Christmas in Vampire Mountain

Darren is bored... But thanks to Kurda he gets a great idea...Christmas day is approaching... WARNING SPOILERS ON BOOK 6, don't read if you havn't read book 6, it will take away the fun...

Note: This is after Darren has become a Prince, but I let Kurda, Arra and Gavner stay alive. It would be sad without them...TT

Darren was bored. Once he had thought that being a Prince would be exiting, full of adventures and hunts for vampaneze and all that stuff.

He sighed. No vampaneze, no fair ladies to save, (Debbie...he had never missed her as much as now) not even someone who had been lost in the tunnels, thanks to Kurdas maps.

In fact, the most 'exiting' thing that had happened since he was blooded, was when Gavner went to sleep in his coffin and couldn't get out next morning...After both Vanez, Arra, Larten, Darren and Kurda had tried several times to pull him out but failed, they all decided just to smash the coffin to set the by now quite embarrassed General free.. When that was done, Gavner almost cried because all that was left of his 'most comfortable coffin' was firewood. Arra had dryly asked if he rather would have stayed in it until he was so thin he could get out by himself, and Larten had added that Gavner better could start a diet, or soon he wouldn't even fit into the hall of Khledon Lurth.

Darren sighed again. That 'accident' was part of the reason he sat alone by the table today. Gavner (who had strongly protested against the diet plans) was in the Hall of Sports, training together with Vanez, instead of spending time with Darren. Kurda was in his room drawing maps, Seba was busy controlling all the food, rooms, and spare clothes in the mountain to see if something had to be replaced and Larten had gently offered to help him. The elder Princes were in some sort of dreadful council with the Generals, and Darren had enough of councils by now...

Even Harkat had excused himself when Darren asked if he wanted to do something, Arra had challenged the Little Man for a match on the bars, a challenge he really couldn't refuse...

Darren slowly eat his soup when Kurda suddenly passed, carrying a bunch of papers that reached higher than his head. While Darren watched him, the handsome blond just took a false step and fell face-down on the floor of the cave. Quickly hiding his smile behind his bread, Darren got up to help him. Kurda was already gathering the papers, mumbling something unhearable. He nodded appreciatively when Darren reached him some maps.

- "Thanks Darren," he said. "I was cleaning my room and found these old maps, I made them years ago, thought Seba might want them..."

Kurda jawned while he took the last papers.

- "I really need some rest, but my room is an awful mess...Gavner doesn't even want to enter it anymore..." He lookad at a map. "Look, here's one from exactly twenty years ago, even from the same day!" He smiled.

"December the 15th, I remember it was so cold even the showers froze...luckily it only seems to rain this year." He stood up, his arms filled with maps.

-" Alright Darren, I've got to go now, thanks for helping me. See ya!" He walked away.

Darren got slowly up on his feet again. An idea had slowly started to take shape in his mind. Kurdas comment' about the date had made him realize it was already December. In the Vampire Mountain you soon lost all sense of time.

A warm feeling began to spread trough his chest, and he felt his lips curve in a smile.

It was almost CHRISTMAS!

It's my first fanfiction...please review...I beg you...