Chapter 3 THREE

At the other side of the massive school ground was Danila Kirova and her best friend, Aldrin Lazar. Both were seated on the bare grass after running away from fighting practice to read the telegram her mom had sent her earlier that week.

"Dear Dani, how're you?

I talked to Principal Szelsku and he said you haven't been assigned any moroi yet...."

Danila sighed and closed the letter,

"I don't wanna read it." She said as she put it back in the creamed color envelope with a transparent side to foresee address.

"Why?" Aldrin asked her, she exhaled and tossed the envelope on the ground,

"She's probably going to say I'm not working harder enough and that's why I haven't been assigned another moroi to protect. Fuck her." She seethed angrily and Aldrin sighed sympathetically.

Danila's mom, Anne-Marie Kirova wasn't just any Dhampir, she was one of the greatest and strongest guardian in the world.

She was a Blood Master 7 holder at twenty and she spent the next five years of her life, protecting her moroi mate, Axel Stanner. They fell in love or probably in lust with each other and when he found out she was pregnant and was inevitably, having a dhampir baby, he left her and for almost eighteen years, no one know whether he's alive or dead.

Danila grew up with her nannies and the house helpers as her mother was always away saving the world from strigois. She was home-schooled by dhampir tutors who her mother had hired to teach her the basics of being a Dhampir and when she was of age, she was sent down to the Elite Academy to complete her studies and get the training to become a guardian.

"Don't you think you should have agreed to be Geneva's guard--"

"No Aldrin, please don't fucking say it." She stopped him and then she turned to him,

"Fuck. That bitch was a pain-in-the-ass moroi and apart from punching her in the nose, I might as well end up killing her in the future. Don't wanna take the risk." She cajoled, making Aldrin smile.

"You don't like anybody..."

"Because not much people like me." She said with straight forward honesty. He stared at her sarcastic expression for awhile before nodding,

"I love you." He blurted and she turned to him,

"Love you more bestie." She punched his arms playfully and he smiled.

"We better get back to class before Mrs Mallory notices our absence and set my ass on fire for luring you outta class." She said, picked her stainless steel water bottle and got up from the floor and Aldrin got up too.

"She'll be busy staring at your ass to want to set it on fire." He said and she rolled her eyes,

"I would have appreciated it more if it was instructor Xerxes or even his brother, Xavier, but have a woman gawk at my ass....ew, so gross." Aldin faked a smile and he picked up his water bottle too.

"Heard they're returning today." He said,

"They're returning with Lucas Ozera..." She scoffed and looked away,

"The Royal pain-in-the-ass Moroi prince that fled school? Good for them." She said with great nonchalance that amused Aldrin.

"Race you to the court, loser forfeit his lunch to winner." She said and before he could even say yes, she raced past him and immediately he followed her too, in bid to outrun her.

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The Elite Academy is the oldest school in the world, just that it isn't your normal high school.

It's an exclusive vampire school founded in the early thirteenth century by one of the early vampire, Vladimir Dracula.

Centuries before that, Vlad, together with his two brother Mvaminir and Crailsfelden had made the small land of Flint Hills their forte after their parents were killed by strigois.

There were no dhampir guardians then cause civilization hadn't fully accepted mystical creatures, neither were there any alchemist then, so there was no way to create dhampirs.

Few years to their stay in Flint Hills, Crailsfelden came across a human woman and the attraction between both of them opened way for the dhampirs to come into existence.

While, Mvaminir's attraction to Remeta, a scientist who'd gone out of her way to prove the existence of mystical creatures, paved way for the birth of alchemists and more dhamphirs

Crailsfelden and Mvaminir taught their dhampir offsprings how to fight and protect the children of Vladimir who he'd beget with his moroi blood mate, Kissiov.

Their forte, their offsprings turned into an academy after their death and for centuries, it'd served as the world most known academy where moroi and dhampirs students from all over the world come to learn about their vampire's heritage.

There'd been several name change to catch up with civilization but however, their quality hadn't changed one bit.

Their students are taught math, art, science, history and all other subjects that are included in high school curriculum. For extra mural activities, the dhampirs get to learn how to how to protect their morois from badass strigois.

While for the Morois, they get to learn about their special abilities, their elementary powers which is their biggest asset of all.

Mystical school right?

Yeah it's.

It isn't only the ability to possession elemental powers that makes the Morois special, some are more special than the others.

Just like the human world, maintaining order is one important factor and to achieve that, there has to be constitutional authorities, so it's in the vampire's society.

The Moroi Secret Society are made up of the seven ancient moroi bloodlines who are regarded as royalty and take turn to lead the vampire race.

The seven royal moroi bloodline that make up the Moroi Secret Society are this;

Serezha,

Ozera,

Darkwood,

Ivashkov,

Seliganoz,

Rubanov,

Dashkov.

These families are most special of all, thus, Lucas leaving the academy when he was the last of the Ozera bloodline was considered a dangerous and irresponsible act.

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Morois are the full blooded vampires.

They're the revolution of vampires, from which the other groups of vampires are formed.

They're the mortal and undead vampires that feed mostly on blood.

They don't die by daylight but yet, it irks them.

However, moroi vampires don't have long life span unlike the strigois and dhampirs who are immortal.

A moroi have the life span of at most, 100 to 120 years and they die after passing that age.

Morois possess at least one power from the four elemental powers.

However, they don't get to use it except supervised, as it's tagged unsafe for both the vampire itself and the vampire's community.

It's the magic in their blood that make the Moroi strong, thus, making them prey to strigois, who feed on them to get stronger.

That's why a moroi is entitled to at least one dhampir guardian for protection.

Royal morois are entitled to most times, two dhamphirs for protection.

For the Dhampirs, they're the half blooded vampires.

Like other hybrid creatures, dhampirs are the result of a moroi mating with a human or a moroi mating with another dhampir. They take all of their vampire parent's strength and even more, but not their weakness.

They're impervious to vampiric hypnosis.

Daylight doesn't affect nor hurt them.

They can feed like normal human beings and don't grow fangs until they're at least sixteen. They aren't thin and pale like the morois nor the strigois.

Dhamphirs have longer life span than that of the moroi counterpart.

A dhampir can live for at least two centuries, some can be immortal too.

They've enhanced metabolism and great resistance to disease and toxins.

They've cute sense of sight and hearing, also have regenerating abilities.

They're strong, with great agility, sense and night vision. They're the ultimate bodyguards and protectors because of the strength they possessed.

All this above mentioned features makes them THE GUARDIANS, mostly the guardian of the morois against the strigois.

A dhampir can mate with a moroi but would only get dhampir offsprings and such union don't last. They can also procreate with humans but such offsprings aren't guaranteed to be vampires.

A dhampirs can't bear kids with another dhampir and such relationship is frowned upon in the vampire society, as the dhampirs tends to focus on their spouses than their moroi.

Strigois are the last in the list and most dangerous.

Strigois are the immortal, undead, bloodsucking night vampires. They can't stand daylight but are very strong, stronger than the dhampirs. They've stronger sense, reflexes and are difficult to kill. Strigois prey on the blood of morois as it makes them stronger and more difficult to kill.

A strigoi can be created by choice or by force but whichever way, they can be killed by setting them ablaze, castrating parts of their body or piercing a silver stake right into their heart.

Strigois aren't allowed in the academy and they live in caves and other dark and hidden places.

They only come out at night to prey on morois or look for dhampirs to turn into their likes.

That was the main reason why the school authorities were worried about Lucas while he was roaming alone, with no dhampir gaurdian in the human world. They were worried that he might get attacked by a strigoi and get killed or worst, turned into them and that'll mean the extinct of his family's bloodline.

He's the last person left in his family line and it's his responsibility to see that the Ozera's bloodline doesn't go into extinct, to make sure he procreates enough royal morois to carry on the family's prestigious name.

So, it wasn't only the pity and sympathy from the people that made him leave the school, it was the fact that his responsibilities to his ancestry lineage was something he haven't come in terms with and he doesn't think he'll ever do.