Different Story

Chapter 21

Rose's POV

Now that I'm strigoi, I felt free from Lissa. I didn't have the bond with her anymore, which was so awesome. When I had awakened, Aaron said that we were going to attack St. Vladimir. He told me what I had to do, I was to kill anyone who crossed paths with me. And here were Lissa, Adrian and Dimitri, standing in front of me.

I smirked at them and said, "What? No group hug or anything?"

Lissa and Adrian didn't say or do anything. Dimitri stood in front of Lissa and Adrian protectively, holding a stake and said, "Roza, please leave. I don't want to hurt you."

I snorted and said, "You hurt me? Are you kidding me? You wouldn't be able to hurt me" then, with strigoi speed I was behind Dimitri and I punched him on the back and he fell forward. I heard Lissa screamm and Dimitri grunt when he landed on the ground.

I then grabbed Lissa and held her in a head lock. She screamed and I just gripped her tighter. But when I gripped her tighter, there was a voice in my head telling me to let her go. Should I let her go or should I grip her more tigher? I thought about this for a few seconds and I could still hear the voice saying, "Let her go. You don't want to hurt her." So I just let her go.

Lissa gasped and she stumbled over to Adrian and then they moved further away from me. I looked at Dimitri and he just looked back. We were just staring at each other and then he attacked me.

He threw a punch at me which I blocked and attacked him with a kick. He blocked that by grabbing my leg and trying to make me lose my balance, but it just didn't work. I pulled my leg out from his grip and threw a punch. He was too slow to block so I got him on the side. He didn't make a sound, but his face showed that it hurt. He then threw a punch which got me in the face. I looked at his face and it showed that he regretted that punch. The punch didn't hurt, so I guess he was just holding out on me because I was his Roza. Well, not anymore.

Dimitri's POV

I didn't have a choice. I punched her in the face, then I regetted it. I didn't mean to but I had to. I had to protect the Moroi. Just like she said. They always come first. So now here I am, fighting the girl who had told me that they always come first. The one I loved. No... this wasn't the same girl. This girl wasn't Roza.

Why... Why did they turn her? Why did it have to be her?

I was thinking so hard that I didn't notice Rose jump at me. So I fell backwards and now she was pinning me down. I tried to get up but I couldn't she was too strong.

She smirked and said, "You're gonna die, by the hand of your lover. Right here, right now."

I replied, "My lover is gone. You're... a monster."

She just kept smirking and she lowered her mouth to my neck.

Well... this is it... I was going to die.

I closed my eyes and waited.

But I didn't feel anything, all I heard was Rose scream and then all her weight was off me. So I got up and just looked at her.

Her body was on fire. I was confused at first and then realized that Christian was doing this.

If he killed her now, we wouldn't be able to turn her back into a Dhampir. So I yelled at him to stop.

He didn't stop the fire but then Adrian and Lissa kept yelling at him to stop, so he did.

Then Rose fell down onto the ground.

All I wanted to do was pull her into my arms, but I couldn't do that. She might just attack again.

We were just looking at Rose's body and she remained unmoving. I was getting worried. What if she was truly dead...?

Then all of a sudden, there was a girl next to Rose. It was that same girl we saw at the commons, who just disappeared.

The girl put a hand on Rose and then whispered something into Rose's ear, then she disappeared.

When the girl disappeared, Rose got up and with strigoi speed she was in front of me.

The next thing I know she hits me on the head hard.

Then I black out.

Rose's POV

I knocked out Dimitri because Kara had told me to take him back to the cave we were hiding in so that they could turn him. They say he would be a good addition to the group. So after I knocked Dimtiri out, I slung him over my shoulder and looked at Adrian, Lissa and Christian first before I ran off to the west side of the building where we had entered.

When I got there, Kara and Aaron were waiting for me. We then ran off together back to the cave.

When we got to the cave, I carried Dimitri to the same room I had woken up in and I tied him to a chair. Then I just sat down on the floor.

There was a voice in my head that kept saying,

Let him go. You need to save him.

I was getting so confused now. Before all I wanted to do was kill him, now I wanted to save him.

I don't know what to do!

Then someone entered the room. I looked at the person and saw that it was Aaron. I asked, "What are you doing here?"

"I came to awaken him." he replied.

I shook my head and said, "I think you should wait a few days."

He smiled and said, "I think now's the perfect time."

You need to protect Dimitri.

I stood in front of Dimitri and said, "Well, you should wait for a few days."

Aaron's smile was now gone and he just pushed me aside, but I just grabbed his arm. I said, "I seriously think you should wait." trying to pull him towards the door.

He wrenched his arm out of my grasp and said, "If you try to stop me again I will kill you."

I stood there and he made his way to Dimitri. He lowered his head towards Dimitri's neck and then when I saw his fangs, I didn't know what came over me.

I tackled Aaron to the ground.