Aleksander was already in the classroom as the students started pouring in. He spotted Anna and Gunner as well as a few other familiar faces and then took in the transfer students... He considered for a moment before he spoke up in Russian.

"Добро пожаловать это приятно видеть так много от нашей родины... Если есть что-то вы не понимаете в английском заказы будет перевести. Делайте все возможное."

((Welcome, it is good to see so many from our homeland... If there is anything you do not understand in the English orders I will translate. Do your best.))

In the typical Guardian stance he looked them all over, "Most of you already know your sparring partners from the year before but I will go through the line up..."

He looked at a paper and began, "Gunner Marks and Angelina Ross, Serena Abatangelo and Kseniya Zyomin, ...." The list went on and on until everyone had a partner. "At the end of class you will all report to me to receive the names of your Wards for the school year. For now, do your warm ups and then we will be working on basic attack skills. We will start off with the basics for the beginning of the year and work our way up to actual stakes... For now, get your practice stakes from the tables." He indicated the tables on either side of him.

"I will be watching all of you and giving you pointers as you go... Start your warm ups. I will tell you when to begin sparring."

~*~

Anna sighed as she tugged the tie off her wrist that she always kept there. She tugged her hair up into a loose ponytail and then into a messy bun. She spotted Serena and Kseniya and waved at them happily before beginning her stretches. This part was so boring, when in the history of ever would a Strigoi pause and request that you both do your warm ups before fighting? Still, she knew better than to argue with Guardian Belikov, he'd run her ragged in her freshman year for talking back... lap after lap... all while Gunner dutifully did his warm ups without complaint. They'd both come out of his personal lessons bruised beyond belief but better for it.

She glanced at Gunner, he was already sliding into Robot mode... For now she was quiet, it wasn't until they started sparring that she gave him a hard time. Where she was rough around the edges and always improvising he was polished and purposeful... the only problem was that did often make his attacks predictable... When she got him to loosen up so did his fighting style and he became much much harder to beat... Plus, it was just fun to annoy him when he was so business-like.

She glanced up at him as she was stretching out one of her legs and winked at him playfully knowing it would get to him a little whether he showed it or not... maybe even get him to crack a shadow of a smile. "I think all this stretching has made me more limber than a professional contortionist sometimes..." she sighed.

~*~

As Sebastian entered the attack class he glanced around for faces he recognized... Rae was there and so was Gabby and Basil, none of whom he ever really talked to. He leaned against the wall instead of taking a seat and his eyes strayed to the empty seat by the window... Anya's old seat.