"Whoa, whoa, don't just pull it out!" Sparklez hissed, shoving it back at Jesse and nearly hitting her in the stomach, "it's a really, REALLY sensitive topic, here!" He was looking around wildly, as if in a massive panic.

Jesse, bewildered, quickly stowed away the flint and steel as Sparklez thought for a moment, eyes becoming rather thoughtful.

"Hey!" he said suddenly, making all four of them jump again, "I think I'm starting to see what's going on here!"

And he trotted off, making Jesse and the others follow him. Jesse shot a rather confused look to her friends, and got an equally confused look right back. None of them had any idea what he meant. Great.

"Everyone? Everyone!" Sparklez called out, as everyone quickly got into seats. Dan and Lizzie remained sitting in their chairs at the back of the table, while Sparklez got into the seat at the head of the table. Cassie sat next to his right, Stampy sat next to Cassie, and Stacy sat between Lizzie and Stampy. Ivor sat at Sparklez's left, Lukas sat next to Ivor, and Petra sat next to him. Jesse stood next to Sparklez.

"Jesse and I have figured something out," Sparklez said, raising his voice, "Whoever killed TorqueDawg, whoever invited us... they're after the enchanted flint and steel-"

He was suddenly catapulted backwards, everyone letting out yells of shock, his seat back slamming into the floor as he pitched head over heels into a large hole that had opened up right behind him, before the chair slid back into place. Hearing pistons moving, Jesse looked up as several huge blocks of sand slammed into the floor where Sparklez had just fallen.

"No!" Jesse yelled, starting forward- and then the room was plunged into utter darkness, except for a small patch of floor around Petra, whose eyes were wide as saucers. Even then, Jesse's eyes couldn't see anything- her night vision was useless!

"Panicpanicpanicpanicpanic-"

"What just happened?!"

"Stampy! Pull yourself together!"

"-panicpanicpanicpanicpanic-!"

"I can't see!"

"Sparklez!"

"Somebody get the lights!" Jesse practically bellowed.

A moment later, her wish was granted- but the room was washed in a pale blue, eerie light that gave off an incredibly chilling atmosphere, along with the white pumpkin heads that had replaced the lights.

The most noticeable difference was the one you wouldn't spot immediately, but once you did see it you couldn't forget it- the painting of the zombie riding the chicken was gone. And in it's place was the figure Jesse had seen in the window earlier.

"Greetings," a voice growled, echoing throughout the room, "adventurers. I... AM THE WHITE PUMPKIN."

Sparklez's inventory had floated up to the floor in front of them, as the 'White Pumpkin' continued, in that horribly gravelly voice, "One of you has the treasure I desire... and I will not rest until it is mine!"

Sparklez's stuff went down a hopper, as the voice continued, "even if I have to resort..." The lights flickered out, and when they came back on a figure wearing a white pumpkin head and wearing a strange outfit was standing where the painting had been previously. "TO MURDER!"

"Whoa!" Petra yelled, starting back a step.

"More panicking, more panicking!" Stampy... er... panicked.

"'White Pumpkin'?" Lizzie wondered.

"I'm too cute to die!"

The lights flickered out once again, and when they came back on the painting of the White Pumpkin was back in place, thunder cracking through the sky as lighting sliced open the dark rainclouds.

"They killed Sparklez!" Dan yelled, eyes wide, "they killed Sparklez!"

Stampy babbled something that was unintelligible and went sprinting away, waving his arms in a hot panic. Lukas's tail was bushed up, but he turned to Stampy, alarmed. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on! Hang on!" he shouted, whipping around to see Stacy backing away, shaking. "This is awful! Terrible!"

"Who was that guy?!" Cassie cried out.

"And there's no such thing as 'white pumpkins'!" Dan added, as Stampy came sprinting back around, still in a hot panic. "Tell that to the white pumpkins hanging all over the place!" Stampy almost screeched at the top of his lungs.

Cassie had curled up into a ball against the wall, rocking in the corner. "I don't like it! I really don't like it!" she bawled.

"I saw him in the window when we first got here!" Jesse shouted out over the panicking.

"You mean he's been in here the whole time?!" Cassie's voice had risen to hysterical levels, as she now unfurled to her feet, racing away, "I'm so getting out of here!"

Winslow bolted after his red-haired master, meowing loudly as he chased after her, the gang watching after her. A moment later, a loud scream rang out from Cassie, and Jesse dropped to all eights and bolted for the door of the dining room, Petra flying into the air and Lukas sprinting after her. "I don't like the sound of that," Ivor said rather darkly, racing after them.

Jesse slammed through the door, to see Cassie backing away from the front doors, shaking like a leaf as zombies lurched towards the doorway.

Jesse reacted faster than she'd ever reacted before- her legs were moving, and she was tearing across the floor, before unfurling to her feet and practically slapping the lever so that it flipped, slamming the iron doors shut.

Lukas skidded over, his tail still standing on end as Winslow meowed piteously. He meowed back, and listened as Cassie carefully picked up her cat, before hugging the cat as tightly as she could without hurting him. "So, we're stuck in here," she said, shakily, "and if we're stuck in here, we're all doomed!"

The others meekly meandered through the doorway, Jesse's lungs still heaving to gasp in some air. "Not... necessarily," she panted out.


"I thought I heard Sparklez say something about flint and steel?" Stacy asked, all of them sitting on the chairs in the living room, but none of them actually relaxing. Lukas's tail was still bushy as he paced around the room nervously, and Petra was so twitchy that she'd managed to set one of the chairs on fire by accident. Ivor's already pale face was even paler than usual.

"Oh, please don't bring that up again," Stampy said, uneasily.

"Well, obviously TorqueDawg didn't steal it," Lizzie responded, rather flatly.

Dan frowned a bit. "Okay, but WHO then?"

"Uh... Jesse?"

Jesse looked over at Lukas, whose tail had gone very, very bushy once again. She followed his gaze to see another one of the X-ed out portraits.

But what made her stomach go stone cold was the fact that TorqueDawg's was next to Sparklez...

And next in line was Ivor.

A/N: Oh, the tension is rising... hope you're all ready.

Toni42: Thanks! And yeah, I had the same idea xD

DemonCatLady: Ooh, maybe I'll have them do that in the next filler chapter... (sparkling eyes)

Kaos Ruin: Ehhh sorry :/ and thanks xD

Guest: Lol xD

rebekahtpe: Freaking out on the inside, Rebekah. xD And feline.

Guest: ?

A Person: Aw, thank you!

NoItsBecky: Hehe xD

TheRealRedGaming: Well, Jesse was incredibly attached to Reuben, so for her to eat pork is like basically asking her to cut off her own arm. And also she just doesn't like meat in general, for some reason. That's my weird headcanon here, since she loves potatoes so much xD

angelwings: Yays!

GuestPerson13: Lols xD And me neither

RapidAndCrispy: Why are you confused? (waits patiently) And why not? xD Probably will. Petra's not one to pass up an opportunity to make her friends blush.

x.X. A.L. X.x.

100 chapter special! (sadly not canon in the actual story, just a funny little oneshot I thought up for all you Lukesse shippers out there. Once again can still be taken as overly chummy friendship.)

Lukas was sitting in the dining room. Jesse had gone off to go take a quick rest from all the interviewing and was sitting in a corner, quietly.

He heard meowing, and looked down to see the little calico cat looking up at him. "Oh, hey Winslow."

More meowing.

"I told you I don't have a girlfriend earlier."

Meow.

"And no, Jesse is not my girlfriend!"

More meowing and a soft purr.

"No, she's not my ex! We're just friends, Notch!"

Another meow and a couple hisses.

"Look, I will give you a fish if you stop bugging me about my love life!" Lukas said, his face now bright red.

A moment of silence before there was another meow. Lukas let out a groan and slapped his palm to his face.

"Whatcha guys talking about, Lukas?"

Lukas jumped and nearly hit himself in the face with his arms, tail going bushy. "GAH!"

Jesse smirked at that. "Glad to see I'm scary," she teased him gently.

"Oh, shut up," and he scowled at her, although he ruined it a moment later when he smiled. Jesse chuckled and sat down next to him, rubbing her fingers through his hair. "I know things are all stressful right now with all this... TorqueDawg business, but we've earned a bit of a break, haven't we?" she said mildly, stroking him absentmindedly.

Lukas's eyes went rather dreamy. "Mm-hm," he hummed happily.

He met Winslow's eyes almost sleepily. If smugness was possible to have on a cat, Winslow's face would be chock-full of it.

"Yeah, yeah, laugh it up," Lukas grumbled softly at the calico cat, who seemed to snigger. Or, well, the cat's equivalent of a snigger anyway.

"Hm?"

Lukas leaned into Jesse's petting, closing his eyes as the soothing feeling he always got when Jesse petted him settled over him like a warm blanket. "Nothing."