Here it is chapter 3! Things should hopefully start moving quite a bit from here. I like this chapter because you discover a little bit more about Landon! Enjoy!

Sophia's POV

I woke up and quickly jumped out of bed and rushed to get ready. I promised Arabella that I would meet her for breakfast and then head to first class together. It turned out luckily enough that we had pretty much all the same academic courses. We just had to go our separate ways when she had her magic classes and I had training. After throwing my uniform on, consisting of a plaid skirt, and a boring white blouse, I brushed my hair quickly and raced out of the building, to the dining hall. As I walked into the room, I looked around scanning for Arabella. I laid eyes on a blond girl staring down at book eating a muffin; I smiled and walked over to her, plopping down beside her. She turned and grinned handing me an extra chocolate chip muffin.

"You're late." She stated smirking at me and closing her book. I rolled my eyes and placed myself in the seat beside her instantly biting into the muffin she gave me. I looked around for something to drink and Arabella handed me a glass of orange juice. I nodded my thanks and downed the whole glass.

"You'll come to realize that I'm always late, it's just who I am, you'll have to endure it, especially with me having to get up at the break of dawn, or dusk in this case to go and train with Hunter before class." I said pouting finishing up my muffin. I glanced down at the book she was reading and realized it was a textbook about elemental magic. Arabella noticed me looking at her textbook and blushed.

"I'm not a complete nerd, but I actually enjoy reading the textbooks for my elemental magic classes. I'm so fascinated by all the different elements and how they can be used. I know not everyone has warmed up to the idea yet, but I think it's really important that we learn how to use it in our defense, rather than just relying on guardians all the time, especially non-royals like myself." Arabella said defensively, but I could tell she was very passionate about the subject. I smiled at her and placed my hand on her shoulder.

"I was just curious to see what you were reading. I understand why you would be defensive about it, but I'm actually very interested in it all myself. I wish I could take that class, better yet I wish I had some kind of elemental power like all moroi have; it would be so kickass to be able to physically kick some butt and do some kind of magical damage. So I encourage you to learn how to defend yourself with your magic. What do you specialize in anyways?" I asked. We stood up and started walking together towards the main hall as the start of class was drawing near.

"I specialize in earth magic. It's pretty awesome, I think there's so much to learn about it and there are some many ways I can use it in." Arabella said happily. I grinned at her and was about to part ways when an announcement came on over the intercom. "All Junior and Senior novices are to report to the gymnasium immediately. All remaining students are to attend their regular classes." I turned back to look at Arabella and she gave me a questioning look. I simply shrugged and hugged her goodbye telling her I'd see her later. I walked into the gymnasium and managed to find a spot on the bleachers to sit. The gym was packed will all us novices and noise buzzed around like crazy, you couldn't make out anything anyone was saying. My eyes wandered around the room and I spotted Hunter who was sitting at the front of the gym where all the guardians and teachers were waiting to address the room. He smiled at me and turned back to whoever he was talking to. I continued scanning the room and of course my eyes landed on no other then Landon Ivashkov. I had told Arabella about my incident with the guy yesterday and she filled me in on who exactly he was.

Flashback:

"Landon? You Mean Landon Ivashkov? Sure I know who he is. He's a senior novice, top in his class I would say. Word is he tries really hard to prove himself to be a worthy guardian. His moroi father, Daniel Ivashkov "disgraced" his royal family by marrying a human! It's a very rare occasion for a Dhampir to be born with a royal moroi surname. Landon's been fighting to prove he's more than just the result of a deranged marriage. Poor guy, he seems really sweet though, I've personally never talked to him, but he seems very popular, and he's very gorgeous." Arabella said blushing at the last part of her sentence. I rolled my eyes as she made him sound like a god, but wondered why he treated me so differently if he himself was trying so hard to prove he himself was no different than other dhampirs.

"Seems like an arrogant ass to me." I mumbled to myself. I turned back to my notebook as me and Arabella continued to work on our homework.

Coming back to the present I had realized Landon had noticed me staring at him and held my gaze. He seemed different from the day before, the look on his face was neutral. I looked down his body and noticed he was wearing a black long sleeved shirt, with the sleeves pushed up to his elbows. His jeans were a dark blue that were fitted to his figure. My eyes traveled back up and noticed just how nice his hair really looked. It was a sexy messy and I couldn't help wanting to run my hands through it to see if it would make it messier. I had forgotten that he was staring at me and when my eyes met his again, he was smirking with a raised eyebrow. I shook my head to refocus. I glared at him and looked back towards the front as Headmistress Kirova motioned for everyone's attention. "Fuck Arabella was right, he was gorgeous."

"Welcome to a new year at St. Vladimir's. I hope everyone is settling in well. We have called all junior and senior novices here today to make you aware of some new changes that have been made to your training curriculum and how you all will be proceeding this year. Here's Guardian Petrov to explain what will be happening." Kirov finished the formalities and Guardian Petrov stepped forward to speak.

"After having such outstanding results from the senior's class exam last year, it has been decided that this year they will receive a new challenge. The seniors have showed us that they are worthy and are able to protect and defend the moroi as they need to be. It has been decided that the seniors will face a different challenge as a guardian and will learn to train and mentor less experienced novices, the junior class. The seniors will need to show that they can mentor, encourage, and sympathize with the junior class. That being said all senior novices will be assigned to a junior and become their mentor and trainer for the remaining of the year. They will report to their original mentor who will be the same mentor all juniors originally train with, this way the juniors will continue being trained properly and your mentor can step in if need be. The senior's goal is to prepare all you juniors for your final exam. At the end of the year when you will be assigned to protect a moroi, if you succeed and pass, you will be awarded and you senior mentor will then pass for showing that they have indeed trained a good guardian. Listen to who you will be partnered with. Your first training session will start tomorrow. Good luck." I stared in shock as Guardian Petrov finished explaining how the year was to play out. I didn't know what to think or how this diversion was to affect my training. I looked again towards Hunter who simply returned my gaze with a reassuring look and smile. I stared back towards the rest of the class and noticed everyone was murmuring to each other about the new system. I stared off in a daze, not sure at all how this was going to go and worried that I wouldn't do as good as I could with Hunter as my mentor, my experienced mentor. How was some novice going to teach me to stake strigoi? Guardian Petrov had started pairing together novices rattling out names in alphabetical order. My head shot up as I heard my name being shouted.

"Belikov, Sophia, Mentor, Ivashkov, Landon." Guardian Petrov shouted then moved on to the next name. My eyes widened and my heart sank. No, hell no, this wasn't happening. I couldn't believe this; I was going to have to answer to him? That arrogant jerk? Ugh why was this happening to me? I turned and I watched Landon walk up to me with that smart ass smirk on his face.

"This should be fun Belikov, consider yourself lucky, you're working with the best novice in here. See you tomorrow morning, don't be late." Landon said lightly and with that he turned to leave with a big grin on his face. I glared at his back and left the gymnasium to head to my first class. Great, just great.

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