Tiny pay a visit to Darren's parents and abduct them as well. Unable to take Darren, they take monkey girl Rebecca, of whom Darren has grown fond. His first assignment: a late-night visit to his least-favorite school teacher. Meanwhile, Steve gets initiated among the vampaneze (aggressive, violent, victim-killing vampires). Tiny, Larten begins Darren on lessons in vampire fighting, but Darren's avoidance of drinking blood keeps him physically weak and incapable of full fighting power. Tiny, who appreciates the kid's violent nature. As Darren begins a life of chores amid his new family at the freak camp, Steve, seething, becomes ripe pickings for Mr. Crepsley comes to dig up Darren and deliver him to the circus freak encampment of Mr. Larten stages Darren's death and Darren is buried (with Steve - infuriated at being left out and left behind - noticing signs at the funeral that all is not as it seems).
Darren concurrently develops a taste for raw meat and his little sister's blood and comes to know that he can't stay home anymore. Steve recovers but starts to realize that Darren is now part vampire, becoming angry and jealous and feeling betrayed. Darren complies, and Steve gets the cure. The vampire agrees to give him the only cure if Darren agrees to become his half-vampire assistant. Crepsley about the possibility of an antidote. Steve is rushed to the hospital where doctors say that there is nothing they can do. The spider gets out, panics the students, bites Steve and escapes. Steve finds out and accidentally drops the cage in the middle of the halls. Next day, Darren takes the spider to school with him. Tiny - who seems to have designs on Darren and vampires (and, very conveniently, just happens to have Darren's bicycle in the trunk of his limo). Escaping the theater with Larten's spider, Darren quickly accepts a ride home from a retund stranger - Mr. Steve becomes angry and threatening before being thrown out. Crepsley tests Steve but finds he has "bad blood" and will not transform him. Crepsley to be made a vampire and become his apprentice. While hiding in a closet, he overhears Steve begging Mr. Darren, due to his infatuation with spiders (as strong as Steve's infatuation with vampires), sneaks backstage to examine Larten's caged spider more closely. Slipping away from a police raid after the show, the boys split up. Steve and Darren think it all a joke until a vampire, Larten Crepsley (whom vampire-aficionado Steve recognizes) comes on with a very poisonous performing spider. He and his brooding friend Steve hear about and attend a rare freak show coming to town - the "Cirque du Freak" - where they see many strange acts, including a wolf-man, a snake-boy and a bearded lady.
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