Tuesday October 18th 1977 2:08 P.M. I started walking down the rainy street of Chicago and reviewed the facts, there weren't many. Darien Shields, Age 21, 6 feet 2 inches, Black hair, Blue eyes, Weight 170 pounds, went missing after his wife Serena woke up to the sight of blood in their bedroom. Darien is a FBI agent. so it might have to do with work. If that's the case, then I need to look at some of his background work and see his past clients.
Questions poured down like rain. What was in that suitcase? Why did they have to leave in the morning? Was Serena's life in danger because of this? Is that why they had to leave? Who decided that the Chihuahua was a dog? I had a hunch that before this case was over, I'd be sorry that I asked. First things first, I need to head down to the Police Station and see if I can get my hands on Darien's profile.
*12 minutes later* I arrived at the Police Station and walked through the front door. There went many blues around for some reason. I walked over to the help desk to see if the chief was around. "Hello there sir, how may I help you?"
"I'm Samuel Ownby and I would like to see the captain."
"Can you please wait a moment?"
"Sure" *2 minutes later* "Sorry for the wait, but the captain is in important meeting. so you'll have to wait a few minutes."
"Do you mind if I wait at their office?" I said looking at the clock. "Sure, if you just go down the hall and take a left then go down the stairs, go right and go up to the 2nd floor, go left and it will be the door at the end of the hall on the right."
"Umm thanks." I said as I walked away and headed for the captain's office. I'm not so good with directions. so I got lost in about 3 minutes. I walked passed a door that I've seen at least four times, but there was something different about it this time. I saw two guys who clearly were not cops go through the door. I had to see if everything was alright.
I walked up to the door and opened it. It was the mail room for the police station. I walked through the pipes and the rolling carts till I heard some noise coming from in front of me. I ducked down behind a conveyor belt and looked ahead. I saw two people standing next to a red pipe doing something. The first guy was a white male about 6,2, the other guy was a black male about 6,4. "Dude, there is no way you could do that if it were purple." The white man said turning a pipe. "I'm not lying! it was purple and it work!" The black guy said putting something in his pocket. "How this that possible then?" He said looking at him. "I don't know, All I did was-"
*beep, beep* They both look down. "Hold on...ok were all done there." The black guy said putting the radio away. "Is that everything we need to do?
"Ya man, they won't know what hit them." They both started to laugh. "Alright, let's get out of here man."
"You said it." I had a feeling that this guys were up to something big and I couldn't let them get away. "Hey you over there!" They both freeze and look at me as I hold up my badge. "You guys got permission to be back her?" They looked that each other. "Yes we do, we got papers."
"Ok then, let's see them then."
"...Ok sure." The next thing I saw was a black Glock in his hands. And that's all it took for me to pull out a friend close to my heart. A little down and left to be specific. The black guy runs for the back door and the white guy shoots four rounds at me. Still behind the conveyor belt, I was well protected. Two more shoots ring out through the room. Now it was my turn. my eyes started to dilate as I started to breathe heavily, I popped up from behind the conveyor belt so my friend could talk with him, the only problem is that my friend's a very eloquent speaker. He made three profound arguments that struck home and made their mark. One through the shoulder, one through liver and one through the hand.
I ran for the back door. Opening the door, I was greeted with a shot to the door just missing my neck. Ducking behind a mail cart, I started looking for the shooter. Three more shots ring out before I found him. He was up on a scaffolding. Peeking out from the side, I shot two rounds at him. One made its mark. One through his left leg. He fell down with a thud. Walking up the latter and over to him, I wanted to make sure he wasn't going anywhere. Walking up I saw he was gone. But he left a blood trail behind.
I followed it to the back room. Opening the door, he knocks me over the rail onto the conveyor belt and I drop my gun and badge, I saw where my gun fell and try to get it but the man was gone. He limped out the back door and got away.
Trying to get up, I hear the sound of a 38. Cal being cocked. "Don't move and put down the gun!" looking up, I saw 4 blues with their guns pointed right at me. "Don't worry I'm a private eye."
"Oh really? well let's see your badge then." One of them says. I reached for my pocket and felt nothing. "Well, where is it?" I looked up at him "...On its way to Florida?" I said giving him a look.
Tuesday October 18th 1977 3:06 P.M. "Sorry for the wait Mr. Ownby." The cop says handing me my gun and badge. "We had to make sure."
"No problem, I understand." I said as I put my gun back in my holster. We started to walk back to the front door to the police station. When we got there, I was greeted with about 4 or 5 news cameras trying to get into the mail room. "What's going on?"
"What do you think? you killed a guy in a Police station."
"You need to get these people out of here and seal the room off." I said looking at him.
"It's not my decision to make."
"Then who's is it then?"
"The captain, She's the only one that can make that call."
"Well I guess I better go see the Captain then." I said walking back to the Captains office. *3 minutes later* After having someone help me, I walked up to a dark green door, I looked through the window to see someone at the desk reading something and drinking some coffee. *knock, knock* "Come in!" A woman's voice yelled. "Oh boy..." I said to myself opening the door.
I opened the door to the sight of a woman in her mid-20's. She had on black shorts and her hair was as long as Mina's. but her hair was a dark green color. She also had a dark black shirt on. "Are you the captain?"
"Why yes I am." She said with a sarcastic voice. "I'm Samu-"
"Ya ya, I know who you are Mr. hotshot!" She said cutting me off. "You're the idiot that just broke 3 FAA and 11 district of Chicago regulations running around my station with a gun shooting at people! What do you call that huh?"
"...Self-defense."
"Oh and what?, you think that P.I badge is going to get you a free dinner around here?" She said getting up with her coffee and walking over to the window.
"No, but maybe a little professional courtesy though."
"Ha, in a police station on Halloween week? You got to be kidding me."
"Screw courtesy then." I said walking over to the window. "Your boys just walked away from a crime scene, you need to seal the room off and dust for prints and take pictures."
"Hey don't Lecture me hotshot, I know what I'm doing."
"All you have to do is just down that area an-"
"Oh just shut down the area down huh it's that simple, just shut it down? ya, and I got everybody from the boy scouts touring through here to the Shriners convention. I got lost kids to find, lost dogs and stolen cars. I got International diplomats showing up. I got a 700 pound pumpkin being drove here from LA for a fund raiser, So I'm so sorry but I really can't just shut down that area." She said rather full of herself and walking back her desk and sitting back down. "So you cap some low life stealing mail, big deal."
"Stealing mail?" "Two people don't go through all this trouble just to steal mail." I said walking back over to the desk. "I had a feeling tha-"
"Ya I know all about your feelings and your skill level that everybody here talks about on a daily basis." She said putting her cup down on the table. "Look, I'm only hear because I need to know If you have a file on a FBI agent."
"Ha! and why do you think I would give you someone's FBI file?" She said looking at me. "...Because I said please?" She rises an eyebrow as she looks at me "...I've had just about enough of you so I want you to leave my office and leave my police station before I have you thrown out!" She said pointing to her door. I looked at her and looked at the door. I decided I would go back to my office and think of a new plan. I walked over to the door and stopped, I turned around and faced her. "I never got your name miss...?"
"Trista Meioh..." She said looking at the clock on the wall. "Well Trista, I'm sorry for all the trouble I've cause you and I hope you can forgive me for what I've done." I said giving a bow. "Have a nice day Trista." And with that I left.
"Heh, looks like what Michelle said about Samuel is true." Trista said taking a sip of her coffee. "Looks like I'm going to get to have some fun with him after all." She said giving a very seductive smile...
Tuesday October 18th 1977 4:13 P.M. I finally got back to my office and walked through the door to notice that Michelle was not at her desk. As I looked around, I heard a faint sound coming from the roof of the building. There was only one way to get to the roof. I walked to my office and walked through the door on the left wall. Walking up two flights of stairs I came to the roof. I now noticed that the music was a violin. I looked around and saw Michelle playing the violin.
Michelle has always played the violin since I've known her. The way she plays makes you feel like your floating on the ocean at night under the stars. I leaned against the wall and listened to her play with a smile on my face as I closed my eyes...
*15 minutes later* As Michelle plays the last note, she gives a big sigh and turns around. "Mr. Ownby?!" Michelle said a little startled. "I didn't know you were back. How long have you been standing there?" She said as she walked over to me. "Oh about an 15 mintues."
"Really? well I was just on my brake."
"Your brake was at 1:30." I said folding my arms. "...Sooo?" I rolled my eyes as Michelle lets out a small laugh.
"Hey Michelle? I was wondering, how did you learn to play the violin anyway?" Michelle went quite for a few seconds as she looks up into the sky. "When I was little, my mother used to play the violin for me after I got my homework done. Whenever She would play at an opera, I would always get to sit up front. The way she played made her look almost like a princess. And it always made me feel happy about being alive. Then one day, my Mother got sick, I wanted to help her but I didn't know how. Then I looked over at her violin and I felt like it was calling me towards it. I picked it up and started to play a few notes and it made my mother feel well again. And that was when I decided I would learn how to play the violin so I could make people feel better."
"Well you're on the right track, you're getting better at it." Michelle looks over at me. "Well thank you Mr. Ownby." Michelle said as she started to walk over to me.
"Oh by the way, how did going to the police station to get Darien's file go?" I give an uneasy look. "Well, let's head back inside and I'll fill you in ok?"
"Sure, and I'll make us something to drink." Michelle said as we both started to walk back down stairs.
Tuesday October 18th 1977 5:15 P.M. As Michelle poured two cups of coffee, I sat down in the lobby chair. "So I'm guessing by that look you have on your face that you didn't get his file." Michelle said sitting down at her desk and handing me a cup of coffee. "Ya, it didn't go as well as I thought it would."
"Well what happened?"
"Well long story short, I get there and I'm on my way to the captian's office and I get in a shootout and-"
"Oh my god! Are you ok Samuel?!" Michelle said putting her hand over the mouth. "Ya, don't worry."
"Oh what a relief." Michelle said putting her hand back down. "Then what happen?"
"Well I got to meet the Captain of the station and boy was she something else." I said taking a sip of my coffee. "What was her name?"
"Trista Meioh."
"What?!" Michelle said looking shocked.
"What's wrong? Do you know her?"
"...You could say that." She said looking away. "Oh while were talking about Trista, do we have her file in are records?"
"Yep, that's for sure." Michelle says standing up. "...You make it sound like she's dangerous."
"..." Michelle was quiet as she got Trista's file. "Here you are Mr. Ownby." Michelle said handing me her file. "Thanks Michelle, I'll go up to my office and check this out." I got up and drank the last of my coffee and put the cup away. As I started walking up the steps, Michelle looks up to me and says. "Just be careful the next time you're around Trista ok?"
"Why? Is she afraid of people like me?" I said with a sarcastic tone. "Well let's just say...she really likes kind guys like you...a lot."
"...Ok I'll keep that in mind." I said looking Michelle in her eyes. I could tell she was being serious. I closed my door and walk over to my desk and sit down and opened Trista's file.
Trista Meioh, Age 24, Scorpio, 6 feet 2 inches, Blood type A, Long green hair, Red eyes, Weight 169 pounds. Went to Harvard, studied in child Psychology, Join the force in 1974 and worked her way up to captain. "Hmmm." I wondered to myself what Trista could be capable of doing to someone like me.
Well there was no more I could do today so I decided I would call it a night. I started to think what I could do. It was only 5:33. Then I remembered what Mina said to me last night. "Would you like to go to the observatory with me tomorrow night at 9:00?"
"Well I guess I know what I'm doing tonight." I said as I smiled to myself. Locking my Office, I headed down the stairs and for the front door. "Goodnight Michelle."
"Goodnight Mr. Ownby." Michelle said as I closed the door. The observatory was on the other side of town so I was in for a loooong walk. I put on my hat and started my long walk to the observatory.
Tuesday October 18th 1977 8:53 P.M. Feeling that my feet were about to fall off, I finally arrive at the observatory. It was my first time coming here. This place was just finish last year, but everyone says it's a cool place. After catching my breath, I headed for the front door. I get there and I'm greeted by a guy in a toll booth. "Hello there sir, would you like a ticket before the show starts?"
"Ya, how much?" I say putting my hand in my pocket. "It will be 32.50$."
"What?!" I said taking my hand out of my pocket. I didn't have that much on me so I decided to go for the old police trick. I hold up my P.I .badge. "Here's my ticket...sir" I said looking as tough as possible.
"...Fine, go on in..."
"Thank you my good man." I said walking to the front door. "Oh by the way." I said stopping in front of the door. "Did you happen to see a girl with long blonde hair with a bow in it go in?"
"Oh yes I have..." He said rolling eyes. "What's wrong? did she do something annoying?"
"Well, she would not stop talking about the planet Venus and some guy named Samuel, I finally just gave her and her friend two tickets just to get them out of my sight."
"Well that's Mina for you." I said rolling my eyes.
"Well sir you better get in, It's about to start."
"Oh right." I said turning and walking into the observatory. Inside was like walking into a mansion. There were a lot of stairs and rooms. Following the arrows, I got to the main room were the show was about to start. Now all I had to do was to find Mina and her friend.
Walking up and down the rows of chairs, I looked for Mina. But it seems that Mina already found me. Little did I know that Mina was that was right behind me. "Hi Sammy!" Mina says as she bear hugs me from behind. "Waaaa! Mina, get off of me!" I said pulling her off. "You need to stop doing that you know."
"Heh heh, ya I know." Mina said rubbing the back of her Head smiling. "Hey Sammy, I thought you said you couldn't come because of that case?"
"It's a long story, I'll tell you while we watch the show ok?"
"Ok Sammy!"
"Mina I got the drinks but they were out of roo-...hello there." A girl said looking a little confused. The girl looked Mina's age. She was about 5,4 and had short blue hair. "Oh hey Amy!" Mina said walking over to her. "Hey Mina, who the boy?" Amy said pointing at me. "Amy, this is my friend Sammy." Mina said standing next to me. "Oh, so you're the Samuel that Mina is always talking about." Amy says as she's walks over towards me "Hi I'm Amy Mizuno."
"Hi, I'm Samuel Ownby." I said shaking her hand. "Sammy is a private eye Amy." Mina said looking at Amy. "I know Mina, that's one of the things you always talk about." Amy says looking at Mina. "Well now that the introductions are over with let's get to are sits, the shows about to start." Mina said walking to there sits. "Right behind ya." I said following Mina and Amy.
Tuesday October 18th 1977 9:07 P.M. "And this star was discovered in the year 1256..."
"So Mina." I said leaning over to her. Amy was sitting to my left and Mina was sitting to my right.
"What's up Sammy?"
"I didn't know you had a friend named Amy. Did you just meet her?"
"Nope, Amy used to be my next door neighbor, but then I moved away, she just transferred to my school yesterday."
"Oh."
"Amy's fun but all she ever does is study, but besides that she pretty cool."
"While where on the subject of people." Amy said taking a handful of her popcorn. "Can you tell me a little about yourself Samuel?" I looked at my popcorn for a few seconds. "Amy...Sammy doesn't like to talk about his past...It's..."
"It's ok Mina." I said looking up at her. "Amy doesn't know so it's not her fault." I said turning to face Amy. "Ok Amy, I'll tell you but I'm only going to tell you this one time so you better listen carefully ok?" I said looking her in her eyes. "...Ok I will." Amy said looking calm. I took a deep breath as looked up to the night sky...
"It all started long ago when I was a little baby. I grew up in Washington state so I was around a lot of trees and mountain ranges and there was not a lot of people around either. my mother was a nice woman and she took care of me and my sister. she told me story's that I was from a warrior line of people, my great grandfather fought in World War I and my fathers on both sides fought in World War II. even two of my uncles fought in the cold war. but I knew growing up that something just didn't feel right... Then when I was 19, I woke up in pain and had a knife cut on my head wrapped up in a bandage, I went down stairs and had a little talk with my mom and the doctor that saved me. After he left, I wanted to know why this was happening to me. My Mother went into her room and came back out with a box, I sat down and she gave me the box and told me..."
Mina puts her hand on mine. "You can stop if you want." Amy said. "No it's ok. My Mother told me that I was adopted, long ago on a rainy night with thunder and lightning tearing through the night sky, she heard a knock at the door. she opened it and saw a little baby boy in a basket, she looked around but saw no one, so she took me in and all she found on me was a necklace and a note, the necklace was made of silver and had a symbol of an open four made out of a pure green Topaz."
"Is that it?" Amy said pointing to my neck. "Yep." I said holding it up as the light from the stars seem to make it shine slightly. "It sure is pretty." Amy said looking at it. "Thanks." I said putting it back into my shirt. "So what about the note?"
"All the note said was something I don't fully understand. When you meet there treasure's and show them your love, you will know the truth of your creed. And to this day, I'm still not sure what that means. after that, I finished school and joined the army for a little while. After getting back from Vietnam, I moved here to Chicago and played a few shows with my guitar to earn enough money to open my own P.I. business." I said taking a sip of my coke, "Did you get high up in the army ranks?" Amy said sipping her Pepsi. "Ya, I did get up to 2nd Lieutenant but I had to quit because of medical problems."
"What kind of medical problems."
"You know, I'm not sure I know myself. but whatever it was, it was dangerous for my body."
"Why is it so dangerous?"
"Because it would cause my heart rate to go over 180 beats per minute. it would put so much strain on my body that it caused the blood veins in my nose to rip apart because my heart is pumping so fast, and if it doesn't stop, I will lose consciousness after a few minutes from losing to much blood."
"Wow..." Amy said. Amy's face was looking like she was watching a soap opera.
"It almost killed me last time."
"So is there any upside to it?"
"Well the upside to it is I seem to have unlimited stamina." I said looking at my bag of popcorn. "...Incredible." Amy said while her face looked like it saw a ghost. "Tell me about it."
"So did your veins ever fully heal up from it?"
"No, to this day because of that, whenever my heart rate shoots up really fast it will cause my noise to bleed." I said taking a bite out of my milky way. "So what would cause your heart rate to go up so fast?" Amy said while she threw her empty bag of popcorn away and started to eat her kit-kat bar.
"Well the 1st way would be if I was running for a long time. The 2nd way would be if it gets over 100 degree's. And the 3rd way would be..." I started to blush, trying not to look at Amy. "Well what's the 3rd way?" I still didn't say anything as I looked down. "I know!" Mina said with a grin on her face. "Mina don't you dare!" I said looking at her still blushing. "The 3rd way Sammy gets a noise bleed is when a girl is weariunpght!" I put my hand over Mina's mouth to stop her from telling Amy.
"Mina I swear to GOD if you tell Amy I'm not coming to your birthday party!" I said looking her in her eye. "Omk, omk." Mina mumbled under my hand. I let her go and she sat down in her chair. Amy just sat there in aww. "Well...that was an interesting story Samuel." Amy said thinking to herself. "Well I think is so romantic." Mina said holding my arm. "Mina..." I said blushing a little.
"Soo... are you two dating?" Amy said taking a bite out of her kit-kat bar. "Wellllll..." Mina said blushing red. "NO." I said pulling my arm out of Mina's grasp. "Awww come on Sammy, don't be so modest." She said leaning her head on my shoulder. I blushed red as I rolled my eyes.
"Oh, by the way Mina." I said looking at to her. "Why did you want to come here anyway?" Mina went quite for a few seconds. She then looks up at me. "Well...I always love looking at the Planets...I think they are just so...lovely." Mina said smiling, looking at the planets on the board as the guy started talking about the planet Venus. I started to think How Mina was a lot like the goddess Venus herself. "Hey Mina?" I said tapping her shoulder. "Ya Sammy?" Mina says while holding her candy bar.
"You know, you're a lot like the goddess Venus." Mina looks at me like she can't believe what she just heard. "...How's that?" She said looking at the floor. "Well, your beautiful and your lovely too, just like Venus, your so much like the goddess Venus that I've decided to call you Venus for your nickname." I said smiling at her. "..." Mina just kept looking at the floor. "Mina?" Then I saw a single tear fall from her eye. "Mina...you don't like it?" I said feeling like I hurt her. "...No...I love it..." Mina said as she still looked at the ground. "Then want's wrong?" Mina didn't say a word for a long time. Then she finally stood up. "I'm sorry but I Have to go." Mina said getting up and heading for the door. "Mina wait!" I said running after her. Leaving Amy sitting there, wondering what was going on.
I chased her out of the building and down the road. "Man, I didn't know Mina could run this fast." I said to myself. After about 2 minutes of non-stop running, I almost caught up to Mina, but she ducked into an ally and I lost her. As I came to a halt, I put my hand under nose to stop the blood that was dripping out. "Mina *pant, pant* did I do *pant* something wrong?" I said to myself as I just stood there for a few minutes not really sure if I should keep looking for her. Never in her entire life has Mina ever acted like this towards me. Deep down I knew something was wrong. So for about 3 minutes, I just stood there thinking to myself.
Looking at my watch, I noticed it was 10:11. I was tired and I had blood stains under my nose. I decided I would go home. I had to try again at Darien's file tomorrow. So I headed home. I just kept hoping that Mina was alright.
Tuesday October 18th 1977 10:43 P.M. After finally getting back to my House, I opened the door and feel on to the couch dead tired. I took off my glasses and put them on the floor next to the couch and I drifted off to sleep worried sick about Mina...
"Waaa, Waaaaa! The cries of a baby ring through my head. "Shhh there, there, It's ok Samuel. Laaaa la la, la laaa, la laaa la la laaa la la laaaa. la laaa...laaa..." The baby stops crying. "Samuel...never forget who you are or where you come from. You must grow up to be strong and protect those who cannot protect themselves. And treat every girl as if there were a sacred treasure... and remember... you're the only one that can Samuel... you must... save her...*click* *BANG!*
"Wahhh! *pant, pant* not again... why does this keep happening!?" I said as I got up from the couch to catch my breath. Looking up at the clock, I saw it was 9:37 A.M. Sitting on my couch, the events from last night came rushing into my head. "Mina..." I said as I rubbed the back of my head. I knew I would have to worry about Mina later. I had to be at the office at 11:00. I got up and picked up my glasses off of the floor and headed upstairs to the bathroom to take a nice long shower.
After getting out and putting on a nice suit, I headed to kitchen and made a nice blow of lucky charms. An all percussion symphony was playing in my head from the headache I got from that dream. "What's going on in my head? that voice... I feel like I know it..." I sat there pondering what that dream could mean. After eating the rest of my cereal, I put my blow in the sink and walked into the living room and turned on my T.V. to the news.
"And after we get the tests back we will let the public know, now if you will excuse me." I almost dropped the remote when I saw the T.V. and who was on it. "Well that's all captain Meioh had to say about the breakout that happen this morning at 2:46 A.M. were drug dealer Jadeite escaped from the Chicago police station, no one knows how it happened. but with 6 dead police officers from the confrontation last night, people now know not to get in Jadeite's way, now back to you in the studio."
I just stood there, thinking to myself. "So much for punks stealing mail." I said to myself. I had a feeling that this case was about to get more dangerous. I turned off the T.V. and walked out of my house. I locked my door and started to walk to the office...