Vampire Academy: A Desperate Cause
Chapter 20 of my Vampire Academy story, enjoy.
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Now onto the story.
Disclaimer: Vampire Academy belongs to Richelle Mead.
Chapter 20
CHRISTIAN POV
I wasted no time joining in the fight as the Guardians rushed forwards. Rose and Dimitri were already fighting, along with Adrian and, surprisingly, Natalie. I glanced over at Eddie, who was also eagerly joining the battle. I could relate; we were both fighting to save the girls we loved after all.
'This is it, Lissa, Jill, hold on...We're coming to save you both.' I thought; readying another fire.
I didn't have time to aim so I made sure I targeted a group of the enemy, that way I'd definitely hit at least one of them with little chance of hitting an ally.
I grit my teeth, ducking under a punch and delivering one of my own. 'Just gotta remember, the Moroi here are traitors, only Moroi in this building, fighting on our side, is Abe, Adrian and...Natalie. Yeah, she's Moroi again somehow.'
That surprised me, but I didn't let it distract me; I had to keep fighting, we were still outnumbered, but with the element of surprise on our side, we could turn this around. So I fought on, soon finding myself fighting alongside Eddie. I looked around, a short while after we started fighting next to each other Eddie and I were encircled, the others were fighting in various parts of the room, leaving us with this group to deal with.
"Sure you can handle this many?" I asked casually.
Eddie shrugged. "Might be tough if one more shows up."
Grinning confidently. "Then that'll have to be the one I take care of."
Both smirking, and therefore unnerving our opponents, we began to fight.
Our casual conversation had the desired effect; our opponents were so unnerved that we had the advantage and, despite a couple of close calls towards the end, we emerged victorious from the fight. We turned to join the others, in time to see that Rose and Dimitri had broken through and were now on the balcony where Viktor had been watching the fight. Even as we watching I saw that Rose and Dimitri wasted no time.
"So, you think to..." Viktor began, about to no doubt try and talk to them.
But they didn't wait, Rose immediately launched herself at him, attacking him. He was forced to defend himself. I grinned at this, good start, unfortunately Viktor used his magic to knock Rose back with a pile of debris, but then Dimitri was there and Rose recovered quickly. While Dimitri continued to fight Viktor, Rose broke through and headed through a door in the northern part of the room. I guessed she was going after Lissa, which meant Jill was still in danger.
"Eddie, c'mon, Rose is on her way to save Lissa, let's go, we need to find Jill." I told him
He looked at me desperately. "But how do we find where she's being held, what if she is held where Lissa is."
Nearby, Natalie overheard and told us. "She's not, she's being held separately...that way."
She gestured to a door, where we could see one of the Strigoi going. No doubt attempting to try and reach Jill before we did.
I growled, that wasn't going to happen; Eddie charged forwards at once, I quickly followed, determined to aid him, we broke through a small group of Moroi traitors and hurried through the door. We could see the Strigoi, running headlong towards the furthest door at the end of the corridor.
"Christian..." Eddie hissed.
I nodded. "He's led us right too him, now."
I quickly lashed out with my magic, stopping the Strigoi dead, right before the door, as he fell, screaming in flames. We quickly closed the gap and I extinguished the fire, allowing Eddie to finish him off. With that we broke through the door and found Jill. She let out a muffled shriek through her gag, but then relaxed when she saw us, although she also blushed, no doubt due to having only her bra to cover her upper body.
"Jill!" Eddie cried out in relief.
He hurried over to her and quickly began freeing her, removing the gag and untying her. I quickly got to work helping him and soon Jill was free.
"Eddie, oh Eddie, thank God...Christian?" She choked out. "What's going on, why are you, where is…?"
I smiled. "Don't worry, we're here to save you; we have help, Rose is already on the way to save Lissa."
Jill smiled and together we began to leave the room, Eddie took off his jacket and covered Jill with it, much to her relief and gratitude.
We returned to the main room, in time to see only two Strigoi left, they charged at us but Eddie and I quickly finished them off. Meanwhile, looking up, we saw Dimitri knocked down Viktor, we hurried up to him, Viktor was out cold. Some of the Guardians with us began to arrest him.
"Ah, good." Dimitri remarked breathlessly as he spotted Jill. "Now, we just need to see if Rose has managed to save Princess Dragomir."
It was then Jill's eyes widened. "Wait, where's the other one, Viktor had an accomplice..."
Dimitri nodded. "The woman, she wasn't here...oh God."
We all realized at the same time what this meant, Rose had been running into a trap. We immediately took off through the door after her, hoping we weren't too late.
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.