Disclaimer: Don't own Darren Shan. Wish I did, though…

I Walk Alone

I started walking down the tunnels of Vampire Mountain, Darren and Gavner at my sides, and Harkat behind me. I remembered walking down these same tunnels, fifty years ago.

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

For days I was traveling from the mountain, when I came across a lone road through the city. I did not know where I was going, just that I was leaving. I just had to get away from that mountain. Far away.

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone

All alone. Completely alone. My mentor Seba I had left. My mate Arra. My friend Gavner. All at the mountain. All of them but me.

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish some one up there will find me
Till then I walk alone

What am I doing? I'm being selfish. I have an investiture to plan. I am hurting the people I love. But I did not turn back. I could not turn back. I kept walking.

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge
And where I walk alone

Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everything's all right
Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive
And I walk alone


 I am being an idiot! What the hell am I doing? I must be insane to leave who I am. But I felt this was right. Something was pulling me in this direction. This was where I was supposed to be.

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I walk alone


I should have had someone come with. But I did not. I kept walking the small dirt road, in the middle of the night, cold and hungry. I walked alone.

Ah-ah, ah-ah, ah-ah, aah-ah
Ah-ah, ah-ah

I walk alone
I walk a

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a


 I came across an array of circus tents. That is where I must be. I could feel my feet forcing me that way. I did not question them or bother to try and control myself. I merely drifted out to the sea of tents, in hopes of food and rest. I continued down the dark street, until it ended near the campgrounds, and I turned in that direction.

My shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I walk alone

I should have gone back, but I did not. I should have had someone come with me, for company and comfort, but I did not. I should have regretted my decision to leave, but I did not. This is where I am and where I belong.

"Mr. Crepsley?" I snapped out of my memories at Darren's voice. He looked at me with worry. "Are you ok?" He asked.

I rubbed my scar, a terrible habit of mine, and gave him a small and polite smile. "Yes. I am fine." I am now, because I have him and Gavner. I no longer walk alone.