Man I love typing this fic! XD This is the second part of the penultimate chapters, meaning the next few are gonna be like the Clue of things, so please try to figure it out! I only own Kitten and the Metagang, so please read, review and no flames, thank you!

The storm outside was brewing further and angrier, as the winds were blowing the rain and mud along the roads and past the large mansion. There was chatter in the living room as TL, Phoenix, the remainders of the Metagang, Marcus, Lunatic, Rook, Wandrex and any others in the room were debating on the evidence and those taken or killed with. The lights flickered once or twice every few minutes, but because of the lights going out from before and the storm's force growing, it was obvious no one was unshocked or not jumpy.

" So, X was killed first, but it was meant to be Wandrex," King said thinking.

They all remembered back, everyone looking on.

" Yeah, but then his body vanished without a trace," Lunatic said sitting on the couch. " I mean, come on! It's not like he can turn into a zombie!"

" You'd be surprised . . ." Dawn murmured near Jiro.

Kitten was looking more and more shaken up, clinging to Marcus. Her claws were lashed out and her eyes were widening each time X's body was mentioned. Marcus was yelping as her claws dug into his skin, causing punctures and small lines.

" Maybe someone buried him . . ." TL said.

" That WOULD make sense, if we found mud, " Dairo said rolling his eyes. " No mud, remembah? And DP even said that there wasn't cleanin' stuff there.

Kitten was shaking more and more, unknowingly tightening her grip on Marcus and his neck, which was now blue. They were behind the others, and Marcus' pleas for help were going unnoticed with the actions. He waved his arms as Kitten kept at it.

" Not unless someone used a charm . . . " Scorpion said.

" Someone can do that?" Goddess asked.

Marcus was trying to get free from Kitten, who was clinging to him worse.

" Yeah, it's a magic thing," King shrugged.

He flopped back on the couch, suffering as Kitten was silently crying, stressed out from something as a thunderous boom shook the house.

" However, you have to know what you're doing," Mira nodded," and you have to have a magical aura."

" Makes sense . . ." Phoenix sighed.

" He-He-helll . . . " Marcus was squeaking out, blue faced and slowly turning purple.

" Yep, dude, he's in he- KITTY LET HIM GO!" Scorpion freaked.

King, Scorpion, Phoenix, Goddess and TL grabbed Kitten's arms and pried her off of Marcus, who took a deep breath once she was off and gasped lightly for air, coughed and nodded, sinking onto the couch. He gave a thumb's up as Dawn laughed lightly. Kitten, however, was still shaking and pried herself from the others. Rook helped her to the couch as DJ was looking around, then glanced out the window at the weather, which was now taking a violent turn. The winds had uprooted a tree and shaken it in front of the porch.

" Oh man that's gonna making leaving hard . . ." DJ felt a chill run up his spine.

" Kitty, what's up?" Jiro asked looking at the shaking half-dragon.

" N-N-nothing's wrong . . . r-really, nothing, not anything sinister or anything insane or anything!"

She was smiling weirdly as everyone looked at her flatly.

" Kitty?" TL asked.

" Yes?"

" You're a bad liar," Phoenix said.

Kitten slumped over sighing. " Okay . . . I CONFESS!"

" SO IT WAS YOU!" Lunatic yelled pointing.

" Dude, let her finish," Rook put his arm down.

Wandrex shook his head and sat down. Kitten looked about ready to cry as she whimpered and sniffled. Phoenix sat down beside her and placeda hand on her shoulder, Dawn doing the same. Kitten was sobbing then, tears coming from her blue eyes. TL walked towards her.

" So, what happened?" TL asked.

" I-It's X's-s-s-s-s body . . . " she sniffled.

" What about it?" DJ asked walking over as well.

" Please please PLEASE say you won't hate memeeee!" she cried, rivers of tears pouring.

The tears hit a few members of the Metagang as Ookami opened an umbrella. " What? Smart girl comes prepared."

" Bad luck . . ." someone murmured.

" Kitty there's nothing you can do to get us angry," Dawn smiled.

Phoenix nodded," Yeah, we're your friends. So, what about X's body?"

Kitten took a deep breath and said," Hikari, Tia and I buried his body in the backyard and I used a charm to levitate it out of here and which is also used to bless it that I took out of King's backpack and it freaked me out so much that night that I went to go find someone and I ended up spending the night with Marcus-sama!"

Everyone gasped. There were wide eyes and shocked looks on everyone's face. Thunder and rain pounded on the window as Kitten sniffled and wiped her eyes.

" See? This was why I couldn't tell anyone . . . it's hard to lie . . . now I know how D-Dude feels about it . . ."

Silence.

" You, Hikari and Tia buried X?" Dawn asked frozen.

" You kept silent about this?" Rook glared then.

" YOU WERE IN MY STUFF AGAIN?" King yelled.

Moa laughed and said," Funny moa moa!"

Kitten sniffled as Dawn sighed and patted her shoulder. " All you guys did was give him a proper funeral, right?"

She nodded.

" Well, that explains a lot," TL nodded. " Least we know you're not the killer."

" SHOOT!" Lunatic snapped and hit the couch arm. " I thought I was onto something . . ."

" Well, no, but-"

There was a rush of running alongside the rain, as the group from the basement ran around the corner, DP levitating quickly as he went upstairs, followed by Ranger and Banjomaru, D-Dude running to the living room door and panting as the rest of the aforementioned group finished going upstairs.

" Big Double-" Lunatic started.

" We fixed the power . . . DW may be dead . . . " D-Dude huffed.

" WHAT?" everyone yelled.

" For some reason, I'm not shocked," Tal said arms crossed.

Thunder and lightning were on at the second he said it.

XXX

The bloody and horriffic scene inside the bathroom was enough to make anyone of the group hurl. The cuts on DW were stainless, clean, and he was butchered perfectly, a fearful and dead look inside of his lifeless eyes. He had seen much, and now, DW was gone. TL looked away with pity and anger for whoever had done this, D-Dude looked on at the bloody mess, eyes narrowing, Kitten gagged and ran off, Marcus following her murmuring something about zombies, Dawn held on tighter to Jiro, DP looked down and bit his bottom lip, Hikari ws holding onto DP, and the others were either silent, talking lightly in whispers, or were panicing as well.

DP ushered everyone off, then turned off the light, locked the door from the inside, then closed the bathroom door on DW.

" That's it . . . DW's dead . . . "

" That's another victim . . . bastard . . . first X, then Nukid, Haru went missing, then Kiva, now DW . . . " Ranger growled, tightening his fist.

Silence.

Rain falling.

" That psychotic son of a bitch . . ."

" Amen brother," Tanuki did the cross symbol, her scythe on her back. She yawned and added," I'm not the only one particularly unhappy with this . . . I have to get your souls here!"

" Now THAT is creepy . . . " Ranger said looking at her. " How do you do that?"

She swung her scythe and braced it on her shoulder by the holder's place, saying," I just swing it like so . . .and you're gone in one move."

" Can I borrow that to fight yaoi fans sometime?"

" Can I borrow a gun?"

" I withdraw the question," Ranger glared.

" Who would kill DW alongside the others?" TL ponder to D-Dude.

" Not sure, but whoever it is, they're getting more sadistic . . ." D-Dude said. " Yeah, slashings . . . and thesmear there . . . I can see it, can't you?"

" Not really . . . "

D-Dude and Hikari glanced at the now pacing Dragonsaur, who was mumbling to himself. The Metagang members left standing in the hallways were still looking along, Air running back from another hallway, looking frantic. Phoenix and Goddess were now looking at him, Lunatic hanging from the ceiling as his brother was stopping. Air whispered into DP's ear, making him gulp and nod in shock. Air looked over at D-Dude and saw the serious expression, alongside everyone else, as he turned.

" I think I have his MO," D-Dude said.

TL and a few of the others were looking over at D-Dude, both shocked and amazed, and one had a look of relief.

" I also have new info about this," Air said, looking angry and nervous. " Ross came up here, and I can't find him on this floor."

There was a group gasp.

" DAMN it that guy strikes twice at a time now?" Advent yelled, appearing behind Jiro.

JIro jumped as Dawn jumped into his arms. She blushed as he smiled, helping her down. Banjomaru glared at the Jashinist.

" Where the HELL where you dude?" he asked.

" I was in the other bathroom on this floor," he said.

" Huh," banjomaru shrugged.

" I can explain in the Living room," D-Dude said.

The group dispered as TL was looking back at DW's door. Lunatic lagged and saw his brother, still thinking at the door. He then snapped his fingers as his a small smile spread across his face. The hedgehog ran to D-Dude, and the two were soon talking. Lunatic blinked and strung a few thoughts together in his head, trying to piece the mystery together. He then smirked and ran over to his older brothers, who also were giving him the run-down.

XXX

The Metagang was going down the staircase first to the first floor. King reached as he heard a knock on the door. He stopped suddenly, his eyes widening, pupils shrinking, fear and pulse skyrocketing, and the desire to scream was increasing more and more each second. The other members of the gang that were still alive and well weren't taking much notice because of the rain. Other Author Fighters were also stepping down the same staircase, as they heard the knocking and athud against the door several times.

" So then I said oatmeal? Are you crazy-" Ookami bumped into King. " Uh, King?"

" ONe moment . . . " he said, going to the door.

" KING NO! IT MAY BE THE KILLER!" Phoenix yelled.

King jerked the door open, a mud-covered and water sprayed teenager falling inside with a big and sickening SPLAT. The others surrounded him as KIng and Scorpion brought him more in. Dairo shooed them off and kept saying," Give the dude air!" over and over. Lilly brought over a towel and dried the mud off in a few places, revealing a lightly tanned face, blue eyes halfway closed, long blonde hair in an odd way, and a green gemstone . . .

" HARU!" the Metagang said.

Haru eased himself up slowly with one arm, groaning in pain, sharpened nerves scattering in his body. Mirasuka hugged him as she cried.

" Haru I was so worried!" she said, crying rivers of tears. " I may know this sounds crazy as of right now but I was sick of you not beigna round, and I was worried that you were dead! I'm so happy that you're okay . . ."

Haru braced a hand on her, as he mumbled something, the others nearing to hear what was so important, and inside of their minds, other questions were also popping up: Why was Haru covered in mud? Why did his arm look so broken? Why was he outside in the first place? Did he see anything? What this REALLY Haru? Was there going to be an epic battle?

" I-I . . . "

" Yes?" Mira asked.

" I-I was . . ."

" Yeah buddy?" Dairo wsa clearing the mud off.

Haru coughed, getting a fever from the chill of the mud and water, then said," I-I saw . . . who grabbed me . . . th-through the trap d-d-door . . ."

" See? This place is FULL of trap doors and holes, like The Room," Air said.

(Beat)

Everyone glared at Dairo, who turned off a stereo. He laughed nervously as Haru glared, but he swayed back and forth, getting sicker. Mira caught him and fell on top of him, making him groan, because something precious was nearly hit . . . and with him being sick, that would have been a double whammy. The others in the room cringed, Haru and Mira still talking.

" Well? Who is it?" she asked, looking more and more worried.

" It was . . . i-t . . . w-a-s . . . . . s.s.s . . . " he passed out.

Silence.

Rain poured down as thunder boomed outside in the darkness.

" Seriously . . . " Tal said, arms crossed. " Cock tease."

" You said it brother," Janera smirked, then said," You like to beat down nerds who think they're better than anyone?"

Tal laughed as the group got into the living room, some going to help Haru get clean and healthy again.

XXX

The rain was continuing as the whole group, or what was left of it, was now in the main living room, sitting around and looking fearful. The only sounds were the ticking of the clock, slow and slower, and the pitter-patter of the rain as it landed on the panes and glass. The large tree outside was still there, the barracade it was.

The living room couch had Phoenix, Goddess, DJ and Dairo. On the chair was DP and Hikari, who was hugging him out of fear. On the other couch was Haru, still recovering from his fever and was now cleared of mud, but for some odd reason or another, he had a large scar over his eyes and his forehead in an odd cresent shape. Mira, King, Scorpion and Ookami were behind it, Banjomaru looking over the dead body of Kiva, which was now frozen with rigor mortis.

On the rug sitting together was Dawn and Jiro, Dawn still shaking minorly with flashbacks to finding Nukid that very same morning. Rook and Wandrex, along with Lilly and Trisha, were standing next to Tia Harribel by the fireplace silence being their stone cold alliance. Janera and Tal were standing beside the door of the living room, looking like the old Farmer and his Wife. Tanuki was looking outside at the rain falling, sighing now and again silently. Advent was beside her, his scythe missing from his side. Mora was beside Tal and Janera.

AirNaruto, Kitten and Marcus were sitting in front of the couch Haru was out cold on, looking on in complete confusion at the scene. Ranger was leaning on the arm of the chair DP and Hikari were on. Lunatic was nearest his brothers TL and D-Dude, who were standing in the main opening of the circle, D-Dude scanning everyone and everything quickly. TL was smirking, unknown intelligence behind his and D-Dude's eyes, alongside Lunatic, Dairo, Ranger and a few others.

" Glad to see everyone here," TL smirked wider. " D-Dude, Loon and I have been talking, and I think we got the mystery just about wrapped up, alongside others in here, but we can lead and see what goes on. Everyone cool with it?"

" I'd like to see what we all gathered," DP said, nodding to them. " I'm sure comparing notes right now is exactly what we need to do. Go ahead, TL, DD."

" Thanks Boss whiz," TL gave a salute.

" FIVE years, TL, FIVE years . . . " DP groaned. " Even DURING this, please give it a break!"

TL laughed as D-Dude whacked the back of his head with his tail, making the hog yelp.

" Hey! What the-?"

" Saw a stink-bug."

" HAHAHA!" Lunatic laughed falling over.

" Enough of the gags for once, let's get this party started," Rook said annoyed.

" Ooh, Mister Snippy," King raised a brow at him, laughing lightly.

" SHUT UP!" Rook yelled at him.

" YOU BOTH SHUT UP!" Trisha yelled annoyed.

" Everyone needs to shut up!" Ranger yelled.

" SHUT UP!" Dawn groaned.

" You shut your mouth!" Advent ran over swinging his scythe.

" ENOUGH!" Kitten yelled, then coughed and said," Um, TL? Can you go ahead and go on here? Big Double D?"

There was a silence as the hog and dragonsaur cleared their throats. The lights dimmed as lightning and thunder struck once the clock struck at five o'clock on the dot. D-Dude took out his notes as TL pulled a familiar fedora out of his hammerspace. A few of the Metagang laughed mildly, seeing where the scene was going. Ranger rolled his eyes as Air groaned.

" Alright, first off, the first victim of the killer was XProdigy, killed yesterday night at dinnertime via a .22 caliber, which had been placed inside of the wall with a clock, that was set precisely for when the sitter in his chair would have had his head down, ready to be killed."

" I thought X WAS the dude to die," Mora said, rubbing his head. " Man, I hit the rails as I came down . . ."

" No, Dairo, my bros and I found out that X was just a victim of circumstance," D-Dude said seriously scowling. " The INTENDED victim was Wandrex, who swapped places with him to be with his girlfriend Lilly. X was shot in his stead."

Wandrex gulped as Lilly hugged him tightly.

" We all now know where X's body is, thanks to Kitten spilling what had happened to it," Lunatic said smugly. " She spilled the beans! Hikari, Tia and her herself buried him outside in the rain last night and he is still out there. She used the spell and THAT was why there wasn't any blood."

Kitten was quivering as HIkari smiled and nodded to her, Tia also nodding. Kitten smiled and calmed down.

" The next victim was Nukes," Dairo said," and he died by bein' stabbed by Janera's sword."

" But I couldn't kill anyone, I could never kill anyone!" Janera yelled.

" Exactly, so we all know it can't be you, Janie," TL said.

Janera glared. " ONLY Drac calls me that . . ."

" Drac who?" Tal asked confused.

" Her vampire prince boyfriend," Mira answered bluntly.

" What the hell?"

" But that also posed another question: why would the killer use Janera's own bankai sword as a murder weapon?" D-Dude asked, glancing towards her. " It was but only a small piece of the puzzle, nothing more than a frame-up."

" So what?" Janera groaned," SOME one was gonna frame me?"

" The sword hilt was also totally clean," Dawn said, remembering, and nodding," No smudged or scent or anything."

" Precisely Dawn," D-Dude nodded.

" So, whoever did it was swearing gloves or cleaned it off," HIkari said, nodding.

" The so-called third victim was Haru when he went missing a few hours ago, but let's remember HOW we all found him . . . " TL said aloud. " Muddy, scratched up, and outside. That means either he did something, something happened to him, or he was jsut roaming around."

" Yeah, be thankful he's asleep," Tanuki said to him. " Epipheral demons BURN back."

There was minor laughter as TL steamed.

" The fourth victim was Kiva," Lunatic said. " He died when he drank that soda, then had a grande mal seizure then died. Is it grande mal?"

" GRAND mal, dude," Banjoamru bopped his head," and I checked the soda. it had laced components of adrenaline and some other types of insulin-filled drugs that were meant for a person with diabetes, which means that yes, someone spiked his soda, or maybe all of the sodas."

" Thank GOD I didn't go Cornholio," Rook said.

" It was only one specific type of soda that was spiked when I checked though . . . just the kind my cousin liked," Banjoamru sighed sadly.

" That pretty much meant anyone, not just him, would have touched the sodas," Ranger said," and that also meant more than one death. What the fucking hell, man?"

" Cluster F-bomb?" Janera laughed.

" Gun shot to the head?"

" Shutting up . . ."

TL groaned, then straightened up. " The fifth and sixth victims were my own brother and Rook, who had knives thrown at them earlier today when the lights blew."

" Someone cut those wires with either wire cutters or a sharper object," DP said standing," Whoever did so would have knows that the groups were already splitting up, had good aim with wide-range to short range projectiles and would have had a good motive to kill them."

" Right on the dime, Boss Whiz," TL laughed.

" DARN IT TL!" DP yelled.

The others laughed loudly this time. Phoenix fell off of the couch laughing so hard.

" This is turning into a Dean Martin celebrity roast!" Advent laughed.

Air looked up shaking his head," Alright, enough with the jokes and fights you guys . . . . let's just get back to normal here . . ."

" Right . . . DW was the seventh victim, and we ALL saw what happened to him in the bathroom . . ." TL shivered. " Dude did not need to go that way . . ."

The others nodded.

" He was hacked by something sharp, so, maybe we're dealing with MORE than one killer and possibly MORE than one weapon, aside from Janera's obvious sword?" Mira asked.

" I don't think so . . ." Ranger said," Look at it from a perspective . . . more than one? We'd see that, and more than one murder? I think that's literal overkill."

" You pulling the wool over my eyes?" Scorpion laughed.

" You pulling a visual pun?"

" No, THIS is a visual pun!" Dairo said, pulling out a 'Hang in there Baby' cat poster, a few people only blinking. The rain was already the only sound, alongside a cricket noise. " So, anyone feelin' somethin' from the poster joke or was this a waste? I-I'm workin' on new gags."

" Hit and miss," Rook shrugged.

" Not so funny," Lilly and Trisha said at once.

" Meh," TL shrugged.

" Oh, then this was a misfiah . . ." Dairo said, then put the poster in a pocket.

D-Dude shook his head as he said," Well, the final and eighth victim was Ross, because he's gone missing, and we couldn't find any evidence to where or how he vanished," D-Dude said.

Everyone was talking as TL then smirked, his eyes sparking.

" NOW, I think I got the identity of the killer . . ."

Everyone gasped silently.

" THE KILLER IS-"

CLING!

A gun was cocked to the back of TL's head.

To be continued! And apologies to everyone!