Author Notes: Juuuuust before anybody reads this, I'd like to mention that it was my best friend and I who started this, and she doesn't exactly know that I'm publishing this... heheheh quick shout out to WhiteWolf100101! XD oh gosh please don't kill me...
Anyhulu, please enjoy this very very short snippet of a story that will most likely update quickly but with short chappies because I have them premade already, so without further delay, I present to you, my first ever... Card Thief
Disclaimer: I don't own anyone or thing except the idea and OCs
Chapter 1:
Rain
"You have something that I need."
The heavy rain pelted gloomily on the remaining car hoods on the city streets; cars buzzed by, skidding and sliding through the night with their bright lights, as a young woman hastily paced her way towards her late night job.
"You!"
The masculine voice was very close to her now. The woman hesitantly stopped in the street lamp's fluorescent glow and adjusted her raincoat.
Was that voice meant for me? Surely this is my imagination…right?
She took a glance behind her and saw no one, to her surprise and relief. She turned back to face her destination and was taken aback when she was confronted with the face of a teenage boy.
"…I am talking to you," the teenage boy sneered, taking out his gloved hand.
"Give me the card."
The woman stared at his hand in confusion.
...Does he mean my credit card?
She took a timid hand into her black leather purse, but the boy quickly grabbed said hand and stopped her.
"The card in your pocket," he near whispered, enunciating every last syllable.
The woman's face was unreadable under her raincoat but the feeling of fear was evident in her stature.
"-Look I- I'll call the cops!" The woman, in her distress, stuttered.
"No you won't," the teenager calmly replied, with a near sneer.
With his free hand, he grabbed her phone from out of her raincoat pocket and dropped it into a heavy flowing stream of water, sweeping it into the nearest sewer. The woman froze on the spot, the feeling of helplessness seeping slowly into her skin, like the raindrops that were now seeping into her cream blouse, making her skin crawl.
"Is...Is this…?" She stammered. The woman ran her hand into her back pocket and took out her son's slightly bent duel monsters card, something she took as for punishment for him being out so late.
"...This what you want?"
The boy smirked and snatched the card with haste.
"Excellent, you've been proven to be quiet useful..."
The woman sighed in relief as the boy began to release her hand.
"…It's a shame this card won't be the only thing your son will be missing."
The boy chuckled and before the woman had anytime to react, he plunged a dagger straight into her heart. The woman gasped, eyes bulged and paralyzed, all the while the boy laughed sadistically. The boy slashed the dagger out of her body and smirked at his doing.
Well done, you have exceeded your master's expectations yet again. Report back to me at once for your reward.
The boy nodded to what appeared to be himself, hid the body and discarded of her ID. He stalked down the empty sidewalk, the rain still down pouring as he smiled smugly to himself.
"This is such a weird case! A murderous card thief, what's next, a homicidal sock stealer?!" A tall, blonde, teenage girl loudly remarked as she scurried to keep up with someone else.
"Well Annette, I've heard weirder," the other girl replied and quickened her step.
The two remained quiet for a moment, both pacing down the gloomy streets of downtown Japan.
"And to think," Annette continued, "that I was called all the way from Germany for this job!"
The other girl nodded and replied with a sigh, "Well, this case is pretty big, word is that it isn't just alleyway thieving this man is committing. Stores have reported missing game cards, only the rare ones, the rest scattered on the floor...it certainly can't be all one person."
"Ah I see, well someone's been doing their homework!"
The girl nodded and smirked, "They don't call me the best for nothing, rookie."
Annette laughed and casually looked up toward the mall the two were about to enter. It seemed quiet from the outside, but inside was a grand exodus of people. The two fought the bustled crowds of people in the direction of the small game shop located in the center of the mall. Annette and the other made their way inside the quiet game shop, unharmed by the mass of people outside. The store was empty, all except for the shopkeeper, a pale man in his thirties with long, black hair.
Surprised to see visitors, the man smiled and greeted them, "Why hello! I didn't think I'd be getting customers for a while, considering the incident with the duel monster cards."
Annette smiled, as with the other girl, along with outstretching her arm for a handshake.
"The name's Vanessa Storm, high school reporter, and my friend here is-"
"Stephanie!" Annette giggled and shook the man's hand vigorously.
"Oh! Reporters, how exciting! Well I'm not so sure this case will be interesting enough for your school's newspaper, but it definitely was peculiar..."
The man walked from the front desk and gestured for them to follow him.
"You see, this morning my shop was unlocked, when I clearly remembered locking it," he said as he walked toward the duel monster packs.
"I walked into my shop finding it a mess! Cards, duel monster cards, everywhere! It took me nearly an hour to clean it by myself."
"And why were you by yourself?" 'Vanessa' asked the man.
"Well, it seemed as though all my employees were...gone, either sick or on vacation. I couldn't get a hold of a single one."
Annette continued talking with the man as the other, "Vanessa," took a look at the duelist cards. The girl carefully inspected the cards that the shopkeeper gathered into a plastic bin.
"Was their anything special about the cards that were taken?" The girl interrupted suddenly and asked the man.
"Well, it seems that all the rarest duel monster cards had been taken," the man took one of the cards and mindlessly played with it with his fingers.
The man's reply confirmed 'Vanessa's' suspicions; the card thief was definitely here.
"Thank you sir, I think we have our story."
"Why thank you Vanessa," the shopkeeper smiled.
Annette grabbed a duel monsters pack and asked the clerk to ring her up. The two left the mall and began to walk back to their headquarters.
"May, you don't think..." Annette paused, not exactly sure how to word her question.
"Do I think that the card thief murdered that man's employees?
Yes, I think so"
May quickened her pace and headed toward an abandoned apartment. "This can't just be one man, Annette, we have a serious case on our hands."