The third chapter is here! I've been working on this one for a while and finally got it correct. I hope you enjoy this one!
Note: First deaths of the chain start in this chapter
Chapter 3: Spa Shock 'n' Fire
Koopie Koo made her way up to the desk and waited excitedly, as Steve on the other hand had no interest in the Oasis Spa, and was reading a Luxor magazine instead, not bothering to look up. A young noki in wet braided hair finally appeared and flashed a smile at the two of them.
"Good afternoon!" she said. "Welcome to the Oasis Spa, where we meet your stylish needs at the most efficient way. We have many assortments of relaxation choices, such as the spa hand massage, exercise area, intense-bubble Jacuzzi, mini tennis court-"
"Jacuzzi!" exclaimed Koopie Koo. "We'll go there."
"Then just bring those towels over there, and change into those slippers. I'll lead you down if you'd like."
"No," insisted Koopie Koo, glancing at Steve's jacket nervously. She wasn't interested by the jacket, but by what was under it. "Just tell us the way and we'll do it ourselves."
"Okay, that would help," said the noki in relief. "Go through that door right there, and follow the signs to the tennis court. At the tennis court, there will be sliding doors at the end of the court, which have a sign called Oasis Jacizzi. Enter the doors to the Jacuzzi."
"Okay, we know!" said Koopie Koo quickly but calmly. "We've been here numerous times already."
"Really?" asked the noki in surprise. "In that case, I will be in that other door if you need me. Once you're finished, please ring the button at the Jacuzzi side table, which signals that you're done---wait, you already know all this stuff. Please enjoy!" She exited through the door behind her.
"Whew, everything to ourselves," said Koopie Koo in relief, lifting away Steve's jacket to reveal a crate of wine, arranged neatly in a designed pattern. "Be a dear Stevie and carry this crate to the Jacuzzi."
"But we're not allowed to do that!" he protested, looking up from his magazine. "Unless the front lady said it was allowed. Did you ask her?"
"I did, come on! It's almost 3 o'clock, and we're leaving Las Vegas at midnight," she said. "And why the hell did Dry Bones give towels to us last night?"
"Don't ask me, I don't know," replied Steve.
As Steve carried the crate of wine, Koopie Koo led them to the Tennis Court and opened the sliding doors at the end of the court to reveal a medium-sized Jacuzzi, the water still and calm. Steve made his way to a stool near the water, and placed the crate of wine at his feet. Koopie Koo changed into her bathing suit quickly, and spotted a radio on a high shelf filled with rows of towels. What she didn't see was that the radio was off limits to hotel guests, and the shelf had been unlocked and opened by a careless spa attendant.
"What kind of music does this have?" she wondered, pulling the radio and the cord from the shelf. She saw a long foldable table against the wall and placed it near the edge of the pool, directly across from the other side where Steve was sitting. She carefully put the radio on the table, plugged in the outlet on the wall, and turned on the radio to reveal a low, monotonous Egyptian voice playing.
"Yuck!" she said, ejecting the CD. "What kind of loser would listen to that kind of music?"
"It's an informational CD on the past life of Egyptians," explained Steve, still keeping his eyes on the magazine and unaware of what Koopie Koo was doing.
"I don't want educational school stuff, I want music," she said. "I can't believe you're thinking of being a Super Senior. How come Steve, what will happen to me with no one to be free with me?"
"Koopie, maybe you should be a super senior too and take further college," he replied, as Koopie Koo shook her head in disgust. She searched through the CD and found the song 'Walk Like An Egyptian' by the Bangles. She pressed the number, and the song played.
"This is more like it!" she said, and stepped slowly into the Jacuzzi. Although the music bothered Steve, Koopie Koo saw down in the Jacuzzi and pressed the bubble machine dial, causing bubbles to intensely form and make the Jacuzzi a bubbly body of water.
All the old paintings on the tombs
They do the sand dance don't you know.
If they move too quick, oh whey oh
They're falling down like a domino.
All the bazaar men by the Nile
They got the money on a bet.
Gold crocodiles, oh whey oh
They snap their teeth on your cigarette
Foreign types with the hookah pipes say,
"Ay oh whey oh, ay oh whey oh!" sang Koopie. "Walk like an Egyptian!" She started dancing while sitting down in the Jacuzzi, waving her hands in a rhythmic tone and moving her feet underwater, as she grabbed a wine bottle from the side and held it in her hand, shaking her head to the music.
As Goombella and Lahla were walking back to their hotel room, Goombella wanted to show Lahla something she had discovered on her camera.
"Lahla, look at this picture," said Goombella, showing her the picture of Goombario on her digital camera. Lahla looked at it, thinking she understood what she meant.
"I'm sad also," said Lahla. "I know Goombario meant a lot to you, like Peeka did to me when we were shop owners."
"No, look closely right behind Goombario," explained Goombella, holding the camera closer to Lahla. "The ride is about to be moved off the edge of the building and the seat arm right behind him has nobody in it, and the harness of that seat is raised."
"I can see that," said Lahla, examining closely. "It's just like…when he died."
"I know," said Goombella in a voice of confusion. "It's been bothering me all this day, and I know something is wrong with this photograph. It shows how he died, and maybe it shows how we all die."
"How we're going to die?" asked Lahla. "Are you kidding? You and I will probably reach ninety years old before we die from health conditions. Let's see the other pictures." Goombella moved through the photos to find pictures of all of them, but the pictures looked plain and simple to the both of them, with nothing particularly special.
"I must be over-reacting," Goombella sighed, scanning through the photographs.. "I think I might be going crazy from all this chaos, thinking that the photograph was predicting Goombario's death and…" But the was cut off when she turned to the picture of Peeka in the arcade, smiling and waving her hands in the air. Behind her was an advertisement against the wall, which said 'Insanity: Deadly but Worth it'.
"Walk like an Egyptian!" sand Koopie Koo, sitting and dancing in the bubbly, humid water. "Walk like an Egyptian!"
"I'm reading," said Steve, still keeping his eyes on the magazine. "Put down the volume and I'll be satisfied." She didn't listen and started to do an Egyptian dance while sitting stationary in the water. While picking up a hand mirror and looking at himself, Steve saw a shadow behind him, knowing it was Koopie Koo. He turned around only to discover that Koopie Koo was still singing in the Jacuzzi, and with nobody behind him at all. Steve was perplexed and puzzled, and cautiously went back to reading.
A breeze swept by the entrance of the sliding door and slowly began to open the slidable doors that lead to the Tennis Court. The sliding door opened enough so that a single tennis ball rolled into the Jacuzzi room, past Steve reading on the stool, unseen by Koopie Koo as it luckily made its way towards the leg of the two-legged foldable table. The ball hit into the foldable leg, pushing it back so that the rectangular table was at a slant. The radio with the plugged outlet slid its way down the slanted surface of the table, and to add gasoline onto the bonfire, the table was right at the edge of the Jacuzzi, set up by Koopie Koo was never taught about safety education in her classes. None of the two koopas knew this was happening, as Koopie Koo decided to turn the dial of the Bubble Machine to full power, despite the warning below the switch.
"That---that can't be a coincidence," said Goombella, her eyes full of fear as she and Lahla looked at the photograph of Peeka. "The ride advertisement is right behind her! Look!"
"There is definitely something weird with this," agreed Lahla in confusion. "How does the photograph show these deaths even though they never died?"
"I don't know," said Goombella. The camera suddenly flashed, and Goombella dropped it in surprise as it fell to the ground. She picked it up quickly, but then noticed there was a picture showing on the camera she never turned to before. It was the picture of Steve and Koopie Koo in the greenhouse, and as she tried to turn off the digital camera, it wouldn't respond, nor would the picture show another photograph. The camera seemed frozen.
"Look at this," said Steve, reading an article from a magazine. "A lady hit by a truck a month ago while crossing the street was believed to be under a strange curse. She died instantly, but this wasn't the only death. There had been a chain of events before her, with people dying in specific, unreal ways in a specific order. There's more to this article, but I find it boring.
"It's like we could die any second," chuckled Koopie Koo, still keeping in the beat of the music with her back facing the foldable table. "Tutankhamen's curse, lifted on people."
The radio slid further to the edge of the table, sliding, sliding, until it was near the edge to fall into the jacuzzi. The two of them still didn't realized nor spot the radio at the edge of the slanted table, but the radio was staying still unable to fall into the water because of the raised edge around the table. The radio settled on the edge.
"What's wrong with the camera?" asked Lahla. "Is it broken?"
"Why does it show Koopie Koo and Steve?" Goombella wondered out loud. "It's showing something about this picture."
"Are you sure about this?" asked Lahla. "Goombella, I think you have to calm down."
"No, look at this!" said Goombella, looking at the picture closely. "Steve's magazine says 'Space and Fiction', and he's covering the magazine and only showing the word 'Spa'. They're at the spa and in trouble!"
"I just can't do anything," said Lahla. "You can go ahead, but I'll go back to my room." Before Lahla could finish what she wanted to say, Goombella dashed off, sensing danger around the two people planned to be killed.
Since the bubble pressure was at full power in the water, water and bubbles overflowed and spilled over the edge of the Jacuzzi, making the ground slippery under the foldable table. Koopie Koo decided to play a trick on Steve and walked to the other side of the Jacuzzi, cupped water into her hands and splashed it onto Steve's head. Steve fell back in his stool in surprise as Koopie Koo laughed.
"That was mean!" said Steve in an annoyed voice. "My hair is all wet!"
"Use that hair dryer over there," said Koopie Koo, getting out of the Jacuzzi and bringing a salon hair dryer to Steve. She plugged the wire into the outlet and set it up.
"Just keep your head in there for a while and you'll be refreshed," she promised in a sweet voice. She hopped back into the Jacuzzi with another wine bottle in her hand, just as the leg of the slanted table was pushed back even more from the slipperiness, making the radio topple over the edge of the table to the water below. But it just hung there a foot away from the Jacuzzi; the cord wire holding the radio back from falling into the water.
Goombella made her way to the Oasis Salon, and seeing nobody at the front desk, she luckily chose the correct door and saw a sign which lead to the Jacuzzi. She hurriedly made her way to the Jacuzzi, but stopped to look at the picture on her camera. Koopie Koo was holding her iPod around her arm and her other hand raised above her, but Goombella noticed the small pond behind her, as if the iPod was in the water. She looked to see anything about Steve, and noticed something too noticeable and obvious. He was stretching out his hair with both hands, and the setting sun behind his head looked as if his head was burning up.
Steve settled his head into the hair dryer and locked the shift, and that was when he suddenly realized the radio hanging from the slanted table, directly above the Jacuzzi.
"Koopie!" he shouted. "Get out of the Jacuzzi!"
Koopie Koo turned around to realize the radio as well, but her actions weren't quick enough just as the plug outlet of the radio was pulled out by the weight of the radio, making it finally fall into the bubbly water.
Goombella ran into the Tennis Court to see the sliding doors at the end pf the court, and was overly shocked to see electric flashes visible through the slightly transparent doors. She ran over to the doors but was unable to slide them open.
"Steve! Koopie Koo!" she cried out in fear. "Can you here me?"
But she couldn't be heard over the electrocution of the Jacuzzi, as Steve witnessed his girlfriend being electrocuted in the water, the wine bottle in her raised hand glowing a deep red. Her body was jolting, making weird movements as her body started to brittle and change completely, leaving Steve in horror as he tried to free himself from the hair dryer. The wine bottle in her hand exploded, causing Steve to fall back onto the ground in the hair dryer, but still unable to free himself, both of his hands trying to push his way out of the hair dryer.
The electrocuting water splashed off the edge and into the plug outlet of the hair dryer, causing a spreading line of fire from the outlet which spread across the cord line and setting the hair dryer on fire. Steve's head started to burn.
"AHHHHH! HOT, SOMEONE HELP ME!" he cried, but it was a useless attempt of yelling as the electric continued to jolt in the Jacuzzi.
Steve yelled out in agony, as his head was being scorched under the blazing hair dryer. His hands were being burnt and fixed onto the hair dryer, as his entire face was set into flames, making him unable to breathe as he struggled to keep alive. He tried moving on the ground as his last attempt of survival, but instead, set the crate of wine bottles on fire and causing them to explode one by one, glass being shot everywhere in the room.
Goombella, who was desperately banging on the sliding doors and horrified by the screams and electrocution sounds coming from within the room, jumped back and ducked when pieces of glass shot and tore through the door, making it additionally dangerous for Goombella. She narrowly dodged a shard of glass, as she backed away and made her way to the other part of the tennis court. The Bubble Machine exploded from the electrocution, which got in contact with the control panel behind the wall. All the lights in the spa were suddenly shut down, leaving people in darkness and confusion.
Steven Wiser, shot with shards of glass and his face burning, managed to take his last breath of life.
Death relaxed, knowing that he had two less people to take care off. The original thirteen, eleven more to go.
Well, everyone knew that Steve and Koopie Koo wouldn't make it to the end, so they were the first to die. If you've ever been to the Oasis Spa in Luxor, there is no Jacuzzi or tennis court because I made those up.
By the way to those people who reviewed (thank you people!), this is the last series of my Final Destination stories, and everything ends in this final story.
P.S. Thanks to those who pointed out that Goombas don't have hands, and Dry Bones and Boos can't die. But just think as if they were actual people who are just like humans, but in their own life.
