Vampire Academy

Chapter Six.

Just a short chapter, but enjoy - I know you guys have been waiting for a while - sorry about that :) xx 

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Chapter 6.

Sunday – The day of rest. Kirova knew that I would attend church today, I hadn’t been in weeks and since this day was going to be quiet the thoughts of me killing another being haunted me.

The church full of the people, most of them I knew. None that I would speak too. I sat in silence at the back of the church my head was bowed down as I half hide in the shadows. I thought. Zoned out. All the people that I have killed. Not people but monsters, nevertheless I still believe that they had a soul even it was twisted and sick. I thought about the poor innocents that had been killed by them. Innocent humans that were maybe had a life, children, partner and hope. Hope for a world was increasingly becoming more in danger. Numbers on the dhampirs where running low. Dangerously. The deaths had increased and so had the thought of worry. 

The Queen was the only hope to arise with a plan to protect the humans, Moroi and dhampirs. Worries. Worry. No hope. 

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Rose. What? She is here – How do you know that? I can see. Look. I zoned out of my thoughts and noticed - I stared blankly at ahead as Rose arrived in the hall. No much passed my mind nor did my deepest thoughts… Her long dark brown hair was flowing and glowing within the church light. She looked as unhappy as I was. I chucked inside my head at the thought of her being Christian, the only way that she would ever be Christian was if she was trying to hang around Princess Dragomir - taking a double glance, my predictions were correct. 

I zoned back into reality when the Priest started to speak of holy language. 

"Following God's path is never easy" Hmm. I agreed. Do we kill to become the greater, or kill the greater? "Even St. Vladimir, this school's own patron saint, had difficult time. He –” I zoned out. The speech every week was the same. There was hope. St Vladimir had hope. A girl. Not all women can help with hope. They cause trouble. They run out of protected areas with the only Dragomir. I stopped and continued to listen the whole way through and watched as Rose looked suddenly awakened when the Priest talked about Anna – a shadow kissed. There was something that she wanted, there was something going on. I sighed.

When the service finished I left to go to the boring meeting.

Whilst there, there was nothing new. There was about half the guards in the meeting, we all as around a table that had a massive pile of paperwork in the middle. The downside of having to work at an academy was the paper work. I sighed. The one leading today’s meeting was someone that was high enough but not enough to be known by the students. A scrawled man; Darren. He wore glasses and a smart suit, he was human. But he was important to the protection of vampires and humans. “Morning all; as you can see you are my second group of the weekend. With some that attended Church means that we would have to delay until later than expected. This is not a normal meeting, our race have decided that we have to change the system to ensure that all of you report all the sightings and activities around our academy. Nevertheless, It means having to sort through all these documents” As he pointed towards the massive pile of paper with folders “and after rotas and additional information will be given.” After the introduction we were separated into groups and given a range of folders to sort and complete the folders, the area was quite and no noise, even though I was sitting next to people I would try and uphold a reasonable conversation, but not today.

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Three hours later and some of the guardians had ordered food in for us to eat whilst we worked. The pile was almost finished but the forms of half filling in slips and sorting the type of sighing and action seemed devious and boring. No noise still come from anyone’s mouth apart from Darrens’ as he said and talked on the phone to his loved one about his children devious behaviour and how he wished he could move back home. The phone was on speaker so that everyone could hear.

“- Hmm. And then he ate the glue” Her voice confirmed.

He chuckled. “Could our son get anymore devious?”

“I don’t think so, the other week he told the teacher to shove it, because he wasn’t done playing with the lego”

“Has the headmaster said anything?” He was smiling like it was the least of our concern.

“Yes, he says it the lack of your male role” His face hardened.

“Let me talk to his headmaster of his. I’ll teach him to mix the directors of St. Vladimir’s representatives.”

“Darren. It’s hardly war, I told him he does have a male role from other family members and that basically without you, I would be living on the streets. He hardly complained after that – He has respect for you, remember they heard about you with the last head teacher”

They both giggled.  “Put the little trouble maker on the phone”

The phone went silent as you heard her rounding up her son; Shane.

“Ello daddy”

“Hello son. You okay?”

The little boy giggled “Yeaaa, daddy. I played with mummy and she went rrawwr”

“Did she go rawr?”

“yeaa – Byeeeee!”

“Bye son”

He hung up the phone and sat in the chair, there was a certain grin on his face of happiness and fulfilment. He sat and watched us for another 5 minutes, his eyes were glazed and his mind was afar. There was silence until he spoke ‘You are dismissed’ he then called two names of other guardians to clear up the mess and the rest of us left in a quiet trance, everyone knew that the love his son brought him happiness, the shadow of the thought of children made my mind wonder – My thoughts were clouded until I reached my bed. Children, I closed my eyes and imagined the thought of three daughters and a son, a golden field with a wife and four children with wide smiles and joy pouring out of them, a picnic with rich foods, the happiness was overwhelming in my head that it brought a tear to my eye. I opened my eyes to stop the thoughts, conforming and marrying too children seemed hard to capture, the life I lead now is quiet and peaceful but yet lonely. So lonely. For years I had convinced myself that I didn’t need anyone and would interrupt with my career, putting them in risk would kill me if they got killed. With the pain of loneliness and my dilemma I closed my eyes and let my unconscious take over.