A/N Chapter 13 now the "revelation of a culprit", a chase and then capture, enjoy. And I know they are getting a little OOC but if you pressure someone or something like what's going on here people will snap, lose sense of themselves, even some snap into a killing spree even if they were the most kind person in the world who wouldn't harm a fly, so yeah people snap here.
Petunia was holding Pop in a hugging hold stroking his head slightly trying to at least make him comfortable enough to not focus on the death of his son. "Its okay Pop, they will be back." She said not knowing for sure not knowing if the statement is true, but she continued to act like that sentence was all that mattered.
"Well who the heck is the one eliminating us one by one?" Toothy said glaring at Petunia, because she is the last one with blue fur, "I don't know okay, but we need to get out of here and just break down the door. I don't know or care whose left we just need to get out of here." Toothy looked at Petunia blankly, "Really Petunia, you would throw your friends away that fast?"
Petunia hesitated a little, "Yes of course I know they will be coming back." Petunia then smiled after saying the same sentence in her head many times trying to make the sentence she is saying sound true, at least to herself. Toothy sighed, "Well I guess you…" He stopped and looked around the room and saw that Lumpy and Lammy were missing, he then looked at the lounge chair and saw Disco Bear was still asleep and Flippy was reading a book 'How to Control the Inner Demons' Toothy just shrugged.
Petunia just looked at Toothy trying to figure out what's going on and what he was about to say, but then she too noticed it was too quiet, she looked around the room and came up with the same scenario they were in, "Where's Lammy and Lumpy" she then looked down and saw she wasn't stroking Pop anymore "Also how the hell did pop get out of sight?" she said out loud to Flippy, he put the book down and looked around, "What the… How long was I reading the book?" he then put the book down and actually felt a bit calm.
"I don't know, but Lumpy, Pop, and Lammy are missing and it's down to just you, me Rylie, Toothy, and Disco Bear." Petunia said looking around; she walked over to Disco Bear and tried to shake him awake. "Hey Disco Bear, time to get up, we are planning an escape to get out of this place." Disco Bear didn't respond.
She tried shaking again, but this time Disco Bears head fell off his body and rolled across the floor. Petunia screamed and gathered the attention of Toothy and Rylie; they both ran up to her and saw the decapitated body of Disco Bear.
"What the hell happened to him and what the hell is going on in this place?" Rylie said as he started to scoot back from Disco Bears body and almost tripped over the head. "I don't know…" Petunia said turning and then running to the side of the room, she grabbed a long knife that was hidden inside the binding of a book and pointed it at everyone in the room. "Stay the hell away from me all of you, I know one of you are the ones killing our friends." Petunia pointed the sharp knife at Toothy first, then saw Rylie move and almost jumped at him with the knife.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, just hold on a minute Petunia." Rylie said as he was keeping his eye more on the knife then Petunia. "Put that thing away before Flippy sees it." Petunia could hear the slight worry in his tone. She looks at Flippy still a bit too relaxed, she pointed the knife at him to see his reaction.
"What the hell are you doing Petunia, he's going to flip out and kill us." Toothy said as he hid behind Rylie. Petunia held up the knife at Flippy and was shocked to see he wasn't flipping out like he normally does. "Okay what's the big idea Flippy?" Flippy just smiled, "Oh I have been over my PTSD for a couple weeks now, I just didn't know completely for sure, but I'm really happy to be rid of 'Him'" Petunia dropped the knife and ran over to Flippy.
"Yes that is amazing, so now you have no intention of killing." Flippy sighed "Well I may or may not I guess depends if I have to defend myself." Petunia shrugged, she knew it was simple logic, you get attacked you can kill in your defense if needed. Petunia went back to the knife picked it up and slowly started to walk to the door.
"Well I don't know about you three, but I am going to look for Lumpy and Lammy, I mean they couldn't have gotten far, Lammy too insane and not much movement, and Lumpy well he's an idiot and can't do much on his own." Petunia opened the door and walked backwards out of the door keeping her eyes on the three in the room.
Once she got into the hall she saw Pop standing in the down the hall, she ran over to him "Oh there you are Pop, what's the matter?" she then put her hand on his shoulder, it didn't stir any kind of reaction, she then felt something was wrong and she held the knife up defensively. "Pop what's going on?" she didn't put the knife down at all, until he slowly turned around and had the knife from Cub's head in his hand.
He was smiling and then he started to talk "This is the last thing Cub saw, before he made me kill him." Petunia froze for a minute and looked at Pop dumbstruck at what he just said, "Wh-what do y-you mean?" Pop just smiled looked at the knife "It doesn't matter now, Cub made me kill him, I don't have anything left here." He then lifted the knife up to his face and looked at his reflection.
He started to cry and then dropped the knife. Petunia didn't move she was trying to process what just happened in front of her, then she saw Pop on the ground in a fetal position rocking saying "It wasn't my fault, he made me. He didn't want me, he had to die, he just had to die."
Petunia slowly backed away from the scene and slowly went back into the study where the other three were still there and talking about how to get out of the house. Petunia shut the door and locked it and then fell against it.
"Petunia what the hell happened to you, what's going on? Did you find Lumpy, Pop, or Lammy?" Rylie said looking at her a little hopeful, because they needed at least one more helping hand to get out effectively. Petunia dropped the knife and then looked at Cub's dead body over by the wall.
"I found Pop, he's not in a good state of mind to help. I- I cant go out there again, its just not an optimistic atmosphere." Petunia then looked at the knife picked it up and stabbed herself in the arm cutting straight through right in between the Ulna and Radius bones, and out the other side of her arm.
She then smiled as the blood started to flow out of her and she started to lose consciousness. Rylie and Flippy both ran over to Petunia, Flippy grabbed a couple books and tore out the pages, he then proceeded to make the paper into strands and tied off Petunias blood circulation to her arm to prevent her from losing any more blood. Rylie grabbed the knife and pulled it out.
Toothy looked at the scene in disgust and nearly passed out just from seeing how bloody the scene was; he went over to the window and saw that there was an ambulance outside. He found it very strange because no one called for them, and there were only a couple of the town's folk that had enough medical experience to be able to legally drive one of those.
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Lumpy opened the door to the room, he looked around to how massive the size was, he walked in and saw a giant mural on the wall depicting what he was slightly afraid of, he looked at the time on a clock and saw it was time for him to get back to work as a police officer, he put the uniform on and a pair of dark sunglasses.
"Okay that damn Coon is lucky he's gone, but where the hell am I and how the hell did I get here." Lumpy looked at the Mural again and laughed, he saw what looked like Belize and Rose was in the mural "Well you damn self conceived little wannabe rich ass got a painted Mural of you and that little sister of yours on the wall." He laughed and then pulled up his gun. He took a couple shots at the mural hitting the two raccoons square in the head and heart.
Lumpy heard a door opening and pointed the gun in the direction of the noise and noticed someone standing in the doorway, "Well I thought you were dead." The figure laughed "I guess you thought wrong Lumpy, but I must say, I am shocked you lived this long." The figure started to walk closer to Lumpy.
"Hey I didn't get town sheriff for nothing, you squirt." The figure laughed, "Well you keep quiet about this, and you may get out of here alive, I already killed my target and have no need to kill the rest." Lumpy put the gun down, "Wait you killed everyone just to lead them away from discovering your actual target." He paused a moment then laughed.
"Damn squirt you are a lot smarter then you seem." The figure smiled, "Oh I am a lot smarter then I seem, but the question is; are you going to be a liability?" Lumpy put the gun into his holster and in the direction of light so he had the proof his gun was put up. "What am I not good enough to at least receive just a simple vocal response…?" the figure laughed, "All well your proving of not being a threat is just enough, now you remember our deal from the interview you gave us… Right?"
Lumpy nodded "Of course I do squirt, I will have an arrest for what has been going on." Lumpy then laughed a little nervously, then the figure responded "As long as you leave me out of the reports, and not in jail, then you will be fine for, now. Also don't worry about the ones I killed that wasn't my target I moved most of them to the town outside this land, they will revive, all except my intentional target." Suddenly the figure did a laugh and made Lumpy silent and shocked he ever made a deal with the figure.
"Now leave and be free, act somewhat scared and ever mention my name or I will take you out too." Lumpy nodded and looked around as the figure disappeared. "Damn Squirt seems to move fast all well, I'm on duty, but I have to get back to being stupid." He took off the uniform and started to talk to himself and walking into the door without opening it, laughing at himself knowing that he can play stupid very well.
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Lammy was walking around the house knowing she was safe, she knew that if anyone was out to kill her she could easily slip into a hiding place and use a trapdoor to escape, that her and Belize are the only ones to know. She went all around the house trying to find an unlocked window, but the ones that were, were on the top floor and she couldn't find anything that they could use to jump down from there and survive, then she thought to herself whatever they will be fine and awake in the hospital.
She had the thought of killing Michelle in her head again as she neared the scene it happened, she started to feel her heart getting heavier and then she saw Pop on the ground with a knife in his hand and a cut across his throat that was fairly deep, she figured he done it to himself, but with how deep the wound was he almost couldn't have done it.
Lammy sighed and started to feel a little dizzy she got back to the study and instead of knocking like a civilized normal person that she wasn't suppose to be because of killing Michelle and acting the way she did, she wanted to keep up that image so they wouldn't know she actually killed beat Michelle on purpose.
She went back down the hall to Pop's body and smeared some of his blood on her, she then went back to the door and started to force herself to cry and then she slammed her head into the door like she was running and couldn't stop. Rylie opened the door and saw Lammy on the ground he helped her up and pulled her into the room.
"Lammy oh we are so happy to see you, Toothy, Flippy, Petunia, and me have a way out of this place, but we needed at least one more person, can you snap out of your state for at least twenty minutes and help us with our plan?" While Rylie was speaking he didn't take a breath while saying the sentence his face was a little red and after he finished he took a deep breath and tried to get back his normal breathing pattern.
Lammy looked around and went to a fetal position and started rocking "There's no place like home…" several times again then suddenly she stopped and looked at the window. "Fly like a bird…" she then ran over to the window and jumped out thinking she could fly, everyone watching was shocked to see she was actually flying for several seconds, but then she fell and landed on one of the vehicles.
Toothy felt something wasn't right went to the window and looked out saw Lammy's body covered in blood and glass from the windshield, was on his car. "What no, why my car?" Toothy looked around and then sighed "I really hope the insurance company has this covered."
Suddenly there was another blunt thud at the door, Flippy went over and opened the door and saw it was Lumpy and helped him into the room. "Hey here's Lumpy…" He suddenly went over to the window and knocked over the bookshelf to block the window. Lumpy just smiled he realized if he did his smart smile they will know he's back on shift so he tried to stupefy his smile.
Rylie looked at him and figured something wasn't right, but he didn't care, he just wanted to get out of the place. "Okay Lumpy, you me, Toothy, Flippy, and Petunia are going to get out of here okay?" Lumpy was fighting the urge to say something that would expose him being stupid was an act so he just nodded several times after fifteen seconds he stopped nodding.
"Okay… Umm well once Petunia wakes up we will get out of here." Lumpy nodded again and then looked at everyone that was still there he had to find someone to pin these killings on to have this case closed and not looked upon again. He smiled as he remembered while he was stupid that there was blue fur on the knife handle, so he figured to point it on Petunia.
He gathered some of her fur and went into the hallway and placed the fur all around Pop and then went back to the room, he then had to make a valid evidence of something other then fur and knew he had to do something he knew would not be fun. He sighed and figured take one for the team he picked up a book and used the corner to open Petunia's mouth and he put his arm in it and forced Petunia while being unconscious to bite him, after he did that he went into another room and pulled a vial from the bag and scrapped the saliva into a pile and put some in the vial.
Lumpy then left the room went to a bathroom and started to wash away the evidence of what he did. He rushed back as fast as he could to get back into the study before anyone was aware he was gone. He opened the door slowly and then went in sat down next to Petunia.
"Okay so lets tell Lumpy the plan and see if he can understand." Rylie said, but then he had a strange idea. "Hey Lumpy." Lumpy lifted his head fast and head butted Petunia on accident, causing her to wake up to and scratch his face.
"Ah you stupid skunk, ugh how dare you hit an officer of the law you are under arrest." Lumpy then looked around and slapped himself a couple times. "Damn it blown cover whatever." Rylie laughed "Well that explains a question, but brings up so much more, whatever they will come later, come on we need to put our plan into action so we can get out of this place."
Petunia opened her eyes a little more aware of being awake, she then felt something in her mouth she used her hand and tried to scrape it out and found light blue moose fur on her tongue, she started to feel a little sick and jumped up and ran to the window, she pushed the bookshelf out of the way and threw up out the window.
After she finally stopped she walked into the center of the room, "What the heck was your fur doing in my mouth Lumpy?" Everyone looked at him and wanted to know the same, but Toothy just not wanting to be anxious went over to the window and looked out the window saw Lammy's body was missing and the puke Petunia threw up was all over his car.
Toothy sighed and walked over to Petunia, he slapped her "That's for throwing up on my car." and then went to Lumpy and slapped him, "That's for making her throw up." Lumpy grabbed Toothy by the tail and pulled him into the wall, he then punched the wall right next to Toothy's head. "Damn missed. Lucky little Beaver." Lumpy then smiled and pulled out the handcuffs, and put them on Toothy.
"Now anyone else want to be handcuffed?" Rylie, Flippy, and Petunia slowly backed away from Lumpy. "Good now just tell me the plan so we can get out and I can take you all into custody for questioning." Flippy looked at Lumpy a little shocked "What the hell are you talking about? I was with Toothy most the day and night trying to find you guys, while also exploring."
Toothy was about to talk to respond, but saw Lumpy getting ready to punch him if he said a single word. Petunia heard a noise she couldn't recognize what is was, but whatever it was, she was the only one hearing it, she just had an urge to run to it, but didn't know why. She opened the door and started to run.
Lumpy knowing that was his cue, "Hey you Skunk, get back here." no one heard a response and Lumpy had to make it look like she was the one that done everything. He went to the door and pretended to hear her yell "I'm not going to jail for this, you idiot." He then told Rylie and Flippy to stay and watch Toothy.
He then said he was going to hunt down the killer of the party and started to chase down Petunia. He ran down the hall knowing full well where he's going, he knew full well that the figure he met with wanted Petunia out of the way, so they made the plan and the room, Lumpy took a short cut to the room.
He went in and twenty seconds after he had the door shut he prepared to capture Petunia, the door opened and in came the skunk Lumpy grabbed her and slammed her into the wall, he then yelled a bit like an argument and then he shot Petunia in between the eyes. He got up and put handcuffs on her and then picked her up and took her back to the study,
Once he got back he opened the door and was shocked to see that Rylie, Toothy and Flippy were gone, but then he heard some screams of help from outside the window Lumpy put Petunia's body on the ground and climbed out the window he then saw the three friends hanging by their feet off the side of the house, he figured since they are outside and just like the figure said anyone outside the house will regenerate.
Lumpy kept himself hidden and started to cut the ropes of the three and made all three land head first onto the ground snapping all of their necks he then went back inside grabbed Petunia and went down to the front door using full force kicked the door open and went outside just as the sun was starting to come up over the horizon.
"Well they are going to be fine and time to get this 'perp' into jail so she can regenerate there and be under arrest." Lumpy then went over the case notes of the murders in the house, he falsified the evidence and made hard proof that it was Petunia doing all the killing. Once he finished it and filed it for the court, he started to walk to the hospital.
A/N Well we know Petunia didn't do it, but who did? Who is Lumpy working with and why? Well these will probably be answered next Chapter I hope you enjoyed as this story comes to an end, it will be short ending, but don't worry there will be a epilogue... Until then...
Belize: Enjoy... Wait a minute you killed me, I thought you were going to use the clone idea...
I was, but I figured something a bit more unexpected, now stop trying to expose the secret and get back to being dead for the rest of the story.
Belize: Fine but you owe me...
Whatever... now to get some sleep.