13th chapter! Please enjoy, because someone else will die in a strange way.


Chapter 13: Bar In Half

"I'm back!" shouted Koops, as he started to step towards them. "I was revived from using an invention of E. Gadd's, which revives people. Too bad you guys used the same thing. Then I swam back and tried to escape death numerous times!"

"How did you revive yourself?" demanded DK. "Why was death trying to kill you, and not Peach, Jolene, and Pennington?"

"Because," explained Koops, "I was supposed to be dead, but I revived myself. I was not part of you in a friendship way, so when Peach revived all of you, you guys and she were put on death's list! Plus, Jolene and Pennington were part of this death thing, so they appeared on the list too. But guess what? I escaped death thirteen times already! I'm safe from dying!" He laughed and stared at them in triumph.

"You're next on the list of death!" pointed out Peach bravely. "Your death isn't over yet!"

"Stop shitting me around!" he hollered. He grabbed Peach and threw her to the ground, causing DK and Luigi to tackle him fiercely. Daisy backed away from them, as other shoppers went away from the fight scene. Peach looked over the glass balcony and saw police coming their way from the floor below.

"Police!" she shouted, as DK and Koops got up from the ground. A few seconds later, the elevator opened, revealing police.

"Put your hands in the air!" they commanded. DK and Luigi obeyed, but Koops just glared at them.

"We repeat; put your hands in the air!" the policeman repeated. Koops then took a gun from his pocket, as Peach saw a shop a few feet away from her. It was called Bulletin Bakery.

"Bullet," she whispered to herself, as one of the policeman shot his gun at Koops. He fell back and raised his gun in the air, causing the bullet to only hit his gun, but miss him.

"Oh no," said Peach in fear, as she quickly took the list from her pocket, the list she hoped was correct.

Ms. Mows Luigi Koops DK Peach Mario Daisy

She changed it as quick as she could:

DK Peach Mario Daisy Luigi Koops

"DK!" she yelled. "You're going to die next!"

"Huh?" said DK, startled at what she said. "How can I be next?"

"Run," whispered Luigi softly, as Peach, DK, Daisy, and Luigi dashed towards the other side of the department floor. The police started to run after them, along with Koops. Daisy reached the elevator first, but it wasn't operating, so she pressed the button for the other elevator.

"Hurry up!" screamed Daisy, as the door opened and they all entered. Koops was catching up to them quickly as the elevator doors were starting to close.

"You can't get away!" Koops hollered, but the doors closed and the elevator went down to the third floor. The police arrived at the elevators, but Koops went elsewhere.

"You're going to die," said Peach to DK when they were on the third floor. "Luigi had escaped death, then Koops, now it's you." Everyone looked at DK.

"But we can foresee the deaths by signs," remembered Daisy. "We can make him skip death."

"Hold on…" said Peach, as she noticed something. "If Mario was supposed to die when the chandelier fell…he can't have died. He wasn't at the end." She pulled out an extra piece of paper and a pencil, as the others looked on in confusion.

"This was the list just before the chandelier fell," said Peach.

Peach Daisy Pennington Ms. Mows Luigi Koops Mario DK

"In that case, only Daisy and I were meant to die," explained Peach. "Mario wasn't on the front of the list, and you can't be moved back if you're not on the front. In other words, Mario wasn't supposed to die when the chandelier fell, making him stay in the same place on the list. These are the official two correct lists right now."

Mario DK Peach Daisy Luigi Koops

Mario DK Peach Daisy Luigi Koops

"This means I'm not next," said DK with a sigh of relief. "But Mario is."

"Mario!" cried Daisy. "Where is he? He's next on dying!" Just then, the elevator opened, as they all turned around. Mario was in the elevator, at a strange sign of coincidence. They all knew that it wasn't just a coincidence.

"Mario! You're next on the list!" shouted Luigi. Upstairs, when the police went elsewhere to search the escaped people, Koops was trying to openthe non-operating elevator. He finally opened the doors, but slipped onto a metal bar and fell, slightly unconscious. It caused a giant decorative palm tree to fall onto its side, causing a loud crash. The elevator opened, but it was starting to spark from its damage.

Below on the fourth floor, the palm tree caused a huge amount of dust to fall from above of the four of them, except Mario.

"I can't see!" said Luigi, who then slipped and fell onto the dust. "But this sand might be an important clue." Mario just stood in the elevator, not knowing what to do.

"It's sawdust!" cried Peach. When the sawdust cleared, Peach lifted her foot and looked at her footprint. She gasped, as her footprint was cut in half for a strange reason.

The other elevator upstairs sparked into a cable control, which got in contact with the elevator shaft next to it, which was Mario's elevator. The sparking started to appear in the elevator shaft, going slowly below to the elevator.

"Get away from the elevator, Mario!" said DK, as Mario took a few steps toward them in the heap of sawdust. DK went towards the elevator to check it out.

"How do you know I'm going to die next?" he asked. Peach showed him the list, as Mario's eyes widened in fear.

The sparks reached the elevator that Mario had been in, and exploded from over-heating. The bar handle of the elevator flew from the explosion, as DK was thrown back and avoided being decapitated, but it wasn't his turn to die.

The elevator bar cut right through Mario, as Peach, Daisy, and Luigi jumped back in shock. Mario had a blank expression on his face, as the top half of his body fell off.

"AHHHH!" yelled Luigi. "Nooooo!" DK turned around, and knew that he still hadn't escaped death.

"Mario!" sobbed Daisy, as they all walked away from the place. It was already passed the closing time, so nobody was around them. The police had given up their search.

"I'm next," said DK, as they took another set of elevators to go up to the top fifth floor. "It wasn't my turn to die, so I didn't escape death."

"These are the list now," said Peach, upset that Mario had died.

DK Peach Daisy Luigi Koops

DK Daisy Peach Luigi Koops

"I think we should get out of here," said Luigi, so they turned around to go back to the elevators, only to see Koops running towards them with a chainsaw.


Another cliffhanger involving Koops! I'll update soon if I'm able to. Please review, looking for at least two or three because I need to reach 55 reviews at the thirteenth chapter for my goal! Thanks guys, updating asap