Mystical Changes ~ Vampire Academy Fanfiction

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A month ago, the attack in the cave.

The sick feeling washed over me too late. They cut us off from each other. All of us were on the side of freedom, all of us except Dimitri and another guardian I didn't know. I looked between him and all the strigoi. He had already begun fighting them off, there were 5 of them. Then the blonde one, the one I'd encountered at the school, the one that said he would single handily kill Lissa... He took Dimitri down, I couldn't see him. "Rose! He's gone, we have to keep moving. We have to get the rest of them to safety!" My mother was by my side, yanking on my arm, trying to get me moving. Only I couldn't. "We have to help him!" I cried out. We were in the safety of the quickly fading sunlight.

"Rose he is lost. We can't save him, the sun is nearly gone, we have to get back before all these lives are lost." I felt a tear run down my cheek, which I hastily wiped away. We started running, as fast and as hard as we could. We didn't have much sun left, we had to get back behind the wards. I was at the back of the group, herding them all towards the academy. Then I stopped, I couldn't leave him, I had to help him fight. I turned and ran as fast as I could, we hadn't put much distance between the cave and us yet, so I didn't have far to return. In the growing distance I could hear my mother screaming after me, begging me to come back. But she had to do her duty and get the larger number of people back to safety.

I reached the cave, and they were still fighting... I couldn't believe it. One strigoi had been killed, two remaining. I could see blood streaming down Dimitri's neck... I gasped, alerting all their attention to me. I'd left the safety of the sunlight, I was anyone's game now. Dimitri managed to stake the one he'd been mainly fighting, thanks to my entrance. I could see the regret in his eyes that I had returned. Just as I ran into the fight, to do my part, more strigoi appeared. I managed to stake one, as they didn't expect me to be such a good fighter. I had made my way to Dimitri's side, together we staked another one. There were about 7 more we needed to kill now...

Just as we staked one, another lashed out at me, throwing me clear across the room. In turn that caused Dimitri to falter... His eyes fell on me, pleading for me to be okay. Just as I looked up, that blonde one returned to finish the job... His eyes went wide with shock as his life was drained from him. I was too caught up in watching the love of my life die, that I didn't even notice the strigoi that was about to take my life as well. It was stupid of me to come back, but I couldn't leave him, I couldn't let him... Die alone. The last thing I seen was Dimitri dropping to the ground. He still had a tiny bit of life in him, then it all went dark.

I hastily woke up trying to figure out where I was, thinking everything that had happened was just a bad dream... Only it wasn't. I felt really weird, it was pitch black in the cave, but I could see almost everything. What had happened? My eyes fell on Dimitri. Lying there on the ground... Dead by the looks of it. My mind urged me to cry out in pain, only there was no pain. There was nothing. I felt nothing. Only... Hunger. Then I noticed them, fangs. I had fangs. Oh god, I'd been turned. Then he moved, for a brief second a trickle of emotions, that hadn't completely died yet, felt relief, that maybe he was okay. As he opened his eyes I seen the red, the same red that probably filled my eyes too.

As his eyes fell on me he smiled, he had yet to come to the realization I had. That we were now the monsters we'd always vowed to fight. The ones I'd spent my life training to kill. We were now the scary things people hide from at night. "Ah good, the honeymoon couple is awake." I was amazed by how much my senses had heightened. I could hear so much. There was one person here, still alive. I could hear their heartbeat and frantic breathing. Dimitri had figured it all out, like me he had saddened by the knowledge of what we are now. The sadness was quickly removed as the last little bit of his emotions died off, like mine had. Now, I felt good.