"What're you doing here?" Larten spat, hooking Darren in the belly whilst Wester held him from behind.
Darren's breath caught in his throat; Did Larten know him?
"Who the hell do you think you are?" Wester growled, twisting Darren's arm. "This is where our pack hunts!"
"Who are you and who the hell blooded such a disgrace to the race!" Larten pressed, Darren unable to hide a grin which was quickly wiped off his face as his mentor's fist collided with his chops.
"I was blooded by…by Gavner Purl!" Darren spat out, heart racing as he looked at Larten's demented eyes, internally sighing with relief as he appeared not to know this 'Gavner Purl' fellow.
To confirm he hadn't a clue who Gavner was, Larten snarled, "Who on earth is that?"
Obviously Larten was yet to meet Gavner…Darren guessed it would be better to cross that bridge when it arrived but if there was a hundred or so years between Larten and Gavner then it would be a while before his mentor met his long term friend.
"Do you know what we do to cubs on their own?" Wester hissed in Darren's ear, something in the man's voice making Darren shiver with cold.
"N-no," Darren stammered slightly, looking back into Larten's intense gaze; he truly was a wicked beast of a man when he put his mind to it. Darren had only ever seen him behave so hostile towards vampaneze, never once did he dream he would be on the receiving end.
"We cut off their testes with a blunt butter knife," Larten said with complete seriousness as his hands went to rummage within his pockets for such a weapon. That was when Darren began to fight against Wester's grip, trying to rip himself free. This wasn't the Larten he knew, this was a beastly evil boy.
Darren's salvation came from the mouth of the alley; a well dressed, rat faced man chewing the end of a tooth pick in a sly manner.
"Larten, Wester? You're terrifying the poor soul," he said in a voice of silk though with two narrowed eyes which Darren felt too close together.
"Ah, Tanish! We was only having a bit of fun," Wester chuckled, letting Darren go and fixing him with a suddenly friendly smile, sticking out a hand for Darren to shake, "The name's Flack, Wester Flack."
"But you can call him maggot," Larten chimed in sweetly, waving his pinky finger at Wester mockingly.
As though sensing Wester's lunge, Tanish intercepted and grabbed the youth by the braces of his trousers, "Boys! Boys, behave. I wont have my pack fighting each other before a new recruit," Tanish' dark eyes flashed at Darren and he smiled toothily, "You wish to join us, I am assuming?"
"Well-um-yes," Darren nodded, sticking his hand out to Larten, "I'm Darren, Darren Shan,"
"Larten Crepsley, Quicksilver to my various affairs," Larten grinned, slapping Darren's back almost joyfully, "Great to have you aboard Darren Shan, of Gavner Purl."
"Thanks," Darren nodded, in a daze, unsure what he had exactly agreed to join, following the three vampires out of the alley on instinct and following them back out into the Inn where a few other vampires were already sat drinking.
"We've fresh meat, team!" Tanish howled, slapping Darren's back hard, "You know what that means," he said, giving Darren an almost deadly grin.
Just a short chapter, more is coming today (:
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Does anyone have any good DS FF they could recommend? It sounds so bad but there's so many out there I'll be here for ages finding ones I really like because I'm always using my phone on this site ha ): I loved the TVF's and The Sixth path of Destiny; both really good and there's some amazin' poetry out there too! :D Lol, next chapter soon hopefully.