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Chapter 9

Disappearance And Disaster

The door was broken down at last. One unused room at the end of a hall in Duel Academy had been used by the police recently to keep evidence in. Which was why Aster, Chazz, Jaden and Jesse were there.

The necklace that was in Axel's hand when he was found dead was kept in that locked room, and they had to see it to make sure that it was the same necklace. There could be no mistakes about it.

As the four ran into the room, they began looking at all the evidence that was there. They had broken in, so obviously shouldn't be there, but none of them could care about it.

"Check everywhere" Aster ordered, everyone splitting up and searching around.

After a few unsuccessful minutes of searching the other three heard Jesse call for them. They all ran running to him and saw that he was holding an small cardboard box, its lid missing.

"What's up, Jess?" Jaden asked, slipping his hand into the bluenette's.

"What do you want first, the good news or the bad news?"

"Good news" the brunette replied instantly.

"The good news is that this is the box the police put that necklace in."

"And the bad?" Chazz muttered.

"The box is empty" Jesse answered, tossing him the empty cardboard box.

"Shit" Aster growled angrily.

An hour later, the three sat in the canteen at the Slifer dorm, everyone worried. The necklace had disappeared. They had told Shepherd who had turned quite pale on hearing the news and knew that it was not a decision made by him - or the police, who would have informed him.

Aster had a laptop on the table, tapping ferociously at the keys and trying to work out what was going on by searching up more on Vanessa Rightly. But he was finding nothing that they didn't already know.

Chazz was tucked away in a corner, drinking water - or so he said, though the others suspected vodka - and texting Syrus.

Jaden was cuddled up with Jesse, both of them using their phones to search the web for more information on Duel Academy's history, but neither of them could find anything about any suicides or murders.

Vanessa Rightly seemed to have been wiped from the public's view of the academy, and all the deaths afterward. The deaths that the four men in the Slifer canteen suspected she was causing.

Everything was calm and quiet in the room, with the exception of the tapping keyboard keys and the gluging sound of Chazz drinking.

All that was interrupted, though, when Chazz took another drink and then started gasping.

The other three looked over worriedly as Chazz got to his feet, stumbled and grabbed onto the table for support.

"Chazz? What's going on?"

"You okay?"

"Say something!"

"I … I can't …"

Chazz started making choking noises, like he wasn't breathing right.

Jaden and Jesse stared at each other in horror while Aster grabbed Chazz's glass, and sniffed the contents.

There was no smell of alcohol, but there was something different about it. It wasn't alcohol but it wasn't water either. Well, it was. But not just water.

"It's been poisoned!" Aster gasped.

Chazz couldn't react to that because his face was slowly turning unhealthy colours, and when he looked over at them he screamed.

He raised one shaking hand and pointed at the corner behind the brunette.

Everyone turned, Jesse pulling Jaden behind him instinctively, to face an empty corner.

"What's up? There's nothing there!"

"Can't you see her?" Chazz screamed.

And then he gasped one last time and collapsed to the ground.

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