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Veronica's P.O.V
When Darren and I went to Mr Crepsley's van, he was still asleep so Darren started talking me through what Mr Crepsley likes to eat when he wakes up, he pulled out the eggs and asked if I knew how to cook.
"No." I answered truthfully.
"Thats alright I'll teach you its not that hard." He told me and showed me how to make scrambled eggs for a few minutes and then he pulled out the bacon.
"He doesn't always eat eggs and bacon but I haven't gone to the shops yet so he'll have to live with them." Darren said as he pulled out a plate for Mr Crepsley.
After about twenty minutes of Darren teaching me how to cook Mr. Crepsley woke up and as soon as he finished eating he brought Darren and I outside to train, he told Darren to do his normal warm-up.
"Veronica, I would like you to run a mile for me." Mr. Crepsley said with a blank expression on his face.
"How do I know when it's been a mile?," I asked him.
"Do you see that tree out there?" He pointed, "Run to that tree and come back" He told me. I started running but it was much harder than I thought and when I came back I was gasping for air. Darren was already there and he didn't look like he ran at all.
"Did you even run?" I asked Darren, breathlessly.
"Of course I ran, it was only five miles." He said, like it was no big deal to run five miles.
"And you're not even a little tired?" I asked still gasping for air.
"I'm a half vampire, I'm stronger then most humans." He laughed.
"Time to start your real training. Veronica you will start with fifteen sets of ten push-ups and sit-ups." Mr Crepsley told me. I just looked at him with my eyebrow raised, he looked back with his eyebrow raised.
"Yes?" He asked, I just shook my head and started.
By the end of the work-out I was too tired to move, but I still had to go to the lesson on Vampire history till three in the morning. When the lesson ended I was so tired I fell asleep on Darren's shoulder.
Darren's P.O.V
After the lesson, Veronica fell asleep on my shoulder so I carried her back to our tent and laid her down in her hammock.
I laid awake in bed for about an hour just listening to Evra snore. I fell asleep at about four in the morning, when I awoke the first thing I noticed was that Evra and Veronica were gone. I walked around for a little while but couldn't find them anywhere. But then I heard footsteps behind me, I sniffed the air. 'Veronica and Sam', I thought to myself, 'There trying to sneak up on me eh? Well two... er three can play at that game'.
I walked around a corner and climbed on the room of a nearby trailer, Sam and Veronica walked past sur enough and I jumped down behind them. I put my hands on their shoulders.
"GOTCHA!" I yelled. Veronica jumped back, startled while Sam laughed.
"Why are you laughing?" I asked with my eyebrow raised, 'I already know' I thought.
"Because you forgot something." He snorted.
"Hmm, did I maybe forget that Evra is standing in in that tree over there?" I pointed at the tree.
"How did you know?" Asked Sam with his mouth wide open.
Evra jumped down from the tree and ran over. "Why did you tell him?" He asked Sam accusingly.
"I didn't, I swear he probably saw you when he jumped out at us." Explained Sam, Evra rolled his eyes.
"So what do you guys want to do now?" Veronica asked.
"Well I'm going to get some breakfast before I do anything." I said, finally acknowledging my rumbling tummy.
"Well you're going to have to cook you own and it's almost noon, we still have a lot of chores to do." Veronica said, wringing her hands.
"Ok. Sam, you help Evra with his chores and Veronica and I will do ours." We split up.
"Ok, so the first thing we have to do is find food for the little people." I told her. At first she wasn't very good at it, but after a while she got better, at the end she had three rabbits, a few rats and even a fox! I had two more animals than her, but it was good for her first try. We tossed the sacks of dead animals to the little people and went to clean out the wolfman's cage. We did the rest of our chores uneventfully and met up with Evra and Sam.
We walked around for a little while before Evra broke the silence.
"What now?" He asked, kicking a stone.
"Oh I know, come on follow me." Sam motioned for us to follow so we did. After a few minutes Veronica asked something that was on everyones mind.
"Where exactly are we going?" She asked.
"Well Veronica if you must know, there is this old railway station that's been abandoned for years. Theres lots of cool stuff there." He replied, with that we walked on for about fifteen more minutes until we got to the abandoned railway station.
"Alright Sam, since you're the expert, what are we going to do?" I asked, crossing my arms over my chest.
"We can explore some of the rail carts." Evra said before Sam could reply.
"Ok, who wants to check out what?" I asked. Veronica pointed at a cart away from the others with rude graffiti, anybody needed to see. Then I got curious. "Why that one?" I asked.
"I saw something moving." She replied.
"We'll go and check if there's any danger, you guys stay here." I told them. Evra and I walked over to the wall, I easily jumped it but Evra scrambled up.
"Hey, Im not missing out on this, help me up." Sam cried after us.
"One second, this one is empty, but there's this horrible smell of B.O." I said jumping down. We tried a few more, but all of them were empty, or full of glass and pieces of rusty metal. We finally came to the main building.
"I'll go first and make sure that we don't fall through the flo- Sam what are you doing?" I asked as he walked into the building with Veronica reluctantly behind him.
"I've been here loads of times, I haven't fallen through the floor, we'll be fine." He said, plopping a pickled onion in his mouth.
We went into the building, graffiti was all over the walls. We climbed the stairs, following Sam. When we got to the top he ran to the ledge. Support beams were going from one ledge to the other, he jumped on one and ran across, jumping from beam to beam.
"Sam you're going to fall, please get off there." Veronica asked him.
"Why, are you all too chicken to do it?" Sam said, taunting us. I walked out onto the beams too and started to jump from beam to beam like Sam did.
I felt a little dizzy, but I didn't think much of it, I'd started to get dizzy spells recently, but they only lasted for a few seconds. It was probably because I wouldn't drink human blood.
"Hey Darren, lets play mirrors. You have to copy what I do and when my turn is over I do Vice Versa." I nodded and he held up a hand, I did the same.
It started off alright, I could do mainly everything Sam did. Sam lifted up his leg and his arm and thats when I blacked out. If it wasn't for my Vampiric speed and strength I would've fallen, but the luck of the Vampires was behind me and I caught the beam I
was standing on not moments ago.
"DARREN!" Veronica screamed and Evra ran out towards me on the beam. It would be too late when he reached me, so I looked to Sam. Sam was jumping from beam to beam, trying to get to me.
When he did get here and started to pull me up, I heard Veronica scream Evra's name, I looked over and saw that he had slipped too, but he got luckier than me and had fallen on his stomach.
Sam had pulled my upper half on to the beam and I hauled myself up the rest of the way. As soon as I got up I ran to Evra who was standing up by now.
When I got off the beams Veronica threw herself in my arms and cried. I sat down and put her on my lap, trying to calm her down, she calmed down after a few minutes.
After a few moments silence Evra said something. "Lets head back to the cirque, it's almost dinner-time."
We were walking down the stairs, when I saw something move. I looked around but couldn't see anything, I decided to keep quiet. 'It was probably an aftereffect of the black-outs.' I thought.
We were on the trail back to the cirque when all of a sudden a man jumped out from some bushes.
"BOO!" He yelled, I jumped back and tripped over a rock, twisting my ankle in the process. I tried to stand, but fell again when I put pressure on my now swelling ankle.
"Oh sorry man, are you hurt? I didn't mean to hurt anybody, I was just trying to have some fun." The bearded man tried to explain.
"It's alright." I told him, waving it off. Evra helped me up and I leaned on him for support.
"What's your name?" Sam asked after a little while.
"The name's R.V." He said.
"That's a funny name. Does it stand for anything?" I asked.
"It stands for Reggie Veggie." He told us, scratching the back of his neck sheepishly.
"Reggie Veggie?" I asked with confusion.
"Yeah. I'm a Vegetarian you see and when I was young everybody used to tease me about it. They gave me the name until I convinced everyone to call me R.V and the name stuck." He shrugged. We all introduced ourselves to him and he nodded at each
one.
On the walk towards the Cirque we talked about what he did, he told us he and his pals protest about new roads being built and such. When we arrived he told us to come over to his camp and he would explain more, he gave us directions and left. A little while later Sam left too.
"Hows you ankle doing." Veronica asked.
"It should be fine by the time we go training." I told her and tossed her a sausage.
There goes Chapter 3 I hope you liked it. please review it is always a big help. Thanks everyone and good bye.