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Chapter Two: Hidden Truths in the Shadows

The trees started to become more bare in the small town of Sleepy Hollow as Ichabod rushed over to the original building of Lancaster's office, looking for Mad- Lancaster Sr. Arriving to the office just as Lancaster Sr. approached it's door began his interrogation.

"Sir! What is it that you know about the Headless Horseman?" Ichabod spoke up to the old man that turned and glared at him.

"That, because of you, released him from his prison and now will be able to roam the lands and cause destruction and chaos for the living!" Lancaster growled at him while opening the door for entrance then slamming it at Ichabod's face, but Ichabod was one not to be denied of important information and entered after Lancaster.

"Sir! You will tell me at once what it is that makes you believe that the Hessian will rise again!" Ichabod yelled at the old Lancaster with unknown furry in his eyes. The old man looked straight in the eyes of that furry and laughed at the constable.

"Feeling a bit of rage there?" Lancaster asked with a mischievous grin on his face. Ichabod's rage was then replaced with that of confusion as he looked at the old man. Lancaster then offered a chair to the young constable as he sat. "I should expect such rage coming from you...after all...its quiet evident since the Hessian is now free and planning his conquest on the Eastern Coast."

"What conquest do you speak of?" Ichabod asked sitting down and waiting for the answers that he needed to finish the Headless Horseman once and for all.

"Heh," the old man chuckled to himself, "For me to tell you of his plans you must first know the real reason for stopping him and burring his remains to that tree."

"I already know that," Ichabod informed the old man, "They stopped him from his bloodlust of killing the soldiers and insatiable furr-"

"No!" Lancaster cut him off, "That is only minor details to his true power. The man was the embodiment of a vengeful spirit who's only purpose in life is fighting and never ending bloodshed of those who have fallen to his sword."

"Isn't that almost the same thing I was trying to say?" Ichabod asked a bit annoyed that he was cut off. Lancaster then laughed,

"But it's not entirely the same thing. When someone's been out to war and returns back from that battle they still feel like they're back fighting in whatever part of the country that they're in; however, with the Horseman, he isn't back in the battlefield, he is the battlefield!" the old man explained to the young constable, "Someone like the Hessian will never stop fighting and will never want the peace that makes the fighting stop. Fighting to him is like smoking; once you start you don't ever want to stop because it gives you a feel of living." Ichabod just stared at the old man, now worried that Katerina and the others were right about the old kook.

"But wouldn't that be something...not believable?" Ichabod questioned not wanting to get on the wrong side of the old man.

"Believe what you want but the Hessian shall and won't ever rest in peace as you would put it," Lancaster grunted as he spoke once more, "If you have lived as long as I had and seen the hell that I've seen, then you would believe me when I tell you that the Hessian was no ordinary soldier." Ichabod then stared at Lancaster with a discovery that he now knew about the old man that stood before him.

"You were there...when they beheaded the Hessian." Ichabod stated to the Lancaster.

"No," Lancaster said with a grin, "I was the one that beheaded the Hessian." Ichabod stood now with a questioning look at the old man as he, too, stood and advanced over to Ichabod. "Do you hear voices in your head that are not of your own and did you feel pain when you saw the Hessian's head placed back on his head?" Ichabod's eyes grew wide from hearing this and tried to back away from him.

"How do you know about that when I never said anything of the sort to you?" Ichabod questioned, eyes showing a hint of inferno rage building up without knowing. Lancaster came closer to Ichabod, in a way of defining his raging eyes.

"Because of that," he pointed to the constables eyes, "Those are the first signs of being converted to the Hessian's side. If I were you I'd get out of here while you still have a chance to remain the way you are now." Ichabod, who's eyes were now dying down of the rage, stood puzzling on what Lancaster just said.

"What? Turn to the Hessian's-?"

"Yes, yes, you, Mr. Crane, will be joining the Hessian's side if you don't get out of here first." Lancaster explained, but before he could sit down, Ichabod's unknown furry got the best of him and pinned the old man to the wall, more rage in his eyes than he could ever have.

"WHAT IN HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!! WHAT YOU'RE SAYING!!! EXPLAIN YOUR-!" Ichabod froze, releasing his grip on Lancaster, he started backing away from him with rage replaced with questionable shock to what he just did.

"That, is what I'm trying to explain" Lancaster brushed off invisible dust and went back to his seat, "The Hessian lusts for his battles and wars so much that right now, as we speak, the Horseman is rounding his unholy army from hell, itself, to surface above this world to bring forth a battle that has never been seen in the light of day; however, there is one more addition he needs to start his unholy war and right now, he's persuading this soul with unnecessary violence, slowly tainting the soul to his wishes and once this soul has been tainted enough...he will claim him as his own."

"And...that soul would be?" Ichabod asked with fear coming from his voice, not wishing to believe what his gut was telling him about who this individual was that the Hessian was after.

"Why Mr. Crane? You above all people should know who it is, but then again if the constable here were all smarter then there would be less crime happening in this land." Lancaster explain with an insult before his face turned serious to the young constable, "Its you...that the Hessian wants."

Kiya: Cliffy!! Now that the world is coming to an end, what will Ichabod do with knowing that he is the only one that is postponing the unholy battle? Will he leave Sleepy Hollow forever or will the Horseman have a trick or two up his sleeves to force Ichabod to stay? Until next time!