Chapter-18 Robin, Hayley and Steffauri

Hey y'all! . SO Sorry 'bout delayed updates! I've been really busy lately. But, look on the bright side!; nuther awesome chappie 4 u guyz! YAY! PWEEEZE REVIEW! Enjoy!...BUT! Here's the bad news to this fic u all know and love…There are probably going to be only about five or six more chappies (Seven if we're lucky) until this fic ends! Tears! But, it was a good fic while it lasted! Plus, from me, ya'll can expect PLENTY more Hive fics! WHOO! . Okay…NOW enjoy! PS-Whoever told me I was missing someone in the groups was right! I forgot Hayley when I listed them, therefore, she'll be in this chappie too. And since Robin's her BF and Steff's her sister, this could get interesting! (Devious laughter!) :D

As Mistress Ammoraye and Hirra watched th movements of each group on the monitors, Ammoraye's dark eyes immediately came across a screen with three members on it that she'd not been watching too closely lately; a boy with black spiky hair, and two girls, one with blonde hair pulled back into a wavy ponytail, and the next one a tall brunette with long, butt-length hair…Robin, Hayley, and Steffauri.

"Agh! We've been going around in God damn circles this whole fucking time! AGH!" Robin cried out as he stood aside and pounded his fists into an old tree.

Meanwhile, the two otherworldly sisters exchanged concerned glares.

"Uh, Robin, you feeling okay?" Steffauri asked as Hayley gave her sister an evil look.

"What?" Steffauri asked as her younger sister shoved her out of the way.

"Hey! What the hell's YOUR problem?" Steffauri asked, throwing her arms up in the air as she glared at her speechless sister.

"My problem, is that Robin is my boyfriend, and teammate! You are a villain! You're not supposed to care whetheror not the heroes are okay!" Hayley managed to choke up towards her older sister, who now looked both angry and hurt.

"Fine then! I guess you don't want me to care about you anymore sis? Is THAT it?" Steffauri cried out as Hayley's look slowly softened.

"N-no." She said quietly as Robin sat by the tree he'd just nearly punched a large dent into, and tried his best to ignore the feuds between the two sisters.

"Well, you sure as hell ACT like it! Look, our parents are gone, we have no one else! It doesn't matter that we're on opposite side, you know! All we should even care about, is getting the hell outta here alive!" Steffauri cried as she and her sister both ceased arguing.

"Okay, I'm sorry, but you'll have to admit it too. I mean, we're all getting' pretty testy with each other. I mean, we're most likely not the only ones, just imagine the poor group that has to coddle Gizmo and all his angry glory right now!" Hayley exclaimed as Steffauri laughed.

"Yeah, but that's normally me and Jinx's job." Steffauri finished as the two of them glared over at Robin once more.

"Well, we'd better tell him we should get a move on." Hayley said with a sigh as she flew over to him.

"Robin, c'mon, we gotta go. We should keep moving if we're ever going to get out of here." Hayley said as Robin looked up at her, and smiled slightly.

"Alright team, move out!" Robin ordered, and with a flip of his cape the group was off again, with the sisters in tow with Robin.

"Wow, now a villain's seen as part of his team! He must really be getting delirious out here!" Hayley whispered to her sister, who after that statement, stood there frozen, while the other two walked ahead of her.

"So, after all these years of trying to do my best out in this crazy world, and that's all the credit even my own sister will give me? An outcast villainess in a group of heroes? A long time ago, I thought I was through with doubting my choice in life. But, why is it that now, I question myself?" Steffauri thought as Hayley suddenly called her name, and snapped her out of it.

"C-coming!" Steffauri called as she flew up ahead on the path with her group.

True, Steffauri had been doubting herself, but, right now, well, at any time for that matter, to her, it just felt good to be a part of something important.

Back in the mansion…..

Ammoraye leaned back in her seat, and placed her two pale hands together.

"Hmm, hmm, hmm. It seems one of them has a lot more on her mind than she's able to handle, aye Hirra?" Mistress Ammoraye said to her servant as she kept her hazy black eyes fixated on Steffauri.

Hirra was silent from across the darkened room, Mistress Ammoraye looked back at her.

"Well then, we'll just see how she does in the house of Phortik when they arrive." Mistress Ammoraye finished as Hirra gave her a concerned look, and then approached her.

"Yes but, don't you think that leading someone like her into that kind of place is a little too extreme?" Hirra asked meekly, hoping Ammoraye wouldn't think she was slipping up on her.

Ammoraye then shot another nasty glare in her direction.

"Hirra! This is the first tie in many years that we've had a Pahoran girl like her over here! I just want to see what Phortik thinks of her." Ammoraye said as she gestured for Hirra to leave and she continued watching the monitors.

Back in the woods….

As the three tired members of the last group continued along the path, Robin suddenly glared upward, a slight glimmer of the sun's rays reflecting off from something caught his eyes.

He then turned back to face the two female members of the group.

"Hayley, can you fly up a little further and see what's out there?" Robin asked as Hayley nodded and lifted off.

As the young blonde heroine flew past all of the thick messes of trees and brush in her way, she then removed her arms from the clocking position by her head, and then looked around.

Strangely enough, she found herself in a large clearing, with an old, elegant looking purplish white Victorian home with elegant windows and dark violet shutters to match it.

By now, she was practically beaming, and with that good news to bring, she flew back to her group.

"Guys, guys! There's a house over there! Big one too! The glare Robin saw was probably from one of the windows." Hayley panted as Robin and Steffauri quickly followed Hayley into the direction of the old house.

Totally ignorant to what would happen to one of their members while there.

Back in the mansion…(Yeah, I know your all probably REALLY tired of hearing this! Tee-Hee!)

By now, Hirra had been summoned to came back into the room to discuss certain matters with Ammoraye.

"Hirra, do you remember why I need Steffauri in that house?" Asked Mistress Ammoraye as Hirra shook her head silently.

"Well then, I'll remind you once more, and that's all. I need Steffauri in that house, because she has the Frailing Curse. The same one my daughter had. If the scrolls in the attic of the Phortik house deem her worthy, her body, and soul will be taken away, and my daughter can finally be restored." Mistress Ammoraye finished as she watched the group walk over closer to the house.

Hirra then looked away from her Mistress for a moment. She actually felt sorry for her, and why she was doing what she was. But, Hirra still had a question…If she knew Steffauri was the only one she needed then, why bring harm to her other friends and family?

There was no need for it, but knowing Ammoraye, she didn't need a reason.

Back in the woods….(There! Nuther line your tired of!)

The three of them had stopped in front of the old house, and were now deciding who'd go in first.

"O-kay? So, who wants to go in?" Hayley asked as they all stared blankly at the house, and then glared around at each other.

"Oh fine! I'll go!" The boy wonder finally decided as he walked up the creaky wooden stairs before the two girls, who were now smiling at each other.

"H-hello?" Robin asked as he knocked on the door several times when suddenly, it swung open on its own.

"AGH!" The two girls shrieked as they walked up beside Robin.

"Oh come on! This place is old, the door's lock just probably isn't working, now let's go. And besides, with a well kept place like this, there's probably people living-whoa…" Robin finished as he and the two girls finally got inside.

The grand old Victorian was nothing at all like it was on the outside.

On the outside, it looked well kept and beautiful, but on the inside, it looked like there was heavy water and fire damage, the back windows were smashed out and half boarded up, and there was almost nothing there but an old tattered rug.

"Um, on second thought, maybe we'd better not stay." Robin said as he turned for the door, only to have it close and lock on its own.

That time, all three of them screamed aloud.

Just then, Steffauri felt a strange but familiar chill run down her spine, and with that, she clutched her sister's hand so tightly, she thought it might break.

Hayley then looked over to her now wide eyed sister.

"S-Steffauri? What's wrong?" Hayley asked as she looked at her sister's face, and then gasped.

"Oh no! God no! Are you, are you trying to say that, that this, is the place?" Hayley asked as Steffauri let go of her sister's reddened hand and walked forward a few steps, while Robin looked on, totally lost in this conversation.

"The place? What do you guys mean by the place?" Robin asked as he stood over next to Hayley.

"Well, when Steffauri and a few oldest children in our world were born, they had a curse put on them known as the Frailing Curse, she has a weird black mark on her back from it. But anyways, the Frailing Curse means that just about any Pahoran scroll witchcraft, or even their own powers can do them in easily. But there was this guy in 1129 Pahora, called Phortik, which these places are named after, who started the whole thing on accident, and, this is one of his places established by his later descendants. It's supposed to look nice to lure Pahorans in." Hayley finished as Robin nodded once, and they both looked to Steffauri.

"So, that's what this whole thing is about?" Robin asked as Hayley shook her head.

"Well, that's actually a yes and no answer. You see, as soon as I knew this was a Phortik place, I knew why Mistress Ammoraye wanted my sister." Hayley began, as Robin gave her another confused look.

"You did?" He asked as Hayley nodded and continued.

"Yes. Remember when you found out and told us all that Ammoraye's daughter was dead? Well, the powers of Phortik scroll work can also bring back the dead, but at the cost of another who wields the Frailing Curse." Hayley said as Robin nodded, and the two looked ahead again.

But this time, Steffauri wasn't there.

"HUH?" The two of them gasped as they ran around the large room frantically looking for her.

"Where could she have gone?" Robin gasped as the two of them finally looked over to a rather long flight of stairs in the farthest corner of the room, t was rather narrow as well.

"C'mon!" Hayley cried out as she flew up, and Robin ran behind her.

Meanwhile, up in the attic, Steffauri practically gasped at all of the lovely paintings and Pahoran poetries she saw hanging on every corner of the room.

"Yes, yes Steffauri, read the scrolls before you!" Mistress Ammoraye said evilly to herself from her monitor room as Steffauri slowly opened up a small box or two next to her, one had a black scroll with white Pahoran characters on it, and the other was a white scroll with back Pahoran characters on it.

"How beautiful." Steffauri said as she began to read the first scroll, just as the attic's door burst open.

"NO! Don't read that Steffauri!" Hayley cried out as she practically leapt over to her sister, and used her electricity powers to burn the white scroll her sister had begun to read.

Steffauri didn't hesitate to drop the curling piece of parchment.

"NO!" Ammoraye cried out as she watched the irreplaceable scroll burn at the feet of the girl she almost had trapped.

"W-what!" Steffauri gasped as she snapped out of it, suddenly seeing that she was holding the second Phortik scroll.

"AGH!" She cried out as she dropped it on the ground, than then used her ice powers to freeze and shatter it to pieces.

"AAAAAAAAGH! NO! IT'S ALL RUINED!" Ammoraye cried out vengefully as she practically ripped every strand of hair from her head.

Back in the Phortik house, suddenly, everything began to shake.

"Oh shit." Was all Steffauri could say as broken boards and bricks began to pour into the room.

"Great, since we destroyed two of the most important Phortik scrolls, the place's goin' down!" Hayley cried out as she grabbed Robin, and flew out of

the large gaping hole in the ceiling alongside her sister.

Moments later, the whole thing came crashing down, and it was heard throughout the forest by every group, who was now close by.

"Damn it! Damn it! Damn it! DAMN IT!" Ammoraye cursed to herself as she pounded down hard onto the monitor's control table.

"Great, it's all going to end like this, no, I won't let it! NEVER!" Ammoraye cried out, once more, refusing her imminent defeat.

AN TIME! Whoo! Cliffy! . Anywho, like I said before, SO sorry about delayed updates, I've been up to a lot of things, and planning for future chappies in this fic and a few others, and I promise I'll update again soon if u all review…NOW! Tee-Hee! ;) PS-THIS IS ABOUT THE FUTURE UPDATES SO READ THIS NOW! Like I said, I DO promise to update soon, however, from Wednesday tomorrow, to this Sunday, I'll be gone on a midsummer vacation, so I'll be sure to update a lot when I get back, K?" .