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Chapter 3

Investigation

It had been three days since they had discovered the dead body of Axel. With two of their friends gone, the gang was worried. One person, perhaps. Two was more than suspicious, especially when one had been strangled. It all pointed to murder, and that was what they were convinced of.

There was a killer at Duel Academy.

The gang didn't go to Axel's funeral. His family held it back at his home with a small, family only funeral, and the gang remained at the school, paying their respects to their dead friend, and also to Zane, in one way - by finding out who was their killer.

Jaden was in the school library - a place he avoided at all costs. What use were books he didn't read? Jaden had never been into reading, but this was different. At first he'd thought about computer research, but Aster was already doing that, so he might as well hit the books.

Of course he didn't go alone. Jesse, Jim and Blair accompanied him.

"You guys check out the books" Jaden said to them. "I'm gonna go into the back and look at some of the ancient scrolls."

They agreed to text every so often just to be sure everything was okay.

There were over fifty ancient scrolls carefully packed in the back of the school's library. How a school managed to end up with probably valuable scrolls, Jaden didn't know, but he wasn't complaining. He began searching through all the ones he thought might give him a lead, but he wasn't finding anything helpful.

Jim turned to Jesse as soon as Blair was occupied elsewhere.

"Jess, how are you and Jaden doing?"

"We're not bad. You?"

"Not too great, if I'm honest, mate" Jim said sadly. "Axel and I were pretty close, good friends. And Aster's all cut up over Zane."

"Syrus isn't look too good either."

"At least he's got Chazz to comfort him, mate."

"There is that" Jesse laughed.

It had become a widely spread rumour that Chazz and Syrus had been spotted kissing by Blair. When questioned, Chazz looked angry and Syrus blushed. In other words, they were too embarrassed to admit it was true, even when it was.

"Think we're going to find anything, Jim?"

"I don't know. I hope so, mate, we have to try."

Jesse nodded as Blair came over to them with a huge pile of books. The two males raised their eyebrows at each other in despair, but split the book pile into three, and the three of them began to study.

Jaden was having no luck with the scrolls. He had picked up many interesting facts, all the scrolls being strictly non-fiction, but he hadn't found anything that would help him.

"How does something about the Egyptian pharaohs help me find out who killed my friends?" Jaden muttered in despair, tossing another scroll aside.

Jesse texted him them to tell him that they were giving up on the books and that he was going to Aster's dorm room to see if he had come up with anything. Jaden sent an agreeing text back and got back to the scrolls he was studying, but he had no more luck than he'd had before. Either he couldn't understand them or they had pointless information he didn't need.

The brunette was just about to give up and stomp after his friends, when he suddenly spotted one last scroll in the back. It wasn't yellowed with age, so it had to be relatively new. Not an ancient scroll, but a more modern one. It could have some more modern facts in it, then.

Jaden pulled the scroll out and rolled it out a little, and saw what appeared to be a title.

It Never Forgets

The brunette's eyes widened and he took a seat, rolling out the scroll a little more to read what information it contained.

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