Mario Murder Mystery Chapter Two: The kill

There was a knock on Peach's door.

'Finally' Peach said, getting up from her armchair and answering the door.

'Hi Peach' said Mario.

'Are you the only one here?' asked Peach, looking around. Suddenly, all of the other Party guests jumped out and shouted 'Hello!'

'Whatever' said Peach, letting the gang in. She saw Mario, Luigi, Daisy, Yoshi, Bowser, Bowser Jr, Goombella, Birdo and Toadette.

The eleven soon set off. They passed Peach's minibus.

'Why ain't we going in there?' whispered Toadette to Birdo.

'I don't know, probably because she doesn't want her van to be dirty' shrugged Birdo.

Toad walked towards Toadette.

'Did you do the cleaning?' Toad asked his girlfriend.

Toadette scowled and elbowed Toad in the stomach.

'OW! What was THAT for?' said Toad.

Toadette ignored him and caught up with Birdo.

'Ok, I WORK for a cow and my GIRLFRIEND is a cow!' Toad said. 'How did my life end up like this?'.

'I HEARED that!' said Peach and Toadette at the same time.

'Oops' laughed Toad.

After a few more hours they were there. The house was GIGANTIC. Bowser knocked on the door. A young woman with a sparkling red dress on answered the door. She smiled.

'Come in' she said.

Everyone smiled as they entered.

'I will show you to your rooms' Pauline said.

After Pauline put everybody's luggage in their rooms, she led them to the dining room. Peach's castle could of fitted in it. Posh chandeliers dangled from the ceiling and fancy pictures were on the wall.

'I'll go and get dinner' said Pauline, who was sitting at the head. She got up and tottered to the kitchen. Luigi gasped at how high her heels were.

'I want them' he said to himself.

Just then Birdo got up and sat on Pauline's chair.

'Look at me! I'm Pauline! I wear impossibly high heels!' Birdo said.

Everyone burst out laughing. Pauline could hear in the next room and scowled. Suddenly, the lights flickered on and off. Then they switched off and they sat in darkness. A few seconds later there was a high-pitched scream coming from the head of the table. Then there were footsteps and the sound of someone sitting down on a chair. The lights knocked back on. Everyone looked around. Suddenly, Toadette gasped.

'Birdo!' Toadette screamed.

Everyone looked at Birdo in fright. There was a butcher's knife stuck in her heart. There was also blood all over the table. She was dead. Pauline came in then with an angry look.

'The butcher said it will be another 30 minutes' Pauline tutted.

'How dare you kill my friend!' screamed Daisy.

'I don't know what you mean' said Pauline.

'Then how do you explain THAT?' shouted Daisy.

She pointed at Birdo's body. Pauline looked.

'Oh my god!' she cried.

'Stop pretending!' shouted Daisy. 'You KNOW you killed her!'.

The lights then flickered again. They went off. Once again, there was a horrible scream. The lights knocked on.

'Pa...uli...ne?' gasped Daisy.