Author's Note: Okay, so, here it is at last. An update. I HOPE there are no typos/grammatical errors in this, as I kind of wrote this between 10 and 10:30 pm. I'm needing some ideas on who the villian should be. So, if anyone knows of any evil egyptian gods that I might have missed in my search, please feel free to pm me with some details! As always reviews are appreciated. And I don't own HOA. Sadly.

House of Nightmares

The next morning, Nina stumbled into the breakfast room looking dead tired. The others looked up at her, and Jerome gasped.

"Whoa, did you run into a tree?" he asked. Nina rolled her eyes.

"Seriously Nina, you look awful," Alfie said, concurring with Jerome.

"thanks, Alfie, that definitely makes me feel better," Nina said tiredly, and she sat in her spot grabbing a couple of the flap jacks Trudy had made. The next to come in was Fabian, who immediately took his place next to Nina, and looked at her in concern.

"Are you alright?" he asked. "You look awful."

"So Alfie and Jerome have already told me," Nina replied. "I'm fine." There was a loud groan, and Eddie sauntered in, collapsing into the chair beside Fabian, throwing himself onto the table.

"Well, it seems we're all tired his morning," Jerome commented. Eddie looked up and glared at Jerome, his eyes slightly bleary.

"Shut up, Clarke," he muttered, grabbing the orange juice picture. Patricia, KT and Willow all came in together, Patricia and Kt attempting to comfort a very distressed willow.

"I'm sure it was nothing, Willow," Patricia was saying. She looked over to where Eddie was sitting, his face practically falling into his glass.

"What happened to you?" she asked in surprise, then added after looking at Nina, "both of you?" Before either could answer, Willow started freaking out.

"Oohh," she said, taking a step back the table, her eyes wide. "Oohh, bad vibes, really bad vibes."

"It's alright, Willow," KT assured her, taking her by the arm and leading her to the table. "You're just still shook up from that bad dream."

"Bad dream?" Nina and Eddie echoed, suddenly wide awake. They looked at each other in surprise. KT looked at the two of them, slightly freaked out.

"Yeah, Willow had this crazy dream."

"It was so scary," Willow said dramatically, and she threw her arms out wide, nearly knocking over the milk jug.

"Careful," Patricia warned, grabbing the jug and pulling it close. "I was planning on dumping this on the weasel's head to wake him up." Eddie made a face at her.

"Very funny, Yacker," he replied.

"There was this scary voice," Willow continued, unperturbed by the interruptions. "He was whispering, 'chosen one, osirian, free me' and cracks appeared in the ground at my feet..." Willow shivered. "So scary! I got some really bad vibes from him." Fabian glanced at Nina and Eddie, and their faces were as white as death. Joy, KT and Patricia all noticed it as well.

"Hey, you two alright?" Joy asked, leaning across the table to get a better look at them. Eddie and Nina exchanged glances.

"Yeah," Nina said quickly, and she stood grabbing her bag off the back of her chair. "We better get going, don't want to be late." The other sibunas were quick to grab there bags as well. Except for Alfie.

"But, what about breakfast?" he asked.

"Alfie," Fabian snapped. "Come on." The group left quickly, leaving behind Mara, Willow, Jerome, and Joy, who was torn about whether she should go too considering she'd left Sibuna the term before. Mara looked at Jerome with a funny expression.

"Where do they always run off to, I wonder?" she asked thoughtfully. Jerome just shrugged. No Rufus, so he was cool. He didn't care what the sibunas did now. He had been just an honorary member anyway. Besides, he thought to himself as he glanced down as his phone rang, he had bigger problems this term.

Nina quickly described her dream to her friends as they walked through the trees to school. Fabian looked rather worried when Nina finished, and Eddie looked freaked out.

"My dream was pretty much identical, except for the bit about Sarah," he said. "I was in the clearing too, at least I'm assuming it was the same clearing. I never actually went to the Sibuna clearing, remember? Anyway, there was a giant crack in the ground, and you stood on the other side of it from me. Someone was whispering for me to set them free."

"I don't like this," Fabian said. Nina grabbed his hand and squeezed it reassuringly, trying to reassure herself as much as him.

"We'll be fine, nothing can get much closer then they did last term could they?" she asked. "So, any ideas about who this evil person is, Fabian?"

"Umm.. no," Fabian admitted. "But I'll get right on it. Nothing is going to happen to you this time Nina, I promise."

"Same," Eddie added, putting his arm around Patricia. "As Osirian, I promise nothing will happen to you, any of you." Fabian and Eddie exchanged looks. They both hoped they could keep that promise.

TBC