I bet you guys are super eager to find out what is wrong with Mara. Well here's chapter 10.

MICK'S POV:

'M...Ma...Mara?' I said, hoping my eyes were playing tricks on me but as I looked around the room everyone's expression was the same as mine.

Tears stained my cheeks as more and more rolled down them. I couldn't bear to look, it was suffocating me.

'She's like me!' Joy exclaimed. But it was true. Mara floated there before us as nothing but an apparition of her soul- as Joy had described.

'Who did this to you?' I screamed and met her sad, confused eyes. They were no longer the normal luscious brown but just a flow of dull grey.

'It is Rufus, you are all in more danger then you originally thought. All this is to do with his plan.' The voice of Mara's ghost said, but it wasn't the same as my Mara's.

'What...What do you mean...M...Mara?' Jerome stuttered. She turned her translucent head towards him.

'Rufus is creating his own elixir!'

FABIAN'S POV:

'It has been three hours since the call, where are they?' I asked Nina who just seemed as blank as I felt. 'What if something bad happened?' I continued and Nina's blank look suddenly turned very irritated.

'Don't you dare think that, they're our friends, and like you always say we can't think negative? Fabian if you give up, what am I suppose to do?' Nina yelled. She looked tired, afraid, depressed. Everything which hurt me to see her as.

'I...I'm not giving up. Just worried is all.' I said. She nodded her head and then looked into my eyes.

'I'm sorry. You know I didn't mean to shout. Mood swings and all this...tension.' I nodded and knew she didn't mean it, but even her comfort wasn't making me feel any better. Something just didn't feel right.

'Hey, are you ok?' I asked her as more droplets of tears ran down her cheek.

She got up and headed to the kitchen while I watched her silently. Thoughts appeared in my head about me losing her but I did my best to push them away.

I fell back into a dream state when my phone started blaring away again and a smile appeared as Mick's name appeared on the screen.

'You on your way back?' I asked quickly but knew something was up when I heard sniffs coming from what seemed to be Mick.

'Mick give me the phone.' I heard Amber say from the other line and soon enough I was talking to her.

'Amber, what is it, what's wrong?' I asked and what she told me made my heart shatter into a thousand pieces. For Mick, For Mara, And for everyone who ever knew her.

'Do you know where the body is?'I asked.

'No'

I turned around and noticed Nina staring at me. She knew something was up. Especially when I mentioned a body.

'Amber!' Nina screamed into the phone after she snatched it off me. 'W...What.' She said while more tears dripped down her face. She turned to me and her eyes were red from the tears. 'Come home now!' She screamed at Amber, and then hung up.

'She's gone.' Nina then said to me and I nodded.

'But, how's Rufus making an elixir from killing...' I didn't know how to finish the sentence.

'I don't know.' she said, saving me from finishing what I started. 'All I know is we need to stop him. For Mara's sake, Mick's sake, Joy's sake, my sake, well everyone's sake.' I agreed with her. Rufus needed to be brought down. Otherwise it wasn't going to end pretty.

AMBER'S POV:

'Nina wants us to come home.' I said quietly. We were all shaken up from what we had just encountered. Mick especially. He just lost the love of his life because of some guy who wants immortality.

As I turned around another squeal escaped from my mouth. Ghosts were everywhere of people we had never known. There were many around our age and some even younger. There was a little girl who was probably only four, now dead, now nothing but whatever you call this is our horribly depressing world.

Tears stung everyone's eyes, as during the walk to the car the ghost eyes followed us.

It was a long drive home. Long and silent.

It had taken some time to convince Mick to leave. He was shattered and desperate to find Mara's remains. The thought of that just made me shiver. One of my best friends...is gone, again. It is Joy all over again. Except no one can face Mara's ghost, as we know that isn't Mara from the experience of Joy's ghost.

The thought of Joy's ghost made me begin to wonder where she had gone. The disappearance of her for three years had been unusual and still remains as a mystery.

This world had changed so much in the past four years of my life, but I couldn't imagine it any different, at the same time- I hated it.

This world had gone from shopping-tastic to just completely messed up.

The car was finally parked in front of Anubis House where, both Nina and Fabian lay snuggled on the couch sad and confused, as we all were.

As we arrived back we piled into the main living room. Where all the emotions from the past event hit us like a bullet. We were all in tears, even the guys. Mick wasn't crying, but he didn't look alive at all. He seemed to just lay there lifeless but I'd probably be even worse if I lost Alfie. He was my one and only as well.

It felt like hours were passing by in single minutes, but no one wanted to move. No one wanted to do anything. As much as we wanted to rewind time, we couldn't. Many what if's trailed all our minds-What if we got there sooner, what if Sibuna never told Mick and Mara about this, what if we never returned to this house?

More tears ended up puddle on the floor when Joy's whatever she was returned. She was emotionless as always but some kind of expression on her did seem to be known.

'Past Sibuna members, I have just discovered something that will help us. I know how Rufus is making the elixir.'

That is chapter 10. I've realised my story has suddenly changed from happy engagement to dark murder. But do you guys like that; I guess you could call it a twist. My trick is to just make it up as you go along.

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