No Nina

Hi! Sorry I didn't update yesterday, but I was really busy and when I finally got a chance to upload the chapter, the website went all screwy on me and it wouldn't let me upload the chapter. If I can come up with it soon enough, I'll add another chapter to be the chapter that was supposed to be added today. I hope you understand what I just said. I'm also thinking about writing another story about Nina and Fabian... Yeah. I'm not gonna tell you what it'll be about, but if you think I should, review and say so! Oh yeah, I don't own House of Anubis.

I sat on the couch hopelessly.

No Nina. No Nina. No Nina.

There was an ache in my heart when I thought about her.

One of the other acolytes should have died.

Not her, she's special.

Joy could have died.

Mara could have died.

Alfie could have died.

Jerome could have died.

Mick could have died.

Patricia could have died.

Amber could have died.

Even I could have died.

She shouldn't have died.

She was too innocent.

She was too precious to die that way.

How did she die?

Was it a heart attack?

Did she just fall to the floor?

Did she fall to the floor, not yet dead, slowly, painfully getting the life sucked out of her?

Amber said that Rufus took her phone and recorded Nina's death as a "souvenir".

Then he made it undeletable.

Suddenly Amber screamed my name, pulling me out of my thoughts.

"What is it?" I asked.

She didn't have the same vibe as she'd had lately.

She was actually… excited.

"Fabian, you have to look at this!" she squealed.

I took the laptop and examined the screen.

If the person that drank from the cup is killed, or willingly gives up eternal life, the acolyte that died will come back within the hour.

This gave me hope. I was excited to get Nina back. Amber was great.

"Amber, you're a genius! I could kiss you!" I told her, happily hugging her.

She pulled away and said, "No thanks. When Nina's back you'll be kissing quite enough to last a lifetime."

I felt my face warm up.

"We're going to get Nina back," said happily.

"Thanks to my great idea," Amber added.

Amber was a real Sibuna member.

I told the guys what Amber found.

They were excited.

That is, to be able to shoot the devil that did this.

"We'll put him in his place," Mick said.

"Yeah," Jerome and Alfie chorused.

"Guys, what about Nina?" I asked, almost laughing that they just wanted to shoot Rufus.

"Oh yeah, Nina… It's just that he threatened to kill me," Jerome said.

"It's okay. I understand, you guys love Nina but you want to kill Rufus because of what he's done," I told him.

"Yeah," Alfie piped in.

"I have a gun. It's hidden where no one can find it," Jerome said.

"Dude, why would you have a gun at school? They could kick you out if they found it!" Mick ranted.

"Hey, I have it in case some creep breaks in," Jerome defended.

"Okay, we have a gun. Is it loaded?"I asked Jerome.

"No. It's not loaded, I'm going to shoot some creep with an unloaded gun," he answered sarcastically. "Of course it's loaded!"

"I needed to make sure. With you being you, you could have used all of the bullets," I told him through gritted teeth.

He raised his hands in surrender.

We were going to get Nina back.

We were going to kill Rufus.

We wouldn't chicken out.

We wouldn't be without Nina.

Instead of no Nina, it would be no Rufus.

And nobody would care that he was gone.

Yeah, this chapter is kinda long. Well, longer than the other chapters. But they're gonna track down Rufus in the next chapter!