prologue: the murder begins

12:38pm

10/10/22

Toontown

********hedgehog********

It was a cold night in the streets of Toontown. The cold wind was blowing. The rain has just stopped now and the Crescent moon was high and bright.

Hedgehog always like nights like this. It was so peaceful and nice. But tonight…. Was REALLY not her night!...

She just recently came out of diagon Alley which was originally in London but moved to Toontown a month ago. It has been 2 whole years since the events of the magic diamond, the night of the trolls, the opening between the boiling isles and earth and the capture of the mastermind sweet pete. It was really stressful in both 2019 and this year and all she wanted to do was relax now. She has just recently purchased a state-of-the-art broom. After her old one broke she had it in a new one and when she ordered it she had to pick it up late due to some issues with the manager and the shop.

"I have to get home quickly before Mom and Dad Notice i'm gone!" hedgehog said darting out of the alleyway and ran across the street and on to the sidewalk. She begins to run at speeds she's never run before. She was so focused on getting home She didn't even get the chance to look up to where she was going and When she finally Looked up It was because her legs couldn't go any further. When she did she saw that she was right next to where Jenna works. She knew if she was here then that means she was just a few blocks away from her side of town to where she lives.

Before she could run again She noticed that down the alleyway there was a bus stop. She realized that the bus could take her to the other side of town and near her neighborhood. without second thinking she began to walk down the alleyway…. And that would be her fatal mistake…..

As she was walking down the alleyway she began to have an eerie feeling.

"Maybe this is a mistake, I should head back…" hedgehog said to herself, feeling a bit scared. She was thinking of going back but then before she could even do anything…. someone came out from the shadows….. hedgehog stepped back a few steps in shock and surprise.

"Oh! H-hello there…" hedgehog felt even more scared. The person didn't say anything, he just stood there staring at her….. She began to grip the broom tighter in fear. Even though she was too afraid to look away, she wasn't afraid to examine him. The man or woman that was in front of her was six feet tall, he was wearing a black top hat, a black shirt with red patterns, a long black coat with silver buttons, black silver-ish and white gloves with silver buttons at the wrists. She noticed that the man was dressed like in the 1800s. She soon put two to two together.

"Oh! I see you're dressed up for Halloween and trying to scare me!" hedgehog said, chuckling, thinking it's just a prank. "Far too obvious." hedgehog said walking past the man. She was just about to exit the alleyway suddenly… two strong hands grab her head and yanked her back into the alleyway. "HEY WHAT ARE YO-" before she could say anything else the man covered her mouth with his hand. She tried to scream but the man prevented her from doing it by tightening his grip on the hedgehog 's mouth. She tried to release herself by digging her nail into the man's arm or biting his hand with her teeth but it didn't work. The men kapt a really good grip on her. She tried kicking and punching but no luck.

She was about to pull out her wand and push him away but suddenly the man took out something from his pocket. Hedgehog focused her eyes onto objects and what she saw horrified her. It was a knife…

Hedgehog began to desperately try to get her wand out from her pocket…. But it was too late….

Hedgehog felt the knife's cold silver blade driving though her neck and into her throat. She felt the knife cutting and moving to the left exposing more of her throat. Blood poured out from her throat onto both the knife and her clothes and chest. her screams and shouts soon turned into girdles and gagging as she began to drown her own blood. Before she lost consciousness she managed to look up at her attacker. This face from the upper lip and up was covered in shadows But the last thing she managed to see…. Was a blood draining evil demonic grin…

Her vision got blurry and her mind was starting to fade but before she… well, die.. She heard the man who was attacking her mutter something. It took her a little bit to understand what he was saying but soon she would hear it clearly…

Happy halloween….

and soon… she closed her eyes for the last time…

Once his first victim was finally dead, He grabbed both her hands and dragged her back into the alleyway. Then that's where he would do his work at the body…

After 35 minutes He would finally step out into the light and once he did his shirt and white gloves were covered in blood. He used some piece of cloth from the girls shirts to wipe off some of the blood from his shirt and gloves. He may have to replace them soon. He then saw the bus arriving at the bus stop and opening its doors.

"Are you coming in or not?" the bus driver asked the man.

"I'm just passing by," the man said, not revealing his face. The bus driver just glared at him and then shrugged. Soon he closed the bus doors and drove off. the man smiled as the bus drove off 'What an absolute fucking idiot' the man though to himself. The man soon looked at his bloody knife. He looked at it for a few minutes and then wiped off the blood with the cloth and soon placed it back into this pocket and then took out a silver pocket watch. It said 1:21 am. "I'm already late,'' the man said to himself, putting the silver pocket watch back in his pocket.

He soon took one last look at the body. He was proud of his work. He then took one last look at the moon… and then vanished, the only thing that was left of where he stood was a cloud of smoke…

Soon everyone would see my message….

Soon they would play his game….

Soon….

They would know….

Jack the ripper has returned….

End of prologue