Iggy, who was standing in the Dining Room, let out a blood curdling scream. Bowser rushed into the room as fast as he could. “What’s wrong?” he panted.

Iggy pointed to the floor in response. There on the floor lay Kamek, the babysitter Bowser had hired to watch the eight Koopalings. He was dead. “Who did this?!” Bowser demanded.

Iggy was too weak to answer. Just then, Larry entered the room. “What’s for lunch?” he asked.

“Nothing, until we find out who killed Kamek,” frowned Bowser. “Was it you?”

“What?!” snapped Larry. “I didn’t even know he was dead!”

“Oh, you didn’t?” eyed Bowser. “I thought you knew everything about the castle’s going-ons.”

“Yeah, well I don’t know about this,” insisted Larry. “Maybe it was that despicable cousin.”

“That ‘despicable cousin’ knows as little about this as you do!” snapped Susan, who had actually been hiding in the corner the whole time. Then she softened. “Unless, of course, you Larry want me to confess.”

“So it was you?” Bowser asked, a red eyebrow raised.

“No,” replied Susan. “But I’ll confess if Larry and I get to go to the dungeon together.”

Larry made gagging noises. Then Lemmy rolled into the room. “Aaaahhhh!!!” he screamed. The site of the dead body made him topple off his ball.

“I see you noticed that Kamek is dead,” observed Bowser. “Is this the first time you noticed?”

“Of course!” Lemmy shouted. “Murder is not funny!”

“Well, it seems we have a mystery to solve here,” Bowser sighed.

Bowser called loudly for his other children, Ludwig, Roy, Wendy, and Morton. Scared by his loud voice, they all came running. “For what reason have you summoned us to this area?” asked Ludwig.

“Yeah!” pouted Wendy. “I was putting on my make-up.” To prove it, she showed the Compact.

“And I was hammering nails,” yelled Roy. “Hammering is good exercise.

Morton spoke through the Megaphone. “I WAS GIVING A GREAT SPEECH THAT I WROTE AND YOU WILL WANT TO HEAR IT AND HEAR GOES ONE DAY-“

“STOP!” shrieked Bowser. He composed himself and then continued. “We have a murder on our hands,” Bowser gestured to Kamek’s corpse. “Anyone want to admit to doing the crime?”

No one admitted to killing Kamek. But Larry pointed to Susan, Susan pointed to Wendy, Wendy pointed to Roy, Roy pointed to Iggy, Iggy pointed to Morton, Morton pointed to Lemmy, Lemmy pointed to Ludwig, and Ludwig pointed to Larry.

“I was afraid of that,” Bowser again sighed. “So I had for this very purpose a new invention prepared. It is a lie detector. Unfortunately, due to a special bug, it can only force a Koopaling to reveal one fact a day. So each of you will have to reveal something. And if you lie... BUZZ!”

The Koopalings each got the idea, and gulped. Bowser strapped each one into a chair and put a metal bowl-like thing on their heads. When everyone was secure, Bowser went to the Koopaling first in line, who happened to be Wendy.

“I am sure you all really know about the crime, at least in bits and pieces,” Bowser said. He let the thought sink in as he looked around the room. “So, each of you will tell me one thing. And you can’t tell me something that is irrelivant or that has already been told, or BUZZ! And too much talking, and you get BUZZ!

The Koopalings gulped again.

“So, Wendy, start us off,” Bowser grinned menacingly.

Wendy thought for a while about what to say. She hoped very much that Bowser wasn’t going by a time limit or else she would know what happened. Finally, she decided on her statement. “The murderer was one of your Koopalings!” she smiled. Bowser moved to press the buzzer, but Wendy quickly continued, “It’s true! And it is relivant!” Bowser conceded that it was, and Wendy was released.

Lemmy was next. “The murderer shot Kamek,” he revealed. Bowser and the Koopalings tried to think of who could shoot Kamet. Bowser thanked Lemmy for the first helpful clue, and then released him.

Larry was next. “Everyone had their favorite weapon- except for one,” he recalled.

Roy followed. “Larry and I were... baking cookies!” he cried, very embarrassed.

Then it was Ludwig’s turn. “At the time which you ask about I was inspecting the Magic Wands- all except one. That Koopaling wouldn’t hand me his.”

Susan didn’t think long before giving her fact. “It was some one you wouldn’t expect!” The other Koopalings felt that wasn’t a fact, but Bowser liked it and released Susan.

Iggy still looked weak, but Bowser made him give a fact anyway. “The murderer stayed near the scene of the crime,” he conceded.

Morton was last, and he tried very hard to keep his sentence short. “I was... giving a speech... at the time of the murder... and... some one... with a blue Magic Wand... was listening!” A tear came to his eye.

Bowser thanked the Koopalings for submitting to the lie detector. He then spent the next ten minutes trying to solve the mystery. Finally, he shouted, “I got it!”

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