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(A/N: Alright I'm gonna try and move the plot on a little bit this chapter. I made a timeline for the story, so I know what needs to happen; the question is how to go about it. On another note I was originally going to make the team get their strength from having gem shards implanted in them, raise your hand in the reviews if you wish that I had, but keep in mind that caine grants the user a personality specific power once a high enough level of mastery is achieved. Also I have now reached over 600 views with my last chapter getting 34 views by itself.

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Chapter 8: Cold Nights and Twisted Minds

It was right after the rave and the team was out on the road. Though this time they weren't doing their usual rounds; earlier in the day Mayor Dewy informed them of two murders at what was supposed to be an abandoned sanitarium. Yesterday afternoon two headless corpses of nineteen year old men were found leaned up against the gate posts of sleepy hollow mental asylum. Dewy had told them that he would keep the police out and to investigate do to the very real possibility that a corrupted gem or force fusion may be responsible, and even it did turn out to be another human they were to subdue his; a task that would be considered child's play for six young adults with basic knowledge of caine. The familiar jeep slowed to a halt at the gates of the asylum where everyone unloaded.

"It just had to be an asylum," Lars groaned out loud. At which point almost everybody present simultaneously said

"Tell me about it," (What I assume would happen in real life). Chalk outlines showed where the bodies had been leaned against the granite rectangles that kept the steel gates tethered. Sour fingered the zippo lighter in his pocket as he walked through the poorly lit halls of the long abandoned building, hoping that he would get the chance to use one of his bombs again. Jenny stayed close to him showing clear signs of fear; he couldn't help her much as he was also afraid of his surroundings. There was after all a reason that every horror game had at least one asylum level. Buck seemed indifferent to this situation; whether he was scared or not was anybody's guess. Lars and Sadie stayed close, and though Sadie was never easily scared I'm sure you can all guess who was. Ronaldo on the other hand seemed enthralled with the opportunity to closely examine a setting with legendary levels of paranormal activity. His heart dropped, but his excitement rose when he heard the lovely sound of a woman singing. The teens looked to each other with a mixture of fear and resolve, and each of them could feel their caine boost up as a result. The singing leads them to an intersection where four corridors converged. A woman stood with her back to the teens, she had black hair, a black dress with long sleeves, what appeared to be a bandage wrapped around her head, and a pale complexion.

"Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me, I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see." She sang smoothly as the team advanced on her from behind. Once right behind her Sadie was the first to act.

"Don't move," Sadie said with authority. The woman froze stiff at the sound of another voice. In the blink of an eye she was gone. They scanned the intersection for her but she neither hide nor hair. The same voice from before broke them away.

"Oh, the little human gang, I've been expecting you," The teens turned around to see the woman with her bandage covering her left eye and a shark like grin spread across her face. Again she disappeared and again the teens turned around, following the sound of her voice. "My master informs me that you have been rather troublesome, I've been sent to…take care of the problem." She said as she undid the bandages. The white cloth fell to the ground to reveal a dull gray gemstone imbedded in her left eye socket.

"An enchantress that uses the female form to draw suspicion away from her and deceive her prey; codename, Lilith," Ron said as he drew his blade. Lilith let out an amused chuckle at the designation.

"Call me whatever you like, it's not going to make your deaths come any less painfully," She waved her hands over her gem and a light cascaded over them and took shape in the form of wicked metal clawed gauntlets.

"Stay on guard, she's either really fast or can teleport!" Sadie yelled to her teammates while charging at the gem, and thrusting her spear at her. Lilith disappeared and reappeared while standing right on top of Sadie's outstretched spear. With a grin she kicked the team's leader in the face and sent her towards a wall. From there Ronaldo charged in and swung down diagonally. When the swing was complete Lilth wasn't there anymore. He felt a tapping on his shoulder and without a millisecond of hesitation he swung horizontally around himself and missed again this time she was falling from the air. His reflexes were always sharp and as such he adjusted for her to land on the blade. Lilith's face turned to one of fear. In mid fall Ron noticed some warping around Lilith's figure, but she still fell in the same place; except for what should have been a gem cabob turned into a slice down her right cheek. She sprung up and raked her claws across his torso, and sent made him reel back a little. Ron's Kevlar vest took the hit for him and in one last effort threw his katana which sliced through the air like a saw blade. Again right before the blade her her he saw some warping and she instantly moved a little to the left, but not far enough to stop the blade from catching her side and releasing her blood on to her attire. Seeing her distraction Buck swung his axe at the curtain of black hair he saw before him. With no movement in between Lilith switched from facing away from him to holding the handle firmly in her left claw while her right claw reached out and sliced through his jacket, shirt, and stomach. He let out a pained yell as he let go of his weapon and clutched his injured belly. He fell backwards as she tossed the axe aside and wound up for a finishing blow. Sour blocked her path as he flung his machete about in panic; where ever he swung was where she wasn't as she constantly disappeared and reappeared just slightly to the left and right six times. Finally her attention was draw by Lars who shot three arrows at her, one of which pierced the correspondent area where Ron's sword had met her flesh. She turned to the orange skinned boy who showed the same face of fear that he had last night as Sour drug Buck out of the line of fire, leaving a worryingly thick trail of blood behind. With Lars in her sight she noticed a chain about to lash her across the back of the head. She focused and everything stopped. The chain now froze in mid swing and every object and person completely stationary; she walked to jenny counting aloud as she did so.

"One, two, three, four, five," She said in sync with her steps as she got to right in front of the short haired girl and readied her claws for the same strike hit Buck with her time ran out and the motion resumed. Jenny had been watching the fight closely and made plans for how she would react if the gem had appeared on any side of her, so the second she saw Lilith she gave her the hardest left hook she could muster, knocking the gem back slightly and pushing her claw out of reach. Jenny yanked her chain back and wound it once around Lilith before front kicking her into the air. Time froze again and Lilith freed herself from the chain and dropped to the ground before five seconds passed again and everything picked up again. Little did she know though that Jenny had reached for her knife at the exact moment that her foot connected with the gem and was now drawn. It didn't take a full second for her to aim and throw the knife into the juncture of Lilith's upper and fore arm. The arm went limp as the tendons were severed. As she calculated how long it would take for them to grow back she noticed Lars readying himself for another shot. She grunted in anger as she tore the knife from her arm and chucked it at the archer. He ducked, but still released the string sending it into her foot. Lilith didn't notice him shooting in the midst of his dodge and could do nothing to avoid the rail which stabbed through her foot and into the linoleum floor. With her movement sealed Sadie held her spear at its farthest end and swung it into Lilith's head like a baseball bat and sent her off the arrow and onto her knees as she tried to silence the dull droning in her head. Just then she felt to small sharp object stab into her back as Sour ran past to her and into the farthest corner of the room. She heard a quiet buzzing from behind her like a fuse ticking down…'SHIT!' She screamed inwardly as she froze time, and scrambled to take the bomb off. She struggled to reach the bomb right In between her shoulder blades, and by the time she took a running position time stated again and the bomb detonated since Sour had lit it from the middle of the fuse. The explosion launched her forward onto her knees and elbows and tore the clothes and a layer or four of skin off her back. She stood with great strain while taking ragged breathes and was met with a spray from a red canister. She quickly reeled back, shrieking shrilly as the acidic liquid burned her eye, and soaked into the lids of her gem eye. When in pain and panic she lunged at the first colored figure she saw, which happened to be Lars. She tackled him and dug her claws into the floor with Lars' arms in between two of them. He saw that the arrow from earlier was still inside her and immediately had a plan. He pushed his knee into the arrow causing excruciating. Fed up with this fight she released Lars' right hand to finish him with her claw. This gave Lars all the time he needed to retrieve a glass vile filled with a red substance and smash it onto her back. Now that the red powder had its moist catalyst (her raw skin) it burst into flames similar to that of magnesium. She got up and ran around franticly while the flames engulfed her figure. She sat still screaming like you expect a person on fire to do for a second until her gem dropped onto the floor. Though before the teens could do anything about it a shrouded figure seeming to be made up of nothing but tendrils swooped through and stole the gem from the floor.

"Lars, now!" Ron shouted. Lars pulled a specific arrow from his quiver, separated by a piece of scotch tape. Just before the tentacled monster turned the corner Lars shot the arrow. The lights were too dim to be sure if he had got a hit. Ron pulled a PDA out of his pocket. A red dot beeped as it constantly moved on the screen. "Ladies and gentlemen, we have lift off,".

(A/N: The longest chapter I ever wrote for anything. Sorry my editor is out of town AGAIN! I'm starting to think I may not have an editor at all. Please review and follow.)