Trouble in the Making [Spirit]

[Lexi]

i'll fight for you ;

Acting
"Personal Opinion"
Inner Monologue
Opponent

It was always one thing or the other. There was not choice in the matter. You had to chose them, and nothing else. In a sense, I was getting over the mantra, and rather fast. Of course I would still stand by it when the time came, but that time wasn't right now exactly. I still had a bit of my own choice in the matter. I still wanted to be a Guardian, that would never change. But this was the last year of freedom I had. A teenager going into service, into a possible war, could put a bit of strain on a teen. So yeah, I was proud to serve, but I was also a bit reluctant.

Maybe it was nerves, which I knew by now I couldn't have. A flinch, a hesitation, just one, could change everything, and my charge could be dead. I had done fine in the trials in protecting my student Moroi, that had been easy enough, but it was more the looming reality of what I would face in the next few years. I'm going to be a Guardian. I'm actually going to become a Guardian. The reality of that was sinking in faster than I would have appreciated, but it was there, staring me in the face. I'm going to have to face a Strigoi one day... And there it was again. The nagging feeling, the gnawing of slight fear. But I knew I was going to have to go into that one way or another.

All the these thoughts swirled in my head as I moved slowly across the grounds for the day. Classes had been over a while ago, and frankly, I was kind of surprised no one had caught me roaming yet. After all, the sun was bound to come up sooner or later. But I hadn't run into anyone, and by this point I figured that I may as well head back. Everyone else I knew had disappeared into their dorms hours ago. Well, I thought so at least.

My eyes had been scanning the grounds for the past few minutes, hope swelling in my heart as the lack of movement seemed to pop up. It seemed that tonight I was truly lucky. Which was a good thing since I'd had these nightly escapades before. If my mom ever found out...Well, I'd probably be screwed. A small smile twisted on my lips then. My mom had certainly been a true fighter. After all, she had dealt with me all by herself through the thick and thin, and that was certainly - What was that?

The tension in my body then brought me to a complete stop. Instincts from all my training was beginning to kick in as my body tried to decide between the flight of fight movement. The fight would always win, though. It was a part of me now. But I didn't have any reason to be frightened anyways, nor did I have one to fight. It was just a girl. I relaxed then, wincing slightly as I felt the tugging pain in my shoulder from where the strap of my messenger bag had scrunched up due to my sudden movements. I'd seen her around before, and knew her enough to know that she was a Dhampir as well, but that was the basics I knew about her. I'd never really spoken with her to much before. But maybe there was time to change before I was gone from this school forever.

Sneaking around too, I suspect? My voice carried gently across the quad, but from the sudden tension in her body, I could tell that she hadn't realized I was here at all. How curious. She was going to become a Guardian as well, yet it appeared like she hadn't even caught my own steady movements across the ground, even with the coming dawn. She was certainly interesting though, I could give her that. But it was from her look that I could fully determine her reaction: She had been totally caught off guard by sudden call. I smiled softly again then. What a curious person.