Chapter 3 "Clues"

TYSON'S

Tyson, Max and Ray were outside at the front entrance of the house, trying to find anything that the robber could have dropped. Or even a footstep...

Since they were looking for more than one hour now, they sat down a bit in the rocks of the little lake that adorned the garden.

"Man, it's getting really hot" Tyson said, exhausted.

Ray looked at Max who seemed to be losing hope "Let's think for a while. Max, yesterday, when was the last time you saw Draciel?"

"We trained until like 9:30 pm. After that I had it in my pocket and when I went to sleep I landed it next to my bed. It wasn't even in other division, someone was in our room."

"It's kinda of scary thinking that someone was there and none of us woke up, or at least heard something." Ray said. " But let's focus, it was between about 11:30 pm and... hum, when did you notice its absence?"

"About an hour after we woke up, which would be 10 am."

"Then it could have been from 9 am to 10. Didn't you notice if it was there when you woke up?" Ray asked.

Max shook his head "I really don't remember..."

"Come on guys! We have to keep looking. If someone was in our room there are two ways of getting there, and we only looked in the front entrance. We have to look as if he went from inside the house, or from the garden." Tyson encouraged.

Ray nodded "You're right, and remember guys: look well between the bushes and plants."

"Hey what are you guys up to?" They all turned around to the direction of the familiar voice and exclaimed in unison "Chief!"

Kenny walked towards them as Tyson started talking "We're looking for something that can tell us who's the jerk that stole Draciel." Tyson said angrily.

"Aaaaah!" Kenny seemed really scared. "Draciel was stolen? Who would do such a terrible thing?"

"That's what we're trying to find out, Chief" Ray said.

Kenny arranged his glasses and opened his laptop. "I think I can help. Me and Dizzy worked a while ago on a UV light gadget. If there's any fluid of the robber, such as sweat or blood, we can find out!"

"And analyse immediatly in our data base the identity" Dizzy sounded proud.

And so Max and Tyson kept looking for visible clues, and Kenny and Ray both with two little UV lanterns, trying to find DNA. Until they heard Tyson screaming, that is. "Heeey! Get over here, I found something!"

When the other three got there, Tyson was perplexed staring at a little and thin black thing in is hands.

"It's a hair clip..." Kenny played the 'captain obvious' part.

"Do you think it was a girl?" Max asked.

"Or one of those weird guys that wear ponytails and hair clips." Tyson stated with a mocking tone.

Ray began to massage his temples" You know what guys? We should warn Kai, we don't know what we're dealing with here. And until we do..."

Kenny finished "He needs to keep his eyes wide open. Or someone can steal Dranzer too".

STANBOROUGH SCHOOL

Kai started to walk through the lockers' corridor trying to find the girl. She probably didn't know who he was, since she didn't seem to know many people in the school. So if he acted as if he was interested in her, maybe he could find stuff about her? "No" he thought "I'm not good with those kinds of things. She'd notice."

An incredibly annoying laughter snatched him from his thoughts. He looked forward and he saw Jennifer, her gang and... Elizabeth, on the left line of the corridor. Jennifer was talking loudly with one of the girls and Elizabeth was opening a locker, obviously ignoring what was happening around her.

"You wanted me to eat this crap?" Jennifer said throwing a chocolate bar to the floor. "Do you know how many calories it has? Are you trying to sabotage my diet? Go and get me another thing to eat and NOW!"

When the other three girls left with their tails between their legs, Jennifer turned do Elizabeth: "It's so hard to find girls in this school who can actually be useful."

"I know, right?" Elizabeth said imitating Jennifer's annoying tone, referring to her as well. The excessively garnished blonde girl didn't seem to notice.

Kai approached the two girls and greeted them. Jennifer started to arrange her hair "Heey Kai!" She said with an amazingly energetic voice. Elizabeth just nodded as a reply.

Jennifer stepped forward. "So what can I do for you?" she said with a smirk.

Kai looked at her strangely. "Nothing..." he had to make an excuse." I mean, I heard you're good with computers." Kai said towards Elizabeth.

Elizabeth turned around, with a concerned face "Who told you that?"

"I can't remember... But you are, right?"

"I guess... But not with hardware."

"Actually I needed your help because of a program. If you didn't mind, maybe I could meet you tomorrow after class, at the lounge cafeteria. I'd bring my computer."

"We'll definitly be there!" Jennifer said, excited.

Kai frowned "Sorry, if you don't mind I'd prefer if only she went." Jennifer's face started to go red of anger. Kai continued "It's a privacy matter."

Elizabeth crossed her arms. "What's in it for me?"

They both looked at her "I don't know, what do you want?" Kai asked.

She thought for a while and then she said with a cold tone "I want a date."

Kai found himself widening his eyes, and Jennifer, well, when he thought his face couldn't go redder...

"A date?" he asked. Elizabeth nodded and faked a perfect smile right after it. Kai thought about it for a second "Ok."

Author's notes

Dear readers, I know the pace of the story is a bit slow, right now. That happens because there's a lot going on in the begining, and I felt like I should go a bit slow. After thee "first part" of the girls' plan is concluded, it will go faster in time, I promise. Oh and the chapters will get a bit longer too.

I was trying to make the frequence of the chapters' publication weekly. But I'm really excited writing this, the story was in my head for a long time now.

One last thing: There are many characters that are yet to appear ;) (both original ones and OC's)