Murder on the High Seas
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Chapter 4: Gathering Clues
In ten minutes, everyone had changed out of their clothes and into their regular clothes they had brought with them. Master Hand said,
"Now, here is what we know. Someone murdered Snake, and that someone is aboard the ship. Until we can determine who it is, we all have to suspect each other."
Mario raised his hand,
"But why? We never-a liked him."
Link mocked,
"Yeah, he's in M-rated games, and we're a T-rated game. It kind of doesn't work, you know."
He began imitating Snake,
"Oh, look at me. I'm Snake, special ops bad ass. I run around, thinking there's a conspiracy everywhere."
Several others began laughing. Daisy shook her head,
"I'll have you know that a murder has just been committed and we're making light of the situation."
Captain Falcon groaned,
"But it's Snake. Personally, whoever did it did the world a favor."
Wario nodded,
"I agree-a."
Master Hand called to order,
"Never mind. I know we all have Snake bashing we'd like to get out of our system, but, for now, we have to gather clues. So, everyone start looking."
Daisy held her head,
"You don't mind if I lie down in my cabin, do you, Master Hand? I'm not feeling so well."
Master Hand nodded,
"Fine. Luigi, bring her to her cabin and stay with her."
The taller Italian plumber escorted his girlfriend out of the room.
Everyone was observing, looking for any evidence for the murder weapon. Waluigi then noticed a broken plate on the floor. He looked on the shelf and saw a pistol hooked up to an egg timer. He said,
"I found-a something."
Master Hand nodded,
"Interesting. It appears someone was setting the timer off and the gun would have fired at the person sitting at the head of the table."
He then realized,
"That would be me. Someone wants to kill me."
Luigi and Daisy came rushing back in. The auburn haired princess said,
"You're not going to believe this, but all the lifeboats are gone. The crew abandoned us here!"
There was a loud scream and chaos began to take grip again. People were running around, thinking that the crew abandoned them. Peach said hopefully,
"Well, maybe the killer is with them."
As soon as she said that, the lights went out in the room. Total darkness had gripped the room and the occupants froze in terror. When Mario turned the lights back on, they found Master Hand, dead. There was a bloody knife in his palm as blood pooled around him. Young Link went to go for the knife, but Metaknight said,
"Wait; there could be prints on the knife! It's evidence."
Captain Falcon declared,
"I will pilot the ship back to port."
This was responded by Peach taking her frying pan from her dress and smacking the F-zero driver unconscious.
Marth shook his head,
"If the killer isn't with the crew then…"
He looked at everyone in the room,
"One of us is the killer."
Next Chapter:
The investigation begins into who would want Master Hand dead, and the search for the killer continues. Stay tuned, fellow readers!
