I am really not good with updating, as you guys can see by now

I am really not good with updating, as you guys can see by now. So I have to say I'm REALLY sorry.

So let's just get on with this, huh?

As the last chapter, it's gonna be a bit longer than the others. So enjoy and review.

Mistress tilted her head back towards the teens. "I do suppose it would be a shame," she murmured, moving to wrap her arms around Mystel from behind, "and it would be easier to just re-hypnotize them should ever the need arise, however…" she pulled the Bega blader tighter to her and clutched lightly at his neck, thumbnail gently scratching it, "a little bloodshed is always entertaining. Especially on ones as cute as these…"

Mariah bit her lip, tears dropping to the ground as she looked down. "You're not human," she whispered, "you can't be. No one could be so cruel…especially not to children." Some of the others were beginning to sniffle, shaking in their sadness.

Mistress stared at them blankly for a long moment, and annoyed look creeping over her face. "Are you done?"

9 heads shot up in surprise. "I mean, really. I only humored you this long because I found you fairly interesting. But I have no use for tears. If you're done, I'll kill you now."

Soft gasps filled the room. Mistress raised her hand to give the signal… "WAIT!!" All eyes turned to look at Emily.

"Nothing we say is going to stop you from killing us right? So may we have just one last request?" The woman stayed silent but nodded. "Our beyblades," she answered, "can we hold them one last time?" The others looked at her in confusion. There were better things than that to ask for.

"No."

"But-"

"How stupid do you think I am that I'd be tricked by a child?" she asked, walking over to the blonde-haired girl. She stood a mere foot in front of her and grasped Emily's chin harshly in her hand. "Just because your power isn't on par with theirs doesn't mean it's completely without threat. Thus the reason I'm killing you. Try again."

Emily looked away from her gaze. What the hell was she supposed to say to that?

"Well?" Mistress asked. The room retained its silence. She chuckled softly, the sound echoing through the room. "Good." She walked back to her pets and spun around to face the soon-to-be-dead captives.

"Tell me children, are you afraid?" she asked, her voice now gentle and soft. The looked up at her and the answer was clear.

Kai closed his eyes. "More than anything else, the threat of death, and the knowledge that something could have been done, is the only thing that can instill true fear in a person's heart." He chuckled. "Happy Halloween you guys."

The captives blinked in surprise as the other pets began to laugh softly amongst themselves.

"W…what?" they chorused. Mistress fell into a sitting position.

"Take a bow everyone. Good job." Some laughed, though all did as told.

It was slowly, very slowly beginning to click. "Was this your 'Haunted House'?" Lee asked.

Tyson grinned. "Yup! And if you guys promise not to kill us, we'll let you down." This earned him a couple of bloody glares. Like head-just-chopped-off bloody.

All but Mistress, Kai, Brooklyn, and the Blitzkrieg Boys paled a few shades.

"You mean to tell us you made us go through all this…this BULLSHIT to win a BET!!"

Silence… Tala sighed, breaking it.

"Okay, I admit we got a little carried away, but-"

"A LITTLE!!"

"BUT you did say that nothing we did could ever scare you, so had that been the case, this wouldn't have been a problem."

GROUP TWITCH

Ray cleared his throat. "What he means is that you guys challenged them to do WHATEVER it took to prove that they're better at scaring people by using what scares them against YOU. Death."

All scarers smiled inwardly, Nice Save Ray!

The scarees sighed in annoyance, he had a point. "Let us down." Michael muttered. "You're not gonna kill us right?" Max asked hopefully. "NO." they chorused.

5 minutes later…

"You guys brought in a lot of people. Who's she?" Steve asked.

"HE'S my brother." Tyson said. A long silence followed, and 'Mistress' sighed taking off the wig to reveal light blue hair. He also took out a small patch from front of his cloak. "Voice changer." He said with a smile.

"How'd you fake the deaths?" Emily asked. "Holograms and a really good makeup artist." Tala said motioning to his lavender haired teammate who twirled a small paintbrush with a smirk.

She frowned and her eyes shifted to Hiro. "I can't believe you agreed to this…and did all that stuff."

The man thought for a moment and smiled, "It was kinda fun." He said with a shrug.

"Where'd you guys learn to act like that? It was so convincing." Kevin asked. Out of everyone, he and Gary seemed to have gotten over everything the fastest.

"Kai and the Blitzkrieg Boys taught us. Apparently they've had training." Max said.

7 pairs of eyelids lowered. "You're kidding me."

Okay…that may have ended pretty badly. But I kinda ran out of ideas, (note the long hiatus from writing) so sue me (…um, not literally, okay ;) If anyone has more ideas for this story or a new one dedicated to you, let me know, I'm free all summer!!

Stuff I can actually write well with: Beyblade, DBZ, Inuyasha, Naruto, Yu-Gi-Oh

Though I do love everything else…I'm not so good at writing them ;