Luigi lie awake at 6AM thinking about his wedding with Daisy. He remembered looking into her sweet eyes that made him melt just thinking about her. Thinking of her face as he left the altar was the worst, her heart shattered, her eyes like an ocean of tears, her bouquet dropping to the ground.
"I can't do this.. We're not ready..." Luigi trailed off as he turned her back on her.
"Luigi!" Daisy whimpered, "Where are you going?"
He turned over and got out of bed. His head throbbed from the all the liquor he had drunk last night.
"I'm such a coward..." He grumbled to himself as he walked out onto the porch that overlooked the sea. Luigi noticed that the cruise ship was at a stand still. It wasn't moving anywhere and it seemed to be just sitting in the ocean idle.
Luigi rubbed the sleep from his eyes to make sure he wasn't crazy.
"What the..."
He rushed out of the porch and shook Daisy, who was in his bed.
A tired Daisy woke up with frustration, "What is going on?"
"Come look," He onto the porch. "The boat isn't moving. We're just stopped here." Luigi cried. "We're trapped here. Oh god, are we on the next season of Lost?" He paced back and forth. "We need to wake everyone up!"
"No, let's just us 2 go on deck and look for the captain or something before we wake everyone up. Ok?" Daisy said calmly.
"Ok, ok." Luigi took deep breaths and shivered even though it was warm.
They went upstairs and it was deserted. No staff, no one.
"Let's go to the restaurants, maybe they're having breakfast there?" Luigi shrugged nervously.
They walked into the restaurant and it was dead silent. Bombette peaked in the kitchen. No one.
"Could they still all be sleeping?" Luigi panicked.
"I doubt it... they wouldn't leave this whole boat deserted." Daisy started to get nervous.
"I think we should start waking everyone up..."
Luigi took the right side of the hall and Daisy took the left, they walked down and banged on every door to wake the rest of them up.
"We need a meeting NOW!" Daisy demanded.
"What the hell is this?" Mario pouted.
"I think we have an emergency." Daisy stated.
"What? An emergency?" Peach said with a confused look.
"The boat is at a standstill in middle of the ocean. Luigi and I searched most of the cruise ship and could find no one." Daisy replied firmly. Luigi was shaking and about to cry. Toadette put her arm around him and comforted him.
"No one? No crew, no staff... No one?" Waluigi said, rubbing his chin.
"Err," Wario mumbled and everyone turned to stare at him. He blushed, he hated attention. "Speaking of missing people, has anyone seen DK? He never came to bed last night."
A lot of "I haven't seen him" and "Nopes" were said by everyone.
"Ok let's search the entire boat for DK and for someone who works on the boat!" Daisy liked being the leader.
"Why should we?" Mario blurted out.
"Why should we? Excuse me?" Tiny shrieked.
"Not my problem as far as I'm concerned." Mario shrugged.
"We're in this together, and if someone is missing, we're going to look for them. Stop being such an up-tight bitch!" Tiny retorted, "Now let's get started. Break up into groups and look eveywhere."
Daist, Toadette, Toad and Luigi scanned the pool area. The cover was still over the pool and the lawn chairs still neatly folded in the corner. It was 8AM now and the sun was beating down hot in the sky.
"What if DK is dead? We're stranded here!" Luigi was a mess.
"Don't say that! There is a logical explanation for this!" Toad said with a glare.
"Now now baby." Daisy rubbed Luigi's shoulder.
"Ok, no one is here, let's just leave!" Toadette turned around and went back downstairs to the lounge.
"UGH!" Daisy groaned. She went to the front of the ship alone to where the controls are. It was a small room towards the top. The windows were tinted and you couldn't see in. She tried the steel door that read "Staff Only."
"Pshh, what staff?" Daisy grumbled.
BANG! BANG! BANG! She slammed the steel door with her small fist. No answer.
Jojora and Waluigi searched the numerous hallways the boat had.
"Hm," Waluigi said as inspected every object he could.
"What are you doing?" Jojora awkwardly asked.
"Looking for clues!" Waluigi exclaimed with a smile and continued to look at random objects, like door knobs, paintings and light fixtures.
"Ugh what kind of-"
"Elementary, my dear Jojora!" Waluigi replied in a snarky way.
"Huh?" Jojora said with a confused look.
"Your ignorant questions are distracting me. Please be quiet." Waluigi said.
"Something is wrong with you, you're OBVIOUSLY obssessed with Pennington the cheesy detective. I'm gonna look for some food." Jojora left Waluigi in the hallway
Rosalina, Wario and Tiny went to the comedy club to see if anyone was there.
"Why would DK be here? Or anyone for that matter?" Wario sighed.
"I don't know. Can we at least have a little hope?" Rosalina said.
"No one is here, as expected..." Tiny whimpered as they went into the comedy club.
Wario hopped up on stage and grabbed the microphone. "YOU GOT 4 MINUTES TO SAY THE WORD!" He began singing.
Tiny and Rosalina fell on the floor laughing. "OH MY GOD laugh " Tiny wiped away tears.
"YOU'RE TERRIBLE!" Rosalina said in between laughs.
"Psh, whatever. I'm the next Madonna!"
Diddy and Dixie looked in the small library the cruise ship had.
"Who would read on a cruise ship anyways?" Diddy picked up a book and threw it on the floor. "Reading blows."
"Reading is very fascinating, actually." Dixie said while looking at her favorite, And Then There Were None.
"Ughh not really." Diddy laughed.
"I always thought as a child that being in some sort of interesting situation like a good novel would be fun, even if it wasn't a happy ending." Dixie shook her head to bring herself back to reality and put the book back.
"Um, ok. Well no one is in here so let's go." Diddy gave Dixie a weird look.
Mario, Peach, Yoshi and Birdo walked around the track that wrapped all the way around the boat.
"Well, good news guys! The airport called last night and said they had Rosalina's suitcase! She forgot to grab it. Isn't that good news, though?" Birdo said happily.
How can you possibly be happy?" Mario whined.
"Oh shut up! All you do is bitch." Yoshi rolled his eyes.
"Guys! Stop! Let's just chill, ok?" Peach said calmly.
"Let's try the gym," Mario said with a change of attitude, "I bet DK has to tone his huge muscles a lot."
They laughed then sighed and headed into the gym. The lights weren't even on. They flicked them on.
"No one is here, let's go." Peach turned.
"No! Wait! Look!" Birdo cried as she pointed at the giant glass mirror that covered a whole wall.
"Oh god..." Yoshi trembled.
The 4 bolted back onto the main deck and gathered everyone up.
"You guys need to see this!" Mario said with fear in his eyes.
"What is it?" Toadette anxiously asked.
"Follows us!" Yoshi lead the group into the gym.
Everyone gasped.
Written in black across the giant mirror was:
"DK IS DEAD AND AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA. THE CREW, STAFF, CAPTAIN, EVERYONE ON THE SHIP IS DEAD. THE KILLER IS AMONG YOU. WHO IS NEXT?"
"This can't be happening..." Jojora said.
Luigi's eye sight shifted in and out of focus.
"Who would do this? Who is it?" Toadette turned to her group. "Was it you Mario? Huh? You didn't even want to look for DK!"
"GUYS! Stop it! We can't turn on everyone. It will just tear us apart." Diddy said.
"I have a confession everyone..." Daisy quietly said.
"What? What is it?" Toad said, frightened.
"I found a suitcase full of guns, knifes and other things. I threw it in the water! I didn't know what to do!" Daisy squeaked. Tears streamed down her face.
"What? You didn't tell anyone? What the hell is wrong with you?" Tiny shouted at her.
"N-n-nothing!" Daisy turned and started to cry.
Waluigi sat on the ground and leaned against the wall. "No, no, no..." He quietly mumbled to himself. "I shall solve this murder! I am detective Waluigi, NOT inspired by Pennington, obviously. No one worry!" Pennington said whipping out a magnifying glass he got from a random place and putting it to the writing.
Everyone sighed in disbelief.
"You guys! Come look! It's written in ketchup!" Waluigi took a lick of it. "Delicious too!"
"Um, ok. Thanks for that, Penni- I mean, Waluigi." Wario said.
"Why is everyone ignoring the fact that one of us is the killer!" Peach cried.
"Because, this could have easily been done by someone from the crew. It wouldn't be hard to hide in this boat. We all know each other. No one would do that. Would we?" Dixie looked at everyone.
"Of course not!" Rosalina glanced around quickly.
"Whatever crew member of the boat did this is trying to trick us. Obviously, if his plan had worked to make us think one of us did it, we would go crazy. It's none of us. I promise." Dixie reassured herself, more than anyone else.
"But we don't know that for sure...?" Jojora quietly said.
"Ok, then who in here would have done this?" Toadette asked rudely.
"I don't know..."
"Exactly!"
"Ok, we need a plan. Let's stay locked up in the lounge. We will make small trips in pairs to get food when we need it. If the killer comes for us, we will get whoever it is. We are going to survive. I can assure everyone that." Daisy said. "Now let's go. The lounge is just one floor up. With 15 of us, that bitch ain't killing no one!"
"Woah, woah, woah," Wario said, "Our first priority should be communicating with the outside world. We all know no cell phones work this far out in the ocean. I bet you the phones in our rooms work."
"Ok, who is going to go check the phones?" Birdo asked.
"All of us. It's the safest way." Peach spoke up.
They went into each room together. All crowded in there wasn't comfortable.
Daisy picked up the phone. It was dead. No sound came through it.
"Damnit!" Daisy murmured.
"What?" Toad panicked.
"It's not working. Let's try the other rooms."
One by one, they went to each room. None of the phones worked.
"What about the control room of the ship or whatever? There could be a radio or something in there. You know where the captain steers the cruise ship!" Luigi whimpered.
"Steer?" Diddy laughed.
"WHATEVER! NOT THE POINT!" Luigi cried.
"I already checked earlier. The steel door was locked. I couldn't get in." Daisy sighed.
"How do we know you're not lying?" Tiny snarled.
"Fine, you wanna go check alone?" Daisy shot back.
"GUYS! Calm down! Let's just head to the lounge like our original plan." Peach shouted.
The lounge was a medium sized room located on the top deck. It was encased by walls with giant windows and had a roof. There was a small bookshelf in there with books to read, a chess table, a big screen tv and a couch. There were also fans that hung from the ceiling that kept the room cool.
"This is perfect!" Diddy exclaimed.
"Yeah, ok now we need to move that couch in front of the door to block out whoever the killer is." Daisy said.
"I got it." Yoshi said. He dragged the couch with ease in front of the only entrance to the lounge.
"Okay... now what?" Toadette looked around.
"Let's play a fun game!" Waluigi grinned.
"Like?" Jojora was beginning to find Waluigi annoying.
"Duck duck goose!" Waluigi pulled his hat off for the game.
-6 hours later-
"Ok, I'm hungry!" Toad whined.
"Yeah, we need food." Wario's fat stomach growled.
"Who is gonna make a run to the kitchen?" Peach nervously looked around at everyone.
Everyone stared at Daisy, expecting her to volunteer herself.
"What? Why me?" Daisy said, cornered.
"You've been so brave and pretty much taken the leader role!" Tiny replied.
"Fine, I will need someone to go with me!"
"I will!" Luigi hopped next to Daisy.
The 2 left the lounge and they started to get antsy.
"I hope they don't get hurt." Toadette anxiously said.
"Ok, let's go to the kitchen and come straight back." Daisy said.
"We need to be quiet too." Luigi answered.
"Obviously,"
"Just saying sheesh."
"Sorry, I'm just uptight." Daisy sighed.
"It's fine. Now let's do this."
"Hey Luigi...you promise nothing bad will happen to us...right?" Daisy quietly asked.
"I'm sure everything will be fine, Daisy. And if something bad does happen, I'll be there to protect you." Luigi responded. They both smiled.
As Daisy opened the door to reenter the ship and leave the deck outside, a crate fell from the roof that covered the room that they were just entering. Luigi shrieked as knives poured down on Daisy and Luigi.
From the lounge, the shriek was heard. All 13 of them shot up.
"We have to go find them!" Peach screamed.
Luigi was barely alive. He lifted his head up as best as he could, and saw that he had been impaled in the chest by 4 knives.
He looked to Daisy and saw that she had been impaled in the eye with a knife, neck with the knife, and the chest with 3 other knives.
"N-no...I p-promised I would protect you..." Luigi started to gush out blood from his mouth and dropped his head to the ground.
They all headed out the door and could see a bloody mess lit by moon light not to far from them.
"Oh no!" Diddy exclaimed.
"They're dead! It's all my fault!" Toad sobbed.
Dixie and Toad embraced and cried together.
A crate with a string tied to it lay on the ground. The other end of the string was tied to the door .
"It was a trap! When someone opened that door, all those knifes were gonna kill whoever opened the door!" Waluigi said examining the trap.
"Let's get back in the lounge, NOW!" Jojora demanded.
"We need to take shifts sleepings and look out for the killer and make sure he or she doesn't get inside here!" Tiny said once they got inside. "2 people can stay awake at a time. I will and someone else will for the first shift. Who will for the second?"
"I will take the first shift with you." Yoshi volunteered.
"Ok, now for the second shift?" Tiny looked at everyone.
"Me and Waluigi will." Wario said.
"Thanks for talking to me about it..." Waluigi groaned.
"Whatever, we're in this together. We can defeat whoever the killer is." Wario said with pride.
"Mario sure doesn't seem that upset that Luigi, his brother, had just died..." Jojora commented.
End of the Chapter!
Two deaths in one chapter, WOW! Who do you think the killer is now? Please leave it in your reviews. Thanks!