Disclaimer: The Cirque du Freak series belong to Darren Shan, not me sadly.

Chapter 1

Liz's POV

I was standing in the forest with Larten and that dark haired boy. Larten spoke, "Are you sure about this Liz? Once you become a vampire, there's no going back."

"Yes." He then cut the tips of our fingers and pressed his against mine. The pain was too much, I was about to fall.

"Darren!" Larten commanded, "Hold her up!"

I slowly opened my eyes. It wasn't a dream I just had, it was a vision. So the man who saved me was a vampire, figures. I began to look around the room, or should I say tent, that I was in. There were two other beds, two backpacks, not including mine, and a snake. A SNAKE! Calm down Liz, it's not looking at you and it's not coming this way.

I looked down to find my tennis shoes besides my bed, and me still wearing the same red tang top and jeans from last night. Normally a girl would freak out if they were almost raped the previous night and are now in a strange room or tent. But this wasn't the case, I knew that from my vision that I could trust this Larten fellow, after all, he did save me last night and I will eventually show him my trust be letting me turn him into a vampire. Reason I'm not freaking out about the vampire thing is because if I'm going to be turned anyway, why not make a fuss over it.

So I finally got up and put on my shoes. I should probably take a look around. It took a while for my eyes to adjust to the bright light when I stepped out. When everything wasn't so blurry, I saw a bunch of people cooking and moving stuff around. That's right; Larten brought me to a circus.

"This is so cool!" I cheered. I took only one step and I tripped over something, or should I say someone. The person that I tripped over was very sort and a hood covered up his face. "Sorry," I apologized, "I didn't mean to trip over you or" The short person walked away. "Hey, haven't anyone ever told you not to ignore a person when they're talking to you?!"

"Forget about him, you don't want any of them to pay attention to you." A boy laughed. When I turned I saw that it was the green scaly guy from last night. "Are you alright?"

"Um, yeah, I guess so." I blushed, for a scaly guy he was pretty cute, "Oh, my name is Elizabeth Lunar, but you can call me Liz or Lizzie."

"Evra Von."

"Von what?"

"Just Evra Von."

"Oh, sorry. Um, can you tell me where Larten is?"

"Yeah, but later. Right now we should get some breakfast. Mr. Tall said something about you joining our family."

"Mr. Tall?"

"The leader of this circus. Oh," Evra stopped for a moment and began chuckling like you do when you're trying to scare someone, "welcome to the Cirque du Freak. Muhaha!"

"Wait, I thought those were banned."

"Well yeah, but this is like those other circuses when the freaks as we're called are locked up in cages and are laughed at. I should know, seeing that Mr. Tall was the one who saved me from one of those circuses."

"Oh, I'm so sorry. Didn't your parents do something though?"

"No, once my parents saw my skin, they well, they left my at an orphanage. I was eventually sold to another circus owner who whipped me everyday and only feed me minimum requirement to survive." I stopped. "Liz?"

"I'm sorry, I thought that I had a bad life, seeing that my parents were killed right in front of me. But you, you were abandoned and tortured. It's not fair." Evra placed his hand on my shoulder and smiled."

"Sure I had a tough start, but now I'm here at the Cirque du Freak and I couldn't me happier. You're going to see. I have a feeling we're gonna be good friends, especially since we're sharing a room."

"What?!" I blushed.

"Yeah, most of the people here are usually in a tent in a group of three. It's organized my gender and age, but since all the other girls are already in a group, Mr. Tall put you with me and Darren."

"Darren?"

"Yeah, the other boy who helped you last night. You can meet him and the others while we eat breakfast."

Evra grabbed my arm lightly and started running towards a group of people sitting on logs in a circle. "Hey everyone," Evra grinned, "This is Liz, the newest member of the circus." Everyone then introduced themselves and welcomed me.

"So Liz, are you good at anything?" Darren asked innocently, "Like chores, everyone has a few chores here, less if you're gifted. Are you gifted?"

"What?! Gift?! I have no gift! Why would you think that?!" everyone started laughing.

"Man Liz, you must be like the worse liar alive!" laughed Hans Hands.

"What's your power?" Evra asked.

"You're not going to believe me." I almost whispered.

"Come on, tell us." Darren pleaded.

"Well, I um am sorta, well, psychic." I shouldn't have said that. Well, at least I knew that they believed me, all of them began asking questions like, "For how long?" "Can you also read minds?" "Did you see yourself joining us?" "Can you tell me my future?" Truska made them calm down and told them to ask me one question at a time, and to let me ask questions as well.

"What's your latest vision?" Darren asked.

"You're a vampire." I whispered.

"How did you know that? And how is that a vision?"

"I saw that Larten fellow turning me into a vampire, with the passing of blood through the fingers, and you were there as well. So I assumed you were also a vampire."

"Wait," Gertha said, "So you're also going to be a vampire?"

"That's what I saw, but I didn't see the whole thing so who knows for sure."

"That is quite an amazing ability you have." A man said. When I turned I saw Larten still dressed in red, and a very tall man who I presumed was Mr. Tall. "I suppose that means you have another apprentice Larten." I looked at Evra, he seemed sad. Wonder why.

"Um, thanks for saving me."

"Mr. Crepsley, does this mean that she's going to travel with us?" Darren asked, Evra seemed to look more depressed.

"Yes, that is if she wish." Lar, I mean Mr. Crepsley smiled at me.

"Um, sure, but if it's okay, I'll like to hold off on that for a little bit."

"Of course."

"Now Miss Lunar, can you cook?" Mr. Tall asked.

"Sorta."

"Very well then, you'll help out with the cooking and assist Evra and Darren with their chores."

"Sure thing."

"Liz," Evra walked over to me with two plates filled with sausages and eggs, "I got you some breakfast."

"Thanks." When I turned I realized that Mr. Crepsley and Mr. Tall were gone. "Where did they"

"Liz, Evra" Darren said, "how about we eat in the tent, so we could get to know more about you Liz." Evra and I nodded. We spent the next hour telling jokes and stories to each other. It wasn't hard to tell that I was going to be good friends with both of them. We all had one true thing in common, besides from the fact that we were different from other humans; we had nowhere family to go to outside of the circus. Darren's family thinks he's dead, Evra was abandon by his, and mine was killed or wouldn't accept me.

Mr. Tall and Mr. Crepsley eventually walked in. "It's good to see that you're enjoying yourselves." Mr. Tall grinned, "But it is now time to get ready for the show. Darren, Evra, you know what to do." Evra and Darren nodded and left. I went to follow them, but Mr. Crepsley stopped me.

"We need to talk." We both sat down and he continued, "So you saw yourself being turned by me, correct?"

"Yes."

"Do you know when or why?"

"I'm not quite sure why, but I looked about the same as I do now, and my visions don't normally extend beyond two possibly three years from the date I saw it."

"I see. You realized that you'd have to drink blood."

"Yeah, but I had to eat animals fresh a few times after I ran away."

"Ran away from what?"

"Well, my parents were killed two years ago." I didn't want to talk about this.

"I'm sorry, that must have been tragic for you. But why didn't you go to live with any of your other relatives?" I really didn't want to talk about this.

"Because," I almost growled, "even if I wanted to live with them, all they'll do is give me a very small fraction of the money they have for me to get lost and never to speak of my family background to anyone!" Great, I just yelled at my future mentor.

"I'm very sorry," his eyes were filled with sympathy, "Your life have not been an easy one."

"No, I'm sorry, I know that you'll be my mentor but yet I still yelled at you."

"It's alright," he smiled, "now come, all though you can't be in it, you should watch the show."

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