I do not own VA. Richelle Mead does.

Later that night Zander showed up at my door saying that he had to give me a test seeing as graduation was only a few days away. We walked outside and there was 10 guardians. They were all dressed in black and you could only see their eyes. I was dressed similarly though- black long sleeve shirt that was tight so if I went threw anything it wouldn't get caught on anything, some black cargo pants that were baggy with a lot of pockets but they were still sort of form fitting again and black steel toe combat boots.I was told to run threw this field (that was partially wooded) and find clues as to whom that I was supposed to "kill". They gave me a practice stake and a gun that looked real but it was a paintball gun. The paint was red and if they got hit anywhere that could kill a person or dhampir than they were dead, With Striogi it would have to be staked...

As I found the clues I'm supposed to avoid being caught and put all the clues together to find the target and destroy it. There were only 3 clues, Thank God, but I still had to get past all the guardians. I was told that in reality that I would get information on the person so I didn't need to figure out who they were. I was supposed to "kill" anyone unless needed and to get in and out as quickly as possible. About half way threw the test the guardians would pull their masks off and put name tags on...

I thought that was funny as shit. They gave me what weapons that I would have till I could afford my own. Two stakes, gun or in this case a paintball gun and extra paint balls and a big knife or small sword which ever way you want too. I call it a big damn knife. It was about 7 inches cause I am smaller than most. Zander's was almost 9 inches. I didn't argue about them cause I LOVE weapons.

The guardians had a 15 minute head start than I would be allowed to go. I wasn't allowed to "die" or if I was caught I had to take away the threat as quietly as possible.

I heard the timer bell go off (Had one that was loud so the guardians knew I was coming. As I walked into the trees first I felt someone so I instantly stopped moving and looked around. Couldn't see anyone so I looked up. There was a guardian up there but he didn't see me. I slowly crept around a couple of other trees and kept going on. I thought the guardian was smart with the trees so I climbed up there with ease. I decided that it would be a good idea to wait around for a minute or two to see if I heard or saw anything, I saw nothing so I swung to the next tree. I continued to go on like that for a few and had finally gathered the last clue. I could still be seen from the ground so I climbed up higher. Now even if you were in the trees like the first guy, you wouldn't be able to see me. It only took me a few minutes to figure out who it was. I was supposed to get another one of Abe's guardians to help me train if I wish to continue in this type of work. His name was Xavier. I had never heard or seen this guys let alone know how he fights.

I probably looked like a monkey swinging threw the trees. I found him standing at full attention on his surroundings. I stayed close to him for a few and no other guardians were around. dropped down from the tree and landed quietly. You couldn't even hear a leaf go off. I quickly got out the knife that will turn into a real one once I am ready . So I took the knife and left a line of red paint around his neck. He didn't even have a chance to fight back. I made it back in almost an hour with and the horn sounded again so they knew to come back. All of them came back wondering how I got the clues when they had put something around, When everyone came back the only one had an injury was quiet Zander actually clapped me on told me Mr. Mazur was going to be he later and would like for the three of us to meet up with him in one of the conference rooms. I only could nod my head. I was happy but for some reason I just couldn't seem to smile of show any kind of affection. It felt like both my heart and and any emotion that I could have felt was there just not strong enough for me to act upon it. I didn't feel like smiling. I just stood there and thanked him.

I am so nervous about meeting up with Abe tonight. I am not sure what I want to do. Lissa is enraged because I couldn't tell her what was going on in my training. So she had basically stopped talking to me. Christian went back to being his antisocial self. Although he still talks to me when I can get a break. Eddie was just as mad as Lissa about me not letting him know what was going on. So basically all of my friends basically stopped talking to me. Dimitri still talked to me but the only time that I got to see him was when I was training with him. I really had no idea how to fix things with everyone but decided that it was probably best that I didn't even bother. They would just get mad every time that I would have to go and not tell them what was going on. I also believe that I wouldn't be a proper guardian cause I don't know when I would be needed. So I wouldn't be dependable.