Disclaimer: I don't own 'em. Just borrowing them for mine and others' entertainment. They belong to Marvel and the Kid's WB. This is purely out of writing enjoyment.

Author's Note: Hey again! I'm back! Sorry I haven't been updating a lot quicker! For awhile there, I kinda lost my dedication to this story - but I promise you I never leave any of my stories undone! I've been really busy with school lately and midterms are this week so the next chapter might take awhile longer, but I will try as hard as I can to get it out sooner! So I will finish this - I was trying to make this a really good chapter with the impact and all… you'll see! Whew…lol, anywho, enough of my ramblings (and I thought I had nothing to say!) Thanks to those who reviewed the last chapter - they are still greatly appreciated…and for those who are forgetting to review; I'm not trying to be picky or force you too, but I just want to know what y'all think! So please review this chapter, k! Anywho, I need to stop talking and get on with the show already! Sorry about that! Read, Review, and *ENJOY!* ^__^

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Lily Knotwise of Michel D: Now you know I can't just tell you who the three figures are! You have to guess and I promise the wait for that is over anyhow…this chapter hopefully reveals all!! Thanks for the great reviews and glad you're still enjoying it! ^__^

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Fright Fest

By: pinkchick

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Chapter 6

"Pull me up higher, wouldja?" Kitty asked as she balanced herself calmly. She had no idea why she was doing this to begin with.

"I'm trying, ok," Scott replied as he gritted his teeth and pushed his body up further. Kitty was trying to reach up to the corner to see if she could see through the structure that looked like a door or open it. Scott was trying his best to keep her balanced, but she kept on moving. "Would you stop moving your feet, please?" he asked as he gripped her ankles even harder to keep her from falling. Kurt sat on the floor next to them, apparently amused at what his friends were attempting to do. "Just a little further, ja?!" Kurt asked, a sloppy grin on his furry, blue features.

Scott stopped trying to pull Kitty up and they both turned to give him a glare. "Shut up, Kurt!" they both snapped in unison.

Kurt put his hands up defensively. After the two stopped glaring and returned to what they had been doing before, Kurt grinned again. He just couldn't help it. Then his mind returned to the situation that they were currently positioned in and the grin disappeared from his face. It was replaced with a look of confusion and fear. He looked up at Scott and Kitty again as they both struggled to get the door at the top corner open. So far, it hadn't budged. Since he couldn't help them out with this, Kurt decided to search the room and maybe find an alternative way out instead. He picked himself up off of the floor and walked around towards the nearest wall.

Kurt again noticed all of the paintings that were hanging there. It was awkward that Professor Xavier had all these ancestors and he never seemed to mention any of them. He also failed to mention this room. Kurt sighed and walked down the side of the wall. He traced his finger along the sides as he walked. Something caught his eye and he stopped walking. Kurt turned to stare at the painting hanging before his very eyes. His mouth fell and he just stood there - speechless. The painting in front of him consisted of a man and five children. There was something very familiar about the children.

Across the other side of the room, Kitty and Scott still struggled to open the latch, but obviously to no avail. Then suddenly, Kitty squealed. "I think I, like, got it!"

"Really?" Scott asked. He steadied her even more as kept a firm hold on her feet; the same feet that were digging into his shoulders. Scott bit his lip. He heard her try and snap it open, but then she started swaying and he couldn't hold her anymore. Scott's knees painfully gave way from under him as he heard Kitty give a shriek and they collapsed to the dusty floor beneath them.

"That was graceful," Scott stated in sarcasm as he rubbed his knees and shoulders painfully. He turned and looked at Kitty. "You ok?"

Kitty twisted her mouth and got up from on top of Scott's feet. "Yeah, I think you, like, broke my fall again." She gave him a half smile and they helped each other up. "So, like, how are we gonna get out of here now?"

"I think I have an idea that I should've used before, but first we--"

"Scott! Keety! Zis is very creepy! Come here quick!" Kurt exclaimed as he called over his two friends to come over and join him. When Scott and Kitty reached his side and looked at him in confusion, Kurt just pointed at the painting he had been looking at. Scott and Kitty did as they were instructed to and looked at the picture. There in the picture were exact replicas of Scott, Jean, Rogue, Kurt, and Kitty in younger, old fashioned versions. The three friends just gaped at the picture and then at each other. As they continued to stare, they're eyes moved down to look at the date of the painting: 1703.

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The candle's dim light illuminated the hallway and seemed to transfix itself on the three figures in front of the remaining group of people on that floor. Tabitha, Amara, Lance, and Jamie just stared wide eyed at the three ghosts - or rather mutants in front of them. Tabitha was the first to recover as she blinked her eyes.

"Bobby!" she exclaimed, her throat still raw from being so silent before.

"Ray!" Amara was next to recover as she did a double take on the young man with blond and orange hair in front of her.

"Sam!" Jamie squeaked as his eyes widened even more.

It was amazing - standing in front of them were indeed Bobby, Ray, and Sam. The three shrugged at their friends. They all had a sloppy grin on their faces and a bright light that was flickering in their eyes; as though they had just achieved something. Bobby's smile broadened at the sight of the surprise in their features and their expressions. But when their features turned into that of anger instead of fear, Bobby's grin disappeared. He started backing up along the side of the hall, his hands up in his defense against the four angry people in front of him.

"C'mon, guys! I bet you were really surprised weren't you? Scared too, I bet!" Bobby laughed nervously. "I swear, it was just supposed to be a prank, I promise! We didn't mean any harm to anyone, really. You, uh, believe us…don't you?"

Tabitha's fist clenched tighter as she advanced towards them, motioning for the rest to follow her. They closed the gap between themselves and the three so called ghosts. Bobby, Ray, and Sam backed up into the wall behind them. By then, they had dropped their white costumes and their eyes were wide with genuine fear. Irony as it would seem that the three trying to scare were being scared themselves.

"Oh, yeah, Bobby. We believe you," Tabitha sneered at him.

"Guys, really, it wasn't supposed to be this way. You know we would never want to hurt you. Honest!" Bobby pleaded with the group as they backed him and the rest of the 'ghosts' into the wall.

Tabitha, Lance, and Jamie inched ever closer with a look on their faces that could kill. They had been scared to death, half of the time thinking that it was some mystical creature, only to find out that it had only been Bobby, Ray, and Sam. The three, conniving, scheming, lying, pathetic, evil doing trio that called themselves mature mutants. They had definitely had enough. When they were close enough to the three now terrified boys, they grinned evilly, but a spiraling shout stopped them cold in their tracks. They all turned around to come face to face with a bright red Amara, who in the dim candlelight that bounced off of the walls, looked like she was going to explode with rage.

"STOP IT!" Amara cried. "Do you realize how pathetic we're being?"

"Excuse me?!" Tabitha inquired, talking to Amara from behind her but keeping her narrowed eyes trained on the impishly pale Bobby in front of her. "Pathetic?! Amara! We're just gonna give these guys what they deserve after what they did to us!"

"But Tabitha look at them." Amara pointed to the frightened and now sweating trio in front of her best friend. Now, Amara didn't necessarily like what they had done to them. Okay, she didn't like it at all, but someone had to be the voice of reason; and if it were going to be her, then so be it. By beating on Bobby, Ray, and Sam and scaring them, they were being just as pathetic as the boys who were in on trying to pull some sort of insipid prank. She had to put a stop to this before someone gets hurt unintentionally. "If we scare them, we're being just as bad as they have been."

Tabitha raised her fist and gritted her teeth as Bobby shut his eyes, scrunching his face to wait for the first blow. It never came. When Bobby opened his eyes he believed he had been saved by someone who really loves him up there; Tabitha was still standing in front of him, but she had lowered her hand. Bobby breathed a sigh of relief and pushed past her to stand next to Amara, Jamie, and Lance. He gave Lance a closer look, then raised his eyebrows at the Brotherhood member. "Hey! What are you doing here?"

Lance brushed him off and continued looking forward. "Long story." He then turned to Bobby and glared at him. "What made you think of pulling this prank off anyways?"

"Heh, I just figured that the adults were out, so, uh, why not have some fun, right?" Bobby answered. He still received a glare and Bobby gulped.

"Yeah, ok, whatever! Now, c'mon, where's everyone else?" Jamie asked them. The three just shrugged. "I know you guys took them so we would assume that they had disappeared. C'mon guys, pranks over. You can come out now!"

"Jamie, man. What are you talking about?" Ray asked him, moving over to where the younger boy was standing.

"Don't play dumb with us. We know you have everyone else. You can tell them they can stop hiding now!" Jamie stated.

Sam gave him a confused look. "Jamie, we really don't know what you're talking about. Honest."

"Wait a minute. You mean to tell us that everyone is missing and you don't know where they disappeared to?" Ray asked incredulously.

"Not exactly!" Tabitha exclaimed. She lowered her eyes towards the floor. She was trying not to panic - this just couldn't be happening. If Bobby, Ray, and Sam were telling the truth, than something was terribly wrong. She was more in shock than she was showing visibly. Her heart wrenched and she began slightly shaking. "We figured that everyone was in on your prank because Scott, Kitty, and Kurt were the first to disappear. They went to get some flashlights and they never came back."

Bobby gulped. He didn't know what to make of this. Almost all of his friends were missing and he was trying to pull some stupid prank just for the fun of it. In all honesty, he didn't know what went on after he, Ray, and Sam left. The really freaky thing about it is that when they went to short out the electricity, the wires had already been snapped. He wandered closer to the group now. "Wh-who else is missing?"

"Everyone who's not here. Jean, Rogue, Roberto…"

"And Amanda!" Amara cried out in fear. Her cry pierced the air as she cut Tabitha off and everyone turned to look at her. The dim candle's light was still casting eerie shadows across the wall, letting them move in a strange and pivoted motion. Amara widened her eyes in sudden realization. Amanda was no longer with them. It was strange - no one had heard her disappear. Not again. They couldn't have lost another person, not now. Her eyes widened even more in dawning as she came to the realization that she had heard a scream while they were trying to fight off the boys.

"Amanda was here?!" Bobby asked. Jamie nodded. This was just perfect. Not only were they losing mutants, but they also had a normal human missing too. With any luck, in Bobby's negative mind, they'd all end up on the six o'clock news with a headline that read: 'Mutants Involved in Witchcraft Kill off Human'. Bobby shook his head. No, he couldn't think like that. They weren't going to die - not if he could help it.

Everyone's eyes glanced across the entire hallway. Back and forth their eyes scanned in search for the only human that would ever bother to step foot in their home. As the flame licked at the tip of the candle, everyone's fears were confirmed. Amanda was nowhere to be found. Before anyone could utter a word a loud crash was heard from the end of the hall. Everybody jumped at the sound and immediately grouped together. If the saying is true then safety in numbers is the best plan they all had right about now.

At the end of the hallway there stood a large dark shadowy creature. It looked to be the same one that attacked Jamie, Amara, and Tabitha before; but this time, it was twice as large. As the group gaped at it, they started to back away. The shadow didn't look very happy. Everyone clung to each other for dear life until the unthinkable happened. Bobby stopped moving and stepped forward. They all gaped at him. He didn't look terrified; in fact, he had a smile plastered on his face and with a renowned confidence he moved closer to the figure.

"Bobby! Whaddya think you're doing?!" Amara practically screeched.

Bobby's smile widened as he moved closer. "It's ok Amara, I know what I'm doing!" Now only a couple of feet away, Bobby stopped in his tracks. "Ok Roberto. Prank's over, you can come out now!" Bobby waited for Roberto to answer, but no reply came.

"Bobby… I don't think that that's Roberto," Jamie whispered from behind him.

"Of course it is. Roberto was in on the prank the whole time!" Bobby smirked. Tabitha rolled her eyes behind him in annoyance. "Roberto, c'mon, man. The prank's over, you can take that stupid black blanket off now." Still no reply.

Bobby's smile slowly disappeared as the shadowy figure moved closer. Bobby gulped. "Roberto! This isn't funny, man! Prank's over!" The figure still didn't respond and inched a few steps closer. The black shadow was not Roberto at all. Everyone behind him widened their eyes in fear. Bobby was ready to turn around and run when the black figure circled around him. Before Bobby knew what was happening, he let out a terrified scream and disappeared amongst the black shadow.

The shadow seemed to smile in satisfaction, even though it didn't really have a face. It was just black, a swirling evil darkness. Looking down at where Bobby had just been, it glanced back up at the group of teenagers before it. It moved closer to them, so close that it could taste their fear.

The six teens gaped at what they had just seen. The black shadow had seemed to just swallow Bobby up. Still in shock over what had happened to their friend, they did not notice the eerie black figure approaching to finish it's job. By the time the teens fully took in what was happening, they were engulfed by pure darkness. The shadow creature drowned out their piercing screams as they all, including the black shadow, disappeared into thin air. The candle's flame died as the wind blew, lightning struck, thunder clattered, and the rain began to fall.