There's no feeling like watching your world shatter right before your eyes; and you do nothing, can do nothing. Feeling so broken and alone on the inside, but staying calm on the inside. Each second counting down to the explosion. When you want to say something, but can't speak. When you need to react, but have to stay like you are. Entrapped in your own being. Ice cracking all around you, but you know if you move, the fractured surface will break. And you will fall through. Fall down into nothingness, but still feel the flames on your skin as the torture continues.
The screams could have been my own. But I don't show fear.
The shouts for help could have came from me. But I don't need others.
The cry could have came from my lungs. But nothing breaks me.
My reflexes were fast, but not that fast.
We were supposed to be talking right now, but that didn't happen. I was supposed to be prepared for anything. But I wasn't. They hadn't come for him, but he was in the way, and he was too stubborn.
I went over it again and again in my mind.
" Where were you, all this time?" Was all he had gotten in. I looked at him and smirked.
" I thought...." I started.
But that was when everything happened. Like a bomb, chaos exploded all around us as strigoi charged out of the tree line. Only about 15 right? No problem? Wrong.
There were noises in the distance, and people near us were in distress, running, calling for help maybe. I couldn't hear it, it was like I was in a daze.
Dimitri pushed me right behind him as he grabbed his stake from inside his duster.
" Stay back, run for help." He yelled at me as he started to walk towards the strigoi.
" There's no way in hell." I shouted back as I pushed in front of him. He took me by surprised as he grabbed the wrist of the hand with my stake in it.
" Go back now Roza!" He looked straight into my eyes. I could see some people in the distance running, probably to get help. I couldn't leave. This is my job. This is what I do.
I shook my head." I'm not your student anymore!" I started walking forward and took on the first strigoi. I saw in the corner of my eye him take on another. And we fought. Like a dance, the clean moves I had perfected over the years surpassing the skill of the strigoi, who grunted an swiped at me. I swiftly avoided a blow to the head as I struck the strigois stomach. The blow wasn't fatal, but his moment of shock gave me enough time to lunge straight for his chest.
After I had punctured four more strigois hearts I turned to look at him. I saw a few dead, and him battling another. Then I saw two charge him from behind. Adrenalin surged through my veins as I charged towards them.
Everything then happened in a blur. Maybe reality, maybe not.
"Behind you!" I screamed, but be for I could reach them, my hands were pulled behind my back. I struggled against three of them as I was pushed to the ground. I heard a strigoi chuckle behind my back and kick me hard in the head as I started to see black spots. I finally saw a quadrant of guardians rush into the area just as the world went black.
And now here I am. Waking up to find my world gone and swept away as I lay tied up in the back of a van, next to an unconscious Dimitri, well that's a great feeling. The cold floor pressed against my cheek as I remember the unfortunate series of events that just took place.
What did I do wrong? I had won so many fights, survived every possible evil. Hell, I brought a strigoi back from the dead. But noooooo, luck was just not on my side.
Yep, stuck tied up in a van next to none other than love of my life that rejected me, and is also my baby daddy; heading away from court, away from the moroi, away form my son, going God knows where. Just another great day in my life... I need to write a goddamn book.
