Disclaimer: I figure since its last chappie... I DO NOT OWN CHARACTERS OR ANYTHING! DARREN SHAN DOES!
Now this is the last chapter... I like it... I'm not editing it and if you hate it too bad... sorry not in a good mood... bad day...
And SO SORRY for the long wait I usually don't make waits that long, but I've been so busy! So I'll see you all later... but it did put suspense into the story dontcha think?
Chapter 13:
"DARREN'S TRIAL IS TODAY!" Vanez laughed, dancing around happily.
Larten had a 'Larten face' on; arms crossed, faint smile. If you didn't know him you'd think he was unhappy, but he was the proudest vampire I had ever seen. Darren was walking around, stretching his legs. He was still walking odd and I knew that it would be tough but he could pull through…
Harkat was also stretching out, telling Kurda about how if it were him to take on the boars he would do this and that. Kurda was nodding agreeably. Those two seemed like instant friends… they had so much in common.
Arra was standing beside Larten, almost hugging him. I smiled because I knew they were getting back together, though I was also shuddering from what Arra said to me when I saw them making out.
Everyone was so happy, even I was happy. I had made peace with everyone; told them all I had been overreacting.
"Cumon Gavvie aren't you excited?" Vanez grinned.
"Uh… sure…" I replied.
To be completely honest I was scared stiff. Darren still didn't seem to be walking well and when Larten asked me to say how he looked I had told him 'Great' when I thought he looked terrible. For a vampire Darren had pigment in his skin, but right now he was completely pale, and though some of it was to lack of sunlight… a lot of it was to the lack of health.
Vanez had been running around with Darren all day. Carrying him on his back flipping him around, but he slammed Darren's head a couple of times. He probably doesn't remember a thing. When I told Vanez that he said,
"Good, he'll concentrate… not die because he won't have nothing else to think about!"
"Yeah but then he won't remember who we are!" Kurda bellowed back.
To be honest I was also feeling mighty sick, (when I'm sick I'm speechless) but I didn't say anything because I figured there was no need to. I'd watch the trial and go straight to bed, unless Darren died… or failed… then I would probably cry and get even sicker.
Really I could always get better, but when would I see another Darren vs. boar match?
Darren was like my little brother. Larten was a brother to me and Darren was like his little assistant… or basically adopted son. So maybe I could call Darren kind of like my nephew?
"Man you're quiet! Don't be scared, I didn't think Darren could do it, but he's really surprising me!" Kurda grinned slapping my back; HARD.
You have no idea how much that hurt.
"Kurda… OW! What was that for?" I groaned.
"Awww little Gavner not feeling well?" Arra asked.
"I'm fine! Cut it out! We've made peace!" I exclaimed.
"Or you think you have!" Larten winked.
"What is that supposed to mean?" I whined.
"It means open your mouth but shut your pie hole… basically stop worryin so much about Darren he'll be fine, and talk like you're happy!" Vanez grinned.
"What he means to say is, trust in Darren!" Seba grinned.
"Stop arguing over me guys! I'm fine!" Darren faintly smiled.
I nodded.
"As you wish master Shan…" Harkat teased.
"Don't tease the games man, Darren!" I grinned.
"Thank you Gavner!" Darren winked.
"Hey! I'm the gamesmaster!" Vanez pouted.
"No you're the gameskeeper, there's a difference!" I laughed.
We all made Darren as happy as possible because we feared that if he died he might as well have a great last day, though we didn't believe he would die. Or maybe we just believed that he couldn't die. That Darren was invincible, that he still had to fulfill his destiny… whatever it was.
"You should rest up before yer match!" Vanez said.
"I agree Darren get some sleep…" I nodded.
We carried Darren to his bed to rest his legs.
I paced back and forth and when the match finally started my face was pitch white, if you didn't know me, you wouldn't be able to tell the scars were there.
At first Darren started out strong. He was whipping one boar and the other seemed to have lost interest for the time being. He killed the first one, but that didn't help, because once he did this the boar jumped on him.
It all happened so fast.
Darren struggled. He was dying and I could tell, but tears wouldn't come out. I stood up and watched the courage in Darren's eyes. I wanted him to have a noble death… that is until…
"Harkat what are you DOING?" Larten yelled.
Harkat jumped out and killed the boar. The vampires were appalled.
My mouth was open, and yet I couldn't speak. I slowly eased myself out of the room. All I could hear was the shouting, and Paris' familiar voice. Darren was silent, as usual. It's almost like he didn't care for death.
But he did.
I wanted to crawl into a hole and be alone. Maybe I would die in piece knowing that I didn't know what happened to Darren.
Then again, that might have been worse. None the less, destiny called me into a tunnel in which I was before, the tunnel where Kurda and his little pranksters brought me. It was then I noticed another tunnel in the wall. I guess it was out of curiosity that led me through, but I kept thinking and crawling. Then after a considerable amount of time, I heard voices echo through the tunnels.
"Where is he? Where'd he go?" I heard Arrow bellowed.
"He didn't run away… I know he didn't," Vanez cried, "he couldn't!"
"Where's Kurda?" Larten asked.
"Don't ask me! What about Gavvie?" Arra asked.
It was then I thought I was really close to the tunnels where everyone was, and I wanted to get away. I crawled deeper and deeper, slid down a nice open slide. Then I was lost, alone, happy, but lost.
How could he do this? Did he run away? Maybe he'll live! Maybe he'll get away. He's a half-vampire they could track him, but his blood isn't in the stone yet… HE COULD MAKE IT!
Should I be thinking that way? Probably not… but Darren, my part-nephew, he's really important. ACHOO!
I hate sneezing, and I seem to sneeze the most.
"Kurda which way do we go?" I heard a boyish voice whisper.
I must be going crazy… I thought I was all along, but this is ridiculous.
"This way relax, Darren, I know where I'm going!" I heard Kurda whisper.
Are they here? NO way!
I saw them slide into my space colliding with eachother.
"Ow," Darren whispered.
"Shut up!" Kurda replied.
"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING HERE?" I whispered loudly.
"I could ask you the same question!" Kurda answered.
"Hey Gavner!" Darren said. He hugged me, and I thought that was sweet.
Such a boy, but yet so old. He was about twenty, but he was still a fourteen year old to me.
"Let's get out of here!" I said.
I was getting excited. Darren was getting out; I didn't have to die in the tunnels after all…
"I'm so lost!" I cried.
"Yeah, yeah don't worry I know where I'm going!" Kurda replied.
I heard a river, and a thought jumped to me.
"I know where we are! Come on I can get us out! I had a trial here once!" I laughed.
"I think my way's faster," Kurda said, seriously.
"No way! Let's just go this way! Cumon Darren, you trust old Gavner don'tcha?" I asked.
Darren nodded.
"I'll go first, one sec!" I jeered.
I crawled through a tunnel, near a river. What happened next was the most astonishing thing I could ever see.
"Chicken or ham blood?" A vampaneze asked.
"Both?"
"Chicken or ham? We're gonna die! There's about as much blood as we need to tide us over…"
"What I'd give for a human right now…"
I went even whiter. Doesn't help when you're sick. There had to be at least 30 vampires in there. It was a small tunnel, lightly lit with moss.
I crawled out, quickly and quietly.
"Th-Th" I couldn't get the words out.
"Gavner?" Darren wondered.
"There's vampa-vampaneze in th-there!" I stuttered.
"What really?" Kurda asked.
"Can't you smell it?" I asked.
"I can now…" Kurda groaned.
I looked at Kurda pleadingly. I knew what I had to do. I had to go in there and kill as many as we possibly could to help us vampires.
I nodded, and told them to leave.
Now this brings us to now. I have 2 knives. I crawl through and watch the vampires talking loudly. I'm surprised how loud they are. I'm waiting to strike. I keep thinking this looks familiar, that dream, but it was only a dream. Kurda's not with me, he would never do it.
I leap out and the vampaneze see me, I take my knives and I begin to kill. I've killed about two already.
"I'm gonna help you!" I hear Kurda say from behind me.
Why is Kurda fighting?
"Just go, get out of here!" I pant.
"No way!"
"Fine cover me later!" I reply.
My mind is moving slowly, and I can remember the dream going the exact way. I ignore it. Only a dream!
"NOW!" I call.
Kurda jumps in. He doesn't kill any. Not yet, he is waiting for his time to strike. He brings up his knife. I am happy to see he is going to kill them.
Except the knife isn't going that way. It's coming towards me, it's…
I scream.
I fall to the ground. Eyes tearing and I just look up at him. How could he do it? He was my friend, my best friend. Now I understood everything. I was catching onto him and that's why he was acting so strangely. I understood everything.
I hear Darren scream? What's he doing here? Leave Darren; before they get you… leave…
I wish I could tell him, but I can't talk. Stupid voice… I can't even move.
My mind is moving slower, and it's moving backwards.
I can see Darren's trials, Arra and Larten, the woman who I truly loved. How much I loved her, how could she leave me. I remember the first time we met. I remember me as a kid, crying because of my dead puppy. I remember how I could've stopped him from dying, but yet I couldn't; the damn car that. I remember my best friend, and how he looked at my fake-funeral. How he cried on me, how I could feel his pain.
Now it's as if I awoke from a dream. I see two people. I see her and I see Larten and as if in unison I say.
"Suh-sorry if muh-my snoring kuh-kept you awake!"
Then I could see Darren's red, tearful, eyes, my lovers loving face, Larten's rare, but playful grin. I hear a howl and then all I can see… is darkness.
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