Well guys. It's almost to an end of this. Either this one or the next one and that's it for TSRH and Asphyxiate. But don't freak out, I have more on the way. I have two ideas that I am dying to get started on! Hahaha anyway, if you like this story so far, check out Serpentines Debut by helen fisher. ((DO NOT OWN THIS OR KNOW THE AUTHOR)) It's really good and one of my favs :D hope you check it out!

Disclaimer: I don't own the Darren Shan saga.(only my OC Uisce )

All Hell had broke loose.

After I had thought about what would happen to my body when I died, the currents had started to rise again, only this time, I didn't spin around in circles like I usually did. I wish. This time, when the waves hit the edge of the cliff, the current followed the waves crashing into the rocks.

Then pulled me back under water and forced me back to smack against the cliff's rocks.

Eventually, the blood from the cliff smacking was causing some black spots in my vision.

And with all my oxygen gone, I can confirm one thing.

I now know how the people died. The currents were too strong to fight and the people would either drown or end up like me: with the cliffs.

The cliffs were staring to make me very lightheaded and dizzy. Even without no oxygen, which wasn't helping either.

When I finally got away from the cliffs, I managed to get up to the surface to breathe. It was still raining and there was lightning everywhere. But with my first breath, The waves crashed down on me. The water traveled straight to my lungs, where I had to cough the water out, but when it automatically did that, more water came in. I had no oxygen, was low on blood, and was getting weaker by the minute. This was not good.

I kept trying to get out of the water and into the air above me. I tried letting the currents guiding me, but that didn't work. Tried to break through the currents, didn't work. Go down and come up, didn't work. I was really going to die here.

I stopped everything I was doing and finally accepted death. Hey, I died once right? I relaxed myself and was just floating with the currents when I heard a voice in my head.

Darren! What are you doing? You can't give up now! Get up! Come on! I know you can do it!

I opened my eyes to see Sam there, with me. He was tugging my arm, as if he could pull me to the surface. PLEASE, DARREN! YOU HAVE TO TRY!

"Sam? What are you doing here?"

Darren,pleaaaseee. You have to try. Please please.

Sam floated right next to me. He looked like he was crying. He closed his eyes and rested his head on my shoulder.

Please. If not for me, for everybody that you know. Mr. Crepsley, Evra, Mr. Tall, somebody. Darren, please. I need you to try. I want you to break your promise and go and live. I don't care if I get to see you again, I just need you to try. Please, Darren. Please.

"Sam, I don't have any air to go on. I need air."

Sam looked up and me and thought for a moment.

If you try, I will help you get air.

I nodded and moved up while Sam moved down.

He pushed on my feet as I pushed myself up, giving me the force of two instead of one.

Thank you, Darren. Thanks for trying again.

Thank you, Sam. Thanks for helping me try.

The currents were strong and were hard to break, but I eventually did it. I got up and pushed until I broke free toward the surface.

I gasped and greedily took in a bunch of a much needed air.

I did my best to stay above the water, and it worked a little. I was still weak and needed blood, energy and lots of other things for me to start to be healthy enough to get out of here. So I did the best thing that I could in a time like this. I screamed. I screamed for help, for the Cirque, even for somebody to throw me a rope to climb up on. Then, I had a brilliant idea.

Eventually, I heard a response.

"DARREN! HOLD ON!" I looked up to see almost all of the Cirque. Including somebody very useful to me in this dire moment. Uisce, my friend that can breathe underwater. She even has gills on her neck.

Just as she was about to jump, she gasped and screamed. The other Cirque members started to shout my name and to hold on, we'll get you soon.

I didn't know what they were talking about, but when I did, I was positive that I was going to die.

The waves came crashing down onto me. Once again, filling my lungs with water. The currents were dying down, so I could go back up to the surface.

Once I did though, the same thing happened again. Waves filled my lungs, spun me around when I was pushed me down. I came back up, same thing.

On my last attempt at getting and staying on the surface, I was pushed so down into the water and spun around so much that I didn't know which way was up anymore. My leg was too sore and tired to even think about considering to get back up. It didn't matter anyway, all the air was gone. No more air rested in my lungs.

I tried to swim in one way, but I think it was the wrong way because I felt something on my shoulder. I panicked and struggled away from whatever had grabbed a hold on me. Bad idea. The last thing that I saw was Uisce pulling my arm back up to the surface.

I could barely hear, but I could hear what was going around me. But not all of it. It felt like I was going to die all over again.

Is he OK?

He's not breathing!

Heartbeat ...nd dropping.

Somebody ... medic!

We can't...find us.

Heartbeat...stopped. We need a...

Darren hold on...

HEART STOPPED!

Not breathing either...we do?

Nothing...I think he's...

Then Everything went black and I couldn't hear anything.

Let alone, think,breath, or feel.

I could literally feel my body fading away for the third time.

HARKAT POV

They had told me to stay while they go and find Darren. I hated waiting. I wanted to know what was going on and if he was...dead again. They had contacted Mr. Crepsley and had told him that they will keep him updated on what was going on. But, thankfully, Mr. Tall said that he was going to stay here with me to keep Mr. Crepsley in touch and me company.

Mr. Tall said their conversation out loud so that I could listen in on what they were saying.

It must've been an hour after they had left to go and get Darren when We heard shouting coming from where they had left. It was small at first, but it gradually got louder as they got closer. We couldn't understand them at all at first because they were so far away, but as they got closer we jumped to our feet and started to run out towards them once we had heard what they were saying.

They were shouting "His heart's stopped! He's not breathing! Help!"

***5 minutes later***

After CPR for a few minutes, they had declared Darren dead. We are about to contact Mr. Crepsley and tell him about Darren. Though Mr. Tall isn't happy about doing so. He doesn't want to say why, but he said that we shouldn't rush to conclude his death.

When they had brought Darren and Chris back, I was shocked beyond belief. Darren was covered in cuts and bruises. His hip was literally overflowing with blood and you wouldn't believe how much his face looked like it hurt(later I learned it was from him smacking into cliffs). Darren wasn't breathing and I was told that his heart wasn't beating.

Chris was conscious and looked fine. He had multiple cut wounds though. Scratches on his face and arms, but he looked fine compared to Darren. When asked where he was, they said that he had stayed on the cliffs. He pushed Darren off the cliffs into the ocean and just lied down on the ground and waited for help to come.

We walked into Mr. Tall's trailer and sat down on his couches.

The only people in the room were me, Mr. Tall and Evra. He cried when he first saw Darren and had to be dragged away from Darren for a while, so he came with us to tell Mr. Crepsley what had happened to Darren.

Mr. Tall said that he was going to put the voices in our heads so he wont' have to repeat himself. We couldn't put in our own voices because we didn't have that power. So we could only listen in.

* = Mr. Tall

/ = Mr. Crepsley

Larten? Larten? Are you there, Larten? *

Aye. I am here. Any news on Darren? /

Yes. But unfortunately, it's only bad news. *

What? What is it? /

Well, Larten, I am afraid to say that Darren has passed on. He's no longer with us. *

For a few moments, nothing was said. We remained quite, except for tears and sobs, there was no movement.

He...He is dead. Are you sure? /

Yes. His heart had stopped and he isn't breathing. He's gone, Larten. *

A few more moments of silence. Then Mr. Crepsley had returned and you could hear his pain and tears in his voice.

'He must be crying really hard if we can hear it in our heads.' thought Harkat.

Then I am coming down for his funeral, to say goodbye, and to apologize for not being there for him. I am leaving at this moment. I have asked permission to flit, and it was granted. I shall be there in a day, maybe two. Thank you for the news. Goodbye. /

"So Mr. Crepsley's coming back to say goodbye to Darren? That's really nice of him." Evra pointed out.

"Yes. Come, we should prepare Darren for his funeral." Mr. Tall mumbled under his breath, standing up.

"Can you tell Mr. Crepsley that I said I am sorry for his loss...later for me?" I asked Mr. Tall.

"No. Larten has...turned off all of his telepathic connections for the time being. He doesn't want to be disturbed right now."

As we went into Darren's tent, we saw something that had made my day for the rest of my life.

They had checked Darren's heartbeat one last time, to make SURE he was dead, and they had found that it was beating again. Slow, but it was beating.

Darren's POV

flashback

During my screaming rant, I had a brilliant idea. I took some of the black liquid that Mr. Crepsley had given me to make it look like I was dead when I was first turned. I got some before Mr. Crepsley had left so that way, if it was ever an emergancy, it would help me look dead. Not only that, but it would take away all the pain.

SO I drank it and then I saw the Cirque members.

***few shots later***

Under the water, the black liquid was starting to kick in, and I was starting to black out. This liquid would make it easier for them to find me and it would take away the pain for a while.

I am here to say that it worked incredibly well.

They had thought that I actually died though. But, hey who am I to complain? I'm just glad that it didn't really kill me like Mr. Crepsley had said. After I had taken it.

That man had some serious problems, I'm telling you! (A/N I don't agree with this- I am a Larten Crepsley fangirl)

I had a lot of sleep to help heal my cuts and other wounds. So out of 24 hours in the day, I slept for about 18. After a day or two, I had fallen into a deep sleep. But it was so cold, that I pulled the blanket over my head and lied perfectly still. If you just now saw me, I promise you that you would've thought I was dead.

I was in such a deep sleep that I never heard anything for the first few hours.

But after a while, it started to get cold again. I barely opened my eyes to see that the blanket was pulled off of me and there was a man's shadow on the wall I was looking at. It looked a lot like...

I heard/saw the man and his shadow fall to his knees and start to sob. He put his hands on his eyes to try and wipe away the tears. I closed my eyes again to hope that when I woke up that this loon would be gone and I could wait for more updates on my mentor.

After about a 5 minute sleep, somebody put their head on my chest and cried their heart out.

I opened my eyes to see not only my mentor was the one on my chest crying, he was apologizing for everything!

Mr. Crepsley's POV

He is dead. He is gone. I cannot believe this. I walk into his tent to see a blanket pulled over my assistant. I pull it back and see his pale face. He is truly dead. I started to cry. I put my hand on his face and pulled it back just as fast. I can't help but "cry my heart out" as he would say.

I fall to my knees. I cannot believe this. I cry for a good five minutes before I put my head genitally on his chest and sob into his shirt. I felt that now was a good time to confess for everything I had done to cause him to die.

I mumbled the first part into his shirt so nobody could hear what I said about I viewing him as my only family in the world and how much I had loved him as a family member should. But mostly as a son I loved him. He viewed me as a vampire father, I could tell. So why can I not view him as my vampire son?

I then said my apologies for all of this to happen.

"I am so sorry Darren! I cannot believe that this has happened to you, my loyal assistant. I am so sorry. If I had told you from the start what the Red Change was, maybe you would be alive today. I am so sorry, I can't even tell you how sorry I am, Darren. Please forgive me. And when I die, I will be able to tell you all of this. I am so sorry for leaving. I am just so damn sorry Darren!" I could not say anymore, for my speech was cut off because I was crying too hard.

Darren's POV

I couldn't believe what i had just heard. My mentor, MR. CREPSLEY, had just...no way. This is crazy. I kept my eyes shut, not wanting him to see my tears that were slowly forming.

But, by a horrible mistake, I fell asleep, leaving Mr. Crepsely to believe I was dead.

When I woke up, I saw that it was at least noon. Mr. Crepsley had pulled up a chair by my side and was snoozing it in.

I got up and jumped off my hammock into him, knocking us both to the ground.

He could NOT believe what was going on. He was pissed as hell at first, but then he looked at who dared do this to him. He gasped and went into shock before hugging me and holding me close to his chest. He started to cry and was trying to talk. ( He told me what he had said later, so I'll just tell you now. He was saying it too low for me to understand until I asked him about it.)

"I thought that you had died. I did not want to leave you until you were buried. Thank the gods, how are you here? I thought that you were...I checked for myself too!"

"I know, I know. I'm sorry. I drank some of that stuff that you gave me before when I was faking my death, and when you were checking on me I was asleep. I'm so sorry Mr. Crepsley."

"Yes, I suppose that makes sense, but-"

"Mr. Crepsely." He stopped talking and looked down at me. He looked as confused as everybody else was. But until I explained it to him, I just said this:

"I promised you that I wouldn't die on you remember? When you went down to get your cloak from Seba after I had come back into the living world and away from Sam in Paradise, you said, and I quote, "DO NOT EVER DO THAT TO ME AGAIN! DO. YOU. HEAR". So why would I break my promise?" I asked, smiling up at him.

We got up from the floor and looked at each other for a while.

"How was everything at Vampire Mountain?" I asked, smiling at him.

We laughed and started to exchange our stories of what had happened while we were gone.

And for once, things were finally going my way.

OK guys! This has to be my favorite chapter of all of my stories so far :D The next one is going to be an Epilogue for this though :) I can't believe that I am already done with it! haha But thanks to my reviewers and hope you guys enjoyed this! Next chapter will give you knowledge of what happened to Chris when Mr. Crepsley finds out that he's the reason for most of this! :D Can't wait to write THAT! He deserves it though, and we all know it ;)

There will be more of Darren and Mr. Crepsley!

Here's a SMALL spoiler for one of the next stories that I am writing:

Darren Shan/ Cirque du Freak Saga/Harry Potter crossover

Excited yet? Haha thanks again guys!