Chapter 5 – Slasher's Part
Two days later, it was Saturday, and Mordecai, Rigby and Margaret had come over to Max's and Alex's. Since they had never had visitors before, Alex and Max tried to make them comfortable.
"Hey Alex, why do you have a scar on your face?" Rigby asked curiously. Alex sighed and slapped his knee.
"I got the living shit beaten out of me two days ago by some jerks." Max then added in something that made Alex blush.
"He was protecting this new girl called Rachel. By the sound of it, she has a crush on Alex."
"What! Why would you think that?" Alex asked in denial. Max nudged his arm.
"Come on Alex, I saw the way she was looking at you in class the other day, she has a crush on you for sure!" Alex then heavily sighed.
"Okay, maybe she does, but we're different. She's a human and I'm a robin. We're totally different species." Mordecai laughed slightly.
"So what Alex? I mean, I'm a blue jay and Margaret's a robin, and we still have quite a bit in common." Margaret giggled at him, then turned to Alex.
"What Mordecai is saying is, you have a great opportunity to get a relationship started, so don't blow it for yourself." Alex nodded, then handed round some biscuits.
LATER THAT NIGHT…
Margaret was sitting in the living room reading a magazine. Mordecai had gone out to get a few things and Rigby was doing some 'work' outside. So that left Margaret all alone. Suddenly there was a knock on the door. She got up to open it, but when she went for the doorknob, a knife stabbed through the knob, knocking it off. She stumbled back against the staircase as a man walked through the now-shattered door. Margaret at once recognised who it was.
"S…Slasher?" she mumbled. "What are you doing here?"
"Why I'm here isn't important. I've got a legacy to continue." He stabbed at her, missing her by millimetres. She picked herself up and ran round the house, chased by Slasher. Suddenly she stumbled and tripped over a loose piece of tiling. He loomed over her, knife in hand.
"What are you gonna do?" she asked, a slight tone of anger in her voice.
"Oh don't worry, a bit of ascetism* never hurt anybody. Well to tell the truth, quite a lot of people." He took the knife and started cutting into her arm. She screamed in pain as the knife started to gather her blood. He carved a short sentence of numbers into her arm, which took 5 minutes to do. By the time he was finished, blood was streaming down her arm and the knife.
"Show that to Mordecai. He'll know what's up." And he ran off through the door, as silent as night. Margaret just lay there motionless, paralyzed with fear. When Mordecai came back, he saw Margaret lying on the ground soaked in her own blood.
"HOLY SHIT! MARGARET!" he yelled. Margaret got up and started crying quite heavily.
"What the hell happened?" he asked gently, now really worried about the state of his wife. She showed him the words Slasher had engraved on her arm. They read:
'Life, a second chance'
"What does it mean?" she asked him. "Slasher said you'd know." It wasn't long before Mordecai had put two and two together.
"Slasher was a friend of Joe. And when Alex and Max got injured by them, they mentioned a lega…" He stopped with his mouth gaping open.
"Joe has a legacy. He's using his friends to carry it out for him now he's dead." Margaret sat down next to him and wrapped her wings around him in embrace.
"What are we gonna do Mordecai?" she asked worriedly.
"The only thing we can do. Run…"
*Ascetism (now illegal) was the cutting of your arms and legs with sharp objects to find enlightenment. The Buddha tried this when he was seeking enlightenment.
Ooh, another cliffhanger! Slasher's done his dirty work, what will happen next? Read the next chapter to uncover the next stage of the legacy…
