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Chapter 1

Rpov

My life is pretty much set out for me, train, graduate, protect her, even if it costs me my life, what is my life compared to a royal? But I couldn't even do that, when the one place we were meant to be safe, had become unsafe. We ran and didn't look back; I had to do it, to keep her safe my best friend, Vasilisa Dragomir, last one of the Dragomir bloodline.

We now are on the run, from people who want us back, for at least a year now, we haven't been found, but I know time is going run out. I know it.

"Rose" my friend whispered to me, I looked up at her.

"Yer Liss?" I asked back as we were walking back to our flat.

"How are you?" she asked, I frowned wondering what was going on.

"Liss, what's up? What do you want to really want to talk about?" I knew she was trying to tell me something, through the bond. Her parents and her brother were killed in a car accident, and so was I but Liss had brought me back to life, and I'm known as shadow-kissed, this lets me feel whats she is feeling, and it allows us to communicate to each other, through our thoughts.

"I don't know, I just feel that we are being followed again," she answered looking at the pavement.

"Liss no one has been following us, not since the PSI Hounds nearly got us," I replied sternly.

"Thank you Rose."

We got back to the flat and our flat mate Luke was studying at the table, Liss and I walked past, and we went to bed.

I was dreaming about when I was back at St. Basils Academy, in Montana.

"ROSEMERIE, come on your not doing your best, we all know you can do better. Start again," a stern voice shouted at me.

"Sorry Guardian Petrov, I wasn't focusing," I replied.

"Rose, whats up with you, normally you can knock me on my arse by now?" Mason said facing me in an attack position.

"Nothing Mas, I wasn't with it." I replied and then my leg shot out but he blocked it with his forearm. I went for a kidney jab and a roundhouse kick that sent him staggering, and I saw my chance a pounced on him, and pinned him to the ground.

All of a sudden the dream changed and i could smell burning metal and hot and cold air, and Lissa screaming for her family to wake up, and I realised what was happening Lissa was dreaming about her family again, and the car crash, I woke up, and I was feeling nauseous again and I didn't know why, until it was too late. I saw a figure in my room I screamed and Lissa woke and saw me and looked at me and I made a move towards her, but I was hit and my head smashed against the wall, I was in pain but I needed to protect Lissa but my sight was going fuzzy. I looked around and I saw Lissa backed into a corner of the room, but she was looking at me. The figure spun round looking at the door, and Lissa made a move but person hit her, and she screamed at him the person bent down to my leave and I looked into his eyes. Red, the one thing I was meant to protect her from, Strigoi. And then I blacked out.

I woke up feeling groggy and sore, all I wanted to do is go back to sleep, then everything came back in a rush. My dream, Lissa's dream, waking up, being in pain, seeing who kidnapped me, and then blacking out.

"Lissa?" I whispered. No reply. I moved around, to feel where I was, the floor was damp and cold. "Lissa? Where are you?" I said a bit louder, no one replied. So I clamed myself down and entered Lissa's head. She was a jet somewhere; beside her was a tall, muscular built dhampir, long brown hair to his shoulders.

"Princess, what happened to Miss Hathaway?" he asked.

"I don't know, it was a Strigoi, he broke into our apartment, and hurt Angela and took off with her, and then I called the Academy." She replied.

"Okay, thank you." He replied and walked away, leaving Lissa alone. Maybe this is where I should get in contact with her through the bond.

"Liss? Can you hear me?" I asked slowly.

"Rose, where are you, are you okay." Lissa screamed through the bond.

"I'm okay, sort of. I don't know where I am, I don't think I'm far from the campus, I don't know." I sighed.

"Rose, I'm on my back to the Academy and they will help you, I'm sure of it." She thought sternly, I wanted to believe her, but they wouldn't care about some novice dhampir, who ran away with her best friend.

"Princess, are you okay?" the dhampir had returned again.

"Rose, what shall I tell him?" she asked me.

"Tell him, that we have bond that allows us to contact each other, and communicate." I told her.

"Okay," she responded.

"Guardian Belikov, Rose and I have the bond," he gasped "which allows us to communicate to each other." Lissa repeated to him.

"Princess do you know where she is being held?" he asked.

"No, but she reckon it's not far away from the campus, but she's not sure." She repeated the information that I told her earlier.

"Okay, we still have to go back to the Academy, so we can help her. I'll leave you to rest." And he walked away.

"Rose I need to get some rest, but wake me if there's a problem or if you find out where you are. Love you."

"Okay, love you back." And with that I redrew from her head, only to look into a pair of bright red eyes.

"Ahh, I see you, little dhampir are awake, now. Now you shall be joined with me," I tried to move but he pinned me and bit into my neck, I could feel my life slipping.

"Liss, I love you no matter what. I'm sorry I failed." I said to her.

"Rose what do you mean?" and then the bond broke and I could her hear screaming, as my life slipped from me.

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