Footsteps rising in sound through the halls.
Run...! Run...!
She kept running and hyperventilating.
Run...! RUN!
She paused at what she thought was a dead end and frantically looked around.
Stairs...!
*SLICE*
"Nothing more than empty halls, huh?" Marth murmured as the group kept walking on wards.
Nana whimpered as she clung onto Pit's sleeve.
"Maybe you should have stayed with Popo," Pit said.
"Eh?! B-But I want to help too!" Nana said.
"But aren't you scared?" Red asked.
"I-I sorta am..." Nana murmured, "But I want to help, you know..."
Marth noticed a glisten and stopeed while putting his right arm out, "Stop."
Everyone bumped into his arm and each other.
"What?" Ike asked.
"Look more closely," Marth said.
Red turned to see glistening strings tightly set out throughout the air horizontally.
"Did someone tape a bunch of shiny strings end to end on the walls?" Ike asked.
"I don't think these are strings, they look pretty sharp," Red said.
Sharp... sharp...! Red realized and remember.
"Wasn't this the thing that was stuck in Popo's leg?!" Nana realized too.
"Yeah, a sharpened piano string," Marth said.
"What's so dangerous about a sharpened string?" Ike asked.
"The strings are so sharpened that even just a skim of a finger on it will get the finger scarred," Marth said, looking to the hand that had removed the string from Popo's leg. It still had a thin and narrow scab from when Marth had let the string rest on his hand.
"Then I'd rather not see what happens when full-out pressure is applied on it," Pit murmured.
They heard footsteps echo from the other side of the hall, which were the stairs from the second floor.
"Watch out!" Marth yelled as he saw a girl running down the stairs.
The girl had looked behind her to see if she was still being followed and when she turned back to hear Marth and misplaced her foot...
*SLICE*
The group watched in horror as the girl fell and had her head sliced off from her body.
Nana screamed and immediately sat in a fetal position, covering her ears and crying.
"Wh-What...?!" Marth gasped in horror as her head rolled around.
"It... It happened so quickly that she couldn't even scream!" Red said with his eyes widened.
Pit stared at the body and the head that kept rolling till it hit the body and stopped.
"I said I'd rather not see it..." Pit murmured to himself.
"That scream...!" Popo got up but fell back down to the bed.
"Ugh, this stupid cast!" Popo grumbled.
"Mrs.-"
"I'm not married."
"Whatever! Paula do you know where my crutches are?!"
"How do you want me to answer that? Me way or D*r*a the *x**orer way?"
"Just show-!"
Popo then saw his crutches, all the way across the room.
"Can you get them?"
"Hm..." Paula spun around on her office chair for a bit.
"Nope!" she happily said.
"Paula...!" Popo twitched.
"My order was, 'don't let Popo out of your sight!' from your sister!" Paula said.
"Dang it!" Popo yelled out of frustration.
Nana... Popo thought s he laid in the bed.