~~~~~~~~~~Here's a good chapter in my opinion and I had fun writing it too. Thanks Angel, Taz, and Chaotic Boredom. I pick songs that sound cool enough to put in the story.Oh yeah Fred is still with the B-Hood, the friend of Duncan named Fred was the first thing to pop into mind. Just to clear things up.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~



Xanaphia went to bed early that night. She sat up in bed nursing her injured shoulder. "Midnight what should I do? About leaving here and going with Victor," she said. Midnight flew over and landed on Xana's bed.

"I can't always choose your paths for you." Xanaphia sighed and put the medical case away. "Just follow your instints or your heart," cawed Midnight. She glared at the raven.

"How can you say that Midnight! You should have known better than to use those words. I don't have instints like you do and I surely don't have a heart anymore. Since over the years my heart went from warm and happy to misery and cold," stated Xanaphia. Midnight knew that but everyday that went by she hoped Xanaphia would be her old self again.

Midnight went to her cage to sleep for the night not wanting to anger Xanaphia more. "I'll tell Victor tomorrw what I want to do,' she said and then let sleep take her away.

A little girl who was about 5, was sleeping in bed when noises from the other room woke her. She wore a pink nightgown for pijamas and she grabbed her favorite stuffed animal, a bunny she named Hopper. She opened her bedroom door and crept out into the hallway. The noises sounded more frightening then before.

As she moved silently through the hall to see what was going on. She heard her mother struggling and heard her shout."Let me go. What do you want with me," her mother pleaded. The next voice she heard didn't sound like father's or her uncle's voice at all. "What I want is for everyone in this family dead." "Why? We didn't do anything to you," her mother said almost in tears. The little girl crept closer and stopped in the open doorway from the hall to the living room.

She saw the man who looked about medium height,tan,silver hair and skinny. But what was most noticable was that this stranger weilded a mechete. She knew this because her uncle had told her about many different types of weapons even though her mother dissaproved of it.

"You did nothing but that husband of yours did. He tried to kill me so what's the best revenge. Slaughter him and his family," he said with a sadistic laugh. Her mother and her were shocked to hear him. Then she realised something about the machete it had a thin cover of blood covering the entire blade. Her mother had seen her daughter watching this.

'Run Xanaphia, get out of here while you still can,' she said telepathically. Xanaphia tried to listen but was too frightened to do so. He had read Krissy's thoughts and turned his head to see Xanaphia standing there watching. "Playtime's over with," he said with a sadistic smile.

Before Krissy could do anything the intruder lifted the machete up and started slowly going over her skin, making blood appear. He started with her arms then her chest. A pool of dakr crimson blood started to form from the flesh cuts. Xanaphia just watched this murderer cut her mother up while she was just a child who couldn't do nothing to help.

"Now to end the misery." He then took a step back with a hand on Krissy's head. Took the machete and with a sickening slice, chopped off her head. Her body falling to the floor already a deep pool of blood surrounding the headless body. He turned around to face Xanaphia. She saw her mother's head, a look of despair across her face.

She screammed loudly and ran past him towards the front door. "You can run but you can't hide cuz I'll find you wherever you go," he said, dropping the severed head and ran after her. She got out in the yard, hearing him, she picked up the pace only stopping after stepping in something. She looked down and saw more blood.

He walked up behind her and raised the machete to strike. When something tackled him. She looked to see her uncle fighting with the murderer. "Let's go now Xanaphia." She followed after the raven. Then she found out where the blood she had stepped in came from.

The severed body of her father. Limbs were sprawled out across the yard and she found the head hanging up on the tree that was the start of the woods. Tears streamed down her cheeks as it was the last time seeing her mother,father,and uncle again. But always keeping the murderer's words in mind that she'll be next so long as she lived.

Xanaphia woke up in a heavy sweat and looked at the clock which read 3:15 a.m. She decided to go get a drink from the kitchen to try and calm her down. "What are you doing up at this hour?" Xanaphia turned to see Victor up and aleart.

"I couldn't sleep well," she answered semi-truefully. He look suspiciously at her and walked up to her. "You have nightmares about the past don't you." Xanaphia couldn't believe that he was right.

"Cuz I Have the same nightmares over and over again about that one night 12 years ago," Sabretooth said. Which made Xanaphia realize that he was the only one that can help her out and understand her.

"You're asolutely right Uncle Victor and one question why are you still here?," asked Xanaphia confidently. He walked away from her like when he used to do when she was younger. She followed him to the kitchen to get the answer to her question. "I'm still here because Charles said that I could stay if I wanted to. Now answer me something Xana. Why are you so confident all of a sudden?," asked Victor sitting down.

"Because I have realized something about the murderer." Sabretooth was interested now. "What did you realize Esperanza?" Xanaphia smiled at Victor because of remembering when she was younger he used to call her that as a nickname. "The murderer looks exactly like Pietro and I migt be the only one to stop him."

Sabretooth shook his head," That's what I thought but it's not Pietro. Also, we don't know who he is or if he's still alive to be taking him on."

"Damn you're right again. How can you be right all the time Sabretooth?," she said thinking about it a little more. "Because I'm your uncle and I'm suppose to know these things. Like you need to go to back to bed and not use your injured shoulder as much as you are," he replied with a smile.

Xanaphia looked at him wondering how he knew about her shoulder besides Logan. She took his advise and went back upstairs to bed.

~~~~~~~~~Yay! Made it to chapter 20 finally didn't think I could make it this far. All thanks to my loyal reviewers*gives them all plushes of there favorite charaters*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

*Angel,Taz,Pietro, and Remy are all trying to keep Psycho bunny from attacking Lance*

Remy: Calm down chere.

Pietro: Yeah really Psycho bunny.

Angel*to Lance*: Maybe we should leave and come back later.

*Lance nodded in agreement*

Taz: Where will you two go?

Angel: Around town.

*Psycho bunny finally gets loose of Remy and Pietro. And tackles Lance to the ground*

Lance: Ok I really don't want to hurt you but you made have to.

*He knocks her to the ground*

Angel: Don't worry we'll be back in a few hours.

*Angel and Lance leave*