In Today's Case: Haunted Murder Part 2
They all raced up the stairs with Yuki in the lead. She pushed open her son's door to see he wasn't in there.
"Jack!" she called out entering the room looking around. Tess and Conan appeared at the doorway. "Jack? Sweetie? Are you here?" Yuki asked as she continued to look around the room. Conan was the one to spot the broke window. He ran forward as Tess watched him. He placed his hands onto the window ceil. He jumped up looking down.
"JACK!" Conan called out. Tess ran over as she looked out over Conan's head to see Jack lying in bushes. Tess turned and ran down the stairs pushing herself through everyone.
"Tess!" Richard yelled out, "where are you going?" he asked. Tess didn't answer so he decided to follow her. Tess bursted out of the back door with Richard following. They both now stood in front of Jack to see he was laughing. Tess crossed her arms as she glared at Jack.
"You think that's funny!" She shouted.
"Yes!" Jack said laughing.
"You could've died!" Richard shouted at him. Jack shook his head as he stood up.
"No. My house isn't even that tall. I maybe fell 10 feet out of the window." Jack answered. Tess shook her head growling. She then stormed off.
"JACK!" Jack winced when he heard the sound of his mother's voice. Jack turned and looked up at his window. He gulped loudly.
"Yes… mother?" Jack asked. Yuki slammed her fists into the window ceil and Conan backed away.
"HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU NOT TO FOOL AROUND LIKE THAT! NOW! WAS IT YOU ALSO THAT TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS IN THE HOUSE!" Yuki shouted out. Jack shook his head.
"No… it wasn't me that turn out the lights." Jack answered his mother.
"If it wasn't you… then who was it?" Richard asked. Jack turned and looked at him shrugging his shoulders.
"Hey!" Rachel shouted. Yuki turned and looked at her. "Where's Julie?" Rachel asked as she looked around.
"Good point… where did she go?" Jake asked as he turned to look behind him. "She was right behind me a minute ago. Mac looked at Jake.
"She was… I thought she was behind me." Mac said. Mark then shook his head.
"No. She was right behind me." Mark said. Yuki turned her back to the window as she crossed her arms.
"How about we not argue about who she was standing behind. Let's just go find her." Yuki said. they all nodded their heads. Conan looked out the window and shouted out to Richard.
"Julie's missing!" he shouted. Jack looked up as he turned and looked at Richard who placed his hand onto his head.
"Are you kidding… let's go find her." Richard said to Jack. He nodded his head and followed Jack as they searched around the outside of the house as everyone searched inside. Conan walked down the stairs to spot Tess sitting on the couch with her arms crossed and her right leg crossed over her left. He walked toward her jumping up onto the couch.
"Why are you so mad?" Conan asked. Tess looked at Conan and shook her head.
"No reason…" Tess answered, "I heard that Julie went missing." Tess said. Conan nodded his head.
"Yup." Conan answered. Tess sighed as she stood off of the couch.
"Let's go find her." Tess stated. Conan nodded his head as he jumped off of the couch and followed Tess.
They both walked around the house till they came up to Mac and Mark who were walking toward them.
"Did you two have anymore luck then we did?" Tess asked as they approached. Mac and Mark shook their heads.
"No…" Mac answered. Mark sighed as he placed his hand behind his head.
"I wonder where she went." Mark said sighing.
"We'll have to find her and ask her." Conan replied. Then there was scream heard. They all looked at each other and ran forward toward where the scream echoed. There sat Rachel on the floor shaking in fear as she looked into a dark room. Tess got down onto her knees next to Rachel.
"What is it?" Tess asked. Rachel looked at her and pointed into the room.
"I… I found Julie…" Rachel said softly. Tess looked into the dark room as Mac, Mark, and Conan stood behind Rachel and Tess. She stood up and walked toward the room looking into it. No able to see anything due to the darkness of the night and without any light to help her see. Tess bent down onto the floor reaching forward touching someone's hair. Tess pulled her hand back as she walked in forward.
"What is it Tess?" Conan asked. Tess then placed her hand onto someone's back feeling the silky dress that Julie was wearing. Tess sighed as she stood up backing away from the room.
"It's Julie." Tess answered.
"And…" Mac gestured for her to go on.
"She's dead… at least I think." Tess added as she turned her head looking into the room again. Tess reached out for Rachel's hand to help her up. Rachel gave Tess her hand and Tess yanked her up onto her feet. All five of them walked into the living room to see Yuki standing there alone.
"Did you find her?" Yuki asked. Richard and Jack entered through the back door before someone could answer.
"She's not outside." Richard said.
"So that means she must be in the house somewhere." Jack added as he looked at Richard. Tess sat Rachel down still in shock a little at finding Julie dead.
"We did find Julie." Tess said. Yuki walked toward her placing her hands on her shoulders making her turn to look at her.
"Then where is she!" Yuki shouted at her. Tess removed Yuki's hands as she looked at her.
"She was found dead." Conan answered. Yuki looked at Conan as she started to shake her head.
"How do you know? You're just a child!" Yuki yelled.
"Yuki…" Mac started.
"It's true… Rachel found in lying on the ground dead." Mark finished. Yuki shook her head as Jack walked toward his mother holding onto her tightly.
"Rachel… is that true? You found Julie dead?" Richard asked as he walked toward his daughter. Rachel looked up at him and nodded her head.
"Yes dad. I found her dead." Rachel answered. Tess sat down next to Rachel as she kept her comfort.
A couple of minutes later; Richard was standing at the other room trying to think who could've killed Julie. Tess sat with Rachel as Conan stood next to Tess. Mac, Mark, and Jack tried to keep Yuki calm about her best friend's death.
"Mr. Moore." Yuki said standing up. Richard turned and looked at her. "You have to find out who killed her!" she shouted. Richard nodded his head.
"Yes I know that. Considering that we're the only ones in the house it must've been one of us." Richard stated. "Everyone is a suspect."
"Why would I kill my best friend?" Yuki asked as she stepped toward Richard. Tess looked over at her.
"We've seen a lot of things. We even saw little kids younger then Jack maybe Conan's age kill people." Tess said to Yuki.
"What are we going to do now?" Mac asked. "What if none of here is the murderer?" he asked again.
"Then there's someone out there trying to get ride of us all." Richard answered, "now… we all had a possible chance of kill Julie. Me and Tess ran outside to see what happened to Jack. And everyone else ran up stairs including Julie. It was Jake who noticed she was missing first."
"Me? Are you saying that I killed her?" Jake asked.
"You could've. But everyone was standing in front of Julie when she disappeared." Richard stated.
"So that means there's someone else in the house." Jack said. Richard nodded his head.
"I don't think there's another person inside the house." Tess stated. They all turned and looked at her. "I mean… Julie could've walked down stairs to go to the bathroom or something." Tess added.
"That's possible." Rachel said.
"Then the killer could've killed her while we were looking for her." Conan said. Richard jumped shaking his fist toward him.
"WHO ASKED YOU!" he shouted
"Conan has a point Richard." Tess said. Richard sighed. He then crossed his arms and turned his back to them both.
"So… what do we do now? How do we figure out who the murderer is?" Jack asked as he stood by his mother a little frightened.
"Don't really know. There's a possible chance that Tess's theory could be right about one of us is the murderer and then there's your theory about someone else being in the house trying to kill everyone." Richard answered.
"I think we should stick together. That way if one of us is the murderer I doubt they will come after anyone with us all here. And I doubt that the murderer if it is someone else would come after us considering that we're all here and we could do something about it." Rachel said to everyone. They all nodded their heads.
"I'm going to agree with Rachel." Tess said, "we have a better chance at surviving this if we all stick together." She added.
So that was that. No one left the room no matter what the reason was. Soon enough everyone started to grow nervous about the lights since they haven't kicked on yet. Jack sat on the floor next to his mother as the twins Mac and Mark stood by the door way of the room. Tess and Rachel were still seated on the couch with Conan standing next to Tess. Richard was still standing in the middle of the room thinking with his hand on his chin. And Jake stood near Richard.
"I can't take it." Jack said as he stood up. Everyone looked at him. :I really have to go to the bathroom!" he shouted. Tess stood up as she walked over to Richard.
"I'll take him." She said. Richard nodded his head.
"I don't need help getting to the bathroom!" Jack shouted. Richard looked at Jack as Tess turned and looked at him. Yuki looked at her son and spoke up.
"You will to stay alive." Yuki said. Jack turned and looked at his mother nodding his head. Jack and Tess were then off up the stairs toward the bathroom.
"Are you sure she'll be able to keep Jack safe?" Jake asked Richard.
"Yeah." Rachel answered. Jake turned and looked at Rachel, "she saved my life before from a gang leader. She can protect Jack." She added. Jake nodded his head unable to believe that a girl who was maybe 17 years old could protect a boy who was maybe 13. He just couldn't believe it.
"Don't worry." Richard said, "Tess is able to protect Jack and if anything goes wrong we'll hear gun shots or something with a loud noise." He added. Yuki then stood up.
"Tess has a gun!" she asked in shock. Richard nodded his head.
"Yeah." He answered. Yuki walked toward him getting up in his face.
"How do we not know that she's the murderer! She has a gun! She could've killed Julie!" Yuki shouted at him. Rachel stood up.
"Tess wouldn't hurt anyone!" Rachel shouted. Yuki turned and looked at her. "Tess is my cousin and I know her better then anyone! She will only use her gun unless she's in danger or if someone else is. She doesn't even use really bullets! She uses rubber bullets and that would hurt just as much as a real bullet but won't kill someone or make them bleed!" Rachel shouted. Everyone went silent. Shocked that Rachel yelled. It's been a while since Richard and Conan had heard Rachel yell unless she was on the phone with Conan as he used his voice changer to change his voice to make it sound like his own before he was a kid.
'Only if you knew that Tess was really using the real bullets.' Conan thought to himself as he sat down onto Tess's seat. The Tess and Jack came back down the stairs. Tess and Jack looked at everyone funny as everyone looked at them.
"Um… did we miss something?" Tess asked. Yuki took a second glance at Richard and she then walked over to her son pulling him away from Tess.
"No. You didn't miss anything." Yuki answered as she took her seat in the chair and Jack took a seat next to his mother. Jake walked up to Tess as he held out his hand.
"Can I see your gun?" Jake asked. Conan jerked upward a little as he stared at Tess. What if he found out that she had real bullets and not rubber? What if she gets caught and is force to tell why she's here?
Tess hesitated. She then looked at Jake as she lowered her hand away from her gun. "Why?" she asked.
"To check if you really have rubber bullets." He answered. With that Tess grabbed her gun and pulled out the bullets. She took one out and bounced it on the floor. It then came back up and she caught it.
"Proof enough?" she asked. Jake nodded his head as he walked away. Conan's eyes were widened.
'How did she get the rubber bullets?' Conan asked himself. She looked over at him and winked.
"Jake where are you going?" Mark asked. Jake turned and looked at him.
"For a walk." He answered.
"You shouldn't go alone." Mac stated. Jake waved his hand.
"I'll be fine." He then disappeared down the hallway. Tess sat down onto the floor in front of Rachel and Conan since he was in her seat.
Richard paced a little as an hour went by and Jake still hasn't came back yet. Mark and Mac stepped away from the door and toward Richard.
"Do you think we should go find him?" Mark asked. Richard looked at them.
"Yeah he could be hurt or dead." Mac stated. Richard sighed and then nodded his head.
"Yeah let's go find him." Richard said. Everyone got up from their seating areas and walked toward Richard. "Rachel you come with me. Jack you go with your mother. Mac you take Conan and Tess your going with Mark." With the groups set up they were all on their way.
Conan and Mac walked around the hallways of the house without speaking a word. Conan looked around from left to right looking for Jake. He walked toward a door as Mac stopped and watched him. Conan pushed it open and looked around.
"What is it little guy?" Mac asked as he walked toward Conan. He shook his head.
"Nothing."
"AAAAAHHHH!" Conan and Mac looked down the hallway.
"That sounded like Yuki!" Mac shouted. They both ran forward to come across Jack at his knees shaking his mother. "What happened Jack?" Mac asked. Jack looked at them both with tears in his eyes.
"It's… it's my mom. She's dead." Jack answered. Mac and Conan's mouth fell open as Mark, Rachel, Tess, and Richard appeared.
"What is it?" Richard asked.
"Yuki's dead." Mac answered. Rachel walked toward Jack placing her hand onto Jack's back trying to comfort him. They all started to head back to the living room when Conan spotted something on the floor. Tess turned and looked at him. She looked back at everyone else who had disappeared. She then turned and walked turned Conan getting down onto her knees.
"What is it Jimmy?" Tess asked him. Conan reached out picking up something white off of the floor.
"I think I found something…" Conan said. Tess raised an eyebrow. Conan tried to get a good look at it but it was much to dark. Then a light appeared above him. "Thanks for the light Tess."
"Um… Jimmy…" Tess called as she started to back away.
"Yeah?" he asked.
"Remember when Yuki said something about this house being haunted?" Tess asked him. Conan looked at her. he could see the fear in her as she continued to walk backwards.
"Yeah..." he answered slowly. Tess pointed above hi where the light was coming from. He looked up to see a ghost floating above him. Conan jumped as he started to run with Tess behind him. He looked back as he noticed that the ghost wasn't following. It was just floating there. "Hold on Tess." He said. Tess stopped as she turned and looked at him.
"What?" she asked. Conan walked forward as he stood under the ghost. He reached his hand up into the white figure that floated above him. Tess walked over slowly. Conan looked at the wall to his right to see a shadow had been cast onto it.
"Tess." He called. Tess stood next to him as her shadow was cast onto the wall.
"What?" she asked again.
"Look at the wall." Conan answered. Tess turned and looked to see her shadow. She blinked a little. "This ghost isn't real." He added. Tess nodded her head as she turned and looked down at Conan.
"I know that now. But where's it coming from since there's no power?" Tess asked. Conan looked toward a door to see it opened. He and Tess walked forward to see a projector was sitting on the wall casting the white figure of the ghost above them. Tess got down looking at it finding a cord. She crawled on her hands and knees following the cord to see it reach up and out of the window. She stood up and looked out to see there was a battery outside big enough to give the projector enough power to cast the ghost. Conan placed his finger onto the red button and shut it off. Tess turned and looked at him.
"That mystery was solved." Conan said to her. Tess nodded her head. She then felt a hand come down onto her shoulder. Tess turned slowly to see a black and dark looking figure standing behind her. She jumped forward as she turned. Conan had noticed the figure and started to backwards toward the door. "Come on Tess!" Conan yelled as he turned around then started to run. Tess followed him out of the room as did the black figure.
Conan looked at the white thing in his hand to see a name written on it. It was a name tag and he knew who it belonged too. Conan looked up at Tess.
"Tess!" he called. She looked down at him as she glanced back.
"Yeah…?" she asked as she started to run out of breath.
"The murderer is Jake!" he shouted. Tess looked back and then at Conan.
"How do you know?" She asked. Conan lifted up his hand handing her the nametag. Suddenly, the black figure tackled Tess to the ground grabbing Conan by the back of his shirt throwing him to the other side of the hallway. He pinned Tess's wrist onto the ground as Tess tossed her head from left to right struggling to get the figure off of him. Conan rubbed the back of his head as he looked forward. His vision slightly blurred but he could see Tess was having a hard time. Conan then flipped up his stun gun watch and aimed it at the figure's neck. As Tess continued to struggle the figure fell onto her. Tess's eyes widened as she looked over at Conan to see him standing there with his stun gun pointed at the figure. She smiled and relaxed resting her head onto the floor.
"Thanks Jimmy." Tess said. Conan nodded his head.
"Tess! Conan! Where are you!" Conan looked over to see Richard, Rachel, Mac, Mark, and Jack running over to them.
"Who is that?" Tess asked. Conan smiled as he quickly placed his stun gun back to looking like a watch.
"It's the others." Conan answered. Tess sighed in relief.
"Hey!" Tess shouted, "he's heavy!" she added. Richard ran over to Tess's side pulling the figure off of her. Tess was able to take a quick look at the nametag to see Jake's name written on it. Rachel got down on her side helping her up.
"You all right?" Rachel asked. Tess nodded her head as she sighed again looking over at Conan.
"Yeah. Conan saved the day." She answered. Richard walked over to Tess as Mac, Mark, and Jack came to a stop behind Tess and Rachel.
"How did he do that? He's just a brat." Richard said. Tess stood up as she held out her hand showing the nametag to him.
"Conan found this by Yuki's body and solved the murder cases." Tess answered him. Richard picked up the nametag out of her hands looking at it funny.
"Jake." He read. Tess nodded her head. Rachel then started to hug Conan.
"You solved the case Conan! Congratulations!" Rachel shouted hugging him. Everyone started to laugh as Conan started to turn a slight red color.
Next Time on Case Closed: "I'm going to Dr Agasa's to pick up my cell phone." Tess and Conan's gadgets are finished. They go to pick them up when they meet up with someone that Tess threw in jail when she was here in Japan a year ago. Believe it or not he's back for revenge and to kill someone close to her. Is it Darien? Or someone else? Find out!
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