Hey guys it's Catherine! So this is my own little version of Spirit Bound and my first fanfic ever so I hope you enjoy! :)

I will try to at least update once a day. I have four chapters written already and am working on Chapter five so maybe if I get lots of reviews tonight I will put up chapter two!

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P.S. Sorry about the small chapter, I promise that the others are bigger. :)

My screams filled the air around me, where was Dimitri?! He promised to always be there for me, to love me forever but now it was obviously not going to come true at least not yet. I awoke to the sound of myself panting, just a dream I thought but even if that was a dream I could not promise that Dimitri was here for me and that he loved me. I knew that he was probably here for me and still loved me in his soul but his soul was destroyed, or at least locked up now inside his cold, cruel strigoi heart.

Today was Friday the 27th of June and it was gladiators day; the day in which us senior novices took our last test in which we would be graded and assigned to which moroi we would guard for the rest of our lives .. which might not be that long, since us dhampirs sometimes had limited lives since we fought strigoi and defended the moroi race in order for our own race to continue. I already had some experience in this field which my own two molnija marks on the back of my neck proved, along with my battle star which showed I had killed to many strigoi to count in battle, yet I had failed at killing that one strigoi that meant something to me, or at least freeing his soul did. I sighed and put my head between my hands, why me? Why Dimitri? This was killing me but I had to contain myself, I had to be focused and keep my control which had been one of Dimitri's most valuable stupid zen lessons which I now realized weren't so stupid. Control. Just then I felt some overwhelming emotion, not from me no Lissa but I put up my barriers. She wasn't in trouble, no she was excited. Of course she would be today was the day in which my performance would make me her guardian for my life span, I smiled that was something to look forward to; at least I thought it was but if I was her guardian I would always have to protect her and since I was protecting her how on earth was I supposed to find time for hunting down Robert Doru ... and then Dimitri. I knew only two solutions to that and neither one sounded promising. Option one: I allowed her to come with me like I promised her months before on my new journey or option two I leave her, again. Neither sounded great but how could I risk Lissa's safety for my own selfish reasons? I sighed nothing was ever going to go the way I wanted. I started to get ready for my big day, the day that I had looked forward to since I was little although my reasons have changed in the past few months. I would have to figure all this out later – but time was running out. Dimitri's promise ran through my mind again:

Roza,

You forgot another lesson: Never turn your back until you know your enemy is dead. Looks like we'll have to go over the lesson again the next time I see you – which will be soon.

Love D.

I ran down towards the field, the wind blowing my dark hair back behind my face as my name was called by Alberta "Hathaway, Rose!" She barked. The test was quite easy actually – close to our experience that we had done six weeks earlier. There would be fake strigois I was guessing as well as other obstacles that we could come across while protecting our assigned moroi. It wasn't as important as our earlier assignment but still necessary – it was tradition. I could see that Alberta was tense but it couldn't be as bad as how I was feeling, I had always been counting on Dimitri being here today to encourage and help me. Just then I felt a nauseating feeling in my stomach. Most certainly they wouldn't have real strigoi here today. I looked over to my right where the forest was and beyond that the cabin. I looked over to where the nausea was coming from and saw my nightmare there right before my eyes. I stayed tense and pulled out my silver stake; the one that had already been plunged into this strigoi's heart. Obviously it hasn't been plunged in hard enough. He glanced over at me and smiled with no humor behind it. "Alberta," the whistle blew and she whisked me into the field telling me to go on. "ALBERTA!" I roared, she silenced me giving me a disapproving look but really who did I care I had never really cared about saying there respected names before.

"Guardian Petrov," I grimaced there was no time for formalities now.

"There is a strigoi on campus." She was shocked I could tell and I was just as surprised at myself to be able to say that clamly.

"But surely there must be some explanation. No way could a strigoi be on campus – the wards." But she knew it was helpless after all the wards had been broken once before.

"And it happens to be Dimitri."

She was tensed in a moment with her walkie talkie at her ear telling all the guardians on campus to prepare themselves and the students.

"Get all the moroi and younger novices to their dorms, all the senior years can protect them if they want but I need all the guardians over here, NOW!"

I whimpered, my time had run out. There was no saving Dimitri now, maybe if I had of left campus earlier – and broken my promise to my mother and Lissa there would've been saving him but now it was no use. I was just going to have to suck it up and free his soul the old fashioned way and for good this time. I tensed myself getting ready to protect the younger ones here and silence him. I didn't know if I was actually able to do it – mentally I mean, but I had to. It had to be me who freed him. I knew in the long run it probably wouldn't matter; after all he would be free but the others would kill him for no other reason than he was a strigoi and had to be destroyed which I agreed with but I had another reason for killing him: I would be killing him out of love, out of a promise.