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Authors Note: Wow! Good turnout for a first chapter! Please review, so I can get some feedback, and also suggest who I should 'bump off' next, as soon our group of twelve will be a little short handed. If you know what I mean...(laughs maniacly).

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lilmaniac- ithiell? either way...thanks for reviewing. hopefully you'll get some- er...inspiration. (smiles evilly again)

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Okay, onto the horrificly enticing, Chapter 2:

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Michael

We barreled towards the looming mansion, tripping occasionally on discarded rubbish from god-knows how many years ago. They all stepped onto the front porch, looking awkwardly at each other before starting to open the iron doors. I, on the other hand, was more focused on the sky. Dark, stormy clouds hovered overhead, whereas it had been a clear brisk night a moment ago. A storm was coming.

The three Chee, with thier combined effort, were finally able to wrench open one of the doors. Something about the fact that it took three super powerful andriods to move that door didn't seem right. It gave him the feeling that something was locked inside the hollowed walls of this morbid place. He blindsided the thought without a moments hesitation. We was just nervous, and his mind was simply trying to supply an explanation. That was it. Too many horror movies lately, he decided.

They shuffled into what appeared to be an entrance hall. Everything was almost pitch black, so I decided to pull out the flashlight, and, with the flick of a switch, cast a lone beam of light across the dusty, grimey floors. I shone it around nervously, looking for a cause for alarm. The hall seemed quite silent. Dead Silent. As if no one had been here in ages.

"You sure this is the right place Erek?" I asked him hurredly. No one had advanced as far as a few feet from the doors.

"Yes Michael. Our sources do not lie, after all." he responded in his matter-of-fact tone. Suddenly there was a loud creak, a bang, and then silence. We were in complete darkness now, except for the flashlight in my hand.

"Erek, why in the hell would you shut the doors!" yelled Marco.

"Actually Marco, that wasn't me." he said in an all too calm voice. "Adam, Erin, did either of you?" he asked them. They shook their heads no.

"Then who shut the doors?" he asked nobody in particular.

"Look guys, that's not the problem. Right now, we need to stop the yeerks. We can worry about the doors later, c'mon, let's search the place for any signs of yeerk activity." Said Jake at once. No sooner had he finished his little speach that a bolt of lightning hit a tree right next to the house. Outside, a tall Oak tree fell, crashing in front of the iron doors.

"We're trapped. The doors won't budge at all now." explained Adam.

I swore under my breath. "Something doesn't want us to leave." I said before I could stop myself. Jake gave me a look of discontent. He walked into the center of the hall and stared back at us.

"What doesn't want us to leave? Huh?" his voice seemed slightly dotty. Who could blame him. "I don't see anyone here. Just a big old house, that's all." He had a look of complete terror on his face and stood resolute. "Just a big old stupid house in the middle of nowhere. I mean if there WAS anything here, it surely would have done something by now!" at this point his voice was shrill with histerics. He was flipping out, for no apparent reason, I might add.

"Jake, calm down, you're scaring us." said Cassie.

"Calm down? Calm down! That's a lot coming from little miss peace maker!" Now I knew something was wrong, and so did everyone else. "We're all gonna die! SHOW YOURSELF!" he bellowed. Somewhere deep within the house, something pulsed. I could feel it. Something in the house was stirring. Another pulse and the house started to shake ever so slightly, causing dust to drop fron the ceiling floorboards. There was a sickening creaking sound, and as Jake looked towards the ceiling there was a loud CRACK! Jake screamed, only to be silenced forever, by the chandaleir that fell on top of him. He lay crumpled beneath the shards of broken glass, lying in what looked like a pool of his own blood.

Everyone was absolutely speachless. Erek, horrified beyond reason walked over and checked the corpse that was once our friend. "He's dead." he said solemnly. He walked back towards the rest of us, most of which were under extreme shock, or had burst into tears. Cassie had ran over towards Jakes body, slumping down and crying like never before. Rachel was silent, as was Marco. Tobias, as usual, was not letting anything on. Ax, in human morph, was solemnly saying a prayer beneath his breath, most likely Jake's right of passage. George, Meghan, and I held our heads low and remained silent out of respect for our fallen comrade.

I snapped out of it quickly. "I know this might seem disrespectful, but we need to get out of here. Now. it's clear something is amiss, and I don't wan't tpo wait for the bodies to pile up before we do something. Cassie, Jake's loss was a terrible one, but this is a war. People die. We need to except that, and use our inner streignth to move on." I said, now sounding more like Jake than ever. Which was very out of character for me. Helping her up I started up again.

"We need to find a way to get out of here and fast. Let's leave the mission aside, regroup, and try again when we're ready to really try and take on the yeerks." I told them.

"Are you stupid?' said Rachel. "The yeerks did this! I know they did! I say that we go down there and take revenge on them for killing Jake." We decided that since our argumant was going nowhere, I decided to take a vote. Anyone who wanted to go with Rachel and try to take out the yeerks would go with her, and anyone who wanted to escape and regroup would follow me.

The arrangements were as follows. I would be taking George, Meghan, Cassie, Marco, and Adam (Erek decided that two would go with Rachel to help her and one would go with us just in case). Rachel took Ax, Tobias, Erek, and Erin. Aside from Erek, none of the others had said anything to out group. We set off in two different directions. My group went up the tairs, towards the roof. I figured we could 'make' an exit and morph bird to escape, while Rachels group veered towards the left corridor, which, to everyones suprise, led to the basement where Erek had said the laboratory was.

And so the Horror began.

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