Prologue

Dante Ontario woke in his apartment bed sweating slightly. He turned toward his alarm clock which was blaring loudly. Dante pressed snooze and the blaring stopped. He sat up on his bed and stretched his arms, yawning.

The clock read: stood up and pulled on his jeans. On the coat rack was his black Ultra Track Jacket. Dante slipped on his shoes and tied a double knot. Afterward he pulled on his jacket and zipped it up.

Dante looked in the mirror and saw himself 's hair was black and skin was dark but not too dark, and his eyes were dark eyes were wet with had a big day ahead of , his partner, was going to join him.

Franklin had known Franklin since he was were friends through high school and became a reporter and Franklin became one both lived good lives and thought nothing would ever go wrong in his life.

Until today.

On the table sat his car keys and phone. Dante took a Clif Bar from the cabinet and pulled off the munching hungrily at the bar he picked up his keys and phone and opened his front door.

He closed the front door and locked it behind him. The door gave a satisfying click and Dante began walking down the stairs. The air was chilly outside as if with a sense of Dante took no notice.

Dante spotted his white Ford Focus and unlocked it. Dante opened the door and sat pushed the key into the ignition and the engine started. Then Dante closed the car door and pulled out of the parking lot, getting onto the highway.

Dante felt his phone vibrate and he took it out. He had a incoming call. Dante answered it and said, "Hello?"

"Hey it's me Franklin, i'm at the property but it is very big. We are allowed to stay at the house for a couple days, the authorities were reluctant but they came around in the end."

" Kay man see you there, i'm on my way now." Dante answered.

"Yeah my car is at the entrance to the side road leading to the property." Franklin said.

"See you there."

"Yeah."

Dante hung up and put the phone back in his pocket. Dante and Franklin were in an investigation together to explain the disappearances of two people. A young boy named,Charlie Matheson and Kate Hayes. There was a rumor going around that Kate's friends,CR and Lauren, went missing as well.

The last known location of the both of them was on that the authorities have not announced a missing persons file for either of them. Kate Hayes was last known to be taking therapy because she was having random episodes.

The therapist said she kept coming back saying that a "thin man" was stalking the therapist assumed that Kate was hallucinating due to the fact that she claimed he had no face. And also that the young boy Charlie was turned animalistic and hostile.

Police had come to the conclusion that she was mentally unstable ,until she leaving any record.

Charlie Matheson however was found missing by his parents when they couldn't find him around Oakside Park. And there had been rumored to have been many disappearances around that area.

Charlie's parents called out for him to come back for lunch but couldn't find parents said they heard screaming but they didn't know if it was Charlie. After searching for hours they couldn't find their son.

The parents called the authorities and the parents were said the boy had been having dreams of this "tall, thin, figure" and that he was drawing weird symbols on the walls, with words that made them take the plan to send him to therapy.

The boy kept drawing the same symbol, a circle with an "x" through boy claimed the "thin man" was coming for him. And then it all but stopped until Charlie's disappearance.

Then Charlie was not mentioned again until Kate's trip to the therapist.

It was Dante and Franklin's job to find some answers to bring clarity to Charlie's family. There had also been a rumor that Lauren and Kate were both seen entering the Koleman Mine on the edge of Oakside park.

Then there was the fire surrounding the radio tower just up the mountain from the Koleman Mine. There were tapes confiscated from a building in between the Koleman Mine and the radio tower,but also police discovered a torn teddy bear just outside the Koleman Mine.

The parents of Charlie Matheson claimed that it was the bear of that belonged to their son. The tapes held the fingerprints of CR,Kate,and Lauren. The scattered torches across the Oakside Park and the mountain outside Koleman mine held the fingerprints of Kate Hayes, as if she was leaving a trail for someone to follow her.

Dante and Franklin wanted to find more evidence to find a new conclusion on the case.

As Dante pulled up to the dirt road after a two hour drive, he spotted Franklin waiting at his car holding a suitcase.

Dante parked his car next to Franklin's and got out.

"It's about time!" Franklin said, his black hair waving up and 's eyes were green and had a small beard that matched his looked at him expectantly for an explanation.

"Sorry, this is a hard place to find." Dante said.

"Maybe that is why Kate Hayes lived here."

"Maybe."