Anastasia's Pov

"Stop!" The mystery man yelled from behind us.

"Dream on!" I yelled back as I ran for my life, well not literally.

It was pitch black, not even the stars were giving off light. I could hear Hope's breathing behind me. Hope was my sister and my partner in crime, if you could call 'breaking free' a crime.

We were both just 17 and were on the run from our 'protectors.' We had run from our school, St Vladimir's school.

The school was for vampires or Moroi as they were called, and half vampires, Dhampir.

Most Moroi were royal and stuck up and they all had the power of one element, and they were weak compared to Dhampirs because Dhampirs were built to be fast, strong and powerful. They were made as guardians for the Mori and they had no power over elements like Mori. Mori were weakened by the sun and they had to live off blood, but Dhampirs lived off normal food and could go out in the sun.

St Vladimir's was like a boarding school for Mori and Dhampirs, we were taught normal subjects and then other subjects depending on weather you were a Mori or a Dhampir, and it was protected from everything harmful, including Strigoi. Strigoi were full vampires. They couldn't come into the sun at all and they killed everyone.

We were the first ever to run away from school and we had good reason. We were different. And at a school like St Vladimir's, different was bad.

We were both half-breeds. We were built and thought like Dhampirs, but we had to drink a bit of blood as well as normal food, but the sun had no effect on us. We also had the power of an element. Hope's element was air and mine was fire. A case like ours hadn't been heard of for over a century.

For some weird reason we also had some other powers. Compulsion was one of them. Compulsion allowed the person using it to control people. Most Moroi had it, but it was so weak, that hardly anyone could use it on another fully; it was more of a suggestion being planted in their brains.

Both Hope and I had strong compulsion. We could use it on anyone, and could make them do anything. Years ago we had promised never to use it.

I had another power Hope didn't. I had the power to heal. I had never told anyone this because I didn't like it. It was unnatural and twisted. I hadn't used it in years, not since I found out I could. I said I would never use it, and it wasn't that strong because I wouldn't use it.

We were treated like Dhampirs because we wanted to be guardians, but the others had treated us different and eventually it had become too much and we had ran for it.

We had escaped about 6 months ago and were always running from guardians coming after us. Tonight they had managed to catch up to us.

I heard someone running towards us from in front of us. "Left" I called to Hope but she didn't hear me. I turned and she ran straight past me.

I stopped as I heard a thump. I ran after her to see a man lying at her feet and her fist was in the air. We were about to run again but another man jumped out from a tree. He grabbed Hope from behind and the light from a street light fell on his face.

He was very tall and had longish brown hair. He was wearing a duster and had a very handsome face. I lunged at him and he fell to the ground still holding Hope.

Hope's Pov

"Let me go" I growled at the man

"I can't do that" he said with some accent

"Fine" I said and kicked him in between the legs he loosened his grip on me I slipped out of his reach and saw Anastasia starting a fireball in her hands.

"No Anastasia we don't need charges as well" she looked at me then at the guy who was on his hands and knees.

"Fine" she said and absorbed the fire.

I looked at the guy and kneeled down to his level.

"What do you want with us?" He looked at me but said nothing

"Air" I called, turned it around it my hands a couple of times before throwing it at him.

I know most of you wouldn't think that air is a very powerful element but it is cause you can do so many things with it.

He rolled over so it missed him but I had a second and got him in the leg he cried out in pain.

"What do you want with us?" he looked at me and very wobbly got to his feet and lent on a tree.

"I am from the St Vladimir's Academy and I have come to take you home" I shook my head

"Where not going to St Vladimir's ever again" he looked at me a smirked

"You don't get a choice" that's when I saw Anastasia fall to the ground and felt a sting in my arm and saw a dart sticking out of my arm.

"You bastard" was the last thing I said before passing out.

Anastasia's Pov

I awoke and my head was spinning. My vision came in focus on the guy from last night.

I jumped to my feet and threw myself at him. He was thrown into the wall but before I could get a good hit in another pair of hands pulled me away.

The arms wrapped around me and I struggled. I broke out of the grip as I looked up to see that it was Hope.

"What the hell?" I asked her.

"He wasn't the one who shot us" she told me.

"Still. He was there and he was the one who brought us back to this hell hole!" I yelled noticing that we were in the school office.

"True" she said looking at the mystery guy.

"Well you shouldn't have run away" he said holding his ground.

All of a sudden the door opened and Kirova, the headmistress walked in.

"I see they're awake" she said sitting at her desk.

"They have names" I snapped back.

"Ok" she said looking at us and putting her hands on the desk.

"This is how it's going to be. You and your sister are going to go to your dorms, they are still there. Tomorrow you will be given your timetables and we are going to act like nothing happened. You will both be doing extra training with guardian Belikov to catch up on what you have missed. You will not be allowed to do anything other then go to class, go to training and go to your dorm." She said looking at us sternly.

"I thought you said we were going to act like nothing had happened" I said sarcastically.

"Leave" she said looking back at her work. I opened my mouth to say something else but Hope nudged me.

Guardian what's-his-name escorted us out of the office. We walked out and headed towards our dorms. Unfortunately we had to walk through the hall to get to the dorms and it was around dinner time.

Those darts had knocked us out for nearly 24 hours. I had to get some of those.

Everyone's eyes fell on us as we walked by. I saw familiar faces as I passed. Eddie ran up to us.

"Hey, Ana" he said smiling at us.

"Hey Eddie. So what's hanging?" I asked smiling.

"Not much. It's been pretty dull around here without you both. Things are looking up now though" he said and I rolled my eyes.

"Move along" guardian tall, dark and handsome said because we had stopped.

"Shush up. I'm having a conversation." I said.

"Its guardian Belikov" he said with a straight face.

"See you later Eddie" I said as we continued to walk off.

"To hard to pronounce" I told him.

"Just call me Dimitri" he said and I swear he smiled.

Hope smiled at him and I pulled faces at her behind his back. We dropped Hope off at her dorm then Dimitri dropped me off at mine a few doors down.

I walked in and shut the door on his face. I turned to look at my room.

"Just as I left it" I sighed. Messy.