Chaper 9: My Apprentence

Previously: We arrived at a classroom in the Sophmore wing. Anthony walked in and asked a pretty Moroi if he could borrow Jason. She agreed and I heard some shuffling as Jason got out of his seat. Out came a scrawny looking kid with red hair. I was surprised to see the lack of muscle on him. Dhampirs were known for their strength. Jason stared at me.

"Hey Jason, I'm Rose. I'll be your tutor."

My first tutoring session with Jason didn't go as well asI thought it would.

I had just gotten out of Moroi culture class when I saw a crowd of students. I walked up to the first person I could find and asked them what was going on.

"Some freshman is getting beat up by a bunch of juniors." She looked a little disgusted.

"Shit. I'll be right back." Bullying was disgusting and it was one of my many pet peeves.

"Move out of my way!" I yelled at the group of students in front of me. Some took a step to the side but others ignored me. I shoved my way to the middle and saw a blonde I didn't know holding Jason in a headlock while his other friends laughed. I did the first thing I thought of and grabbed the blonde, he was so surprised that he let Jason go.

"What the hell?" He pulled his arm back and would have punched me if I hadn't grabbed his arm and held his head in a headlock.

"Not so funny when It happens to you huh?" I growled.

"Let me go!" His face was turning red. A friend of his tried to pull me off but I kicked him where it would hurt the most. It was a dirty move but considering what they were doing I could tell they weren't above fighting dirty.

Another tried to help but I let go of the blonde, who fell to the ground, and punched him in the face and kicked another one behind the knees to make him fall. The crowd had gone silent.

I smirked my Yeah, I'm a badass, smirk.

"Shows over, you guys can leave now." No one moved. "I said, now."

That got a reaction. The crowd dispersed slowly but surely.

"You didn't have to do that?" A sharp voice said. I turned quickly to see Jason, of all people, glaring at me.

"Excuse me?"

"I would have handled it eventually."

"Yeah, it looked like you had it completely under control." I scoffed. Jason's face turned red.

"Lets go, we'll be late." I led him to the gym, I was proud of myself for knowing where it was. I had already been to the gym three times today.

"So, what are we doing first? Boxing? Weight training? Wrestling?" He seemed to have forgotten his bad mood before and now looked like an eager student.

"How about stretching?" I lifted my leg against the wall and reached my toes. Jason looked dissapointed but stretched without complaint.

"What about now?"

"We run." I remembered back to when I returned to the academy, Dimitri had me running everyday for weeks as my stamina increased. I guessed I understood why he did it now. Poor little Jasons stamina must be about as good as his muscle percent.

"What? What about-"

"Look, the first thing we got to so to get you into better shape is run. Then we'll work on other things."

"But, you can't do that."

"I can do whatever I want to do during these lessons. I am the teacher here, you are the student. Just do what as I say and you'll be kicking asses in no time."

"Whatever, I'm out of here." Jason turned to leave but I leaped at him and pulled him down under me.

"Did you forget the part of how I'm in charge here?" I glared at him. "You will do what I say because I know best. I didn't get where I was being a smartass at anyone who tried to help." I was lying but he didn't have to know that.

"Get off me!" He struggled.

"Since you're so sure of yourself why don't you make me?"

"Ok, I'll do what you say, just get off me." He grumbled and I let him up, "What do you need me to do?"

"Run, since it's my first day let's start off with 5 miles." He ran toward the running side of the gym and began his laps. After 2 miles, he had some trouble.

"The reason you keep tripping is because you're not picking up your legs. Don't forget to breathe through your nose! Breathing through your mouth will make you more tired!" He didn't respond but followed my tips.

After A few miles of running. I let him come in and I showed him the weights I wanted him to do. I saw that he couldn't stand what I'd assaigned him so I lessened the weights. He ignored me the rest of the time and let himself out as the bell rings.

I stood there for a second trying to understand him. He must have been the weakest Dhampir I've ever seen. Since it was the last period of the day I went to Anthony's office.

"Hello Rose," He smiled as I stood out my door. "I trust that your first day has been good so far."

"Yeah its been fine but I just wanted to know why Jason is so, small."

"Well it's a long story."

"Well I have time so go ahead." As he opened his mouth his computer made a ringng noise.

"Excuse me, I have an E-mail." He walked over and read a message. A series of emotions went across his face and I wanted to ask what it said.

"Rose, this E-mail involves you. Your friend Vasilisa Dragomir is visiting you next week."

"Really! That's great!."

"Yes I suppose. But your old mentor, Dimitri Belikov is coming."

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