Chapter 9

Belize and Lammy started to walk down the stairs, Belize seemed a little calmer then everyone thought he was going to be, but on the other hand Lammy wasn't exactly as calm as everyone thought she was going to be.

"Well, well, well, everyone it seems three of you get a prize, everyone else pay up your ante." The badger said Pop, Petunia, and Kayser were the ones happy and high-fiving each other Belize looked at the badger "Rylie, what was the bet on?" Rylie had a smug look on his face "Well everyone, but Pop, Petunia, and Kayser said you would have been angry when you came down stairs." Belize looked at them confused.

"Why would I be angry, Lammy told me something amazing that I am interested in researching… After we solve which one has killed Sniffles." Kayser looked around the room "Wait what…? Sniffles is dead?" Belize glared at him, a little bit angry he didn't stay hidden like he was supposed to, but then started trying to figure out, why would he leave unless there was a good reason, then he realized Flaky wasn't there and wasn't as upset.

"You were in the middle of talking to Lumpy I'm guessing." Kayser nodded Belize sighed "Okay well when I went down to get Sniffles and we were going to tie up Flippy, he started to smell something, then I recognized it too, it wasn't too powerful, but it was still noticeable." Kayser looked around and noticed Flippy and Toothy were still not around. "Where's Toothy and Flippy?" Belize shrugged.

"Toothy is probably trying to make sure Flippy didn't snap at what only I have seen." Belize started to shudder just a little, but then got the image out of his head. Kayser was still slightly confused on what was being talked about, but he figured he will just play along; it must be a trick Belize is pulling. "Okay but Belize I need to ask you something."

Belize was looking at Kayser "Well go ahead and say it." Kayser looked at everyone and then sighed "Alone… If you don't mind." Belize nodded and walked over to the kitchen. Once they were out of ear-shot from everyone in the living room Kayser went straight into explaining why he left his hiding place.

"Well shes ahead of the plan, but I'm not kidding, we really need to solve who killed Splendid, his blood was on the wall and said something, and I didn't completely examine him, but I think I did see some foam around him." Belize tried to think hard if it wasn't his mind playing tricks on him.

Kayser nodded "Okay I think we need Chelsie for this one, she's good at figuring things like this out, I'm sure if its like you said and there was foam around Sniffles, then some chemical must have been used, but without a sample I can't help." Kayser looked around, "Maybe we let Flaky go, go find Toothy and Flippy and solve this then leave the party. I'm really not in a mood to solve a mystery."

Belize laughed a little "No Kayser I'm sorry, but I'm interested in solving this now, plus I want to see how inquisitive Rose can be." Belize grabbed Kayser "Now you and everyone else are going to stay here until its solved, I mean really there's only twelve of us, how hard can it be to find out who is killing the guests."

Kayser nodded, Belize released him and they both started walking back to the living room. Everyone was huddled around Rylie making wagers for various things Belize cleared his throat loudly everyone looked up at him as fast as they could and frozen solid. "Well everyone just about is in agreement, we are not leaving until this game is done." Everyone moaned and groaned Belize smiled "Fine then we will make a wager then right Rylie?"

Everyone listened in silence. "Rylie…?" everyone started to look around and noticed Rylie was not there. "Well he must have a guilty conscience or he knows his plans ruined." Disco Bear said everyone looked at him, but no one could dispute that.

Suddenly they hear a scream, it sounded of a guy, then suddenly there was several growls and scraping noises everyone huddled together in a hug except for Lumpy who was hugging the door knob in his hand.

Once the noises ended and everything was silent, Petunia and Miltera both ran to the door and started beating the door trying to break it down. Belize sighed grabbed the flashlight. Lammy threw down in a hole to him and turned it on. "Okay i-if you know y-you are moderately b-brave, come with m-me because I-I don't want t-to go alone." No one even dared to move.

"Don't all come at once." Belize said a little less scared and a little more annoyance. Kayser walked up to him, "Come on guys if we split into groups, then nothing can possibly go wrong…" Kayser looked around and saw everyone was blankly staring at him. "By that he means… No one go alone anywhere… Wait where the heck is Rose?" Belize was looking around when suddenly he felt something tug at his tail.

He jumped almost screamed, but didn't and saw Rose was there with a rag in her hand. "Rose!" Belize ran over to her picked her up and gave her a huge hug, he then began kissing her cheek several times. Every time he got in for another she would struggle and try to break free from his grasp.

"Big brother what's going on with you?" Rose said as she let go of the rag Belize smiled and gave her another hug. "I was worried about, you its not my fault…" He looks around for Lammy, "Hey La—" everyone looked around and they could not find the lavender Lamb anywhere. Belize let go of Rose and gently put her down on the ground, then ran upstairs; Kayser, Miltera, and Pop followed they each opened up every door in the hallway until there was one room left, Belize loathed that room so much because of the strange emptiness it always made him feel.

Every time he goes in the room, he gets the sense no one is around, he is the only one in the world and the voices taunting him each second 'You're the only one, The last one standing, The last in the world' over and over each time pulling at one of his heart strings nearly making him feel sad and depressed.

Belize touched the door knob of the door and slowly turned it, everyone saw an unconscious figure on the floor, everyone ran inside but Belize, Belize slowly walked in until he heard his name being called out in one of the other rooms, Belize ignored it and continued into the room with everyone else, as the feeling of loneliness overwhelms him again.

Pop and Miltera picked up the unconscious figure and saw it was Lammy they carried her out of the room, and Kayser noticed that Belize was sitting staring blankly at a wall slowly getting more and more delusional, he grabbed Belize by the tail and started to drag him outside of the room. Kayser continued to drag Belize until they got to the stairs that's when Belize noticed that the door to the room they were all just in started to close like someone calmly went in and wanted to keep everyone out.

Belize's mind just snapped from seeing that, he bolted down the stairs and to the door, Belize then started to beat on it and trying to tear it apart, but was unsuccessful as everyone else was that tried.

"Belize, Belize… calm down, what's the matter?" Kayser said as he grabbed Belize by the shoulders and tried to hold him still. Belize just kept trying to get at the door to un-jam it, but he couldn't figure out how to un-jam it in the mind state he was in. Belize tried to relax a little, once he stopped struggling to get away from Kayser he felt the presence of everyone in the room and he stopped feeling completely alone.

"Wh-what just happened?" Belize said as he put his hand up to his head and started to rub it. Everyone just stared at Belize trying to comprehend what just happened, Belize looked around "How did we get back downstairs?" Kayser poked Belize "Look man, I don't know what happened to you, but we found Lammy in the room, we got her down here, and she's still unconscious, but you were freaking out over something."

Belize looked around, "Okay this place is getting dangerous, we need to find everyone and make sure we are all here, all of us are going to charge at the door and break it down, I don't care about this place anymore, and I'm just going to burn it to the ground once we leave." Rose popped up from the crowd "No big brother, I love this place, it reminds me of home sometime."

Belize sighed and looked at Rose in the eyes and saw himself when he was younger when he didn't know what a dangerous situation was, or the fact about the value of life, and the problem that would arise from never encountering it. He started to cry just a little, but then he looked away from Rose for a couple seconds then when he looked back she had small amount of tears in her eyes and was making an adorable pouting face.

Belize was unfazed for some of it, but until he saw a sparkle in a tear just barely hanging on Rose's eye he finally broke "Fine I wont burn the place to the ground." Rose smiled and jumped with joy ran over to Belize and gave him a hug.

"But we still need to find everyone and we do need to figure out what's happening here. I mean really Sniffles is dead, and I think Rylie might be too." Everyone looked around and there was still no sign of him. Belize sighed okay, we all stick together, and no one is going to go anywhere alone, is that understood?"

Everyone nodded. "Okay good now Kayser, I know you know where Flaky is let's go get her." Kayser nodded, then they hear a loud bang in the kitchen. Everyone ran through the archway of the kitchen and saw Flaky lying dead on the floor, with a spine broken on the side and a message etched into the board of the cabinet. 'Try as you might Belize you may never figure out who I am, but I have found out a lot about you.'

Belize sighed then yelled out as loud as he could, "Funny, just funny now why are you hiding? I mean really each one you kill we are just getting closer and closer to finding you." Belize listened for a response of any kind; everyone was just looking at him like he was crazy.

"I'm not crazy; I know I'm not crazy." Lammy walked over to Belize "Yeah like you know I'm not when I told you about Mr. Pickles and you didn't believe me." She said sarcastically making a few people snicker.

Belize looked down, "Look that's a bit different, that was before I got to know you more…" Suddenly the electricity in the house went out, Belize was trying to find the flashlight, but couldn't everyone was panicking a bit and there was couple of thuds coming from the living room, after the thuds stopped the lights came back on.

Everyone ran to the living room and found an antique metal ball with Michelle's name on it. Michelle looked at everyone and then walked over to the ball. "What the heck, this ball should be in my vault, no one has access to it, and you have to go through a heavy security to even get near it."

Michelle picked up the ball and then suddenly dropped it, Belize went over to her "What happened?" Michelle was shaky a bit and then she shown Belize her hand which was a little bit covered in blood. Belize quickly ran through the crowd and went over to investigate Flaky and saw she had a sphere shaped indention in her skull that the ball would fit perfectly in.

Belize started to piece a few things together, "Okay that is there's too many places for people to get through here, we are all going to go to my private study in this place where there's only one way in and one way out, everyone is going to stay there until I can find a way to open this door." Belize looked around "Any one has a problem with that?" Michelle raised her hand, but Belize ignored it "Good, now let's go."

Belize lead the group up the stairs and down the other side of the hall way Belize opened the door, and everyone piled up inside the room. "Okay now Kayser you are good at making sure people listen, I mean really its not much different then the mental institution just these are not as deadly… Maybe" Belize sort of laughed a little.

Kayser scoffed and then paid attention to everyone. Belize smiled "Petunia, Pop. You two are with me, we are going to look for Flippy and Toothy, then we are going to go figure out how to get the door un-jammed." "Wait w-why me?" Petunia said a little scared of going any where with Belize almost alone.

"Let's just go, if we don't find Toothy and Flippy, they will definitely be dead, and that would mean we would have to try harder to un-jam the door." Belize grabbed Petunia's hands and pulled her out of the room, while Pop calmly walked out the door and followed Belize.

A/N Yep Rylie missing, Flaky dead, what's going to happen next? I don't really even know, I'm still trying to compile random clues that point to everyone, but there is still some clues that lead to who the culprit is, just need to analyze. Any way another chapter, this may seem near over, but its not there's still all the chasing, finger pointing, getting out alive. Have fun.