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Author's Note: Hey guys, it's me again! I know you're probably getting annoyed of me, but seriously I'm not that bad!! I would like to thank everyone who reviewed…and a suggestion to all--you should read very carefully because you never really know what I'm up to!! Hehe, I am evil like that, but mainly I like cliffhangers!! Anywho, I'm really starting to babble aren't I. I really love your feedback and if anybody can take any guesses, go ahead and give it a try! I have to say that everyone I put in here is for a reason! Somehow part of my sceam! Well, Read, Review, and *ENJOY!* Now, on with the show!! ^__^

Girl Number One: Thanks for my very first review for this story! It was greatly appreciated. I know there are not that many spooky stories in this section, but I love writing them! Well, in a sense this story is not mainly about Kitty. I pretty much like to write about all of the characters and I try not to focus on one. Yet for Kitty, she seemed like that kind of girl to get spooked easier than others…but if you read the prologue, pay close attention to all of the five children and you'll see a slight resemblance!

Brie: Thanks for thinking my story was interesting! At first I wasn't so sure about it, so thanks for that!

Dee Saylors: Thanks for thinking it's actually spooky. I'm trying my best to leave lots of cliffhangers and to have it as freaky as I can make it! I'm glad you like it!

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Fright Fest

By: pinkchick

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Chapter 2

The Brotherhood of Mutants walked down the long and dark dirt road. They decided to casually walk around and they'd look like random trick or treaters. Tonight, it was only Lance, Toad, and the Blob out. Pietro had insisted on going out and Wanda didn't want anything to do with them. Lance sighed for the millionth time that night. He had just realized they were heading towards the Xavier Institute. He personally didn't want to be anywhere near that mansion. He and Kitty had had a falling out a month or so before, and to say they were on good terms would be a lie.

"Hey guys, let's turn back already," Lance suggested.

"Why would we wanna do that, yo?" Toad asked. He looked ahead and saw the mansion coming into view. "Oh. Well, let's see what the X-geeks are doing anyway."

"Yeah, let's crash the party," Fred put in with a rough voice and a thick laugh.

"No, let's just go home," Lance insisted. He was about to turn his head the other way when suddenly the mansion's lights went out before his very eyes. "What the--?"

"Was that the lights?" Toad asked. Lance nodded without turning his head. A gust of wind blew past them and they all shivered.

"There's something eerie going on," Lance stated. He ran in the direction of the mansion and motioned for the other two to follow. Toad caught a fly in front of his face and smiled as he swallowed it. "No way, man, I ain't going there," Toad said, crossing his arms.

Lance rolled his eyes and grabbed Toad by the shirt and dragged him along. He let out a girlish scream and Fred slowly followed behind.

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Screams filled the living room full of mutants. It was pitch black and having the moon covered by thick storm clouds didn't help any. The guys tried to calm everyone down, but some girls still panicked and screamed. Some dark bodies collided into each other or stepped on someone's feet.

"Everyone just calm down," Scott said calmly. "The lightning must have struck one of the electrical wires. Kurt and I, we'll go find the flashlights."

"Ve vill?" Kurt asked him through the darkness. Kurt reached for Amanda's hand next to him and squeezed it in reassurance. He bent down so that he thought that he was next to her ear. "I'll be back, Amanda." He heard her nod and got up from his position.

"C'mon, Kurt," Scott ordered. Since Scott could see better in the dark than anyone else, he really had no trouble walking towards the exit. Whereas Kurt bumped into many things along the way.

Tabitha still sat there with the remote controller in her hand. She looked annoyed, but her face was eclipsed by the pure darkness illuminating the room. The movie had just begun to get better. "Great, there goes the night, guys!"

"T-that's wh-what you're worried about?" Amara asked her.

Kitty sat next to the window, frightened, as she listened to Tabitha's complaining and Kurt's shuffling body making it's way towards the entrance. She bit her fingernails as a swarm of air made it's way past her. It whipped around her body in a cold grip. Kitty shuddered. Throwing her feet over the couch's armrest, she jumped out of her seat. "Scott, Kurt, like, wait for me."

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"So, vhere are ze candles and ze flashlights, ja?" Kurt asked, grabbing the back of Scott's shirt so he wouldn't bump into anything. "I never realized zis place vas so creepy in the dark."

Kitty clung to Kurt's tale for dear life as she followed the two boys into the kitchen - or what she thought to be the kitchen. Why she had decided to follow them on their search for light was beyond her, but she didn't want to just sit there in the dark and wait. She heard Scott rummage through one of the kitchen drawers searching for a flashlight. This darkness was really starting to scare her.

"Scott, did you, like, find the flashlights?" Kitty asked, her voice quivering. She heard more rummaging.

"Yeah, I found them," Scott responded. "Kurt, wouldja loosen your grip on my shirt, please?"

"Oh, sorry," Kurt apologized. He tried to hide his face, but then realized that he was in the dark anyhow. "Keety, my tail!"

Kitty bit her lip. "Sorry, Kurt!"

"Alright guys, let me just get this thing turned on and we can…." Scott trailed off as they all heard two hard things fall to the floor and make a semi loud thud. Kurt and Kitty heard Scott bend down to the floor and start patting the floor around him.

"What did you, like, drop?" Kitty asked, her voice shaking. The only light that now accented the big kitchen was the lightning flashing outside like fireworks. Kitty secretly hoped that Scott hadn't dropped his glasses, but then again there was really no reason that they would've fallen off.

"The batteries," Scott answered. "The screws were loose - great timing, huh?"

"Let's just, like, look for them and get the heck out of here." Kitty bent down and shoved Kurt down with her as they both helped Scott to find the lost batteries in the dark kitchen. The trio crawled around the kitchen: around the breakfast table, the counters and the window seat. They had been searching for a good fifteen minutes when Scott touched a small, hard object. He tried to pick it up from the floor, but it wouldn't budge.

"What the--?"

"Vhat's wrong? Did you find it?"

"I think I found something else," Scott informed them.

"Like, what is it?" Kitty asked as she crawled over to Scott and tried to reach for the object he was talking about. She felt around for it and finally took a hold of it. She turned it and it made a strange clicking noise. "Huh?"

The events afterward were fast. The lightning outside lit the sky once again and Scott, Kurt, and Kitty jumped in horror as the thunder rumbled outside. A streak of lightning soared across the sky when the trio's faces turned very pale at the sight in front of them. It was quick, but there in front of them was a deathly pale girl with dark brown hair strewn across her face in a tangled mess. When darkness engulfed the room once more she was gone. Scott, Kurt, and Kitty let out terrified screams as another clicking noise was heard and they disappeared into the darkness. No one ever heard a thing.

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"Ugh, what is taking them so long?" Jean asked no one in particular. She shifted in her seat for the third time that night. An uneasy feeling overcoming her, she felt a pang of worry. Scott, Kitty, and Kurt had been gone for a half an hour and she couldn't even sense them anymore. She lifted her slender hands towards her temples and attempted to contact Scott telepathically. Since they shared a strong bond, she was afraid that something bad had happened. Jean couldn't sense him anymore. Nor could she contact him telepathically. Jean tried over and over again, but to no avail. Something seemed to be blocking her powers. Something…different.

"Ah can't wait here no longer," Rogue announced through the darkness. "There has ta be some candles lahyin' around here somewhere." She got up and wandered around in the heavy blackness of the living room until she found what she was looking for.

Jean knew what she was looking for and remembered that there were some candles and matches in the desk drawer near the back of the room. Why hadn't they thought of that before. Jean sighed, it was too late now. She walked over to Rogue and helped her look through the dark drawers of the desk until they finally found two long sticks and a box of matches. Lighting up both of the candles, Jean and Rogue set them in the back and one near the front of the room. The candle's lights still burned too dim for them to see everyone clearly in the big room. The darkness was still hovering outside and it only seemed to get darker.

"I'm worried about Kurt," Amanda stated, hugging herself and biting her quivering lip. She had come here to spend time with her boyfriend and he deserts her, then never comes back. "What would take them so long to find flashlights anyway?"

"Ah know whatcha mean Amanda, but they did go in the dark. It's gonna take 'em awhahle," Rogue told her, half in sympathy, and half to ease the gnawing feeling inside of her that something was oddly wrong. She turned her head to face Jean's silhouette in the dim light that outlined the room. "Jean? Have ya tried to contact any of them through telepathy?"

Jean sighed and placed her hand beneath her chin. "Yeah, I did. For some weird reason, my powers wouldn't work. There's some kind of blockage around the house or something."

"Blockage?" Tabitha asked in a concerned voice. "So your tellin' me that some kind of mystical power is surrounding the house?"

Jamie sat next to Amara listening intently to the girl's conversation. Why Tabitha thought that there was some kind of mystical power, he couldn't figure out, but he did know that this starting to creep him out. He would be the most freaked out, after all, he was the youngest and scary things weren't on his list of excitement. Three people are already missing; who knew what could happen next. Roberto sat next to him and fiddled with a piece of string. "Hey three people are already missing," he said, as if reading Jamie's mind. "Anything's believable." He flung his hands in the air after the string snapped and slammed into Jamie, who ended up in fives on the floor.

Jean shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know for sure, but I can't get through to Scott. Whatever this blockage is, it's strong. I'm sure they'll be back any time now, though."

Amara was about to open her mouth to speak when a dark outline of a shadow appeared at the window near where Kitty had been sitting. She widened her eyes, pointed at the window and screamed. All of a sudden a large crash of shattering glass awoke the mansion and it's occupants. Everyone in the room tried to duck out of the way in time. The noise abruptly stopped and everyone lifted their heads to see who the intruder was.

"Lance?" Tabitha questioned as the figure dusted off the glass shards that were covering his body. Lance Alvers stood there in all his glory smirking at them. Blob and Toad moved in to stand beside him. "What the heck are you guys doin' here?"

"We were just in the neighborhood, yo," Toad said matter of factly. "Lance saw your lights go off so we decided we should investigate the situation." Tabitha rolled her eyes at him. "Why do you guys care anyways?" she asked. All three just shrugged. Though she had lived with the Brotherhood for awhile before Mystique had reentered the game, Tabitha thought that Lance was the only smart person in the group. She thought the others were pretty much brainless losers.

"Wha didn't you losers just use the front door?" Rogue asked, raising her eyebrow and crossing her arms over her chest.

"Oh," Lance said, running a nervous hand through his brown hair. "Sorry about that. We actually did try, but uh, it was locked and the doorbell was obviously not working so I just got Blob here to bust down the window."

Blob stood triumphant as if he had just saved a person's life. A strong breeze blew past once again as it enveloped the room this time with a crisp wave of air. Amanda shuddered and hugged herself, wishing that Kurt were there to help keep her warm. Unfortunately he hadn't come back; Scott and Kitty had yet to be seen either. Amanda suddenly wished that she had stayed home and just invited Kurt over to her house.

"Thanks guys, now it's going to get even colder in here and the wind is probably going to blow out the candles." Jean stood up and paced around the room, deep in thought. "Maybe it wasn't the lightning that shut the electricity off."

"Hey, she's right!" Tabitha inquired. She crossed her legs and turned to face Jean. "Didn't Bobby and Ray say that they had just chased off those pranksters that were attempting to egg our house?"

Amara nodded and agreed with her best friend. "Yeah. But why would anyone wanna do that?"

"Hello, Amara!" Tabitha waved a hand in front of the girl's face. "We're mutants, remember? Who wouldn't wanna egg our house?"

"Enough ahlready! Wha don't we just ask the boys what those gahys said; after all, they were the ones who were there," Rogue insisted.

"Good idea, Rogue." Jean smiled. She tried to hide her worry behind her smile towards her housemate, but she sensed something else was wrong. It was something beyond what three teenage boys could play. Three normal teenage boys at least. "Let's just ask Bobby and Ray, then we could go and find Scott, Kitty, and Kurt."

Lance jumped at the mention of Kitty's name and immediately went into interrogation mode. "Wait, Kitty's missing?"

"No, she just hasn't come back from the kitchen yet. She left with Scott and Kurt to get flashlights," Amanda answered before anyone could open their mouths. She bit her lip again and closed her eyes. "I hope Kurt's okay," she whispered.

"How long has she been gone?" Lance asked slowly, not really wanting to hear the answer, but still wanting to find out about what happened to the girl that he cared about and blindly pushed away.

Jean looked down at her watch and answered, "Forty five minutes and counting. Let's just get back to the situation at hand, okay?" Jean sighed and then asked, "Bobby, Ray, what did you sense about those guys outside?"

Silence hung over the room like a thick cloud waiting for someone to walk through it and clear the air. Everyone looked around the room and squinted their eyes to see in the dim of the candlelight reflections flickering on the walls. They all waited for an answer, but none came. "Bobby, Ray? Sam, will you get them to talk. This isn't a joke!" Jean practically shouted at the top of her lungs. Thunder roared and clamored outside like it was being beaten. Lightning tore through the night and cast more light into the dimly lit room. Their eyes wandered around the room once more before they all widened their eyes; Bobby, Ray, and Sam were nowhere to be found.

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A/N: Well….tell me guys, please! I'm begging, and I'll probably be updating every week or so unless I'm really busy or something! Please review and tell what you like and what you think…your opinions are greatly valued! Thanks! ^__^