@Zyflair: That's what I was trying to get at. Me being the
not-researcher I am, I found you were a previous mod, so it was a nice parodying, I guess.
@DV57: Thanks for the comments.
@Apollo: I understand now. Thank you for explaining in detail.
I need everything explained in detail
The Tale Of Pokebeach - Murder All Over - Chapter 6
"What are you two doing outside?" Shadow Arceus asked Safariblade and Zyflair.
"We were just talking, if you don't mind," Zyflair answered.
"Well, come inside. I need help searching for clues," he imperaitively said to them. The two sighed, but followed him inside. "I need to find something that could unlock that door downstairs. Just then, P0KEVORTEX came running through with something that looked shiny to Shadow Arceus. He suddenly realized that it was the key to the door downstairs. P0KEVORTEX stopped and looked at them.
"I found a key in a storage room down that hall!" he exclaimed.
"That's great," Omahanime interrupted. "I think you should open the door now," he said sarcastically. P0KEVORTEX opened the door as everyone rushed into the foyer.
All of a sudden, something strange happened. The lights went out, and Bippa started screaming. Zyflair tried to hush him, but then the chandelier crashed to the ground, which made Bippa scream even more. The candles went out, and the mirror in the corner of the room showed the mirror image of Safariblade, except it was a image of somone strange. Someone creepy and quiet in the mirror, and they glowed an eerie color that made everyone shudder. Safariblade moved out of the way, but the image was still in the mirror. Everyone looked around in the pitch darkness to see if the image was coming from anywhere. Snivylover clutched to someone in the darkness, and Bippa would not stop screaming. A voice came out from somewhere.
"Why do you come here? Are you trying to cause problems?" Bippa started screaming even louder now. "I will make sure not one of you leaves this mansion with the fact you have seen me! You will all regret the moment you set foot in here!" and then the image disappeared. For a slight moment, there was no sound and no images. Even Bippa did not make a sound. Bippa tried to yell, but nothing came out. Suddenly everyone had disappeared from everyone's vision, and the eyes of everyone began to spin. Then everyone saw nothing, and suddenly everyone was on the ground. They were stuck in the mansion.
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Snivylover woke up next to Afro-G on the ground, and found they were by themselves.
"Do you know where we are?" Snivylover asked Afro-G.
"I'm honestly not sure, but I have a feeling we are somewhere in the mansion," Afro-G said while he was on the ground. They got up, and looked around. This was an exercise room, with no doubt in either of their minds. Exercise equipment hung from the rooms, but the room was only lit by the faint light of candles, which allowed them to only see where they were moving on the ground and the walls that surrounded the room. They both groped around the room for some sort of door until Snivylover tripped on something.
"Ow!" Snivylover yelped. Afro-G found her on the ground.
"Did you trip on something?" he asked.
"I think so," Snivylover responded in pain. She hadn't known what she had tripped on, but she knew something was wrong, because nothing was on the ground. "I think I sprained my ankle. Can you help me?" she asked, and Afro-G instantly picked her up.
"I guess I'll have to carry you until we find something to sit you down on," Afro-G said to Snivylover. "It's just the two of us. For now, anyways."
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Shadow Arceus found himself falling. Deeper and deeper, he thought. But when would he stop? He finally hit the ground, and he screamed and found himself inside of some sort of chest. He opened the chest ever so slowly in fear, and saw a figure. The lights were on in the room, and Shadow Arceus recognized the person. It was Zyflair. Shadow Arceus gasped, and Zyflair screamed, then breathed a sigh of relief.
"You gave me a heart attack," Zyflair said in a quivered voice.
"If you actually had a heart attack, you'd be clutching your heart and be on the ground, and I wouldn't come to your rescue, of course," Shadow Arceus explained sassily.
"I don't appreciate this tone of yours," Zyflair replied with a sigh.
"Of all people I could have been stuck with in here, why am I stuck with you?" Shadow Arceus asked sarcastically. Zyflair got angry at this moment.
"You know, I didn't expect this to happen. Your greed has put us in the situation. I'm almost positive we're in the mansion anyway, so why complain? If you're so focused on catching this murderer, then why wait? Go ahead, you don't need my help, if that's what you claim. You selfish, greedy delinquent!" he said in an enraged voice. Shadow Arceus sighed.
"Fine, if you insist," Shadow Arceus replied. "You can be my servant."
"Oh no, I'm not stooping to that low ever again! I used to have power, you know, I used to have fame and fortune, but you know where all that went? Down the drain." Zyflair explained. "I used to be a beloved king, you know, in a place where the word evil wasn't even in the dictionary. We were peaceful there, and I've never been in a situation where I've had to fight for myself. It's changed me, yes. For the better? I'm not sure. Is being peaceful the thing everyone in this world wants? I'll have to figure this out myself. So if you want to find this murderer, I am in charge." Zyflair continued.
"You see?" Shadow Arceus said. "This is what a person like you should be doing. Taking charge, instead of serving others that have no rights in making you serve them. You think I wanted you to serve me? Of course, but you're not the person to do so. My life has been full of twists and turns lately, and I've learned that I person like myself doesn't deserve this kind of treatment, being handled by others and being told what to do. I don't deserve all of this pain, and all of this grief against me. I don't deserve any of it." he said in one breath.
"Do you deserve it? Or have you simply ignored the fact that things like these happen to you for a reason? I've always believed there is a reason for good things and bad things to happen to people, and I still believe it." Zyflair looked Shadow Arceus in the eye. "And you should believe it too." And at that moment, Shadow Arceus suddenly realized that he must have been trapped in this mansion for a reason. He realized he is here to capture a murderer, someone ruthless and violent. He knew his job was to catch this monster.
"So where do we start in this situation we find ourselves in?" Shadow Arceus asked.
"I suppose we can look around this room and find something of actual worth," Zyflair added.
"Let's get to work!" Shadow Arceus exclaimed. Zyflair looked at him with a grin on his face. "I mean, let's get to work together," he rephrased, this time emphasizing together.
"There you go," Zyflair explained. "You're finally dragging your image away as an individual. You need to realize that you need others to help you, and that being rude to them will never end in your benefit." Shadow Arceus nodded to show he understood.
"Now where to start..." Shadow Arceus thought to himself.
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"Stay back, I said!" someone screamed. Another person woke up to see somebody pointing a large rod at them. It was pitch dark in the room, and the person on the ground woke up to see Safariblade poking something at them.
"Safariblade, is that you?" they asked. Safariblade stopped and recognized the voice.
"Omahanime?" he clarified. Safariblade groped around for the light switch and finally found it. He turned on the lights, and they both breathed a sigh of relief.
"Hey...." Omahanime realized. "This is the kitchen!" And they both realized they were near where they had started. They saw the oven in which Darkvoid57 had been pulled into, and they saw the huge bed where Zyflair had rested.
"I wonder why we were transported in the first place," Safariblade wondered. He looked at Omahanime. "Where do you think the others are?" he asked.
"Hm..." Omahanime thought. He looked around the room, and he tried to open the door to the foyer, but it wouldn't open. "This door won't open. I wonder why?"
"Even if it did open, I'm never going back into that room again," Safariblade said. As soon as he had said this, he had realized Bippa was gone. "Oh no! My poor Bippa! He must have been separated! I hope he's with someone...." Safariblade thought as he began to panic.
"I'm sure he'll be fine," Omahanime assured. He's probably with one of the others, safe and sound. We're together, so I assume we've been split in groups of two," he explained.
"I suppose," Safariblade thought. "
But that murderer....," he thought to himself. "Okay, I guess he'll be fine." Safariblade plopped into the bed with exhaustion as Omahanime looked around the room. He noticed something wrong with the oven. Behind the oven, there was a part of the oven that had a lighter shade of color than the rest of the oven. He opened up the oven, and was surpised to see a parchment smashed inside the oven. He opened up the paper.
"Safariblade, come look at this," he said in excitement and anxiousness. Omahanime read the note aloud as Safariblade crept over.
"Diligent as a mouse,
Oblivious to the naked eye,
Never going to be found, I hope,
Or maybe they'll find my location,
Telling others will lead to the finder's doom,
Or they could get away with it,
Piles upon piles of information,
Encompassed within the hottest of the hot,
Never going to be found, I hope."
"I wonder what that means," Omahanime thought.
"Maybe there's some sort of code in the message," Safariblade thought.
"Yes, that's got to be it," Omahanime replied. "This message is too vague to get any solid information from it. We'll have to look at this later. I need a nap." Omahanime flopped into the bed, but he was too large for the bed. The bed collapsed, and he found himself on a mattress on the ground. Safariblade broke out laughing at this, while Omahamine blushed.
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A song was playing somewhere. Somebody woke up to find themselves on top of a piano. Another person in the same room noticed the song, and walked quietly to find a light. The first perosn heard them walking around, and their eyes peeled open as they asked with a quivering voice, "W-W-Who's there?"
The other person turned around, and finally found the light. They switched on the light, and the two people both screamed. PMJ and Dmaster suddenly recognized eachother, and suddenly laughed in relief. They gave eachother a hug, and they started talking in shaking voices.
"How did we even get here?" PMJ asked. "And in a music room, at that?"
"I'm honestly not too sure," Dmaster replied. "But I think we got separated from everyone else. Do you know how this even happened?"
"Remember that image in that mirror?" PMJ reminded Dmaster. "I think we ended up here because of it."
"I think that would be a nice guess as to what happened," Dmaster replied. They both noticed their grammar had become suddenly better lately. PMJ looked at all of the instruments in the room.
"Maybe we should try to make some use out of these instruments," PMJ thought.
"But we don't know how to play any of these instruments," Dmaster reminded PMJ.
"So what? Maybe music isn't our thing, but maybe our time here will let us learn about these insturments," PMJ responded. "That is, however long we're going to be in here."
"I didn't really think instruments was a girls thing," Dmaster thought.
"What are you talking about?" PMJ asked, as if talking to a moron. "Some of the greatest musicians in the history of music have been females. I learned that in Music class. Maybe we can be one of them," she continued.
"I suppose," Dmaster considered the thought of them being super musicians. "Let's give it a go." And so PMJ grabbed the trombone, while Dmaster took the piano.
"Are you familiar with the piano?" PMJ asked.
"Not at all," Dmaster replied. "What about you and that big trombone?"
"I guess not, but I'll be familiar soon," PMJ joked. She noticed the sheets of music on the ground. "Hey, let's try this piece of music! It's called 'The Moon's Sorrow.', " PMJ suggested.
"No problem," Dmaster said in confidence. "Looks easy to me." But it wasn't as easy as they thought. As soon as they started, a piercing noise was echoed throughout the hall from their playing.
"I think we need some more practice," PMJ said. They both laughed in girly voices in agreement.
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Bippa wandered down an empty hallway. He noticed a small washroom down the dark hallway, but he wasn't surre where he was, and he wanted his dad. But he knew not to cry, since somebody might hear him and mistake him for someone dangerous. Or worse, the murderer could find him. He walked slowly down the hallway, like a curious child looking for his mother in a big house. A tear dripped down Bippa's cheek as he thought of his mother, but he pushed on. He needed to find someone. Suddenly, Bippa saw a small notebook on the ground. It didn't have a title, and it didn't have anything in it, except for a sharpened pencil. Right in the middle of the hallway. Bippa found this odd, but he picked it up anyway, and opened a door, which was unlocked. He found himself in a huge ballroom, lighted and everything. Bippa thought he would be comfortable here, so he sat in the middle of the room and began writing in the little notebook he had found. He titled it "Bippa's Adventures." He had gotten pretty good at his spelling and handwriting, so he could share this with his dad if he ever saw him. He also wondered what had happened, and where everyone was. To think what the murderer could have done, he shuddered to think about it. But he was safe, and he had to think about himself. He began to write.
"I've found myself in a weird place. I don't know where I am, and where everyone else is, but I am safe for now. I hope to find others here, hopefully my dad, so we can be together. I know he cares for me, and I care for him too. I wonder if I'll ever see him again."
Bippa stopped. He would write more later, but he thought if he was in the ballroom, he may as well look around for something interesting, like any curious child would.
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Whew! That was a lot of writing. I finally hit the 2000+ word mark (2493 to be exact), so I'm happy for that. I hope you all realize this is a major turning point in the story. New things will happen in this story, and the group of bullies will begin to work with Dragonexpert on the zoo/farm. The reason I did not include them in this chapter was because I wanted to focus on the characters in the mansion. Feel free to make predictions, C/C, and anything else! Thanks!