Chapter 7 Trouble in paradise
Raven was still in a dream like state when she got home, she wasn't usually one to have random sex with strangers but then again she hadn't had sex in a while, no one liked it when she went for long periods of time without sex, it made her vicious. Vicious to the point where no-body was safe, well except Jamie.
"Hey why you looking so happy?" Storm asked when she got in the front door. "Oh lord you did something didn't you"
Raven giggled "Oh yeah I did somethin alright"
"Oh lord what did you do?"
"Nothin" Raven smiled sitting down at the table "So whats up with you?"
"Nothing" Storm said quickly trying to hide her emotions but she knew it was no use with Raven. "Twiggy's coming home tonight and I wanna...you know...but I don't know how" Her pale face finally showed some colour. It was embarrasing to Storm, after all the crap, human and magical that she had been through the one thing that scared her was sex for the first time. Iziah sent up her hideous laughter making Storm bury her face in her hands.
"Iziah shut up! Everyone has a fear of something!"
"Not everybody!"
"Sock puppets!"
"Ahh where!"
Raven shook her head and turned back to Storm, "What exactly are you afraid of?"
"That I don't know what I'm doing and he'll laugh at me" Storm mumbled quietly. She knew that Twiggy wanted sex not that she blamed him, they had been together almost ten years and all they had done was kiss. Of course there was always something in the way to stop them from going further but Storm still wanted to give him what he wanted, she just wasn't sure how. She had never been here before, give her any hunting mission and she could get through it with her eyes shut, but sex was out of her depth. Sure she knew the theory but the practical was something different entirely. "I just don't want him to suddenly say enough is enough and just leave"
Raven patted her hand gently "Well a wise woman once said that sex for the first time is like hunting for the first time. Let the most experinced lead you, you don't know where your going but you know when you get there its gonna be good. Use your instincts and don't bite"
Storm let out a giggle "Was that you?"
"No that was Iziah"
"Yeah! Trust me I know what I'm talking about"
"I will take it very seriously thank you Iziah"
Raven got that dreamy look again, "You know what I wanna do? Go back to Smackdown!"
"Ok tell me, what happened at Smackdown!"
"Well first I taught Randy Orton a lesson and accused him of bein gay, then I saw Grand-pop about his dead guy then I had sex"
"What? With who?"
"Randy Orton"
"How did you go from accusing him of being gay to having sex with him?"
Raven half shrugged "He wanted to fool around and I had time to kill. So why not?"
"You realise you just opened yourself to being used right?"
Raven giggled "Honey I haven't been "used" since 1954, I'm just glad I still knew what I was doin"
"Well at least someone is getting some"
"I got cyber yesterday does that count!" Iziah shouted up the basement stairs.
"Sure why not" Raven rolled her eyes before looking towards the basement "That guy, was his name Scorpio13?"
"Yes. Why?"
"He's married Izzy!"
Thunderous steps crashed their way through the house, Iziah was obviously pissed as hell, obviously she didn't know that fact. "He's what!"
"Married. I'm pickin he's not happily married"
Iziah paced the floor for a moment, "Wait does this make me a whore?"
"No. If you didn't know then its just a mistake, keep doing it however then your a whore"
Iziah sighed in relief "Thank God! Thats the last time I trust people over the fucking internet"
Thankfully she went back to her basement, Raven knew someone was going to die tonight. That was alright as long as it was someone insiginificant then it was ok. By insiginificant she meant a whore or a pedophile or a rapist. No one innocent.
Raven rolled her eyes again, the cellphone making its welcome entrance. "Hellew?"
"Raven its Alex, get over here and bring Storm" He hung up on her knowing that she would get more information than he needed to give.
"What was that about?"
"We have ourselves a body and I'm pickin it screams magic, so we gotta go" Raven suddenly stopped "Damnit!"
"What?"
"I still ain't got my damn jelly-babies!"
"Lets get this over with then we'll worry about your candy"
Raven muttered in a language that even Storm didn't get but she could tell Raven wasn't happy.
Like they owned the house Raven and Storm walked in to the grisly murder scene that apparently needed their "special" attention. They found Alex and his partner John Sampson in the living room with the fresh corpse.
"Well thats creaitve" Raven mused, Kofi Kingston looked almost unreconizable, for one thing his killer had painted him the colour of a rainbow.
"This is Kofi Kingston, single gunshot to the head. Found by his girlfriend, Kelly" John started, Raven put her hand up. Kofi was dead alright but it wasn't a gunshot that killed him.
"Storm, you do this one. I'll do the next one"
"Next one?" Both detectives asked together. Raven ignored them and went back to Storm, who was looking around clearly interested. If there was one thing Storm liked, it was a puzzle.
"Ok Storm, what do you see?"
"Drag marks. He was dragged alot. For no apparent reason other than being dragged. No sign of forced entry, magical or human so Kofi knew his killer. Knew him to the point that he would welcome him to his home. Once inside the killer sound proofed the room and took his time torturing Kofi, keeping him alive with Sol-dew. The gun shot was delivered after the killer finally let him die. Killer is obviusly magical and a wrestler. Perhaps something like a shapeshifter?" Storm took a look around again "Oh and the obvious lame poetry on the rear wall."
To the two detectives it looked like weird symbols that knew nothing, to a Hunter it was an ancient language used back during the early 1800's but was soon abolished during the nineteenth century.
"Obviously he or she, is old school"
"I like this" Raven mused looking at the words painted on the rear wall. "Storm the blood?"
"Animal, possibly goat"
"Storm go over to John Doe's and check on his animals. He should have one goat, twelve chickens, one rooster, three chicks. two dogs and about a dozen cats"
Storm went out instantly to check the animals, she just hoped that each and every one was accounted for or else this killer was going to have a lot of pissed of beings to deal with.
While she was gone Raven mused over the writings on the wall. "Well that is interestin. Interestin indeed"
"What is?"
"I can't proove my theory right until we have an autopsy done. Izzy will find its hidden message"
"Raven your grand-father has ordered that no autopsies are to be done. He wants his superstars to be untouched"
Frustrated she rung her grandfather "Hi. You want me to find this killer, let me chop your guys up. If he's left any clue it'll be inside the bodies and I know that only one person could find it"
"Only if you restore them"
"Done" Raven hung up and got in touch with Iziah "Izzy need your skills. Hack up Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston. Let me know about anythin strange. When your done restore them to how you found them and for fuck's sake get that fuckin paint off him"
"Will do chief"
"Storm tell me somethin good"
"All his animals are accounted for except one."
"Nana"
"Yeah. I found her body. Litterly been sucked dry of blood. John Doe don't know yet and I don't think we should tell him."
"Alright replace Nana. And I'll deal with this"
"Alex were there any strange messages on the wall of Evan Bourne?"
He pulled a photo from his pocket, one he wanted to show her earlier.
"Well his poetry sucks"
"What does it say?"
"A killer with no name, come with me I want to play a game"
"And what does that say?"
"Here lies Kofi Kingston now he is no more. For what he thought was H20 was H2SO4"
"Acid?"
"Raven I hacked up your guys. The white one had several peices missing. Like he was a human game of Operation! and the black guy. Well he had his oesophagus re-directed straight to his heart and the acid pretty much did the rest. Oh and by the way the black guy has a really big dick!
"Thank you for that Iziah. Anything else?"
"Well the white guy don't really have much to speak of" "About how he died you sick freak!"
"Oh right! *giggle* The black guy has another message carved into his spine. Lemme get me glasses...ok it says no matter how big your heart, acid always wins"
"And on Evan?"
"Who?"
"The white guy"
"Right. On the rib cage, no one can live with missing peices. Oh and I know why they called you, because the way paint looks in light it spells out a very clear cut message"
"Which is?"
"Huntress this is the game you finally lose"
Raven rolled her eyes "Oh goody! Someone from my past that hates me. Well this should be pretty fuckin easy"
"Yeah somehow I think it would be easier finding a needle in a haystack without the ability to see"
"Alright put 'em back together Izzy, Storm lets get out of here. We have some huntin to do"
"Alright chief" Both girls thought to her.
"If anythin else comes up Alex, just ring and if it helps we will get to the bottom of this"
"Thank you"
To his surprise Raven suddenly got a very large grin and litterly bounced out the door.
"There a reason your so happy Raven?" Storm thought to her, she was already at home and in her hunting gear.
"Its been a while since I had a puzzle like this, this is gonna be fun"
Kofi's killer watched as Raven made her way home, her advanced brain already making connections. That was alright, he wanted her to find them. Eventually he would be victorious, finally after years of planning and the search for a body. No one would ever suspect him for hiding in plain sight was the Huntress' greatest trick.
