Chapter 3 Pawns & players
He looked down at the young girl wondering if he had enough room, he decided that he did. His newest victim, a young stripper named Maxine lay half naked on his steel table, her legs and arms tied to the corners, her taut back ready for his latest message. Maxine's exotic lips screamed for help but no one could hear her scream in this room, her neck hung over the edge as her killer began his message. Maxine whimpered as the felt tip glid over her skin, felt tips feeling more and more like knives, his edgy voice whistled some sort of eerie tune.
"Please, why are you doing this?"
"Maxine dear, stop moving, this would be alot easier if you stayed still"
"Please why are you doing this?"
"Your a pawn and sometimes pawns need to be sacrficed, its all to do with the bigger picture and of course the game"
Maxine took a deep breath, her body started to get used to the felt tips, maybe if she was quiet and just let him draw he would let her go and she would live. When he was done he stepped back and admired his work.
"That should about do it Maxine, I think its finally perfect, they will be so puzzled and yet they'll have to admire the handy work, at least I know the innocent psychopath will"
Randy ran a hand over his face tiredly, he had just fallen asleep when the annoying phone went off, another victim had been found and apparently it was his job to look it over along with John.
"Tough night huh?" John asked as Randy arrived at the murder scene.
"So what have we got buddy?"
"This is Maxine, she was a stripper down at Firecats. Apparently she was seen with a big guy, covered in black. The weirdest part is this" John gently rolled the young stripper over to reveal her bloody back. Carved right to the bone was a weird looking chess board, each side held the correct amount of chess peices, only this board was set up for four players, each player was marked out, where the creepy killer's markers were, two markers had been moved forward. One of Randy's had also been moved forward.
"That is weird"
"Anything you want to add Randy?" John asked looking at him, he was not going to forget that his friends name was on that board. Nor would he forget that a marker, indicating a pawn had been moved forward. "He's calling you out Randy"
"Look as soon as I figure it out, I'll let you know"
Randy kept looking for clues, trying to block out that chessboard. It didn't work, and all he could think about was that board. After he was done, he went back home, it was just coming into morning and luckily he could get a little bit of sleep before he had to go back to work. He had just settled down when his phone went off again, annoyed he had no choice but to answer it.
"Hello Detective, did you enjoy my work?"
"What do you want fuck head?"
He gave a deep chuckle "I was going to give you a little bit of help, I have just sent you an email, I hope you will like it, but you must promise me Randal, that once you open it you will still pay attention to me, because I have no issue killing to make you pay attention"
Randy hung up and rolled up over and went to sleep. Right now he just wanted to sleep, emails could wait.
He woke up roughly in time to get ready for work, remembering the email he instantly went to the computer and loaded it up. What he saw litterly stopped breathing for a moment, A new photo of his only true love, Raven. She's alive Randy, find her before I do
