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Chapter 8: Metal Impaling
"No!" shouted Mush, as he saw the ceiling fan suddenly snap off the hook on the ceiling. In a quick jump, he knocked Parakarry out of the way, just as the fan hit the ground and barely missed both of them, still spinning at full speed. It tore the bag of marbles and shot marbles in different directions, as one hit Frank in the eye, making him fall down. Everyone just stared at the spinning fan, and then at Mush. Parakarry was too stuttered to even talk.
"You, you saved my life," Parakarry stuttered, looking at Mush. "You saved me! I finished my death, didn't I?" The others just stood there when Jill arrived seconds later, running down the basement stairs in a hurry, but then stopped when she saw everything seemed all right.
"Jill, I saw the sign of Parakarry's death!" Mush exclaimed. "The fan in the store had a spinning shadow! I saved him!"
"But who's next?" asked Jill frightened, and they both turned to look at the tool box near the fan. Sophie's leather bag, with the S sewn onto it, had landed right before the T in TOOL BOX, making a word. It now said STOOL, as Mush turned to look at Parakarry. He was holding a stool and was about to use it to stop the whirring fan on the ground.
"Wait, don't do that!" shouted Mush, but it was too late when Parakarry let go of the stool at Mush's exclaim. The still-spinning fan broke off two of the stool legs from the stool and sailed them right over Frank on the ground. They impaled Catherine right in the chest, spurting blood all over Sophie, and the terrified noki screamed in horror.
"Oh god!" choked Frank, his eyes wide with fear as Catherine fell forwards onto him, and he back away in terror. The twometal stool legswere sticking out of her back when she fell, as Mush, Jill, and Parakarry just stood away in shock, seeing a pile of blood form from under Catherine.
"Oh my god, she was next!" cried Jill. Sophie started to shudder, and went behind the couch hurriedly, still screaming. But Parakarry looked devastated, as he finally yelled out his confession in tears.
"I caused the Poshley Heights train to crash!" he yelled, bursting into tears. "It was me!"
The others just stood there ground in a wave of confusion and horror. Mush and Jill looked at each other, and then at Parakarry.
"What do you mean?" asked Mush. "It was you?"
"I knocked down a stop sign onto the railroad racks as I was driving to the blimp," he wept. "The investigators said that the train got derailed by the stop sign! I caused nearly 80 deaths!" He suddenly ran to the tool box and opened it, pulling out a pocketknife and swiftly putting it against his neck.
"No Parakarry," whispered Jill out loud. "What are you doing?"
"Put down the pocketknife Parakarry," said Mush in alarm. "It wasn't your fault that the train crashed, but death's fault. He used you to kill them."
"Death doesn't do this!" he said, bringing the knife deeper into his neck, but not cutting it. "I should be dead! It was my fault!"
"If you kill yourself, the design will be messed up!" exclaimed Jill. "Death will be angrier, and could do more to harm others besides us! Don't kill yourself!"
Parakarry raised the knife in the air and was about to bring it down into his neck.
"Parakarry, man, stop it! You're scaring the shit out of me!" yelled Frank. But as Parakarry was about to kill himself, he slipped on the pile of marbles which had gradually surrounded his feet. The pocketknife flew into the air, hit a light control box, and shut off the lights completely in the basement. Everyone just stood in the darkness, until they all made their ways out of the house in silence.
A few minutes later, ambulances arrived, along with news reporters. The five of them were forced to be interviewed on the scene. Mush felt that the police were getting suspicious about him, with all the blimp survivors dying one by one.
The next day, Mush and Jill went over to the ice cream parlor to relax themselves from last night. They just stood there, eating their ice creams.
"Parakarry intervened death," Mush finally said. "Right now, he is last in line to die and if we all skip death once again, he will be next to die. But since Catherine was after him, she died, so it's now…"
"Who was after Catherine?" asked Jill. "That person is next on death's list."
"It was…" said Mush, trying to think. He remembered the driver falling out after Catherine, and then how he tried to grab Sophie from falling out, but failed.
"Sophie is next," he said, swallowing his last bite of ice cream. "We need to save her."
"I can't," said Jill. "I have to maintain a water balance tonight in my huge laboratory room. But you could prevent her fate." She grabbed a floppy disk from her pocket and handed it to Mush. It was labeled How to Cheat.
"Look," she said. "I did some sneaking in and stole this from E. Gadd's room. It was in a small shelf labeled Princess Peach. I'm too busy tonight, so put this into your computer."
"I hope it shows how to cheat death," said Mush, sighing. "Anyway, my father is coming back from the hospital, and I hope he'll be okay."
"But didn't it strike you odd that Parakarry failed to kill himself?" asked Jill. "It was as if Death made him unable to succeed.
"You can't mess up Death's design," said Mush. "Unless there's a way within this floppy disk. Hopefully this disk will solve all our mysteries." He put the floppy disk away into his pocket.
"Good luck, Mush," said Jill, as she got up and went to her car. Mush noticed that she wasn't holding her journal.
Mush went home and put the floppy disk on his desk to look at later. As he prepared the dinner for his father, a gust of wind made his lamp shade move, knocking Peach's journal onto his table from a shelf, and making it land near the floppy disk.
The floppy disk started to wear out from the magnetic lock on the journal, with the magnetic storage in the disk. Within minutes, the data of the floppy disk was erased. Mush went upstairs and was anxious to see what was stored in the floppy disk.
But when he uploaded it, it said that the data was gone. Disappointed, he went to research the computer about the journey and experiences of Princess Peach. There were many websites, and they all said that she had passed away either in the train accident, or when the blimp landed on her, engulfing her in flames.
But he found a website that was contributed to a hidden link. He clicked on it, and it showed a picture of the princess, holding a newspaper of the train accident. Mush gasped slightly, and read the caption. It said,
"Due to the fact that Princess Peach had escaped her fate, she has now put herself in an institution to hide the fact that she had lived. Only this fact has been revealed to a few people, and is to be kept confidential among police, detectives, and others."
Mush looked at the picture for a long time. Peach looked different, and she was missing her crown with regular blue clothes. Her hair was tied up in a bun, and she was wearing a pair of dark glasses which covered her eyes. Mush couldn't believe it.
He called Jill at 6: 00 in the afternoon.
"Hey Jill, the floppy disk data has been erased," said Mush. "But I found something even better."
"What is it?" asked Jill. "I'm busy right now."
"I found this website, and it says that Princess Peach is alive. It shows a picture of her holding a newspaper with the train accident on the front page. She survived," said Mush.
"She's alive?" asked Jill. "But…how? I was actually suspecting that she was alive, and it's not a surprise that she is after all."
"Right now, she's in a mental institution. She's wants to be kept hidden, but we have to visit her today," said Mush. "Let's go."
"I guess you're right," said Jill. "I'll have my assistant do my work instead."
They were both taking a subway to the M.K. M.A.I.F.I.A, the Mushroom Kingdom Mental Acts Institution For Involuntary Acts. Mush and Jill sat down in silence, anxious in actually meeting Peach after her survival. Jill clung onto the scarlet notebook, making sure she wouldn't lose it.
They got off at the thirteenth stop, and walked their way through a large forest, until they reached the large building, which had around four-hundred floor in all.
"How will she act towards us?" asked Jill nervously, when they approached the door. "Do you think she'll buy our story?"
"We don't know yet," said Mush. "The only way to know is to confront her and tell her what happened so far. In her journal, she knew that something similar would happen again." The both entered the building, not knowing how Peach would be, or if she would be depressed, mad, or eager to meet others who knew her story. But as they entered the building, death was malfunctioning Mush's garage door, setting its plan for the next victim.
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