Sorry its been so long guys! Lotsa stuff been happening... not all of it good... and then our net was crappin itself...

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Robert

I was a little more confident now that I'd ripped through the houses wall as an elephant.

Wouldn't you?

We shifted and morphed back, standing in front of Jake and Cassie in the now partly demolished house.

"What now oh fearless leader?"

Jake gave me a look, and I just smiled at him.

"Don't get cocky. We still have to find the others"

Oh. Yeah. The others.

Totally wiped the smile off my face.

"Okay, so… where do we start?"

"You and Cassie go upstairs. Rachel and I will look back down here"

"Well all right then" I shrugged, looking around. The place seemed almost normal now that we'd smashed it up.

Nothing bad was going on, lights had returned to their usual dim glow… no freaky girls or boys or trees or evil hooded things around… place seemed almost normal.

Almost.

"Well, ladies first" I said, bowing and showing her the way to the stairs. I saw Rachel glaring at me but decided to ignore it, looking only at Cassie.

She shook her head, but going anyway and giving Jake a long look.

"You take care of her, all right?" Jake gave me the eye, and I nodded.

I went to the stairs, where Cassie was looking up, biting her lip nervously.

"It'll be okay" I told her, looking up as well.

"You haven't been up the stairs"

"True, but that just means I'm not scared of whatever's up there"

"Oh how comforting" She muttered, then grabbed the banister and hauled herself up the stairs. I followed right behind her.

The stairs creaked and groaned, but it was nothing to me. I'd run from large hooded creatures… what were creaking stairs to me?

We reached the second floor, and I looked around. Looked… normal. Dim lights… but other than that… pretty good.

"Not baad"

"This is where Marco and Jade were taken"

"Wait… what!" I suddenly felt a cold chill go through me. What had happened up here?

"You heard me" she glared, making her way down the hall to the first room with the door shut.

She grabbed the doorhandle, and I saw her hesitate.

"Allow me" I strode up to the door, putting my hand over hers and twisting the handle, throwing the door open when she let go of it. It banged against the wall, and inside…

Nothing. Just a dark room.

"Um, are there lights in there?" She asked hesitantly. I shrugged, going over to check for lights. I found a switch, flicked it on…

"Looks like a sewing room or something"

"Let's not go in. Lots of pointy needles in there"

I shrugged "Agreed"

We shut the door, then I went and opened another one.

And instantly, it felt…

Cold.

"Um… do you-"

"Robert!" Cassie suddenly shrieked making me jump and turn around.

I saw…

"What the hell?" I gasped. The hallway… it…

WHERE THE HELL HAD THE STAIRS GONE!

"Look! the other side!"

I spun and looked around at the other end of the hallway.

"Shiest" I murmured. It was the same as the other one.

"Looks like this house still has some tricks up its sleeves" Cassie murmured.

I couldn't say anything. Because at that moment I felt something snaking up my legs.

"What the f-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

WHAM! My face hit the carpet!

"ROBERT!" Then I heard a thunk beside me. I managed to turn and see…

Vines! Where did… they weren't…

And then I saw they were more than just vines. Sure, they had leaves, but…

"Ah!" There was suddenly a snakes face right in mine!

I tried to grab it, but found my arms were pinned down by its body.

It opened its mouth, revealing its glistening fangs and hissing.

"OH MY GOD! JAAKE! JAAAAAAKE!" Cassie screamed, and if I wasn't staring something like a snake in the eye, I'd probably have been screaming with her.

I tried to move my legs, then my arms…

"HORWAAAAR!"

Suddenly, I was free. I looked up to see Jake, a tiger, and behind him a wolf.

Bear must've been too big for Rachel to get up here.

(You two okay?)

"Brrriilliant. I almost got my face chewed off by a thing that shouldn't exist, but what's new?" I said sarcastically as I got up, going and hauling Cassie up as Rachel ripped the last of the vine snakes off her.

(Good! Let's-) Before Rachel could finish, we heard a rumbling from all around us. Then… it was coming from the left!

(Quick! In here!) Jake yelled, running into the door we'd just opened. I looked down the hallway, at where the sound was coming from, then followed him, grabbing Cassie's arm as I did and dragging her into the room. Rachel followed, and I slammed the door shut, finding that chain lock and slipping it onto the door.

(Like that's gonna stop whatever's out there!) Rachel snapped, and I just glared at her in the dimly lit room.

"Stop it!" Cassie hissed "We've got a bigger problem right now!"

thud…thud…thud! Thud! Thud! THUD! THUD!THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!

(It's right outside the door!) Jake yelped as the pounding on the wall in front of us continued to get louder and louder. It sounded like an ogre had followed us!

"No shit Sherlock!" I growled, standing in the middle of that room and not knowing what to do.

THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD! THUD!

The ground underneath us seemed to be shaking as the whole wall sounded like it was about to be pounded in.

I felt something touch my arm and I almost jumped out of my skin when I turned to see it was only Cassie, looking terrified. And since Jake was a tiger… and I was close…

Great.

"What are we go-"

THUD! THUD! THUD! THU-

It suddenly stopped. All of it. All the banging… every single noise from outside.

Inside, we were all still. Quiet. The only sound I could hear was from my own heartbeat thudding in my ears.

We waited… and waited… and waited some more…

And me, never being the patient type, pried Cassie's fingers off my arm and slowly crept towards the door. I slowly and cautiously reached for the handle…

(Robert, I don't think yo-)

THUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUD!

We all screamed, and I jumped back from the door, almost landing on Rachel as I did.

(GET AWAY FROM US!) Rachel screamed as I saw the door rocking on its hinges… there was no chance that lock was gonna do anything…

THUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUDTHUD!

Then, nothing again. None of us dare moved, or I think even breathed for a short time…

"Is it over?" someone whispered.

"I… I don't know" Jakes voice… hadn't even known he'd demorphed…

"No one touches that door until we know for sure"

"Right behind you there" I muttered, getting up and looking left and right at my friends, then around a room.

I spotted a fairly large mirror hanging on the wall, and my curiosity got the better of me.

Don't get me wrong, I was still… wary… about what was or had been on the other side of that door, its just… I needed to do something to figure this out… had to keep moving or my fear would just take over…

I walked up to it, standing in front of the old dusty mirror. Had an interesting frame…

Oh god, was that thing outside gone?

I shook my head, barely hearing the rest of the Animorphs talking about whatever as I continued to look at the mirror, wondering what era it was from, where it was made, where it came from…

Anything to get my mind off that thing outside. Couldn't think of that… had to… had to…

And beside the image of me, came a half a face. It was in shadow…

I jumped, looking beside me and seeing nothing, then looking back at the half face. It... it looked so…

"Shit! Jade!" I hissed, and the half face smiled and nodded slightly. There was something… off in her eyes… well, the eye that I could see… she looked like she was just right on the other side of the mirror…

"What… you scared me! What the heck are you doing there?"

The smile got wider, and then… I saw teeth forming…

Was she shifting?

Her eye looked blood red…

"Uh, guys?" I backed up a little, knowing something was seriously wrong.

"What?"

"Oh… what… theee…"

A low growl came from the face in the mirror, then…

CRRRRRAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSHHHHH!

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Hope ya'll liked! I've been running on empty for sooo looong!

And thanks to LittleMidgett for helping me figure out what I should do with it! YAY! HOPE YA LIKED!