Wario leaned over and whispered to Mario, "You do realize we could be in the same room as the killer."
"Shut up!" Mario hissed back.
"What?" Wario said with an innocent grin.
"How is that funny? Not a funny thought..."
"Yeah, but we all know who the killer is." Wario said annoyed.
"Oh, we do? Care to fill me in?" Mario said baffled but now interested.
"You!" Wario laughed.
"Not funny."
The rain was still coming down, not as hard as before though. The boat was rocking slightly now, and most have come to ignore the slow rocking motion.
"So, sleeping arrangement-" Diddy began.
"I'm not sleeping next to Dixie. She looks like she might try to sex me up!" Wario cut him off.
"Shut up, Wario. Damn, why do you have to be so annoying?" Dixie glared.
"Calm down everyone," Waluigi said.
"So we need to take shifts watching, as usual. I guess I will take for tonight. Does anyone want to with me?" Diddy asked them, and no one replied. "Great, I guess I will do it alone."
"Shouldn't be too bad," Tiny smiled.
"I'll do it for tomorrow night, if we're not dead by then that is..." Dixie trailed off.
"Way to look on the bright side, eh?" Wario snickered.
Toadette, Peach and Toad sat atop the beds making small talk.
"This room having no windows is lame." Toadette complained.
"Why doesn't it have any windows anyways?" Toad asked.
"It's on the lower levels, so the windows would just be the sea." Peach explained.
"Oh," Toad replied. He stood up and his foot was soaked. "What the...? The carpet is all wet."
Peach and Toadette leaped off the bed. "WTF?" They said together.
The 3 walked out into the hallway, and the whole carpet was soaked. "What is going on?" Peach said trembling.
"Come on!" Toadette said leading them to the staircase. She opened the door that lead to the staircase. "Oh my god!" She cried when she looked down the stairway. Water had filled up the whole bottom stair case and was spilling out into the hallway.
"We have to get to the highest level ASAP!" Toad ran through the puddle of water, splashing himself and Toadette and Peach. They quickly followed behind him. They got to the top deck and it was pouring rain still. They instantly got soaked.
"Where do we go?" Toadette shouted through the rain. They were in the center. To the left was the lounge, and to the right was the kitchen. They stood there observing their surroundings for a second.
[LOUNGE]
"Is that Toadette, Peach and Toad out there?" Waluigi said moving forward to get a better look. "Indeed it is!"
Wario looked out the window, "They look confused." He laughed.
"Should we help them?" Mario asked.
"No, why should we?" Wario chimed in.
"Yeah, let's just see if they need anything, I guess." Dixie opened the lounge door, "Hey! Are you guys ok?"
"OH THANK GOD! SOMEONE!" Peach ran inside the lounge, leaving Toad and Toadette in the rain.
"Should we go in there?" Toad asked.
"Yeah, they need to know the news." Toadette answered.
"Woah, where is everyone?" Toad said looking at the small amount of people in the lounge.
"They... passed on." Diddy quietly said looking at the ground.
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" Peach screeched, "THE BOAT IS FLOODING!" Peach said.
"Old news is old," Wario grumbled.
"You guys already knew this and didn't tell us?" Toadette said in shocked.
"Well... yeah we figured it out early this morning.." Tiny admitted.
"Why the hell did no one tell us?" Toad snarled.
"It was too dangerous to go out there! Jojora was killed out there because of the boat rocking so much!" Mario explained.
"Whatever, I can't believe you all." Peach squeaked.
"Let's get back to the kitchen," Toadette said turning around quickly and exiting the lounge.
"Good, it's where you belong." Wario mumbled.
"I HEARD THAT!" Toadette was in front of Wario in no time and slapped him across the face. "GO TO HELL!"
"Back to where we started," Toad sighed.
"Hey you guys!" Peach shrieked in excitement.
"What?" Toadette groaned, annoyed.
"You do realize we are all famous now! We went missing on a cruise ship. That is probably front page news right now. Once they find the boat they will discover there was a crazy murderer that was picking us off like ducks. Plus, the ship sinking! They could make another movie like Titanic! It would make millions. Our names won't be forgotten." Peach said exuberant.
"We could be on one of those ID Channel specials!" Toad was already thinking of his newfound fame.
"OMG! I DIDN'T EVEN THINK OF THAT!" Toadette said jumping in joy.
"People are going to remember us forever." Peach's eyes glimmered with hope.
...
"Sun set, my favorite!" Wario said sarcastically.
"So annoying." Dixie mumbled and rolled her eyes.
"Got something to say, say it! Slap that bitchiness out of your mouth and speak up!" Wario snarled.
"UNCALLED FOR!" Tiny said pushing Wario back down as he got up, cracking his knuckles.
"We need something fun!" Diddy pulled a board game out from the coffee table.
"How did you know that was in there? And thanks for letting us know now they had board games." Mario questioned suspiciously.
"I've been on this cruise ship a few times before. Now who is up for some fun and games?" Diddy asked with a grin.
"Sure, what game is it?" Waluigi asked.
"Clue," Diddy replied setting the game up.
"My favorite!" Waluigi said with delight.
"What a perfect game to play..." Mario said.
"Okay, is it me or has Waluigi's personality taken a huge 180 ever since he got on this boat?" Dixie whispered to Tiny.
Everyone took a player and put them on the board.
Wario was first, he rolled the dye, and moved into the room called "The Lounge".
"I think that Miss Scarlet, Dixie, committed the murder with the knife!" Wario exclaimed.
Everyone showed their cards to Wario, while Dixie gave Wario a glare.
Dixie rolled, and moved Miss Scarlet into the Lounge room. "And I think," Dixie said carefully, "That Mr. Green, Wario, committed the murder, with a rope in the lounge." She finished angrily.
"Maybe this was a bad idea..." Diddy said.
"Yeah, let's not play." Waluigi said folding the board back up.
"Well that was awkward," Tiny remarked.
Mario sat on the ground, scanning the outside deck every so often thinking while everyone slept. His eyes were closing, but he knew he wasn't going to let himself fall asleep, especially after what happened to Rosalina.
He closed his eyes just for a moment, when suddenly a loud screech was heard. His eyes shot open.
Everyone woke up in a fright.
"Did you hear that scream?" Toadette asked Peach and Toad as they awoke.
"It was outside. Should we go look?" Toad said terrified.
"I'm just going to take a peak out side. Ok?" Toadette said reassuringly.
"What was that?" Diddy looked at everyone.
"Is everyone ok? That was no one in here right?" Waluigi asked.
"No, no, it was outside. We need to go help them." Mario hopped to his feet and headed for the door.
"WHAT? Are you crazy? Do you have a death wish or something?" Dixie asked him like he was a mad man.
"It sounded like Peach, I need to go help her!" Mario opened the door to the lounge and rain and wind blew inside.
"Wait!" Wario pleaded.
"What?" Mario turned with the door still open.
"Tell me real quick, what happened to everyone else who has gone outside in the pitch black night?" Wario raised an eyebrow.
"I don't have time for this!" Mario walked out onto the deck. He didn't get far.
An axe swung down on an arc from the roof of the lounge. It slammed into the back of Mario and he yelped as he tumbled to the ground, dead. The last thing he saw was Toadette opening the door from the restaurant that lead out to the deck, and an axe hanging above the roof.
Toadette jumped back as she saw Mario meet his demise. "HOLY SH!T!" She cried as she jumped back inside. An axe swung from the roof and hit the glass door. "OH MY GOD!" She screeched again.
"WHAT? WHAT IS IT?" Toad and Peach heard from the kitchen and ran out of the kitchen and into the restaurant to see what was happening.
They saw Toadette standing in horror at the broken glass with the axe through it, and Mario's dead body across the deck. Peach almost sobbed at the sight.
"Let's get out of here!" Toad grabbed Toadette by her hand and pulled her back into the kitchen.
"OH MY GOD!" Diddy opened the lounge door and stood there in a horror. "He's dead!" He trembled. He looked across the deck and saw that the ruse hadn't worked on Toadette.
"Was it another trap?" Waluigi called.
Diddy came back inside. "An axe came down from the roof. It was another trap..."
"That is terrible..." Dixie sighed. Her heart sunk as she realized how little time everyone had left if they weren't to find the killer anytime soon.
"THESE DAMN TRAPS!" Wario grumbled. "They make it impossible to figure out who is doing it."
"I could do a little investigating!" Waluigi announced.
"Um, like what?" Wario said unconvinced.
"Like... I don't know. Interviews?" Waluigi suggested.
"Terrible idea." Dixie said.
"No need to be so negative!" Waluigi said defensively.
"LOOK! We're trapped on this boat, whether we like it or not. Let's make the best of it before we die and not fight, k?" Tiny raged.
"Fine, but I'm not being nice to Dixie!" Wario said as if he were a child.
After a short silence Waluigi said, "Well... now what?"
"I guess we sleep, I will take watch." Diddy took the spot he was suppose to have and his thoughts began to race.
Review plz. We're getting close to the end here!