After being taken into airport, the guardian Belikov had all three of us separated all because of Lissa and Rose whispering.
"Don't let them talk to each other," he warned the guardian who was escorting Rose to the back of the plane. "Five minutes together, and they'll come up with an escape plan."
Rose shot him a haughty look and stormed down the aisle.
'Never mind the fact we had been planning escape.'
My body jerk when I heard Rose's thoughts in my head. God, I hated when it happens, especially at random. I have no fucking control over it, unlike my telekinesis.
As a distraction, I began to "push" the cup of water one of the guardians gave me back and forth gently. I felt my heart pounding faster than usual, my brain straining itself as I focus on moving the glass of water.
"Miss?"
I lost concentration and the glass of water slid quickly off the table, shattering into pieces on the floor. I signed, looking up to see it was Guardian Belikov. Lissa was sitting at the front with two male guardians.
"Y-Yes?"
"Are you a Air user?" he asks, his voice heavy with a Russian accent.
"N-no." I stammer. "I'm not a Moroi. I'm a dhampir."
Guardian Belikov studies me silently. Of course he most likely would mistaken me for a Moroi because I was pale and almost as tall as a typical Moroi female, but I also have most dhampir traits like quicker reflexes, increased strength, heightened agility, greater flexibility and great endurance.
"Well, no matter what species you are, you're still a minor. Therefore, I'll see that you get a education and a stable place at St. Vladimir's." He said. "What is your name?"
"Lena Eades."
"Lena, where are your parents?" He asks.
I shrugged. "I dunno if I had parents. I don't remember them."
"Are you a runaway?"
"Again I don't know. I guess you can say that I am a runaway. I do have birth certificates with parents but...hell I dunno."
Honestly, the more I try to think about anything involving my past, I get a blank slate or a massive headache.
Guardian Belikov didn't ask me anymore questions, he got up and switch places with the guardian who was sitting in the back of the plane with Rose.
When we landed, Guardian Belikov had driven me, Rose and Lissa to the St. Vladimir Academy. It was really dark outside when we stop at the gates. Very dark and foggy near the gates, like something you see in horror movies.
"We're here," Guardian Belikov spoken on a headset. "Open the gates."
He didn't get an answer.
"Anyone there?" he asks.
Still, no answer.
"Where is everyone," asks Rose.
It was quiet. Too quiet for my liking.
I started to get a bit anxious and alarm bells going off inside my head. The car radio was getting a lot of frequency, switching different stations with the inside car light flicking on and off. Lissa took my hand, knowing it was me causing the problems.
"Just relax. I'm sure it's-"
A body suddenly came down on the hood of the car hard, then the windows on my side and Lissa's just had been smash open. Lissa scream. The guardians who was sitting side by side of us was pulled from the broken windows. I push Lissa to the floor of the car to shield her.
We were being attack by Strigoi.
They were the undead, immortal vampires who used to be human, Moroi or Dhampir. Strigoi was everywhere, maybe about six or seven of them and they were getting the up hand.
"Stay in the chair," Guardian Belikov orders, getting out of the car to help his colleagues.
Suddenly I felt hands grabbing my ebony hair and yank me out of the car.
"Lena!" I heard Rose scream.
My body collided with a tree just several feet from the cars. I was very disoriented and tasted blood on my tongue. I manage to stand up, clinging onto the tree while doing it.
That's when I saw the strigoi. His red ringed eyes stare into mines and I shivered. Never had I encounter a Strigoi before nor was I prepare to fight one. I had one offensive move but I can't focus enough to use it.
The male strigoi didn't make a move instead observed me and bare his fangs at me. "You can't hide forever Lena." That was the only thing he said before the guardians started to come to my defense and the strigoi took off running.
After the attack, we were let inside the campus. Guardian Belikov and the others tried to get me to see a doctor but I told them I was fine.
They didn't push it further.
As we walked into the main part of the upper school, Rose broke from her guardian and ran up to Belikov.
"Hey Comrade."
He kept walking and didn't bother to look at her.
"Are you taking us to Kirova?"
"Headmistress Kirova," he corrected.
"Headmistress. Whatever. She's a self righteous old bit-"
Her words was cut off when the guardians open the doors that reveal what looks like to be commons. I had a feeling they were doing this on purpose to embarrass Lissa and Rose. Mainly Rose.
Moroi and dhampirs were just socializing, eating, gossiping etc. However that all ended when hundreds of eyes made their way at us.
Yup this was the walk of shame.
Our walk ended when we got to the headmistress office. She stood behind her desk, looking like a angry vulture ready for the kill. She was tall and slim with gray hair and sharp pointed nose. All the guardians, expect Belikov and the head guardian, left once we seated.
The headmistress fixed her angry eyes on Lissa and Rose and opened her mouth. A gentle voice stops her.
"Vasilisa."
I look over to my left and saw a Moroi, with great effort, who rose from the corner chair. He looked really old and ill. His skin was a bit too pale and withered with shaking hands.
Lissa sprang up from her seat to hug him.
The headmistress gave them a few moments before telling Lissa to sit back down.
"You, Miss Hathaway, broke the most sacred promise among our kind: the promise of a guardian to protect our Moroi. It is a great trust. A trust you violated by selfishly taking the princess away from here. The strigoi would love to finish off the Dragomirs; you nearly enable them to do it."
I didn't really pay attention to the conversation, thinking of what that strigoi said to me.
'You can't hide forever Lena.'
How the hell did he know me? Did I know him personality before he became a strigoi?
"She is special case." Guardian Belikov said. "Lena can do some form of magic."
"Impossible," Headmistress Kirova said. "Dhampirs can not do magic."
"I seen it. Lena show her." He encourages me. I nodded and focus on her desk, imagining in my head that I'm picking it up. I watch as the desk lifted up a little off the floor. However doing it was making my head hurt so I stop.
Headmistress Kirova look somewhat amazed. "You sure she's not Moroi?"
"I'm positive." Dimitri said. "I'll take full responsibility for her as well guardianship until she is 18 years old."
"Alright fine. Lena Eades can stay."