I'm not dead. I only pretend ^^. So….enjoy the chapter all my old, and I hope still fateful, readers.

Kristina spilled out the story of her memories in one garbled mess. She sobbed about her parents, and how the huntress had killed them. No one believed her, the huntress was way to young to have killed her parents and still be their age. Kristina shook her head; she was one hundred percent positive that it was the same person.

The discussion was shattered when a dagger imbedded itself in the wall above their heads. Everyone automatically shifted into a state of alertness. Ulrich and Grace turned around in the doorway and saw the huntress fingering more daggers. Her posture was relaxed; she clearly thought she was toying with them.

Kristina recognized the girl and flared to life. Her power levels went through the roof, fueled by newfound anger. Not capable of any comprehendible language, she just growled a low, menacing, growl.

"You're no match for me. I've taken down dragons with ten times your power." Her fingers tingled with dark magic as she spoke the words.

Kristina lunged at the girl before anyone could stop her. Everything fell into place, like dominos in a line, and soon everyone was fighting to the best of their ability.

Max, purely from instinct, dove after Kristina. Several years of dragging her out of fights had heightened his reaction to her impulsive behavior. He grabbed for her tail, hoping to bring her back before she was ripped to shreds. "You're gonna be killed!" He hissed as he brought her backwards, and out of striking range.

"Aw," the huntress cooed. "What do we have here?" She paused and walked around the room. Her every move made the others anxious, just because they believed that she didn't kill Kristina's parents didn't mean she wasn't a threat. "Fire and light, can't have one without the other can you?" her boots clicked on the floor, emphasizing the harsh silence. "If I put out the fire, what happens to the light?"

The comment hit home for Kristina. She struggled to get loose, but Max's strength outmatched hers. Thinking quickly she sunk her fangs into his arm. Howling Max released his hold on the young dragon.

Once freed from Max's hold Kristina once again lunged at the Huntress. Her hands were hot with power and where her hand met the girl's skin she left an ugly burn. The huntress hissed and threw a small dagger. The dagger sailed through the air nicking the side of Kristina's arm but not doing much damage.

Ulrich and Yumi tried to separate the two. Yumi shot bullets of light between them. The strong wind burst Ulrich formed snapped open the balls of light. The broken balls of light cast out sparkles. The light flared and stuck to the two teens. The glowing residue distracted the huntress long enough for Kristina to wrap her tail around her enemy's leg. With one strong pull the huntress was on the ground.

Dan reached out and tugged Kristina off of the dark girl. In that split second the Huntress rocked back and sprung back to her feet, daggers in her hand a split second later.

Ulrich and Yumi were quickly thrown to the side with bleeding arms and daggers imbedded in their skin. Yumi, being the conscious one of the two, reached and pulled a dagger from her left leg. Blood welled up from the deep gash and spilled onto the splintered wooden floor.

Grace managed to escape the immediate battleground and make her way to the two body's lying on the opposite side of the room. She had just laid her hand on Yumi's gash, in an attempt to heal it, when Max was thrown roughly across the room. He smashed into the wall just to Yumi's right. The collision left a dent in the old structure. He crashed to the floor and groaned.

Yumi knew there hadn't been enough time for anyone to heal properly. They were dropping like flies, already about half their numbers lay in a crumpled mess on the floor.

-------------Earth-------------

"This sucks." Odd spat. His mood was bleak, as was everyone else's.

"For once I have to agree with you Odd." Jeremie sighed. He was stuck on his hands and knees, a position he had obtained after his left foot got caught and he was brought crashing to the rather unforgiving cement floor.

Aelita, who was spread out on her back, sighed, "I feel rather useless like this."

Just after the statement a loud crash sounded above them. Odd and Jeremie turned their heads to the dark ceiling. "There up there," Odd stated. "I can feel them, and something's wrong."

"Well we can't do anything unless these things get removed." Aelita pointed out.

Odd looked around the room, hoping that by some strange miracle there would be something that could help their current position. Nothing.

"What we need is a giant electromagnetic field. These things are probably some form of electricity; they do originate from Xana after all. A giant pulse of electricity would disrupt their hold on us." Jeremie explained, hinting strongly at Odd.

A light bulb went off in Odd's head. "How do u make an electromag…thingy?"

"We'd need something that could produce a high wattage of electricity." Jeremie said.

"Like me?" Odd asked a hopeful tone creeping into his voice.

"Very much like you," Jeremie smiled as he said this.

"But a shock like that would do some damage to us too though." Aelita said.

"Your right," Odd sighed.

"We'd need a barrier to keep the shock off of ourselves but still hit the bonds." Jeremie said.

"How on earth are we going to do that?" Aelita asked as she started to pull at the dark cuffs.

-------------Darkness-----------

"You must have a death wish." The Huntress taunted Kristina as she repeatedly missed her target.

Kristina's claws dug into the old wood of the living room wall. Hissing and spitting with furry she removed her claws from the wood and leapt back at the dark huntress. This time her claws dug into flesh instead of wood.

A pile of red and black rolled across the floor. The two girls tumbled half the length of the room before the huntress grabbed a dagger and aimed for Kristina's neck. Kristina saw the shine of the blade a split second before the dagger bit into her skin. A sharp pain froze Kristina and her attacking came to an abrupt halt.

A scaled hand grabbed the back of Kristina's shirt. The next thing she knew the dagger had been removed from her neck and a large dose of healing magic was being pumped into her system. The healing magic took its effect and she dropped to the floor unconscious.

Dan held the Huntress by her throat, her feet nearly skimming the floor. The girl was almost helpless now, her various weapons lay scattered among the debris. "You have no idea what you've caused." His voice was stiff with anger. Unable to breath, the girl stared at Dan with her solid black eyes. Dan grinned, "you've lost."

The huntress smiled a devious smile. Her hands started to gather bits of dark energy from the air. The bits attached themselves to her, within seconds the huntress no longer looked like a girl.

Her body pulsed with energy, all facial features were covered in darkness. She dawned skeletal wings, a long skinny tail lined with small sharp spikes, and her hands looked more like scraggly claws than actual hands.

In shock Dan dropped the creature and watched as she nearly doubled in size.

"Let's get out of here!" Dan yelled as he picked up an unconscious Ulrich and headed towards he door.

-------------------Electricity------------------

"Aelita!" Odd realized.

"What?" she asked half-heartedly.

"My little earth friend," Odd smiled, "can you cover you and Jeremie in dirt while I blow off the restraints?"

"I'm not a level ten Odd." Aelita pointed out.

"Times of dire need, don't you remember?" Odd asked. He could feel the power of his friends starting to dwindle. Something was utterly wrong.

"I…I don't think I can," Aelita stammered her eyes wide. She wanted desperately to help, but she seriously thought that her powers weren't strong enough.

"You have to try princess," Odd prompted. Ulrich and Yumi just went out, their sensors fogged by unconsciousness.

"Don't push her Odd, she can only do what she can do." Jeremie said his voice defensive.

"Jeremie I can take care of myself," Aelita said, her tone hard, but not too loud.

Odd felt Grace get hit, she must have been wounded, but not enough to knock her out. The pain of knowing his friends were suffering and he was stuck in this wrenched basement was eating at his mind. He pulled harder on the bands around his wrist in frustration.

"Odd that's never going to work," Jeremie grunted.

"Like you're much use. " Odd snapped back.

"Fighting isn't going to solve anything!" Aelita snapped..

"Being stuck is making us irritable, like a rat in a cage." Jeremie let his voice grow a soft tone. "Sorry Odd, I don't do well in captive situation."

"I didn't notice," Odd mumbled sarcastically

Two of the six signals that pin-pointed the position of the others faded from Odd's field of sensory.

"They're loosing." Odd whispered. His mind started to clog with defeat. It was hard to think straight and focus on the problem at hand. He was so attuned to the feelings of the others, so tied, that it was almost as if he was being beaten himself.

Sparks started to crawl across his skin, the mental strain causing the cap on his powers to come uncorked. As the small streams of power escaped to the floor they collided with the bonds holding him down. The strings of dark electrical magic started to weaken.

Panic started to rise as the impending doom of the others charged his powers and made his mind churn. He couldn't help it, the calling to release his power was too great. Odd knew that if he let the power take over, the others would suffer from the extreme blast, even kill them.

"Aelita," he called, barely able get his words out through his clenched teeth. "Protect you and Jeremie."

"I told you I can't." She replied.

"Do it now!" Odd yelled, the streams of electricity growing by the second. Aelita faltered for a single second. Within that second Odd lost control, and a dome of blinding electricity engulfed the house.

Dun dun dun. I actually already have at least the next chapter types if not the next to. So while I'm on vacation I should be able to update as least this story.