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Home Late Chapter one
Hurried footsteps echoed through the dark alleyways, sharp jagged breathing came from a slim figure tearing through the night alleyways. A jet black wolf, her heart was thudding against her chest as she ran for her dear life. "Why did I have to stay out so late? I shouldn't have taken that stupid shortcut." She stopped running and began to slow down her pace into a walk instead of trying to run a marathon on her own. She had been running to get home before it was midnight but it was already too late to even make it at that time. The big tower clock decorated with gargoyles loomed over the bright lighted city said it was already 1 am in the morning too late to get home before midnight. The tower had a 13 instead of a 12 at the top of the clock face, the numbers in Roman numeral making no sense to those who never studied roman. No one knows why there was a 13 on the clock face, every time they had tried to replace it some one got hurt and they had to abandon the project. The pretty young wolf walked through the dark alley ways, her breathing slowing as she calmed down from her fast pace running.
She had gone to a party better known as a "rave" without her parent's permission and told them she was staying at a friend's house till midnight studying for the upcoming exam. Now she was one hour late, she wasn't sure what to tell them. That she had to study one more hour because it was a huge exam, they wouldn't buy it for a second they knew she would have called if she was staying late. "Why me? I was having such fun at that party. I should've just stayed home and actually study for that stupid exam." As she continued down the turns of the endless maze of alleys. A tang smell of blood filled the air. The wolf's eyes turned large and huge. "Oh my god, is some one hurt here? Did someone die? Maybe it's just an animal."
Sharp ragged breathing could be heard behind slender wolf, making the hairs on the back of her neck stand on end. "Don't worry my pretty. It shan't hurt if you don't squeal." The person hissed sweetly in her ear, it wrapped its arms around the wolf making sure to hold tight so that its prey will not falter. "What a pretty body you have, and such a flawless young face. I think I shall have a little fun with you back at my home." It whispered in the wolf's ear, sending a shiver down the wolf's back.
Every instinct in her mind was to kick the creep off and run as fast as she could. She tried telling her body to move but it would not respond to her thoughts.
"Stay away from me you creep!" The wolf girl yelled as she tried to struggle against her captives grip, biting, scratching doing everything she could to break free.
"Now, now, now we don't have to be feisty." It teased as it held on to her. After getting annoyed by her struggling it covered the girl's mouth, dragging the struggling girl away and back to its lair.
Screams of pain and terror were heard from an apartment building. Behind closed doors, the killer watched as he began to slice the girls beautiful body. Inch by inch, licking off the sweet crimson liquid that came out of the small incisions he made with a pocket knife. The girl moaned in pain and agony. "Please let me go. I'm too young to die. I was supposed to get into a good university, pass my exam, and make my parents proud" She moaned again.
"Oh really? You aren't just going to die. I'm taking every last thing you have decent about you. You virginity and your life, my dear girl scream all you want. No ones going to hear you."
"Wh- why not?" She mumbled as the killer took another slice at her chest deeper and harder this time.
" Because my dear. I've already killed everyone in this building." The killer cackled evilly. " Now my dear. Hold you breathe, count to ten and this will all be over." He smirked.
The girl gave out a gasp of pain, surprise and having the wind knocked out of her. She fell limp on the blood soaked satin bed her eyes wide open with fear. "Yes my precious. You may sleep now for eternity." The figure said before pulling the blanket over the both of them, hiding them from the non existent watching eyes.
There was a stereo placed near the bed and it had a certain song replaying over and over again. Cky- attached at the hip. 'Have you ever seen another lying in a pool of blood?' Was the lyric that stuck out the most in the whole song….
Sirens wailed as police cars parked in front of the abandoned apartment building, Rouge the bat was there at the crime scene oddly enough with Shadow the hedgehog. They were there because they would not be charged with the death penalty for the act they did when they both decided to have a little fun in the city, more or less paint the city red. As long as they helped the police with crimes they were off the hook to pay off their time. Rouge the body inspector and Shadow the crime scene photographer.
Rouge looked down at the mangled body of a once beautiful wolf, now covered in slices, cuts, wounds and amounts of bruises "Wow, this killer's sick and twisted." Rouge said trying to take her eyes off of the body.
"Makes you wonder, what we this do is very tiny compared to kind of stuff." Shadow sighed as he took pictures of the crime scene, snapping his camera at everything that seemed to be suspicious.
"This girl was probably no older than maybe 16. I heard they found another dead body in an alley way." Rouge said examining the body over with a gloved hand. "What kind of sick minded perverted bastard would do such a thing?"
Shadow sighed. "I hope we served our time for our crimes already, I'd hate to have this guy as an enemy."
Rouge nodded in agreement. " I agree. We're the only things that are standing between this guy's identity, ending his sick little game."
Shadow looked at Rouge with his crimson red eyes "Well at least the killer doesn't know that we're in his or her way."
Rouge nodded in agreement. She walked out of the room and into the hallways of the apartment building. She walked close to a door, slowly turning the handle bar. Rouge gave a yelp or fright, "Holy Crap! Who the hell do you think you are trying to scare me like that?" Rouge gasped trying to return her breathing back to normal.
The figure just smiled evilly, "Didn't mean to scare you Rouge."
"You better have not, Fox boy or I might have to have your head the next time you do that."
The figure shrugged and entered the crime scene his long trench coat trailing behind him; he took one glance at the body and winced at the sight of it. He didn't like blood, nor the smell of it.
"Why are you here?" Shadow asked turning his attention away from a blood splatter on the floor.
"I need to take samples back to the lab for analyses; any trace of DNA, semen that kind of thing." He shrugged, "You know the usual things that we do around here after every crime scene."
Shadow stood up, looking slightly down at the figure that stood before him, the figure seemed to be trying to act more adult like then he really was. "I can't believe they hired you even though you're only…what, 14 now?"
The figure nodded, "Yup, thanks to my aging machine I can change my age appearance." The figure said this with a wide grin of satisfaction.
"Whatever." Shadow scoffed in disinterest, crossing his arms against his chest.
"I liked it better when you were shorter Fox boy." Rouge said looking down at him still, even though he's only two inches shorter than most people. "Now you look all normal and tall."
The figure laughed, "Very funny Rouge, and My name's Tails, I keep telling you that but you never seem to get it through your thick skull."
Rouge growled, "Why I ought to, "She said clenching her teeth together.
"Do what Rouge? Remember I run this place seeing as I'm in a higher rank then both of you guys." Tails smirked.
Both Rouge and Shadow muttered curse words underneath their breaths, returning back to their work. Tails smiled in satisfaction knowing that he had just defeated Rouge and Shadow for the most part. He looked at Rouge, "Make sure you do an autopsy on the body and I'll take care of the rest."
Rouge rolled her eyes towards Tails, "Yeah, yeah, yeah." She muttered glaring towards Tails, her aqua eyes looking menacingly towards the young kitsune.
Shadow sighed and looked around the old building that was surrounding them, "I wondered what happened to the people who used to live here?" he asked himself, not really wanting an answer.
"They all died after a massacre..." Tails muttered looking around, "I think about 2 years ago….they never caught who did it though." Tails sighed, "Come on let's pick up the pace, I get a weird feeling and I want to get far away from here."
Shadow took a couple more snapshots, as Rouge carefully placed the mangled corpse into a body bag. Crimson liquid slowly dripping down the sides of the ivory bag body bag, gently falling onto the white carpet ground. Tails swabbed everything around the room, looking for anything that would lead them to the killer, this sick and twisted thing.
Florescent lights hummed as they were turned in, white walls surrounding the area with hard tile floor. Rouge looked around, and then down at the corpse in front of her, wincing at the sight she carefully examined the young wolf's body. "So many cuts were made on you, "Rouge muttered knowing that she would seem insane is some one saw her talking to a dead body, "But who killed you exactly?" She sighed. Tails had sent the semen data to see if it matched anyone but they said that there was no one on record with that semen. Tails frustrated and tired stormed off back to his apartment, Rouge wasn't sure where Shadow had headed off to but she didn't want to walk alone tonight. She glanced down at the body again, "I'll see you tomorrow," She whispered before covering it up with the white cloth.
Walking out of the autopsy room she strolled down the empty corridors, she shuddered, the back of her neck tingling. With her left hand she reached into her pocket fishing out her cell-phone. Pressing speed dial one on her phone she put the receiver up to her ear.
"Hello?" The deep voice of her best friend answered the phone, his crimson eyes looking up towards the ceiling of the building he was in.
Rouge sighed in relief, her eerie feeling of some one watching her washed away for to moment, "Hey Shadow, where are you?" She asked noticing that he wasn't at the crime building.
"Oh I left early," He said, the she could hear him smacking his head, "Oh damn! I was supposed to walk with you home wasn't I?" He asked remembering what he had told her after the whole rape incident with the wolf.
"Yeah…" She said meekly.
"I'll come right now and get you Rouge." He said hurriedly.
"No…it's okay Shadow, I'm a big girl I'll walk by myself. I don't live far." Rouge said with a smile, she didn't live far at all. She lived with Shadow, they decided to live in the same house seeing as it was way easier paying the bills that way. Many people thought she and he were and "item" but she knew better. She knew who Shadow really liked and she was eyeing some one herself, but she wasn't as stupid as Shadow so she never told him who she liked at the moment.
Shadow hesitated, "If you say so Rouge… I'll wait for you."
Rouge nodded and hanged up the phone, grabbing her long trench coat for the rack she headed out into the streets of Station Square. Wind was picking up as the season of fall approached Station Square, Rouge wished it was still summer but she wasn't Mother Nature making her not able to control the four seasons. The wind ruffled her short white hair playing with it, she squinted her eyes dust from the streets were beginning to dance around.
Rouge heard ragged breathing behind her, the back of her neck bristled. Her training told her to turn around and beat the shit out of the person behind her, but her instincts told her to run for her dear life. The breathing didn't leave her, she took a step forward but the breathing didn't move. She began walking acting as if there was no maniac following her, just some homeless person looking for a penny or two. She sighed in relief and began to quicken her pace, then began to run. She could hear the foot steps speeding up as well; she reassured herself that it was just the echo of her own footsteps. She replayed everything that had happened to that girl, how she probably ran for her life as she was being chased. No one was on the streets at this hour except rapists and more people just looking for trouble. She felt hands on her shoulder, strong hands that could crush her shoulder blades if they pressed hard enough.
"Hello…." It whispered.
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Mental Artist Mel: Well there you go people, that's chapter one although I believe I could have done a lot better but I'll let you decide that.