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IT WAS an age of tragic an fourteen years earlier when,tarantula, I stole it fro went to hell, and I paid formy own death, I left my family and home, and travelled the world with the Cirque Du Freak, as the assistant to a blood-drinking creature of the night

My name’s Darren Shan I’h a series of events so astounding I still have trouble believing they really happened - a Vampire Prince The Princes are the leaders of the vampire clan, respected and obeyed by all There are only five of them - the others are Paris Skyle, Mika Ver Leth, Arrow and Vancha March

I’d been a Prince for six years, living within the Halls of Va the custoood standing I’d also been learning the ways of warfare, and how to use weapons The rules of battle were essential components of any vampire’s education, but now more so than ever - because ere at war

Our opponents were the vampaneze, our purple-skinned blood-cousins They’re a lot like vampires in many ways, but alien to us in one key area - they kill whenever they drink blood Vampires don’t harm those they feed from - we siet - but va their victih there was no love lost between the vampires and vampaneze, for hundreds of years an uneasy truce had existed between the two clans That changed six years ago when a group of vampaneze - aided by a vampire traitor called Kurda Smahlt - stormed Vampire Mountain in an attempt to seize control of the Hall of Princes We defeated theely to my discovery of the plot prior to their assault), then interrogated the survivors, baffled by why they should choose to attack

Unlike vampires, vampaneze had no leaders - they were entirely democratic - but when they split froo, a ician known as Mr Tiny paid them a visit and placed the Coffin of Fire in their possession This coffin burnt alive anyone who lay within it - but Mr Tiny said that one night a man would lie down in it and step out unharmed, and that man would lead the the vaht

During the interrogation, we learnt to our horror that the Lord of the Vampaneze had finally arisen, and va for the violent, bloody war to come

Once our assailants had been put to a painful death, word spread from Vampire Mountain like wildfire: "We’re at ith the vampaneze!" And we’d been locked in corimly, desperate to disprove Mr Tiny’s dark prophecy - that ere destined to lose the war and be wiped from the face of the earth