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The group was split between the entertainment room and the sitting room. Most of the boys, including Kiria and Miyabi, were in the entertainment room having videogame battles or challenging each other to foosball. Likewise, most of the girls had opted to stay in the sitting room. Mizore and Kurumu were occupying Tsukune's mind, Ruby and Yukari were studying the magic books they'd found in the Aono's collection and Ura read a book over Omote's shoulder. The Shuzens were in the entertainment center, Aqua and Kokoa playing basketball while Kahlua watched Miyabi have a foosball tournament with Kiria, so the twins were left alone to their reading, much to both their appreciation.

While Omote was turning a page, Ura glanced up, seeing a shadow moving away from the doorway to the sitting room. Cocking her head, she shifted her sister. "I'll be right back." She whispered, receiving a concerned glance from the green-eyed girl.

"Be careful." Omote told her, grasping the choker around Ura's throat before quickly letting go.

"I will." Ura grasped Omote's collar back and turned, heading out the door.

She returned shortly after she left, drying her hands on a towel that she'd found after washing her hands. "Where did you go?" Omote inquired.

"I just had to go to the bathroom." Ura shrugged, snuggling back against her sister and resuming the book. TIme passed gradually by without any incident, but then Yukari glanced around at all of her friends and took inventory, realizing that someone was missnig.

"Keito's missing!" Yukari shrieked, looking around in fright.

"What?" the entire group moved out into the hallway, looking around for the spider-girl. Tsukune, Kiria, Hokuto and Miyabi searched the rooms nearby as the girls moved in a group together.

"Maybe she found a way out?" Kurumu asked hopefully.

"Or she's hiding." Mizore deadpanned.

"I'm not ruling out the fact that you could be the killer." Kurumu muttered, sending a dark look at the ice woman.

"They would have had water around them had I killed them." Mizore scoffed. "They would have been covered in ice after all. How do we know it wasn't you? They did have their eyes clawed out."

"Check your facts, Ice Queen. Their eye wounds were too shallow to be my talons."

"Well, maybe Mizore's right and Keito is just keeping herself hidden so as to become a lesser target?" Kiria suggested, keeping close to Hokuto.

"I doubt it." Ura stated, pulling Aqua and Omote close.

"Why is that, Ura?" Kokoa asked, keeping close to the silver-haired girl's side.

In answer, Ura simply pointed to a room nearby. The door was ajar and they could all clearly see a puddle of blood dripping from beneath it. There was an almost palpable silence as everyone stared at the door in silent horror. Tsukune slowly took a breath and shakily opened the door, leaping back when they could see what was inside.

Keito was hanging from the ceiling by a piece of her own thread. It was tied around her waist in a way that made it seem as though the thread was being shot from her abdomen. Her arms had been broken at the elbow and the upper pieces had been ripped off, stuck to her sides with an excess of the silky material. The same had been done with her legs. Some of her teeth had been taken out and grafted together, replaced in her mouth in a way that made them look like pinchers. And this time, not only had her eyes been clawed from their sockets, but six extra holes had been poked through her head around her original eye sockets.

"Keito!" Kiria shouted, his eyes wide.

Omote hid behind Ura as Yukari stayed close to Ruby. Kahlua pulled Aqua and Kokoa close, squeezing them tight. "What do we do?" Kurumu screamed, clutching at Tsukune as Mizore did the same.

"We need to try to stay calm!" Tsukune called to them all. "From now on, no one else leaves the group. If we go to the bathroom, we all go together, understood?"

"Whoa, who died and put you in charge?" Routier demanded.

"In case you haven't noticed, three people died and since it's my house, I'm automatically in charge." Tsukune retorted, his eyes turning red as his ghoul powers began raising their heads. The horned girl backed down and Xia-Ling pulled her close, ruffling her hair.

"Well, if we're even going to the bathroom together…" Kiria murmured, turning and making his way down the hall. "I'll only be a moment."

The rest of the group followed along behind the strangely-pupiled boy as he moved to the bathroom that Tsukune had pointed out to Kuyou earlier.

The group waited patiently, occupying themselves in their own fashions. Ruby, Mizore and Kurumu fought over Tsukune, Yukari chatted with Omote, Aqua and Kokoa cuddled next to Ura and Fang-Fang and Xia-Ling sparred with their swords. The rest simply lounged around the area, keeping an eye out for anything suspicious. When several minutes passed with no sign of Kiria coming back out, the teens began getting restless.

"Kiria's taking forever!" Kurumu groaned, leaning against Mizore in boredom.

"Hokuto, can you check on him?" Ruby asked, turning to the tall boy.

"Yeah, just give me a moment." Hokuto knocked firmly on the door to the bathroom before moving inside. "Hey guys?" he called.

"What's wrong?" Tsukune asked, his stomach churning with worry.

"Kiria's not here anymore."

"What?" all of the teens demanded.

"Is the window broken?" Kurumu inquired, rushing inside to assess the situation.

"No, everything's untouched." Hokuto told her, concern creasing his brow. "He just… disappeared."

"How can that be possible, though?" Mizore wondered aloud, searching around. Ura glanced around and her eyes landed on something on the floor. Stooping to pick it up, she stifled a gasp, her eyes widening in shock. Quickly standing once more, she tucked the object into her jacket, shaking her head at Omote's questioning look.

"I'll explain when we're finally alone again." The silver-haired girl told her softly so none of the others heard. "But it's imperative none of the others go anywhere without one of us. Alright?"

The pinkette nodded, seeing the worry and fear in her twin's eyes and wondering what was happening.

"Well, if he's gone and there's no plausible excuse for him to be gone, I think we should all head out." Ruby sighed, rubbing her forehead as she tried to come up with some way to explain Kiria's disappearance.

"Was he some sort of magician or something?" Kurumu asked. "Maybe he vanished himself home."

"But then why wouldn't he take Hokuto with him?" Tsukune inquired, putting out that theory. "Come on, we should all at least try to sleep. And remember, no one goes anywhere alone."

"Except Routier, apparently." Ruby said softly, doing a head count and coming up short.

"Routier's gone?" Xia-Ling panicked, looking around for his cousin.

"She wouldn't go off on her own, would she?" Fang-Fang murmured, looking around the halls for any trace of what could have happened to the horned girl.

"I hope she's alright." Ruby's eyes surveyed the area one last time.

"Maybe we should all pair up and head to our rooms?" Tsukune suggested.

"Pair up?" Miyabi scoffed. "I thought everyone at the party got their own rooms except for the Twins over there?"

"No, we-."

"Look, Aono. I may not know who's doing this, but I'm not gonna let'em kill me without a fight. Now, which room can I sleep in?"

Tsukune sighed in defeat and pointed down the hall. "Third one on the right."

"Thanks."

"Maybe we shouldn't split up." Ura murmured, keeping a close eye on the Shuzen sisters. "I mean, even in pairs, this person could take us out. Wouldn't it be more beneficial to stay close together and keep an eye on each other?"

"Keep an eye…" Kurumu turned to her with a raised brow. "This person gouges out eyeballs and that's the best saying you could come up with?"

"You got a better one, Breast Queen?" Ura snapped, her eyes flashing. "We're getting picked off one-by-one and the best argument you can find is to fight over my choice in idioms?"

Kurumu took the hint and quieted, moving close to Tsukune. "Maybe Ura's right." Tsukune mused, tapping his chin thoughtfully. "I mean, if we stay together as a big group, we'll have more of a chance to surround whoever it is if they try to attack us."

"Yeah, but if they're formidable enough to get away?" Aqua asked.

"Then our fastest runners would be able to catch them." Haiji smirked at her with a wink.

"I don't know." Mizore muttered. "If I have to spend too much time around you guys, I might start killing you. Maybe we should follow Miyabi's example."

"I agree with creepy stalker ice-woman." Kurumu stated.

Ura sighed and shook her head, leading Omote down the hall. When they arrived in their room, the silver-haired girl checked over the premises before shutting and locking the door. "Idiots!" she snarled under her breath, red eyes glowing in the dim light coming in from the moon.

Omote watched her sister with concern. Ura clenched her hands together as her anger rose, her nails digging into her palms. "Ura?" the pinkette asked tentatively, but Ura shook her head, signaling that she wasn't calmed down yet. Blood began dripping from her palms and the albino girl slowly let out a breath.

"They're all going to die."


Now that's something beautiful. An angry Ura will always triumph over anything else. Nothing will ever be as hot as an enraged Ura. Anyway, before I get lost in fantasyland, I'll pull myself back and go write the next chapter. You guys go ahead and review for me, yeah?