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2D yawned and stretched as he woke up to sunlight streaming into his room on Cracker Island. He sad in bed for a few moments before reluctantly getting up and getting ready. After he washed his face and brushed his teeth he went downstairs for breakfast to see a very stressed Noodle.
“Hey Noods,” 2D greeted. “Somefin’ wrong?” Noodle looked up, pulled out of her thoughts.
“I don’t know,” she responded. “You know how I have those feelings that something is gonna happen? Intuition?” 2D nodded while making a cup of coffee for himself. “I have a really strong feeling something bad is gonna happen today” 2D turned to her.
“It’ll be fine, probably Katsu or Dracula runs away an’ then we find ‘em, or somefin’,” 2D pointed out Noodle laughed a bit
“Dracula? How can a snake run away?”
“Yeah but I guess you’re right, I just can’t shake the feeling that it’s gonna be bad…” she confessed. 2D finished making his coffee and put a reassuring hand on her shoulder.
”like I said, it’ll be fine. Ya’ have us right?” She smiled and nodded.
“Yeah.. yeah that’s true.” She agreed. 2D took a sip of his coffee before pulling out a chair and sitting at the bar table next to Noodle, who didn’t look much better.
“Would’ja like a cuppa’ tea?” He asked. She posted before eventually nodding. 2D got up and brewed a cup of peppermint tea for her, all the while wondering what could possibly go that wrong, all the way out here?
After breakfast, 2D went back to his room to right some songs or story ideas, maybe watch a zombie flick, he had gotten quite a few for his birthday after all. He waved to Dracula in his terrarium on his way into his room. He had sit down on his bed and was about to start working on some songs, when he heard someone yell up to him:
“HEY FACEACHE!!” He sighed and rolled his eyes before getting up and calling back to him.
“Wha’ is it Murdoc?”
“Can ya’ come down here? I need some help with ah… garden work,” 2D reluctantly walked downstairs and met Murdoc at the last one.
“…Wha’ kind of garden work again?” 2D asked, confused. Murdoc rolled his eyes.
“You’ll find out when we do it” Murdoc stated. 2D sighed and followed him outside.
“Why are ya’ makin’ me dig holes in the hill?” 2D asked. They were outside, digging holes into a hill that their house was on. Murdoc for some reason always made 2D dig holes everywhere all the time, but for some reason Murdoc was helping him this time.
“How many times do I have to tell ya this? Jus’ don’t ask questions yeh?” 2D shrugged and went back to digging. They dug in silence before Murdoc broke that.
“What the bloody hell is this?” 2D turned his head toward him.
“Huh?”
“My shovel hit somethin’” 2D walked over to see.
“It looks like someffin’ wrapped in papa’ (paper 😭)”
“Oh really? You should be the next Sherlock Holmes innit” 2D ignored Murdoc and knelt to inspect it a bit more. He reached out to touch it but as soon as his fingers touched the parchment like material he immediately yanked his hand back with a hiss.
“Tha’ feels horrible” he said as he shook his hand.
“Well what the hell did you expect it to feel like eh? Flowers?”
“Well tha’ feels… excepti’nlly bad.” Murdoc rolled his eyes.
“Stop bein’ such a baby” he said before grabbing one of the ropes tying the parchment on and lifted it up out of the hole.
“Ya didn’ even touch the bloody thing” 2D muttered under his breath. Murdoc brushed his hands together to get off the dust.
“What was that, mate?”
“Nothin’”
“Say… should we unwrap this? See what is, ya’know?” 2D paused.
“I’on know… wha’ if it’s like… a body or someffin’”
“Don’ be dramatic, I’m gonna open it,”
“No-NO WAIT-“ Murdoc was already cutting the rope. Soon after, 2D began biting his nails very rapidly.
“Why the bloody hell does this have so many layers, eh?”
“Maybe becaus’ we weren’ suppos’d to unwrap them”
“Ah shaddup, faceache” when Murdoc got closer to unwrapping the whole thing he made a weird face. “Tha’ smells bloody wretched” 2D immediately took a big step back.
“ITS A BODY!” He yelled. Murdoc shivered.
“It’s not’a body, jus’ somethin’ that smells bad”
“Keep tellin’ ya’self that” Murdoc ignored him and kept unwrapping, until he cut the last layer and immediately jumped back with a scream.
“Bloody hell!” 2D peaked around him to see…
Rotting flesh. The sight of it made him want to hurl. He immediately covered his mouth and turned away.
“Satan Below it really was a body..”
“Told’ya” Murdoc clapped and turned to 2D.
“Well! That’s enough digging for today, yeh?”
“Well- wha’ about the body?”
“What about it?”
“But Mudz we can’t jus’ leave it ‘ere”
“What else would we do? Mm?”
“Oh, i’on know.. call the bloody authorities?”
“An’ what are they gonna do? Le’s just leave it here”
“But-“
“Another bloody word and you’re goin’ in the hole the body used to be” 2D rolled his eyes but closed his mouth and followed Murdoc back to the house “What criminal wraps its bodies in 6 layers of parchment anyways?”
“Oi Noods?” He called before knocking on her door. Murdoc agreed to tell Russel about the body if 2D told Noodle.
“Come in!” 2D walked in to find her practicing guitar. She smiled at him. “What’s up?” 2D sat on the floor and fidgeted with his fingers.
“See, me and Mudz… found something while… gardening” she narrowed her eyes and nodded.
“Mmmhhmmm…”
“…we foun’ a body!” He blurted out. Noodles eyes immediately widened.
“WHAT?!” She yelled.
“Calm down… it’s been long dead, the person who killed it probably is alr’dy dead by now!”
“THAT MAKES ME FEEL WORSE!” She exclaimed, gripping her hair and hyperventilating. “God this was the bad feeling I had this morning wasn’t it…” 2D immediately rushed to her side.
“Hey, deep breaths, right? If it was the thing from this mornin’, at leas’ it ain’t too bad right? It’s jus’ a body” 2D reassured her. Noodle began taking deeper breaths and calmed down a little bit.
“Yeah.. it’s just a body”
“Nothing too bad can happen, right?”