Ello!! I'm sorry for not updating this, it wasn't intentional! As the people who have me on Author Alert may have realised, I've kinda been working on my other fics … so yeah I'm sorry again! But I bring you this chapter, hoping it will be a good enough sacrifice to help you decide to spare my life =)

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Chapter 10

Lorcan released a breath that he didn't even need, and stood up and walked to the door.

"Oh, and Lorcan?"

Lorcan swiftly turned around, holding the door handle firmly, as if he already knew what Connor was going to say next. He held his head low and shut his eyes tightly, knowing he couldn't argue back with Connor's next sentence.

"When we get her, she's coming back with me."

Normal POV

It was getting dark, and Darcy reluctantly rang the bell, knowing that a certain Irish teenage vampire was ready to fling the door to the deck open and grab her arm, ready to take her from their ship and towards the Pirate Academy, where Connor and (what they hoped) a crew of pirates were, ready to invade Sidorio's ship.

Lorcan had officially gone barmy.

As expected, a rusty wooden door opened harshly, and out came a long haired teenage vampire. He looked distressed, Darcy mused, but decided not to dwell on it, as he locked his eyes with hers, both knowing that what he was about to do could cost them their lives … or undead lives … same thing.

Lorcan speedily walked towards Darcy, and took her hand. He held the pendant up to his line of vision, before closing his eyes, signalling Darcy to do so, and thought of the Pirate Academy, now having a much better view of what it looked like and thus being there quicker than the first time.

Once again, the breeze from the harbour told the two vampires that they had reached their destination, and they opened their eyes to see the large school in front of them.

Lorcan observed the area, noting that there were a few more people than last time, since it was earlier in the night they came, and were thankfully hiding behind a wall this time.

They started to quietly walk towards Connor's room, paying no attention to the fact that a number of students and professors were staring at them, and knocked on his door, patiently waiting for him to answer.

Two minutes later the human teenager appeared, looking a bit worse for wear but otherwise fine.

"Hey, Lorcan and … I'm sorry I don't remember your name …"

Darcy smiled and held out her hand. "That's alright, sir, I get it all the time. I'm Darcy."

Connor smiled tiredly and shook her hand, before opening the door fully to allow them access.

As Lorcan and Darcy walked into the room, they noticed a number of other pirates in there, as their gazes turned from their sparring opponents to the newcomers.

"Guys, this is Lorcan and Darcy. They are the Vampirates that we're going to help. Lorcan, Darcy, these are the people I gathered together. Apparently word got out to The Diablo as well, so we have a couple of people from there too, which we should be grateful for.

"This is Cate and Bart, they're from the crew on The Diablo, this is Jasmine and Jacoby, they're my two closest friends, these are a few others from my classes; Brendan, Lucy and Toby. Lucy and Toby are brother and sister, so they were more than welcome to help rescue Grace. And Brendan … he's just a daredevil."

Lorcan and Darcy looked from person to person, memorising each name and face. They recognised Cate, Bart, Jasmine and Jacoby, as they had briefly met them before, but Brendan, Lucy and Toby were new faces to them.

Brendan had short, messy black hair and brown eyes, his tanned skin showing a few scar and bruises, probably from life at the Academy. He wore casual clothing, despite the fact that he was about to go on a ship of deadly vampires.

Lucy reminded Lorcan a little of Grace, as she had mousey brown hair that reached her shoulders and olive green eyes. She had purpley-red streaks in her hair and her side fringe neatly clipped back. She wore dark trousers and a black t-shirt.

Her brother, Toby, looked almost the same; except his slightly darker brown hair was short and he had a slight full fringe, yet his olive green eyes were exactly the same as Lucy's. He too wore dark, practical clothing.

"This is everyone, so maybe we should get going."

Connor shouted to everyone in his room, and cheers were heard throughout. 'They're oddly happy to be going on an evil ship of evil Vampirates …' Darcy thought to herself, but stopped as the door opened before Connor had time to reach the handle, and another person stepped into his room. One that they all knew pretty well. Her face was full of determination and she looked as if she was ready to kill some vampires.

"I'm coming with you."

Dun, Dun, Duuuun. I have got to stop doing pointless cliffies, especially when it's obvious (or should be) about who it is. I'm sorry for the very bad chapter, but I'm back to school doing 6th form on Friday and this is the last day of real freedom I have before my brother and his girlfriend come back and then his girlfriend spends all her time in my room playing Sims 3 and I can't concentrate on writing. I know it's …kinda been a long time and I know it's … kinda short and crap but I don't know when I can update again! So I wanted to get one chapter done!

Brendan, Lucy and Toby belong to me. Brendan for some reason is based off someone I knew in Primary school, funnily enough he was called Brendan, Lucy was easy to describe because … it's me lol just a different name, and Toby I just made a male version of me. I thought having four people plus this 'mysterious' stranger walking in plus Connor and Lorcan and Darcy wasn't enough, so I added those three too.

I think that's it now … just please REVIEW!!!!

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-x-Emma-x-