Chapter 3: Deadly Noodles

Everyone was inside the living room again, Allen and Evan have already let some fresh air from the outside world into Katty's room and they moved Katty's body into the empty room.

"You think that room will be filled up with bodies?" Allen asked.

Evan shrugged, "If it continues like that, then I guess so."

"It's actually a bit scary to think that there is a room, full of dead bodies inside." Vivian said as some other people nodded in agreement.

Lily stood up, "I'd prefer to stay in groups that consist at least 2 people at all times except for night time when we sleep, but you can sleep together if you wanted to, but I doubt if that's going to happen. Let's do something to get this off our minds, as I really don't want to think about this, we'll let the police to deal with this after we get off this train."

"I guess that's agreeable." Nicole said standing up. "Let's do something."

"I'll cook some food." Frank suggested, "But I might need a helper or two."

Allen stood up as well, "I'll help."

"Um," Sabrina also stood up, "I don't really know what to do, so I guess I'll tag along if it's alright."

Vivian smiled, "I think I'll clean this place up, there still seemed to be a small bit of mess here and there that will remind us of these things."

"I'll help you with that." Flona said as she stood up, "I'll go and get everything."

"I should come too." Vivian was about to follow her.

Flona smiled and shook her head. "Nope, I'm totally fine."


Flona walked into her room. "I'm pretty sure that the dust pan is here…" She went through the drawers.

Footsteps were heard behind her. "Who's there?" She asked until she saw a familiar face.

"I thought I'd help you out here." The person said.

Flona smiled, "Oh, then I guess you could try to find the mop and the paper towels over there, Vivian."

Vivian smiled as she went through the other drawers. "How did you have these things in your room anyways?"

"I thought these cleaning equipment are in everyone's rooms and everyone gets a set?" Flona asked back.

Vivian slowly nodded in understanding.


Frank, Allen and Sabrina are inside the kitchen, struggling a bit with cooking.

"Um, this doesn't look right…" Sabrina sighed as she kept on mixing the dough.

Allen went over to her. "You're mixing it wrong, try adding some water."

"Um, alright then…" Sabrina said as she added some water to her mixture.

"Hey, guys," Frank called as the other two looked at him. "Isn't this day 3 on the train?"

Allen thought for a while. "Oh yeah… We disembark in the morning during day 10 so if we could survive for another few days… Then that would be jackpot."

"Um," Sabrina started, still mixing her dough recipe. "Who do you think is the murderer?"

Frank stopped in his tracks. "I actually didn't really think about that…"

"Um, it could be safe to say that someone out of the 10 of us who is still alive is the murderer, but it isn't me." Sabrina said.

Allen thought for another while. "I've been together with Evan a lot to clean up the death scenes, and he seemed pretty emotional for Andy's death, I'm pretty sure that they are best friends or something… Flona doesn't seem to be the one either. She was scared most of the time and is pretty sad at Jenny's death…"

"Speaking of which," Frank spoke up, "Doesn't it seem weird how Jenny got to the spot and since everyone here have different heights, she was the one that was shot right in the heart? Doesn't that sound like that she was the target planned from the beginning?"

"Um," Sabrina rolled her eyes in thought, "I'm pretty sure that if we switch to someone else, it could be aiming for other people as well, such as… Um, I think my neck would be there… Or someone like Parker, his stomach will be in the place for the shot instead."

Allen sighed, "So it doesn't seem right either way, huh."

"Let's get back to cooking. Everyone should be starving right now." Frank suggested.

Sabrina rolled her eyes once more. "Um, does anyone want to eat anymore after seeing Keegan's name on the piece of paper?"

Allen nearly dropped his tray of cookies. "… Let's ignore that fact now, Keegan should be dead…"

Frank trembled in thought, "But didn't all thirteen of us-"

"Um, let's skip this subject." Sabrina quickly said as she poured the dough into the pan.


"Like, take this!" Steven cheered as he hit another ball, he, Lily, Parker, Evan and Nicole are playing a game of pool.

Parker went to his place and got ready for a shot. "Guys, do you think that the murderer is among the five of us?" He asked as he took a shot.

"I don't think none of us are the murderer." Lily started, "I mean it would just feel weird to think one of my best friends is the murderer of 3 people."

Nicole went to her place for a shot. "Yeah, let's change the subject by a little, I'm concerned about if the murdering will continue or not."

"I certainly hope not." Evan said, "I don't want to die yet."

"I don't think anyone here does." Parker sighed.

Steven was then called to help out with the food serving by Allen, so only four people are left in the conversation.

Lily sat down in a chair. "Guys, do you actually want to see who the murderer is?"

"Nope, I don't even want to know." Parker shuddered, "I mean they got an arrow trap! Don't you think that they have a gun as well?"

Evan sighed, "When we survive this, we are going to report this to the police, right?"

"Of course," Nicole agreed, "But under the condition…"

"That we survive." Lily finished off for her as Nicole nodded. "Let's stay together at least in pairs, or we could just stay together as a group."

The other three nodded in reply, "But to you think it would be that easy?" Evan asked as Lily shrugged.


Flona started to organize some of the stuff in the living room. "Gee, this is usually what the waitresses do right?"

"I guess so… But this place isn't that messy for a whole huge cleaning session." Vivian replied. "How about this, let's just leave all of the equipment here, so that we don't have to get it every single time we need it, alright?"

Flona shrugged, "That is absolutely fine by me. I'm not against it."

Vivian sighed as she packed up some cups. "You want to see how the others are doing? I'm pretty sure that the 5 minutes we've been here is better than nothing, it looks a lot neater, right?"

"I'm pretty sure that we didn't use the mop or the paper towel, we just used our hands…" Flona laughed.

"Lunch is ready!" Allen shouted.

"Oh," Vivian clapped her hands together. "What a perfect timing!"


After lunch, nothing happened. It was a bit too ordinary. Just like how they used to have on the train. This might lead to more careless mistakes which will then lead to more deaths.

"You think this is the end of the murders?" Nicole asked Sabrina.

Sabrina rolled her eyes, "Um, I'd love to think that this is the end of the murders, I wanted it to just stop."

"Same here," Lily joined them, "I think that meant that we all survived then!"

Steven dragged Parker towards them. "Did I like, hear something about surviving?"

"Yep, I think we survived! Katty's note on her forehead might've suggested that this is the end of the chain!" Lily cheered.

Parker folded his arms. "You'd think? Remember, all of us were thinking of pretending that there wasn't any light brown shy guy named Keegan Heath in the first place."

Silence fell between the other four. "I think I'll go and like, use the bathroom…" Steven said before going away.

"I think it's pretty rare that he didn't drag you away with him, like usual." Nicole commented, but wasn't particularly cheerful either.

"Whoops," Parker apologized, "Sorry, I think I've said the wrong thing."

Lily kicked the ground softly, "It's alright, now. Didn't I say something about being in pairs? Go and check up on him, maybe he's not feeling well." Parker nodded and went towards the bathroom.

Sabrina sighed, "Um, so this isn't the end of the murders after all."

"I think so…" Nicole replied.


"Like, this man, Keegan Heath…" Steven gripped his head as he stood in front of the mirror. "But he's like, dead…" He said to himself in the mirror. "That event one that occurred like, year ago… I don't think that's like, the best thing to think of…"

Banging is heard from the other side of the door. Steven quickly jumped in alarm and grabbed a paper cutting knife that happened to be there. "Like, who is there?"

"It's me, Parker." The voice on the other side replied.

Steven opened the door. "Oh phew, so it is like, you after all."

"Why do you have that in your hand?" Parker pointed to Steven's hand, which is still holding onto the paper cutting knife.

"Oh, I was scared so I like, grabbed it in alarm." Steven replied, putting it in a drawer.

Parker gave him a weird look, "Do you want to go back into your room and have some rest?"

"Like, that would be nice." Steven sighed as he walked back to his room. "Thanks for like, everything." He closed the door behind him.


Lily went up to Parker, Nicole and Sabrina following her. "Where is Steven?"

"He said that he wanted some rest 10 minutes ago so I let him to go to his room." Parker replied, jerking a thumb in the direction of Steven's room.

Lily's face darkened, "So that means… He's by himself?" Parker gasped in realization.

A scream that sounded like Steven's ran out.

"Crap!" Parker banged on Steven's door, "Steven, are you there?"

"Do we need to barge ourselves into his room?" Allen asked as the rest of the group gathered.

The door opened as Steven ran out.

Parker blinked a few times, "Huh? You're totally fine?"

"Like, yeah," Steven laughed sheepishly, "I saw a black thingy like, swish across my window, which looked like a string or something… You know, like the ones like, on a violin?"

"Are you that tired that you started seeing illusions?" Frank asked.

Steven shook his head. "It was pretty long and like, I took a picture of it, it hooked onto the edge of my window for like, a second before it flew away again." He showed everyone his phone, true to his words, there is a string flying in the distance that looked like ones on the violin.

"Hmm… Interesting…" Allen considered, "You know what, let's all watch a movie, it'll be better than being here and freak out over a small piece of string."


Sun rose again on day 4, Vivian Grassplant rubbed her eyes sleepily as she walked out of her room. "Is anyone up yet?" She asked sleepily.

"Yep, I am." A voice said behind her, Vivian turned around only to see someone wearing a hoodie with the hood on in front of her. "Good morning, Vivian!"

"Oh," Vivian laughed, "Hi there!"

Parker smirked as he took his hood off, "So you didn't get freaked out by that?"

"Not a bit!" Vivian smiled confidentially, "If the murderer is planning to take me down, I'll resist with all of my power and beat them up before they could kill me, or I'll bite them so everyone else knows it's them."

Parker sweat dropped, "Um… I doubt if you're gonna be the target any time soon… The murderer might be killed by you instead."

"Good morning!" Lily joined the duo standing outside. "Do you guys want to get something for breakfast?"

Steven ran up to them. "Like, I don't see why not!"

"Oh nice, so you're up now, which is a first since it's pretty early." Parker laughed.


"Huh?" Vivian wondered as she picked the objects up, "Are they… Instant noodles?"

Lily took some bread out. "I don't want to eat that for breakfast, maybe for lunch later on? There are exactly 10 of them which is nice."

"Hmm… I've never seen these like, on this train before…" Steven said.

Parker picked one up, "Did someone bring it along with them?"

"Meh I couldn't be bothered thinking." Vivian said as she put them back to where they were.

"So," Lily started, "What do you guys want to have?"

Parker grabbed some jam. "Some toast and some other things to drink?"

"That sounds like, about right." Steven said as he grabbed some juice.

Vivian got out some cereal, "Hey, do you think the murderer would be active today?"

"I hope not, besides, it's creepy to think about it, let's have a meal in piece, shall we?" Lily put some pieces of bread into the toaster.

Parker shrugged, "I don't really want to think about it, as long as we are in groups. I think I feel safe."


After everyone was up and agreed to have the mysteriously appeared instant noodles for lunch, the murderer excused themselves from the group as they went back into their own room.

"Instant noodles, instant death." The killer of 3 said to themselves as they grabbed a bag with 10 pairs of chopsticks inside. "Now let's put this in a drawer, shall we?" The murderer said as they went out of their room.


It is lunchtime. It is another death's time to take place.

Sabrina grabbed the water heater as she heated up the water inside, plugging the water heater into an electricity plug.

Flona peeled off the plastic on the instant noodles as she put all of the powder into the noodles, waiting for everyone to collect theirs.

Vivian found ten pairs of single use chopsticks in a kitchen drawer as she gave everyone a pair.

"I feel like that we are in high school, waiting to get called for food in the café cue!" Lily laughed.

Parker folded his arms, "Except there are only 10 of us here."

Steven smiled, "But it's like, pretty nice, to have a group lunch session with like, these things that we don't eat too much."

"Huh?" Parker wondered, "What do you mean by that?"

"Like, don't tell me… That you like, eat instant noodles very often?" Steven asked him.

Parker laughed, "What if I say yes?"

"Then I say that you should like, eat less of these foods!" Steven told him.

Lily laughed on the other side. "Is this a health session? It's alright to eat these once in a while."

"Like, I guess so." Steven replied.


"Thanks," Allen said as Flona handed him one.

Flona handed Lily another one. "Huh? Aren't you taking one?" Lily asked.

"Meh," Flona replied, "I'll hand these out."

"Thank you." Vivian laughed as she received one from Flona.

Sabrina pressed the button as hot water filled her noodles, soaking them. "Um, so is it ten minutes?" She asked Allen as she pressed the button for him, filling his one with water. After that she set up a small alarm that will go off in ten minutes.

"Alright then…?" Vivian commented on Sabrina's action as she filled hers up. "I mean, we don't have to set one up, we're all together for this lunch anyways."

Frank mixed his noodles up with his chopsticks. "Do you think that these things are suspicious as I heard that they just found the noodles and the chopsticks out of nowhere?"

Evan shrugged, "How should I know? I'm pretty sure that no murderer would put food here for nothing."

"How did you relate that to murders? I thought that the train just expanded their menu for eating." Frank said like it was obvious.

"Err…" Evan sweat dropped, "I thought you meant that could the murderer left these here or something."

Nicole sat next to Allen, who is eating some of his noodles, "Allen, it's not even 10 minutes yet! It's only like, you know, 5 minutes?"

"I like to eat the noodles when they are a bit harder when I'm eating instant noodles." Allen replied.

Flona stood up, "How about let's have a quick game of something which we are waiting?"

"That would be so nice!" Vivian clapped her hands together.

"Does anyone know what to play?" Lily asked.

Sabrina raised her hand. "Um, maybe… Guess Who I'm Taking About?"

"Oh, that would be a perfect game for now!" Vivian said in joy.


Flona thought about someone to talk about. "He is a koopa… He is good in sport… And he could be a nice person."

"Did you just mention like, everything about Parker?" Steven asked as Flona nodded, he face-palmed.

"Whose turn is it next?" Allen asked.

Beep!

"Um," Sabrina started, "It is my alarm, and it's been 10 minutes…"

Lily sighed in disappointment as she ate some of her noodles, "What a disappointment… Let's continue after lunch, alright?"

A scream of pain echoed as someone dropped their noodles, which turned slightly darker than the other ones. Allen fell onto the ground, gripping onto his throat as he choked while trying to breathe.

"A-Are there poison in these noodles?" Nicole asked in panic. "B-But he ate some of his before we started playing the game!"

Allen dropped onto the ground, dead.

Flona screamed as she threw her noodles onto the ground as well, "I'm not eating these noodles! There must be poison somewhere!" Nicole, Lily, Steven and Sabrina dropped their noodles onto the ground as well.

"L-Let's move his body first…" Evan said to Frank who nodded at the idea.


"So," Evan started, he and Frank had moved Allen's body into the dead bodies' room, Vivian, Lily, Flona and Sabrina has just cleaned up the mess from everyone spilling their noodles after they were scared by the sudden death. Steven, Parker and Nicole was in the living room, chatting. "What do you think happened?"

"I have no idea." Frank said, still a bit shaken up by the event, "The poison must've gotten into his noodles during some point. But he never discovered it."

On the other side of the room, the trio was having the exact same conversation.

Nicole pointed out something, "The noodle soup was dark red to a lighter shade of red but not much. It was a spicy type of instant noodles so Allen didn't exactly see what is wrong with it and his hunger and urge to eat got the best of him."

"I never thought someone could like, put poison in such things as instant noodles that wasn't like, unpacked before lunchtime… Like, how did it happen? He ate some like, 5 minutes before his death and was totally fine." Steven said.

Parker rolled his eyes in thought, "Maybe there was a small trap like during Jenny's death but was different from that one, otherwise shutting off the lights might cause Allen to drop his noodles in surprise."

Sabrina picked up a small piece of rubber, "Um, what is this…?" She didn't really give it a second thought before throwing it into the bin.


"Guys," Lily called, "We are thinking of having a small meeting tomorrow at 10 AM about what to do now."

"I don't have a problem with it." Vivian told them.

Frank raised his hand. "Would it be alright to be a bit late?"

"Just not as late as last time, where you were late for 10 minutes, and I'm not even counting the other 10 minutes because of your god damn watch." Lily sighed.

Frank laughed sheepishly. "I'll set it back to normal time then."

"And yet I expect something like 10 minutes early from a normal person, oh well, it's Frank, after all." Nicole said as she went to her room door. "I'm a bit tired from today's events, so I'll hit the hay a bit early, good night."

"Good night." Vivian said, "I'll be going as well." She went back into her room.

Frank was looking at his watch and at the actual clock on the wall, "Well, exactly 10 minutes late, I guess it's not a great thing to not have clocks in the rooms." With that, he went back into his room.

"Hey!" Lily called for him as Frank opened his door again. "You'll forget the time difference anyways."

Flona stood up as she quickly got something from her room. "There you go, here's my clock, use this." She smiled. Frank accepted it with thanks as he went back into his rooms again.

"So guess we can like, sleep in tonight!" Steven cheered as he went back into his room. Parker went back into his own room as well.

Sabrina also stood up, "Um, I'll get to bed now…"

Flona bowed slightly before she went back into her room as well. "Are you going to bed yet?" Evan asked Lily.

"I'll stay up for another while, not sleepy at all." She replied.

Evan smiled, "Then I guess I'll stay up as well."

"Why?" The birdo replied.

"Didn't you say something about staying in pairs at least? So that's why I'm staying here." Evan laughed.

Lily smiled, "That's very nice of you. I guess it is true then, since all of the rooms are soundproof and everyone locked their doors." Evan nodded as he went back to working on some documents on his laptop.