TRIALS OF CONTROl
I lay there for what seemed like hours, after Adrian left, just staring at the ceiling. Eventually, I could see light growing on the horizon, but the curtains were still open. I shouted to the Guardians, asking them to close the blinds but they refused, laughing, thinking that it would be funny to see a Strigoi scream.
"I'm no good to you dead!" I finally screamed, and one of them, hesistantly, and a look of anger in his eyes, closed the blinds then walked back to the door, snarling "I'm watching you."
That day passed slowly, just lying there. Two new Guardians came, and the others left to sleep. Lucky them. Memories passed through my mind, as that was all I had to distract me - remembering the past.
Turning to Christian, that time when the Strigoi found their way here, and whispering my thanks - he had saved my life countless times during those fights. And if Adrian was telling the truth, then now my life would depend on my abilities as a fighter...
Waking up Strigoi, my red rimmed eyes, and the look of fear on Lissa's face when she saw me.
Hearing a crash, I opened my eyes, to see five Guardians standing in front of me, holding handcuffs and with grim looks fixed on their faces. They untied the chains and pushed me to my feet, and into a dark room. I didn't bother fighting; knowing it would be useless. They then handcuffed me, and left, slamming the door behind them.
My eyes slowly adjusting to the darkness that would have left a normal person blind there, I saw that there was a novice standing a few metres away, holding a stake out cautiously.
"What is this?"
The novice spun around, confused, trying to pinpoint where my voice was coming from. "Who... what... are you?"
I leaned back against the wall, trying to resist my Strigoi nature, and clenched my fists. "Rose Hathaway." I winced at the coldness in my voice. The boy gulped.
"But you're dead."
Oh.... "Strigoi."
He began to thump the wall, screaming, even though I was still metres away. "They said, that if they did this, then I would only have to do two of the Guardian Trials. They tricked me! And you're gonna... you're gonna..." He choked back a sob.
"No. I'm not going to do anything. You're right, this is sick." I slid to the ground.
"What?"
"I said, this is sick and I'm not doing this... this is..." I paled, suddenly barely in control of myself anymore. I was dizzy and I knew that soon I would blackout - and then they'd think I was just like all the other Strigoi.
"Listen to me." I said urgently. "Talk, just keep talking. Please." I listened to his stammering, and managed to just keeping myself from falling into the darkness.
After what felt like hours, I was shoved out of the room, by two Guardians. "That was sick, what you did. You terrified him."
"There was a Guardian at the back of the room, did you not see him?" That silenced me.
I was tied back to the hospital bed, and soon felt myself falling...
"Rose?" I heard someone calling, and spun around, to see Adrian in front of me. We were in the Main Hall.
"Adrian?"
He gasped in a breath, and begun to swear. "What's wrong?" I asked, not understanding and disorientated.
"Don't you get it? You're Strigoi, and Strigoi don't sleep. You can't be Dhampir - not yet..." I heard the whispered 'not ever' he managed to restrain himself from shouting.
"So? Maybe this is just my imagination?"
"No, you don't get it. If you're not sleeping, then this means that the Strigoi part of you has taken over - and that you, your 'soul' has been pushed into this hibernation... You need to 'wake up'- you need to take control - NOW."
A.N If you don't understand the bit in bold (it is like Adrian's dreamwalking - except in this Rose isn't sleeping, she is "hibernating" - the strigoi part of her has taken over) just let me know.
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