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Chapter 4: The Hidden History

Rain fell outside, and thunder struck. A speaker declared that the Flight back to the Mushroom Kingdom was delayed two hours. Poochy groaned out loud, playing with his necklace collar around his neck as everyone went up to the line with their luggage.

"Hello, seven passengers to Mushroom Kingdom," said the lady at the desk, taking and giving their flight tickets. "There is a delay for your flight, and instead of midnight, your plane will take off at 2:00 in the morning. Enjoy your day everyone, and please, drop your luggage at the luggage pick-off on the sixth floor."

After their long trip of dropping their luggage off, the seven seniors were free to travel where they wanted. They were all aware about the news of Steve and Koopie Koo, and only a few of them were deeply bothered and disturbed about it as they walked around the airport. But Goombella was the only one who understood what happened, and she walked around with Lahla, talking about what had happened when Dry Bones suddenly approached them.

"Goombella," said Dry Bones. "I need you to come and see this."

Goombella and Lahla both followed Dry Bones to a wireless network area, where computers were set up. Dry Bones had already swiped his money in and opened a search engine page, then typed in the word 'Blimp Curse'.

"I found this," explained Dry Bones. "Six months ago, a toad named Mush Rumberg had a vision of a blimp accident. He was able to pull some of the passengers off before it occurred and had ended up saving them, causing a break in the design of death."

"What does that mean?" asked Goombella. "It sounds just like what happened to me, like when I saw the ride accident and saved us."

"What happened," explained Dry Bones, reading from the article, "Was that they were supposed to be dead, and Death killed them off one by one in the order they were meant to die. Doesn't it make sense? It's just like us."

"How do you know that article is true?" asked Lahla.

"I'll show you guys," said Dry Bones, and he clicked the back button. There were other websites with the same tale, most of them hidden in special links to be concealed from the public.

"Steve and Koopie Koo died," he said, searching on the different websites available. "They were pulled off the ride."

"And then they were the ones to fall from the ride first," realized Goombella nervously. "They died first instead of anybody else."

"This is the history of the entire Death rift," said Dry Bones, clicking on a link, as the three of them read in silence, just as the clock struck one-thirty in the morning.

The Infamous Death Curse History; written by J. Hillsherry

Though my research helped me through with this writing, I also used my own experiences to sum up my accurate theory, and with the help of others. It started with an investigation team called the M.I.T. who was searching for a killer who was none other but within their group. They were killed in clever traps, such as drowning someone in a locked bank vault and the death of someone who wore an attractive crown laced with a burning chemical. After a series of mishaps and escaping, the killer was known to be Koops, a killer on the rage of infamy. He died when the island exploded, and three people, Peach, Pennington, and Jolene, escaped in a helicopter back to Elvin Gadd's laboratory.

It was not known, but E. Gadd set up the entire situation as a simulation, which meant that Toadsworth hadn't died from the gunshot in the initial situation. However, E. Gadd designed Koops to capture the enemies and bring them to the secret passage to Neon Heights instead, but Koops was evil and wicked enough to actually kill the people, instead of fake-killing. But Luigi had survived the elevator fall but later on died from the explosion.

It was then brought to E. Gadd's attention that the "detectives" were actually killed, instead of being brought to Neon Heights. He invented the Dolansa Infinite T (a two-word anagram for something I cannot figure out), a machine to bring Peach back to a restored Rogueport and to revive the others by a clock. She revived the others, but because Luigi was still alive because Rogueport was restored, he quickly climbed his way in the elevator to the secret passage of Neon Heights and managed to survive, but had troubles in his way back to the Mushroom Kingdom to help the others, when he learned from a scientist that his friends would be killed for destroying a design.

The Death chaos starts here. Because the people were revived and because they were supposed to be dead, Death killed them off in a random order. Peach, Pennington, and Jolene interfered as well, because they were meant to die from liquid nitrogen and harpoons. They started dying in freak accidents, but could intervene their deaths, and then look for hidden signs to their deaths. Near the end, Luigi appeared, and Peach was able to vision a death of hers, starting the chain of premonitions later on. Koops had then appeared too by reviving himself, but then died the same day by falling off the balcony of a mall. At the end, Peach, DK, and Daisy were thought to have cheated Death, but everyone except Peach had died in a train accident a year later. Peach was able to dodge her death in the wreck because she had seen another premonition of the accident. She then put herself into a mental institution, but had also made a journal about her journey back in her castle.

On the day of the train accident, a young toad named Mush Rumberg had the vision of a blimp accident, and managed to pull people off. But they were supposed to be dead and started to die in the order they were meant to die. Mush used the journal of Peach to help him, which was given by E. Gadd who later died from choking on a bar of soap. Then they all started to die in the bizarre and gruesome ways by the acts of death, and they soon met up with Princess Peach in the mental institution, who had already dodged Death numerous times. Reluctant at first, Peach decided to assist them from her experiences. They discovered how that everyone in this situation had been involved in the death of a person in the previous situation. It ended with the death of Mush when a sign smashed the back of his skull, and then ended it a surprising twist when the princess was then hit by a truck out of nowhere. But as she says, Peach had a theory that the solution of cheating Death is New Love.

Note that this is the amateur writing of a person who knows everything, yet has no time for typing in an unsafe place full of dangerous objects, so excuse if my writing is a bit rushed. And I feel that this will happen again in another situation. Until then, I will stop typing.

The three of them finished reading, a bit dazed and informed.

"How about the photographs I took?" Goombella said suddenly, taking out the camera in her pocket. She turned to the picture of Steve and Koopie Koo.

"The article written by the person never mentions anything about these photographs," said Goombella. "Look at the picture Dry Bones, it shows how they died. Koopie Koo's iPod looks as if it's in the pond behind her, and Steve's head looks as if the sun is burning it. Just as the investigators and news reporters described it." Dry Bones looked at it in slight awe.

"So does this mean," said Lahla. "That we're in another situation like Peach and the others were in?"

"Exactly," said Dry Bones. "This can't be a coincidence, could it? I mean, this photograph shows exactly how they died, no debate over that."

"Then if this is correct," said Goombella. "Who's next in the order?"

"You're the only one to know," pointed out Dry Bones. "You were the one to see the accident happen, not us. Tell us who died after Koopie Koo and Steve."

Goombella thought, and tried seeing the terrible vision in her head. It wasn't coming into her mind until she thought of the people who got off. Before the ride mechanism unhooked and struck in the observation deck below, two people had died. It wasn't Thomas, as she remembered the person being splattered amongst the other people.

"Poochy was next to die," said Goombella, opening her eyes. "I think he's next."

"What does his photograph show?" said Lahla, as Goombella flipped through the pictures on her camera and saw the picture of Poochy. Poochy had both of his hands up in a thumbs-up pose, and he had just flopped down onto the floor in front of the cabinet. Behind him they could see a flight of stairs leading up, with a person running down the stairs.

"Will a cabinet crush him?" guessed Dry Bones, looking at the picture. "Maybe that person on the stairs would come and kill him."

"I don't think so," said Goombella, knowing that Dry Bones wasn't being serious. "His chain collar around his neck looks as if it's standing up when he flopped to the ground."

"Doesn't it look like it's stuck in the stairs behind him?" said Lahla. "It looks as if the chain collar is lodged between the stairs."

"But what does that show?" asked Dry Bones. "He's not going to trip down a flight of stairs because f his collar."

"Maybe he's going to fall down the stairs and crash into a cabinet," said Lahla.

"Or maybe we're just wrong," said Dry Bones. "Think of it; this could just be a fucked-up coincidence."

"You just said a minute ago that it can't just be a coincidence," remembered Goombella. "Whatever this picture means, we have to go and warn Poochy. He's probably getting down our luggage to our gate departure, since it's nearly two o'clock."

"Where's that?" asked Lahla.

"It's on the sixth floor," said Dry Bones. "If this is real, then we have to hurry." The ran their way as quickly as they could to the sixth floor, not bothering to stop as they realized the airport was nearly empty, with only a free people waiting on each floor. They quickly took the escalators one by one to each floor, until they were able to reach the sixth.

Six. Death was planning a displeasing fatality.


Will they be able to intervene Poochy's death, or would he be killed in the next strike? Please don't forget to review because I look forward to them! I will update as soon as I can.