Sarju: Welcome back to another one of our chapters!
Stan: aye-Welcome!
Sarju: and once again-we don't own the Saga of Darren Shan OR the Jedward twins!
Stan: BUT-
Sarju: and ONCE AGAIN, we are NOT kidnapping them!
Stan: *sigh* fine..enjoy the chapter!
Jedward stared at Kurda, trying to take in what they had just heard. They were both face to face-with a vampire-who was their biggest fan? And now they had to become vampires? "Coool!" They both gasped in unison.
"You... You think I'm cool?" asked Kurda, astonished.
"YEAH!" exclaimed John, "Vampires are awesome!" He high-fived Edward, not even doubting that Kurda could be lying.
"So, what are you going to do now?"
"Well... since you know... I want to make you my assistants..." muttered Kurda.
"That sounds AWESOME! What do you think Edward?" cried John.
"YAY! Vampire world, here we go!" yelled Edward. Kurda jumped up and down in excitement, and he almost blooded them right then on the spot, but remembered that he hadn't even told them what that meant...
"So, what are we waiting for?" John asked excitedly.
"Well...you need to be blooded..."
"Eww, Blood, john!" Edward squealed.
"Yeah" John agreed "It's so like red and gooey and wet and stuff..." Kurda raised an eyebrow at them and shook his head.
"That means you'll need to transfer blood with me-put vampire blood inside of you!" he explained
"Like an injection?" Edward Asked "But I don't like needles, John, I hate needles! Eww...Kurda, I don't like needles!"
"Not quite..." Kurda began. "Basically...oh, just hold out your hands." He thought it would be better to just go straight ahead with the blooding process, rather than trying to convince Jedward that it wouldn't be painful, or gooey, or icky-because of course, blooding was all of those things. The Irish twins nodded and both held out their hands. "Um...which one of you wants to go first?"
"I do!" both boys grinned in unison.
"Er...I'll start with...um..." Kurda paused, unsure what to do.
"Oh, you can go first john." Edward told his brother.
"No, you can Edward!" The other brother contradicted him.
"No, you!"
"You can..."
"No, John!"
"QUIET!" Kurda screamed, a bit louder than he intended. He loved Jedward, but he didn't need to hear them arguing about who was being blooded first. The twins looked a bit taken aback, which was only natural. I mean, how often did they get to say that they had been screamed at by a vampire? John stepped forwards and pushed Edward out of the way. "I'll go first. I was born first, so I should be like, blooded first, right?" Kurda looked at him strangely.
"Whoa. That was-really smart." Kurda didn't add 'for Jedward', because he felt that would be mean. So he simply plunged his nails into the tips of John's fingers. The boy winced and pulled his hands back. "Give me your hands..." Kurda repeated-quieter this time, and softer. John extended his hands out slowly and nervously-they were now dripping with blood that stained the floor as it landed in small splashes."Don't worry..." Kurda re-assured him. ""There's nothing to be afraid of." At this Johns face lit up, and flicked towards Edward who mirrored his smile. They both grinned at each other for a few seconds before Edward laughed. "I ain't afraid of no vampires!" he sang. "Charnas guts! That's my favourite song-well, with ghosts of course...!" Kurda squealed. "I mean...let's get this over and done with!" He made identical cuts in his own fingertips, over the top of his existing vampire scars, which then began to drip with blood just like John's. "Now you simply press your fingers to mine, like this..." John's eyes began to water with the pain, and he had to bite his lip to stop it quivering as Kurda's blood travelled up his veins and into his body. Kurda was gritting his teeth, not wanting to embarrass himself in front of Jedward, they needed to look up to him now, he was their master and mentor from this day forth. Eventually, much to John's relief, Kurda pulled his hands back-he had only blooded the twin as a half vampire, and was going to do the same to the other brother.
"Am I a vampire now?" John gasped, causing Kurda to nod "That's so awesome...Hey, Edward! I'm a vampire! I'm a vampire! WOO!" John grinned, causing Edward to gasp sadly.
"That means we're not twins anymore, John! I'm human and you're a vampire!" he turned his head towards Kurda "Quick, make me a vampire so I can be Johns Twin again!"
"Oh my god Kurda! Hurry!" John shouted frantically. "We're not the same! We are twins, we're always the same, we have to be!" At that moment a voice blared from one of the speakers nearby. "Half an hour warning, I repeat, Jedward, you will be on stage in HALF AN HOUR. Get yourself prepared, you need to be ready in HALF AN HOUR." Jedward gave Kurda a worried look. "What...what about the show? What about our fans?"
"Um..." Kurda stood their awkwardly. He'd have to take the twins to the next council, obviously. If that was further away then they could have stayed-at least for a little while-but the next council was in 3 months and it took nearly that long to get to Vampire Mountain. That meant that they'd have to cancel their show, at least until they got back from council-what else could they do? Kurda took a deep breath, preparing to tell the twins the bad news. "I'm afraid that you will have to forget about the show. There's just no way you can go ahead with it, I'm so sorry. But look on the bright side-think of all the cool vampire things you will be able to do!"
The two twins stared at each other for a few seconds before turning back to Kurda. "But...but..." John stuttered, before Edward interrupted him.
"Will we have like, super speed and fangs and be able to turn into bats and stuff?"
"Apart from the super speed-No." Kurda said, annoyed. Why did everyone always ask that stuff?
"Oh...um...Well..."
"But you can do other cool stuff!" He turned around as the two men unconscious on the floor began to stir "Listen..." he whispered quickly "We have to go as soon as possible. Edward, do you want to be blooded or not? It's either that or stay here..." Edward thought about it for a few seconds before Kurda Added "Alone..." That made up Edwards mind instantly, and he thrust his hands up to his soon to be mentor. Edward cried out as the blood reached his heart, he felt like he was going to die. The strain of blooding two people one after the other was getting to Kurda too, but he was a vampire, he could take it, where as Jedward couldn't. Finally, it was all over. John and Edward looked at each other, identical grins on their faces. "We're vampires!" John shouted. "Sssh." Kurda hissed. "Not so loud." Not that that stopped them. They began to dance around the room, singing a song they had made up on the spot about how they were vampires! It was-Kurda noted- to the tune of the ghost-busters theme. "We're really fast, and really cool-what are we john?" Edward sang, and john sung back to him.
"VAMPIRES!" he shouted before continuing "We'll drink some blood, which is not so cool! What are we Edward?"
"VAMPIRES!" Kurda coughed awkwardly to attract their attention
"Um...we kind of have to go now." He told them "You know..." The two boys exchanged one final Line of the song before nodding.
"Ok, Kurda!" John grinned.
"Where are we going?" Edward asked "Is it like, Draculas castle? Is there bats and cobwebs ad a big torture chamber?"
"That would be SO cool, Edward!" John exclaimed.
"No." Kurda sighed-had he really made the right decision blooding them? "We need to go to a place...known as Vampire Mountain..."
"A mountain?" John squealed.
"Full of Vampires?" Edward added, causing Kurda to nod. The Twins look one excited look at each other before turning and starting to run down the corridor. "I'll get there first, John!"
"No Edward!" John grinned "I will!" They shouted. Kurda stared at them in shock before following them, wondering when he should tell them that they couldn't get to Vampire Mountain that easily, whilst also wondering how on earth they planned to race each other there! And, for what seemed like the hundredth time in less than ten minutes-Kurda almost-ALMOST-regretted blooding them...
