Well, I can safely say that updates will be coming a little more frequently now I've finished the main bulk of my College course! WHOO HOO!!! But like most things it depends on the lovely reviews I get from you guys.
You know I think I've still got a couple of chapters left of this puppy to go, so I'll leave you to read this one!

Warnings; Spencer gettng a little sappy and a bit of deranged kink.

Chapter 9; Kinkanknives.

Midnight in the Hiwatari Mansion was usually a quiet affair.

"AAAAAHH!" that was until Bryan bolted upright screaming.

Kai, Tala and Spencer nearly broke their necks running into his room.

"Bry? What is it?" Spencer ran to the panting boy's side, petrified jade eyes fixed on the window.

"There was a noise, I looked up and there was someone standing at the window. And I could've sworn he had a dagger. Don't let him get me!" Bryan buried his face in the blonde's shirt.

"Sanguinex probably got locked out."

"What could I possibly want with a dagger?" Sanguinex walked in. "I got in about half an hour ago and have been reading since."

Seeing the vampire there made Kai and Tala run out of the room, and by the sound of things, taking a sleep logged Ray and Max with them. Tyson dead to the world.

"Kuzzy? What's going on? I heard a scream." Nix staggered in with her cane

"Bryan says he saw a someone with a dagger at his window." Spencer told her.

"Kuzzy are you sure you weren't dreaming?"

"Positive." he sniffled, tears starting to leak down his face.

"Hey don't cry Bryan."

"Can't help it, that thing frightened the crap out of me." he snivelled. Sanguinex handed him a handkerchief.

"I'll go and help the others look around and stay on guard for the rest of the night if the need calls for it."

"Thank you Sanguinex." said Nix, feeling her way over to the bed and sitting on it beside Bryan. "It's ok Bryan, nothing can get you."

"Will you stay with me tonight Nixy?" pleaded Bryan. "Please?"

"Well with you sounding so cute I can't really say 'no' can I?" she smiled.

"I'll stay as well, just in case something happens."

"Well since I keep ending up in your arms or your lap I can't really object." Nix sighed, then Bryan's tummy rumbled.

"Heh heh." he laughed sheepishly.

"I have a remedy for that since we forgot about earlier."

"Oh yeah, your pie."

"You made dessert?" Bryan's large eyes lit up.

"Yeah, and I made a pretty big one because the pie dish was frickin' huge!"

"Slice of pie and warm milk all round I think." Nix laughed, standing up.

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"Mm, that was one kick-arse pie Spencer." Bryan grinned, handing his plate to the blonde.

"Must've been, you ate three slices." Spencer chuckled. Nix laughed along with him, yawning lightly and finishing her milk.

"A brilliant midnight snack and I didn't cook it." Ray laughed.

"We would be dead if it wasn't for you two, Ray for cooking before and Nix for teaching me." Spencer smiled.

"Well I dunno bout you guys, but I'm going back to bed." yawned Tala.

"Good idea." added Kai, helping an already snoozing Max upstairs.

"Come on Kuzzy, time we went back to bed as well. I'll just cast a quick couple of spells and be with you." she summoned small cauldrons full of water and a knife in each, sending them to every entrance to the outside. Then chanted something under breath. "An old spell, but if anyone was to come in before they're removed will know about it."

"I've never seen you do magic before Nix." said Bryan.

"I think you have Kuzzy. Max's luck change at the bottle toss and Tyson's suddenly quenched appetite at the fair. The marker pen, Robert's beyblade… subtle things. Just because I haven't done anything major, doesn't mean I don't use my magic."

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Spencer woke up when the sun hit his face.

'But my room's not in the sun's path…oh yeah.' he remembered what had happened during the night and looked to the other bed's occupants.

Next to him was Bryan in the foetal position, his chubby cheeks slightly flushed and his mouth open a little in his slumber.

'When we were kids I thought nothing about this, but seeing Bryan sleep like that makes me want kids of my own. He's too cute, oh well, gives me something to tease him about.' he mused. Then his gaze flickered over to the other occupant.

Hands tucked under the pillow Nix slept on her side, a small smile on her face and her fine lashes fanned over pale cheeks.

'Fuckin' hell she's beautiful, if anything bad ever happened to her I think I'd die. Nikita Kuznetsov, I love you and I would kill to get your eyesight back.' he thought.

Nix stirred.

'Such a nice dream, if only I knew what Spencer really looked like, I hate being blind, I've been in his arms, on his lap and now even in the same bed as him and I haven't a clue what he really looks like, the cameras in the first worlds revealed only so much and he was hardly shown in the third worlds… I guess love is blind. Ok whatever that is it tickles.'

"What's so funny?" asked a sleepy voice. She smiled when she realised it was Spencer.

"You're tickling my leg with your foot." she replied.

"Don't put your leg in the way of my foot then." he smirked.

"Men." she tutted playfully.

"Yeah, we're all jerks and horny sods."

"There's some I've met that are big exceptions." she smiled in his direction.

'Her smile is intoxicating.'

"Oh really? Bryan and Sanguinex don't count." he teased.

"Cheeky." She was about to retort when she heard a crash against the window.

"He's come back to get me!" cried Bryan's voice as she felt small fists in her nightshirt.

"Surely not Kuzzy."

"No, Calcifer just crashed into it."

"You're kidding me right?" Nix gaped.

"Nope." Spencer hopped over her, momentarily placing a hand either side of her, and off the bed to open the window and let the hawk in with a slight blush on his face. "Calcifer, you usually can tell when a window is open or not."

"Can it you brute, I couldn't find Nix and nearly had a heart attack when I saw her in the same bed as you! You better not have done anything!"

"All I did was sleep, Calcifer." Spencer gawked at the bird like he was crazy.

'Yeah, and a talking hawk's normal.' a voice tutted in his head.

"Calcifer, Spencer's not a brute and if you didn't notice, Bryan was asleep between us, or didn't Sanguinex tell you about last night."

"He told me, just seemed to have left out a few choice details." a snort and a bark of laughter erupted from Nix.

"That is so typical of Sanguinex." she laughed, feeling for her blade on Bryan's beside table. 'Zapdoborg, I am sorry.'

'I'm the one that should apologise, you gave up your sight for my freedom, Falborg yelled that at me.'

'I guess we're both stubborn, you're not going to launch anything at me are you?'

'No, saving my energy for Corbin.'

"Good falcon." Nix said aloud.

"You and Zapdoborg all made up then?" asked Calcifer.

"Yes, thanks to Bryan and Falborg."

"Anything for you Nixy." Bryan beamed, pecking her on the nose.

"Ready for some magic?"

"As I'll ever be."

"Nixy Nixy Nixy!"

"Tally Tally Tally! What's the matter?"

"He's eaten some of Max's sherbet UFO's I'm guessing."

"I need a new pair of shoes."

"What's wrong with the ones you normally wear?"

"Security's dog mauled them last night."

"Why do you want her to go with you?"

"She's a girl, she has a knack for shopping."

"I suppose it won't take long too find a pair of shoes. Give me ten minutes and I'll be ready to go." she heard Tala leave the room and Spencer approach her.

"Be careful ok."

"Will do."

As soon as Tala and Nix drove away from the house, something or someone, picked their way in, slinking on the floor towards the library where everyone was gathered, Sanguinex asleep in the darkest corner and the others searching through more books to help with Bryan's predicament.

Pulling the pin out of a canister he let it roll into the room

Ray was the first to hear it, a strange hissing.

"Can you guys hear that?" he asked, everyone looked at him.

"I can't hear anything." said Tyson.

"I feel really woozy." Ian complained.

"Yeah I do as well." Hilary added.

"What's that smell?" asked Max.

Everyone took a sniff and wished the hadn't when they collapsed onto whatever surface was nearest, Calcifer fell off his perch.

Out of the sleepy mist that had covered them stepped a man with hot-fuchsia (dark but vibrant pink/purple) shoulder length hair, charcoal eyes gleaming with amused malice behind rectangular glasses over a small gasmask.

"She makes this too easy." his oily voice slightly muffled by the mask, with a bored flick of the wrist he bound them where they slept and levitated them out of the room.

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Bryan opened his eyes groggily.

'What the hell? Where am I? And why the hell can't I move?!' he thought, thrashing against his bonds as he became more aware of his surroundings and that he was chained to the wall.

"Well, trust it to be Nikita's cousin to wake up first." an oily voice reached his ears. "Kuznetsovs are so stubborn."

Bryan looked up and took in the man's appearance.

"I can understand why she turned you down, you scream weedy."

"Watch it boy, I could easily conjure a pit of snakes next to your friend's shark tank."

Bryan looked around, Kai's ballroom had been transformed into a torture chamber come throne room.

Kenny was suspended on a bull's-eye, a table of daggers arranged about twenty feet in front of him.

Tyson and Max were suspended from the ceiling in big bird cages, Kai was hogtied with a bit-gag in his mouth and Hilary was only bound at the wrists and ankles, but wearing a revealing French maid's outfit.

Ray was going to get the shock of his life when he woke up, underneath his 'shelf' for a better word, was a pair of sleeping hyenas, foam drooling from their mouths.

'Rabid, shit, poor Ray.'

A jangle of chains made him look up, Ian was suspended over a bed of ten inch nails.

And Spencer, though still asleep was dangling over a huge vat of water chained and tied at the wrists.

'Shit Spencer, do not wake up. Wait.'

"Where's Sanguinex?"

Corbin pointed a finger to an old trunk surrounded by locks and chains, beside three more and an angry Calcifer, trying fly out of the ropes holding him in place.

Drawing air into his lungs Bryan yelled out as loud and for as long as he could

"WOLBORG!"

Corbin gawked at the boy before conjuring a ball gag into place, muffling the cry.

"Screaming will only get you so far." Corbin chuckled as Bryan thrashed against his chains.

Meanwhile…

"I found some like my old ones." grinned Tala, approaching Nix where she sat in the store. Bag in his hand.

"Sweet, how much?"

"Fifty. Usually Hundred and fifty."

"Bargain."

"I know, I always seem to find them when you're with me."

"What am I? A good luck charm?"

"Must be." Tala smirked, when a cold sensation on his leg made him pull out his blade in his pocket, Wolborg glowing in an erratic way, almost frantic.

"What the hell? I can feel the energy from here."

"Because our beasts are all connected in some way, we managed to use it as an alarm mechanism. Something's seriously wrong."

"Give me Wolborg." he handed the blade over. "Wolborg, show us what's wrong."

Tala saw a holographic type image appear above his blade in Nix's hands.

"There's Bryan chained and gagged and some guy with glasses laughing at him, and it's not Kenny."

"Glasses?"

"Rectangular, long hair, looks like a right wimp."

"Corbin. Tala we have to go. Take me back to the car."

"What's your plan?" said Tala, running her to the car.

"Um…"

"You don't have a plan!"

"I'm thinking, to get Bryan and my eyesight back safely we've got to let Corbin think he's won."

"No way, we get the others and we attack him head on."

"Tala, Corbin may be a wimp but he has great magical abilities, which could kill if desired. I wouldn't be surprised if he has the others as well."

"Great, two against a warlock."

"You forget, one of us is a witch."

"A blind one!"

"Gee thanks for that." she spat at him.

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