SPOILER WARNING: IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE 12TH BOOK OF THE SAGA THEN DONT READ THIS YET!!! PLEASE:D

Chapter 1

Author's Note: Ok, I have written one story for Cirque Du Freak, one for the Harry Potter series, and also, more recently, one for Charlie Bone, but I wasn't satisfied with any of them. So I deleted them and decided to make this one, which I hope people will actually like. The story is set after Sons of Destiny and is told in Darren's POV. Please reveiw this story because another reason I deleted my other stories was because of few reveiws. So with that said please enjoy the story:D

The Lord of the Shadows Shall Rise

I knew I couldn't trick destiny so I made a life changing decision. "I'm sorry Steve." I said in my head with all of my emotions in that small sentence.After I managed to find enough strength inside of me I pulled the kinfe out of Steve's body. Steve gasped in pain and took in one final inhale of air and died. Poor Steve who spent the rest of his life hating me. Poor Steve who was Mr.Tiny's pawn the whole time. Poor Steve, my bestfriend, my half-brother. After he died I started crying. "Come now boy! He tried to kill you! You should hate him more than ever!" Mr.Tiny yelled.

"Stuff it! You old wrinkly bitch!" I screamed in reply.

"You can't talk to your father like that." Mr.Tiny sniffed not at all emotionally touched. "Dosen't matter anyways. Since you will become the most powerful tyrant in history you won't have any more of those silly human emotions. You will devolop the emotions of a killer. You will be like your brother Steve except only more inhumane than ever. Now go back to your friends and let them fix you up. I will return to you when it is time," And with that Mr.Tiny left. Evanna helped me up and we traveled back to the stadium. "I can't believe I killed my own brother." I finally said to Evanna. I looked her in the eye and said "Will I really become a monster?" She just looked away and nodded. We said nothing as we walked back to the stadium. It was only when we came to a halt and spotted the man on the ground is when I remembered - Vancha! I ran up to the prince and tripped on the way. He was unconscious and I asked of Evanna to fetch the others for help. I stayed there with the prince, resting to preserve my strength. The first sign of help I saw was Harkat rushing forward with Debbie and Alice not far behind. Harkat, Debbie, and Alice all looked at Vancha who was still unconscious. "He's alive." I gasped to reassure them. Debbie hugged me with all her might and I think I could've crumbled from that hug! Harkat studied my condition and said "I'm guessing you might...need some blood to help you...recover."

"You don't know how right you are." I chuckled. Alice took out a knife and made a small cut in her arm and let me drink from her wound. I remembered that earlier today I drank from her cut, so just to make sure she didn't faint from lack of blood I just took a little. Satisfied, I layed back down as Harkat stichted up some of my deep wounds. Evanna came a little later and healed all of my wounds and within minutes Iwas in full energy. I pretended to look sad and said "You know what this means right?"They looked at me uncertian of what I was talking about.I thengrinned and yelled with joy"The vampires have won thewar!"

"We shouldget you somewhere to...sleep now that the war is finally...over." Harkat said. I considered that thought and agreed with him. Harkat and I lifted Vancha up and with Evanna's help went out a secret route out of the city so the humans wouldn't see us. When we stopped to rest somewhere near the outskirts of the city Evanna said she wanted to talk to me. "What is it, Lady?" I asked casually.

"I have to leave now." Evanna said. "I'm going to go back home to my cave, but when Des Tiny comes to visit you I will too just in advance."Evanna started to leave, but I told her to wait.

"How long do you think Vancha will beunconscious?" I asked. She studied him and thenanswered "Less thanthat of a day." With that she said her farewells and left us to ourselves. First, whileHarkat, Debbie, Alice and I sat around a fire, we decided where to gonext. Harkat said we should head straight for Vampire Mountain, buthis idea was rejected.Instead we decided to stay at a local city for a few weeks than go straight to Vampire Mountain. We stayed at a cheap motel, because money was so scarce. After a couple of hours Vancha awoke from his slumber. "Where am I?" Vancha questioned. "Am I in Paradise?"

"You might be seeing as I'm here and all." I laughed. "No Vancha, its over, I killed Steve and the vampires have won the war." Vancha's blank look soon turned into a look of joy as he hugged me and threw me in the air.

"You did well young sire!" Vancha roared with happiness. "So are we heading to Vampire Mountain now?"

"No, not yet." I said while rubbing my chin. "I want to stay here for a while, you know relax." Vancha obeyed my wishes and spit forcefully into the trash can.

"You should become a full-vampire by tomorrow, sire." Vancha said suddenly. "So don't try sneaking outside. The change might happen when your asleep so make sure the curtains are closed all the way with no cracks." I was getting tired so I layed down on my bed and soon drifted off to sleep.

"Rise and shine!" Vancha roared as I jumped out of bed.I looked at him questioningly and he grinned.

"Your training to become a full-vampire will start today, but since it is morning start doing some pushups." Vancha said as he told me to drop and I started doing exercises.