Chapter 4
There was an awkward pause in the room. Stan felt like he fell a thousand feet, because of the news from Cartman.
"Wha? Bu…bu…suh…why would this happen?" asked Stan.
"Because Fat-Ass thought it would be funny," said Kyle.
"Ah laughed mah head off," said Cartman.
Stan was devastated. The sad piano music started playing in the background. "But…Kenny's my f-f-friend," stammered Stan. "I"LL KILL YOU!" He charged for Cartman and started strangling him, but Cartman's neck was really fat.
"Ha ha!" he laughed. Kyle kicked him in the crotch and Cartman fell over on the ground.
"OWWW!" he groaned. "Look, ah onlah did it because this girl told mah too."
"Who?" asked Kyle and Stan.
"This one girl named Jenny McElroy," replied Cartman. "Last night, when ah was sleeping, this really hot girl comes up and says to take Kenny off the life support. Ah puit mah arm around her, an' sha slapped mah! Then she said that she was kidding. She didn't want the doctors to pull the plu—"
There was an awkward pause.
"What did she say?" asked Stan.
Cartman's face went white, then red from embarassment. "Whoops."
"What whoops?" asked Kyle.
"Uh…I sorta…told the doctor…that he should pull the plug on Kenny instead of should not.
Now Stan was mad. He spent these past weeks helping Kenny, and for what? For Cartman to kill him?
"Kyle, come on! We have to stop the doctors before it's too late!" Stan and Kyle ran all over the hospital, looking for Kenny's doctor, but it turns out he went home for the day.
"When are they gonna pull the plug?" asked Stan.
"In two days," said Cartman.
"You're a f---ing jerkass, Cartman," said Kyle.
Back at the Dancefloor, every person, young and old was dancin' till they dropped. Kenny, on the other hand, tried the next bar in the room, the Comatini & Co., and tried to get in. Unfortunetely, he got kicked out…again.
"The martinis are worse than anything else!" he screamed.
Mel sighed with discontent and pity. "C'mon, Kenny. Let's keep dancing!" It was the last slow song of the dance. Kenny and Mel put their arms around each other.
"Can you scratch my back?" he asked.
"Sure," replied Mel. She was dancing and scratching his back until Kenny felt something.
"What's on your back? It feels soft," he said.
Mel's eyes opened wide. She ran out really fast into the hallway, crying. Kenny was confused and puzzled. He ran after Mel, who was sobbing in her arms.
"What's wrong?" he muffled.
"Nothing," said Mel quietly. Kenny had a woried look on his face. Mel looked back at Kenny. "I…I haven't been completely honest with you, Kenny."
"Oh, f---! You're gay!" he muffled.
"No," she said.
"You're not real?"
"No."
"Were you a guy? Are you Michael Jackson in a girl suit?"
"NO! Kenny…I have wings."
"There's a disease called wings?"
"No, Kenny! I have my wings." Mel lifted up the back of her shirt and beautiful white angelic wings unfolded and shone before Kenny's eyes. Kenny was stunned, yet hoped something grew on the front of her.
"Ohhh, wings. Is something growing on the front of your body?"
"Kenny!" cried Mel. She sobbed in her arms, and Kenny felt sad. He never felt this way about a girl before.
"What are wings, anyway?"
"Kenny, don't you remember? When someone grows their wings, that means they're gonna die! These are my last hours here! And, well…I'm scared." Kenny felt really bad right now, so he removed his hood to say something thaty wasn't potty humor.
"Melissa, when I first met you, you were a go-getter. You weren't afraid of anything, and now you're afraid of death. You can't let death take over you. Believe me, I know. I die at leadt once a week, then I come back the next day!
"I know how scary it is to face death, but at least you know you're going to heaven. That's good, because I've only been three times! I know you will be all right in heaven. I know you will." He put his hand on Mel's shoulder and put his hood back on with the other hand.
"Kenny…" said Mel. "That was beautiful. You're right! I know I will. Thank you, Kenny." She hugged him.
"Can you scratch my back?"
"Again? You got a rash or something?"
"Probably."
All of a sudden, a metallic horn sounded.
"What the hell was that?" asked Kenny in shock.
"That's the Departing Ceremony horn. It's time." Mel and Kenny walked over to the center of the Dancefloor, wher everyone gathered around a stage , a circular platform with rainbows on it, and some tubes. A man and his son came up on stage. The father was the king of Comaville, and his son was prince, but there was something strange about both of them. They were both human lions!
"Ladies and gentlemen," said the man lion with a strong voice. "We are gathered here today to mourn the losses the those who will die and celebrate the joy of those going back to Earth.
"We will do the departing of the waking. All those who received a golden trinket today, please step forward onto the rainbow platform."
About ten people holding trinkets stepped onto the circular rainbow platform. They placed their trinkets into a little shelf and held hands to form a circle. The colors of the platform lit up briliantly and they all started spinnig in the air. The force of the colors pushed them up into the dark night sky until WHOOOSH! They all disappeared off the face of this strange world. Kenny was scared. His eyes grew really wide and he was sweating.
"What the f--- is going on?" he muffled.
"Kenny, shh! This is when some people get to live and go back to earth," whispered Mel.
"What happens when you die?"
"I don't know."
Kenny gulped. He looked back at the stage.
"Now," started the man lion, "my son will read the names of those who are going to die. Simba, you may read."
The young cub took out a small scroll and read " Abby Jones…Evana Tinkle…Inita Bathe…Hugh Jass…Elvis Jagger Abdul-Jabar…Carter Ryans…Melissa Foy."
Mel hugged Kenny once last time then stepped up towards the stage. 3 people had white wings, and the other 4 had black wings. They were placed in ceremonial robes the color of their wings and walked into a tube.
"Son," said the man lion. "pull the lever." The boy cub nodded and pulled a red lever.
Kenny went up to Mel's tube, pushed his face against the tube, opened his hood so you could see his mouth, and mouthed "I love you" right before WHOOOSH! She was gone. Everyone left the stage, but Kenny's heart was breaking and his back was itching.
