By the title of this chapter you could tell that someone will be claimed by death once again! Please enjoy, as this chapter may seem a bit confusing. If it's not, enjoy anyway!
Chapter 7: Simmering Waters
Everyone turned around to look at Peach, who was screaming. Even Yoshi turned around and tried to see what the problem was.
"No!" screamed Peach, and DK covered her mouth and brought her to the tatami room in the back. Everyone looked confused as the two of them entered the shoji screen door.
"You're just in time!" said Mario. "We just started ordering our food." Daisy, Mario, Ms. Mows, Pennington, and Jolene were there, sitting on a tatami mat with pillows. A young birdo in a kimono was taking orders.
"Please take of shoes and put sandals!" the birdo said kindly.
"I would like an order of the tempura with udon, in miso soup," said Pennington hungrily. "With an extra portion to make me full."
"I'll have the sake sushi special, but what is sake?" asked Daisy, as DK and Peach sat down nervously.
"It is raw salmon, on top of some rice," said the birdo. "It is very tasty and it is discount this week."
Peach gasped, and looked around fearfully. There was an ancient scroll on the wall with a picture of a pond, which looked as if it were steaming. She tapped DK on the shoulder as he looked at it.
"That scroll come from Japan, very rare and is priceless," the birdo said, seeing them look at it. "It represent a cooking pond, like one outside, but only we use in summer. In fall, it decoration as regular salmon pond. In summer, blocked by glass as many people watch professional cooks cook near pond."
Peach swallowed as tears started to form in her eyes, as DK ordered gyoza with fried rice. But Peach just got up and went out through the shoji screen to the bathroom.
"Is she no appetite?" asked the waitress. "That okay! I come back when you ring bell," and she left. Daisy sighed and went to follow Peach, as the rest of them just chatted. DK just sat down and waited patiently.
"Peach, what is wrong with you today?" asked Daisy, who opened the stall and found Peach crying.
"It's happening!" she cried. "Someone is going to die!" She shut the door.
"What do you mean?" asked Daisy softly, opening the door.
Peach sniffed, and then told Daisy what she knew. "I saw Bobbery's picture after he died, and he had a cut under his eye in the picture!" She then continued about the razor picture, and how the clues were coming, and the picture where all of them were burned up, and the view of someone from underwater. She stopped at the point when she saw the scroll with the cooking pond.
"That's very odd," agreed Daisy. "Are you sure about this?"
Peach took out Bobbery's phone from his pocket and looked for the pictures. But they weren't there, as Peach desperately tried to find them.
"I swear they were here!" Peach cried, as she tried to look for them. She got out and washed her face, putting the phone back.
"Maybe you were just imagining things," said Daisy. Just then, a tile of the ceiling came loose and nearly hit Daisy, as Peach shouted in alarm and pushed her away just in time, making both of them bang into a radiator. There was a strange sound as the radiator suddenly started to spurt out burning water, which made Daisy jump back in shock.
"Oww!" she cried. "Let's get away from here," Daisy said, but Peach was looking at a sign above the radiator.
It said "For the Bamboo Pond, Do Not Hit."
"Oh no," whispered Peach.
Outside at the pond, the bamboos suddenly stopped pouring the regular cool water, but started to pour the water used for the cooking, boiling sizzling water at a larger pace. The salmon started to swim away in panic, as one of them jumped out, causing an automatic switch to turn on into boiling season. It started to produce steam, as the fish died and steam got everywhere. Soon, it was boiling, as Yoshi noticed it.
"What's happened to the pond?" said Yoshi out loud in alarm, and he thought it best for the people to stay away.
"Everyone," he called out. "If you could please exit the restaurant, as a problem has occurred. The pond is going a little berserk, and may cause something dangerous to occur," he said, as some people laughed and got escorted out of the restaurant.
But then he remembered about his friends in the back. He went over to the back, but unfortunately slipped on some overflowed water from the pond, as he fell into it with a splash and a shout. He gasped as the boiling water singed his skin, as he fell back under and tried to stick his hand onto an automatic emergency sensor. But for some reason it had broken because of the damaged radiator in the girl's bathroom. His eyes stung as he tried to look underwater, despite his weakness of water. Hopeless and burning, he boiled to his fate as he was supposed to.
Daisy discovered him a minute later and screamed.
I really DID NOT want to kill Yoshi, because I thought of making him live more, yet it seemed impossible to make someone else take his place. Plus, death decided to kill him, not me. Please review, looking for at least two! Next chapter will be updated later on.
