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    Nicu - The Littlest Vampire: The Super Fang Collection
    Nicu - The Littlest Vampire: The Super Fang Collection
    Nicu - The Littlest Vampire: The Super Fang Collection
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    Nicu - The Littlest Vampire: The Super Fang Collection

    By Elias Zapple

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    4 books in 1! 'Fangless', 'Big Fangs', 'Blood, Blood Everywhere' and 'Dead Again'. Loads of illustrations and fun stories! 

    Follow the adventures of Nicu, a little vampire living in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania, Romania. See how he withstands and stays strong in the face of bullying and manages to rise above it. 
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHeads or Tales Press
    Release dateSep 12, 2017
    ISBN9788826401188
    Nicu - The Littlest Vampire: The Super Fang Collection
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    Elias Zapple

    Elias Zapple was not born in 1922, as some would have you believe. His date of birth is not really relevant anyway. What is relevant is that he arose out of a tulip that was growing in some old granny's garden in Camberwell. How he got to be in a tulip is not really clear, nor is it clear how he got out of the tulip, and years later wrote the smash hit musical, 'Love, be a Stranger', which was an international flop. After that success, he went on to work as a 19th century Victorian chimney sweep, when he was inspired to write the acclaimed series of books entitled 'Duke & Michel'. It is believed the fumes from the chimneys did so much damage to Elias, that it was a miracle he ever ate a cupcake again.  Later, he travelled back in time to the present, and went on a series of trips to many foreign and distant lands. During these travels, Elias met and listened to many interesting people, choosing to ignore all of them. He did, however, learn a couple of things: i) the earth is flat; and ii) you should never eat a banana when it's not ripe. Many questions are often asked by his adoring public. Are you human? How many chimpanzees can fit inside a fridge? What is that thing growing on the side of your head? To which Mr Zapple has always smiled, turned away and swum off into the sunset; having only once been bitten by an unfriendly shark. Elias Zapple continues to work towards the unification of Korea, and writing children's stories that parents will spend huge sums of money on. He wishes you all to know that every penny made from the books will go straight into his bank account, which he will then spend on a lavish, new tent.

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      Nicu - The Littlest Vampire - Elias Zapple

      Nicu – The Littlest Vampire

      The Super Fang Collection

      By

      Elias Zapple

      Book One – Fangless

      Book Two – Big Fangs

      Book Three – Blood, Blood Everywhere

      Book Four – Dead Again

      American-English Edition

      Copyright

      © Elias Zapple, 2017

      Illustrated by

      Reimarie Cabalu

      Disclaimer

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to real persons or vampires, living or dead or undead, is purely coincidental.

      Dedication

      For

      Laura the Mischievous Lemur

      Contents

      Title

      Copyright

      Disclaimer

      Dedication

      Chapter One – Romania

      Chapter Two – Nicu

      Chapter Three – Breakfast

      Chapter Four – Florin and Felix

      Chapter Five - Playground

      Chapter Six – Doctor Hans Smell Singh

      Chapter Seven – The Fang Fairy

      Chapter Eight – On Top of the Mountain

      Chapter Nine – Home

      Chapter Ten – A New Night

      Chapter Eleven – Fangs at Last

      Chapter Twelve – Return to the Playground

      Who is Elias Zapple?

      Also by Elias Zapple

      A Request from Elias Zapple

      1

      Romania

      In Eastern Europe there’s a country called Romania, and in Romania there’s a region called Transylvania. In the south and east of Transylvania there are mountains called the Carpathian Mountains, and in the deepest darkest valley of the Carpathian Mountains, surrounded by tall dead trees without a leaf to be found, there’s a house.

      This was no ordinary house like you or I live in. This was a dark, crooked and grim-looking house, with grime, dust and cobwebs all over it, and indeed, in it. This house also had no doors, as the occupants did not need doors. For all they needed were windows to fly in and out of.

      Now unless you just picked up or downloaded this book without somehow looking at the title and jumped to this bit, then perhaps you would assume that this house was occupied by birds, or by people trying to be a bit different. You’d be wrong. For this house was occupied by a family of vampires, and every night these vampires would turn into bats and fly out of the windows in search of humans, so that they could drink the humans’ blood and satisfy their hunger.

      2

      Nicu

      The youngest of this family of vampires was Nicu, a 9 year-old vampire who was podgy, and very short for his age. However, that was the least of his problems, as he was also fangless.

      Like human beings when getting their adult teeth, vampires normally get their fangs at any point after the age of 6, (normally between 6 and 8). Unlike Nicu, his older, spiky-haired brother Adam had a great set of fangs, the sharpest in all of Romania for his age, and had gotten them when he had just turned 6.

      He was also an expert at turning into a bat, flying, and biting a human’s neck within the time it took Nicu to unscrew his bottle of freshly-drained blood – this was a ready-made drink for young vampires before they got their fangs, for if vampires don’t drink blood they turn into vegetarian cats, and as there’s not a lot of vegetables in the Carpathian Mountains that pretty much means certain death.

      Nicu’s parents were tall, slender with cold-dead eyes, and who always dressed as if about to go ballroom dancing. They were also known to be two of the most bloodthirsty vampires in all of Romania.

      Poor Nicu!

      3

      Breakfast

      After the sun had set at around 8:30pm, there was a creaking in Nicu’s family’s cellar. The cellar was dusty, had cobwebs everywhere and lit candles hanging on the walls. There were also four coffins inside. All of the coffins’ lids slid open, and from the smallest coffin Nicu stepped out. He was dressed in black shorts, a white shirt and a black mini-cape with his family’s insignia on it, which comprised of two fangs with blood dripping from them. The rest of his family also emerged from their respective coffins. Nicu stretched and yawned, then pulled a spider from out of his ear.

      Spidey! You can’t keep sleeping in my ear! Nicu said to Spidey the Spider. He then shrugged his shoulders, and popped Spidey the Spider into his mouth and ate him.

      Nicu! Stop eating spiders! Oh darling, when is this shameless boy going to get his fangs and become a real vampire? his mom said before weeping, tears streaming down her pale-white cheeks and onto her bright blood-red dress.

      Nicu, you horrible creature, look what you’ve done! You’ve made your mother cry. Is it not enough that we have to deny that you’re our son and claim that you’re a lab experiment that went wrong, but now you have to make your mother cry too? his dad said giving Nicu a cold hard stare before dusting off the tuxedo he was wearing.

      But… it’s just a sp… Nicu stuttered.

      Nice going, toothy, said Adam, dressed as though he’s about to go skateboarding.

      I didn’t mean to! Nicu pleaded, huffing and puffing, his face reddening.

      Enough! Let’s go for breakfast and discuss this later.

      His parents and brother went upstairs followed by Nicu, who stomped behind them.

      I hate this family!

      Stop stomping, Nicu!

      Unlike human beings who sleep during the night and wake once the sun rises and then have breakfast, vampires sleep during the day, and once the sun has gone down go to have breakfast – this is because if vampires are out when the sun is, they turn into beetroot – and nobody likes beetroot.

      The other main difference between humans and vampires is what they have for breakfast. Whereas humans will sit down at a table and have orange juice, tea, eggs, toast and cereal; vampires will always pop out to have their breakfast. Not pop out to a Denny’s or McDonald’s or some local café, but instead go to somebody’s house and dine on people’s necks. Vampires don’t need to eat - all they need is blood… except Nicu, who enjoyed snacking on insects and arachnids.

      In the candle-lit lounge with its creaking wooden floors and dust covered furniture, Nicu’s parents and brother got ready to go out. Nicu slumped down in a chair knowing that he couldn’t go due to his being fangless and there being no need. In front of him on the table he had a bottle of cool, crisp, freshly-drained cow’s blood that he occasionally sipped from.

      Adam sat down and put his arm around Nicu. Nicu, don’t let what mom and dad said get you down. I know that one day you’ll get your fangs.

      You mean it, Adam? Nicu had a glint in his eye as looked up at Adam.

      No way, dude! I was barely 6 when I got mine, fangfully! Enjoy your bottle of cow’s blood, loser! Adam spun around and in a flash turned into a bat. Adam then flew over to Nicu and slapped the top of his head with his bat wings before flying out the window.

      I hate you, Adam! Nicu shook his fist at Adam.

      Don’t be so horrible to your brother, Nicu! his mom scolded. "Oh darling, without human blood, Nicu’s

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