Time for the newest chapter
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It was late at night, the shadow of a man could be seen walking through the streets, he stopped outside a house, he placed an envelope on the doorstep and pulled a flute out of his back pocket, he started to play a soothing tune on his flute when a child left the house, the man started walking away, the child followed him, appearing to by hypnotised.
==The Next Day==
David slept in the next morning, he went downstairs to get his breakfast.
"Morning Angelo" said David
"Morning sir, are you okay?" asked Angelo
"I'm fine, I just slept in" said David
David reached for the paper.
The Pied Piper of Ambrose City
Late last night, the 8th edition to a series of recent child kidnappings
occurred when 9 year old, Matthew Sceptre, was captured from his home,
like the other 7 cases, a ransom note was left behind for the parents.
"Another child kidnapping? Who would do this?" asked David
"I don't know sir, maybe someone else can figure it out" said Angelo
David grinned, he rushed down to the lab and got changed into the Ryder suit. Ryder hopped on the Ryder Cycle and rode off to the house of the child who was kidnapped. When he arrived, he entered to see the parents crying on the couch.
"Are you Mr and Mrs Sceptre?" asked Ryder
"It's you, the Ryder, um, yes, we are, you heard about our son?" asked the dad
"Yes, you received a ransom note?" asked Ryder
The mother handed Ryder a sheet of paper with letters from newspapers glued on.
If you care for your child
then send $50,000 to
their favourite place...
or else!
You have 1 week, can you
PAY THE PIPER?
"Pay the Piper?" asked Ryder
Ryder went to the police station, he went into the Commissioner's Office.
"Ryder?" asked the commissioner
"Hello Francis, I need your help, I need the case file on the child abductions" said Ryder
"Sure" said the commissioner
Francis walked up to a file cabinet and grabbed a case file, he handed it to Ryder. Ryder looked at all the ransom notes, each one asking for different amounts of money, and each one with the same ending, 'You have 1 week, can you Pay the Piper?'.
"All 8 Ransom Notes end with the same message, and what do they mean by Pay the Piper?" asked Ryder
"We believe that the Piper is the alias of this serial killer" said Francis
"Serial Killer?" asked Ryder
"Yes, so far none of the families have paid their ransom in time, from the evidence we've collected, if a family doesn't pay in time then this 'Piper' will murder the children" said Francis
"Weird, Serial Killer's don't usually ask for ransoms" said Ryder
"That's true, but it's not unheard of" said Francis
"Any suspects?" asked Ryder
"None, we had one suspect, but he unfortunately died after the 5th child abduction, so now we're fresh out of leads" said Francis
"That sucks, but someone is behind it and I'm going to find out who" said Ryder
"Thank you for the help Ryder" said Francis
Ryder left, he returned to the lab and tried to scan the ransom notes for fingerprints.
"Any luck sir?" asked Angelo
"No, several fingerprints appear on each of the ransom notes, but none from the same person, the captor made sure there were no fingerprints" said Ryder
"So they wore gloves?" asked Angelo
"Probably, wait, what's this?" asked Ryder
Ryder noticed a fibre stuck to one of the ransom notes, he had it analysed.
"Aha, the kidnapper DID wear gloves, a pair of green leather ones to be exact, the way the gloves were assembled means that they were made by the tailors in South Ambrose, not a lot of people should have bought a pair of emerald green leather gloves" said Ryder
Ryder took the cycle and rode to the tailors, he entered to see the owner of the tailor shop, a skinny middle aged man with a receding hairline and a pair of glasses dressed in a white dress shirt with a red tie and a black waistcoat.
"Red Ryder? What are you doing here?" asked the tailor
"I'm here because of the series of child abductions" said Ryder
"I had nothing to do with them, why are you here?" asked the tailor
"I need to know who bought a pair of emerald green leather gloves" said Ryder
The door to the building opened, a skinny man with spiky blonde hair entered.
"Felix, you're late" said the tailor
"Sorry boss, wait, aren't you Red Ryder?" asked Felix
"I am" said Ryder
"My name's Felix Tallow, I'm a big fan of you, what brings you here?" asked Felix
"I'm investigating the case of a child snatcher, my only lead is that the criminal bought a pair of green leather gloves from this place" said Ryder
The tailor checked his records.
"I'm sorry Ryder, no one has bought any green leather gloves" said the tailor
"What?" asked Ryder
"Not a one, they're not a common purchase, apparently they're not even a purchase" said the tailor
Ryder noticed an item missing from a display, the label said that the missing item was a pair of green leather gloves.
"Odd, a pair of green leather gloves should be in this display, where are they?" asked Ryder
"They were stolen a few days ago, along with some of my clothing materials, I called the police but there was no signs of a break in" said the Tailor
Ryder left the tailor, the tailor turned his attention to his assistant.
"Tallow, get to work, and I'm docking you for the time you missed" said the tailor
"Yes sir" said Felix
Felix got to work. Ryder returned to the lab.
"Sir, any luck at the tailor?" asked Angelo
"No, no one in Ambrose City has ever bought a pair of green leather gloves from the tailor, but I do remember seeing a pair missing from a display" said Ryder
"Maybe the tailor is the child snatcher" said Angelo
"Huh?" asked Ryder
"Well, he says that no one bought a pair of green leather gloves, but the child snatcher would still need to have access to a pair of those gloves, like they didn't NEED to buy them" said Angelo
"You might be onto something, but why would the tailor kidnap children, ask for a ransom and then supposedly murder the children?" asked Ryder
"That is a good question" said Angelo
Ryder sat at the computer and did some research on the tailor. Eventually, he found a news article from a few years ago. It explained that the tailor's younger brother was murdered at the age of 9.
"The tailor's brother was killed at age 9? All the missing children were 9 as well, maybe the memory of his brother's murder caused the man to snap" said Ryder
==That Night==
A man was seen walking through a street, he had an envelope in one hand and a flute in the other, it was revealed that the man was wearing green leather gloves, the man stopped outside a house and started playing his flute, after a minute or so, 3 children left the house, a young girl and 2 twin boys, the man placed the envelope on the doorstep and lead the children away.
That does it for this edition, hope you enjoyed.
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