Ok, my fingers have been itching to write but I couldn't find the time, but now I do! even though you want to go blow something up on the PS2 game you rented... -sigh- yes, but the music is too happy for blowing things up! point taken
Since its really bouncy music, I think Darren and everyone should get in trouble this chappie, sound good? -puts hyper song on repeat- ahh... the wonders of repeat.
-cracks knuckles- kay, let get to it then! I will use my sadistic mind to find a tame way to pull somthing off, you just keep being hyper. OK!
Chapter 11 (Whoa 0.0 , 11...)
Hermione dragged Darren into the entrance hall "Why did you attack that vampire?" she asked as she plowed her way through a startled group of Ravenclaw's and towards the Great Hall that had just started filling up with students, eager to fill their stomach with lunch.
Darren glared silently at her mistake, feeling insulted "Well, he- IT! Was…erm…" he thought frantically for something to say.
'Ugly? Stupid? Erm…what else would you describe them as?' he thought as Hermione marched into the hall and to the Gryffindor table where she plunked him down at the table.
Darren, not noticing that they had sat down, kept the blank look on his face as he tried to think of something non vampire-ish thing to say.
Hermione looked at the stupid look on his face as he uttered incoherent things under his breath.
She rolled her eyes and knocked on his head "Hey? Your brain didn't explode from over exerting itself right?"
Darren blinked as he was hit on the head "Huh? What?"
Hermione sighed and took a cucumber sandwich off the plate in front of them and took a delicate bite "Nevermind."
Darren looked at the sandwich and felt his stomach clench uncomfortably.
He rubbed it thoughtfully 'Whenever I see food I feel like I'm going to be sick! Ugh...I hate my body…'
Sighing, he glanced around the hall. At the front table there were the usual teachers, Snape in the darkest corner, a small teacher that he had not been introduced to yet, Hagrid. He cowered slightly under the glare the giant was shooting him, then shook his head and continued his examination of the table.
'McGonagall, a lady wearing too much green, Dumbledore, the new teacher, Lupin was it? A funny looking lady with glasses too big for her face, and…huh? Wassat? Looks like a giant piece of flesh!'
Mouth slightly agape, he stared intently at the object. 'That looks suspiciously like the grotesque!'
Harry and Ron came into the hall and sat down across from Hermione and Darren.
"So…what's up?" asked Harry, attempting to get some information on what happened during class.(Ron being too busy stuffing his face)
Hermione looks up "Today, clouds"
Harry looks up to the hall's roof that was mimicking the cloudy day outside.
"That's not what I meant" Harry replied dryly
Hermione tilted her head to the side innocently "Oh? Then what were you meaning?" her eyes glittering mischievously.
"Nevermind" Harry glowered, he looked at Darren "So what's up with yo-"
Darren was staring at the head table. Harry leaned over to try to find out what he was looking at.
He lost his balance and fell with a yelp face first into the jello.
Harry lift his face out and licked his lips "Mmmm….Cherry!"
Everyone laughed, especially the Slytherins, as Harry got back into his seat and wiped off his face.
Ron spat out his food and laughed so hard that he fell off the bench, but still continued to laugh and roll on the floor.
Hermione tried to restrain her giggles behind her hand but only succeeded in giving herself hiccups.
"Harry! -hic- I'm so going to -hic- kill you!-hic-" she threatened over the laughing of the Great Hall.
Harry turned to Darren, just to see him oblivious to the noise around him.
Harry frowned and ,carefully this time, reached over the table and waved a hand in front of his face.
Darren blinked and looked over to Harry then frowned "Why is your face red?"
The Gryffindor table launched right back into laughing, some students were sent to the infirmary from loss of breath and pains from laughing too hard.
Harry sweatdropped and waved it off "Never mind that. What were you looking at?"
Darren turned back to the blob ,that was now jiggling as if laughing, and studied it pensively " I couldn't figure what that big blob of flesh coloured thing is…."
Ron, who had dragged himself back onto the bench, promptly fell off again and laughed some more.
Harry smiled and looked up at the blob "That, my friend, is my cousin."
Darrens eyes widened and he looked back at the blob 'Hey! Now I see it! So that yellow stuff on top must be the hair! And… oh…..'
"That is the biggest human I have ever seen in my entire life!" he exclaimed as he looked at Dudley, seeing the 'big blob' in a new perspective.
Harry, Ron and Hermione laughed.
Ron panted from all his laughing, his face as red as his hair "Well, if that's what you think of Dudley," he offered his hand "Welcome to the group Darren!"
Darren gave a small smile and shook Ron's hand.
"Glad to finally have your approval Mr. Weasley"
Ron drew his hand back and picked up a roast beef sandwich, munching on it happily.
Hermione fixed her hair and cleaned off her rob "Did you guys hear? They are thinking of having a new class!" she rested her head on her palms as she set her elbows on the table on either side of her plate.
"Really?" inquired Harry, taking a slurp of his chicken noodle soup.
"Ya! It's Muggle sports! It would be like normal Physical Education in a Muggle school!"
Harry shook his head "I don't think I would go. I never did like the sports at my old school."
Hermione smiled reassuringly "It wont be all P.E. Dumbledore getting us as many classes that would help students against Death Eaters, so the classes would also have things like Martial Arts, Tai-Bo, Yoga, and Sword fighting!"
Harry was starting to like the sound of this.
Darren folded his hands inside his sleeves "What about football? (Soccer in England)" he sounded uninterested but inside he was really hoping they would play football. 'Its been so long.' A wave of disappointment washed over him 'But, I won't be able to play now either, now will I?'
Darren closed his eyes and remembered playing football with his friends 'Heh, times sure have changed. Now I cant even touch another person without the possible threat of hurting them'
He clenched his hands 'I wish I was like that again. I wish I could go and do normal things with normal HUMAN people.'
The vision of him in his first fight with the Vampaneze, running into the fray of Vampires and Vampanzes and spiders, HIS spiders. He opened his eyes ad stared solemnly at the table.
'But, it was all my fault, I have no one to blame but myself. I could have said no, I could have lived like Darren Shan, normal boy in a normal world.'
Looking at his new allies,
'No,' he corrected himself 'my friends.'
He looked at the smiles on their faces
' Ya, my friends. Who will be there for me.'
A sudden thought came to his mind.
'Will they be there for me? Will they risk their own lives for me? But I don't want that! I don't want them to put themselves in dangers way. I've lost so many to them being in danger, let it be from death or from protecting them by keeping them FROM death.'
Mentally shaking his head he tuned back into the conversation.
"So Muggle children run around in circles, throw things and chase each other?" questioned a perplexed Ron
Hermione sighed and pinched the bridge of her nose "Yes Ron. "
Harry chuckled and shook his head.
"Well, its almost time for History" said Hermione
Harry and Ron groaned.
Darren looked to each of them "What?"
Ron banged his head against the table. "The teacher is the most boring person in the world! He woke up one day and went to class and didn't even notice that he left his body behind!"
Darren raised an eyebrow.
"Come on," Harry sighed "Better get it over with now. We will suffer through it and then celebrate the ending with an ear lashing from Hermione.
Hermione glared at them and said crossly "They fall asleep leaving me to do their notes."
Ron pointed a finger at her "Yes, BUT. You always are the bestest friend we have by letting us copy it."
Hermione glowed at the compliment "Ya, I suppose so. I don't know what you would do without me." She walked off down the hall.
Ron and Harry stifled laughs as they followed, Darren in the middle with a small smile on his lips, the truest smile in months.
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Sorry bout the lack of chapters, I just had major road blockage until one P.E. class when we were playing lacrosse and I thought 'Hey! This would be great in one of my fanfictions!'. Im kinda weird that way, I think of school as my second home and the students as my family. They make me happy (cause sometimes their so stupid its funny. One of the guys got hit in between the legs with a lacrosse ball the same day I thought of the P.E. thing. And today someone got hit in the forehead with an eraser. -sigh- yep, my school is messed up, but one day could be turned into a comedy video, my band teacher said he was going to tape the classes because of everything that goes on. Like one time, we were practicing resting positions before a song. The trumpets as my teacher says "It was: proper, proper, proper, Hitman" and did the pose. ) so life is like jellybeans: all different kinds, all make you hyper.
-Neko-