Chapter 2: well there's something interesting
Two week, that's how long they have been looking. Two weeks! Now for a normal person, this wasn't long at all. But for Ex-Gundam Pilots, it was an eternity. They were Proffesionally trained mercernaries slash assasines. They could find one stupid person. Ex-Gundam Pilot or not. Or at the very least, that's what Wufei believed.
They had been looking for two weeks for Duo. Those weeks had been some of the most stressful days of his life. He would rue the day he ever admitted that Maxwell was better then him at something, but apparently, the guy was good at disappearing. He'd even heard Heero mumbling under his breath, something he was not prone to do by the way, about stupid pretty boys being to good at hiding themselves and pulling disappearing acts on people he called friends. The only thing they have been able to pull up out of the mess that Lady Une handed them was that Duo's odd behavior started just after Hilde was murdered.
Wufei remembered reading about that and thinking that he should probably have done a bit more then just called Duo, but went over to see how he was doing. Come to think of that, did they ever find the murderer? Looking through yet another file of yet another murder that Duo was a suspect of, he couldn't help but notice something odd. The first in this particular string of murders happened on the 10th, a whole two weeks before Duo even got there. Before he was even seen in any of the neighboring towns. His pattern also seemed to be pretty unpredictable. He would come into a town, and looking back at all the files, it would be after the murders started. He would stay sometimes just a couple of days, sometimes a whole two months, then the murders would end. The cities he visits are unpredictable, can't seem to find any kind of pattern, going from one area on one day, and two weeks later he may have been half way across the world or country he's in, in some small town that no ones ever heard of.
"So...Anyone able to find any kind of pattern that he's following?" Wufei asked to the room in general.
"Unless you mean, in blood splatters, I have nothing." Trowa said, as he skimmed through some of the crime scene photos of the murders that Duo was accused of.
"Patterns in blood splatters, are you serious?" Quatre asked from his and Heero's area, looking at security footage from everywhere.
"Yeah, looking at them, some of them seem to be Satanic symbols, which I have to admit, is not entirely un-Duo like. But at the same time, that's on such a very small percentage, that it could just be coincidence. Of course, who really believes in coincidence." Trowa added, arching an eyebrow.
"How the hell would you know they're Satanic?" Heero asked, turning to look at Trowa, with and eyebrow arched.
"I was a bit troubled in my teenage years." Trowa admitted, off-handedly.
"Your 19." Wufei reminded.
"Teenage for me was around 10." Trowa clarified.
"Right, anyway, I'm not to sure he's the one causing the blood patterns." Wufei said, turning around from his computer to face the room. All of which where now watching him with curiosity. "I mean, I've noticed that all of these murders, the way they happen and everything, starts before he get's into whatever town he's in, sometimes he's seen three hundred miles away from the first murder at the time of the murder. I don't know about you guys, but I'm more inclined to go with the vigil-anti theory now more then ever, then to say he's actually doing these murders himself." Wufei explained, giving everyone a 'what I tell you' look.
"Well, at least we have some good news. But we are still having trouble finding him. Honestly, I want to talk to him, see what's going on in that head of his. He's obviously not thinking straight." Heero said, turning back to the cameras he was watching.
"Wait." Quatre spoke up. "Maybe we can use that to our advantage. He's showing up in towns where murders are already happening, right? So, maybe we can beat him to a town. Is there anything about those first murders that might stick out to Duo. You know, something they have in common?" He asked, looking at Trowa.
"Um..." Trowa said, looking at Quatre as if he'd grown a second head. "Well, they're weird. You know, victims are home alone with no forced entry, or they swear it was someone they knew, but was out of town that day, or the victims would be drained in some way. Let's not forget the weird symbol blood splatters. Or the fact that there are never any clues, let alone, anyone knowing how they accomplished whatever they did to these people to kill them so quickly and quietly." Trowa answered. "Hell, half the victims go missing for a couple of days, then turn up dead in a ditch somewhere looking like mummies."
"OK, so that gives us something to go on. We find a weird death, close to where we know he was last seen, go there and start our own manhunt." Quatre said, sitting at his computer and starting to look up weird murders in the Midwestern area. "Got it, someone dead, in their home, no forced entry, no finger prints, but the man looked beat to hell, as well as the rest of the house, but the doors and windows where not touched."
"Well, then let's pack up. Road trip." Trowa said, getting up chuckling to himself. No one quite knowing why he's so amused, but choosing to just go with it.
Well, there is chapter 2. I have to say, I didn't expect anyone to actually read this, I thought everyone had forgotten Gundam Wing. That makes the reviews I have gotten so special.
Thank you all.