I was simply paralyzed in despair as I continued to stare at Bradford's body floating in the pool. I didn't even notice Bat Wing was in the pool area. Until he spoke up.

"Hey Annie!"

I screamed in shock before quickly turning around to see Bat Wing there. He was holding a box of water bottles.

"Drink up sweetheart! You'll need to be in good health for the investigation and of course the trial!"

I didn't want anything from him, but I quickly took a couple bottles of water and drank up. I soon started to feel a little better.

"Better?"

I ignored him and just threw my empty bottles of water on the ground.

"Someone sure is sassy this morning, but whatever! Now we just got to wait for the others!"

Harry then entered the pool area and turned in our direction. He gasped in shock.

"Bradford... Annie...?"

"Come hydrate Mr. Archer!" said Bat Wing.

Harry ran over to us and grabbed a few bottles of water and quickly drank up. He tossed the bottles on the floor and then turned to me.

"What... what happened Annie?"

"Hey! I hope you plan on picking up those bottles!" growled Bat Wing.

Ignoring Bat Wing, I turned to Harry. "I... I found him here..." I slowly started to tear up.

Harry looked concerned for me and he appeared to be on the verge of comforting me, but he simply looked down at the floor as I slowly teared up.

Grace was the next one to come running into the pool area. She gasped when she saw the crime scene and started to slowly tear up as well, just not as bad as me. She ran over to us.

"Take some water" offered Bat Wing.

Grace quickly drank two bottles of water and then turned to Harry and I.

"Who... who could of done this to Bradford?"

"I... don't know" I replied.

"We'll find who did it though" assured Harry.

Bethany then entered the pool area. Her face was full of shock and terror as she saw Bradford's body in the body. She quickly hurried over to us. Bat Wing offered her water which she quickly drank.

"I had hoped it wouldn't come to this for any of us" said Bethany. "But... we must do it all over again."

"Six times now" added Harry.

"This is... too much" Grace replied with fresh tears in her eyes."

We waited a bit more for Den and Zoe to show up. Zoe arrived next and even though she was dehydrated, she still looked emotionless as ever.

"Well well... what do we have here?"

Zoe walked over and joined the rest of us. Bat Wing offered her some water bottles and she quickly drank up. She tossed her empty bottles onto the floor and turned to us.

"I hope you fools are ready for this."

"What do you mean?" asked Bethany.

"We are now down to six and will need two people for guard duty as usual. Therefore, only four of us will be able to investigate."

"And if the killer is one of those four, then only three people who are actually trying" added Harry.

"Good to know you actually have some common sense."

Den finally came into the pool area. He looked over at the crime scene and didn't seem concerned at all."

"Well then."

Den walked over to us and Bat Wing offered him some water. Den quickly drank up before tossing his bottles onto the ground.

"Rude!" yelled Bat Wing.

"Shut up" replied Den.

"Enough of this crap" demanded Zoe. "Let us finally begin."

"Hang on" paused Bethany. "I just realized, Bat Wing never explained how it works when someone discovers a body."

"That is true" agreed Harry. "It always just seems that everyone gets call to the location of the body when one person finds it."

"Looks like that dumbass of a fucking author forget to mention a rule for body discoveries like fifty chapters ago" replied Den. "God, he must really fucking suck at writing this story."

"Hey!" yelled Grace. "Leave the author alone! I'm sure he is doing his best!"

"Hey!" yelled Bat Wing. "Shut up with the fourth wall breaking and pay attention!"

Everyone turned to face Bat Wing.

"As always, everything is the same. You final six will have two hours to investigate and do whatever you want in that time to prepare yourself for the class trial. All of your rooms are unlocked for open access and your phones have been updated with a file on our former track and field star. After those two hours are up, we have the class trial to decide what happens next. Good luck!" Bat Wing flew up to the ceiling, leaving us all alone.

Everyone looked at each other, knowing one out of the six people here had murdered Bradford.

"I..." I began with.

"Shut up" ordered Zoe. "No time to waste."

"Zoe!" replied Grace.

"I said shut up. We don't have time to waste. As always, Bethany and Den will guard the body to prevent any tampering with the crime scene. The rest of us will investigate. Move it."

Everyone looked fed up with Zoe's bitchy attitude, but we can complied. Bethany and Den took their places guarding the body and the crime scene, while Zoe, Harry, and Grace headed out of the pool area to looks for clues. I decided to stick around to start my search here.

First up was the file, so I pulled out my phone to check it out. Bradford was killed at around 2:30am in the morning. The cause of death was drowning and his body was discovered in the pool.

"Great" I thought to myself. "Another murder happening in the middle of the night, so alibis are gonna be hard to prove."

"You looked at the file Annie?" asked Bethany.

"Yeah" I replied, while wiping the last of my tears from my eyes. "Alibis are gonna be hard if it happened in during nighttime, when we all would have been asleep."

"That is true, looks like we're all suspcious at the moment."

"Ha!" laughed Den. "The only suspcious people is that psycho bitch Zoe and arrow freak. My money is on one of them."

"We can't accuse people now Den" I replied. "We can do that at the class trial, but now isn't the time for accusations."

"Shut up bitch."

"Back off Den" growled Bethany. "Now isn't the time for your usual crap."

Den rolled his eyes and turned away from us. I nodded to Bethany and got back to investigating. I turned my focus back to Bradford's body in the pool. I didn't want to get in due to not wanting to get wet and cause I may somehow mess up the crime scene, so I just got as close to the water as possible to get a look at Bradford's body.

I noticed on both of his cheeks and the back of his neck were bruises that I didn't notice he had yesterday.

"Bradford definitely fought the killer!" I thought to myself.

After studying Bradford's body, I went to check all over the pool area for clues, but didn't find anything. However, it was strange that if Bradford fought the killer, then the fact that nothing in the pool area shows signs of a struggle should say something about how Bradford fought the killer.

Seeing as there was nothing left to look around for in the pool area, I waved goodbye to Bethany and headed out. As I headed out, I noticed something I missed when I hurried over to the pool area after Bat Wing's announcement. There was a trail a small trail of water leading away from the pool area, definitely some evidence and tells me a little more about what happened. I kept note of it as I walked away.

I spent a few minutes deciding where to look next as I figured Grace, Zoe, and Harry must of checked the more important places by now. I eventually ended up by the courtyard. Even though I didn't think I would find anything there, I went outside to check it out. I walked through the stones in the courtyard until something caught my attention, a small pile of ashes. I picked them up to inspect them.

"Where could these have come from?" I asked myself.

Keeping the pile of ashes, I quickly left the courtroom and headed for the cafeteria to get a container from the kitchen for them. After securing the evidence, I continued on with my investigation. As I neared the dorms, I ran into Harry.

"Harry!" I greeted.

"Uh... hey Annie" Harry nervously returned the greeting as he tried to hurry past me.

I put my arm out to stop Harry from leaving.

"Don't. We need to talk and clear everything."

Harry nervously looked around before turning back to me. "Listen Annie..."

"No you listen. I'm sorry if I upset you before, but I need you to get it together, we all need you to if we're gonna make it through this class trial."

Harry didn't say saying.

I continued. "I saw you were talking with Bradford yesterday."

Harry froze up. "You saw that?"

"Yeah, he said that he was was just making sure you were alright and that you two were okay with each other, but I did see you pretty much brush him off and walk away without listening."

Harry looked a bit annoyed now. "Yeah, that is all he wanted to talk about before I left."

"There wasn't anything else?"

"No!" yelled Harry, which made me jump back and get a bit anxious. "That is all that happened Annie, now stop wasting my time and go investigate!"

Harry then stomped past me and walked away as I just stood there anxiously.

"Harry" I thought to myself. "Just what are you hiding."

I continued on with my investigation and spent most of the remaining time we had left checking out all eighteen dorms. I gave each room a good tackle, but I didn't find any evidence. After coming out of the last room, I ran into Zoe in the hallway.

"Hey Zoe" I greeted. "Find anything that may help us in the trial?"

"Save it for the trial Annie" replied Zoe. "Though I do wanna ask you something."

"What is it?"

"Were you asleep last night during the murder?"

"Of course I was."

Zoe brushed her hair off her shoulders in annoyance. "Everyone else said the same thing, so it doesn't look like anyone has an alibi."

"Which means all six of us are suspcious and have a chance of being the killer."

"True, but I got my ideas on who it probably is."

'What?... who?!"

Zoe gave me a somewhat disturbing smile. "Like I said Annie, save it for the trial. No fun in revealing important info and ruining the game before it really starts." Zoe then walked into her dorm and shut the door.

"That girl... she is still so messed up!" I thought to myself.

I wanted to keep investigating, but I was getting a little tired and I knew I would have to save my energy for the class trial, also I knew our two hours was close to being up. I decided to head into my room and rest up while I could. I laid on my bed for about ten minutes until I heard the intercoms click on and I knew what was coming.

"Attention final six!" shouted Bat Wing. "Investigation is over! Time to head to the courtroom for our sixth class trial!" The intercoms clicked off as I hopped out of bed.

"This is it" I thought to myself. "Time to find out which one of my remaining classmates drowned Bradford."

I quickly left my dorm room and headed downstairs to the court room. I was the last one to arrive, but it didn't seem like they had been waiting for that long.

"Alright, awesome!" declared Bat Wing. "This should be the best trial yet!"

I quickly looked around at my remaining five classmates, studying each of them for a short moment.

"I'm not the killer obviously" I thought to myself. "Therefore, it has to be one of these five, but who? Bethany, who has always tried to protect those who needed it and keep us united in this terrible situation. Grace, who has always taken care of us by being so kind and making sure we were well fed. Harry, who was the nicest guy for a long time, but has been acting distant and even a little cold recently. Zoe, who has mainly kept to herself and has honestly been quite sinister and viewing the trials as a game. And then Den, who clearly doesn't care about anyone except himself and shows no compassion for anyone around him. One of these five killed Bradford and I'm gonna find out which one of them committed this crime."

"Time to get this show on the road people!" exclaimed Bat Wing. "Head into the courtroom now!"

One by one, we did what Bat Wing said and began the process of uncovering Bradford's killer."