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Chapter 14

(Darren Shan)

"…Then Mr Tiny killed Steve, because he was dieing" Mr Crepsely said missing out the bit when Mr Tiny killed Steve because he wanted Darren to be the Lord of the Shadows because Steve was weak.

"So then you returned" Paris Skyle said

"Yes"

"Does this mean that we have won?" A Vampire shouted out from the crowd.

"Not necessarily, it just means that we have an advantage, and now we do not have to worry about Steve becoming unstoppable" Mr Crepsely said

"But we could win quite easily" Arrow said

"I do not think so" Paris said

"But, they have lost their leader" Arrow said "They will have no organisation"

"Yes, but if we had lost all of our Princes, would you have given up?"

"No I would have died fighting"

"Exactly"

"But we do have a plan" Darren whispered to Mr Crepsely

"Yes, but we cannot say it, most of the Vampires here are too proud to listen to it, I would disagree to if I was given the choice, but you are the Prince and I must obey you" Mr Crepsely whispered back. "Most Vampires and Vampaneze a like would prefer to die than have a truce"

"… But remember we are still at war, it is still not safe, you may go" Paris Skyle concluded. Then all the Vampires left the hall

"Princes and Mr Crepsely please stay, Harkat you may stay too"

"Now did Mr Tiny give you anymore information after Steve was killed?" Paris Skyle asked

"No he did not" Mr Crepsely said, well it was the truth, sort of. "He did not say anything about the War of the Scars" He re-worded.

"Do you have any idea when he may turn up or if he will turn up, and give us anymore information?"

"I do not think so, I think that we have to figure it out on our own" Vancha said

"Okay what do you think?" Arrow asked

"I think that we should carry on what we were doing before" Paris said looking at them all "Darren?"

"Yes"

"You may all leave now, and rest it was a big thing you undertook, Darren I am afraid we do not have any hammocks here, you will have to have a coffin" Paris said then dismissed them all.

"Do you think that you can flit me to the Order?" Darren said to Mr Crepsely as they walked back to the rooms

"I think so, I have nothing better to do" Mr Crepsely replied "But you still have to clean up that mess you made in the kitchen"

"Oh I had forgotten about that, how on earth did you drink that stuff?"

"With my mouth" Mr Crepsely replied

"Yes, but not even Harkat could drink that stuff!" Darren said stopping to stare at him

"I have quite a strong stomach, remember I have been around for a long time" Mr Crepsely said then his eyes looked glazed, as if remembering his past.

"Did you just say acrobats eat lots of elephants?" Vancha said as he came up behind him.

"No he said I have been around for a long time, how does that sound like acrobats eat lots of elephants?"

"It is because I am special" Vancha said laughing "this reminds me of this girls I used to know when I was still human me and Gannen used to meet up with her and her friends on Sundays, they were always going out on Sundays and one day we were walking up to the lakes and we saw this old lady climbing this hill, and she said that she is fit" Vancha stopped to laugh "but what she actually meant was that she must be fit as in body building, not as in sexual!"

"Body building?" Darren enquired

"Well not those exact words, it was a couple of centuries ago, but I changed the words so that you would understand Darren" He looked at Mr Crepsely "And I meant healthy Larten, you see Darren Larten is too old" Then he burst out laughing and ran down the corridor to his room. Away from Mr Crepsely.

"That was weird" Darren giggled

"Yes, I have never heard much about Vancha's history"

"What about you did you know any girls?" Darren said cheekily "a little birdie told me that you were a ladies man"

"I am not telling you" Mr Crepsely said "good day" Then he pushed Darren in to his room, and waited for Harkat to go in to, then closed the door.

"I will find out, then I'll tell everyone" Darren said pulling out his pyjamas from this bag

"Darren" Harkat tusked building what looked like a nest on the floor

"What?"

"You should respect him, he is your" Harkat stopped to think "He turned you and he looks after you"

"Exactly" Darren said opening the coffin and looking at it in distain, wrinkling his nose "I hope we leave soon I hate sleeping in these, it reminds me of my funeral, I haven't thought about my funeral in ages, I wish I could have seen it, but they had closed my eyes, I could hear though and feel, do you know how hard they drop you in to the ground! I had bruises to two hours!"

"Yes, but remember most dead people can not feel" Harkat said laughing at Darren

"Yes, but you have to respect the dead" Darren looked up evilly "Or they come back to suck your blood!!" He said with a fake Romanian accent and lifting his arms like something out of a 1930's vampire film.

(Larten Crepsely)

"Right I recognise that tree, I think we are on the right path" Darren said pointing to a giant oak tree. Mr Crepsely and Darren had been out for four hours, flitting about trying to find the Order and they were not where near to finding it.

"Yes, you recognise it because we past it half an hour ago" Mr Crepsely looked at the night sky "and we will have to hurry, it will be light soon"

"I think we are getting closer though"

"Are you sure Harry did not give you anything that would help you?"

Darren looked in his bag and then stopped and looked up with a soppy grin on his face.

"If I said that I have something that Harry had given me before we left that would takes us to the door step of the Order would you kill me? Again?" Darren said

"Yes" Mr Crepsely said knowing what was coming

"Then no I don't have anything" Darren said smiling

"Yes I know you do, I can tell by that soppy look on your face"

"Well I have that port-key that they gave us, for if we got in to trouble"

"So you mean that we have been scoring the country for four hours for no reason?" Mr Crepsely said slowly

"Yes, oh well its good exercise, you have been getting on the plump side Larten" Darren dared then unwrapped the port-key and laid it on the floor "Hurry up we haven't got all day"

"You have a death wish Mr Darren Shan" Mr Crepsely said then they disappeared.

CRASH!!

"Ouch, wasn't there another way to land!" Darren exclaimed as the hit the floor from a good 30 foot drop

"We will have to enquire it" Mr Crepsely said standing up and dusting himself off. "Come on I have not got all day" He said repeating Darren's words

"Shut up!" Darren said running to catch up with Mr Crepsely

"That's weird" Darren said, they had come to a halt after they had walked up the fancy drive way, to find a door, but not a door attached to a house, just a door and it's frame, standing by it's self. Darren ran around the door, trying to see if there was a way in or maybe the house was invisible.

The door opened to reveille Tonks, who was currently doing door duty.

"Hi" Tonks greeted brightly "We just saw Darren run through our hallway, and we knew that you were here"

"You can see people who run around the door" Darren said, he would have blushed but didn't have enough blood to do so.

"Yes, it is rather comical to see peoples faces" Tonks laughed "Anyway what are you doing here, are you okay?"

"We need to ask you for a favour" Darren said "We need your help to stop the war"

(Darren Shan)

"So do you think that you could do that?" Darren asked Mad-eye-Moody

"We will have to see, because we are very busy at the moment"

"Liven up Mad-eye, we aren't doing anything at the moment, everything seems to be quiet" Minerva McGonagall said

"Exactly, we have to prepare, it means that they are preparing something"

"Or that they are licking their wounds, we arrested ten deatheaters last week, we can spare a few people to go and stop it"

"But then we would have other species to worry about"

"The Vampires and Vampaneze would never join your dark lord, or your side, we do not work for other people or species, we command ourselves, but if it meant that we would survive I think that we would fight for you" Mr Crepsely said thinking.

"Exactly, we could do with some help" Kingsley Shacklebolt said

"Fine, we will send five people to your mountain, do we need more to go to the Vampaneze?"

"I think that we could arrange a meeting, Vancha for the Vampires and Gannen for the Vampaneze? As they are brothers they would resist killing each other, maybe" Darren said

"Yes, then they could take the message back to the mountain and where ever the Vampaneze live" Darren said "This would make it a lot safer, we just need to arrange a meeting, how do we send a messages to them" He looked up at Mr Crepsely, then at Mad-eye moody.

"We could use a howler" Tonks suggested "Then we wouldn't have to risk sending owls, and you could tell Vancha"

"Good idea, but what are we going to put in it?"

"Leave that to me, when do you want to meet?"

"As soon as possible, tomorrow maybe?" Darren said

"Okay, do you want to stay here? Then we can have our meeting over there and it would be a lot safer" Tonks said pointing out of the window.

"Yes" Mr Crepsely said

"Where is Harry?" Darren asked

"He is still on his mission, though we have had confirmation from Remus that they are on their way back"

(Paris Skyle)

"And so the wizards demanded that we stop the war" Vancha said "Both sides" he added, he had attended the meeting with his brother and many other wizards that he had never met before, and they had created peace between the two creatures of the night, and he had returned to tell them the news.

"So then we have a truce?" Arrow asked

"Yes, because of the war that the Wizards are having it will affect us greatly, and it might not be a fair war, and also the person that they call Voldemort maybe try and recruit Vampaneze and that is against our codes of war, and now that there Lord has been killed there is no need to fight, and the Vampaneze have lost a lot of fighters, it is best for both sides to stop this war"

"Yes it seems that it is" Paris said then addressed the assembled Vampires "We are not at war no more, we have a peace treaty with the Vampaneze, we will have peace for the next couple of centuries"

Darren and Mr Crepsely tried to look surprised, they had returned to Vampire Mountain before Vancha had arrived for the meeting.

(Larten Crepsely)

They had returned to their rooms about an hour ago and they had been making butter beer again, to see if maybe something went wrong last time they made it. Harkat poured it out in to four glasses and handed it to each person, well vampire.

"To peace?" Mr Crepsely asked

"To peace for now, and next time may we kick them to the dust" Vancha said

They all took a sip; nope it tasted exactly the same.

"I think this one tastes better than the last one" Mr Crepsely said "Now I am going to leave you to clean up this room, good luck cleaning that off the walls" He said staring at the butter beer mess which was splattered all over the walls, and all over Darren, Vancha and Harkat's clothes.

"Next time, can we just order them from Harry?" Vancha said