Bad Guys Always Give me the Shivers

Promise Not to Break my Heart

Disclaimer: I only own my original characters and this plot line, anything else goes to credit of Mister Darren Shan :)

Steve's Point of View

"Steve?" Maria asked, her eyes blinking open, revealing herself after awakening from her slumber. Glancing down at her eyes, furrowing my brow, she looked, oddly, beautiful. Her ginger hair flowed sweetly around her body, like a child's in the hot summer, while her skin looked a little purple, but it suited her.

"Yeah?" I replied, looking away and glaring at the door, forcing Gannen to come back soon. "Promise when we see Alex again you won't hurt her…" she murmured, her eyes closing once again. She had been going into lapses of waking up and going back to sleep, all in the time when Gannen wasn't here.

Even though Alexandria had already hurt me, I would try everything in my power to not hurt her again.

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"Steven, there's trouble." Gannen alerted me, opening the door open while Maria was still asleep. My whole body went stiff at the sound of that, maybe one of the vampires had figured out where we were. "What's the deal?" I questioned, pulling my body to face his.

"Uh, you may be upset with the Vampanze who have done this, but…"

"Spit it out!"

"Two Vampanze kidnapped Alex and her friend Debbie and they were questioning them and torturing them." He said, all in one breath. Becoming still, I began to glare at him deeply. ".They?" I hissed, showing off my sharp fangs. "This one town I don't know the name of… but I do have the location." He answered, rushing over to me and showing me a sheet of paper that showed the coordinates of where they were.

These Vampanze that had done this horrid deed were going to regret it.

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Alexandria's Point of View

"Alex… what are we going to do?" Debbie asked, obviously not enjoying this experience any more. The two Vampanze had come back and had thoroughly enjoyed slapping her, which I did not approve of. "I don't know…" I sighed, looking downcast.

Trying to forget about the fact we were all alone, pinned down to chairs that hurt our butts, I began to daydream.

"I can't see why you're trying so hard to make him notice you… I don't think you'll exceed with this 'little plan' of yours." Arra Sails sniffed, glaring down at me from her angular face. It was easy to be intimidated by her, for she had long, sharp cut ebony hair and a sharp face. She only wore battle clothing, which made things even more uncomfortable. The only thing that I envied about her was that she had vampires begging her to be their mate every day, while I had none.

Gulping back the fear, I sniffed, "At least I'm not the one who he left." Her face slightly dropped, and she just tried to cover it up with a fake mask that was not as noticeable as Miley Cyrus's. "Hmm, I'm not the one who he calls his 'daughter'." She contradicted, smirking.

"I get to stay with him every day while you haven't seen him for years." I retorted, trying to get over the fact that compared to Arra Sails, I was hideous. I had a child like face with short, mousey brown bobbed hair. My eyes were covered up with glasses and my face was round. Just what every guy wanted, right?

"At least I don't look like a child, but a woman." She said, simply twirling a lock of her well-coiffed hair between her index finger and thumb. "Arra, that was not a pleasant thing to say." A voice said from behind me. I recognized the sexy British accent within a second and a wide grin appeared on my pale skin.

"Oh, Larten, I was only 'joking' as some American's call it… me and Alex are the best of friends, right?" she glanced over at me, begging with her eyes not to slip up. Being the nice person that I am, I lied, "Yes, me and Arra are great friends." Clasping my hand around her shoulder, she doing the same thing, I faked a grin.

"If you say so… I am off to teach Maria some lessons." He waved, putting his back to us. Immediately, I jerked away from her and hissed, "You owe me big time." She smiled, looking down at me while saying, "Kid, I think me and you are going to be friends."

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No set Point of View: At the Cirque

"Does anyone know where Debbie and Alex are?" Darren Shan called out worriedly, looking for his girlfriend and acquaintance. He thought that if Alex had done anything to hurt Debbie, he would do something drastic, like make her not travel with them anymore.

But, he knew he would have to keep her here since she was the next hunter. Plus, she couldn't be that bad since she was Mr. Crepsley's first assistant. Thinking back to Mr. Crepsley, Darren shivered from the thought of his death. It had been so pointless…

"Darren… is it just me or do you see these footprints?" Evra Von asked, staring down at the big footprints in the dirt. Darren came up from behind him and looked also, taking in the shape and size. "Huh, wonder whose those are." Someone said from behind them.

The two boys jumped up from being frightened and stared into the dark eyes of Vancha March. Vancha just grinned at the boys before taking a finger and dipping it into the soil, placing his finger into his mouth. "Gross…" the duo muttered, staring at him disgustingly.

"As I expected, this is from the Vampanze." Vancha replied, standing up from his crouching position. The boys did the same.

"Maybe we should go that way; it is the way the footprints go." Vancha stated, pointing towards the north direction. "Yeah, we should before we lose them both to them…" Darren replied, following close behind. Evra had no choice but to do the same as he thought this couldn't lead to anything good.

Author's Note: Sorry to anyone who likes Miley Cyrus! Just had to think of someone famous who acts fake and everyone can tell… anyways, don't hold a grudge against me for that silly reason. By the way, review my dearys!