Prologue: Death Game (Day One)
Guren moaned, his head pounding. The knights had just returned from a mission on Quarton, Slyger and Granox still led small attacks on the Corekai, but the knights were there to stop them every time. The six of them went to stop a small raid on the fortress.
He pushed himself up, observing his surroundings. He expected to find himself in the basement of Mr. White's shop, but instead he found himself in a big bed in a room he wasn't familiar with. The rest of the room wasn't much, it was just a dresser, a mirror and a nightstand, the room painted a very dark gray. There was a doorway to a balcony as well, covered by a black curtain. Although the room was mostly unfurnished, the pieces of furniture that was in there were decorated with flecks of gold, and were obviously designed with a high-standard in mind. Even the bed was layered with a fancy gray comforter, with gold patterns in the fabric. He got up and walked over to the balcony door, pushing the curtain out of the way. The door didn't have a lock and opened easily. He stepped outside, trying to find out where he was.
"Whoa." The area away from the house was completely covered in a thick fog. He peered a bit over the edge of the railing to get a better view of the house itself. The house turned out to be a sort of mansion, and was two floors. My room's on the second floor. Guren thought steadying himself. The outside of the mansion was painted a dark black, and a fence lining the property of the mansion. Actually, Guren thought, it's more like a manor, with the fancy furniture…
He perked as he heard a familiar voice echo from inside of the manor.
"Guests of the Black Manor, can you please report to the living room on the first floor please, and thank you!"
Guren walked inside of his room, sticking his hand in his pockets. He sighed in relief as he felt the core brick still in his pocket, and he opened his bedroom door, poking his head out for any sign of anyone else. His room was in a grey hallway, with two other rooms. One of the doors was wide open, having a glowing blue paw-print on it. The only other door was closed, having a glowing yellow lightning bolt on it. The doors all have symbols on them, I wonder if mine has one…
He looked up, and, sure enough, a glowing red flame was on the front of his door. He heard a door open, and Chooki walked out of the closed door, yawning. Chooki noticed Guren, jumping a bit out of surprise. "O-oh, hey Guren. Have any idea where we are?"
Guren shook his head. They found a stair case down the hall and head down stairs into another hallway, with only four rooms. They also had glowing symbols on them; pink crossbones, a purple claw-mark, a green game controller and one had both a silver flower and a white heart. Chooki and Guren shared confused looks, before walking to the end of the hall, which held a large gold door. Guren pushed it open, and it led into a large room. It had two large velvet couches, and a large table.
"Guys!" Guren said, surprise in his voice. Ceylan, Beni, Gen, Toxsa, Wakimei, and Kiro were sitting on the couches, all of them turning to Guren and Chooki.
"Chooki!" Kiro squealed, jumping off of the couch and running over to her big cousin, hugging his waist.
"K-Kiro? What are you doing here? Y-you too Wakimei!" Chooki stuttered, looking back and forth between Kiro and Wakimei.
Wakimei scoffed, crossing her arms. "I dunno. I just woke up here. Toxsa won't tell me why we're here though!"
Toxsa rolled his eyes. "I told you, I have no idea why we are here! None of us do Wakimei!"
The two siblings argued, Beni looking like she wanted to tape both of their mouths shut. Then, they heard the voice echo in the room again, and Wakimei and Toxsa finally stopped arguing as the voice spoke.
"Well, now that you are all here, I shall introduce myself!" the voice echoed. A bright orange flash filled the room, causing the group to cover their eyes. An orange monkey appeared, a sly smile on his face. "Hello knights! Miss little ol' me?" Orangor said in his usual cheeky voice.
"Orangor!" Ceylan and Beni yelled, the rage clear in their voices. Gen and Wakimei exchanged confused looks, as they didn't know who he was.
"Aww! He's so cute!" Kiro said, running forward, Chooki pulled her back, staring daggers at the monkey. Kiro looked up confusedly at her angry older cousin. "Can I keep him Chooki?"
Chooki forced a fake smile at his cousin. "No Kiro, this isn't a monkey you want to be around."
Orangor pouted, trying to look innocent. "Whaaaaat? Come on, I'm not that bad to be around!"
"Really?" Ceylan yelled. "Because turning me, Chooki, Beni, Beag, and Toxsa into stone statues, turning Guren into a Gorrilix, and making us chase you around twice makes you a GREAT guy to be around!"
"He turned you guys into statues?!" Gen said, eyes wide.
Orangor laughed. "Yes, and it was fun playing freeze-tag with you guys! But anyway, I wanted to play with you guys again, so I welcome you, to the Black Manor!"
The group exchanged looks of confusion as Orangor continued. "The Black Manor is neither in Beast World, Quarton, nor on Earth. It is in its own pocket dimension. So, there is no way for you to escape unless you beat my game!"
Guren narrowed his eyes as he remembers the challenges on Beast World that he called 'games'. "What kind of game, because frankly, I am tired of you being a big pain in our necks!" Guren growled.
Orangor rolled his eyes as he answered the red-head's question. "Well Bravenwolf, we call it something else on Beast World, but to make it simple, you humans call it a 'murder mystery'."
"M-murder mystery?" Ceylan stuttered, the great panic clear in his voice. "Y-you mean, like, you're going to kill us?!" Wakimei's hands flew over her mouth as the others gasped, Kiro hiding behind her cousin.
Orangor smiled widely at the group. "Well, yes technically, I will pick one of you players, and that player will be my pawn in the game."
"What does that mean monkey-breath?" Gen growled.
"I will be possessing one of you whenever I kill one of you. The person I possess won't even know that they are the murderer, as I will be replacing the memories of the murder with something else, so they will never know!" Guren shuddered at the thought of him possibly being a murder in this monkey's death game. Orangor continued. " But since I am nice, I will tell you two things, first of all, Bravenwolf is not the murderer, and neither is the little girl, who will be killed last, cause' even I'm not so cruel!" He said, pointing to Guren and Kiro. Guren sighed in relief. "If you guys can find the murderer before you are all dead, and maaaaaaaaaybe I will bring back the players who die, but know promises! I also left symbols on the doors in the manor so you know which room is which."
A symbol appeared in front of each player, matching the doors. Guren's the flame, Chooki's the lightning bolt, Ceylan's the paw-print, Gen's the claw-marks, Beni the crossbones, Toxsa the controller, and Wakimei and Kiro both shared the heart and flower.
"Now, goodbye knights!" The knights stared as the monkey disappeared in a puff of smoke as they looked at each other worriedly.
Beni let out a frustrated sigh as she plopped onto the bed in her room. After Orangor had disappeared, they all went into their rooms, Chooki and Guren had to drag Ceylan up the stairs (he had fainted after Orangor's speech). Beni stared at her watch, which said '10:56' in bright white letters.
"No service." She mumbled as she turned it off. She was worried about her friends to be honest, but she wasn't about to admit it to them, and she hoped that she wasn't the murderer. She was about to hit the hay when she heard a light knock on her door.
Beni frowned and approached the door suspiciously. She cracked it open slightly to see who it was, against her better judgment. She gasped her door swung open and she felt something dig into her chest. Her hands fumbled to her chest, and she saw a large knife stuck in it. She looked up at her attacker. "So… it was…you…." She gasped as she collapsed to the floor, the blood pooling on the floor from her chest. The murderer picked the body of the dead girl up, and threw it on the bed. The murderer ignored the blood from the body and ripped Kiro's necklace from her neck, and walked out the room, smiling as the neon pink on the crossbones marking her door faded to a dull grayish pink.
"OnE DoWn, SeVeN tO gO."
Author's Note:
Me: Wow, this came out really gruesome huh? I wanted to try a darker story for once, so here is your murder mystery! This should only be seven chapters long, at the max. Rock on, and see ya next chapter!
Neku: And please review!
Roxas: And while you're at it, who do you think will survive longer, and who do you think will die next? Who do you think the murderer is?
Me: Rock on!