Chapter 27 Walking the plank

Storm woke up alone as usual. She was used to waking up alone because Twiggy was away alot. Sure she missed him like crazy but she knew at the end of the day he would always come home to her. Rolling over she pulled herself out of bed and pulled on some cothes. After she was done she spotted some stray paper on the drawer beside her side of the bed. Sometimes he would leave her notes to remind her that he loved her but this seemed to be a letter not a few quick lines. Reading it she couldn't believe the words she was seeing. To her they were not real but the more she re-read it she knew they were really in front of her.

"Iziah!" Storm called angrily coming down the stairs, only Iziah would write something so horrible and think of it as a friendly joke.

"What? Whats with all the yelling?" Iziah asked coming upstairs completely confused.

"Whats with the sick joke?" Storm demanded of her, she was too angry to care about Iziah's deadly reaction.

"I love sick jokes Storm but I haven't pulled any lately, I've been too busy drinking and learning about history. Did you know that Hitler had only one ball?"

"Yeah very amusing" Storm rushed pushing the letter at Raven "Did you do this?"

"What is it?"

Storm heaved an annoyed sigh as she began to read the words in front of her "Dear Storm, I can't do this anymore. I thought that I could hide it but I can't. I'm no longer in love with you and I haven't been for several months. I'm sorry but I've met someone else, her name is Jessie and we're in love. I'm sorry. Twiggy"

"Um Storm" Raven started but Storm cut her off angrily.

"No! I am not sure of much in this world because its somewhat scary and confusing but if there is one thing I'm sure of, one thing I would bet my life, or even your life on is the fact that that man loves me. He would not do this to me. He has loved me for ten years and he would not end it all this way. So find his tracker because I wanna know where he is and if this letter is true then I wanna kick his ass"

Raven typed away on the computer for a second before looking at the answer strangely "Well thats weird"

"What?"

"His tracker is in the woods"

"Our woods? The woods out back?"

"Yeah. Its stationary at the moment, what the hell is he doin in the woods?"

Storm grabbed her hunting knives "Well lets go and see shall we?"

"Armor up and we'll go"

Muttering insults Storm clicked her fingers and instantly she was ready to go. Raven merely shut down the computer and headed outside, Storm right behind her.

Even with this on her mind Storm couldn't look past the obvious, Raven wasn't armoured up, she didn't have her crossbow and on her left wrist was a thick black leather band. Storm didn't want to think about what all that meant right now, she only wanted to find Twiggy. Raven suddenly stopped in the middle of the beaten path, looking around.

"What the hell?" Raven looked to the tallest tree spotting something that even Storm couldn't see. Like some kind of super hero she jumped right to the top and then back down again landing with the softest bump. "Its his tracker"

Storm's eyes bulged already jumping to the worst, Twiggy didn't remove his tracker, someone did it for him.

"Storm we don't know that anythin bad has happened yet, so focus"

She shook herself allowing herself to hold onto hope, if he could survive his eyeball being stabbed with a fork then he could survive this. They kept walking while looking for more clues, his tracker was here so reasonably so was Twiggy.

"Seriously whats with the weirdness?" Raven asked again randomly stopping. Right beneath her feet the ground had changed ever so slightly, Storm of course couldn't feel it, she didn't have sensitve touch like Raven did.

"What is it Rae?" Storm asked almost afraid too.

Raven bent down and stuck her hands into the soil until she was elbow deep, with one giant pull the loose dirt came free and right in front of them lay a dead body. Not something you pull from the soil everyday.

Storm let out a gasp going back to the worst, Raven soothed her again and told her not to jump yet, she had to identify the body. Storm calmed down and looked the corpse over, every way to identify him, human and magical had been erased. It was just a dead body that could of been anyone, Storm's hope raised more and more and in one glance plummeted back to hell.

"Oh my God!" She sank to her knees and just let the tears fall, grapsing the body to her trying to make it better. Raven touched her shoulder trying to keep it together. Right there in plain black and white the one thing that wasn't gone, her name on his skin.

Storm was like a zombie by the time they got back to the house, the tears wouldn't stop and she wasn't going to try and stop them. Someone had murdered her Twiggy, just taken his life as though it was nothing. Raven consoled her the entire time and Storm just hung onto her just wanting it not to be true. Someone had killed the only man she had ever loved, whoever did this was going to pay. They were going to be tortured in every which way possible. The only thing that Storm was greatful for was the fact that he didn't suffer, it only took one shotgun blast to take his life, she was happy he didn't feel much pain but she couldn't say the same for his killer, by the time she was done they would be begging for death. There was no way Storm would give them that, there reason for living has now become to feel nothing but immense pain.