Iskall was currently talking to Wels and Ren when all three of their communicators started blowing up with messages.

Iskall looks at their communicator and looks extremely worried. "Guy's Stress just sent an SOS in the chat and hasn't responded.." They look up at the other two.

"Dudes we should go find her, if she just sent that she's most likely in some kind of trouble." Said Ren while getting up to grab some items. He grabs a some fireworks. 

"Agreed, Iskall, Ren you two go check the jungle as you know it better than I do. I'll check the shopping dis-" Wels was cut off by a slight glare by Iskall.

"No Wels the three of us will go together." Iskall picked up their sword.

"Fine, but we need to start splitting up soon. We need to do actual work." Responded the knight while putting his helmet on.

"Fine. Let's go." Said Iskall while checking their elytra.

"I'm already to go my dudes" Ren said while waiting at the door for the others to get ready to go and check on Stress. Iskall and Wels go over to the door, the three of them walk out of Ren's base and fire off their fireworks. The three of them sore through the air and head to Stress' base, Ren leading the way.  Ren's tail get's a bit thrown around by the harsh cold wind. Wels is a bit slower in the air due to his custom armor being a bit heavier than the other's. 

All three of them land at the skull base. "I'll check inside. Ren what's with that face?" Iskall spoke. Ren had a somewhat disgusted look on his face.

"I smell blood... Lot's of it and it's coming from the skull... We should go in there" Ren's wolf ears are down. He walks into the skull as Iskall and Wels follow him in. All three of them see what looks like blood on the floor next to the down elevator. Ren runs into the up bubblevator, Iskall and Wels quickly follow behind him. 

Ren is staring at the corpse of Stress in terror and sadness, he's whimpering a bit and heads over to her. Iskall see's her arm on the floor next to the bed. "Oh notch.." Iskall barely recognized their own voice. 

Wels was horrified by the sight of everything, he couldn't believe that what he's seeing is real. He gulped before speaking. "I'm.. I'm going to tell Xisuma to come here.." He felt sick and couldn't bare looking at all the blood even though he is a knight. Wels turns around and messages Xisuma.

Welsknight:  Xisuma you need to come to Stress' base now! 

XisumaVoid: What's going on?

Welsknight: It's really hard to explain over text and you really need to be here.

XisumaVoid: Is Stress there?

Welsknight: yes.

XisumaVoid: Ok, omw.

Wels didn't look back at the bloody side of the room, he could barely handle the smell. He hears someone sobbing which he can't blame them as he is about to cry as well, he puts a hand over his own mouth and quietly cries into his hand.

Iskall walks over to Ren and Stress.. Well Stress's body. They make a small chough to get Ren's attention, the werewolf looks over at them. "Ren um.. Can you smell who might have killed her?" Ren just shake his head no. That hurt Iskall's heart, they want to get revenge for Stress but if they can't find the murder then what are the chances of them getting revenge now?

Ren can't look away from Stress' body even if the sight is more sickening than anything he has seen before. He stares at her blood stained dress and it is just really sad to even look at, he has completely forgotten about the smell of blood to him it's like the smell isn't even there. He feels numb.

The sound of Xisuma getting to the top of the bubblevator scares Ren, Iskall and Wels. They pull out their sword's and point them at Xisuma who is startled to have weapons on all sides of him. "Woah, it's just me!" He doesn't move as getting stabbed isn't something he wants to deal with.

"Sorry Xisuma.. We uh found the place like this and just been extremely tense about it.." Said Iskall, their voice sounded broken to Xisuma. The admin takes a glance around the room and see's the sickening scene. 

"It's... Alright..  Oh notchy is that STRESS' ARM!?" Xisuma hasn't seen Stress' body just yet as Iskall and Ren are standing in a way that happens to hide her body.

"Yeah... Uh you need to see something.." Iskall trails off as they step out of the way to show Xisuma what happened. Xisuma gasps and seems horrified, it's hard to tell what exactly his expression is due to his helmet. But he does take a step back and have a hand covering his helmet in a way some one would do if they covered their mouth. 

"Oh my lord.. " Xisuma pushes pass Ren and Iskall to get a better look, he's horrified to see so much blood. It's a horrible sight to say the least. "Have any of you touched anything?" He asked with a broken voice.

"No.. We went here to check on here and the moment we saw this Wels messaged you.." Said Ren, his voice is quiet and much softer than normal. Xisuma honestly has no clue how to fix this then again he has nothing that could bring Stress back, he doubts a totem of undying would even work.

"have any of you seen a small black device?" Xisuma asks while glances around for it. He doesn't see it nor does anyone else see it.

"No.. What does it do?" Asks Iskall. 

"It's a player chip.. If it isn't damaged at all we could have a chance of bringing Stress back with a totem of undying.. " He responded. The others nod and look for it but don't find it, instead Iskall finds the love letter to Cleo.

"Xisuma I found something that should go to Cleo.." Iskall mumbled a bit.

"What is it?" Xisuma walks over and sees the letter. "I see.. I can give tha-" Xisuma gets cut off by Iskall.

"No, I'll give it to her.. It's something I can do for Stress.." Iskall stared down at the letter, not really reading it but just looking at the writing style it hurt them to see their friend's writing. "Can I go now.." They don't look at anyone as they feel close to crying.

"Yeah.. Wels, Ren can you two help me look for any signs of the killer?" Asked Xisuma while avoiding looking at Stress' body. Iskall leaves with the love letter.

"Yeah.. Sure thing.. Um Wels how are you holding up dude?" Asked Ren.

"I feel pretty sick with the smell and sight.." Wels voice isn't as strong or loud as it usually is.

"Go get some air.. Ren and I can look" Said Xisuma. Wels nods and head's down.

"Xisuma. As much as I want to find the killer it's going to be really hard, the whole room smells like blood and due to the jungle smells I can't smell the killer." Admitted Ren. 

Xisuma lets out a small gasp. "So we got to find the killer with out any clues.." Xisuma shakes his head and stares at the floor for a moment. "Ren I need you too search around the the jungle and other player bases..  as much as I don't want to believe it's one of us it's just imposable for anything else to kill us like this.."

Ren is shocked to hear all of that. "Xisuma.. I don't think I can go around and just go into someone's base.. " 

"Ren I really need you to do this, no one else is able to smell anything like you. I doubt that you'll need to check False's base, Scars, Wels and Iskall's... I guess Cleo would be of the safe side.. I would guess that she would have taken the paper just to keep people away from her for a bit longer if she was the killer.." Said Xisuma.

"What about you?" Ren took full notice of how Xisuma didn't add himself to the people that really shouldn't be worried about.

"That's for you to decide Ren. I hope you see me as a friend and not a threat but I want you to make that choice.." Xisuma sounded down to Ren.

"X we will talk later about this but let's find that player chip.." Ren really hated how sad Xisuma sounded but right now he want's to figure out if a player chip could bring someone back after what all happened to Stress. He doubted it but hey Cleo is a zombie so there must be a way to bring someone back from the dead.

Wow 1487 words! I really wasn't expecting to get this many words out in a chapter, anyways things are going to be rather dark with this fic as I will be describing how people react to dead bodies and other things. Please under stand that I don't want to trigger anyone but I don't know if I can keep chapters trigger free as adding trigger warnings can really ruin the reading. From this point on it would be best for readers with death sensitivity to be careful while reading.

Sunshine out!-