A/N: Hey guys! So I'm actually updating on time this week *yay me* This chapter has a lot going on, so I decided to break it up into two parts. The foreign language in bold is french. I don't speak french, so I'm only going off of what google translate told me, so if I misspelled or miss worded something and one of you guys knows french, feel free to correct me. The translations are listed below. Enjoy!

Woman in the woods

I stood waiting in the bushes where she could not see or detect me. This is how it had been for quiet some time. Hiding from but always watching her.

I have been following the Hathaway girl for awhile now. Waiting for the perfect moment to set my plan into action. The cavern above me reeked of uncoordinated chaos. It had me on edge, unsure if the trap would work.

My fangs throbbed from the delicious scent of blood and fear, it was so potent that even I was salivating where I stood a half mile below the caves. I ached with longing to join the others up there and feed until I couldn't see straight, but I had to stay unnoticed. It was too soon for her to know of my presence.

My muscles tensed with anticipation as I heard the men fight and lure her closer to the cliff's edge. I could feel my limps spasm against my frozen stance as each suspenseful second ticked by.

And then the moment I had been waiting for finally occurred. With a forceful blow to the stomach and then quickly joined by one to the chest, she stumbled backwards and fell over the edge. I savored the intoxicating scent of her fear as gravity impelled her body downward to the jagged rocks below. I adjusted my hearing, readying myself for the delightful sound of her bones crushing against the hard surfaces of the rocky base.

But it did not come. I glanced up to see she had gripped onto a loose tree root that stuck out of the cliff's side. I clenched my fists in fury. What is it going to take to kill this filthy whore! I was about to emerge from my post and finish her off myself, when I noticed she had already climbed back up the rock wall. I saw something silver fall out of her pocket and crash to the ground with a resonant clinking sound. Her stake.

Maybe there was still a way to end her. I could hear the muffled grunts from the fight above me as it continued, but I paid no attention to it. I quickly pulled out my leather gloves and shrugged them onto my cool hands as I walked over to the silver dagger. I kept to the shadows making sure no one would notice me. I crouched down and grasped the silver object in both my hands.

I smiled naughtily as my skin didn't burn due to my leather barrier. Opening my bag, I dropped the stake inside and rushed over to my waiting vehicle. I revved the engine and raced away with a sinister grin permanently etched on my face. I was too consumed with my new scheme of revenge that I barely heard the gurgling howls of torment echoing over the valley...

One hour earlier...

RPOV

I hid off to the side of the exit where I was out of sight. I felt my rolling waves of nausea increase as two male strigoi emerged from the cave. They were scanning the area for any threats like any trained guardian would do, I mental cursed. They were dhampirs before they were turned. This wasn't going to be an easy fight. I silently wished the others weren't guardians before they were turned.

I gripped the stake in my left hand and threw it towards the one furthest away. The silver spike collided with his chest and he immediately dropped to the ground. I leapt behind the other and dug my second stake into it's flesh over the heart. It wasn't pushed all the way down so it only stunned the strigoi.

I clamped a hand over his mouth as I whispered maliciously in his ear, "Tell them the area's clear". He struggled against my hold, but he was semi-paralyzed from the stake and didn't have no better strength than a human.

I gripped the stake tighter as I dragged it down and broke a rib, I clamped my hand more firm as he wailed in agony. In a more menacing tone I hissed, "You're not making this easy for yourself. You can have a quick death if you do as I say. If you don't..." I dragged the stake along the burning flesh until it was just above the heart, I dug in deeper, but still didn't pierce the heart.

"I'll make you suffer for a long time." I icily snickered before I said, "And I'm being gentle right now. So what's it going to be? Are you going to do as I say?" I asked while driving the stake further down, it lightly tapped the heart.

He screamed again, but nodded his head. "Good, now tell them it's clear", I said while removing my hand. "Abandonner! Il ya un gardien ici!" he shouted. Shit. Than didn't sound good. I pushed the stake all the way down into the heart. I released my hold and the body slumped to the ground.

I darted over to the first strigoi where he lay stunned, I hovered my foot over the stake's hilt and stomped down. The red rings of his eyes changed to blue as his facial features went slack. I pulled the stake out of his chest and whirled my body around facing the cave exit.

In the blink of an eye, I was surrounded by three tall strigoi. Judging from their lean frames and height, they used to be moroi. I rubbed the hilts of both my stakes with my thumbs as I took on a defensive stance.

"Well, well, well what do we have here?" one of them asked, as the trio began to circle me. I kept a hard stance as I stared them down and growled.

This only made them laugh, "Ooo, a fiesty one. And pretty." the second one laughed in a chilling tone.

"Je parie qu'elle feisty dans toutes sortes de façons ..." the third said while gazing at me in a way that made me feel violated. His lips pulled up in a wicked smile with his fangs bulging out, enjoying my discomfort.

I cleared my face of all emotion. I had no idea what he just said, but I was not going to let that distract me.

The first one made a sniffing gesture. And raked his eyes up my body before saying, "Mmm, and propably tasty. What's your name belle? I need a new bloodwhore, I ate my last one." I think he meant for his voice to be seductive, but as a strigoi it came out sounding more possessive. I shook my head, I felt repulsed by each word he spoke.

This must of been the one Kate warned me about as the leader. He had blonde hair.

My eyes turned to slits remembering the bloody bite marks that were all over her neck. The rage I had kept tampered down roared to life, and it held the same sensations from the last time. Pure hatred, and just like with Dimitri, it had it's target.

I laughted as I started rounding them, "The only thing you're going to taste is your own blood when I'm done with you" I hissed. This only made them laugh more. I smiled as I made the first move. I went for a tough blow to the blonde but he saw it coming and dodged. Good, I thought, first move and you're already falling for the trap. His hands went out for my neck just as one of the others came up behind me and tried to grab my waist. But I was quicker.

I jumped up in the air and shot out my legs and kicked both of their chests. The force behind the blow sent them stumbling back. As soon as I landed I shot out my right leg causing one of them to stumble forward while I threw a stake into the chest of the third one approaching.

With the amount of force I put into it, the stake struck the heart and the body when limp and fell to the ground.

I suddenly recieved a forceful kick to my stomach. I faultered a bit, but kept my balance right as I deflected another blow, this time to the head.

In one swift movement, my arms were pinned behind my back, as the strigoi who had stumbled came charging at me. I immediately swiveled my body where he collided with the other strigoi and they both fell down while I broke free.

They obviously didn't have good fighting skills. I took the offense, striking out blows to the both of them at blinding speeds. I caught one off guard and quickly plunged my stake into his undead heart. I rammed my body against the other, where we both fell to the ground.

I restrained him but he was pretty strong, he managed to free one arm and punched my jaw. My head knocked back from the force.

In a flash, I took my stake and grabbed his free hand and drove the stake right through the hand and pinned it into the ground like a nail in wood.

He howled in pain as I spat blood out of my mouth. "You shouldn't of done that" I scolded in an ice cold voice. I abruptly gripped the stake and raked it down his arm all the way to the crook of his neck. A ferocious growl erupted from his body as we grappled for dominace, but I eventually got an iron grip on him. I lowered my lips to his ear as I hissed, "What's wrong, you don't like a little pain? Cause I think it feels good" I said as I dugg the stake further into his neck as he screamed in agony.

I gave a shrilling laugh as I placed a finger over his lips, "Shhh..." I purred. "It's okay, I'm only giving you what you deserve",I then glided the stake down to his chest and stabbed his blackened heart, the strugging ceased as he went still. I pulled out the stake and went to one of the other bodies and pulled my other stake out. And with both of them safely secured in my hands, I ran into the caves to go after the last three.

But you know what was funny? During my first five kills, the last three strigoi had taken the opportunity to flee while I was a busy. I watched three stalky figures decend down the cave's steep decline to the trees below.

They were hauling two limp bodies each over one of their shoulders. I quinted my eyes and mentally gasped, their captives' chests were still very slowly rising and falling. They must of passed out from the blood loss seeing as there was bite marks on their necks. There was no way, I was going to let them be dragged off to somewhere else and die.

At a blinding speed, I leapt down to where they were. My vision was turned red as I emerged from the shadow of a large tree in front of them. I kicked the strigoi closest to me in the knees. He tripped dropping the bodies, obviously caught off guard.

Forgetting the bodies, he sprung straight up and charged towards me, I smirked. He must of been human before he was 'awakened' because no trained guardian would have made that stupid move. With lightning speed my stake ramped into his chest and his body went slack and fell to the ground.

However the second and third strigoi noticed my attack and had already discarded their 'loads' and were crouched into defensive stances. Without hesitation I lunged forward trying to plunge my stake into the heart of one of them, but at the last second, the body jerked away and I only managed to grate the stake's tip across it's chest, tearing the thin material of it's shirt.

Without even realizing how it happened, I found myself sprawled across the leafy ground. I sucked in a quick breath from the wind being knocked out of me as I winced. Sharp tiny rocks that were scattered on the ground were digging painfully into my back. A pair of cold, pale hands reached out for my neck, but just before they made contact, I rolled my body out of the way.

With more strength than I've ever used, I rocked my body back and with as much momentum as I could muster up, I rocked forward and jumped onto the balls of my feet. Once I was standing erect, I barely dodged a sharp blow to my ribs. I countered the move with a forceful blow of my own. This caused one of them to stumbled back just as the other strigoi advanced towards me. In the fraction of seconds, I sent a string of punches to it's head at blinding speeds, and with one more final blow, they were dazed enough to where I had an opening for their chest, I plunged my stake in and the body went slack. I then turned my attention to the one silently circling me.

The next few minutes were filled with endless motions of dodging and a few kicks and punches on each end, but neither one of us could find an opening on the other. Frustration flared my mind. I had had enough with the stalling. It was time to take action. I went in for a hit to the arm, put she deflected it, I faked left and caught her off guard as I swiftly turned to the right and rammed my stake into her chest. A look of shock glazed over her face before it went blank. I mentally clapped in applaud, as I realized that I'd just taken down eight strigoi in the span of thirty minutes. Not that I was timing it or anything, but still that was pretty badass. I quickly brushed the triumph aside, I still had to get the survivors out of here.

Not wasting anytime, I checked the pulse of the six hostages scattered across the ground, some of them seemed to be coming around, but they were still heavily drugged from the bite's endorphins. Assessing that they were okay, I sprinted back up the steep hill to the cave exit to look for the remaining seven. It took me a few minutes to get up there and I was breathing hard when I finally made it to the top off the cliff. I distantly wondered how the hell I'd gotten down to the bottom so fast earlier. I cleared the thought away though, I had more pressing issues to worry about.

I entered the caves, it was almost pitch black inside, but with some of the moonlight starting to seep through and my heightened eyesight, I managed. At first, I couldn't find any bodies, but as the deeper I went into the cavern, I eventually found the group of hostages clustered together in a corner against a tall wall.

I ran up to them, a few that were conscience, weakly shrieked as I approached them, no doubt freaking out thinking I was another strigoi. I knew they could only make out the silhouette of my body in the dimly lit area, but I lifted my hands up in a non-threating motion, as I said, "Don't worry, I'm here to help you. I'm getting you guys out of here, can any of you move?" I asked. They only trembled in response but I think one of them tried to nod their head. I repressed the urge to groan, it was going to be a bitch carrying them all out of here. "Which one of you is Kate?" I asked. A young girl who looked to be no older than sixteen, stroked the hair of someone's head that lay against her lap. The hair was blonde, I walked up to the body and crouched down, the girl shrieked and weakly wrapped her arms around the limp body to shield her. I tried my best to keep my face soft and encouraging as I said, "It's okay. I won't hurt her, I just need to check her pulse."

"S-she's been out of it longer than any of us. I c-can barely feel her pulse and h-her heart beat's very s-slow. She wasn't breathing earlier so I started giving her CPR, but I'm t-too tired now" the girl stuttered. I admired her bravery, she reminded me of Mia somehow.

Wait a second, I thought, how many people are here? I thought I counted up only five. That means there's two missing. And just as I thought those words, I felt a stone cold hard body ram itself against my side and knocked me against the rock wall.

I heard the sickening crack as one of my ribs snapped just before I felt the shooting pain. I groaned as I winced from the impact, but I quickly swiveled my body to approach the intruder who attacked me. My eyes were met with two sets of bright red ringed eyes. I tried to keep the look of shock off my face but, I could still feel my eyes widen.

Two strigoi men stood infront of me, from the looks of their stalky built, they used to be dhampirs. But the thing that had shaken me up wasn't the fact that their eyes were so brightly ringed in red, it was the faintly bruised teeth impression that doned across their necks. These two had just been turned, and that meant only one thing. They were twice as strong as the last eight strigoi I'd just killed. If I didn't stay on top of my game, they could easily take me down.

I surveyed the cave room, the walls were close together leaving me with a tight space to manuver in. And the ground was on a steep incline leading to the exit. My best chances of winning this fight was to lure them outside. None of them had charged at me again yet, so I took that as my cue to run. I took off in long strides as my legs hauled me towards the cave exit, but just before I made it all the way out, a cool arm grabbed my left leg, jerking me backwards as I fell to the ground.

I flipped myself onto my back as the arm that had taken me down, started dragging me back into the cave room. But I wasn't going to let that happen. Pulling out my stake from it's holster, I crunched my torso forward and grated the stake over the arm. The grip on my leg loosened as the strigoi howled in pain.

I sent a forceful kick to his back and freed myself. I scrambled to my feet and darted outside. I pulled my first stake out of my pocket as I turned around facing the dark exit.

In a flash, the two men were outside of the cave and came charging at me with full speed...

Kick, punch, dodge, punch, jab... those were the only motions my mind was concentrating on in this moment as they lunged at me relentlessly at insane speeds. I could barely keep up with their fast blows, as I kept backing away from them trying to keep a fair distance away. But they were just too quick, I didn't notice I stood only a foot away from the cliff's edge until it was too late.

With a forceful blow to my stomach and then one quickly joined to the chest, I stumbled backwards and fell over the edge. But before I completely fell, I managed to plunge one of my stakes into the heart of one of my attackers.

My hair whipped around my face as I free fell down the cliff's side. You know that moment where your life flashes before your eyes? Well I kind of had a similar feeling of that right now. Memories of every stolen kiss I had with Dimitri and every happy moment I had with Lissa coursed through me like a homemade video.

I felt a knot form in the pit of my stomach as I realized I still truly loved the both of them, and I was never going to see them again...

FRENCH TRANSLATIONS:

"Abandonner! Il ya un gardien ici!"

-Abort! There's a guardian outhere!

"Je parie qu'elle feisty dans toutes sortes de façons ..."

-I bet she's feisty in all sorts of ways...

belle -beautiful

A/N: I've had this idea about throwing in a mystery character POV. I think it gives the story a mysterious vibe. Plus I'm curious to see if you guys can figure out who it is, but don't worry all will be revealed in time. Review!

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