I'm so sad that I didn't get any reviews in the past chapter :(
Anyway, I hope the story isn't that confusing to people. Just understand that these pictures that Peach are finding are predicting the future of the upcoming deaths. Please enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 9: Cutting Out
The person entered the restaurant, as Peach cautiosly looked over the counter to see who it was. It was DK.
"DK!" she exclaimed relieved, causing DK to jump back in surprise.
"Peach, what the hell are you doing here?" he asked.
"Same question for you," she replied. "You were here to find some pictures without telling me to come along."
"Why didn't you tell me to come along with you?" he said back. "Anyway, did you discover anything else?"
"Yes," she said quietly. She opened the album and turned to the picture of the others in the tatami room all smiling, but with the huge bloody gashes. DK stared in shock.
"This death seems like the worst so far," he commented in panic. "But what is the last picture?"
Peach turned the page and showed him. "It shows the person's last view in Mario's basement, and I'm looking at a door in deep surprise. The person who will die would be behind me." She tried to think of what to do.
"We have to go to Mario's house immediately," said DK, and they both crept out of the restaurant, restoring back the lock and flew to Mario's house in the helicopter. When they arrived, they immediately entered it and went downstairs. Outside of Mario's basement door was a table full of origami designs, and Peach couldn't help but look at them. But she then noticed an origami design of a sharp blade, which she picked up.
"Oh no," gasped Peach to DK. "It's a sign about the upcoming death!" DK and Peach looked at each other fearfully.
She then opened Mario's basement door and saw Mario and Jolene, working on a project to restore the environment. They both looked surprised as they entered.
"Hello Peach and DK, we're a bit busy," said Mario, cutting a piece of wood with a saw. Peach's eyes widened at the saw.
"Get away from that saw!" she shouted. "It'll kill you!" She approached him, as Mario held it up in confusion.
"Are you okay Peach?" he asked. "There's no way this could kill me."
"We need more wood," Jolene sighed, and got a board and cut it with a huge paper cutter. "What's the problem Peach? Why are you so nervous about something?"
"We think that one of you guys might die right now," believed DK, as Mario doubtfully went to a wardrobe and opened it up, revealing wood and different paper. But on the wall of the wardrobe near the top was a sword hanging by strings.
"Mario, that sword is going to kill you!" Peach screamed in fear. "Listen to me!"
"Where are you getting these ideas?" Mario said. "You seem a little too paranoid after Bobbery and Yoshi's deaths, but I assure you that things will be okay from now on." He started to carry logs from the wardrobe.
"I'm sure!" she screamed. "I have pictures to show you!" But she forgot to bring the album from the restaurant.
"I'm sorry, but we have to work on this gigantic bird house which has to be finished by tomorrow. I promise that we'll talk to you another time," said Mario, trying to be as nice as he could. Peach saw the swords sway on the strings above him, and grabbed Mario's hand and pulled him away from the wardrobe.
"No, get out of the wardrobe!" she insisted in fright. "The swords will kill you!"
"Fine," said Mario. "If that will make you happy, I will get away from this wardrobe, away from my swords." He picked up one last log from the wardrobe and carried it over to Jolene, who was too busy. But Mario swung the log over, hitting a lamp over, which fell and splashed into a container of paint. The container fell over and seeped into an electric outlet connecting to the bathroom on the main floor. Nobody had noticed.
"Listen," said Peach, and she told them all about what they knew. At the end, Jolene and Mario were slightly stunned, but continued working.
"That's incredibly scary," admitted Jolene. "I really have to agree with you with the fact that someone will die. I think we should leave." Mario shook his head in disagreement.
"We need to finish this thing no matter what," he argued, and went back over to the wardrobe and opened it to get more supplies.
Upstairs, the electric outlet in the bathroom flickered slightly, then started to spark onto the carpet.
"Please, Mario," said DK, thinking that all of them should leave immediately. "We need to go, now."
Jolene suddenly noticed a slice of origami paper under the table to her relief, because it was needed to complete the huge birdhouse, as she cut it into tiny pieces with the giant paper cutter. "I just need to cut this last thing," Jolene added.
"But we have to exit this house now!" cried Peach, sensing that death was coming closer. Peach and DK backed closer to the door.
"As long as I know, I'm staying here," confirmed Mario, getting paper from the wardrobe, as the swords swayed even more from the strings.
The sparks got worse, as Jolene's phone on the bathroom counter vibrated, just as the sparks caught onto the carpet and caused a fire. Her phone vibrated enough to fall off the counter and into the fire, causing a loud reaction.
"I'll continue later," said Jolene, as she turned around in front of the paper cutter. "Are you sure we have to get out of this place?" she asked Peach and DK, not wanting to leave her work unfinished.
"We need you to get out," insisted DK, as Peach looked at Mario in anger that he wasn't listening to them. Jolene just stood where she was, looking them, as DK decided to grab Mario with him and went over to Mario
"Mario, I will not tell you one more time---" shouted Peach, but was interrupted by a loud explosion from upstairs in the bathroom, as they all turned around at the door in surprise, as only three of them covered their ears at the loud sound and fiery blast. Mario jumped back, causing the sword to knock against the inside of the wardrobe as the strings unhooked, just when DK noticed them. He reacted as quickly as he could and pulled Mario out of the way, just when the sword ornament fell and cut into a log at the bottom of the wardrobe.
But Mario wasn't the one meant to die. When the loud explosion occurred, Jolene had jumped back in full shock, into the handle and blade of the paper cutter as it went through her stomach and slid more as she touched the ground. There was a bloody and fatal scene, as Peach turned around and saw Jolene with the handle impaled into her body.
"Noooo!" Peach shrieked in terror. DK and Mario gasped in horror, as they saw Jolene hanging from the handle from her impaled stomach. Peach ran upstairs crying, as the other two followed her immediately.
"We should have gotten out earlier!" Peach cried in tears. "It's our fault!"
"It was unpredictable," said DK, telling the truth to his own words. "We didn't know what the death would be." Mario was stunned and shuddered, thinking that Peach and DK were right about this whole thing.
They called the firefighters and police, who got rid of the fire but ended up destroying almost Mario's entire house. Jolene's funeral would be in the morning at the same time of Yoshi's.
The police suspected no homicide according to fingerprints, before the basement was destroyed by a sudden pipe explosion. Peach, Mario, and DK just sat outside while the police looked around the place. The three of them didn't know what kind of news to tell their friends, who would die later on.
"I know what is happening," said Peach quietly. "We're dying because we're supposed to."
"What are you talking about?" said Mario, twirling a stick in his hands and wondering if he could afford a new house.
"We're all supposed to be dead. Reviving you guys doesn't work and puts a shatter in life and death. It's breaking the laws of existence, and as for me, I escaped from the liquid nitrogen, which was not supposed to occur. Jolene and Pennington were supposed to die with harpoons and a carbon monoxide, but they didn't even though they were supposed to. Clues are appearing to either help us or taunt us, which we don't know. We're all supposed to be dead, which is what's happening right now. We're all dying," ended Peach, sighing heavily.
Mario looked up cautiously at what Peach had said. "Is there any way to stop it?" asked Mario, who now believed what was happening to them.
"That's what we need to find out," explained DK. "If there's a way to stop death from killing us, we'll be alive."
Just then, a firefighter pianta came out of the burnt house with something from the basement.
"Does this laptop belong to anybody? It was saved just before the entire basement burned to crisp," he said, giving them a laptop. It was Jolene's.
I know that the chance of Jolene's death to occur in real life is about a 2.568 percent chance. Please review this time! I will make the next chapter ASAP. Thanks for reading!
