Day 12 

It seems that Ima shall not have many happy returns of her birthday- much to the Admin Impersonator and Admin Impersonator Impersonator's dismay. Sadly, Ima was distracted while skiing and ran into a tree. Ouch. The question is, who was skiing with her and distracted her?

Daffodil: Melody did. 

Melody: Daffodil did.

Daffodil: You're lying!

Melody: No, you are!

The ghosts cause a slight diversion by coming through the wall.

Ima: I'm back!

The doctor: Are you guys fighting over who the murderer is? Honestly. Everyone here already knows. (The ghosts know who killed them, the murderer knows who they are, and the other alive person knows that it isn't themself.)

Red: We're coming back today because it's harder to set up punchlines with just two people. And Theo's death yesterday was too dramatic because the narrator got really into it. (Does anyone recognise what book the rabbit came from?)

Theo: I'll say. 

Blue Fairy: Hey, are you guys planning some epic showdown? Where the murderer reveals who she truly is?

Miki: It's too bad True's not here. Otherwise, we could have made a pun. 

BHR: But it would have been a truly bad pun.

Gollum: Like that one wasn't?

Teresa: Blue Fairy, what kind of epic showdown are you planning?

Blue Fairy: Daffodil and Melody should have a sword fight.

Miki: And we'll kick Red out this time!

Red: Hey, you guys were going to cheerlead.

Melody: That's a great plan, Blue Fairy, excpet for the slight fact that we have no swords. Or at least I don't.

Daffodil: I don't either!

Blue Fairy: No worries. While you two were sitting around skiing and killing people, I went home and got your lightsaber!

Miki: More reason to kick Red out.

Melody: How do you expect us to have a lightsaberfight with only one lightsaber? 

Daffodil: I suppose one of us could start with it, and every minute we give the lightsaber to the other person?

Gollum: Isn't that just chasing each other with lightsabers?

BHR: Gollum, stop being the straight man.  You're making too much sense. 

Ima: Does any other ghost have any random lightsabers hidden up their sleeves?

Teresa: Does anyone have a sleeve big enough to hide a light saber in the first place?

Miki: Maybe you guys will just have to settle it with a Pokemon battle.

Daffodil: What.

Melody: That's not quite as epic as a lightsaber battle.

BHR: You could take two DSs and fight with the styluses!

Blue Fairy: That's still not very epic.

Theo: That sounds like an excellent way to poke someone's eye out.

Miki: *Gasp* Foreshadowing alert!

Teresa: Eeew! That's gross!

Red: The whole time you guys have been arguing, I went to an ex-friends house and borrowed her lightsaber. So now there are two. And you guys can fight.

Gollum: "Borrowed"? 

Red: Well, it takes an extremely talented person to see ghosts and I'm afraid she just doesn't have the talent. So she doesn't know. But I'll bring it back! 

Ima: That's likely.

The doctor: What time?

Melody: How about noon Central Time? (That's when I'll submit it, or maybe a few minutes before. Depends on how long it takes to write.)

Daffodil: I can't believe you're going along with this...

Melody: Look, we both know who the murderer is, right? And we both want to know how they did it. You better have a pretty good explanation, Daffodil.

Daffodil: You too.

Red and BHR: Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!

Daffodil: Yeah. We're kicking you all out.

All ghosts: Whaaaaattttt?

Melody: This is serious business! We don't want a commentary!

Gollum: Isn't the narrator going to be doing that anyway?

Miki: Come on, Theo! Operation Puppy Dog Eyes is beginning!

Theo: Pleaaaaaaaassssseeeeeeee?

Melody: Sorry, Blue's tried that too many times!

Blue Fairy: I was crazy when I was younger. 

Melody: Younger? Didn't you try that yesterday?

Daffodil: That won't work on me either. I'm a little sibling.

Ima: I like how we just completely broke the fourth wall today. 

Theo: I've been doing that all the time during this trip! 

Teresa: So, the epic showdown between Daffodil and Melody will be broadcast tomorrow at noon Central Time or somewhat close to that, depending on what time the Admin can get on and what time The Omnipotent Narrator finishes typing it. Be there or be square! 

I wouldn't take offense to it if I was the killer or if anyone thought that.

HA BLUE FAIRY. I WIN THE BET

Day 13

Friday the 13th. The auspicious day for the murderer to reveal their identity. But first, a few small items of business.

1) The ghosts were all kicked out. It was rather hard until Melody threatened to call the Ghostbusters.  

2) Jem Louise Margaret returned from wherever she was hiding the past two days (naturally, we can asume that she was stabbed on those days.) and accidentally stabbed herself with a lightsaber while cleaning them for the big event.

3) Melody forgot to sing a song yesterday (Please say your bet with Blue Fairy didn't have to do with that) so she will sing two today! The first one was completely random and out of the blue, "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" because that is a classic Disney song. The second one... shall make sense in context.

Friday the 13th. It's an unlucky day for one of our number- but for whom? The morning begins quietly enough, with both girls keeping out of each other's way. One girl will be going home today- but which one? It's currently 11:50. Daffodil sits in her room, on her bed. She's been practicing with the lightsaber. She wants to go home, even if she is innocent. If there's a chance to beat Melody... Daffodil is going to take it. She's not as innocent or delicate as her name suggests. Daffodil is strong and she is going to win this battle or die trying. Melody is also in her room. Waiting. She's been too afraid to practice with the lightsaber for a while... But she's sure that all her old experience will come back to her. Melody is going to prove something today. She's going to prove that her life is worth more than just a few songs. And Melody knows something. Melody knows she is going to go home today, but she knows she won't be able to until she kills Daffodil. It could be a favor to the world- killing a murderer who has already killed nine other people. Or it could be Melody making sure nobody witnessed the crimes she had committed.

The girls meet up in the large ballroom with their lightsabers. Both are determined to win. The large grandfather clock strikes twelve. All the clocks wish they could watch. They have seen many strange things other clocks dream about watching. They have seen many lives come and go in this strange house of murder. They have watched the girl come to the ski lodge. They have watched as she has removed each of her fellow ski lodgers. They know this girl very well. They are sad they will not see her die, for the clocks know who will win this mad game. This is their last entertainment, but it shall be a grand one. Grand indeed. 

The battle begins. The ski lodge is a strange place, and plastic lightsabers that come into it don't stay very long as plastic. These girls are dueling with real lightsabers, so there is no room for mistake. None whatsoever. The battle is very close- but finally something trips Daffodil and she falls. Her lightsaber drops to the floor and before she can grab it, Melody traps it under her foot and pushes it away. It skitters across the hardwood. Melody advances, holding her lightsaber out in front of her. Daffodil backs away quickly on her hands and knees until she realises she's been herded into a corner. Trapped. Melody points the lightsaber at her neck.

"That was a good fight," Melody says. "I haven't had such a good time in a long, long time. This whole trip has been fun. I never thought I would end up becoming a murderer but there's something here that grabs a hold of you, forces you to turn to your most animal instincts. This whole ski lodge- it turns people into predators. But all the same- are we prey? The ski lodge plays with us just as much as we play within it. The only way out is by death- die and you're free but dead. The only way it will let you out alive is if you play its game and kill all the others. It's nothing personal, really.

"I didn't want to at first. But it just came to me. I was in the library and I saw the docotr and something told me to put out my hands and push the shelf- push it hard- and I did and the whole thing came over. It was so easy. So easy to end a human life. I was amazed and I think that amazement caught me and made me want to do it again. The fragility of human life fascinated me and that fascination took over. So that night, I left the lodge to take a walk. I ended up going down one of the ski slopes and I found a frozen pond. It was so beautiful. The next day, Blu wanted to go skiing with me and she wanted to go on the run I'd been down on the night before. The fascination woke up again. I told her to go first. Those few little words could end a person's life. The fascination grew larger. Oh, I knew it was wrong of me. I knew that I shouldn't have. I fought with myself and the fascination won and from then on there was no turning back. I wanted to experiment. So I picked Gollum, who had been making fun of my singing. I asked her to come to see a volcano with me and then I pushed her in. Words and a push- a combination of the two deaths I had already tried. The next death was a matter of precaution. I needed my own room to plan murders, so Teresa had to go. I built a straw dummy and put it in my bed so if Teresa looked over at my bed, I would appear to be in it and sound asleep. The murder went well, only Jem Louise Margaret found me. I think she's a part of the lodge- the whole lodge knows who is doing the murders but it won't tell anyone. She never told anyone that I was the one who stabbed her that night. Come morning, I acted like I was in shock. I'm a good actress. BHR suspected me, I think. So I clocked her over the head with several large books. She fell over so fast, I wasn't sure if she was dead or not. But she was. Ima actually suggested Harry Potter Puppet Pals the next day, which was an excellent idea. I've searched the ski lodge thoroughly and I've found several interesting objects, one such being a time bomb that looks like a fake. It wasn't. That's the one that Miki set off. The next death happened during Ima's party. While you guys were playing Super Smash Bros., I noticed Red leave. I followed him, thinking that this would be a good chance to kill him. He walked to a cliff and stood at the edge and started speaking, 'I can feel it taking over you. Don't worry. It won't last. Once you leave, you won't ever feel compelled to take lives ever again. You'll be taken care of very nicely. It won't hurt. The Omnipotent Narrator knows what it's doing... Or at least it thinks it does. Would you mind pushing me? I'm afraid I'm a bit too much of a coward to jump.' So I pushed him. What he said- about how something was compeling me to kill- made m realise something. This isn't me. The ski lodge is making me do this. The next day, I called the rabbit. I found a flute a while ago that a rabbit carved into it. I figured that it would have something to do with the proprietress's letter. I was right. The rabbit came and did in Theo for me. Lastly, I convinced Ima to come skiing with me and I said, "Oh, look, is that an owl?" and she looked. I distracted her just long enough so she ran into a tree. That leaves onyl you. You're the last one and now that you know everything, I can't let you live. Goodbye, Daffodil. I had lots of fun knowing you."

That night, a charter bus picked up a quiet young teenage girl. "You skiing up here? Did you have fun?" the driver asked.

"It was pleasant," the girl replied.

Rest in peace, Daffodil. Rest in peace.

The driver listened to the girl humming in the back seat. Was that... "Friends on the Other Side"? Stranger things had happend up here.

At a pool party, two girls were saying Mel and I were murders, then said only Mel was, I guess they're right. I'm scared Mel's gonna murder me....she sleeps in the same room as me......

The bet was she said it was Ima and I said it was me or Daffodil.

Thanks for the epic villain speech.  I appreciate it.  

Also, I loved the "I've Got Friends on the Other Side" part.  *grins evilly*

Thanks for the great laughs.  Thanks for the whole 'Disney song a day' thing.  Thanks for making me realize how creepy I really am.  And all in all, thanks for a great murder mystery.

Lastly, HA HA I'M STILL ALIVE GUYS! 

OMG!  That was amazing!  Can you do another one?  Please?

Cappie says robb.  Good idea, Cappie.  Yes, I will rob you if you don't.

I came too late for this murder mystery, but I followed this one til the (INCREDIBLY AWESOME) end and will join the next one!

TON, will you reveal yourself? I'll just ask one question and try to narrow down your identity from there: Are you a new user, or an old user posing as TON?