"Everyone. Everyone!" Sparklez's voice rang in his ears and Garrett awoke from a short slumber. He ran a hand through his hair. Boy, was he worn out. As Sparklez took a seat on the other end of the table with Jesse right behind him, he continued speaking while the others in the room took their own seats at the table. "Okay, we've all been freaking out, wondering why we've been brought here- well, including TorqueDawg, two of all of us haven't been invited, they were just here." Sparklez looked amongst the group, which was rather larger than it seemed. "Jesse uncovered a very important clue as to why all this is happening."

"What? Really?" Stampy questioned, raising an eyebrow. Even Garrett seemed to sit even straighter in his seat, leaning forward towards Sparklez, as he was very interested.

"Whoever killed TorqueDawg, whoever invited us…" Garrett got the feeling something was going to happen. He jumped on top of the table and ran up to the front.

"Garrett, what the hell?!" Lukas exclaimed, and the mechanism began to click.

"Sparklez!" Garrett exclaimed, leaping out to grab Sparklez's hand as the Captain flew backwards into his seat and into a hole. Garrett's eyes widened as he joined his friend in the hole. There were shouts and calls, the whole room was practically in chaos. The sand began to fall from there. All of a sudden, flames burst from the hole like a huge bonfire, making the sand turn into pieces of glass. And just like that, the second trap was outsmarted.

And just like that, the lights still went out as the others began to panic.

"Panicpanicpanicpanic- !" Stampy.

"What just happened?!" Lizzie.

"Stampy, pull yourself together!" Dan.

"Panicpanicpanicpanic- !" Stampy again. Gosh darnit, Stampy.

"I can't see!" Lizzie once again.

"Sparklez! Garrett!" Dan once more. That was the last thing anyone said before the lights came back on. Except, instead of the usual orange hue, the room was dimmed a light blue, by the white pumpkins that had taken the place of the redstone lamps.

"Greetings, adventurers!" A new voice boomed, echoing throughout the room. The group turned away from the new light source and facing the painting. It was someone with a blue jumpsuit and a white pumpkin as a mask. They wielded a diamond axe, much like the one Garrett had. "I… am the White Pumpkin." the voice declared, as they continued to panic on. There was still a hole in the ground where Sparklez and Garrett remained. Garrett was busy trying to bust the mechanism while Sparklez, still alive, was panicking himself, but he kept himself content and calm enough to not scream or shout. "One of you has the treasure I most desire and I will not rest until it is mine! Even if I have to resort…" The lights were killed again, and they flashed again, revealing not a painting, but the White Pumpkin himself. "... to murder!"

"More panicking! More panicking!" Stampy exclaimed, his arms in the air.

"What's happening?!" Lizzie exclaimed.

"I'm too cute to die!" Finally, someone different for once. This time, it was Cassie Rose who had spoke. And for the last time, the lights went out, and when they came back on, the painting was back. The really creepy one with the White Pumpkin on it.

"They killed Sparklez and Garrett! They killed them both!" Dan continued to panic. Stampy was already running out of the room.

"Woah, woah, hang on!" Lukas exclaimed, attempting to calm everyone down, but it was no use.

"This is awful! Terrible!" Stacy exclaimed, shaking as she backed away.

"Who was that guy?" Cassie asks. Lizzie was murmuring calming words to herself as she paced in circles, but the technique didn't work too well.

"And there's no such thing as 'white pumpkins!'" Dan exclaimed, looking at Jesse.

"Tell that to the white pumpkins hanging all over the place!" Stampy exclaimed, shoving past them all as he continued his panicking laps around the table. Cassie sat down on the floor, bringing her knees to her chest as she rocked herself back and forth.

"I don't like it. I really don't like it!" The once-calm Cassie Rose was finally panicking.

"The White Pumpkin, I saw him in the window when we were trying to find a way in!" Jesse exclaimed over the chaos, looking back at her friends. None of them had noticed that Sparklez and Garrett were alive, just stuck down the hole.

"Well, I'm gonna find a way out!" Cassie exclaimed, leaping to her feet and leaving the room in a rush with the small calico cat by her side. The redhead, if she even was a redhead (the hair looks like it's been dyed), had shoved past Stacy to get to her destination, which was kinda rude.

"So much for a nice dinner party…" Petra muttered, shaking her head. Stacy stood rooted to her spot. A scream, from Cassie, echoed through the house.

"Augh! Oh no!"

"I don't like the sound of that!" Ivor exclaimed, as Jesse and Lukas were the first two to rush out. The rest eventually followed into the main hall, where a trembling Cassie was backing away from open double doors. There were the many undead zombies out there, advancing to the door. Winslow even hissed at the approaching monsters, and Jesse exclaimed,

"Shut the door! Shut the door!" as she ran towards the doors. When Cassie didn't budge, she shoved the other out of the way, now standing face to face with some zombies. A quick move and the flick of the lever was all it needed to shut the iron doors.

"C'mere, Winslow.. There's no need to be scared…" Cassie cooed to her kitty cat, picking the calico up. "So we're stuck in here. And if we're all stuck in here… we're all doomed!" Cassie concluded, still holding the cat in her arms. Lizzie, Stacy, Dan, and Stampy entered the main hall. They hadn't bothered to check the hole for their friends' spilled inventories.

While the others were still trying to calm the others while calming themselves, Garrett was calming Sparklez down in the hole.

"Why hasn't anyone tried to look for us?" Sparklez asks, curled into a small ball in the corner. His knees were hugged to his chest, as Garrett removed the pressure plates that would launch another set of sand at them if the trap was triggered again by Jesse or someone else.

"Look, if no one will come to help us out, we'll help ourselves out, alright? What do you have on you that's climb-worthy?"

"Just some stone brick blocks… I thought you had stone and wood."

"I do, I just wanted to know what we got. Can you stand?"

"Ahh, not really." Sparklez shook his head, looking down at his leg. "I busted my leg pretty badly on the landing when I was first thrown down here."

"Alright. I'll make the path so you could climb your way out instead of having to jump from one block to another and risk killing yourself…" Garrett paused, "Again." he added, with a nod as he gave his friend a small sly smile.

"Ha-ha." Sparklez chuckles, rolling his eyes. Garrett smiles. At least they were still a bit positive about it all. Garrett took his own wood blocks and placed them in a spiral stair pattern. He ran out just when they were reaching the top. "Uh, it looks like you're a bit short."

"That's fine. I should be able to pull you up from there." Garrett shook it off. His side did hurt a little, but he could stay strong for the others. Garrett himself went up, and watched as Sparklez followed behind him with a bit of difficulty. Garrett jumped up a bit to grab the wall and pull himself up and onto the floor. The blackette then reach over the edge to help Sparklez up. Their hands grasping one another's, Garrett gave Sparklez a nod.

"On three, jump with your good foot, alright? Then I'll pull you up from there." Garrett commanded, and Sparklez nodded.

"Alright, I got it."

"One, two… three!" Garrett grunted, pulling Sparklez up and over the side. Like that, they were both finally out.

"Hey, Garrett…" Sparklez said, sprawkled on the floor next to Garrett. "If it weren't for you, I probably woundn't have been able to get out of there alive. You probably just saved my life."

"Hey, it's no problem, Mr. PP." Garrett took a deep breath and stood. He released a breath before helping Sparklez up. Garrett pulled Sparklez's arm around his neck while his own arm went around his waist to help him around.

"Thanks." Sparklez grunted, getting himself comfy with the help. "Where could the others be?" Sparklez asks, looking around. The dining hall was empty.

"Maybe the main hall." Garrett guessed, looking around. The first thing he noticed were the white pumpkins on the chandeliers instead of the normal redstone lamps that were there before they were thrown down the hole. Then, there was the newer picture. The one with the White Pumpkin holding his axe.

"Wow, the picture's creepy." Sparklez muttered as the two continued looking around. "Don't you have an axe, Garrett? The diamond one?"

"I do. I get the feeling that I landed here because I'm the framer, you know?"

"I get that feeling too. You would never kill anyone for a key to home. I mean, you'd probably fight for it, but you wouldn't actually murder someone for it."

"Exactly. Thanks for believing I wasn't the one, Sparklez." Garrett gave him a smile. Sparklez winked back, and Garrett remembered that there was still a killer on the loose. "Come on, we should regroup with the others." He finally spoke at last, then Sparklez nodded. It was a bit difficult to get the Captain walking with his bad leg, but they made it to the door in less than a few minutes. They could hear the voices on the other side.

"And just like that… The portraits are X'ed!" Ivor.

"Well, there's no certain pattern, so we don't know who is next." Petra.

"That's good, right?" Lizzie.

"Yes and no. Someone else may die unless we stop this White Pumpkin, but it's better than just telling someone that they're next, you know what I mean?" Lukas.

"But wait, what was it that Sparklez said that the Pumpkin may be after? A flint-" Stacy began, but the two had made their surprise entrance through the door.

"-and steel? Yeah, an enchanted type." Sparklez spoke up, shortly before Garrett kicked the door open with a foot.

"What the hell?" Petra mutters in confusion.

"You're alive?" Cassie exclaimed, shock and surprise etched on her face.

"Either that, or we're all dead." Stacy deadpanned, as Dan rushed up to help Garrett get Sparklez to a seat.

"How did you even-" Jesse was dumbfounded. She was right there when they had supposedly 'died.'

"Fire turns sand into glass, don't you know?" Garrett questioned her, raising an eyebrow at her.

"So you really are a fire elemental like your portrait shows!" Ivor exclaimed, motioning up to the X'ed out portrait of Garrett.

"Yes, I am." Garrett confessed with a sigh as Sparklez was finally in a seat.

"That's actually really cool." Dan spoke, before realizing what he said.

"That was ironic of you to say." Stampy laughs a little.

"But what's up with the X'ed out portraits? You aren't dead, so…" Petra trailed off, looking up and over at the portraits.

"Well, let's just say that this 'White Pumpkin'... is a little too itchy for their flint and steel." Garrett looked around the room. His eyes landed on Cassie Rose. She did seem familiar, after all….

And that is a wrap!

Well, things just got intense! Don't worry, Sparklez (maybe) will still die, just a little time change.

Does Garrett already suspect Cassie Rose? Or is it something totally different?

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And I will see YOU, in the next chapter…

Til then, dear readers!