The Way It Should Be

Chapter Forty-Two

I hate doing these, but I am gonna do it anyway.

Remember I am doing this based on another story I am reading called Cirque Du Freak, remember that.

And thank you all for reading my lame story, please comment and tell me how you think about it, and I'm sorry about all the spelling mistakes.

I played on my phone until the vampires woke up. My phone didn't have service, so texting or calking Steve was out of the question. But I was able to play games that didn't require internet. If I got bored of my games I'd read some random books I had saved onto my phone.

Darren woke up just as the sun began to set, before the vampires woke up. He was barely awake for ten minutes before he dragged me along to a nearby stream to get some water. Darren drank some of the water and filled some containers we had collected from the Way-Stations. But I stupidly climbed a tree and tried to look for another Way-Station, then remembered my fear of heights and froze.

"You're stupid arent you?" Darren asks.

"Sh-shut up! Help me down!" I whine and try to climb down but fail.

"Nah, I'll let you suffer a little."

He then turns back to the water and sees something that I can't, its covered up by some branches.
"What is it?" I ask.

"Tu-Tux, It's... A wolf." Darren wispers.

"You're not scared are you?" I tease, momentarily forgetting my situation.

"No, you had Scar, Pen, and Nona. Why would I-" the wolf pounced on him and and was over him - I saw that much at least.

The wolf growled then stopped and licked his face. Then stood and got off of Darren, then howled.

Three other wolves came over. One male pup. And two she-wolves. The wolf that pounced on Darren was male as well. I took a deep breath then jumped from the branch I was on.

Darren doesn't say anything as I sit in the snow and the pup comes over to me. I sit criss cross and he goes in my lap. He reminds me of Nona.

Darren is playing with the adult male, reminds me of Scar.

The she-wolves just lay down, super shy, not reminding me of Pen. Pen was super energetic, these ones aren't.

"Lets go back to camp."

"Yeah."

We walk back to camp, the wolves following close behind. Darren keeps trying to send them away, but they're stuck to his Side - they must really like him.

When we get to camp the vampires are already awake, ready to go and make the rest of the trek to the mountain.

"Where were you two?" Mr. Crepsley asks.

"Getting a drink at the river." I answer. 

"You found some wolves." Gavner says, ignoring the past two sentences in the conversation.

"Will they attack us?" Darren asks, very on edge.

"No, wolves respect vampires, they will not kill us unless we provoke them." Mr. Crepsley answers.

"That's cool, I guess." I say. "We gonna go?"

"Yes, we will find a Way-Station then we will look around, find out how that vampire died."

"That would take days to find a Way-Station though."

"Yes, you are right, many days will pass before we find one, but we must."

I groan, "Let's go then."

We left, it took days to get to a Way-Station, but when we got to one Mr. Crepsley, Gavner, and the male wolf leave, Darren called that wolf Streak and the pup Rudi.

Darren and Rudi went exploring while I stayed in the way station with the she-wolves and set a fire and almost fell asleep. After about an hour the she-wolves start barking then they run off into a small group of trees. I thought nothing of it until the two Little People went too.

I hear some loud roars so I decided to follow the Little People.

When we got there a bear was attacking Darren and the wolves. I froze in fear. The two Little People went in to help. One of them got killed. The other was having a little trouble, ButDarren quickly saved the limping Little Person. Darren then stabs a home he got from the first Little Person into the bears back and it died.

Darren sees me and smiles, before I walk over to him and check if he has any major injuries.

Before long Mr. Crepsley and Gavner come over to us.

"It was you two making all that noise?" Gavner asks.

"It was all Darren!" I yell pointing at the brunette.

"Don't make it sound like I was growling!" Darren snaps back.

"What was all that noise?" Gavner asks.

"A bear." I say.

Mr. Crepsley looks at the dead bear. Then smells the blood.

"Vampaneze!" Mr. Crepsley yells.

There was a short silence.

"What do we do now?" I finally break the ice.

"We should follow the trails of the bear of course!"

"I want to bury the Little Person first." Darren says, "He saved my life and I want to at least give him a final resting place."

I sigh, "You're too good for this word."

He mumbles something under his breath, but I couldn't ask what he said because he was already digging.

After that act of pure kindness we then follow the bears tracks, there is a vampaneze sticking halfway out of the ground. His hands and feet were sticking up as well as chunks of his hair.

"The bear must have drank some of the blood." Gavner says.

Vampire and Vampaneze blood is poison to any other creature if consumed.

We then go camp out farther up the path to Vampire Mountain, forgetting about the Way-Station.

"Oh, thank you, Lefty." Darren says to the Little Person.

The Little Person takes off his hood revealing his grey skin, huge green eyes, and a mask covering where his mouth should be.

It then pulls down the mask showing its yellow sharp teeth.

"Name not... Lefty... name Harkat... Mulds." We all stare at it in shock.

It took me a while to process what it said. It's voice was deep and raspy, as if it hadn't talked in years - which is probably the case - he had to pause a lot to get air in the middle of the sentence too.

"You speak?" I ask.

"Yes..."

"Then why speak now?" Mr. Crepsley asks.

"I have a... message from... Mr. Tiny... to the... Princes... I would have... had to speak... anyway."

"What is the message?" Gavner asks.

"The night... of the.. Vampaneze Lord... is at hand..."

And not a word was said after that for another dew hours.