GREAT TO MEETCHA I AM GOMMIE AND WELCOME BACK TO "THE FIRST GUESSTTTTSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!"

Whoo hoo, I am especially excited to start this chapter, and I have a lot more time left tonight, so I may get this out tonight or tomorrow! (It's the 'tomorrow' now haha.)

AAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE JUST TWO MORE CHAPTER (INCLUDING THIS ONE) AND THIS STORY IS OVER AHHHHHH WHATTHEHECKLE

Wow. This has been so much fun. I love this story so much, even though it's not really as popular as most my other stories…

Some of you never figured out the fight scene- I literally copied the Jesse VS. Aiden fight in Episode 5 haha.

Anyways-

Here y'all go and enjoy the show!

Gommie and Red spent some time to just recover a little. So much has happened in one night and they needed a short breather.

"Thank you." Gommie sighs, still in Red's arms. Her head rested on his shoulder, but she eventually pulled away, her strength regained some and her cut no longer bleeding. She was lucky they were in the kitchen, otherwise, she'd have to walk a little for some food.

"Don't mention it." Red sent her a small smile, and Gommie returned it. The redhead stood, going to a chest. He dug around and returned to her with some steak and potatoes. "Eat up- you'll need to regain your energy if we're gonna get out of here."

"Thanks." Gommie repeated, taking the food and munching it up. "What time is it?" she asks after finishing the delicious cooked steak before moving onto the baked potato.

"It turned 4 AM a while ago… so it should be about 4:10 or something like that."

"Alright. So we have, like, 50 minutes to try to make an escape."

"Yeah." Red waited for Gom to finish the potato before he took a deep breath. "I have to tell you something." he began.

"Hm?" Gommie hummed, raising an eyebrow.

"I've already told Ariza, you know, before she died, and- well, it's really important, and I must tell you, but at the same time I don't want you to kill me-"

"Just spill it, Red." Gommie calmed him, leaning forward a little. Red took a deep breath, reaching into his pockets and pulling out the green-glowing flint and steel. He saw Gommie's eyes widen at the sight of her flint and steel in his hands.

"I stole it from you, but it was just supposed to be a joke, a harmless prankback for when you pranked me last week, but it led into all this, and, and-" Red began to ramble. "I knew people wanted it, but I had no idea that this would happen-"

"So you're saying this is pretty much all your fault?" Gommie looked at him, dead in the eye, and Red gulped, shaking his head.

"Nooo, you see, that's why I've kept it a secret for so long! I knew you'd start blaming me and believe me, I'm blaming myself for all this too. Look, I may be a thief, but I'm not a killer!" Red stood, still holding the flint and steel. "Maybe I should just give this to him…" Red looked down at the flint and steel.

"We can't." Gommie spoke up.

"Why not? It's what he wants, isn't it?"

"Well, if we gave it to him, who knows what this White Pumpkin may do with it? He might use it to try to escape, and he can't get away. We have to protect it." Gommie also stood up. She stumbled a little from being seated for so long but she eventually got herself balanced upright. "As soon as we get out of here, we pass it on to someone else we trust. Then we get out of here for good, because this world is no longer safe for us in general. We've seen what this White Pumpkin can do- who knows what's gonna happen if he finds us." She met his eyes. "We have to make a plan- one that cannot fail- and we get the hell out of here before the White Pumpkin takes one of us."

Their plan was quickly made, and it seemed to be perfect, actually. Gommie had such faith in it, that it won't fail, that it scared Red a little. As the two crept into the main hall for Red to prepare the dispensers to launch the arrows, Gommie held her fist out. Red looked down in it in slight confusion before realizing what was going on. Gommie laughs softly.

"Fistbump." she whispered, and Red did a small 'ohhh' before giving her the fistbump. "How did you not-"

"That wasn't a part of the plan!" Red whisper-shouted, his face growing the same shade as his hair from embarrassment. Gommie laughed softly before creeping off to do her part of the plan.

"See you in a few minutes." she had whispered, before leaving to face the White Pumpkin for what could be the millionth time that night. "Oooh, I can't wait to tell Green about that…:"

The White Pumpkin was pacing in the library. He had taken some time to get to his lair and heal up, plus grab a new mask to replace the cracked one.

He was simply just thinking when a voice spoke up from behind him.

"I probably should've brought my library card…" The villain whirled around to meet eyes with Gommie, who then winked. "'Cause I wanna check you out." The White Pumpkin ended up just staring at her.

Gommie let out some cackles as she ran through the hallways. Various objects flew after her, and she managed to dodge every single one of them.

"Do you have any bakeries around? Because I'd love a cutie pie like you!" she called behind her, before dodging a vase that just smashed on the wall behind her.

"I love you from my head tomatoes!" Dodge.

"Ahh, I'm so eggcited!" Jump.

"Orange you glad to see me?!" Turn into another hallway.

"I know these puns are all cheesy, but I feel grate!" Gommie let out another laugh as she entered the hallway, turning another corner before stopping abruptly. She stuck her foot out, and tripped the White Pumpkin, then sat on him, making him feel like a turtle stuck upside down. The brunette with a bright green streak in her hair chuckles.

"Lettuce meet olive your eggspectations."

"You're annoying with your puns."

"Oh, boy. I'm punder arrest for all these." The White Pumpkin groaned. He was just absolutely trapped, and to Gommie, this was hilarious, holy hell.

"I was going to say I love you s'much, but I definitely love you s'more than that!"

Red chuckles under his breath, hearing all these puns from the hallway.

"Pretty sure she likes Blue better though… no pressure." Red held up a stone pressure plate, then snickered at his own pun. (Gommie would be so proud of him right now oh wow.) He then placed down the pressure plate, completing the circuit. Now he was absolutely sure that this contraption would work.

Red took out a TNT block he had found somewhere and he went to the other side of the room, away from Gommie's path, and tossed it. It made a loud explosion that shook the house. Even some of the zombies outside fell from the shockwave.

Gommie looked up, having felt the explosion.

"Well, you're ice-olated from now on. Cheers!" Gommie saluted to the White Pumpkin, before taking out an extra sword she found in the same somewhere Red found the TNT, and stabbing it into the ground deep enough, through the dark blue jumpsuit, and temporarily trapping him. Gommie stood completely.

"I'll remember to bring my library card next time, love." She winked, before turning around and sprinting out. "Ciaoooooooooooo~!" She waved behind her before disappearing behind some doors. The White Pumpkin shouted out a 'Get back here!' but that went ignored as, once again, Gommie couldn't head him.

Gommie met Red at the main doors- she had activated the dispensers with the pressure plates, and they had a few seconds to spare. Mainly because the zombies had to start dying off before they would go out. In that time, Red handed her a wooden shield, while taking out his own.

"So the arrows won't hit us while we're out there." Red explained quickly as they also got out weapons in case a zombie came too close. Gommie nodded in understanding, and she got ready once those few seconds were up.

"Three, two, one, let's go!" Gommie shoved the doors open, and she and Red made their escape. As soon as they got outside, they raised the shields to their heads. Some arrows pelted the shields, and Gommie's eyes widened. "Good idea, Red." she complimented, nodding at him. Red just gave a thankful smile and a curt nod, before he looked for an opening. He found one shortly after they got out of there, he just had to find it again.

"There it is!" Red spoke, mainly to himself, getting a 'what?' from Gomme. "This way, let's go!" Red looked back at her so she could read his lips better, beginning to run. Gommie followed on his trail as soon as she saw him running, switching her sword to her left hand and the shield to her right, as she was on the left side of the two.

The two began to make their run for it, and then, they didn't realize it until they were nearly halfway there, but the White Pumpkin was no longer trapped. How did they know? Red's contraption stopped firing it's arrows.

"What?" Gommie asks as they continued running. She got rid of the shield, seeing as she didn't need it anymore, and looked back at the place.

"I made it so that the contraption would endlessly fire until it was all out- it shouldn't be out this early!" Red looked back at Gommie as he picked up Gommie's shield and pocketed it. They may need it again.

"Maybe a gear's just jammed?" Gommie asked hopefully, looking at Red. The two kept pushing on, hoping that the White Pumpkin hadn't freed himself and was after them again. Red risked a glance behind him and saw the White Pumpkin advancing. The path ahead towards home began closing out. Without the arrows to take out the zombies, the window of escape began to shut. "You keep going." Gommie said. She looked up at Red, who looked back at her. "Keep running. Get the flint and steel to someone you trust, and get the hell out of here altogether."

"What about you?" Gommie's dark brown eyes darkened (if that was even possible), and a small smirk coated her face.

"I'm going to kick this fucker's ass." Gommie looked back towards the White Pumpkin. She then looked up at Red again. "Go. Send red fireworks and I'll know if you made it out."

"Gommie, this better not be goodbye for us…" Red began, his voice cracking. He didn't want to lose another one… then he would be the last of them all. He didn't want to be the last of them all. Somewhere in the middle, yeah sure, but the last to live? Nope. No thank you.

"Hey, goodbyes aren't forever, nor do they initiate the end. They're just an 'I'll miss you' until we see each other again, alright?" Gommie paused. "Speaking of which… Tell Blue I'll see him soon." She sent him one last smile.

"And tell the other three I said 'see you later.'" Red returned the smile weakly, before turning around and forcing his feet to get him out of there and to home. Gommie sent a satisfied smile in his direction before turning to face the White Pumpkin for one last battle. She took out Gamer's diamond sword.

"Missed me already, huh, love?" Gommie raised an eyebrow, sending him a sweet, innocent smile while flipping the sword in her hand, sending him a small shrug as she did so. The White Pumpkin let out a roar of a battle cry and the battle was initiated.

Red kept running- he did not stop. Not even if his legs hurt, not even if his lungs ached, not even if his throat was dry as a desert, not even if he ran into a tree.

The White Pumpkin took out his axe once again and swung it downwards on Gommie's head, which Gommie immediately parried. She swung her sword upwards, pushing the White Pumpkin back. The sea of zombies kept going after her, and Gommie kept having to take down a zombie here and there before going back to battling the White Pumpkin. She made her own attack- using a zombie's face as the launching pad (that poor zombie), Gommie jumped and did a short flip over the White Pumpkin, blocking him from being able to escape into his mansion.

"You're dead to me." The White Pumpkin grumbled, but Gommie didn't hear, of course. Instead, she did a few quick attacks- slash to the left, back to the right, to the left one more time, and a jump kick planted to his chest, throwing him to the ground.

Red turned around to look at the distance he made. He made long enough distance, that he could rest a bit. The redhead took out the fireworks and looked down at them.

He was going to miss his friends, and he knew that.

But he was also going to see them again someday, and he knew that.

He raised the fireworks, holding them a little away from him, and launched them high into the sky.

Gommie looked up at the sky, and she spotted the red fireworks in the distance, one launching after another, and she looked back at the White Pumpkin.

"This isn't over yet, love." Gommie gave a small smirk, as she launched herself at the White Pumpkin one last time. "You know… you could've simply asked." She stated, a small smile on her face. Her sword was about to break, and she knew it, yet she didn't show it.

When it did, though, that's when the White Pumpkin took the opportunity and planted the blade of his axe into the center of her midback. It cut into her flesh easily, and the White Pumpkin left her there to suffer.

"I could always make another axe." was the last thing he said before turning around and making his way to the mansion again. The zombies, moaning and groaning, tore apart their breakfast, but there were no cries, for she was already dead.

Inside the mansion, the clock chimed. It was now seven in the morning, and the sun was rising.

"You know, Ariza, she probably had the most heroic death of all of us."

"Shush, Toni, at least mine was wise. Right, Gamer?"

"Yeah, I guess." Gamer shrugged, laughing a little. She watched as Ariza and Toni bickered, before glancing down at the ghost of the last one who died through the night before.

"Ariza, I died to a freaking couch." Toni laughs, finding her own bickering amusing. The three of them were a pale, transparent, white color- the shades got dark with their colors of clothes and hair. They were all ghosts.

The one thing that stood out most from their appearances were the scars they had retrieved. It was like they were risen from the dead- Toni had some bite marks here and there, along with some scratches, and even her stomach was torn open, but she covered up that disgusting wound with her shirt. She also had a few scars on her back, mainly one great, big bruise from the fall. Ariza's burn was healed, but it remained as a scar, and so did many small bites that came from the spiders' pincers. They spread out all over her body, but like Toni, her clothes were completely repaired. And like Toni, Gamer's clothes were completely repaired, them covering a majority of her burn scars. Gommie, however, her clothes were repaired as well, but the scar that would have shown her death, well, it wasn't there. As the White Pumpkin had left his axe in her back… it was still there. So there was a diamond axe protruding from her back. It reminded Ariza of when Gommie had just threw on a jacket with an axe glued to make it look like someone murdered her from behind. Well, that somehow became reality… Halloween was a creepy holiday...

Out of the corner of her eye, Gamer saw Gommie shift from her stomach-flat position on the ground.

"Shh, guys, Gommie's waking up!" Gamer waved her hand at them as she bent over a bit to look down at the Warrior of the group.

"Oooh!" Ariza did a cutesy little jumpy-jump as she also bent over a bit, looking down at the awakening GirlOfHerOwnWorld. Toni decided not to say anything, just bending over a little to look down at Gommie. Gommie's dark brown eyes opened for the first time in her afterlife.

"What the f-"

"You know, that's not how I imagined your first words to be. I hope you didn't say that when you were born the first time." Ariza teased, and Gommie craned her head to look at her friends, all of them standing above her and looking down at her.

"Guys? What's going on?" Gommie asks, struggling to stand a little. When she finally did get up, she strained to look at what was in her back. The axe was still there, but Gommie didn't feel the pain it brought. Instead, she felt just a stinging whenever she moved, but she knew she would be able to get past that and ignore it like it was nothing.

"She's gonna be okay." Toni sent her friend a grin, slapping her on the back (closer to the shoulder blade- she didn't really want to touch the axe. Her bites hurt when she touched them at first, and the same went for her innards-out stomach) and Gommie stumbled a little, falling face first into a barrier? Ariza couldn't help but to snicker.

"What's this? Guys, where are we? Aren't we supposed to be in the Aether World?"

"We are." Toni began to explain. She was confronted by another soul earlier on (before Gamer died) and they explained everything to her, then left her to explain to her friends. "We're supposed to be in the Aether World, yeah, but since we were murdered and we didn't die as we were destined to, we're trapped. What you pretty much just ran into- sorry about that, by the way- is the barrier keeping us here. We're in the Sub-Aether; basically, we're still here in the real world, but we're just ghosts who remain in the middle, you know?"

"Yeah, I see what you mean. So we're stuck in the middle?"

"Yeah, pretty much. We aren't freed to the Aether until Cassie Rose gives her sincerest apologies."

"What about Cassie Rose? I thought she died too."

"We all thought she died, yeah, but that was faked. The White Pumpkin is Cassie Rose, Gommie." Ariza answered this part. "The white pumpkin seeds, we don't know where she got them, but she used most of the gifts we got her to carry out the rest of her plan. The voice moderator kit- that was Red's gift, she stuck that inside her masks so we couldn't get that it was her. She used the suit I got her, as it was a bit big, as the costume, I guess, and the arrows stopped as you and Red were running out? She used the Redstone Pulse to stop them. The blur of black we saw shortly before Gamer went? That was Winslow in the dragon costume Toni got her- the real Winslow. He didn't die, so we assumed Cassie had more than one calico cat. And you… you gave her the axe that is now lodged in your back." Gommie was silent for a few moments. It was a lot to take in.

"What about Red? Did he get away?" The deaf Warrior wanted to make sure that those red fireworks weren't a lie.

"He did. He got away with the flint and steel." Gamer finished off, sending her a smile. Another moment of silence. "Let's just hope Cassie doesn't lure any other candidates- you know, for possession of the flint and steel- into her home." Gamer turned around, beginning to lead their way back to said house. Ariza, Toni, and Gommie had to jog to catch up.

"Yeah. Speaking of which, Gommie, did you realize that you were actually flirting- well 'flirting'-" Toni paused to correct herself with air-quotes. "With Cassie that whole time you used your distraction scheme?"

Gommie stopped abruptly in her tracks.

"Ohhhhhh fuck me." she groaned, facepalming.

"I think I'll leave that to-" Toni never said who because a red-faced Gommie (they could tell through the white transparency of their ghost forms) practically tackles her to the ground, making Gamer and Ariza laugh. Gommie didn't forget to pass on Red's message, because she knew they were already there to have heard it.

And that's all I got!

Wow, just one more chapter, and this story is completely done. Oh my god I am so excited like ahhh...

Review Replies:

Gamerwhogames: You sure are, ahaha. (Also, you're a pretty fast reader wow.)

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NoItsBecky: Yeah, it does, one chapter left to be exact! I'm glad you like it!

Ariza Luca: Yeah? I knew you'd like your death scene, haha. And, well, *awkwardly waves arms at this chapter* Here.

Have any of you been seeing the pattern with the deaths? Toni was killed by a couch, Ariza by spiders, Gamer by fire, and now, Gommie with a fight… a pattern in particular you're seeing?

How about the flirting with the White Pumpkin scene? You know, if I were a serial killer, that would probably make sense. But oh man. And the puns too? Dayum.

What'd y'all think of this second-to-last chapter? How about Gommie's death? I probably would've made the immovable Slab cry, mainly because I made the unchangeable Red cry, actually. (He saw that scene a little beforehand, so…)

I better get right to work on the final chapter, so thank you all so much for reading and I will see YOU all, in the next chapter…

CIAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!