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Ch. 2

A Good Place to Start

When Yugi got home, he went straight to the news paper for answers. Joey had said that he read about the attacks in it. Yugi figured that if he was going to solve the mystery, he'd have to start somewhere, and the newspaper was as good a place as any. He picked up that day's paper. The story was the headline. Man Mauled by Unknown Animal the title announced. Yugi cocked an eyebrow and began to read.

At ten twenty-five last night, the police received a call by an anonymous person reporting that a young man, around the age of fifteen, had been brutally attacked and was lying in an alleyway almost five miles from the police station. He reported that he knew nothing of what happened in the attack, and did not see the attackers, but knew that the man in question, the one who had been attacked, was dead.

When the police arrived at the scene, blood was everywhere and a single body lay in the middle of the alleyway. His body had been mauled almost beyond recognition.

"It was horrible," said Police Chief Steven McBrien. "I've seen a lot of things in my career, but nothing as bad as this. I've never seen so much blood on the ground and walls. It was everywhere. There was barely anything left of the boy when we got there."

The boy, who has been identified as Fenrir Kiryu Kokki, was a sophomore at the local Domino High School and was mere days away from his sixteenth birthday. He was an athlete and a straight A student. His parents can't understand why he would be attacked and murdered in this manner.

"No one hated Fenrir," his mother, Raes Kokki told me. "He was always happy and never had any enemies. He was loved by everyone. I just can't understand why he would be attacked."

The police have reported that they don't know what attacked him. They aren't even sure if it was an animal.

"It's not like anything I've seen before," McBrien said. "His body was definitely attacked by an animal of some sort, but the bite marks have a sort of, human, quality to them. They aren't completely animal, like a dog's, which was our first guess. We thought maybe he was mauled by a person with a weapon or tool of some sort, but there is nothing in our database that would make wounds like that."

An animal is the probable cause, however. Animal furs were found at the scene of the crime. Grey dog hairs, supposedly. Only McBrien said that he's never seen hairs like them. When passed through their database, it came up with nothing. The hairs are from an unidentified animal, perhaps introduced recently into Domino by an immigrant.

It has been reported that Fenrir died due to blood loss, probably from a bite on a major artery. Which bite was the fatal one, no one knows.

When asked what he was going to do about it, McBrien responded, "Nothing. There's nothing we can do. No one saw the attack. And without more evidence, we can't pin point a suspect. Without a suspect, an investigation is useless."

When told the news on the investigation status, Fenrir's parents were outraged.

"I can't believe the police are just going to sit back and let this happen!" said Fenrir's dad, Hendiae Kokki. "They need to find out what attacked our son. What if whoever, or whatever, this thing is attacks again? Then what are they going to do? Our lives, our livelihood, could be in grave danger and the police aren't going to do a single thing to stop it!"

So, what really happened? The world may never know. And on a full moon night, people are said to do strange things. It's said that strange creatures rise from the darkness in the light of a full moon. Is that what attacked Fenrir? Hopefully, we'll never find out.

Yugi smirked. They had given him plenty of information to get started. Standing to his feet and taking the paper with him, he went up to his room and set it on the table. He then pulled out some notebook paper. He began to list the facts that might point him in the right direction.

Across his paper he wrote The Facts

Caller was anonymous meaning he had to be there

There were no witnesses

Boy was mauled by some unknown dog

Boy was an athlete and "A" student

He had no enemies, supposedly

It was a full moon

Police can't do anything

Yugi paused and looked at his list. Some things didn't add up. There were no reported witnesses, and Fenrir was dead, and yet someone called. Someone else was there. There was the boy, and the killer. If it were an animal, it couldn't have called. But if it were human, then maybe the killer did call. If so, why?

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