I finally got this chapter right, after a bit of revising! Pleae enjoy mucho!
Chapter 15: Death In Afterlife
Sudden blurs, then a strong wind. Mush rose up from an unknown place, and gazed his eyes around the place. The intense pain in the back of his head had disappeared, and only a large indent in his skull was all he felt. He glanced around the dark area in confusion.
"Is anyone there?" he called out, just as a breeze came into view within the place. A dark shadow, which was not touching the cloud-like floor, appeared a distance away from him. It slowly glided towards Mush, as Mush backed away in fright.
"Are you afraid of the person who is always near you?" the figure questioned, looming above Mush. As Mush looked at the dark figure in confusion, the figure stared back with his sight.
"Who are you?" asked Mush, and the figure let out a spray of white gas into the air, making Mush cover his mouth as the figure sprayed more of the Dust-Off into the air, gliding around the place.
"I am DEATH!" announced the dark figure, gliding back to the floor and blowing the gas within the place. "You, my mortal, are not anymore living, but a dead soul which has passed away too soon from the world. Do you see my mouth moving as I speak? Do you spot my eyes, which at this second I am looking at you? Do you see an organism structure on my supernatural body? No!" Mush couldn't help but back a few steps away from the figure, as the figure stepped closer to him.
"You…" said Mush, gathering his sense and courage. "You were the one who killed us through your clever ways. And this is the place where the dead ones go. You were the one who killed me---" but he stopped as he saw a raven fly through the air, and diving right towards Mush. Death raised his 'hand' and the raven vanished.
"I despise cheaters," said Death. "Is it that complicated, to put people on my list who are supposed to be dead? Those two other people are considered already dead, and shall later be!"
"How about the others who've perished already?" asked Mush. "Professor Gadd, Catherine, Parakarry, why aren't they here? Where do dead people go?"
"Those people on the list, who have already been killed by me, are gone," explained Death, and he sent a pair of stool legs from his hand into the air, going higher, higher, and higher until it was no longer visible. Mush noticed that the sky, if it were the sky, was the lightest part of the place they were in.
But Mush looked back at Death, and Death let out a covered laugh. He fell over, revealing a space within the floor behind him and a control panel. The lights turned on, and he saw Jill and Peach in a side window of the room, laughing uncontrollably. Frank took off his gas-emitting cloak and broke into a fit of laughter, yelling "I couldn't hold it anymore!" Mush was so confused but relieved. It was all a joke.
"We tricked you!" laughed Jill, running out of the side door and adjusting the side camera on the hidden wall. Mush saw Peach turning off the hologram projectors, and looked at Mush in a happy grin.
"Wait…" said an astounded Mush, looking around. "I'm not dead? This is all a trick?"
"Like, duh! What did you think?" exclaimed Jill. "We're in a wonderful place!" She stuck her tongue, which then stretched out to three feet long. A knife fell and cut her tongue off, pouring blood all over the room. Peach vomited her eyes out, and Frank's body spun until they unscrewed. Mush let out a scream, and he was once again in front of Death.
"How did you feel?" Death questioned him. "Did you feel relieved when you believed it was a joke? You're aware that whatever just happened was a trick of mine." Mush had to look around the room before continuing.
"How could you do that to me?" Mush asked him. "You made me believe this was all a fake, and that I wasn't dead. You're a sick minded creature."
"I gave you a vision which would never happen," grinned Death, and a skateboard made its way across the room.
"Stop doing that!" said Mush.
"Doing what?" asked Death, and a curved piece of metal pipe fell from the sky and landed in front of Mush, making a clang which echoed throughout the place.
"You're making these items appear which are related to the deaths you caused, like the skateboard that just passed by was related to Sophie's death," said Mush. "I have no use anymore in this place. Send me away, if that's what you do to the other helpless people."
"I'll give you a chance," said Death. "I'll send you back onto the blimp, into the past, and you must save the other two, Frank and Jill, from taking an item each away from them. You hear me? I can't tell you the item, but those two items will eventually cause their Deaths. The other girl, err, Catherine was her name. She saved her sister by getting her off the blimp."
"Can't I do what she did?" asked Mush.
"She broke my rules," grumbled Death in a loud echo. "Parakarry saved your father because your father was a Police Official, and close friend of him. He saved him by taking away his lucky badge off his shirt, which would have impaled him later on. Your father is now an official cheater, and is off my list.
"Our theory about new love," remembered Mush. "Is that the answer?"
"Foolish mortals, that is wrong!" said Death, letting out a dark chuckle. "I don't like people to cheat their way off my list.
"Then why are you giving me the chance to save Frank and Jill?" Mush asked him. "Don't you want them to be dead?"
"I want to see you fail," said Death, floating into the air. "I will send you back, but when you die, your turn is over. You are gone and finished." Death then formed a glowing sphere in front of him, shining blazes all over the place in a flash. Wind started to blow, and thunder howled.
"What will happen to me when I run out of time?" shouted Mush over the roaring thunder.
"You will discover for yourself!" boomed Death. "BEGONE!" Through the extreme wind, Mush spotted a speed limit sign flying through the air, about to collide into him. He closed his eyes and shielded his body with his arms. Everything turned calm.
"We are now about to depart the Blimp Station. Please put on your seatbelts, and the lavatory is open only when the sign comes up. Enjoy your flight." The loudspeaker turned off.
Mush opened his eyes to see realize he was back in the blimp. He noticed Catherine taking her sister of the blimp, her sister having a confused and bewildered expression on her face as she was taken off, making her off the list.
"Catherine's sister was on our list the whole time," Mush said to himself. "She's now off the list when Catherine died just like me, and when Catherine had saved her, like I'm saving Frank and Jill right now." He then thought to himself if Catherine knew she was dead, since they had all been brought to this place when they died. He thought the same about E. Gadd, Lakister, Parakarry, and Sophie. Were they aware they were dead too, or was something changed? He then noticed Parakarry walking over to the driver's cabin, and he knew that Parakarry was saving his father at that second.
He remembered what he had to do; to take an item away from Frank and Jill. Frank entered the blimp at the last second, and Mush knew the exact item for Frank. He grabbed the pipe in his back pocket and held it in the air.
"What the fuck Mush, stop it!" hissed Frank. Mush then thought of a better plan and threw the pipe out the window. Frank looked at it in shock and disappointment.
"My pipe," he whimpered sadly, as the blimp took off from the ground. The blimp accident was soon to occur soon.
"Why did you do that?" asked Frank, lifting his foot and discovering the soda can which exploded at his feet. "That was my pipe!" But Mush didn't listen to his useless words. He was thinking of the item which would kill Jill, and saw her hair braid, which was laced with spiked diamonds. Without warning, he jumped from his seat and unbraided it off her hair, as Jill looked at him in disbelief.
"What are you doing?" she asked, just as Mush threw the braid out the window. Jill looked wordless and simply sat down in confusion, staring at Mush as if he were a freak. She then let out a laugh and looked out the window calmly, ignoring what had happened.
And because Mush's time was running out, the rest of his time was going the speed of five times faster, as if he were in a TV and forwarding a movie. But what was happening was real, and the same in fast motion.
Suddenly, the blimp shook, and the gondola snapped from one side off. Mush knew what was happening as terrified screams of horror filled the air, and he saw the people drop from the vertical seats, and knew exactly when the gondola was going to drop to a ninety degree angle. The falling of the people was too fast, and the talking was too sped up. He saw Parakarry die, then Catherine, and Sophie. He saw Frank die from splitting in half into the window, and he saw Jill, falling helplessly.
Mush let go from the blimp and closed his eyes. He did not know what would be changed, or whether Jill and Frank would be saved from his act of throwing away the braid and the pipe. He remembered his father, the help from the expierienced Peach, the girl he wanted to start a relationship with, Jill. Frank, the one whom Mush hoped would make it out to the end.
"Jill would be safe…Jill would be safe….bye, world, it is the end…"
"Mush! Speak to me!" cried Jill, picking up the lifeless body into her hands. Frank was devastated and freaking out, just as the police took care of the rest of the scene. Mush was dead, and the night ended with misery.
This isn't the last chapter! Please review, I was really happy at the incredible amount of reviews I received for last chapter, and I hope to be happy again! I will update as soon as I can, and the last chapter is coming next...
