"Oh so boreeeeeddddddd!" Toad half sang/half shouted the following morning.
"Soundtrack of my life," Peach agreed.
"You know what I forgot I had? My iPod!" Toad said excited.
"What? Where is it? I have been dying for some Ke$ha!" Toadette squealed with joy.
"I haven't even been able to listen to Britney's new album yet!" Peach said daydreaming, "We need that iPod now!"
"Ok, it's back in my room... on the 7th floor." Toad's heart sank.
"/flooded." Toadette sighed.
"No! We must have hope! The water was only on what, the 3rd floor yesterday? We should be fine," Peach hoped she wasn't walking right into her death by her need for entertainment.
"K, it's in my suit case, let's go!" The 3 walked out of the kitchen and through the restaurant and into the lightly sprinkling rain.
"Aww, it looks like it's starting to lighten up!" Toadette said delighted feeling the light rain on her palms as she held them out.
"Ugh, think again." Toad gestured to the opposite direction.
"Oh my..." Peach said terrified.
A giant dark cloud was moving closer to the ship every second. Lighting shot down from it every few seconds.
"Well then," Toadette said sadly.
They walked down the stairs and went back inside the boat and down another 3 flights of stairs. They got to the 7th level in the stairway. Water was slowly filling up that level.
"Awwwwwwwwwwww," Peach said from the top of the steps.
"No, look, your suit case is out in the hallway floating around. There is only like 5 feet of water. Another 5 feet until the whole hallway is filled with water. Just someone swim out there..." Toadette said hopeful.
"So easy for you to say, you're just a shorty Toad! You're even shorter than me!" Toad answered.
"Oh, shut up!" Toadette said slightly hurt by the comment.
"Look, there's no way our tiny bodies can get through that water. Peach would you please go get it...please?" Toad said sweetly.
"Why me?" Peach groaned.
"I wanna listen to Ke$ha's new album before I die!" Toadette insisted.
"FINE!"
Peach swam out into the hallway. The hallway was very long and narrow, and at one end was the stair case, and the other end a place to go left or right down another series of hallway.
The suitcase was at the other end of the hallway. As Peach swam in silence, she cleared his mind and tried not think of anything. As she was about 2 feet from his suitcase, her foot got stuck on something.
Something was wrapped around her leg.
"What the...?" She pulled on her left leg. Something was wrapped around it.
"Is something wrong?" Toadette called.
"No, just something is stuck on my leg, that's all." Peach answered trying to see through the water. The water was too dark. She went under and there had been a sort of net bolted to the ground and her leg had gotten all tangled up in the thick rope.
She emerged from the surface for air, dripping wet. "A trap by the killer." She whispered. "You guys!" She called, and Toadette and Toad could hear the worry in his voice.
"What is it?" Toadette answered scared.
"My leg is caught in this net the killer has set up. I'm going to see if I can get my leg free, but if not, Toad, you are going to need to come down and help me." Peach sunk back under water and used both of her hands to try and free her leg. After a little less than a minute, she came up for breath and tried again. Nothing. Peach started to panic.
"Ok, I need you Toad. NOW!" She trembled.
"Gotcha partner." Toad dove in the water and came back up. He stopped though. "What is that..." He asked scared. Toad could feel the hall she was in shaking. A loud roaring noise was coming from the end of the hall. Clashing of waves...
Toad turned back and swam as fast as he could for the staircase.
"What where are you going?" Peach cried.
"I'M SORRY PEACH!" Toad whimpered as he got to the stairs.
Water came rushing from the left and right side of the hallway and engulfed the entire hallway. Toad and Toadette ran up the stairs as fast as they could. They reached two levels up and looked over the railing. The water had settled, and it peaked at the level below them.
"Noooo!" Tears streamed down Toad's face. They plummeted to the ground like water coming from a waterfall. "I made her go, Toadette! I MADE HER GO! What the hell is wrong with me.." He shook and fell on the ground and leaned his back against the railing.
"It wasn't your fault, sweety." Toadette said reassuring herself more than Toad.
"SHE'S DEAD BECAUSE OF ME!" Toad bawled.
[LOUNGE]
Diddy fell asleep watching for the killer the previous night. And he was the first to wake up the following morning. "Good," He said outloud, "No one will know. I was awake this whole time... happy" Diddy streched and sat up. "Or not..." he said after seeing the wall. "EVERYONE WAKE UP!" This felt like deja vu. "WAKE UP!" He shouted again.
"What is it this time?" Wario snorted.
"Writing on the wall by the killer. WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN?" Diddy said frustrated.
"Because you always fall asleep," Dixie mumbled.
"Oh my," Waluigi said after reading it. It said:
YOU'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. YOU THINK AFTER SO MANY OF YOUR FRIENDS HAVE BEEN KILLED YOU WOULD HAVE FIGURED IT OUT BY NOW.
"You really think we would know," Tiny admitted.
"But we don't," Waluigi replied.
"Or do we..." Wario smirked.
"I'm hungry." Dixie said ignoring Wario.
"Me too... I haven't ate in what seems like ever. Someone make a run for the kitchen!" Diddy looked at everyone.
No one answered.
"Figures," He sighed.
"It has to be one of them from the lounge!" Toad said through his tears. "We both know it is! We wouldn't kill our own best friend!" Before Toadette could answer Toad cried, "WOULD WE?"
"No, no of course not. And I know it isn't you. And you know it isn't me." Toadette said, trying to comfort him.
"Ok, ok, let's think who is left." Toad said wiping away her tears. "Dixie, Wario, Tiny... ughhh someone else?" Toad said searching his memory.
"Diddy and Waluigi!" Toadette answered.
"Ok, so there are 7 of us left."
"And only 5 could be the killer. Now let's think..."
"Who couldn't it be is where we should start. Let's think about past relationships with the dead, think who was where etc." Toad suggested.
"We are going to get revenge on who killed our best friend." Toadette said determined.
"Ok, I will go get food from the kitchen. Someone needs to go with me though." Diddy looked at everyone, and finally someone volunteered.
"I'll go! I'm freaking starving. And I can't let you go out there alone either..." Dixie said. "And Wario, you're coming too because you also complaind that you were hungry."
"Fine," Wario agreed.
"Let's go now I guess. The rain isn't too bad. And it's light out." Diddy and Dixie headed for the door of the lounge. Wario atempted to stand up.
"AHH!" He yelled out in pain. "My back, jesus, it hurts like never before." He fell back to the ground.
"Wow, if you don't want to go, then just say. Don't have to fake a broken spine." Dixie laughed with her hand on the door.
"No, really," Wario said with pain in his voice.
"Just let him be. Come on." Diddy said opening the lounge door with Dixie right behind him.
"...Yeah, no way I'm going out there where there's traps galore." Wario whispered with a smirk.
"That's it!" Toad shrieked.
"He has to be the killer. It all adds up. His personality, him NEVER being around when someone is killed. It's him. Now how do we get him out of the lounge to tell the others?" Toadette questioned.
"We'll think of something! We need to get to the main deck now. We can't let him kill more!" Toad ran up the staircase and got to the main deck. The last flight, adjacent the restaurant, is where they came out on. They reached the top of the stairs. Across the deck they could see Diddy and Dixie walk out of the lounge together. They stood at the foot of the stairs seeing what they were doing.
Dixie tripped over a thin, white string that ran from one side of the boat to the other, setting off a trap.
"What the..." A string, chest level that went from one side of the boat to another sliced through the air, starting at the restaurant entrance, and sliced straight across the deck, and finally met Dixie and Diddy's torso, slicing them in 2.
"OH MY GOD!" Toadette screamed in horror as she watched their bodies slowly come in half.
Diddy was in awe. Blood had splattered all over the windows of the lounge.
Review please...again. And for those of you who are confused by the death scene; watch the party scene from the movie Ghostship. It's similar to that.