"Looking back, that was not the best idea," Leap said while holding an icepack to a developing black eye.

"Definitely not one of my best moments," Forever agreed attempting to stop the bleeding from her nose.

"What are you two complaining about?! I'm the one who got the worst of it!" James whined as Nitrox attempted to clean up his bloody leg. "Ow! That hurt!"

"And it'll hurt even more unless you stop squirming," Nitrox replied, obviously annoyed.

"Was it really necessary to join the fight?" Shad asked Zen while handing him a bandaid for the cut that had somehow appeared over his left eye.

"Hell yeah!"

Shad sighed as if to say 'I give up' before walking out of the kitchen, where most of the group was gathered.

"Get that thing away from me!" Green yelled while trying to evade M2's bombardment of bloody tissues.

"Keh heh heh heh heh," M2 laughed mockingly while chucking his disgusting projectiles.

"M2, leave the poor girl alone," Leap said with a sigh.

"Fine," replied M2 after throwing one last tissue.

"Mystic, can I have my coffee back now?"

"Sure," Mystic said, handing Leap her cup of now cold coffee.

"Where's Epsi?" asked Widum while walking down the stairs.

"I don't know. Probably planning something to do to ruin our lives," Zen replied.

It had now been seven days since Zen, Shad, Epsilon, Nitrox, Forever, Widum, James, Green, M2, Mystic, and Leap had arrived at the old four-story mansion. Upon arrival, Zen had claimed the second story for the men "In the name of magic!" (with Nitrox wishing to murder him all the while). The female vacationers agreed to take the third floor "In the name of Lord Grapefruit!" (with Forever wishing to kill everyone with grapefruits). After a week, things had begun to settle down at last.

"Wonder what he'll do this time," thought Mystic aloud. "Maybe it has something to do with grapefruits."

Forever looked at Mystic with murder in her eyes. She was about to say something, but was interrupted by a scream.

"Was that Shad?" asked Nitrox in surprise.

"I don't know, but I have feeling that something bad has happened," replied Green as she began to run up the stairs with the rest of the group at her heals.

Epsilon stood in the hall. He appeared to have just backed out of Shad's room. His strangely pale appearance matched with the look of terror on his face suggested that something wasn't right.

"Epsilon! What the f***?!" Zen exclaimed, pushing him out of the way. Zen entered the room only to jump back in surprise and fear. "Holy s***!"

"What is it?" Mystic asked, concern evident on her face. Immediately, she wished she hadn't asked. For it was just then she spotted some blood on the doorframe.