chapter 12
disclaimer: I do not own death note
Vanilla stared into space, unable to focus on her work. Ever since the trip to Aoyama she couldn't stop thinking about that strange creature.
'maybe I should tell somebody about it' she thought, then shook her head 'no, they'd just think I'm crazy, no one would believe that' she sighed and tried to get back to work but her mind kept drifting back to the creature. 'what was that thing? there was no way it could have been a costume, it looked so real!' She looked over everything but her mind kept wandering. 'I need to find out what that was' Vanilla thought. 'now how do I get out of here? Ryuzaki wants me to help but i'm not going to be much help like this. And I can't rally just go up and say "hey L, I saw a monster Aoyama and now I can't think straight so can I have the day off?" because that would be more likely make him think I'm crazy and give him more reason to not let me go. I need an excuse...' her honey brown eyes scanned the room as she tried to come up with something believable.
She considered many things but none of them seemed like something Ryuzaki would believe. Just as she was about to give up her phone buzzed. She picked it up to see a new message
Hey Val, I haven't seen you in forever! I was wondering if you wanted to hang out?
-Meg
She was about to say she was busy but then got an idea.
"Hey Ryuzaki?"
"what is it Kurusaki-san?"
"uh, My friend just asked me to hang out again and I'm afraid that if I keep making up excuses she'll get suspicious. Is it alright if I go?" Vanilla crossed her fingers. It wasn't necessarily a lie, if Meg got suspicious of something she could do a better investigation than the FBI. well, that might be an exaggeration but it is certainly difficult to hide things from her.
"hmmm, yes you may go. make sure she doesn't find out anything" Ryuzaki didn't look away from the screen.
"ok, see you later then!" Vanilla ran out of the door, texting Meg.
Sure! where do you want to go?
-Valarie
She got a response almost immediately.
How about the park? we can decide what to do from there.
-Meg
Alrighty! see you there!
-Valarie
~time skip~
She arrived at the park within a few minutes and saw Meg sitting at a picnic table.
"Meg!" she waved. Meg jumped up and tackle-hugged Vanilla.
"Val! It's so good to see you!"
"it's good to see you too. So what did you want to do?"
"I was going to let you decide" Meg said. Vanilla thought for a minute. She wanted to get more information on the monster but she didn't want Meg to know about it.
"well, I was thinking about making a costume just for fun because why not? and I want to try to make it scary, like some kind of monster. So how about we try to get the perfect design, we can do research to try to make it a scary as possible. we can even make one for you if you want" She knew it wasn't the best plan but it was the only thing she could think of to possibly figure out what she saw. And Meg loved trying to make things scarier than they were in the first place.
"That's a great idea! Let's do it!" Vanilla gave a sigh of relief that her plan had worked. Meg practically dragged Vanilla along in her excitement. They walked into the old dusty library. They collected every book on monsters, myths, urban legends, just plain old legends, and a few psychology books that Meg had grabbed.
"why do we have these?" Vanilla pointed to the psychology books.
"well, if we want to make a really scary costume, we can find out what makes something scary"
"wow, you really thought way ahead" Meg giggled and picked up a book.
"yup! now let's get workin'"
~another time skip~
Researching monsters had turned out to be a lot more fun than she had originally thought. She had read all about vampires and werewolves and was also fully prepared for the zombie Apocalypse. It had only been about an hour and a half and they had already gone through over half the books, had a debate over who would be a better looking zombie, and concocted a plan to prove once and for all that Meg's classmate, Elliot, could indeed clone himself.
"I bet you could get some good ideas from this, Val" Meg handed her a big old dusty book, which she had opened to a page about halfway through the book.
"shinigami?" She looked down the rest of the page. 'gods of death, that sounds creepy.' she thought as she looked over the page. 'hmmm this might just be it...but if that was a god of death then did it kill that girl it was following? and if not, are they working together? it could be possible, if it wasn't just my imagination' Vanilla closed the book and looked around.
"that's all the books" Meg stood up and stretched out. "I should probably get going, I've got stuff to do. It was great hanging out again!"
"yeah, I'll put the books back"
"thanks"
~yet another time skip~
Vanilla sat with her laptop on her lap, searching for more information on shinigami. She found a conversation topic on Shinigami and spirits. she was currently scrolling through it, reading all the comments.
(*crazymonkeymaster84*)
My dad always told me stories about gods of death. he said they were constantly battling with the gods of light for control over the world.
She found that funny somehow and almost laughed. She scrolled down through some of the other comments until something caught her eye.
(Keytoallrealms)
My family recently moved to a new house out in the country, it is a fairly big house from the late 1800's. When I was cleaning out the attic I found a loose floorboard and when I moved it I found an old diary with the date 1923. It seemed to be the diary of a young girl and it spoke of shinigami and some kind of notebook of death and some kind of special eyes, and there was a drawing in the back. it all seems pretty crazy and I think it was probably a prank from the last owner of the house but I'll attach some pictures of it anyway.
Vanilla looked over the pictures. The handwriting was a mess and she could only make out a few sentences but it seemed to match up with what the commenter said. She looked at the last picture. Her eyes widened and her breath caught in her throat. It was a page full of sketches, an open book, some eyes, and right in the center was a monster.
The same monster she had seen in Aoyama.
