\Alex's POV/
I watched as Mitch came back down the stairs from checking on Quentin. There was nothing wrong with Mitch, He had the same charming smile on his face as normal and his hair was pushed as spikes.
I didn't know what it was but after Bodil's death I had became very tense. I had let myself off guard and got drunk, I made sure that didn't happen tonight. Everyone was digging into the wine but I didn't, I stayed sober.
My arm was slowly going dead as David was resting on it. I truly loved him, His eyes, his hair, his smile, his scent.. God I sounds creepy.
I bring my eyes off Mitch who had gone over to Mika and brung them to scope out everyone else. We were all in the hallway that had all our rooms on it, sitting on the floor or standing up with drinks.
We would of gone into the hall but Herobrine had blocked it off as he was cleaning up the snowy mess. We were also planning to go into the lounge but Mitch and Mika had insisted that we shouldn't. I have no idea why though, I think it has something to do with the basement as even Ty was smirking and looking at his book like he knew something was up. I will need to check that room after tonight, Just to make sure I am right.
Thinking about it, There are many things I want to do in this mansion before I go. I want to check out the rooms again and I want to find this basement. Maybe I could find something for David as a present..
"Alie.." David cooed the nickname he had given me. I turned to face his sea-blue eyes lovingly looking at me.
"Yes, Davie" I joked and chuckled a little and he joined in. After we had stopped he came close to my ear.
"I think we should have a head start on these bums! Let's get our weapons now!" He whispered to me, his warm breath on my cheek. Wait! Weapons!?
"What!?" I whisper shout to him while turning and facing him with a worried expression, My heart's pace was fast and I had sweat slipping down my head. He wasn't planning to murder anyone, was he?
His face showed confusion too until he snapped and began laughing "No! I meant the pillows! Jeez Al, Who do you think I am!? I would never murder anyone!" He laughed quietly. I breathed in relief as my heart pace slowed down.
"Wow, You scared me then.." I gasped as I smiled. He was holding back a massive laugh until he finally let it loose making everyone stare at us in confusion.
"Come on, Let's go get the stuff then" I wink at him as I get up and stretch my legs before turning around and entering my room. I pulled my pillow off my messy bed when I got hit in the back of the head with a soft object. I turn to see David holding his pillow ready to fight.
"Hey, I'm your teammate! Let's fight the enemy's, not each other!" I ordered and he nodded.
We both snuck a peak at the hallway, at our victims. I looked at David and mouthed '3, 2, 1' and on 1 we charged. I went straight for Jerome, Jazz, Mitch and Mika, whereas David went to get Jason, Edward, Seto and Ian. Ty and Sally were left to spectate our attack.
I smashed them with my pillow getting reactions of yelping, laughs and yells of protest; This was fun. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Jason escape from David's attack to get his pillow. As I was distracted Mitch slipped away and got his pillow and launched a re-bound on me.
Soon enough everyone, except Ty who was avoiding us, were involved in the fight. There were feathers everywhere, It was a real mess. I wonder if Herobrine would yell at us? My pillow was already broken so I ended up defending myself by chucking the feathers at people.
After a couple of minutes I finally got a chance to breath as I sat by Ty who was reading his book. I glimpsed over his shoulder to see that in 10 minutes Herobrine was going to come and yell at us. I was about to read the ones above that but he closed the old book quickly and smacked me with it.
"Hey!" I complained rubbing my head.
"Dont be nosey then" He smiled and turned to me. We just glared at each other, It was like a staring contest, The first one to look away loses.. It was weird, Was Ty enjoying himself? Is that why he was smiling? Or was he just planning something?
We stayed like that for what felt like hours until David came over making us both look to him. He held his empty ripped pillow and he looked tired, almost panicked.
"You guys alright?" He asked breathing heavily, He sat down next to me.
"Yeah Im fine" I answered. I landed my eyes to me right on Ty waiting for his response.
"Im good, Today has been reasonably fun" Ty replied looking up. I was taken back by his reply, Ty was having fun!? Well, He is a normal human like us. Maybe I just had the wrong impression of him... Then again, He did make Adam kill Edward.
"So, David. Where have you been, I couldn't see you in the fight" Ty questioned as his eyes landed on David. I turned to David on my left who in one second shot a death glare at Ty then went back to a straight face.
"I went to find more pillows, I couldn't see any though" He shrugged. I was about to comment when the dining room doors swang open and hit the sides of the walls with a bang.
"What have you done!?" Herobrine's booming voice called. Everyone instantly dropped the pillows and looked at each other for someone to say something.
"Never mind! Get to bed now! You'll sleep without pillows tonight!" He finished after no one responded. With that everyone rushed into their room except me, Ty and David who waited till everyone was gone before slowly getting up and going. Herobrine had already started to cleanup the mess. I heard him sigh and mutter 'Dumb kids' as I walked into my room and closed the door.
I fell asleep straight away for some weird reason.. Was it the fact that I trusted these people not to kill me? Or is it just my stupidity..
-*-
I awoke by Herobrine talking over his mic. "A body has been discovered! You know the drill! You have a certain amount of time before the trial begins" I jumped up throwing my cover onto the floor. Oh no!? Who's died!? David? No!
I sprint out of my room to see him standing there with a confused look. I sigh in relief and hug him tightly. "You okay?" He asks as I let go.
"Yeah.. Who's been murdered?" I quietly ask, He just shrugs. We both look to where the stairs are to see Jerome standing and holding the bannister with Sally and Ty who were sitting down comforting each other. I guess they were the three that saw the body. Herobrine did say that three people had to see the body before it was announced to everyone else.
"Guys?" Mitch called, I realised that everyone else was up and out of their dorms looking at the three.
"I-it's Quentin" Jerome chocked not able to say anymore.
"He's in the jacuzzi" Ty added, He actually seemed a little shaky like Jerome and Sally which was weird for him.. Was Quentin's death that bad?
We all walked in silence up to the forth floor. The journey seemed to last forever, I guess it's the anticipation.. What had happened to him? When? Who? W-Why?
Once up we each crowded around the Jacuzzi, It's cover was over it. Mitch slowly pushed the cover button making the cover automatically slide away. What lay inside the Jacuzzi flipped my stomach, I felt sick slowly crawl up my throat..
Quentin's blood had turned small parts of the water red as it flowed out of him, His skin had peeled and flesh had come off him. His eyes were wide open as well as his mouth like he was calling for our help... It was the most disgusting thing I had ever seen.
"We better start looking f-for clues" Seto quivered, He had picked up on the idea of the 'kill or be killed' thing after losing all his memories.
"Y-yep.." Edward agreed. I closed my eyes tight, I knew we would have to search but this was too gruesome.. Too disgusting for anyone to see or have done to them.. Im sorry Quentin.
I opened them again to see people already looking. I decided to join them, I have to avenge my friends death.
I glanced at Quentin's body trying to not make eyes contact with him. He's wrinkly as if he had been in the water for awhile. The temperature the water had been turned up to was 450°C.. Thats odd.. why spend all this time changing the temperature that high? And why wouldnt Quentin stop them? God, What is going on?
I over heard Ian, Jason and Edward talking. I glanced up at them, Ian was about to touch the blood coloured water.
"What are you doing!?" I shouted in shock. Ian stopped with his hand a centimetre above the water.
"We need to check how warm the water is to see if the killing was done recently or awhile ago" He answered dipping his index finger in the water and quickly pulling it out. "It's freezing cold.."
So what have we got: a murder that happened in the night, They killed Quentin by drowning and burning him.. This isnt much to go off..
-*-
After some minutes of checking downstairs Herobrine made the announcement that the trial would start. I waited patiently to be teleported.. This was going to be hard...