Disclaimer: I don't own anything from cirque du freak.
Authors Note: I decided to make this chapter about Zane's past so you don't get confused in the next chapter. I'm sorry if the dates of what happened in Cirque Du Freak don't match up with what's happening in the story. Oh, does any one know how old Mr. Crepsley was? I'm guessing around 2 or 3 hundred but I'm not sure. So all this is going on in Zane's head right now so I'm not going to bother using italics and it starts when Zane is about 5.
Chapter 4"Mommy, I love you, you're the best mommy ever in the whole entire world! Daddy is so lucky to have you and he love's you a lot! Isn't that right daddy?"
"What was that you asked Zane? Sorry I was thinking about something."
"He asked, Henry, if you love me a lot."
" Well of course I do. I married you didn't I?"
Sigh, " I guess your right you did marry me and marriage is the ultimate way to show you love some one."
The young Zane looked at his mother then his father then back to his mom. "Daddy why'd you make mommy look so sad? She was smiling a minute ago. Maybe you should tell her how much you love her still?"
"No it's okay Zane, I know exactly how much your father loves me, and besides look I'm happy see." His mom put on a smile.
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Why did she always put on a fake smile to cheer me up? Why couldn't she just show me that she was hurting, that my father never really loved her, and why couldn't she just leave him. Why didn't she just run away to one of her friends where they could hide her until he gave up searching? Why? Was it because deep down inside she actually loved him and she wanted him to love her back so much that she stayed with him to the very end no matter what he did to her. Did she love my father more than she ever loved me? I guess I'll never know. Might as well go back to sleep.
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A little Zane was sleeping in his bed when he suddenly woke up. He could hear voices talking outside his window. One was his father's the other was a man he didn't know. The young boy waddled over to his window to see what the man looked like. He could see his father standing next to the window facing the man in the shadows. All that he could see of the man was that he wore a long black cloak and he wore every thing on him self a very dark color. They began talking again.
"So are you sure you want to become a vampire, Henry? You'll start out as a half-vampire at first so you'll be able to walk in the sunlight for some years to come but once you become a full-blooded vampire you won't have that luxury. Also I should warn you that once you take my blood you wouldn't be able to make a child of your own."
"Good I don't want a child, they're annoying and cause trouble for you."
"What about the fact that you won't age at the normal rate. Half-vampires age a year for every five and full-vampires are one year for every ten. Are you okay with that?"
"Listen, you already told me the consequences of turning and I agreed with them so if you don't mind can you just make me stronger now."
"You shouldn't be so impatient. I have one more thing I should mention to you. Once you accept the blood I give you your going to be hungry and the only thing to satisfy that hunger is blood y-"
"Yes, yes, I already know that in order to survive I need to drink human blood, you told me that already, remember?"
"I know I already told you that you need blood but what I didn't tell you is that when you take the blood from your victim you have to take all of it. You must drink every last drop until the victim is dry."
"Oh, well uh yeah I guess that's okay with me as long as I live and I get strong I'm okay with an...anything."
"Good. Then since you've been dying to get started I shall start. Give me your hands…there you go no need to be afraid. This will only hurt more if you don't stop shaking. Okay now don't worry."
The man was doing something to his hands while my father just stood there hands out shaking violently. Then he brought my fathers hands towards his but I saw there was blood leaking out of his fingertips and I also saw that his skin was purple. My heart started to pound hard against my chest all the while going faster then I ever felt it go. What kind of human had purple skin and talked about drinking the blood from a human until they're dry? Was this some kind of demon that the church preachers talk so much about? Has my father signed the devil's book in exchange for power? I had to stop him!
"No stop dad don't sign the book and become evil! STOP!"
I was to late when I got the window open and jumped outside. The man had finished doing whatever he was doing to my father and was setting him down against the wall. I crawled over to him. "Dad why? Wake up dad come on you can stop pretending to sleep now and tell me why." I looked at the man who finally stepped out of the shadows and into the light. He wore a black tunic with matching black leggings and shoes. He had a purple face with blood red eyes. His head was mostly shaved except at the top and part of the back so he had enough hair for a ponytail. His hair was black but it had a hint of red streaks through out it. Right now he was staring at me as if he never seen a little kid before. Then he spoke.
"So, you are the kid that lives with my new apprentice. Shouldn't you be asleep right now instead of spying on us from the window?"
"I woke up and I heard my dad outside so I went to see what he was doing. Are you a demon?" His voice was cold and commanding and I was so scared but I had to know what my father had done.
"You think I'm a demon? Well sorry to disappoint you but I'm a vampire, soon to be a vampaneze."
"What's a vampire and vampaneze? And what's a half-vampire?"
"Well you see right now I'm a vampire. Vampires are stronger then the strongest human even though we were human once. In order to survive we need human blood or else we'll die. Vampaneze are vampires but vampires only take a little bit of blood from humans while vampaneze take all of it until the human dies. Right now there aren't any vampaneze but that's going to change soon. We're going to have a war and revolt against the vampires so that we can take all the blood from the humans with out getting punished. And a half-vampire is a young vampire who can't do all the things we can."
"Oh! So.. um.. I was wondering what's your name? Mine's Zane. Also what kind of things can you do?"
"Well Zane my name's Kristopher, and I must say those were excellent questions that you asked. It's always important to ask some one their name for you never know who you might need to know in the future. And in answer to your other question I'll give you a demonstration of one of my powers as a vampire." He swooped down to his knees and breathed in his hands. Then covered my mouth and nose with them. Before I fell unconscious I heard him say 'this was all just a bad dream, Zane, good night.'
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It's official my mind hates me, I must have done something bad and now its giving me bad dreams from my past and waking me up after them. But why? Why is it showing me the first time I met a vampire? Is it because I'm chasing the ones I think are Kristopher and my father? Is it saying to give up or that there's something from my past that might help me catch them? Whatever it is I'm going back to sleep. It's too early to get up yet.
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"NO! DADDY HELP ME! DON'T LET HIM HURT ME! PLEASE WAKE UP! WAKE UP DADDY PLEASE! HE'S GOING TO HURT ME! HELP SOME ONE PL-"
"Zane wake up! It's just a dream. Wake up!"
"Come on Zane wake up. Look I'm awake see!
The young Zane was starting to open his eyes. " Dad your awake! Where's Kristopher? Did you beat him up for turning you to a half-vampire? You're not going to really drink some ones blood until they have none left right?"
"Henry, what is he talking about. What's a half-vampire and who's Kristopher?"
"How am I supposed to know? I don't know any one named Kristopher and I wouldn't dream of drinking blood. He just had a bad dream that's all."
"No I didn't it was real. I woke up because I heard yours and Kristopher's voice. You said that you already knew all the things Kristopher was telling you about what would happen if you took his blood then he said once you became a half-vampire you'd have to drink all of someone's blood and they would die. Then he cut his fingertips or something to make them bleed and I think he did the same thing to you."
"Nonsense! Why would I let some guy who obviously has issues, if he cuts his fingers and talks about killing people by drinking all their blood, cut my fingers and put his blood in mine?"
"I never said anything about him putting his blood in yours dad."
"Oh you didn't? Well I said that because that's the most obvious thing a psycho would do in your dream son."
"Um dad can I see your finger tips please?"
"Why don't you believe me? Besides I don't have to do what you say."
"SO YOU'RE A HALF-VAMPIRE! OH MY GOD MY FATHER'S A VAMPIRE! NO IT'S WORSE HE'S A LYING HALF-VAMPIRE! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO HE'S GOING TO KILL ME RIGHT ABOUT NOW AND THEN I'LL BE DEAD! OH WHY DO I HAVE TO DIE SO YOUNG WHY!" pauses to breath again "NOW MY FATHER'S GOING TO KILL ME AND PROBABLY MOMMY TOO AND THEN HE'S GOING TO GO WITH KRISTOPHER TO GO TO WAR WITH THE VAMPIRES SO THEY CAN BECOME SOMETHING THAT I THINKS PRONOUNCED VAMPIREZE OR SOMETHING!" another pause to breath "OH WOE IS ME THAT ME FATHER HAS TURNED TO THE DARKSIDE OF EVIL AND HE CAN'T COME BACK. WHY HA-"
"ZANE STOP YELLING PLEASE! Thank you. Now what is this all about? Is it because your father's being mean and not showing you he's not what was it called again a half-vampire?"
Zane just stood there with his eyes watery and big and with his bottom lip quivering, nodding his head yes.
"Well what are you waiting for Henry? Hurry up and show Zane that you don't have any marks on your fingertips."
"Yes well you see, before you get the wrong idea I tell you I'm human defiantly not a half-vampire, see I got these marks on my fingers because well um you see its because um I had to climb the fence surrounding the church and you know how they're pointy at the top so they cut my fingertips and that's why I have these half moon circles on my fingertips."
"See Zane your fathers not a vampire he's just not careful at climbing a pointy fence."
"Oh. Sorry about yelling so much it was a really scary dream. I love you mommy! You're the greatest. Oh yeah love you to father."
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Mean mind. Hmm I was really naïve when I was younger, believing that my father climbed a fence and it cut his fingertips. Ha what a stupid lie and I'm even more stupid for believing it. Brain if your listening right now please don't show what I think your going to show next please I don't want to relive it so please be nice. I need sleep so I have to sleep right now. Maybe you can do it as a favor for being so nice. Please!
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A little Zane is playing in the cornfield next to his house when he hears a scream. He thinks it's his mom so he runs back to his house. He sees the door hanging by a hinge, the knob lying on the ground. He tears his eyes from the door and runs in to the kitchen. His mother was supposed to be cooking lunch but all he found was a half chopped carrot with no knife by it and a small drops of blood going from the kitchen to his parents' room. He could feel the fateful question coming up, should he run for help and risk being to late to save his mom or should he try to save her himself? His mother's scream cut in half told him what to do. He grabbed another cutting knife and headed towards his mom's room. He took a deep breath and opened the door. Kristopher was there, standing in a corner watching his father suck his mom dry of all her life giving blood. And the only thing Zane did was just stand there watching his own father slowly kill his mom. Her usually rosy cheeks were pale and she was limp in her husband's arms. Her breathing became shallower and she didn't take in much oxygen until finally she stopped breathing altogether. It was then that he dropped his knife he planned to defend himself with and the two vampires noticed him.
"Well look who we have here. It's your son Zane, here to watch his poor mommy die."
"Yes I suppose he is my son, though not for long. What do you say Kristopher do you feel hungry?"
"Well not really, I ate yesterday and I don't like being over fed so I guess we'll have to leave him for next time we need to feed. Unless of course you want to take him with us to my house so we don't have to find him?"
"Yes, that sounds like a good plan. Don't want him telling that vampire who's been acting as an officer on the police force. What was his name Seba Nile wasn't it?"
The young Zane fell out of the trance he's been in since his mother's death when he heard that there was some one who might help. He got the knife from the floor and dashed out the house. He was about to reach the cornfields when some one tackled him to the floor. He reacted on instinct and slashed the knife across his attackers face. It was Kristopher's face and it looks like he got his eye cut too. Zane quickly got back on his feet and ran all the way to the middle of the field and laid between a row of corn. He stayed there for a while until he made sure he wasn't followed. He slowly got up and looked around. There wasn't anybody there. So he quickly ran to the road and ran the way his mom told him the police were. It took him awhile but he finally made it to town.
After finally reaching his destination he stepped into the building and went to one of the officers who was looking at the bulletin board. "Excuse me but do you know where I can find a mister Seba Nile? It's an emergency."
"Hmm, some one named Seba Nile you say? Well I'm sorry kid but I don't know of a Seba Nile, maybe one of the guys knows him. HEY DOES ANY ONE NO A GUY NAMED SEBA NILE? THIS KIDS LOOKING FOR HIM!"
"God John, can you yell any more louder in a one roomed building?"
"Yeah! Be more considerate next time there's only three of in here."
"Well technically there are four you forgot the kid."
"Well who said I forgot the kid and not you, eh Eric? You ever think of that?"
"Well sorry, I guess I just assumed that since you've known me since we were kids you'd count me, Bill."
They're still arguing when the other police officer came over to us and introduced himself. "Hi, I'm William, I know Seba and I'd be more then happy to take you to him, um excuse me but what's your name?"
"Oh, my name's Zane and it's extremely important that I see him very soon please."
"Well come on then and I'll take you to him."
They started to walk out of the police station. It was already dark outside. They turned a corner into an alley when William suddenly stopped. "Zane why do you need Seba?"
"Well I know this sounds crazy but my father got turned into a half-vampire and he… he killed my mom. It was then that Zane started to cry. His mom was dead and he didn't try to save her. She could be alive by now if he had just tried to stop his dad.
"There, there, its okay, no need to cry so much. It's okay I'll see what I can do but you have to tell me what happened after wards okay? So where is your father?"
"He's… I don't know. He might still be at the house but he might have already left with Kristopher to his place and I don't know where that is. Oh yeah Kristopher was there too, he's the guy who's crazy and said that he's going to war with the vampires soon so he can become a vamp-something-eze. groan why can't I do anything right?"
"It's okay Zane just show me to your house and I'll get there to see if those to vampaneze are still there."
"How are we going to get there?"
"I'll flit there and you'll stay here."
"But I want to come to and what does flit mean?"
"To flit is to go really fast running, faster than any human can see. And no you're not going it's to dangerous for a four year old to come along."
"I am not four! I'm five and I want to come to. I want to see if Kris. Is still bleeding from the cut I gave him."
"You gave a full blooded vampire a cut that made him bleed? Fine you can come just don't get in my way and hop on my back."
"Yay, I'm going to see them get hurt for what they did to mommy!"
Seba and Zane flittited to Zane's house after Zane told him the way once they left town. During the walk out William told Zane that he was really Seba Nile. They reached Zane's house in a min. the house's door was still ajar and when they walked in they could see that his mother's blood was still around the floor of the kitchen. The young boy wanted to cry but remembered that if his father was still here he didn't want him to see him cry. So they went to his parents bedroom and then Zane saw his mother's dead pale body still in the place his father dropped her. Her dark brown hair was covering part of her face still and he could see the cut on her wrist. Worst of all her eyes were still open and they were gone of all the life and energy they once held. Zane couldn't hold it in any longer. The tears were flowing down his cheeks with out any sign of stopping soon. His legs couldn't hold his body up and soon he fell to his knees barely able to hold his upper body from collapsing to the floor as well Zane looked up to his mother's face and felt that he should do some thing, anything to help the passing of her from this world to the next. He was trying to say something but he couldn't find his voice. He soon couldn't hold his body any more and fell to the floor.
"Zane their not here. Come on we should go back to the police station and report her death. You're going to need some one to take care of you until your old enough and you can't live with me."
"No I can't leave her. She never left me and she wont leave me for long now. I'll join her soon enough."
"I can't let you die, your mother would want you to live."
"How would you know what my mother would want! She would want me to join her not leave her alone."
"No she would want you to be happy and to live. If you killed yourself now you wouldn't join your mom! You'd go to a different place and never see her ever again! Do you want that! If you live on you'd have a chance of seeing her again one day so don't give up!"
"FINE THEN I WONT DIE! BUT I'LL BE ALL ALONE! NO ONE'S GOING TO LOOK AFTER ME, NO ONE!"
"I'm sure some one can look after you a family member a friend?"
"All of my family is gone all I had was mommy and the man I called father. As for friends none of them can take me they all have to many kids but not enough money."
"Well we'll see what happens but until some one takes you, you can live with me I guess. But only for a month then I'm moving."
"Okay Mr. Nile."
"um if you don't mind call me Seba, Mr. Makes me sound really old."
For the first time since the death of his mother Zane smiled. He went to live with Seba for the whole month because as he predicted no one could take him.
"Seba? What am I going to do? No one adopted me like you said they would and your moving away. Am I going to live on the streets?"
"No I don't think it will have to come to that. Something will come up I'm sure of it."
"But that's what you said about the adoption and you said the same thing a week ago! Can't I move to where you're going?"
"I'm sorry Zane but you can't. I'm going to Vampire Mountain and it's not a place you can go to. The only way you can go is if you're a half-vampire. Look you have three days left so don't worry about it."
"Seba, I've been thinking for a while now and was wondering…I want to become a vampire can you make me one?"
"No! Absolutely not! You're to young! I will not change some one who is to young to know what he wants. What if you don't want to be one when you're older? What will you do then, huh? You can't just say okay I'm done playing vampire I want to be human again so change me back. That's not how it works once you turn into one that's it you can never go back. Are you willing to do that? You know if you do you may never see your mom when you die."
"Yeah I realized that. I'm willing to become one Seba I know for sure that I do cause then you can become my daddy!"
"You want me to become your father? Why?"
"My real father is mean and killed mommy I hate him! And if I get adopted the guy who's going to be my daddy might be mean too and then I'll have a new mommy but I don't want a new one I just want a new daddy. See this way I know I have a nice daddy and I don't have to call some one who's not my mommy, mommy. It's perfect! I love you Seba even if you don't want to be my daddy."
crying now "Zane if you really want I'll be your father for you! How could any one ever say no to you? So you want to become a half-vampire so we can stay together right?"
"Yep."
"Well I guess your going to become a half-vampire! Let me explain everything to you so you know what will happen to you and what you'd become."
A few hours later Seba is getting Zane ready for the last moments of his human life and the moments of his beginning half-vampire life.
"Okay Zane all you have to do is keep the blood flow from me to you going without fault for a couple of minutes and then you're a half-vampire. Okay I'm going to start now so just do as I say and you'll be fine."
Three days later. "So are you ready to head off towards Vampire Mountain? You're turning into a very strong half-vampire all ready and I know that you'll make it!
"Thanks Seba coming from you that means a lot to me."
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Mom I'm sorry that I couldn't protect you when you needed me most I hope that you can forgive me. I made a friend in this life that is more a father to me then he ever was. I also met a girl who I really like but I'm going to have to say good-bye soon. I'll miss her a lot I wish I could take her with me but she has a… know what? I think she would be more then willing to come with Seba and me and become a half-vampire she hates her life and I'm her only friend so yeah she could definitely become a half-vampire. I'll have to ask Seba of course but I think he'd understand. Maybe my mind doesn't hate me that much after all.
Authors note: I am going to tell you the rest of the story now cuz I'm tired and wish to sleep and feel bad for taking so long with this chapter so I want to put this up as soon as possible.
Zane and Seba have spent fifteen years in Vampire Mountain training Zane the ways of the vampire so that they can help in the War of Scars. Zane is now a master with swords and daggers and can beat Seba and almost everybody else in the mountain. Even though he only appears eight years old he has the maturity level of a twenty-year-old (most times) Zane is friends with lots of vampires in the mountain and ask all that leave to fight in the war to look for a vampaneze named Kristopher who has a scar running from the bottom left to the top right and with a cut across his eye so he might be blind in the right eye. He should have an assistant with him that's strongly built and has dark almost black hair. So far no one has seen them but he keeps hoping that some one will find them.
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The war of scars had finally ended with a treaty and now there are vampaneze in the world along with vampires. Someone had finally seen Kristopher and Henry so Seba and Zane left Vampire Mountain to track them down. The last place someone heard of them was near Zane's hometown. It didn't take a genius to tell they were heading to his hometown to wreak their havoc. And they've been in Zane's and Sora's hometown ever since. It turns out Sora lives in the house Zane lived in and that's why they met, Zane wondered what kind of people lived in his old house and saw Sora. When they grew up Zane made some lame excuse (that only people who really want to believe it do) and said it was some weird disease that made him grow up real fast then has him grow at a slow rate the rest of his life. So in reality he was only a year older then her. Being the sensible person she is Sora actually believed him. And that is basically Zane's past to now in the story.
Authors note: this is the longest I have EVER typed, a little bit of 11 pages so be happy and don't get mad that I haven't updated in a week. (I've been watching Naruto in Japanese on youtube and apparently there are over 100 instead of the 50 I thought so yeah no clue what day it is but I think it's the 8 or 9 of June… yep 8 of June ) so yeah started part of chapter 4 thought it might get confusing so made that chapter 5 now and this chapter 4 so hoped you liked it the 2 or 3 people who read this!Thank you Sammi for telling me what the Caps lock button was it helped make the people all yelly without hurting my finger
Disclaimer: i got the part of signed the devils book, you know that part and Kristopher's name from Amelia Atwater-Rhodes books: in the forest of the night and shattered mirror. i'm not sure if i spelled the name right or not on Kristopher, i think i did but not sure.
