TBWKUA – Hi, I love leaving people is suspense, sorry this update came a little late. I am on holidays. And I'm bored. So very bored… I hate family holidays… all the screaming children…

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"MYST!" Ash screamed, she ran forward to aid her friend when she was thrown back by a telekinetic force that seemed to radiate from Mariah, Ash slammed into a stone wall and was instantly sickened by the impact. Ash sunk to the ground in a crumbled heap opposite from Myst who was on the other side of the ruin. Mariah had flung her at least a mile far, how was that possible?

Obviously Sue wasn't kidding when she said she had been feeding Myst's extraordinary powers to someone else. Lysander, Myst and Tancred where nowhere in sight.

Ash pulled herself upwards and crawled meekly towards a circular hole, it was a little like a tunnel. Ash didn't want to enter it unless she had to. The wind picked up and howled wildly, branches where being torn off trees and a hunting horn was sounded to signal the children to come out of the ruin, but Ash didn't have the strength for that. She was stuck.

A branch was torn savagely from a tree and slammed down next to Ash, she knew she needed to get out of here, so she did what she could. She crawled into the tunnel.

Ash hauled herself further into the tunnel, soon she felt mud between her fingertips and her head skimmed a low stone wall. What if the tunnel just stopped? She would be trapped then. Occasionally she came across skeletons of people who had become too big for the tunnel and had got themselves lodged in between the low stone ceiling and the thick mud floor.

After a while the tunnel widened and the ceiling got higher, Ash was soon able to stand upright in the tunnel, it continued to get wider and higher until it was roughly as wide as a football field and roughly as high as the chapels ceiling. The flooring changed too, someone had laid down limestone pavers over the mud and the ceiling was not stone as she expected but marble. She was in a tunnel of marble.

Ash could still hear the howling of the wind and the smashing of branches, Tancred was obviously fighting hard with Sue and Mariah.

The Pavement sloped downwards and at the bottom of the slope was a swamp

like thing. Well, it was like a muddy lake, and she couldn't see the other side, but she had to get across.

She was going to have to swim in mud.

Damn.

Just… Damn.

Ash hated the dark, she also hated deep, dark, murky water. But nether the less, she proceeded to wade into the mud-water. In the distance, she could make out two figures.

Meanwhile, back on Myst's side, Tancred and Lysander where fighting bravely, Tancred had picked up the winds and branches where being flung at Sue and Mariah but the two where more agile then they looked, having sidestepped about eighty already.

Not to mention Myst was still out cold, a rock to the head can do terrible things to a girl that has been leeched of her power for months now.

Mariah let out a wicked laugh "Well, well boys! Now your little girlfriends can see that I am the power! I am the only woman you boys will adore! Especially you, my darling Tancred!"

Tancred shuddered, and Lysander scowled, but Mariah went on, "I will rule! I will kill Mystic Archer and Ashelin-" Mariah was cut off with a shriek, a branch finally hit Mariah in mid rant, it sent her wheeling back and slammed her against a wall. She went VERY stiff. Sue disappeared with a loud crack and a dark, disbelieving scowl. Myst awoke. It was like a spell had been lifted in the event of Mariah's loss of conscience.

The trio slowly crept over to Mariah's prone form, Myst checked for a pulse but found none.

Mariah was dead.

Lysander, Tancred and Myst stood back in shock, Myst wheeled on Tancred "YOU KILLED HER! Not that I mind at all… but that's… just… at your age… I mean…" Myst didn't seem to be able to get her tongue around the words. Tancred looked ashamed "I didn't mean to, I mean… the branch… I-I…" he trailed off, in deep shock of what had happened.

"Listen, I think we should find Ash now, Tanc, it was an accident and my ancestors could have killed her too, it was always a risk, and it was one we had to take. Now come on, I think she… err… flew… this way." Lysander said awkwardly, leading the way from the clearing where they had battled Mariah and Sue.

Myst was dizzy from her little episode and demanded to know where her friend was and how they where going to get out of this.

"Do you expect the Bloors to take the death of their only daughter, their endowed daughter lying down? We are all going to die! DIE I SAY!" Myst exclaimed.

"SHUT UP! YOU SOUND LIKE ASH!" Tancred yelled. Lysander then cuffed Tancred on the head for his ending comment and exclaimed "You are both carrying on like a married couple! This is no ones fault but the Bloors and Sue's! Stop fighting each other, Sue is our enemy. Not one another."

"That was a right speech; you should be a peacemaking democrat." Myst said in an affirmative voice. Lysander and Tancred just raised their eyebrows and proceeded to trudge through the ruin.

ASH POV

The mud-water squelched unpleasantly around Ash and she made disgusted faces every time she felt something slimy underfoot. The two figures in the distance where becoming more defined with every stroke through the unpleasant water.

When Ash finally clamored up onto the limestone platform on the other side of the lake the wailing of the wind outside could no longer be heard and the two figures where mere feet in front of her. They where talking, and had obviously not noticed her, so she edged closer, keeping to the side to avoid detection.

She caught fragments of the people's conversation.

"The psychic is free"

"Cant find the Pyro"

"Young Bloor girl has failed us"

"Someone's dead"

"This is unexpected"

Ash's heart caught in her throat, what if the dead person was in fact Myst, Lysander or Tancred? What if Olivia, Gabriel, Emma or even Asa was dead? Ash found it hard to breathe, these people in front of her where clearly not friends of herself or Myst, if they caught her…

No. Don't think of that, even though you are loud, clumsy and inpatient you will NOT be caught by these people. Just keep following the tunnel, and get a good look at these people while doing it.

Ash scooted over to the opposite wall where the light from a hole in the roof reflected of the strangers faces, there was a man and a woman, Ash thought she recognized them as celebrities from a magazine. Valerie Valentine and Victor Valentine, that's who they are, they where on the front page because it was believed that they where serious drug addicts, and benefactors of Bloors. Ash sat in her thinking pose while she tried to remember what her father had said about them.

FLASHBACK

Ash's dad laughed at something Ash had said about celebrities being dumb and illiterate, he then turned rather grave.

"For many celebrities that is the case, but not for the Valentines! They are, in fact, endowed like yourself! I believe that Victor Valentine is a charmer and will bender, while his wife, Valerie Valentine, is a siren." He said gravely.

"A siren?" Ash questioned.

"A kind of beautiful woman that mainly lives at sea and has the power to claim a mans heart and grant wishes. They also have sonic voices and super strength. If you ever meet the Valentines I strongly suggest that you run in the opposite direction as quickly as you possibly can." Dad explained.

"O.K dad."

END OF FLASHBACK

Ash sat still as the scene slowly faded from her mind and realized for the first time that she was in deep trouble. These people could force her to do anything, they could force her to strangle herself. She had to get out of here quickly.

Ash made her way away from the two Valentines, who where still deeply engrossed in their conspiring to notice her. She crept across the limestone slaps until her knees where numb and sore, she saw an opening in the distance, and ran towards it, no longer fearing the Valentines, they where long behind her.

The fresh air hit her face and rejuvenated her and heightened her spirits, in the distance she could see Myst, Tancred and Lysander, all safe and sound. Not dead or hurt.

Myst exclaimed and yelled "ARE YOU OKAY! WE'VE BEEN LOOKING ALL OVER FOR YOU!" Ash laughed good naturedly and hugged her friend, who recoiled, Ash was covered in mud-water after all.

"Ash! Why are you covered in mud?" Myst queried.

"I crawled through a tunnel and had to swim across this lake-swamp thing inside it, I have so much to tell you!" Ash grinned.

"Like?" Lysander and Tancred said at the same time.

"Well, the celebrity couple, the Valentines are endowed, here and working for the Bloors. I overheard them saying that 'the psychic is free' and that they 'cant find the pyro' and then they said that someone was dead!"

Tancred shifted uneasily at these last words, sure, he hated Mariah and thought she was an absolute slut but he did feel some guilt at her death. Which he caused. Not directly, but still.

"Well, while all that was happening to you Tancred killed Mariah and Sue disappeared, I woke up and you kind of flew off, I assume that was Mariah's doing." Said Myst primly.

Ash's face could have been described as O.O but that would be an understatement.

When Ash finally found her voice she yelled "WHAT THE HELL! KILLED! IM SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS THAT GO ON PSYCHO KILLING SPREES WHEN I AM NOT AROUND! OH DEAR GOD HELP ME!"

Eventually Lysander calmed Ash down and they made their way out of the ruin. Ash claimed that the next time they had a ruin game she would nock the proclaimer unconscious. Myst silently agreed.

"Hey, Myst and I found the medal while we where trying to shift the boulders." Said Tancred lightly once they where back inside the academy walls. Ash and Lysander where pleasantly surprised and demanded to see the medal. Myst fumbled with her bag, frantically looking for the medal, she searched and re searched her bag before proclaiming "The blasted medal is lost! I can't find it!"

As if on que the boys second year music common room erupted with cheers and an exited Fidelio ran over to them, "Charlie found the medal!" he exclaimed.

The four stood in complete shock for a few seconds until Ash growled and shrieked "THAT BASTARD WILL DIE! HOW DARE HE BETRAY HIS FRIENDS AND THEN STEAL FROM US!" before storming towards Charlie's room. Lysander just managed to restrain her from breaking Charlie's nose.

"Control your psycho bitch girlfriend Lysander!" Exclaimed Charlie angrily, Lysander growled and let go of Ash completely, the said pyro walked over to Charlie and punched him in the nose, hard. There was a crunching sound and Charlie's nose started bleeding at a rapid rate.

Ash and Myst then stormed back to their dorms, but not before Myst sent numerous hard, pointy objects zooming at Charlie with her telekinetic powers.

Ash couldn't sleep that night, neither could Myst. Myst just took a sleeping pill but Ash decided to read till 2:00am. Tomorrow they would be awoken early by the shrieks of Manfred Bloor as he discovered the body of his dead sister Mariah.

TBWKUA – Ding, dong, Mariah's dead, how did she die? I wrote what you read! What happened to her body? Myst flushed it down the potty! And round and round it goes…

Ash – and they think I'm weird!

Myst – you probably think this story is ending, well, IT IS JUST BEGINNING!

Ash - MUAHAHAHAHAHA!

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