Ok. Another really weird mood here. I'm listening to the Inuyasha background songs and it's on a fight scene music so, like, I can almost see a battle of some sort starting in front of me. Anyone watch Inuyasha? If you do, imagine Sango in her fighting outfit walking into battle. THATS WHAT I SEE! Its spooky...except it is like, everyone! Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Kirara, Shippo, Darren Shan , Harkat, Debbie, Alice, Vancha, Evra, everyone from the Cirque, All the vampires, Mika, Arrow, all the vampirites, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Lupin, The weasleys, all the order, and all the 'good guys' at Hogwarts! All walking into battle (Darren, Inuyasha and Harry in front looking cool first of course tho tee-hee)

And now that I look at all the names, thats a LOOONG list! More than 18!ok, BIG chappie here!

And so you guys know, im workin on it! The chapters are like big rocks with the chappie in the middle, I gotta keep chippin away till its done! So it will take me while, im not used to dead lines.

Chap 12

They walk out of History class, three bleary eyed and one steaming.

"I don't see why your so mad 'Mione" mumbled Ron as they stumbled after her.

"Hmph!" Hermione turned up her nose and marched up the stairs.

Darren blinked to clear his eyes of the foggy haze. Unlike Ron and Harry who actually looked like they had fallen asleep, he was perfectly normal looking, unless you looked at his hair that was sticking out at odd angles.

"You think you guys can slack off while I do the work all the time? What do you think I am? YOUR SLAVE?" she bellowed from the top set of stairs to the boys below her, hanging over the edge of the moving staircase threateningly.

They grimaced and Harry looked up apologetically "Were sorry Hermione! We didn't mean to make you do so much work!"

"Ya!" included Ron "We just thought you liked doing it!"

Hermione fired a glare down at them and turned up her nose as she stomped into the common room as her voice echoed from the portrait "If you even THINK about trying to get me to give you my notes you can guess again! Ill put the worst hex I can think of on my papers! And it won't be pretty!"

Ron winced "And I bet she could think of some pretty bad ones too!"

They walked into the common room to find that Hermione had gone up into the girl's dormitory.

Ron fell into the plush chair with a huff as Darren and Harry set up their homework at the table to the side under a window.

Harry grabbed his quill and started on Snape's homework.

Darren put all the normal homework in front of him and put McGonagall's out of the way, starting on trying to remember the history lesson he blankly stared through.

Harry glanced at Professor McGonagall's homework that she gave Darren then back down at his paper, scribbling madly "How are you ever going to get that finished by tomorrow?"

Darren shrugged absently and unconsciously tickled his nose with the feather end causing him to sneeze. 'Damn, DONT TAP NOSE!' putting down a few more words before hitting a difficult part, pausing briefly to think., quill sneaking up and hitting his nose again, making him sneeze... again.

"Damn quill..." muttered Darren as he rubbed his nose.

Harry chuckled and they continued their homework.

After about an hour Ron got bored and retired to the boys common rooms for the night with a sleepy "G'night"

Harry let out a relieved breath as he stacked all his homework up and put it to the side "Done."

Darren pointed to the pile of papers beside him without looking up from the paper he was scribbling on "I was done about half an hour ago."

Harry snorted "ya, well, not all of us can put a book with 30 pages in it into 15 paragraphs on how a boomslang sheds its skin!" he stretched and yawned.

"Well, I'm going to bed, see you in the mornin' "he stumbled up the stairs and went into their bedroom.

Darren paused in his writing until he heard the door close and Harry collapse in his bed.

Glancing around the now empty room he put more ink in the quill "Finally! Time for some of these vampiric powers of mine to come in handy!"

He took out a pile of papers from his stack and slowly wrote on the paper 'I will not come to class through the window for if I do I will have to do this all over again' and examined it.

'Ya, I think that's what she said to write.'

This time he wrote it so fast that to the human eye, it looked as though it had appeared there as if by 'magic'.

Darren grinned evilly and continued down the paper that was full in a matter of seconds.

Darren smirked "Oh ya, this will be too easy."

For the next ten minutes Darren filled up the papers and counted them.

"9,996, 9,997, 9,998, 9,999, 10000!" he hurriedly stacked the papers together and set them beside his other homework.

'Good, now that that's out of the way, I can explore the castle!' he stood and brushed the wrinkles out of his robe, sauntering over to the portrait hole and opening carefully as not to wake the Fat Lady.

Darren listened intently but only heard the distant sounds of a cat and a shuffling man a few floors down.

He walked calmly down the halls, glancing out the windows and into classrooms.

Walking down the moving staircases he stepped onto the cool stone flooring of the entrance hall.

To his left was the Great Hall, in front of him was the doors of the great castle and too his left was a curious arch leading into darkness.

Darren furrowed his brows and walked towards the arch, stepping through he started down the stairs, running his claws along the wall beside him silently.

At the bottom was a room with a single picture of a green snake, coiled and poised to strike him.

"What are you doing here?" it hissed, eyeing him skeptically.

"Looking" Darren said simply, listening hard he heard the sounds of soft snoring and muttering.

The snake studied him, tongue flicking out thoughtfully every few seconds.

"Are you full?"

Darren turned to the snake curiously "Full?"

The snake bobbed its scaly head "Are you full? Have you full vampire blood?"

Darren glared at the snake "Why do you ask me this?"

the snake rolled its red eyes "Those of full vampire blood are welcome in the Slytherin common room" the snake said as if it were a stupid question.

Darren raised an eyebrow "I am of full blood."

The snake bobbed its head again and hissed tauntingly "I sense you are not of this house? Yet you are cunning and sly, why is it that you are a Gryffindore?"

Darren snorted "Ya, like I would like to be in the same house as that selfish brat Malfoy"

The snake nodded "Ah, yes. It is sad that children have changed, from cunning and sly to dark and sneaky. Sneaky never good." The snake looked at Darren with knowing eyes "But your sneaky, 'tis good sneaky. I will allow you entrance to this common room."

Darren grinned "And may I ask you your name?"

The snake gave a toothy grin "My name, not many have asked me this. My name, young one, is Lyg"

SNEAKY! I LOVE THAT WORD!

Lyg means Fox in elven. I didnt think that the ame 'Snake' or 'Pure' was cool enough so i made his name up from somthing sneaky, sly and cunning. Cause, if anyone hasnt guessed yet, Lyg is a REAL slytherin (or at least what I think Salazar was like)

Ok, not a long chapter, but I thought that since you guys are pretty much groaning "WHY? WHY HASN'T SHE UPDATED YET?" well, heres a chapter that just came out of nowhere (like the rest of this story)