*DRINNNG*

"I wonder who that could be?"

*Creak*

"Bonjour, I am Delphine Donkey. I have come to see Peppa!"

"It's Delphine! Bonjour!"

"Bonjour!"

The memory of when I first saw Delphine rushed through my head. Following it were all the other times that we had spent together. When she came to stay with us, when we went to visit her in Paris, the poker game we played...

All the way up to her lifeless body sitting at the foot of the library staircase.

...Au revoir, Delphine.

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I couldn't peel my eyes off the sight. Blood splattered out onto the carpet underneath her head, one of the curved ladders resting by her side, her leg also noticeably damaged...

It was too much for Pedro, apparently. His mouth had been trembling for a while after the announcement had sounded out, however now he was letting out a few murmurs. That turned into shouting, which eventually became an ear-carving scream. During his release of the horrifying sound, he fell down onto his knees, running his hands through his hair roughly.

"Guys?! What's going o-" 

Rebecca rushed into the library, stopping at Pedro's feet, her eyes laying upon the donkey's body. Her expression stiffened along with her legs, as her face slowly took on a shade of green, eventually covering her whole face as her cheeks puffed up.

"Hrk-!"

The rabbit then dashed out of the room, faster than I'd seen her before. After a while, the harsh cry of intense vomiting sounded out from behind us. And yes, we could hear it - Pedro had stopped screaming by then.

I hadn't taken my eyes off of Delphine's corpse.

I didn't want to take them off.

...Who did this?

Wh- Who here had the honest m-motivation to k-kill her...?!

WHO D-DID TH-THIS TO H-HER?!

WHO WOULD-

"Peppa?"

"WHAT?-"

"...Jeez. Sorry..."

I shook my head as I looked at who called my name. My heart skipped a beat when I realised it was Suzy. She had just as horrified a face, one of her legs were shaking.

"...I'm sorry for your loss."

"Don't be Suzy. She's also your loss."

"...True." The sheep shivered. I circled my eyes around the back of the room, noticing that everyone had arrived to see the scene. Rebecca had also returned from her...     Puking issue.

"Welcome all remaining participants!"

We all looked to the source of the sound, which seemed to have been behind a bookcase, not that far from Delphine's body. A little while after, Monopotato leaped out, wearing a pair of white rabbit ears and holding a basket of brightly decorated eggs.

"Any questions before we begin on how investigation works?"

"...Why the hell are you dressed up as the Easter Bunny."

"Because I wanted to, ok?" The figure sighed, throwing the basket of eggs and the ears to one side, before clearing his throat. "Now then: Onto investigation. After a body is discovered, all participants have exactly an hour to do whatever they like. However, it would preferably be examining the body and anything suspicious, because once that hour has ended, a Playgroup Trial will take place! In the Playgroup Trial, the participants must try and figure out who the killer (or blackened) is! Once they have a decision made, everyone will vote. If they vote correctly, then only the killer will receive punishment. If they vote incorrectly, however...      Then all participants except for the killer will receive punishment, and the killer will be able to walk out of the doors of this building! Along with that, they will also be able to make one phone call in front of everyone, as that was our motive."

"...What do you mean by 'punishment'?" Wendy asked, staring at the vegetable.

"Do you want to find out for yourself?"

"...You know what? I do." The wolf gripped tightly onto her lavender jacket, a small flame visible in her eyes. "This entire setup that you've made is complete BS, you hear me? B. S! I don't want to be here, none of us do, and yet you continue to go ahead and let Delphine die. Considering what I know about her death doesn't make it any better, because of what I saw last night I'm now certified that it was YOU WHO KILLED HER!"

"...Wow. You stupid hound."

"You stupid WHAT?!-"

"Wait- Wendy!-"

Letting complete anger take over her usual, controlled manner, Wendy leaped at the potato, knocking him over into the ground. She followed by punching the figure a few times, clearly enraged at them.

"Wendy, stop it! This is against the rules!"

"I DON'T CARE! LET ME AT HIM!!!"

"Oh, you'll be let at me alright...      Did you forget that it was against the rules to commit violence against your director~"

"No, I didn't."

"Do you take back what you said about me killing Delphine?"

"...I never will."

"Very well. You wanted to find out how the punishment worked, so now you'll find out the hard way." Monopotato smirked crazily, before saying one last thing.

"It's punishment time!"

https://youtu.be/7UPCPGofnKA

A loud series of clicking noises were heard. Wendy continued to keep her sharp stare at Monopotato. And then - The floor underneath them dropped. Monopotato fell through as Wendy's burning eyes cooled in shock. The floorboards closed back up afterwards, trapping Wendy's paw in them. She howled, gripping at her arm, trying to tug her paw free. Her whining struggles were interrupted by a series of clicking from above. The wolf looked up, only to get struck in the face by a stoney, brown, rectangular object.

A brick.

The wolf reached her arm to her head, rubbing it as it slowly fell to the floor. Wendy took one last look upwards, to be met with a horrifying sight.

Nearly a hundred bricks falling down upon her.

The last time I saw her face, her eyes were spread wider than I'd ever seen them before.

The only thing that was seen in them was...              Despair.

*CRUSH*

Dust filtered out. A couple coughs were exhaled. We couldn't turn our heads away though.

Where Wendy Wolf, the Ultimate Security Guard used to be, laid nothing more then a pile of chipped, broken bricks. A bloodstain spread out like a star underneath it.

The only thing left of the wolf visible was her tail.

Tattered, ruffled, and soaked in blood.

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