Story takes place after my novel 'The Draycott Factor'.


Chapter One:

"Unfinished Business"

Wammy House is an orphanage in Winchester, England. It was home to gifted children with exceptional skills.

In a cemetery located behind a church that sat on the grounds next to the orphanage, Demetre watched as a procession of pallbearers carried two black coffins to two grave plots next to one another that had already been dug. He watched as each coffin was lowered down into a plot, listened to the priest as he recited passages of remembrance, and observed the ceremonial dirt drop onto each coffin by friend nos and family.

The Kira Task Force were present, but stayed in the background. They worked with the deceased, but colleagues came second to immediate family and those who were closest to L and Watari.

The wind whipped Demetre's hair as he stood alone and afar partially obscured behind a tall obelisk tombstone dedicated to someone that died over a century prior.

He saw two boys standing alone silently while a third cried into his sleeve.

Demetre didn't know who they were, but obviously each held a deep fondness for L in their own way to stand fore front as the priest spoke his words. One boy had angelic, almost silvery, white hair, and he stood, almost emotionless. The next boy had generic blonde hair that needed a trim. He stood with an almost annoyed and angry demeanour. The third boy, who was crying into a sleeve, had brown hair, and was the smallest of the three.

It was a dreary afternoon and there was a chill in the air and judging by the sky it looked like it was going to rain. Demetre pulled the trench-coat he wore around him more tightly to offset the cold.

Instead of being covered with mounts of dirt, two large stone slabs were moved into position by professional movers that had already been set aside. Demetre figured that cement had already been cast within each plot for the slabs to fit on top of each. This was no doubt to prevent erosion. They lay flat on the ground over top of each coffin, air tight. Exact measures had to have been taken for them to fit perfectly. Over the years, Demetre knew Undertaking was in itself an art form. A four foot elegantly craved stone cross also stood erect marking each slab.

The moment the procession and visitors began to move off, only two were left. A tall, young looking man in a pressed suit spoke to an older gentleman, whom Demetre knew was his father. After a few comforting words, the young man was left alone to grieve by himself.

The young man stood alone in front of the grave marker of L, but when everyone was out of sight, he began to laugh. A boisterous almost sadistic laugh and one that touched on a megalomania. He then got on his hands and knees on top of the flat grave slab and began shouting at the deceased. The words were muffled by a sudden breezy wind that masked the sound, rustling through the trees of the trees near Demetre.

But the one thing that Demetre did hear was, "I win, L! I win!"

Light Yagami crouched unceremoniously and with utter contempt upon L's last resting space, his arms and legs spread apart like a demonic spider on the stone slab. L had just been sealed in the ground and now Light began to mock him. Their battle: L vs Kira resulted in a victor and Kira / Light won.

Ryuk, his Shinigami, stood next to him. No one could see the Shinigami unless they touched his Death Note. But Demetre could see him, because he had touched Ryuk's Death Note on a previous occasion when he battled Light for a separate reason. Once good friends, they were now bitter enemies.

Geist, his own Shinigami was back and away out of sight, so Ryuk did not notice him, because Demetre wanted to secretly spy on Light, and having a ten foot Shinigami standing next to him would deter from that. Hiding and watching where he was the best venue point.

After the events that transpired on the top of the Kira Task Force headquarters building, Demetre had mainly remained in the shadows. He wasn't alone, however. He had friends with him who were helping him cope with his grief after the death of his beloved, Dana Chika, by a ruthless killer and former cop named Zurn Wellington.

With the help of his friends, he was able to keep track of Zurn's movements, while avoiding the League of Darkness and their minions who wanted to eliminate him for being a rogue with a Death Note. The LOD wanted order and to be in absolute control of every Death Note. If a person refused, they were eliminated. They were after Light, as well. And in hindsight, Demetre should have let Zurn kill Light instead of saving him from an assassination attempt.

Zurn's last known location was Winchester, England. And while his friends searched for Zurn, Demetre came here to observe the last send off of two admirable men who risked everything to bring the forces of evil to justice. Unfortunately, they were outwitted by Kira, and suffered the ultimate defeat. Both L and Watari were murdered with the Death Note. Light Yagami used others to forward a grande agenda and he didn't care who he had to kill.

Demetre respected L and Watari from the moment he met the pair. He met them when he was in high school just after Misa Amane was kidnapped by the Kira Task Force on suspicion of being the Second Kira. He had seen the kidnapping happen. L knew that he had seen it and Watari was dispatched to bring him to L's limo, where they engaged in a very interesting conversation. L was intelligence and savvy, but coy.

Demetre spoke with the great detective without revealing what he knew about Light, because he wanted to be the one to take down his friend for murdering his grandfather with the Death Note. During Light and L's cat and mouse game, a lot of innocent people lost their lives. Light used his grandfather for a pawn. He was falsely accused of a crime, later absorbed, but Light murdered him before his innocence came to pass.

For that alone, Light deserved Demetre's scorn. But he later learned that his grandfather was secretly battling terminal cancer and the sudden heart attack saved him from suffering from the disease. It still didn't make it right.

In retrospect, he should have told L about Light. Hence, L and Watari would then still be alive.

Light did get his just-desserts, however, and a bloody nose to boot.

On top of the Kira Task Force building, during their epic final encounter, Demetre head butt his friend in the face in retribution for what he had done, knocking him unconscious. Killing Light wasn't worth selling his soul to get revenge and it went against the very core of his morality and religious values.

The moment he heard of L and Watari's passing, though, he immediately suspected Light. Light wanted L dead for his continuous interference in his plans and formulated a plan to eliminate his enemy.

For a time, Demetre suspected that his friend was suffering from a multiple personality disorder which caused him to kill all those people. When the Death Note was removed from the equation and Light forgot about its existence, for a time, his friend reverted back to the kind-hearted person Demetre knew, who loved the world and everything in it. Light was always laughing when he was a kid. But when Dana, who was Light's girlfriend in middle school, suddenly left without a trace one day, even though Demetre consoled him and helped Light get through his grief, it was like something snapped in Light, and he withdraw from society. And the thought that it was his fault that Dana left him began to fester. Light then began to develop a cynicism of the world that changed him.

Light, Dana, and himself, they were affectionately known as 'The Three Musketeers' in middle school, because they did everything together. But when Light and Dana began to date socially, even at a young age, Demetre felt like a third wheel, and stayed away. Yet, he developed his own feelings for Dana. But he kept them to himself for the good of the friendship. When she disappeared, he felt like his heart had been ripped out of his chest, because he had never told her how much she meant to him. But he kept strong, because Light needed him.

But now, every time he thought of his childhood friend, a fury swelled up inside. And most recently it had driven him to drink to drown his sorrows.

A year ago, he and Dana had gotten together and became lovers when he was introduced to the Savant Society, a secret cult, who believed Shinigami and humans could peacefully co-exist. She was an owner of a Death Note with her Shinigami named Angel. Light had not been the first to pick of a Death Note in recent years, Demetre later learned. There were many in possession of Death Note's all around the world in secret. The Death Note only becoming known when Light began to kill criminals haphazardly with it and L found out of the supernatural book.

Demetre learned Dana had harboured a secret affection for him in middle school, but she could not reveal it to him. Dana knew that Light had a fragile heart and if she dumped Light for Demetre, it would absolutely crush him. Light later said he secretly knew of their affection when they faced off on the top of the Kira Task Force headquarters building. He saw the fleeting glances and the look Demetre gave Dana when he thought Light wasn't looking.

But five years were lost between them, because Dana's father had taken her away to live inside the Savant Society Mansion at the base of Mount Fuji and she was forbidden to tell anyone about it.

But Dana was instrumental in helping to track Light down later to confront him for his crimes. However, it ended up costing Dana her life. When she died, Dana's body was cremated. The only thing he now had left to remember her by were pictures that they taken together. He missed her so much.

So looking from afar, as Light desecrated a holy place, not only to L's grave, it was like he was spitting on every other soul that was buried in the cemetery. It was enough to make him sick and cause him to come out of his hiding.

He was about to come out when he froze. He saw Light freeze, remain statuesque as if he was listening for something. He was all fours still on grave slab of his enemy, with a demonic, sinister look in his eyes. It was almost like he was disappointed, robbed of satisfaction—a chess game unfinished.

Unfinished business, per se.

Light enjoyed chess, but whenever he and Light played a game, it always ended in a draw. Despite everything Light did to try to take the advantage, Demetre saw right through it. In comparison, Demetre believed Light had been playing the ultimate chess game with L with high stakes. And now that the game was stopped, the fun was gone. Hence Light looking disappointed, even annoyed.

Light stood up and then said something to Ryuk, but Demetre couldn't hear it. Then they both walked away.

To be continued...