Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Page #3

The police have left now.

So, this is what you've been doing

with your life.

You didn't like the act.

- I'm insane. I'm insane. I'm insane.

Well, I saw the spider bit coming.

Everybody's a critic.

It's not easy

to hold an audience's attention these days.

- To us and Charna's Guts.

- To us and Charna's Guts.

Did you see that fingernail moon tonight?

The first one in 50 years.

Yes. I noticed it.

Look, Vincent's dead.

Murdered. Sucked dry by one of them.

They're after us, man. They're after us.

They're after us!

Those damn Vampaneze!

They're gonna pick us off.

First Vincent, then you, then me.

Why me before you?

Well, because I'm the toughest,

and they'll save me for last.

Oh. Of course, I forgot.

Well, what about the Vampire Council?

They must have something to say

about Vincent.

Yes. They say good riddance.

They're a bunch of wimps now, Larten.

They'll do anything

to avoid a war with the Vampaneze.

There are no real generals left, hombre.

You and I were the last of the Mo-Freakins!

And to top it off, Tiny's back.

Mr Tiny? Back from the other side?

Yes! Just last week

he was at the Council Library,

messing with the Book of Souls.

He's trying to destroy us all!

Megalomaniac! That man's a megalomaniac!

And those murderous, scumbag Vampaneze,

they're up to something, too,

and it's all connected.

It's all connected. I can feel it!

Come with me. We can avenge old Vincent.

- Kill us some Vampaneze!

- No. I'm sorry.

No? Why?

I'm done fighting.

I left that life for a reason.

I'm just a vaudevillian.

It's a simple life, and I like it.

Steve.

I know who you are.

I know what you are, Vur Horsten.

Who sent you? The Apocalypse Monger?

The Blood Barons?

No... No one. I... No one sent me. I just...

I have these vampire books,

and I saw a painting of him

with some girl in, like, 1819.

It said that she broke up with him

when she found he was a vampire.

Did you hear that, Gavner?

Missy broke up with me

because I was a vampire.

Funny, I always thought

it was the only thing she liked about me.

Let the kid go. Let him go.

Now, are you mentally unfit?

Didn't you hear me threaten you

at the show?

I did. It was awesome.

You see, I want this.

I want you to make me into a vampire.

I mean, vampires,

they don't take crap from anybody.

They live by their own set of rules.

It's true they do have their own rules.

We wrote some of them.

Yes, and one of them

is children can't become vampires.

Look, look, blood.

Blood.

You see, Gavner, blood.

Look, if you become a vampire,

you have to leave your friends

and your family.

It's deeply depressing. Trust me.

Now get out of here.

I haven't seen my dad in years.

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