The Vampire and His Prince
By: CandiiKayn

Summary: Darren Shan is put under a spell by You-Know-Who, and he is unable to drink blood. This forces him and Evra Von, the snake boy, to go under-cover in Hogwarts, even as Darren grows sicker from the lack of blood. [During 2nd Book/Movie of Harry Potter]

A/N: Sorry if it seems all over the place, I know a bit about Darren's future as the Lord of Shadows, but not enough to really use it unless I wing it. And I NEED to wing it, because it will come in handy during the story. Because *spoilerspoiler don't read if you don't want to know…* I have plans to make Darren become useful to Volde—I mean, the DARK LORD, because he'll get kidnapped and mayhaps brain washed.

Me: Hey there, folks! Just me, Candii-san! 1st Darren Shan story, huh?

Steve: I better be in this one. No one ever lets me be the good guy in one!

Me: Erm…. Ah… Uh… Hn… bad news, you aren't in this one.

Steve: /SHINIGAMIMODO/ I SHALL MADAH YEW!

Me: We need to take the Telly away from Steve, Darren. He watches too much Bleach, Black Butler, etc., etc.

Darren: Why is this before the Purge? Yet it is after it as well?

Me: Because I'm not on there yet. I think that's in, like, what, book six? Besides, I know you have one future as the Lord of the Shadows, so I'm utilizing that to my advantage.

Darren: Still.

Steve: I want some snake.

Evra: O.O

Darren: WELL GOTTA GO!

Me: So long! Enjoy the story, folks!

Darren 3rd Person POV

Darren writhed in his sleep, his pupils moving behind closed eyes. His short, dark hair was splayed like a small halo around his head, quite ironic considering he was a half-vampire. His teeth bit his lips, breaking the skin. One would expect blood to come dripping out, but he was out of it. What little blood he had remaining had gone to his lungs and brain.

A man hovered over Darren. He had a snake-like nose, with two slits for nostrils. His eyes were small and beady, deep set in his grey-tinged skin. His lipless mouth was pulled in what appeared to be a malicious smile. He removed mahogany-wood stick from his long, black robes and chanted something in Latin.

'Incruento…'

Darren's eyebrows furrowed in pain, then relaxed as the man left. His eyes stopped moving soon, and his body tensed in shock before seizing. The boy next to him awoke from the shaking in the tent and he looked to his right and gasped.

'MR. CREPSLEY!'

When Mr. Crepsley arrived, they quickly began to try and subdue Darren. Darren's eyes had opened, but the pupils were pure white, and his irises had gone blood red, so that he looked half-insane. Mr. Crepsley was a man who had orange hair and was very muscular, in a lithe sort of way. Yet even he and the snake boy, a green-tinged skinned boy with snake like qualities named Evra Von (Just Von, he says.), even they together could not subdue the boy.

Pretty soon he began to scream, a high-pitched caterwauling that could only be described as an animal's cry of pain. At this point, Mr. Crepsley began to panic. The only reason he could think of for this was lack of blood, but Darren had been drinking enough blood, in fact, more than enough! But nonetheless, he took out a small vial from his black cape and forced Darren's mouth open, tipping the glass container and pouring the red liquid into his mouth. Darren ceased his wailing and began gagging.

'Bring him to a position of sitting, Evra,' Mr. Crepsley ordered. Evra complied eagerly, slowly helping Darren to sit up. The gagging stopped, and for a minute, they thought everything was going to be fine.

However, it seems fate thought otherwise, as blood began dripping from his eyes and mouth. He looked as though he was about to vomit. Evra rushed to retrieve the waste-basin next to the portable sink in their tent. He got back just in time for a torrent of red-tinged blood to come gushing out of his mouth. Evra gagged and had to look away. The same thing could be said for Mr. Crepsley, when blood mixed with stomach acid and mucus hit him full on in the face, some managing to get on his back and his crop of ginger hair.

After this was over, Darren collapsed, nearly going face-first into the vomit. But Evra turned and caught him just in time and laid him down on his bed, grimacing as some blood got on his hands. Darren's eyes shot open, black all over for a second before returning to their normal green hue.

He gazed quizzically and both Mr. Crepsley and Evra, looking at their bloody faces and hands, then looking down at himself. 'Wha… what's going on? What happened? And why do I feel sore all over?'

Instead of answering his questions, Mr. Crepsley shot back with one of his own. 'Was anyone here while you were asleep, Darren?'

Darren looked lost for a moment, remembering every scent of the night. 'There was this unfamiliar stink, it smelled of something dead and something rotten, but with a sickly sweet core…'

Mr. Crepsley's eyes widened nearly comically, and Darren was sure his eyes were going to pop out of his skull if he did something like that ever again.

'That scent… it's the same one I smelled while entering the tent. I know who it was,' he spat out the last three words as though they were one, 'You-Know-Who…'

Both Evra and Darren glared at Mr. Crepsley. 'No, we don't know who, Mr. Crepsley. And I don't think we will unless you TELL us who,' Evra spat out sarcastically.

'No, you don't get it, his name is taboo. Wherever his name is uttered, Death Eaters, dark wizards, will appear at that place and WILL either capture you, or kill you. It would be a mercy if they killed you, though.'

'But,' Darren started, 'we can take them, right? I mean, we have superior strength and everything!'

'Superior strength is nothing compared to magick. But get ready, boys, it is dawn and we must head to get you things to go to Hogwarts!'

'Hogwarts?' both boys asked at the same time.

'You're to go undercover as first year wizards. You're both about the right age.'

'…'

'We're going to Hogwarts in about a months' time. To Diagon Alley!'

A/N: I realize this chapter seems really rushed at the end… erm… I am so sorry for this, I was writing this at three in the morning. Whew~

Anyways, ten reviews and I'll post the next chapter, since it's already done.