulled back and kissed him.
"You should see his Aura."
"What is it like?" I asked against his lips, we really were overdoing it since we would have plenty of time to make him jealous, but it was okay.
"It's like christmas, all red and green. there is also a little bit of blue as well."
"meaning...?"
"angry, jealous, hurt."
"good." with that we pulled away and joined the group again.
"Hey, so who wants pepperoni and who wants cheese?"I said trying to avoid the question they were going to ask, but I knew it was futile.
"Rose, what was that?" asked Dimitri.
"Oh, well you see Adrian and io are-"
"You know that isn't what I mean."
"Yeah well, what happened is... well..."
"Rose if you won't tell them about them then I will. " said Lissa "she can see ghosts because she's shadow kissed."
"that's interesting Lissa, but that doesn't explain how she could make the strigoi do what it did."
"You'll have to ask Rose about that because I don't know why that is."
"I can apparently command the ghosts. and strigoi seem to hate ghosts."I said.
"what did you find interesting before, when you told us to hold the strigoi before killing it?"
"I can sense strigoi."
I heard a chorus of "WHAT?" from the others.
"yeah I get nauseous when there is one nearby. Now can we get pizza? I'm starving."
during lunch no one talked much during Lunch. Adrian made a show of being all over each other, with him whispering each change of Dimitri's aura in my ear.
"okay, it's time to get the dresses." said Lissa
"Okay." I stood up and pulled Adrian up with me.
We found my dress in the first store we entered. It was sleeveless and barely reached my fingertips. In the middle of the dress there was a rose. The dress was made of a silky material with a cheetah prints design on it. It looked like it would cling EVERYWHERE. or at least it would cling on everything it covered which wasn't that much. Just looking at the dress made me uncomfortable, the actual thought of wearing it was horrible. In other words, it fit my purpose perfectly.
Lissa's dress we found after another hour of looking. hers was elegant and was a shade of purple and went all the way to the floor. At the neckline, there were gems embroidered. It was simple but elegant, fitting her personality wonderfully, making her look like a princess-which she was- instead of a normal schoolgirl. WQe got shoes and earrings and necklaces and left back to the Acadamy once again.
WOW. that was fast, for me anyway. I had time to write this because of the CSTs. I love those tsets. they're easy and get you out of school at 12:26. heaven.
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