30 Days
Day 17
Marco and Rachel knew there was something wrong when the coroner mentioned the foam rubber.
This whole thing has been a sham." Marco said. The coroner pushed his glasses on his nose.
"Yep, seems to me some body planned this out really nice." He said. Rachel sighed.
"No demon is the basement either. This is a dead end all around." She said. The sounds of rattling gurneys made their way into the morgue.
"Two More," the assistant said, "real ones this time." Marco walked over to the first body and looked. Pulling back the sheet he saw Asura in his new form lying motionless, the Soul clone was on the next one.
"Something is off, way off!" Marco said.
"Agreed," Rachel said, "let's get to the plane; we'll call Steve from there."
A motel in Death City
Free lay next to the red haired death scythe, their time of passionate love making over. He nuzzled Spirit's neck, his stubble rough and pleasurable. He knew something was off though, he could sense it in Spirit's body language. He never used to be that way, he was always a ladies man but Spirit knew he had to do this, that is was for a higher plan.
"You okay?" Free said.
"It's a shame," Spirit said, Free looked at him confused.
"What is?" he said. Spirit draped an arm off the bed.
"It's a shame," Spirit said, "That I have to kill you now." Spirit cocked back the hammer on the 44 magnum.
"Whoa, what the fuck man!" Free said as he fell off the bed and scrambled against the wall.
"I have to," Spirit said, "Too many loose ends, I could lose my job." Free held up his hands to block the shot and tried to reason with Spirit.
"Look man, I didn't want this to happen, you came up with most of it!" He shouted.
"Exactly, and if anyone finds out I am screwed. Adios wolf boy!" Spirit said. The bullet connected with the werewolf's head, causing brain and skull to explode on the wall. Spirit got dressed, walked out of the motel room and headed back to Shibusen.
"So they were all dummies? Fake corpses?" Steve said.
"Yeah, someone paid fifteen million to get the patients out of the hospital, our guy was a patsy and he was found dead on State Route 16 with a bullet in his head. Pretty much everyone that we think is involved with the black blood is dead. Somebody is doing a cleansing. "Rachel said.
"You said fifteen mill?" Steve said.
"Yeah, why?" Rachel said.
"Somebody took that much out of a rainy day fund here at the academy, I am having Lance run a search on who has access to it and who used it last." Steve said.
"Steve, I don't like this at all, we could be getting in some shit." She said.
"If we do, we'll clean ourselves off." Steve said and bid them farewell. Lance's computer made a meep sound which meant it found something.
"Hey Steve? Guess who our guy is?" He said.
"Who?" Steve said.
"Spirit Albarn." He said
What? No way." Steve said.
"Yeah, and he also bought a 44 magnum pistol and some special effects equipment." Lance said.
"Oh my god, why would he do that? Lance get me all the security footage from the past 17 days I need them enhanced so I can see any editing, something is off." Steve said and walked to the computers while Lance brought the footage up. Steve closely watched each of the tapes.
"Lance there seems to a lot of filters on the videos' just remove them all." Steve said. Once removed he could see the image of Spirit Albarn; killing Medusa, kidnapping Maka, and breaking into the security office.
"He's behind the whole thing, what the fuck? He set this all up!" Steve said.
"I don't understand?" Lance said.
"He did something, he made us go in all these different directions and all these lost leads were all his doing. I want a scan of all his computers ASAP! I got to talk to Shinigami-sama."
"Steve?" Lance said.
"What?" He shouted.
"Look at this," Lance said and pulled up the last conversation with Shinigami-sama. Running a wavelength scan he found that it wasn't really the death god, but Spirit in disguise. "He's been fucking with us." Steve stood there mouth agape.
"I have to talk to Kami!" Steve said and ran out.
Kami was sitting in her apartment when the doorbell rang.
"Coming!" Walking to the door saw her ex-husband standing there.
"What?" She said.
"I just came to talk, mind if I come in?" Spirit said.
"Make it quick because my stupid bullshit tolerance is at a low level." She said as Spirit walked in." He sat in a plush chair across from her.
"I want to talk about Maka." He said.
"About what, sprit how you are a shitty father it's too little too late for that one." Kami said as she took a sip of her tea.
"No, about her idiot of a boyfriend." Spirit said.
"Why do you say that? I think Soul is a perfect fit for Maka." She said.
"He's a lazy, worthless good for nothing piece of garbage. She should be with someone else." He said. Kami sighed.
"Spirit, I don't want to discuss this," Just then the phone rang. She picked it up.
"Hello?" She said
"Kami, it's all bullshit, this whole black blood thing is all a sham!" Steve said.
"What do you mean?" She said.
"Spirit is trying to take Soul away from Maka. He gave him the black blood, he is the one who set up all the fake leads, he is doing it all. I don't know why I didn't know this before!" He said.
"I'll be right down, Spirit is coming with me." Kami said.
"What? Is he there with you?" Steve said.
"Yeah, why?" Kami said.
"Kami, get the hell out of there now!" Steve said. The butt of the gun collided with Kami's head. She lay on the floor unconscious the phone in her hand.
"Kami? Kami!" Steve shouted. Spirit hefted her body over his shoulders and took her to his car.
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