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Kain reached for Maes' hand cautiously, glancing at Jean and the two ghost girls. Tina's eyes glittered with a warning as their eyes met and she bent over to look at Jean. Kain continued to reach for the outstretched hand in front of him. Jean looked at Kain with a look of fear.

"Kain, don't!" Chance cried.

"Come on, Fuery, you don't want to disappoint your friend, do you?" Maes mocked.

Tina glared at Maes angrily. "Shut up! Don't mock him!"

Kain froze as tiny arms wrapped around his waist and tried to pull him back. Looking at the hands Kain's eyes widened and he spun around to grab the child behind him. Mindie smiled at her father and pushed some of her bloody blonde hair back behind her ear before walking over to Tina and Chance and hugging them as if she had known them her whole life. Maes looked at the three ghost girls and ground his teeth angrily.

"They're coming." Mindie murmured with a smile.

Tina nodded and Chance grabbed Tina's hand, squeezing it. Mindie ran back to hug Jean while the other two stepped forward and Tina gave Kain another warning look. In the distance they heard battle cries and people yelling and laughing maniacally. Kain looked around as the sounds came louder and louder and Maes froze.

"We're back!" a long brown haired girl with dark brown eyes smirked. Where her throat was there was a long, deep scar.

A knee length black haired girl with black eyes stepped out beside the other girl and laughed. "Aha ha ha, we're ready to kick butt!"

"Rebecca!" Chance cheered. "Hope!"

Maes chose that moment to lunge at Jean and grab him by the hair, throwing him across the road. Jean gasped in pain as he skidded to a halt at Hope and Rebecca's feet. Rebecca waved at him cheerfully with a grin and looked behind her and motioned eight people forward. Three women and five men stepped out of the shadows and smirked. Kain gasped as he got a look at their faces. One woman looked at him and smiled kindly, her black hair in a tight bun on the back of her head and her onyx eyes dancing.

With one final look around the clearing at first Kain, then Jean he gave a look of disgust and motioned quickly at the bushes. Seven others quickly came out and Kain watched in horror as they looked around the street and a young boy with waist length black hair and purple eyes looked at him with an evil grin on his face.

Kain's eyes widened as he looked between the eight in front of him and the thirteen around him, terror clouding his thoughts. He thought of the pain and agony the twelve went through, his daughter's panic as she tried to run and her terror as he caught her. Adrenaline coursing through his veins and he launched toward Jean to help him up. But the young boy was faster and kicked him in the side so hard it sent him rolling along the pavement and into a tree.

"Daddy!" Mindie gasped.

The boy smirked mockingly. "Aren't you going to get up, Kain?"

"Shut it, Wrath!" Hope snapped.

"Ummm... it's not like we can do anything, Hope." Chance pointed out.

Rebecca grinned. "But we will try! Right, Seth?" A blonde haired boy with gold eyes nodded.

But Kain's eyes froze on the figures behind the group of black haired crazies. Two children, twins, stood frozen to the spot, staring at them. The girl watched Jean and Kain on the ground and the boy stared at the eight black haired people standing before them. Wrath loomed over Kain and gave him a mighty kick to the stomach, making Kain gasp in pain and look away from the twins.

The little girl squeeked as she saw blood on the ground and pulled on her brother's arm. Her foot slid on some rocks as they turned to leave and the eight that were standing tall turned to look at them.

"Fresh meat." one of the two of the women grinned, her wavy black hair catching in the wind and her purple eyes gleaming.

"Run!" Jean cried to the two children.

The children tried to run away as the woman lunged at them. Jean and Kain leaped to their feet and ran at the woman.

CLIFFIE! Sorry, but I had to end the chapter like that, it was very tempting! Please review! Tell me:
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Who do you think will die next?
Who do you think will die LAST?
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