Ok then I'm gonna make this chapter longer than the first I hope. Thanks for the review ppl just what I needed to carry on. Sorry if I keep changing the tense.

Cooking Lessons

Darren's POV

Ok. I'm so confused. What was the hall of food? Why had no one passed it? And why did Vanez say that he couldn't help me? Was he not the games master? God, I need to get some answers.

I went to Kurdas quarters and decided to ask him what the hell my trial was.

When I arrived, I knocked, and waited for an answer. There was none so I peeped inside and saw Kurda asleep, head on a pile of books, snoring lightly.

"Aaaww." I said quietly. "He looks so peaceful" As I approached him, to wake him, I noticed what the books were.

They were Cooking Books! Huh. Well obviously Kurda was too busy reading books to help me so I went to go and see Seba instead.

The second oldest vampire was sitting in the hall of Khledon Lurt talking with tired looking Prince Mika Ver Leth.

As I got nearer Seba saw me and rose in greeting.

"Hello Darren" he said with surprisingly cheerfulness.

"Hi Seba, Good afternoon sire" I replied sullenly. I wasn't happy. I'd come to Seba looking for comfort and answers and he looked as if he'd no care in the world.

"Oh thanks Seba," I thought sarcastically. " I'm only gonna fail my trials and you're sitting here as if all my questions had been answered by a king."

I stopped mid-thought. I looked at Mika and he smiled at me.

Oh.

"Darren, you will be pleased to know that Sire Ver Leth has come to help you with your trials." Seba smiled.

I looked at Mika once again and apologised for my terrible mood. " Thanks sire. You don't know how much I appreciate you being able to help me. Sorry for my behaviour but I was afraid that I would fail my trials but now that I have you I'm sure I'll pass"

He nodded in approval of my mini speech and beckoner for me to sit down. I did so and he started to explain what my trial was.

By the time he'd finished filling me in I was grinning like an idiot.

Basically all I had to do was cook a meal for the prince to be Kurda without him knowing anything of it and without getting any bad comments. He told me not to get too bigheaded though because it was a very hard trial.

What was sohard about that? I'd done a bit of cooking as a human and none of that had tasted horrible.

Well. Not too horrible anyway.

I was so happy. I was so sure I would pass despite the warning. I ran into the kitchens as fast as lightning, Mika at my heels. When I reached the kitchens I burst through the doors, I looked around for cooking tools to start practicing and stopped abruptly.

All there was in the kitchens were a few knives, a pit to burn things and about nine pots and pans.

As I was looking around, mouth open horrified, Mika came and stood up behind me and whispered in my ear

"Now do you see why it's yet to be passed?"

I turned around to him and nodded slowly then ran to go see the most feminine person I knew. (Not including Arra because she's like a man.)

Gavner.