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Chapter 10: Exploding Further
The taxi stopped suddenly onto the street of Mush, right in front of his house. Mush overpaid the taxi driver in a hurry and ran out of the taxi, and saw the garage door about to kill his father, coming down onto his forehead.
"No!" he yelled. The can of Sodium Hydroxide fell out of his pocket as he ran towards his house and pulled his father out of the way, just as the garage door fully closed with a heavy sound. Mush pulled his father away further as the entire garage door collapsed onto the ground, causing materials to drop all over the place.
A skateboard was knocked out of the broken garage and slowly made its way to the middle of the street, as Mush just sat down on the ground, relieved and fine. He went to reach for his can in his pocket, but to his horror he felt nothing.
He stood up and looked at the skateboard a distance away from him. It had a yellow "S" painted onto it.
"Sophie," he said in panic, and suddenly remembered that she was next. Then two cars suddenly entered the road at opposite directions, a yellow car and a small fire ambulance. They both halted to a stop, as the fire ambulance skid and turned 180 degrees, shooting the skateboard right by it into the air and puncturing it into the gasoline storage of the other car, making gasoline drip onto the road from right under the yellow car.
Peach and Frank came out of the fire ambulance, and Sophie came out of the car. The scene was too awkward and confusing for Mush. He was deeply surprised to see Peach along with Parakarry, but didn't know what would happen to Sophie next.
"You have to be glad I'm deciding to help you," said Peach, getting out of the car along with Parakarry. "We need to save whoever is next."
"But she's next!" said Mush in panic, pointing to Sophie. The gasoline dripping from under her car had created a puddle, which expanded as more gasoline trickled onto the street.
"Sophie, get away from the car!" shouted Mush. "You're going to die next!"
"What?" she asked. Sophie came out of her car and just stood where she was, confused and worried.
Parakarry, who had brought Peach, came out of his car and was walking towards Sophie to take her away from her car. He tripped on the can of sodium hydroxide, causing him to fall away backwards and send the can skidding across the ground, into the puddle of gasoline. There was a huge explosion.
Peach, Parakarry, and the small truck they were driving were blown backwards onto the ground behind them, and Mush shielded his eyes at the fiery sight, the yellow car burning along with the metal gears around it. A small figure landed a few seconds later in front of Mush. It was the charred body of Sophie.
"No," he stuttered, and backed away horrified. His father seemed to be in an unconscious mode and didn't move at all from the sound of the explosion.
Peach stood up, cut from the explosion along with Parakarry. The blazing went on as they shook themselves off, too stunned to move.
"Fuck no, death has to stop this," said Parakarry drearily. He then remembered Sophie.
"Sophie?" he called out, approaching the fire. "Sophie? Are you there?" There was another loud explosion, not as loud as the one before, but it knocked Parakarry once again to the ground. A burnt, diamond ring flew out from the explosion and landed in front of Mush. He looked at it, a ring of fire. It was giving off an eerie glow, until it finally stopped burning.
"She's dead," said Mush, and made his way to Peach. "Death has taken another victim."
"Then we'll have to save the person next in line," said Peach, tying up her hair and shifting her eyeglasses to cover her eyes. Parakarry just stood there, trying to find out how to stop the flames.
"We need to call the police and others to take care of this site," said Parakarry. He managed to open a fire hydrant nearby and washed out the fire quickly.
"But we have to go, now," Peach said firmly. "Unless you want another person to die."
"Peach and I will go save Frank," said Mush. "Parakarry, you stay here and get the police and others to take care of this scene. Make sure to take care of my father."
Mush and Peach ran to a spare car outside Mush's garage and drove away to the M.K. Church, where Mush knew that Frank was working as a lawn cutter. They were driving across Jagged Road, the most dangerous road in the town which had sharp rocks and shattered glass along the way. It was a rough ride as they hurried their way down the road to save Frank.
"Why did you come back to help?" asked Mush. "I'm not asking it in a downbeat way, but it-"
"I want to solve the design," stated Peach, not leaving her eyes off the road. "I need to know how to get away from death. He's killed my friends and has stalked me for too long. He won't win. He won't beat me this time."
"Then what's new love? You said that that was the solution to this."
"New love would only work for one person, not all," said Peach. "If a person finds new love, they are saved."
"I still don't know what you're saying," said Mush.
"Neither does me," she replied. A few minutes later, she stopped the car in front of a church gate, and saw Frank with a lawnmower in the field.
"Is that him?"
"That's Frank."
"Then why don't you go run to him and save him?" exclaimed Peach. "He's going to die next, for Death's sake."
Mush ran out of the car in a blaze, and started running towards Frank in the lawn. Frank was startled and surprised to see Mush running full speed headed for him, panting out of breath.
"Don't break a vein Mush, what is it?" asked Frank. Mush suddenly halted at what Frank had just said, and looked at the top point of the church. There was a weather vane, which suddenly started to spin madly, despite the fact that there was no wind.
The weather vane snapped off from the top of the building, spinning violently as it fell its way towards Frank. Mush ran towards Frank and pushed him out of the way at the last second, as it barely missed him and struck into the grass instead. A piece of the weather vane was chipped off and suddenly clanged into the metal gate, making a loud and eerie clank. The two of the just sat on the grass, and Frank got up to his feet quickly, looking at the weather vane in disbelief.
"You were next Frank," said Mush, gasping for air and getting to his feet slowly. "Death was supposed to kill you. I intervened."
"What are you talking about?" said Frank. "The freaking weathervane just flew from the building and almost hit me. Please tell me that this is not related to any of this blimp business, is it?"
"Sophie just died ten minutes ago, and now you were skipped. Jill is next." A large gust of wind went through the air, and they both looked at the weather vane lift from the ground and into the air. It chopped a wire from the electric pole above in a swift movement, and the wire fell to the ground and shocked the lawnmower below it. It exploded, sending a part of the metal gate towards Mush.
Frank grabbed his shirt and pulled both of them down, and the gate smashed into the church behind them. Mush stood up in amazement, and Frank brushed the dust off him as he got to his feet quickly and alarmed.
"Well," said Frank. "I think that was just a coincidence, wasn't it?" The scream of Peach rang through the air, and they both ran to the car to find Peach standing beside it, with the weather vane struck into the windshield of the car.
"This stupid weather vane almost killed me, but luckily I got out of the way at the last second by jumping out." She brushed off the broken glass from the hood of the car and looked at Frank's pipe he was holding.
"What the hell are you thinking of holding that pipe with you?" she asked.
"This is my pipe, and I have no intention of throwing it away," he said coolly. "You have a problem with that?"
"You know that that pipe will lead you to trouble one day, even costing your life," replied Peach. "Mush, who's next?"
Mush thought, but then something struck him odd as if the design was wrong and had a mistake in it. He remembered how the gate was supposed to kill him.
"Jill is meant to be next, then me, but I almost died a minute ago in the field," said Mush. "This means that something wrong has happened. I'm before her on Death's list, but in my vision, she died before me."
"Try to think," said Peach. "Did you get any vision of this before?"
Mush shook his head. "Not that I remember, I haven't really remembered any strange visions lately. But we have to save Jill now, because she's next to die."
Although the car had a weather vane stuck into the windshield, they decided to use it to drive to Jill's water laboratory. Mush was worried on whether they would be able to save her on time, or whether she might be dead when they reached her. The thought made Mush shudder, not wanting to think of Jill dying. Death had a design to end it, but none of them knew the full answer.
"Quick, we have to be able to save her in time," said Peach. They all got out of the car and ran quickly into the laboratory, and then down into the enormous basement where Mush knew she was. They found her in the middle of the room, using a kerosene test tube spinning machine.
"Jill!" shouted Mush. Jill turned around surprised and let go of the cover of the machine, making the kerosene splash all around her in a circle and onto her clothing. She covered her face from getting splashed as she tried to turn off the machine in panic.
Peach ran down the steps in a hurry, but knocked over a scanning printer which fell over and sparked, startling Frank. He jumped back and let go of the pipe in his hands, which fell behind him and enlightened the kerosene around Jill. Mush remembered the sign after Sophie died, and saw the ring of fire surround Jill in a quick inferno.
Nobody could see Jill as the flames went higher, and the fire gradually started to close up on her from the drops of extra kerosene. Smoke rose into the air and spread within the entire place, as Peach and Mush were helpless as they tried to find a way to stop the fire. Jill screamed in fear as the flames got closer to her in the middle.
"Jill! Jill, are you still there?" yelled Mush, trying to find his way within the smoke. "Stay in the middle of the circle!"
"I can't!" she screamed, and she found herself completely trapped and surrounded by the raging fire, getting closer to forming a sphere of fire to engulf the ring. She was hopeless.
Death was getting closer in killing another.
Sorry if you were mad of Sophie's death, but I already had everything planned out. Anyway, please don't hesitate to review, I appreciate them very very much (Please make me happy!). I'll update the next chapter as soon as I can, to confirm what happens to Jill if she dies or not (Someone will definitely die in the next chapter). Please review:)