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ixie pixie: Thanks once again for the great review! I am at the bit in Homestuck where Rose is in the science lab, John has just beaten up two huge imp thingy's and Jade has been introduced, if that helps :) I'm somewhere where the PM dude is talking about mail...I don't really get it, but I'll carry on reading and figure it out :) It's somewhere in act two :)

Isaac, Coco, Nico and Edith remaining.

Nico POV

Everything hurts. My hand is burning and I can feel the poison pumping through my veins. My heart is slowing and I know that soon it will stop completely.

I have enough energy left to shove Coco off me when she lands, but then I lose the will to move.

Someone drags me across the floor and I feel a cool breeze across my face. The person lifts up my hand and winds something around it. It feels like hair.

A sweet singing suddenly fills my ears.

"Flower, gleam and glow,
Let your power shine,
Make the clock reverse,
Bring back what once was mine.

Heal what has been hurt.
Change the fate's design.
Save what has been lost,
Bring back what once was mine...
What once was mine..."

My hand slowly stops burning. The poison is leaving my blood stream, as through being absorbed out of me by the music. Then pain subsides and I open my eyes.

Edith is standing, holding the hair around my hand. It is long and golden.

"Punzie?" I whisper. The hair suddenly tugs away and is dragged back upwards. My strength is back, but seeing even part of her brings back the pain that I'll never see her again. Probably not even in the underworld.

"You're alive." I turn my head to see Coco kneeling in the middle of the room, where I had pushed her off.

"Don't sound so disappointed." I give her a half-smile, but she continues staring like she's seen a ghost.

"You have a challenge to do." A small voice whispers. We all whip round to see where it's coming from.

A young girl emerges from the shadows. She is wearing a white dress and has straggly blonde hair. She looks like a younger version of Luna Lovegood, one of Athena's kids.

"What's your name?" Edith walks over to her and the girls shrinks back.

"I'm Diamond." Edith reaches out to put a hand on her shoulder, but the girl takes a couple of steps backwards. "Please don't hurt me!"

I stare at her and her eyes suddenly meet mine. I look straight into her deepest fears and see a man wearing a clown costume. He has a whip. He is beating her and three other boys.

"We won't hurt you." I say quietly.

"Don't be scared." Adds Isaac. He's looking at the wall next to Diamond. She looks over her shoulder.

"What are you looking at?"

"You." He says. She doesn't look convinced, but Coco intervenes.

"He's blind. He's looking at where your voice is coming from, if that makes sense?"

Diamond nods uncertainly, then she turns to me.

"If you see Tag, tell him I'm alright."

"Who's Tag?" I ask, but she's not there.

"Line up against the wall. Diamond will be back when the challenge is over."

We line up.

"Unfortunates, this is One-Eyed Watcher. To pass, you must correctly identify which cup his eye is under three times. Get it wrong three times and the team fails."

Isaac looks offended at the entire thing. I'm more interested in the fact that the room has suddenly turned into a circus tent. I'm glad that Diamond did disappear. She would have been freaking out about crazy clowns.

A man is standing behind a table. He is wearing a turban and is covered in jewelled robes. I know that he's a fake at once. The table itself has three cups on it, and balanced on top of one, there is a fake eyeball.

The Voice is choosing a Saboteur and I realise that it is probably Coco. She's the only one who hasn't been a Saboteur yet. She is looking straight ahead, but there are no signs of deceit or worry in her eyes and I wonder if it actually is her.

To be honest, I don't want her to be trapped. Weird as she is, Coco is like the annoying little sister of the family, even more annoying than Edith. I realise that I don't want Edith to be trapped either. Or Isaac.

I can't vote for any of them. I would be a traitor.

The word traitor sends a shudder up my spine. I remember trying to rescue Percy from my fathers dungeon...Being called a traitor is soul destroying...not that my soul needs to be any more destroyed...

"Nico, do not react, you are the Saboteur." WHAT? AGAIN? I am going to find that voice and strangle her. I don't flinch, but in my head I am coming up with a thousand ways to kill her. "You can make the team fail this challenge by using your powers of persuasion to get them to choose the wrong cup."

She blabbers on a bit, but I am already trying to decide the best way to do this. Isaac will have to take our word for it and Edith probably won't be able to keep track of it. So the only competition is Coco.

"Let the challenge begin...Now!"

The turban-man puts a fake eye-ball underneath the middle cup, before switching them around so fast that my mind goes blank. When he stops, my eyes are watering and I have no idea which cup the eyeball is underneath.

"Nico, the eyeball is underneath the left cup." The voice hisses. Coco is staring at them.

"Probably middle." I say. I can't be bothered to be subtle.

"That's what I was going to say too." Edith agrees. Coco shrugs and points to the middle cup. He lifts it to reveal...nothing.

I make sure that I look disappointed, but Coco and Edith are both staring at me, with something accusatory about their gazes.

"Hey, you're the one who agreed." I give Edith an appraising look, but she just punches my arm. It hurts too.

The watcher has moved around the cups again without us noticing.

"Middle." The Voice tells me.

I look at Coco.

"Your call." She looks at the cups carefully.

"Right."

"You heard her." I look up at the watcher. The cup is, of course, empty.

We go through the entire thing again, this time with Edith choosing the wrong cup. We have failed.

"Line up and vote for who you think the Saboteur was and why."

"Nico." I can't choose. I can't choose. I-

"I vote for..." I look along the line. Coco looks at me, then points to herself. I mouth 'Are you sure?' and she nods. "Coco."

"Isaac."

"I vote for Edith. I'm sorry."

"Edith."

"I vote for Nico."

"Coco."

"I vote for Isaac."

"The voting is a four-way tie. You will all pick a straw and whoever has the shortest wins."

We open the box and I take the shortest straw that is sticking out of it. Coco, Edith and Isaac each pick one and we hold them up.

Mine is the longest. Edith and Coco's are about the same length.

Isaac is trapped.

Isaac POV

The others take in breaths and I know that mine must be the shortest. That's fine. I'm near-ish to Hazel and that little girl, Diamond, will probably help me.

I hear the others jump, Coco stopping to give me a hug. Then I am alone.

"Poor unfortunate Isaac. How do you feel about being trapped?"

"I feel like I want one of them to win and kick your butt."

Diamond POV

The blind boy is trapped. I take his hand and lead him over to the wall, where he sinks down to sit on the floor.

"Diamond?"

"Yes?"

"Who's Tag?"

I debate on my answer. I know he didn't escape, that was Percy who yelled up earlier. So either Tag or Jack is sitting directly below me and the other on the final floor. Tag isn't directly related to me, but he's more like family than Mark, Luke and Matthew.

"Tag is my brother."

I know that it lacked description, but there wasn't much to say, so it's probably a little boring...anyways, WE ARE DOWN TO THE FINAL THREE! DUN-DUN-DUUUUUUN!

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Oh yeah, Diamond's real brothers are called Mark, Matthew and Luke, then she has an older sister called Mary-Martha and a little brother called John, but she doesn't know John because she was sold to the circus not long after he was born.

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