Chapter 3 - Meeting Gavner Purl

"How long now?" said a very disgruntled Larten Crespley as he walked through the wood, Seba close beside him leading the way.

"Not too long, and stop asking, your giving me a stinking headache." Said Seba but he smiled after to prove he was joking about.

"Sorry…" said Larten, "I just cant wait to get there that's all, I mean come on if you've never met a vampire the HQ…Vampire Mountain is the best place to go!"

"Quite…" said Seba sighing, "We might be staying for atleast a month maybe more, so like I said to you--" but he quickly got cut short by the younger vampire.

"You must be good Master Larten! Behave yourself and mind your manners!" said Larten putting on a posh voice. After being told the same thing for almost the hundredth time. They had both been on this trek for atleast eight weeks weeks, and to Larten they seemed to be getting no where at all. When there was movement in the shadows. Both vampires noticed it straight away and both reached for their sword like knives on their belts. Then out they came.

"Vampire Hunters!" said Seba and cursed under his breath bringing Larten back away from the six attackers all with rifles and another with a hammer and stake.

"This cannot be happening!" thought Larten who though he put on a brave face for Seba, inside he was screaming as he saw the six cock their large guns and move in for the kill.

When Seba turned to him. " I'll distract them Larten," he said strictly, as fast as he could possibly could. "Take the route I was telling you about earlier…if I survive this attack I'll meet you there soon."

Then it was Lartens turn to be demanding. "WHAT! No Seba! I'm not leaving you here with them!"

"Just do it!" said Seba angrily and then the seething mob came forward. "Run Larten!" and not bringing himself to disagree as he heard the gunshots ran for his life through the trees.

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Larten Crespley as he hugged himself to keep warm knew that he had lost Seba to the hunters, He was stuck and it was midday so he had no where to go. He knew that it was snowing heavily, he knew that he was lost and he knew that he had nowhere to run if anyone found him out in the snow.

"That is if anyone finds me…" he muttered aloud, he sighed and then looked at himself, he was a mess, a blubbering mess, he was supposed to be a vampire he looked more like a lost child.

He wondered if Seba was alive, he had run so far that he couldn't find anything or anyone. When he tried to find Seba he found nothing, and finally gave up in the comfort of the snow topped Christmas trees. He shivered again and wrapped his red cape around him to keep warm.

"I want to go home…!" he said determinedly to himself. Still freezing, with bare feet and no climbing equipment to think of.

When suddenly he saw a shadow come forward in the distance of the trees, Larten reached for his sword hoping it wasn't a vampire hunter. When the vampire saw the figure and he beamed at them with pure relief, "SEBA!"

He ran forward, all fatigue and pain from the cold snow gone and gave his mentor the biggest hug.

"Easy master Larten…easy now, I am a little worse for the wear!" he said smiling weakly, he then noticed why, there was a large gash running right down his face,

"Your going to be Ok right?" said Larten with agony in his eyes as he stared numbly at the gaping hole in the man's face.

Seba laughed good naturedly, "Ofcourse! Takes more than angry vampire haters to kill old Seba Nile…"

"Funny…" said Larten, all his worries gone.

"Follow me, master Larten, I have a surprise for you…"
"What's that I wonder…?" said Larten curious.

"Well if your going to be so cheeky I might aswell just tell young Gavner I was lying about another half vampire--" he said quite loudly and Larten after realizing interrupted.

"What!" he said excitedly. "I'm going to meet someone like me!"

"Not just like you," said Seba as he lead the way, "Someone who I am positively sure you'll get on with, if not I'll cut off my head and stuff it with garlic!"

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Gavner Purl was not what Larten Crespley expected at all, he expected him to look a little like Seba perhaps, but no, he was wearing an old English army uniform and he was barely old than eighteen-year-old. He had a blonde streak like a thunderbolt running right through his light brown spikey hair and if Larten hadn't known any better looked a lot like his brother at eighteen.

Larten walked into the campsite where Gavner and his mentor were staying. Barely looking in his twenties himself gave the first vampire he'd met, apart from Seba, a very manly handshake.

"Nice to meet you Gavner…" he said. By the look of it, it seemed Gavner was just as excited to meet him as he was meeting the 18-year-old.

"You aswell! I'm Gavner Purl…I was a solider in our Queen Victoria's army" said Gavner laughing.

"Larten Crespley…I was erm…a blacksmith's assistant…" he said sighing sadly though being honest. He was not truly able to show off infront of the younger boy, which made him green with jealousy.

With Gavner was his mentor. Edan Cyrus, a very kind man, much kinda than his own mentor Seba, though maybe too kind to Gavner who he noticed after a while could get away with anything. Gavner and Larten got talking while there mentors talked of old tales.

"So how long you been a vampire my friend!" asked Gavner excitedly.

Larten shrugged. "Not long--about--seven and a half years now…but it feels like longer!"

Gavner was gobsmacked. "Woah! I only became a vampire 8 months ago!"

Meanwhile Seba had overheard the remark and turned to his friend while the half vampires weren't listening. "6 MONTHS!" he said to Edan. "You know what might happen to you if go to the council and they find out…"

Edan shrugged. "I will tell them the truth, I will tell them the future I have seen for him…Gavner Purl is meant for great things Seba, you know Mr Tiny blessed me with his physic gift accidentally. Now I have seen your assistant Larten I see that their bloodings are not coincidence, both of them boys will do great in this new generation in this year of 1870 to come. One will perish assistant-less. The other will not, but that assistant will do great things Seba. Greater things than even than any prince at the vampire mountain. That I am sure of." Said Edan solemnly.

Seba didn't say much more not knowing the answer and then both mentors smiled as their new students laughing together.

"They suit each other don't they?" said Edan still chuckling.

"They are like two sides of the same coin," said Seba and both mentors grinned, now knowing without a doubt the two would be life long friends as long as they remained alive.

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Hoped you liked this chapter but what shall I do next? I want to make Larten do something really cool, like I could make Gavner and Larten fight on the bars or something, or even make them do the trails! What do you think? Plz give me ideas I am really, really stuck!

I don't like flamers a lot so if you do send me flamers I will use them to heat up the vampire cremations.