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Note: 3rd chapter up! Hooray…pls remember that this is supposed to funny, so some parts may be a little stupid, I'll iron out the details of the game as we go along, and it'll get progressively more difficult. And in this fic, they're just regular teenagers, although they are still separated into coordinators and naturals. Other than that, only their characters are the same…although they tend to go a little OOC from time to time…Gomen…. written so much already. Hope you like this chapter!
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Chapter 03 – safe and sound
They trooped to the garage and carefully opened the boot of the car.
A scream escaped from Fllay's lips.
Tolle's dead body had been found.
Miriallia fainted from the shock into the arms of an equally shocked Dearka.
"But he said, he said that no one would be hurt…" Nicol muttered.
"Don't be a fool. How can you believe him? We don't even know who he is." Yzak said.
They stared in shock at the body. Sai and Dearka brought Fllay and Miriallia back into the house, away from the gruesome sight.
Alyssa took a step forward and peered closely at the body.
"Don't worry. It's only a mannequin. A very well made one at that." she said.
"Oh. I'll go tell the rest." Lacus ran back to the house, relieved by this turn of events.
"So what are we supposed to do now?"
"Um…we could check the body to see how it died?" Alyssa suggested.
"My sister should know, she's read like how many detective stories in her lifetime." Nicol said proudly.
"Except that this isn't a story, but let's do it…how else will we know what was used to kill it?" Athrun sighed.
Yzak and Kira lifted it out of the boot and placed it on the ground.
Cagalli kicked at it saying, "This is not fun at all. You nearly gave us the scare of our lives."
"And you're scaring me, talking to a mannequin. Are you okay? You look awfully pale. Why don't you go back to the house and keep the other girls company?" Athrun asked caringly.
At this point Sai came out of the house and ran over to them.
"We have a small problem. The phone lines are dead, and we can't use our cell phones. Also Internet connection is down. In other words we can't contact anyone here." Sai announced, a glum look on his face.
"Figures. This guy's bent on keeping us here to play his queer game of Cluedo." Cagalli cursed.
"Oh well. Then I guess we have no choice in this matter. Let's hurry up, the sooner we find Tolle the sooner we can be out of here." Kira stated.
"You're right. Inspection of body anyone?" Yzak said.
They looked questioningly at each other. After all they were only teenagers out at the beach during the summer holidays for a little fun in the sun, how would any of them know how to do an autopsy?
"So how do we go about it?" Cagalli asked, looking at Athrun.
"Hey, don't look like me. I may be good a lot of stuff, but solving mysteries isn't one of them." Athrun said. (Which explains why he's always so confused in the series)
"He was knocked out with something hard and then stabbed with something in the chest repeatedly." Nicol said standing up. He had been bending down looking at the body, oblivious to the conversation going on up there.
Everyone looked at him with surprise.
"It's quite simple. Look there's a note here saying: concussion (1) and then at the chest there are a lot of puncture holes with 'blood' and another saying: numerous gaping wounds (2) so I just link it all together, and voila."
They burst out laughing, leaving Nicol bewildered.
"Oh well. This makes it a lot easier. But how do we find the weapons? It could be anything." Cagalli stated.
"Like this baseball bat? Or maybe these gardening shears?" Alyssa said, pointing to the stuff in the boot.
"So we're done?" kira asked.
"I guess so. We've done what he wanted us to." Sai replied.
"That wasn't too bad. Actually that was relatively easy." Cagalli said
"Considering that you didn't do anything." Athrun teased.
"So what are we supposed to do now?" Yzak asked.
"Nothing. Good work detectives, you've solved it. Now run along and don't worry about Tolle. He'll appear very soon."
It was that voice again.
Everyone froze, looking around, but not finding anyone.
Just then Klueze came out and called them in for lunch.
But before they left, something caught Alyssa's eye. It was a silver key lying in the boot as well. She picked it up and slipped it into her pocket, following the rest back into the house.
As they sat down at the table, they told the rest of the girls what had happened, but Miriallia couldn't be persuaded to relax and smile. She was still worried about Tolle.
Then the table started to shake. And it didn't stop; weird sounds could be heard from underneath it.
Dearka looked under the table and shouted, "Tolle!"
Apparently Tolle had been tied to the bottom of the table. Before that he had been knocked out on the way to the house and couldn't remember anything since.
The gang quickly filled him in on what had happened. Everyone was glad that he was here safe and sound.
Lacus checked on the Haros, and found that Tolle's was there as well. Then there should be 12 Haros. But once again there was only 11, the second person had gone missing, but who was it this time?
Note: so how was it? Was it okay? Well…I'm just trying to keep the suspense going…sigh…I'm not a very good mystery writer and I? Anyway…hope you'll review! Thanks.