Author's Note:
Yet again I opened my inbox to be amazed! This is the last time I will go on about it (except maybe at the last chapter) but thank you so much for the support you are showing! I will do my best to make the story as good as I can for you all.
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Ugly-Duckling123 If you limited it to be 10 people. You could have done 'Ten Little Sailors' nursery rhyme.
I have absolutely no idea what that is. The closest thing I could think of is 'Ten in the bed'? ("and the little one said roll over" etc.). Even though it wasn't really what you asked, I thought I would mention that the reason I decided on 15 was because it means no classmates were left out. I didn't originally plan for all the classmates but I really struggled to find any other good reason for Adrien to have invited Chloe, who I wanted in for moments later on.
KiddyCartoonFangirl Ooh, everything's heating up already! The names you're using for each of the characters are interesting- I'm having fun guessing/seeing where you got them from! LOL when I saw the name Madam Rouge, I thought of Teen Titans. ;P
I tried my best to come up with good names for the characters although I have to admit some of the minor ones don't have a meaning as some characters really don't have much to define them other than their Akuma, and the names were hard to work with. It all kind of sparked from the name "Lady Bugsworthy" which came to me when deciding to make them have characters.
Lizzy the mlb girl I love this way too much! Good job, girl/boy/idc!
Firstly, thank you. Secondly, I am very clearly a humanoid cluster of Linguine, hence my name. Gosh. :P
Spottedlittlebug (Guest) And thus the fun begins! I always wondered how the characters who "are murdered" know that they should be murdered. Do they get instructions on a card beforehand?
You'll find out in this chapter funnily enough! Although as you'll see you aren't that far off with that idea.
AimeeGamieUnicorn and HeartAngel1796 didn't have questions but thank you both for your kind messages.
Murder at Agreste Mansion
Chapter 3 – Madame Veloci
"Sargent Corbex is right" Max began, "We need to figure out who the murderer is whilst we are all together."
"How do we know who we can trust Doctor?" Rose asked timidly.
"We don't know who we can trust Madame Magenta. The best we can do is keep an eye on one another." He replied suspiciously eyeing up his audience. "However, my recommended first course of action would be to investigate Madame Veloci's corpse for any clues."
Everyone turned to look at Alix still laying on the floor. No body moved towards her. They all looked at Marinette who was stood closest to Alix.
"Lady Bugsworthy, could you pass me her glass?" Max asked.
"I um- I- ok." Marinette sheepishly picked up the glass quickly to get the attention of off her as quick as possible. As she was about to hand it to Max she noticed something off. "Hey there's a red card in the glass." She took the card out and read it aloud:
"POISON,
Recipient:
If this card is in your food or drink you have been poisoned and must die accordingly. You may disclose the information of anyone you suspect may have placed this card here but must die within the next 10 seconds.
Murderer:
Place this card in the food or drink of a victim. They will only die once consuming said food or drink. Use this to your advantage to poison them in advance as unlike other cards, they may speak for 10 seconds before dying."
Once Marinette had finished reading she looked up at the rest of the group. They all looked at each other processing the information they had just learned.
It was Juleka who broke the silence, "So the murder has to give us red cards to kill us?"
"And from the sounds of it some of them won't allow us to say anything the second we receive them" Myléne added.
"So, if we get left alone with the murderer we're pretty much doomed?" Ivan added.
Max once again decided to speak up, "Let's not focus on that. For now. Let's try and work out who put that card in Madame Veloci's glass".
"Isn't it obvious? Maritrash was obviously the one who did it. She's right next to Alix!" Chloe obnoxiously said.
"Madame Honey you can't just assume Lady Bugsworthy did it for being there!" Adrien argued, "And you have to stay in character which includes calling Bugsworthy and Veloci by their correct names."
"Fine. But don't expect me to trust Bugsworthy, I know it was her."
"You're one to talk Madame Honey, you were standing right next to Veloci when you came here to harass Bugsworthy and I." Alya snapped back.
"Since we're making accusations I totally saw Ms Skales, Lady Violet and Professor Pintura hanging by Veloci's place" Lila announced. Making Sabrina, Juleka and Nathaniel scowl at her.
"Lady Noxium that is a lot of accusations to make." Adrien said.
"I'm just telling you what I saw Cassar." She replied dryly.
"Right." Adrien said slightly annoyed, "So at the moment our suspects are Bugsworthy, Honey, Skales, Violet and Pintura. We have no way of determining who in particular it was but there are still 9 of us who are not suspects. If 2 of us each keep a close eye on 1 suspect, then whichever of them it is will be unable to murder both of their watchers."
"What about the 1 person that doesn't have a partner watching their suspect with them?" Ivan asked.
"Well, that's a good point Mr Knowles" Adrien replied putting his hand to the back of his head struggling to think on the spot. "If-
Adrien was cut off by all of the lights turning off all at once, leaving the room too dark to see more than a couple inches in front of you.
"WHAT'S GOING ON!?"
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LIGHTS!?"
Suddenly a cold shriek came from the back of the room. Then silence.
No one said a thing, but they all knew what had happened.
A second scream then came from the complete other side of the room, but it was deeper.
The lights suddenly flicked back on and everyone shielded their eyes to the bright light. Once they could see they saw that Ivan had found and turned on the light switch. They also saw the two bigger elephants in the room: Rose and Kim lying on the ground with red cards on their chests that read:
DAGGER,
Recipient:
You are dead as soon as you are given this card. The most you can do is scream.
Murder:
Give this card to a victim when no-one else is around, to instantly kill them.