In Today's Case: Insane Murderer Part 2

Inspector Maguire looked up at Richard who placed Conan onto the floor. He handed him Tess's gun.

"She's most likely…"

"Don't say it." Richard cut in taking the gun from him, "Tess is a strong fighter… she'll get through and we'll find her." Richard stated to him. Inspector Maguire gave him that look like believe-what-you-want-to-believe-but-she's-not-going-to-make-it looks. And Richard never really liked that look so he turned his back. "Come on… we better tell Rachel." Richard stated as he walked forward. Inspector Maguire followed him. Conan looked at the floor looking at the wood pieces worried about her. What if she was dead? Was the question that came to mind. But he knew not to doubt her because he knew that she would survive.

'I'll find you Tess.' Conan thought to himself. He then turned around to see the shadow standing right there. His mouth dropped open as he fell backwards. Conan looked up at him as he watched the shadow step closer and closer to him. He then scrambled to get to his feet. He turned around and ran off with the shadow right behind him. Conan looked back a couple of times to see if he had lost the shadow but it was directly behind him. Conan started to panic as he turned the corner pushing a door open. The door hit the wall of the room. He then grabbed the side and slammed the door shut in the shadow's face. Conan pressed his body up against the door as he kept on feeling jerks and bangs on the other side of the door. The shadow or whatever it was, was trying to get in and kill him most likely. Conan looked around the room to find something that he could block the door with but he couldn't see anything but darkness. He felt a cold gentle breeze following into the room. He followed it to find and open window. Right when he was on the windowsill the shadow had broken down the door. Conan turned his head and watched as he noticed the shadow couldn't even see him.

Conan looked up to see that the clouds were blocking the moon from shining on him. He was about to jump down when the moon shined through and the shadow spotted him. Conan's eyes widened and then he jumped. The shadow looked down only to see nothing. He was gone. He just disappeared. The shadow turned back into the room. Conan came out of the bushes underneath the window with a scratched up bleeding knee. He didn't care how bad his knee was bleeding. He was almost caught! Conan ran around all the way to the front and came through the front door. They all turned and looked at Conan who was huffing and puffing and out of concern and turned around to make sure that the shadow didn't find him.

"Conan! Are you all right?" Rachel asked as she ran to him. She got down onto her knees and looked at his right knee to see it bleeding badly. "Conan your knee, it's bleeding."

"I'm all right though Rachel. But Tess isn't." he stated as he looked up at Richard and Inspector Maguire. He knew they didn't tell Rachel yet because he was missing for a short amount of time. Rachel looked back at Richard and Inspector Maguire.

"What happen to Tess?" She asked them as she stood upright. Richard looked down.

"Tess… Tess is missing." Richard answered.

"Tess is what?!" Rachel yelled. Kotari grabbed onto Satsuma.

"She is? What if the murderer got to her?" Kotari asked. Satsuma rubbed her head as she looked at Richard and Inspector Maguire.

"Please. Please let Kotari go!" she shouted. Inspector Maguire sighed.

"All right. I'll take her to a hotel. Come on." Inspector Maguire and Kotari walked out of the house. Richard looked at Tess's gun which he held in his hand. he knew he had to find her and get her back. He wouldn't know what do to if he lost her.

Tess was tied down to a chair in a dark, damp, and cold room somewhere in the house. She went to lift up her head a sharp pain shocked her causing her head to fall onto her chest. She felt something tied around her mouth stopping her from saying anything. She tried to move her hands but they were tightly tied down by rope. She closed her eyes and shook her head shaking the pain away. Her vision was blurry and she couldn't really tell where she was. She looked around the room but she only saw darkness. When she went to sit upright her back throbbed with pain. She let out a yell but it was dimmed by whatever was tied around her mouth. She started to breathe heavily till she heard someone walking down some stairs. She looked up to see the shadow that had attacked her.

"You can't move so don't bother." He said, "you'll be down here while I'm up there killing everyone you know." Tess's eyes widened as she started to move around in the chair causing it to fall over onto her side. the shadow bent down to her face and patted her cheek. "You're very silly you know that." Tess turned her head resting her chin on the cold concrete floor. The shadow then stood upright. "See you in a little bit." He disappeared walking up the stairs again. Tess listened as a door slammed shut and locked. Tess turned her head resting her right cheek on the floor. She closed her eyes as she begun to doubt everyone up there. So hoped that someone had found her gun that she had dropped and she also hoped that someone will find her.

The only ones left now were Conan, Rachel, Satsuma, Yuma, and Richard. Satsuma sat on the floor near the front door as Richard stood next to Rachel. Rachel was on her knees cleaning Conan's wound from the dirt and dry blood. Yuma was pacing in the middle of the room.

"I wonder when the lights will kick back on." she said to herself. Satsuma stood up and walked over to her.

"Everything will be okay." Satsuma stated.

"There you Conan." Rachel said as she stood upright.

"Thanks." Conan stated as he smiled at her. Rachel nodded her head once and then looked at the officer sitting next to Conan.

"Officer are you all right?" Rachel asked him. He nodded his head holding his shoulder that was wrapped in bandages. "All right." Rachel turned and looked at Richard. "Dad, this man or whoever is the murderer is insane." She told him.

"I know that. Anyone would be insane to capture Tess." Richard said.

"What if she's…"

"Don't think that Rachel!" Conan yelled from his seat. Rachel looked down at him as everyone else did too. "Tess is alive!" then there was a slam of the front door and everyone turned their attention to it. Conan watching carefully for he knew nothing of what he was up against and he knew that he couldn't even protect them because he couldn't protect himself against the shadow and neither could Tess.

"AH!!" they all then turned toward the doorway to see Satsuma being dragged away.

"Satsuma!" Yuma shouted out as she reached out for her. Richard then chased after him with Conan not far behind.

"Conan! Dad!" Rachel yelled out as she watched them disappear down the dark hallway chasing after the shadow.

Conan ran past Richard and up toward the shadow when Conan tripped over his feet.

"HELP!" Satsuma yelled as the shadow dragged her into a room and then shut and locked the door. Richard ran past Conan and got to the door. He jiggled the handle but he wasn't able to open the door. Richard started to slam his hands onto the door.

"Satsuma! Satsuma!" Richard yelled through the door. Then there was a gruesomesst scream on the other side. Richard listened as all bangs and slams of struggling soon stopped. Conan was now standing behind Richard. He watched him as he started to slam his shoulder into the door. Finally with one more slam the door and Richard fell onto the floor. Richard shook his head as he looked up to see the shadow escaping through the window. Conan ran into the room and to the window looking down to see nothing. He then closed the door as he turned around to look at Richard's face. He raised himself up off the ground as he slowly walked toward the right wall. Conan looked over to see Satsuma's body hanging on the wall with only stables in her neck keeping her up on the wall. Conan looked at the body in aghast. Richard covered his face with his hand. "I want to know what he did to Tess." He mumbled to himself. "Let's go Conan." Conan and Richard walked out of the room.

The shadow returned back to the room that Tess was in. He got down onto his knees and looked at Tess in her eyes. She glared at him. She then started to struggled.

"Stop you're struggling." It said to her. Tess fixed her eyes on his. He lifted her and the chair up off the ground. he then turned and started to head up the stairs.

Conan and Richard returned to the living room. Yuma looked at Richard as he shook his head. Yuma shook hers and fell to her knees.

"That was my sister." She said. Rachel walked to her as she got down next to her placing her hands on her shoulders. "That murderer not only got Satsuma… it got Gloki as well." She sobbed. Conan looked down.

'We don't know if it got Gloki. Maybe he's still alive. Maybe he's with Tess.' Conan looked up. He watched as everyone stood around in fear. Then he felt a breeze behind him. It wasn't the wind. It was as if someone ran by him. Conan turned and looked to see nothing. He then looked around to see a shadow moving around. "He's here!" Conan shouted. Richard looked down at him.

"Who?" he asked.

"The murderer!" Conan answered. Yuma and Rachel got to their feet as the officer did as well. He reached for his fun when he was pushed onto the ground with someone on his back. The person placed a gun to his neck. The gun gave off three loud puffs of wind and then he ran toward Yuma. Conan ran to the officer pulled the gun. He placed it on the floor and then pressed the button on his shoe. He kicked the gun but it missed the shadow. It grabbed onto Yuma and slammed her up against the wall.

"Yuma!" Rachel shouted. The Shadow placed the gun on Yuma's right wrist and pulled the trigger.

"AH!!" Yuma shouted. Richard ran forward and tackled the shadow. The shadow lifted up the hand with the gun. Richard grabbed onto it as he pulled the trigger out came two stables. The man kicked Richard off of him and went to run off when Conan grabbed onto his shirt but he slipped out of it and ran off. Conan held onto his piece of clothing not able to see what it was in the dark. He threw it onto the ground and followed him down the hallway.

Conan was now standing in the kitchen. He kicked something on the ground. he picked it up to see it was a flashlight. 'Why would he give me this?' he asked himself as he turned it on. he scanned the room when he saw Tess's boot hanging in the air. His eyes widened as the flashlight travel up her leg and then into her face. There she was. With a bloodily lip hanging off of the ceiling by her wrists. Her wrists were tied tightly with rope and the rope was stabled into the ceiling. Tess hung there in a T shape. Conan dropped the flashlight as he ran to her. "TESS!" he shouted as he came to her feet. Tess made no movement. Conan tried to reach for her wrists but she was too high up. "Richard! Richard!" he called. Soon Richard appeared staring at Tess who hung from the ceiling.

"Tess…" he mumbled. He then ran forward and reached up untying her right wrist. Her arm came down over his shoulder as he untied her other wrist pulling her down off of the ceiling leaving the rope to hang. Richard carried her back to the living room. Rachel's mouth dropped open as Richard placed Tess on the couch. He placed his two fingers on her neck checking her pulse.

"Is she…?" Rachel couldn't finish her question. Richard sighed.

"She's alive." Richard told her. Rachel sighed in relief. Conan walked passed Yuma to see she was dead. He lifted up the clothing off of the ground to see it was a jacket. Conan's eyes widened.

'Gloki!' he thought to himself. He stepped backwards into the dark hallway walking around. "Gloki!" he cried out. "Why?"

"Because I was insane." He said from behind Conan. Conan jumped and then turned around. "I wanted to show everyone that I wasn't as nice everyone thought I was."

"You could've done it in a better way."

"I know. And now… I feel guilty about it…"

Soon the lights kicked back on and Conan stood in the doorway with Gloki.

"Gloki?" Rachel and Richard stated as they saw him.

Next Time on Case Closed: "I'm going out." Tess sets out to look for her parents' murderer but another case that she witnessed stops her. The weird thing about this case is that it happened out on the streets. What will happen?

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