Zomg, yes! My new computer arrived. 8D So here is chapter 3.

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Marth ran to his room and quietly shut the door behind him, someone would find Kirby eventually, and if he was near the room when they did he would probably become a prime suspect of the murders. He wanted to avoid that at all costs, as becoming a prime suspect wouldn't make anything easier.

He sighed as he turned on the lamp that sat on his bedside table before seating himself on the edge of his bed, and pulling out the small note that he had found on the dagger that Kirby was stabbed by. It just all didn't add up in his mind, Kirby was acting strange all day. Normally, Kirby was one of the more gentle creatures at the mansion, and he would never attack anyone like he did Pikachu, much less over a simple piece of cake. But one thing was for certain, the thing that he and Roy had fought earlier is definately still out there somewhere. It was either still alive, or there are others out there still, but that didn't seem to make sense either.

Marth folded the small note and place it in his desk drawer. He decided that thinking about the matter any more would only make him more paranoid than he already was, and honestly, he wanted to get some sleep tonight; if only a little bit. He glanced at his digital clock, only to see that it was already going on 1:00am. He turned off his small lamp, and laid back on his bed, and rolling onto his side. He thought he heard someone walking in his room shortly after he turned off the light, but shrugged it off and slowly drifted off into sleep.

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Marth awoke at around 9:00 the next morning. He glanced out his window and saw that the rain had stopped, but now a heavy fog lingered just above the ground. He was unable to see very far out the window because of this. He stood up off his bed, and began walking towards his door, but he stopped when he looked down to his floor. A deep red liquid, which looked to be blood stained the carpet in large amounts, and now the bottom of his boots were stained by the liquid. He froze in shock, still just staring at the liquid, before he heard a small knock at his door.

"Yo! Marth, you up yet?" It sounded like Link. "Im coming in, whether you want me too or not!"

Sure enough, the happy go lucky elf opened the door, but his eyes widened when he saw Marth standing in a pool of blood.

"Oh my gosh! Marth!" Link shouted, before rushing over and making sure his friend wasn't hurt in any way.

"Im fine.. just a little shocked I guess.." Marth murmured, and Link sighed in relief.

"Thank goodness. Man, you had me scared there for a minute!" Link scolded.

"Everything alright in he- WHAT THE?!" Roy had just entered the room, and blinked, looking down at the blood and then back up to Marth several times. "What the heck happened?"

"As if I know. I just woke up and saw this red liquid on my carpet, I have no idea how it got here." Marth exited the room with his friends, taking off his stained boots and leaving them by the door of his room.

"Well, that was blood. Im sure of it." Roy stated, as they walked to the cafeteria.

"That's pretty obvious." Link rolled his eyes, causing Roy to glare and make faces at him when he wasn't looking. Marth stifled a laugh.

They entered the cafeteria, only to find that they were the only ones there. The others smashers finished eating a long time ago.

"Well, whole cafeteria to ourselves. How fun!" Roy said enthusiastically, as they took a seat at their table.

"Did you both know.. about Kirby?" Marth suddenyl asked, when he confirmed that they were indeed alone in the room.

"Yeah, he's a little pink puffball that runs around the mansion alot." Marth playfully hit Link on the arm for that comment.

"Not like that. Kirby, he... well.." Marth wasn't too sure how to say it. "I found him dead in his room last night. A dagger was potruding from his stomach." As if on cue, a scream rang out through the mansion.

"And it looks like they found him." Roy sighed, dropping his bagel on the table and following the other two out of the cafeteria.

"What happened?" Marth asked as they ran up to Zelda, who was kneeling on the ground, tears streaming from her eyes. As soon as she saw them, she got up and ran to Link. Link embraced her in a comforting hug as she continued to cry on his shoulder.

"Kirby.." She managed to whisper.

"Knew it." Roy said, and marth shot him a glare. He got the message, and went silent.

Link took Zelda to her room before the other smashers arrived at the scene, a few gave Roy and Marth weird looks, while others just glanced into the room.

"Another one, eh?" Ganondorf was the first to speak, he shook his head as he looked at Kirby's room. The floor was stained with blood, where Kirby had been murdered. Samus had came in and removed his body as soon as she got to his room.

"Man, something is definately going on here. And I don't like it." Falco was the next to speak. He still sounded half asleep as he spoke.

"You don't like most things." Fox rolled his eyes, and Falco yawned in response.

"What does it matter? What matters is, people are dieing, and there's nothing we can do to stop it!" Marth shouted, causing everyone around him to fall silent and stare at him. "There's someone, or something out there that's hunting us down one by one, and soon all of us are going to be dead."

"How do we know it's not you that's killing everyone?" Captain Falcon asked, causing a few to nod in agreement.

"Yeah!" Ness shouted.

"Why are you acussing me? I didn't kill anyone!"

"ENOUGH!" Bowser roared. everyone went silent once again.

"Whatever. Im outta here." Falco sighed and walked away from the group. A few others walked away as well, leaving only Marth, Roy, Bowser, and Captain Falcon alone in the hallway.

"Im gone. But im watching you, tiara boy." Captain Falcon growled as he descended the stairs.

The others began to walk away as well, but they stopped when they heard a bone crunching sound and thud behind them. Running over to the sound, they saw Captain Falcon laying at the bottom of the stairs, his body twisted in a weird direction.

"Not again..." Marth gasped as he ran down the stairs and checked Captain Falcon for a pulse. "He's.. dead."

"Was it an accident, do you think?" Bowser asked. He stayed put at the top of the stairs, looking down at the scene below him.

"I.. can't say." An arrow suddenly flew directly in front of Marth's face, causing him to fall backwards and onto to ground. The tip of the arrow was now stuck into the floor, only a few feet away from where Marth was previously standing.

"Marth, you alright?" Roy grabbed his arm and helped him to his feet, before going over and pulling the arrow from the floor. "It has a note on it. Here." He handed the note to Marth, who frantically took it and read it out loud.

"Hee-Hee!

My, my, my! It was so hard to choose! The poor little captain whom was always so clumsy seems to have taken a deadly fall!

Hee-Hee!

The game has only just begun, and already on 22 remain. A new element shall soon come into play! My, this will be fun!

Strangely enough, there was no blood spot on the note this time, instead it was crumpled and had a small hole near the bottom from where it was attached to the arrow tip.

"A new element?" Bowser asked as he carefully walked down the stairs.

"Im not too sure what it means, but something tells me we'll find out soon enough." Marth sighed, beginning to pace around the room. Roy sat down on the couch, mumbling to himself.

"We need to find whoever is behind this, and put an end to it." Marth stated, as he stopped pacing and sat down on the couch beside Roy.

"No way, I never would have thought of that." Bowser rolled his eyes, causing Marth to do the same.

"Well i'll tell you want I want to do, and it's watch T.V." Roy grabbed the remote, and pressed the on button. The T.V flickered and flashed, before colorful lights appeared on the screen. The lights stayed on the screen for a moment, before the T.V suddenly turned off on its own, and all the lights in the mansion went off, leaving them in pitch black darkness. "Alright, this time, I swear it wasn't me.."

"Looks like the-a power went out. Must have-a blown a fuse." They turned toward the new speaker, and saw Luigi approaching them, carrying two lanterns, and a toolbox. His eyes were poofy, and it was obvious that he had been crying recently, most likely because of Mario's sudden and unexpected death the previous day. He placed one of the lanterns down on the table in front of the couch, and turned it on. The room was filled with a small light that emitted from the lantern. It wasn't much, but it was enough that allowed them to at least see most of the room and their surroundings.

"That helps. Any idea why it went out?" Bowser asked, but Luigi only shook his head.

"No idea. Im going to-a check the fuse box now-a. I'll try my-a best to-a get it back on." He tipped his hat to dismiss himself, and headed for the basement with toolbox in hand.

So there they were. Sitting alone in the darkened lounge, their only light source came from the small lantern that was barely able to light the room. The tension in the air was certainly growing by the minute, and Bowser eventually left the room. He took Captain Falcon's body with him, and was obviously going to see Samus about getting rid of it. Roy began to leave as well, and headed for the outside.

"Being outside is better than being in a dark creepy old mansion with a psycho killer on the loose. At least outside there is some light, and I can see my surroundings." Roy told Marth as he headed for the front door. Marth was about to warn him about the heavy fog outside, but he figured he would find out soon enough. That was, if he could get out the door in the first place.

"The door won't open! Marth, c'mere and help me." Marth sighed as he got up from the couch and tried to help Roy with the door, but it just wouldn't budge.

"Man, it's like this thing is glued shut. There's nothing blocking it is there?" Marth asked.

Roy shook his head. "If there was, I would have moved it out of the way already."

"Good point." Marth pushed the curtains the covered the windows back, in an attempt to shed some more light into the mansion. He scanned the area outside to see if there was anything in front of the door, but found nothing. The fog had grown heavier since earlier that morning, and he couldn't see two feet in front of him now.

"Well this is great," Roy began as he sat down on the floor in front of the door, "we're trapped inside a mansion with a psycho killer on the loose, the front door won't budge so we can't get outside, it's completely pitch black in most places in here, and three people have died already. Yeah. Im not paranoid at all!" He let out a nervous laugh as soon as he finished.

"All of us are a little scared about this whole thing, you know. So it's alright to be a little afraid."

"Hah! Im not afraid of this guy. We kicked his butt the first time he tried attacking, and there's much more where that came from." He made a taunting gesture at no one in particular as he finished his tough guy speech.

"If you say so." Marth settled himself back down on the couch, and relaxed as best as he could. Relaxing however, was a hard thing to do when a mansion of such size was lacking any power what so ever, and there was a killer on the loose.

Just as he seemed to get comfortable, a blood curdling scream rang out through the mansion, startling both Marth and Roy and they jumped to their feet in an instant. Marth grabbed the lantern and they headed up the stairs, trying not to stumble or trip on any misplaced object and fall flat on their faces. At the top of the stairs, they saw Zelda and Link.

"Marth! Roy! We were just coming to get you." Link said as soon as he spotted the two. "But unfortunately, we were kind of interrupted along the way.." He pushed open the door they were standing by, and motioned for the two to glance inside the room. Marth and Roy both gasped in unison at what they saw inside the room.

The Ice Climbers, Popo and Nana, both lay on the floor inside. Their necks had been slit open by what looked to be a small dagger. A note lay on the floor near them, away from the puddle of blood that was growing on the carpet, but still in plain sight.

"Wait here, i'll go get the note." Marth muttered, and the others nodded. He slipped into the room, trying not to glance at the bloody sight in front of him, as he picked up the small note and exited the room as fast as he possibly could. When outside, he hesitantly opened the note, and read it aloud.

"Hee-Hee!

You like my game so far, yes?

Well too bad if you don't! The game is only starting, my friends. And there are many more fun surprises to come!

Hee-Hee!

Only 22 now remain. Oh dear, who to choose?"

This time two splotches of blood stained the bottom of the note, a thin slit also ran along the bottom. Marth tucked the note away in his pocket, where he also kept the other note he recently recieved from Captain Falcon's killing.

"This killer guy has a really sick sense of humor." Roy snapped, as Marth finished reading the note.

"This is getting more dangerous by the minute. We need to round everyone up and keep them together. Strength in numbers, right?" Link suggested, and Zelda instantly agreed.

"Your right. That might be the best idea for right now, at least until we can figure out just who or what is killing people. As long as we stick together, there should be no problem, right?" Marth also agreed with Link, and Roy nodded his head.

"Yup, agreed. Let's all get as many smashers as we can find, and meet up in the lounge in fifteen. Sound good?" They all agreed with Roy, and all four of them went different directions, in search of the other smashers.

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Yeah, I know. I had to cut it there, because if I didn't, the next paragraph I was going to write would seem too out of place, and it would be better to save it for the next chapter.

Also, do you guys think I might be moving a bit too fast with the killings, and the happenings, and all that jazz? If I am, just tell me and i'll slow things down a tad.

Oh, and yes, im counting the Ice Climbers as just one person. Why? I have no idea. That's just the way it is, I guess.

End of authors note! Hope you guys liked this chappie, next one's coming soon:D

And im still lacking spell check.