+: Isolation and Loneliness:+

(Evra Von Love Story)

NOTE- Obviously I do NOT own ANY Cirque Du Freak characters! I am, however, own my own OCs (And that goes for Reyn Neko as well). Anyways, enough chit-chat. Lets get this show on the road!

~Chapter 1- "You're good... Really good."~

Hey, Darren here, I'm doin' ok... I guess... I still can't get over what happened through the last couple of weeks in my life: Going to the Cirque, stealing Madam Octa, almost killed my now ex-best friend, and now becoming a Vampire's Assistant for Mr. Cresply. Well, I guess it's not that bad ever since I made a friend named Evra Von -If you're wondering who he is, they call him the 'Snake Boy'-.

Anyways, me and Evra just finished bathing his pet snakes, and just hang out for awhile in Iowa's lovely fields, that is until Hans Hands came running towards us excited.

"Hey guys, did you hear? Mr. Tall brought in a new freak; fresh from the circus too! Common!" HE starts running back to a large crowd in front of Mr. Tall.

"What's going on?" I asked out of confusion.

"I dunno... but I bet the new guy's really cool! Common Darren!" He grabbed hold of my forearm and dragged me into the crowd and made our way to the front. Our jaws dropped when we saw maybe three or four of pillars and a cloaked figure standing tiptoed on one of them.

The figure looked down upon us as if he was disranking us -If you're wondering, -disrank- means to either degrade from rank or throw out of rank or into confusion-. No one knew who or what he was, because of the black cloak, but my guess was that he's a cat or a dog due to seeing a tail. All of a sudden it glanced over to Mr. Tall, a really tall guy wearing a tuxedo suit, as he nodded his head and it took off the cloak and threw it onto my head.

I thought I was blind until I got it off of my head and my eyes widened when 'he' was a 'SHE'!! I looked over to Evra, same expression I have on, then looked back at her.

She has what looks like an orange/yellow hair that shines like gold under the sun, emerald colored eyes, wearing a black dress -looks like a witch's dress almost-, matching slip-ons, black fish net socks, and a chain necklace with two rubies, like her eyes, crested as eyes on the cat pendant. She also has cat ears and tail that matches her hair.

"Evra... who is she?" I asked him but he just shook his head.

"Ladies and Gentlemen!" Mr. Tall announced as if the show just started. "Presenting, from the circus in Iowa, is the cat girl, Cora Gin! She shall dance upon the three pillars without ever falling. You may take it away if you want to Young One".

~Cora's POV~

I nodded as I closed my eyes and the music begins to play out loud. It was "Mordred's Lullaby", my all time favorite song, and started cavorting -synonym to -dancing- upon the pillar; jumping from one to another, sometimes revolving, and swaying my arms as if I was making a story out of them. When it got to the end, I leapt to the center pillar and my head fell to cover my exhausted face. Everyone below cheered and applauded to my prancing. I jumped down in front of two guys, around my age, and bowed to them. "I am honored to become a freak, just like the both of you guys." As I got up, the guys just stared at me as if they saw an angel coming to Earth.

"Cora, these two are called Darren Shan," Mr. Tall points to the black-haired, umm..., human?, "and Evra Von." he points to a green-haired, umm..., whatever he is... "These two here are your new roommates."

~Darren's POV~

'WHAT??!! Did he just said 'roommates'??' My mind was in hysteria when Mr. Tall announced to me and Evra that a GIRL, a CAT-GIRL to say the least, is gonna be living with us GUYS!!!! I dunno if Mr. Tall notices me freaking out when he asked me if there's anything wrong. "N-no sir!" was all I could come up with.

"Alrighty, it's settled then, Cora will be staying with Darren Shan and Evra Von until further notice. Dismiss!" He and everyone else, but us three, made their way back to their usual things as if nothing had happened. It felt like hours since we met until Evra spoke up.

"So, uhh... you're a cat?"

She nodded and smiled. "Yes, yes I am, and this is between us but..." she got closer to us and whispered something that scares us even more, "I love goldfish, they're my favorite treats."

"Y-you just said that as if it's no big deal!"

"But I'm a kitty cat." She pointed he index finger into the sky right next to her chin, and smiled like the cat that ate the canary.

"Oh, you're good... really good." Evra said to her as she twists her head to look at his surprised shock.

If she's not strange enough, her eyes started to shimmered like emeralds under the sun, then a sudden shriek comes out of her as she grabs hold of his arm and stared in amazement. "Dude! You're so cool!! Is this a skin disorder? Where'd you get it? Huh?"

The both of us just stared at her in confusion and fear -we're both scared of her hyper side (^u^;;)- as she marvels at Evra's skin. "Well, uhh..., I was actually born with it."

She looked up to him in astonishment. "Really??"

He nodded.

She smiled when she said awesome, which made Evra flushed with light pink. She then turned to me and just stared at me in confusion. "And you... I didn't know they allow humans here too."

"Well Cora, umm..., actually I'm not what you consider a 'human'." She just stared at me in even more confusion until I started explaining to her about how I become a half-vampire. All of a sudden, when I finished my last sentence, she stared at me in shock then began to cry and then, out of the blue, hugged me.

"Aww!! *sniff* Poor you, you must've been- *sniff* really homesick. I'm so sorry about all of that stuff that happened to you! *sniff*"

"Cora!" Mr. Tall called as she lets go of me and wipes the tears out of her eyes. "Come, Cora, we got discussions for you."

"I'll see you guys at the tent!" Her hyper side came back as she ran over to him.

The both of us just stared off, as the sun begins to set behind us. "Well, we got ourselves a new roommate. I'll see ya tomorrow!"Evra ran back to the tent, our house sorta, but I stick around as I ran to the trailer Cora and Mr. Tall disappeared into and leaned my ear into the side to hear the conversation. What I heard was as shocking and scarey as her personality.

~Cora's POV~

I'm sitting on the couch with my legs crossed and both my hands on my knee as Mr. Tall, Mr. Cresply, and Mr. Tiny -I tried not to make eye contact with him but he's really scarey- started talking about me and my previous life.

"Now Cora we've gathered information about you and we want to confirm if these accusations are true. Be honest and try to answer the best you can, alright?" Mr. Tall asked me.

I nodded.

"Alright Young One, we've heard that your mother died giving birth to you and your father taking his anger out on you correct?"

I looked down. "Yes sir..."

"How old were you when your father started beating you up?"

"*gulp!* I was... only a week old."

They looked at me, trying to not believe that sentence. "And... How long did it last?"

"Un... until he sold me to the circus... I was only two years old then."

Then Mr. Cresply interrupted Mr. Tall and started asking me about my special traits. "Are there any traits you picked up during your time at the circus?"

I nodded and looked up. "I guess you can say I can balance on anything that doesn't move."

"In other words you can't balance on a ball or a barrel or anything like that?"

I shook my head and continued. "I can squeeze through tight spaces... not too tight spaces!"

"I see... Also, rumor has it, that you were born with nine lives right?"

I was shocked, at first, but I looked at him in depression but smiling a bit. "Yes... yes I do... but not anymore..."

"That's right, Sweetie." Mr. Tiny interrupted. "If I guess right, you only have six more lives left. Correct? Or is it five? Four?"

"I only have three left... And it'll sadden me if my last life was used in vain..." The painful smile curved my lips as the mention of my final life being worthless has hurt me so.

~Darren's POV~

My eyes widened as she said that she has only three lives left. She sounded as if it's no big deal! If words gets out about this then there'll be no apparent reason for her to exist anymore, she'll use up the three lives out of depression, and... Evra will be...