Man I love typing this fic! XD This is the first part of the penultimate chapters, meaning the next few are gonna be like the Clue of things, so please try to figure out what that means! I only own Kitten and the Metagang, so please read, review and no flames, thank you!

The light went out then in a flash as several people screamed.

" Yeah, we gotta stop that . . ." Janera said lightly after screamming.

" Obviously," Rook said in the dark.

There were sudden thumping sounds and a male scream as the girls screamed, " SOMEONE HIT THE LIGHTS!"

" Hang on! I'll do this!" Ookami shivered as she spoke, then took a deep breath, causing her electric energy to backfire into her body and making her luminescent like a light bulb. She blinked at the others as they looked at her oddly. " What are you all looking at? Sky Sorceress, duh! I can do this! Just as much as Janera can turn into a giant fire ball."

" I'd do that for light, but I may catch the place on fire."

" Thanks for that then," DP said shaking.

Lunatic was on his back on the floor, a knife stuck in the wooden floorboards near his nuts. He slunk back and stood up against a wall, still shaking over the sudden impending loss of his manhood. Rook nearby had also dodged a dagger, this one to the side of his head, barely flinching as he walked away, wide eyed.

" Ho-ly crap . . . " the two insane members said.

" DUDE!" King yelled.

" Holy-" Tia started to say, a bit impressed.

" Indeed, it seems whoever's after us now is targeting more than oe of us at the same time!" Hikari shivered. " Oh sempai!"

She ran for DP as thunder and lightning struck outside again, the time now way past noon. Everyone else grouped together as Banjomaru draped a blanket over Kiva's lifeless body and dragged him gently with King's help over towards the back of the couch. The lights suddenly came back on, fear and terror on almost everyone's faces. Kitten cowered by Marcus, who was also visibly shaking. Phoenix and Goddess were shaking near Ranger, who cocked a pistol. Advent and Lunatic were back to back. Scorpion growled.

" THAT's it," Scorpion growled. " I'm gonna find this killer and beat the tar outta him with these!" he unlashed his claws.

" Bro," King said walking over, then shook his head.

Scorpion looked down and lashed them back into his hand.

" Dude, I was this close to losing my nuts . . ." Lunatic shivered in agony. " This close . . ."

" Calm down bro," TL said concerned. " Yo Boss Whiz! what now?"

" Do NOT call me that TL . . ." DP threatened, then sighed and said," I guess we have no choice now, but to split u-"

" Don't finish that sentence!" Kitten and Janera yelled. " NO one should do that in a murder mystery!"

" Sheesh," Wandrex rubbed an ear.

" Agreed," Advent groaned. " Bad enough from little miss chubs."

Kitten glared and said said with reddened eyes," Hey Advent, do you want a fat lip?"

" Let's all calm down," Hikari said," and you two, chill it down. Senpai, we have to find Haru and figure out what blew the lights from before."

" Right . . ." DP said, then turned to the still lit up Ookami. " Ookami, I'll be needing that ability of yours. Ranger, DW, D-Dude, I'll be needing you guys as well. We're gonna check the fuse box and see what just happened. After we're gonna search for Haru. Anyone wanna back down now, go ahead and say so."

" B-Bathroom!" DW yelled and ran upstairs, shaking as he really did have to go. " IT'LL BE A SEC!"

" Oh . . . Ross, go after DW and make sure he's alive when you both get back." DP said, then turned back as Ross ran up after DW and said," Well, instead of him, then Banjomaru. I've overheard you're great with technological appliances and about your lab from Rook."

" Cheeky . . ." Banjoamru muttered under his breath.

The group dispursed as DP turned and said," Wandrex, Rook and TL, you three are in charge down here. No using powers unless it's very necessary. Remember, no one goes off alone. If someone goes off alone, there's either major problems or there's a chance that someone will die. Keep your eyes peel and make sure no one ends up dead. We'll be back."

The group left as the clock struck four o'clock. The four bells sounded in the dense and yet lit up mansion. Rain was pounding all over, feeling as though there were over thousands upon thousands of feet running all over the mansion, making it hard to hear nearly much of the runnings upstairs or downstairs. The majority of the Metagang aside from Banjomaru, Ookami, Kiva and Haru were shaking in the corner of the main den, too shocked and scared to move. Lunatic was on the couch asleep, unbelieveably, and Advent was nearby, also asleep to the rain and muttering something about paying for the whole meal when all he ordered was the soup. The dark went on and on as the thunder boomed and the rain blocked out more noises.

" Now we play the waiting game . . ." Rook sighed.

TL was looking down, writing and thinking hard.

" This doesn't make any sense . . ." TL said.

" W-w-w-w-what doesn't?" Kitten shivered as she and Marcus looked over.

" Just, the guy's MO," TL said.

" Huh?" DJ asked.

" The guy's motivaion for killing?" Phoenix groaned, then said," What's up with it?"

" I never figured . . ." TL thought. " I thought the killer was just going after the most powerful, but now he's killed Kiva and tried to kill my brother and Rook!" he stood up. " This guy's killing us off one by one and there's gotta be some kind of pattern!"

The word made Kitten's ear wriggle a bit. " P-Pattern? The dining room pattern, the seats . . ."

" What you talkin' 'bout, dragon girl?" Dairo asked, making the others laugh a bit.

" S-She doesn't," TL laughed and waved her off.

" The dinner table wasn't set right!" she said wide eyed. " I just remembered that some of us changed seats!"

TL gasped and looked fear struck . . .

(Flashback)

" Hey bro?" TL asked getting up.

" What?" D-Dude asked turning around.

" How many people switched places at the table at dinner?" he asked.

" I know King swapped places with Janera, but that's a fopa," Dairo said.

" Not sure . . ." D-Dude said.

" I don't think X was the target . . ." TL said. " Because IF he was the target, the gun wouldn't have been a .22. It would have taken a LOT more force to bring him down from his mask and his skull. The guy would have seen it coming for sure!"

" That's what Dairo and I were talking about. Why place the gun to aim there, unless X wasn't the intended shot for the shooter . . . " D-Dude said.

" Who swapped with X?" Dairo asked.

" Not sure, but we can't tell the others this until we realize who was sitting there . . ." TL said, the crossed his arms and added," Induces less panic."

" LESS?" Dairo yelled.

" YES, less, what are you, nuts?" TL laughed.

(End of Flashback)

TL groaned and sat back down as a minor panic was setting in. Dairo shook his head at TL worried and biting his others glanced back at the hedgehog, even Lunatic who was shaking more. He sighed and conceded, looking around and back at each picture and everything in the room including everyone minus a few before finally speaking.

" Alright . . . D-Dude, Dairo and I were looking over X's body and the crime scene . . . and since X was sitting in someone else's seat at the time of his death . . . we believed . . . that he was not the killer's main target."

There was a large group gasped and light volumed chatter.

" Since that cat's out of the bag . . . " TL gave in," who here knows who was supposed to be in X's seat?"

" That would be me," Wandrex said stepping over. " I was gonna sit where X was sitting, but I decided to swap placed with him to sit by Lilly. I wasn't sure or not so I just said 'Flip it' and did it. You mean I was gonna die instead of X?"

" Apparently . . . but why kill YOU of all people?" TL wondered.

" Less jerkweeds in the world?" Janera laughed lightly.

" No that's just you guys."

" BOO!" the gang said.

TL groaned and said sitting down near his brother," We're gonna need a good hour or so to get this . . ."

XXX

DP was walking down the creaky steps, staff in hand, Ookami close behind. He stepped carefully and held onto the railing. Ookami was shaking behind him, not wanting to end up down and out. Behind her were Ranger weilding his gun, D-Dude going down the steps carefully, and Banjomaru, his communicaotr having a light shined down into the basement. He blinked and looked around a bit srpised, which the others were beginning to take notice of.

" What's up, Banjo?" D-Dude asked.

" Okay one, do not call me that, and secondly, why is there a basement in a 20th century house in the middle of nowhere anyways?" Banjomaru asked.

" Enough of the questions we need to look at the-" DP started.

" Found the fuse box, DP," Ranger said," And you may wanna see this."

The others shined light towards the opened box and Ranger. There were several wires, but some of them had been cut, not just the one for the living room. The ones cut were for the porch outside, the upstairs bathrooms, the first floor, and the wires for the attic. Banjomaru walked over and started the repairs on the wires and the breakers, groaning about how unpleasant it was. Thunder boomed as more rain sounded, the others of the group congregating.

" Who went in here and cut these wires?" DP asked.

" Not sure," Ranger said," Whoever did wasn't around us at the time obviously . . . ."

" No duh," D-Dude said thinking," but the way things went, they'd have to have left the main rooms we were all in or set these to break from beforehand."

" Quite a diversion though . . . and sadly also clique," DP sighed.

There was a sudden rustling sound nearby as Ranger cocked his gun and aimed. DP started up a spell, but the familiar footsteps closed into the area and into the light, just before Ranger fired and D-Dude would have ripped him into shreads. Ookami gasped.

" Air?"

" Oh uh, hey guys . . ." he coughed, dusty already and covered in cobwebs. " What brings you guys down here?"

There were flat looks in silence, aside from the rapid rain.

" Not buying it huh?"

" Nope," DP said," Air, why are you down here? I thought you were upstairs."

" Well . . . " Air sighed then held up a cellphone. The bars were full.

The others gasped. Thunder boomed again.

" You had a signal this whole time?" Ookami growled. " DUDE! I couldn't call Charlie for three seconds without having blockage!"

" I was finding a place in the mansion to get good service in this shit storm and text Energy Witch . . . she couldn't make it so I was texting here what we were doing," Air sighed, then walked more forward, scraping webs off of himself. " I figured if I told someone that NOW of all times, you'd all either kill me or wrestle for my phone."

" So that's what you were doing upstairs," D-Dude wondered. " Explains a lot. But why are you down in the basement?"

" You'd be surprised how many trapdoors are in this place . . ." Air groaned.

" Yeah, I was warned about that . . . we aren't gonna kill you Air, but maybe NOW you can use that phone to call the police," DP said.

Air nodded and started to dial. D-Dude then looked at the wires closely, touching one with a talon.

" Since Air was down here after the power blew, someone else had to have cut these," D-Dude said.

" Exactly D-Dude, and the way these were snipped, it was with a really fine pair of scissors or a sharp blade or something," Banjomaru said fixing the wires for the first floor. " Boom baby! now onto this wire for the second floor bathroom."

" Wait a sec- BATHROOM?" DP yelled. " DW!"

" HOLY CRAP!" the others yelled.

XXX

The upstairs was dark as night during the storm, and Ross was standing guard at the bathroom. He himself had taken a while to get there after going to the wrong bathroom beforehand in the unfathomable darkness, but he was already certain it was the right one in the large house. He tapped his foot as the lights above and on the walls flickered, then suddenly came back on, revealing the walls, doors, pictures and windows more clearly.

" Finally . . . hey DW!" Ross yelled. " The lights are back on!"

He knocked on the door, but there was no response.

" DW! You asleep in there again?" he asked concerned. " The lights are back on! They've been fixed, lad!"

Silence. Thud.

" DW?" Ross said, turning the knob.

It was unlocked.

" DW? Are you in he- OH MY GOD!"

Sprawled on the floor was DW, a wound in his chest that was still leaking blood. The blood was sprayed everywhere, over the sink, in the sink, in the tub, on the rugs, and even on the pictures of the couples. He saw the shock and terror on DW's face, now unerasable from the horrors he'd seen.

" DW . . . no . . ."

He looked at the wall.

One word was written in blood.

Ross gasped and stepped back saying," OH my God it was- !"

WHACK!

Thud.

Ross' feet were at the door . . . as he was slowly dragged away . . .

To be continued!