The seventh chapter! I hope you'll enjoy it.
Chapter 7: Spinning Above
"Don't touch that!" yelled Frank to Sophie, as she jumped back in surprise. All the survivors from the blimp accident were in the basement of Officer Parakarry, sitting around anxiously and bored. Parakarry and Frank were playing a card game on the center table, while the others were just sitting on the couch and the beds, which there were six of, one for each person.
"I'm betting my smoke pipe and 200 coins," said Frank to Parakarry, "For your tool box of pocketknives."
"What? That tool box was passed down generations from my great-grandfather! I'll bet for your 400 coins, plus your smoke pipe," insisted Parakarry.
"Fair deal," agreed Frank, and they started to play Poker.
"Uh, Frank?" said Jill. "Don't you think that the box of pocketknives will kill someone? The reason we're all on this tight place is because we're trying to be safe, and you guys are playing with pocketknives and smoke pipes."
"Especially with the fact that you're next," added Mush. "The way you died in the blimp accident was that Frank dropped his pipe cigarette onto you, and there was gasoline dripping and you exploded."
"I'm next!" exclaimed Parakarry. "Why doesn't anyone tell me?"
"Just watch out for things," said Jill, looking around cautiously. "Anything could kill."
Sophie took out a leather bag of marbles from her backpack, which had a yellow "S" sewn onto the front of it. "Does anyone want to play?" she asked. Frank and Katherine had no choice but to play with her, as Mush and Jill went over to Parakarry's computer and turned it on.
"What should I do if I'm next on the list?" asked Parakarry, who seemed to be lost. Mush and Jill were too busy reading Peach's journal, trying to find more about death.
"If there was a certain way that this was set up, it includes that we, the next victims of death, had been included in killing those before us," said Jill. "Let's start from me. I was the one who was contributed to the death of Bobbery."
"And I was the one who caused part of the death of my sister, Jolene," said Mush. "We know that Sophie had been involved in the death of Ms. Mows, and I believe E. Gadd counts as just starting this whole death rift, which is the worst of all."
"And then Lakister was involved in Pennington's death," said Jill. "But how were Catherine, Frank, and Parakarry involved in the previous deaths?"
They went on a search engine website, and checked up the death of Yoshi.
Mush read, "At the Japanese restaurant, The Tokei Numa, Yoshi Pucha had died unfortunately when he fell into the cooking pond of the restaurant, which was suddenly turned on for some reason unclear. This all seems to be a fateful accident." He looked at Jill.
"Perhaps Catherine was there, because she's Japanese," said Mush, as they both looked over at Catherine.
"Should we ask her?" said Jill. Mush nodded, and they both went their way over to Catherine.
"Hello Catherine, have you had any jobs ever in the past? Like, a year ago?" asked Mush. Katherine just stood there smiling, until she understood the question.
"I work at Japanese restaurant," she said. "But I quit."
"Do you remember the name of the restaurant?" asked Jill. "Was it like, Tokei Numa?"
"Yes!" said Catherine. "But I have secret to tell, because I never tell anyone. Do you promise to keep a secret I tell you? I trust you two people."
"Secret?" asked Jill. "Like what? We promise to keep the secret, no matter how bad it is."
"Well," started Catherine. "At my restaurant one night, there was a death. A person was burn in a pond. Do you know story?"
"We know the story," said Mush. "Go on, please."
"On that night," started Catherine, "I turn the cooking pond on, but not cooking. I was one to turn switch on, and person, name is Yoshi, die when fall in. I later then turned sensors off because I scared that I get fired for all steam in the restaurant, and everyone have to get out. I heard in news, Yoshi try to save himself from emergency sensor. But I had turned off! I kill him a little. Please keep secret to you two, no tell anybody."
"Promise, Catherine," said Jill, trying to smile. They turned away back to the computer on the other side of the room.
"That explains how Katherine was involved in these before," said Jill. "But how was Frank and Parakarry involved in the deaths of Peach and her friends?"
"Hey," came the voice of Frank. "Can you guys go get food? We have none."
"But we're leaving the protection of the group," said Mush. "Parakarry is going to die next, and if we leave, he'll be in danger."
"I'll die from hunger before death kills me," protested Parakarry. "I'll be fine, but just get us some food from the supermarket." He went back to playing marbles with the others, full of boredom and hunger. Mush and Jill had no choice but to follow their orders and get food, leaving the others.
They went into the car and drove off to the nearest food store, as the air was full of quietness and silence.
"I can't believe the situation we're in," said Mush. "If it weren't for this person named Koops to kill these people before us, E. Gadd wouldn't have revived them, which made death messed up and want to kill people. Now we've fallen in death's way. We can't cheat death.
"But why didn't death just kill us in the blimp accident, instead of giving you the vision?" wondered Jill to Mush. "It would have been much easier and less frightening and painful."
"That's the reason," realized Mush. "Death wants us to suffer deaths worse than what would have happened in the blimp accident. Death is angry, and gave me the vision that forced us to get off the blimp before it exploded. And that is the ONLY way he could kill us. By cheating death, making death able to finish us. He chose us because we were all contributed to the deaths of the people who died before us. Death takes no exceptions in cheating death. We all have to die.
"But we still don't know how Frank and Parakarry affected the deaths before," said Jill. "So maybe this whole thing is wrong, which I highly doubt…watch out!" she yelled. The car suddenly turned as Mush swerved the car from hitting a piece of fence, but instead they had crashed into an electric pole, deploying the airbags and crushing the whole front of the car into pieces. The entire electric pole fell over, bringing down wires from the poles around them. The two of them managed to get out of the car, and saw six electric poles around them on the grass, sparking. A car passed by and decided to help them.
"Are you guys all right?" asked a young goomba. "I saw the electric poles fall'n over, and I think we ought a call 'elm police."
"Please do so," said Jill. "We're in a hurry, and say for them to fix our car and give us a call when they're ready with it." She quickly scribbled down her number, and gave it to the confused goomba.
"My name is Thomas Fan, and a pleasure to assist y'all in this dilemma. I'll make sure no sparks go blowin' up this field." He got out his phone and dialed the police, as the two others walked away.
"Weird fellow," said Mush. "Well, at least he helped us from being stalled by police."
"But how long will it take us to walk back to Officer Parakarry's house?" Jill asked, as they noticed a row of stores not too far away. Most of the lights of the store had shut off suddenly when the electric poles were knocked down. They caused a blackout in most of the houses and stores.
"Let's go to that store," said Jill, pointing to a food store with the lights still on. They walked to the shop and entered, seeing a regular store full of ordinary food.
Mush went to get the drinks, as Jill went over to the microwavable food, only to be stopped by Mush grabbing her arm.
"I don't think we should use the microwave for any food," he suggested, and Jill agreed. Instead, they only got bags of chips and soda, and muffins. They went to the cash register to pay for the food.
As Jill got the food onto the register, Mush noticed a table fan on the counter. It was off, but the shadow was spinning as if it was on, and the shadow of the fan was turning different directions. Mush blinked, and then looked at the shadow again. It was still.
"That will be 23 coins," said the clerk. "Thank you for stopping by." But Mush didn't move. He kept on looking at the fan on the table, and suddenly ran out of the store in a flash. Jill ran after him, leaving the food behind.
"Mush! Where are you going?" said Jill, running behind him. But Mush didn't stop as he ran back to Parakarry's house a few minutes away. By the time he reached the house, Jill was too far away, out of breath. Mush ran into the house and into the basement.
"Where's the food?" asked Parakarry when Mush suddenly appeared from coming down the stairs. But Mush just stood there in a sweat, and saw that Parakarry was sitting on a stool in the middle of the room. Above him was a whirring ceiling fan, which sparked. The lights flickered, and the fan unhooked from the ceiling.
Will Parakarry die? The next death will happen in the next chapter.
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