Carolyn's Comments:

Mood: Happy

Rant: Yay! Two updates in two days! Behold my awesome update power! (bows) And let me just give you a preview of what shall come in the future of this fanfic.

-Cal shall return! (obviously)

-Samantha's backstory is revealed. (IT'S GOT BLOOD!)

-The gang gets lost at sea.

-The gang gets attacked by pirates. (You'll never guess who the captain is!)

-Samantha will duel the pirate captain.

-Obsessed fanboys and fangirls attack the studio.

-The gang goes to New York to invade Cal's company.

-A certain 'Homicidal Maniac' lends the gang a hand. (If you're clever and you read comics, you already know who he is)

-The boys get turned into plushies!

-The gang is framed for a crime and winds up on the run from the law.

-Two more characters from 'Cirque du Freak' join the cast!

-Carolyn and Cronos get kidnapped by vampires.

-And many MANY more plot twists shall follow!

Disclaimer: I do not own 'Cirque Du Freak' All the characters from that series are the property of the great Darren Shan. (Samantha is my own original character though)

Cronos found himself outside Carl's office. Darren was trying to knock the door down.

"STUPID WOOD!" The half-vampire yelled as he slammed into it with his shoulder. "BREAK DAMN YOU!"

"Move boy." Cronos said, suddenly in his 'heroic mode'. He drew a sword with a black blade and a red stripe down the center. The handle was blood red and had a crescent moon engraved in it.

"Will you stop referring to me as if I'm a child?" Darren snapped. "I'm 14 for crying out lou-"

He was interrupted when Cronos gave his sword a casual swing at the door. The wooden barrier shattered and fell to the floor in pieces. Darren could only stare openmouthed at the rubble.

"How did you-" He stammered.

"Little something I picked up on the road." Cronos said calmly stepping inside the door. "You coming or not?"

The two boys stepped into a large stone room. It was a wide, straight, hallway. There were torches lined up on both sides of a deep red rug that lead up to a large oak door at the end of the room. Spiders on the ceiling were spinning webs to form words such as 'World's Greatest Boss'. There was a large poster of a demon hanging from a telephone line. It read 'Hang in there, baby.'

"Darren?" Cronos asked, "It's obvious we're dealing with a madman."

"Can we just go?" Darren asked, eager to escape the room.

Cronos walked up to the door and lay his right hand on it. "Hmm… Even my blade can't carve through this door. It's sealed by magic. Well, time to go to Plan B." He slammed the palm of his hand against the door with all his strength. "KEYLESS ENTER!"

The door collapsed. The door opened to reveal Carl, pointing a wizard's staff at Carolyn. The villain and his captive both looked up at them. Carolyn's face lit up at the sight of them.

"You ever hear of KNOCKING?" Carl snapped. "I AM trying to kill someone in here."

"Sorry." Cronos said. He lifted up the door off the floor and shoved it back into place, sealing the four of them in the room.

"…Congrats dumbass." Darren snapped. "You just cut off our means of escape."

"What? No I didn-" Cronos then realized there were no more exits. "…Shit."

"Well, well." Cal stated calmly. "Wingus, and Dingus, come to save their love-interest. How cute… I think I'm going to hurl."

"Oh crap!" Carolyn thought. "Cronos and Darren are both literary figures! Cal feeds off people like them! They're gonna get hurt!" She then uttered the words that every heroine will say at some point in her career. "Guys! Just leave me here and save yourselves!"

"Trust me." Cronos said with an odd smile.

Carolyn looked up in the direction of Heaven and sighed. "Saints preserve us, we are SO gonna die…"

"Hang on, Carolyn!" Darren yelled running up to her. "I'll untie you!" He found the knot and set about trying to untie it. "Damn! This thing is impossible! The knot's covered with glue...or something."

"You're coming here, does nothing, except hand me two more souls to absorb." Cal said calmly.

"Shut your word-hole and let's fight!" Cronos yelled getting into a cheesy karate stance.

And so the two of them battled, on and on, for the next ten minutes… That we can't describe to you, because it would be too big and expensive for a cheap fanfic like this. But anyway, Cronos was badly wounded, and Cal was untouched.

"Shit!" Cronos yelled. "This is almost as painful as when I had to see 'Tomb Raider'!"

(Darren sitting at random set of drums makes rimshot sound).

"Cronos doesn't know how to fight someone like Cal!" Carolyn cried. "He's gonna be killed!" She thrashed with her bindings. "I've…got…to…get…loose!"

Suddenly the door fell down again. Standing there was Samantha, massaging her knuckles. It appeared that she had punched the door down.

"You're strength…it isn't human…" Alex said in shock as he stared at the broken fragments of a formerly working door.

"Hmm..." Samantha said casually glancing at her hand as Katie, Caitlin, Alex, Sam, and Evra rushed into the room. "I seem to have broken a nail..."

Katie's jaw dropped open at the sight of Cal. "WAITAMINUTE!" She screamed so fast it was all one word, "ISN'T THAT CARL?!"

"I TOLD YOU HE WAS EVIL!" Caitlin yelled as she and the others ran forward to free Carolyn.

"Yeah, yeah," Carolyn, who hated being proven wrong, grumbled, "You're very smart, SHADDUP."

"Guys, I can't get the ropes off her," Darren complained, "They won't budge!"

"Darren, why don't you slice through them with your fingernails?" Evra asked rolling his eyes, "You ARE a half-vampire after all."

"Oh...don't know why I didn't think of that sooner." With those words, he sliced through the binds that held Carolyn to the chair.

"Thanks!" She sighed pulling herself free and standing up. Suddenly Cronos skidded across the floor, after being flung backwards by a psychic attack.

"It is futile..." Cal hissed. "She will die here...and so shall yo-"

Before he could finish that sentence, however, Carolyn stomped right up to him, swung her foot, and kicked him in the shin...HARD!

"OW!" He wailed. "Hey knock it off! I-"

Wham! She kicked him again.

"Why are you KICKING ME?!" Cal screamed. He seemed like he was about to throw a fit, "You think you can get through life kicking peopl-"

Wham! Cronos joined in the fun and kicked him the stomach. The villain sank to his knees in pain.

"STOP IT RIGHT NOW! I'M SERIOUS!"

Wham! Darren ran up and kicked him in the chest. Cal fell to his side, moaning in pain.

"KICKFEST!" Katie cheered running towards them.

"HEY EVERYBODY!" Samantha shouted. "JOIN IN!"

The group of friends ran forward and began to kick the fallen villain. They ignored his cries of protest, and focused on striking vital organs. This went on for a full five minutes, until they got tired and stopped to catch their breaths.

Cal sprang to his feet and glared at Carolyn. "Mark my words girl, and mark them well! I have destroyed all my previous foes, I will destroy you!" He vanished in a flash of black light.

In about five minutes, Carolyn managed to summarize what happened, and what Cal's true origins were.

"Holy crap!" Caitlin exclaimed.

"I know." Carolyn said nodding, "It's horrifying!"

"No! I mean now that Carl's gone we need a new producer! Who are we gonna find that's willing to put up with us?!"

"We are so screwed!" Katie cried.

"Hey!" Carolyn yelled, "I've got an evil soul sucker out for my blood now! Doesn't anyone care about that?!"

"How do we find a new producer anyway?!" Alex added, ignoring Carolyn.

"Let's look in the Yellow Pages!" Samantha shouted. She and everyone else hurried out, leaving a disgusted Carolyn behind.