This is the tenth chapter! I hope you enjoy this.
Chapter 10: Cancelled Out
When the pianta left, the three of them looked at Jolene's laptop in wonder.
"That's very convenient," Mario said sarcastically. "It was saved just before the basement burned up."
"It's too much of a coincidence," noticed Peach, as she opened it and logged on. She went to the pictures section of the laptop, and looked at it, scanning through the pictures. But she didn't find any pictures of the next death.
"There isn't any picture of the next death!" she cried. "There also isn't a picture of the last view of the next victim!"
"How is that possible?" said DK, looking for himself. But it turned out that she was right.
"This means that we have no idea what the next death will be," said Peach, putting the laptop to the side. "But does this mean that the deaths have stopped for some reason?"
"I haven't a clue," replied DK. "If someone ends up dying again, we know that it isn't over."
The next morning, everyone attended Yoshi and Jolene's funerals. It was a sad time, as Peach felt that something bad would happen. But everything went normally for the next few days. Peach talked with DK a few days later in a baseball field.
"The difference this time is that there is no killer," Peach sighed. "Only the laws of existence are killing us."
"In other words, death is seeping back to us," added DK. "E. Gadd should have never brought us back. Now everything will be chaos, as we die eventually." They were silent for a moment.
"The different thing this time is that we don't know how to stop it!" blurted Peach in frustration. "Last time, all we had to do was find the killer and be gone, but this time…I believe it's impossible to stop death put in motion."
"But there has to be a way!" insisted DK. "We saved ourselves before, so we can this time."
"But this time, man isn't the cause of these deaths!" protested Peach. "It's all nature! Such as these signs appearing before the deaths, and those pictures magically appearing, it's the cause of a force nobody knows about!" She sat down on the grass in dissatisfaction, as a little noki yelled "Watch the ball! This'll shock you!" as the kids were playing baseball in the middle of the field.
DK also sat down on the ground. "Maybe we can reverse something in a way to stop a person's death, like I did to save Mario. I pulled him out when the sword fell, which would have killed him."
"But Jolene ended up dying instead, in a gruesome way that was unthinkable," she pointed out. "That won't help anybody, because only another person would get killed."
"Why doesn't everybody stay in a black room in the police station?" DK suggested. "In that way, no one would die."
"No, because the room may collapse or explode, and I doubt that any of us would like to stay in a blank room for the rest of our lives," said Peach. "Or…," but she stopped as she saw a baseball fly over their heads. It hit into an electric wire, causing Peach and DK to stand up and back away in shock. The electric wires fell onto a stranded empty car, as it exploded, causing gears to fly all over the place. Peach and DK ducked quickly, as the engine narrowly missed them.
"Holy smokes!" gasped DK, just when a car pulled in. It was Daisy's car.
"Peach and DK, are you all right?" she yelled from her car. "I saw an explosion while I was trying to find you, and I found you here!" she said.
"Yeah, we nearly got killed by a piece of metal," grunted DK, but Daisy couldn't hear him from the fizzing of the destroyed car.
"Well, guess what? The play is changed to tonight!" sang Daisy from her car. "We need to go immediately!"
Peach and DK had nothing to do but go into her car, overly relieved that they were not killed.
"Daisy, we need to talk to you," explained Peach, as she told her everything she knew, about death coming back to claim them and that there wasn't a way to stop it.
Daisy stopped her car, a little confused but startled at the same time. "Do you mean that I'm gonna die sooner or later?"
"If there's a way to stop it," said Peach. "We have to cancel the play to prevent any killing."
"But we can't!" Daisy exclaimed in a worried voice. "This play is really important, and hundreds, thousands, of people will be in the audience and part of the cast. If we cancel it, the director won't allow it."
"We'll tell them that there's a bomb in the stage," said DK. "In that case, it'll be forced to be cancelled."
"Are you crazy? Why would I say that?" Daisy complained. "They'll think I'm drunk or something and they'll fire me from the acting career!"
"But we need to save someone from dying," convinced Peach, as Daisy finally decided to call the director. But her phone didn't work from the destroyed electric wires.
"We have to tell him personally," said Daisy. "The connection isn't working here, so we'll have to drive to the Rainfall Cut Auditorium to tell him." But when she turned on the engine, the car suddenly let out a wheezing sound and lost power. The three of them got out of the car, confused.
"Why's the car broken? It was all right a minute ago!" said Daisy in disbelief. "I hate fixing cars." They had to fix the car in a difficult way, but then eventually decided to call a mechanic. It was approaching 6:15, the time of the play.
"All set to go!" said DK, as they sped off to the auditorium. A few minutes later they arrived and entered.
"Finally, you have arrived! Hurry up and get your costumes on! No time to rehearse!" shouted the director, as four people took Daisy and DK away immediately.
"Wait, director!" pleaded Daisy, but Daisy didn't get to tell the director about the bomb plan. Peach followed the people, who brought Daisy and DK to the makeup room.
"Everything is so hectic," said Daisy. "No one will listen to us now."
"Maybe I should watch what's going on, and find things that are suspicious," said Peach. "Is Moonshine a big part?"
"All you do is walk around the place, following us," said Daisy. "Are you sure something is going to happen at this play?"
"I'm sure," insisted Peach. "Mario, Pennington, Ms. Mows, and we three may end up dead by tonight. I do not want that to happen," swallowed Peach fearfully.
"I feel sorry that we arrived late and couldn't cancel this play," sighed Daisy. "But the car breaking down was to cancel our canceling of the play. We must act on."
"What are my parts?" asked DK. Daisy handed him a page of scripts, as DK stared at them in disbelief.
"All this heavy crap? It's impossible to memorize in two minutes!" he said to Daisy. Daisy shrugged, as a man dressed as a tree walked into the makeup room.
"Let's go! The play is about to start!" he exclaimed. "Go go go!"
The three of them hurriedly went to the center of the stage, with the curtains about to open.
"Hey!" called Detective Pennington from the curtain ropes. "I'm the curtains puller!" Daisy waved at him happily. DK and Peach stepped off stage, as Mario and Daisy were the only ones.
"Daisy, I hope everything will be okay," whispered Peach to Daisy, loud enough for only her to hear. Daisy signaled back that she was all right, yet nervous.
"Okay!" shouted the director. "Let the play begin!" The curtains opened, as Mario and Daisy started the play, revealing an audience of thousands of people.
"If there will be a fateful death", thought Peach, "It will be shown to thousands of people."
Someone will die next, but who will it be? Will the play go normally, or will something horrible break out? Please review, I need some support! Review please! Next chapter will come as soon as possible.
