Nicki sipped on her latte outside of the popular campus coffee shop. She finished checking her email and closed her laptop then got up to throw away her empty latte cup. When she stood up, a light breeze swept through her golden hair.

"Watch it sis…" the breeze seemed to whisper.

Nicki edgily threw away her cup and began walking back to her dorm room, the mysterious warning replaying in her head.

*** Clarisse Benson kept fidgeting with her mini TV. It couldn't get a signal and all she kept seeing was static. She just about gave up when the static dispersed as she neared her window. Seeing as how it still had a bit of more static in it, Clarisse opened her window and set the little TV down on the sill. She took her popcorn bowl and pushed a chair in front of her window. The chair edged forward by itself and hit the mini TV, sending it down.

***Nicki neared the dorm building when she suddenly heard a yell from above.

"Watch out!"

Nicki looked up and saw a small TV plummeting down towards her! She stood there in shock until an unseen Eli Cade materialized and pushed her harshly out of the way. She hit the floor and scraped her lip. But that wasn't the bad news. The bad news was that just because Eli pushed her out of the way didn't mean that the TV magically stopped falling. It landed on one of her legs. It's safe to say that it hurt like hell.

"OW! Damn it!" Nicki seethed.

She attempted to get up but unsurprisingly the TV had broken one of her legs. She lay there, immobile, until Death made his next move.

***"Oh god!" Clarisse gasped as she heard the crunching sound of the TV landing on someone. She slammed the window down and rushed downstairs. As soon as she left, the window shattered.

***Eli was holding on to both of his knees, wheezing. "Being dead sure takes a lot out of you." He told himself.

Suddenly, he heard a shattering sound and looked up at the exact same time as Nicki (who was still on the ground next to him, not being able to see him). People who were next to Nicki trying to help her, rolled away when glass tumbled down from a third-story window. Before he could do anything to stop it, a few shards of glass pierced Nicki's skull! Every shard that went through her head caused her to cough out blood. Eli closed his eyes but not even the dead could block out sound. From Nicki's body came terrible gurgling sounds as she choked on her own blood. With one final whimper of pain, the life went out of her red rimmed eyes. Shrieks filled the air.

*** Only Kevin could stomach watching the coroner roll away Nicki's mutilated body. Adie had had to cover her eyes and back away. Kevin rubbed his temple and went to find Adie. He found her arguing with well, with no one. Kevin curiously walked up to her and then recalled what he and Wendy had discussed the other night; her talking to spirits. Adie could do the same. Adie stopped arguing with the spirit and moved her head in Kevin's direction.

"I'm not insane. I'm-"

"I know what you're doing but do you think it's safe to do it out here in the open? If these cops catch you talking to yourself they'll send you to the looney bin."

"But I'm not talking to myself."

"I know that but they don't. Who are you talking to by the way?"

"Eli." Adie answered, striding away from the open and stopping behind a tree.

"Why is he here?"

"That's what he was telling me right now."

Eli stood between them tapping his foot on the ground impatiently. "I was here to protect Nicki on an assignment. I'm not the complete ass everyone thinks I am."

"But you're an ass that screwed up, big time." Adie retorted with a frown.

Eli sneered. "As if you could do any better! In case you haven't noticed you're the only one from that messed up cruise thing that's still here."

This hit a nerve in Adie. "At least I'm still alive." She shot back.

Even without being able to see him, Kevin could tell from Adie's words that Eli was pissed right now. He stepped in between Adie and what he assumed to be where Eli was.

"Adie and…Eli…wherever you are. Calm down. Now can someone please tell me what's going on?"

Adie calmly explained to Kevin everything that Eli had said.

"Wow dude. You really did screw up." Kevin said laughingly.

Eli laughed sarcastically and clenched his teeth. Then he pointed at Adie with one finger and began inching away.

"You know what? I don't need this! I did my best so screw you."

Then he walked away muttering to himself and disappeared.

*** Wendy flipped through channels mindlessly. How many soap operas were there in this country? She stopped on a cooking channel and realized how hungry she was. She hadn't eaten since that morning at home when she had fried some eggs, bacon, and a bottle for Jason.

Jason…!

Wendy thrashed in her bed trying to reach her purse, when a voice interrupted her struggle. "Jason is fine. Kevin called Jamie your babysitter on the way to Nicki's." Alex Thebes told her serenely.

Wendy said nothing.

"Um…that's good to know. What are you doing here?"

Alex wrote something down in his trusty notebook and glanced at her briefly. "Funny, you never used to ask that. Why the sudden change of heart?"

"I just found out that Death is after us again so excuse me for being overly cautious." Wendy snapped.

Alex looked up. "Ok then. I'm just here to watch over you and check up like we all do."

"Did something happen?"

"Other than the fact that Nicki just croaked, nope nothing much."

"Nicki's d-dead?"

"Yep, pretty gruesome too. Makes me feel better about the way I went. But don't feel bad for her at least she's free now from Death. She's with us now."

Something about the way he said that sent a chill down Wendy's spine. When Alex turned back to his notebook Wendy punched her bed. "What is wrong with you? How can you just act as if nothings wrong in the world? As is nothing matters?"

"Because nothing does matter to me anymore; I'm dead. There's nothing else I can do except roam around like some pathetic poltergeist. So excuse me if I'm a bit too dreary." With a scowl he began writing again.

After a few minutes Wendy grudgingly broke the silence. "So… how's dying like?" she inquired.

Alex actually laughed. "Eh it's not that bad. Kinda cool actually-except the actual dying part. Now that is painful. But I heard worse from everyone else. Ashley and Ashlyn? Yikes, burning is the worst way to go." He contemplated.

Wendy sensed a doctor coming to the room and she looked wordlessly at Alex who understood. "Guess it's time for me to go. Oh and one more thing, about this whole Death dilemma; remember that you guys aren't the only survivors."

Wendy raised an eyebrow and he disappeared. What does he mean by that, Wendy thought. The only survivors now were herself, Kevin, Adie, and Freddy, right? Who else was left? She kept pondering over this even when the doctor came in.

Author's Note: Ok hope you appreciated the death in this chapter. I tried to make it similar to Zach's death since he and Nicki were related. The next chapter will have Freddy but it'll mostly be a dramatic chapter. What I mean by that is lots of relationship drama; Wendy/Jason/Kevin, Wendy/Carrie/Kevin, Adie/Joshua/Kris, and more. So because of that if you make a request for a spirit they won't appear until the chapter after the next. Sorry! But you can still request. Thanks to Oggytheogre321 for the help on the next chapter! And thanks to you all for reading! Please review!