Sorry for the late update but my internet connection is about as useful as a wet match. Before we continue I put Gary's last name as Miller cos I don't know what it is so hope you enjoy.
"Detective Vega, glad you could join us."
"Sorry Gary, the girls were at it again this morning. I barely got a chance to take a shower." David Vega said as he ducked under the police tape and approached his partner. "So what do we have?"
"An anonymous call came in this morning saying that there were dead bodies found in an alley. Hope you had a light breakfast."
They entered further into the alley and were greeted with a sight that made Detective Vega stop in his tracks. There was blood everywhere, a severed arm lay close to where they were standing and a severed leg was lying a few meters away. "This is the most gruesome murder scene I have ever come across." The medical examiner said as she approached the two officers.
"How many bodies are there?" Gary asked writing on his notepad.
"I counted six bodies so far. There might be more considering the fact that I found eight pieces belonging to the same body."
"Who could have done something like this? Or what?"
"I don't know but whoever they are they have to be incredibly strong to inflict the damage I saw. I'll have to get the bodies back to the lab to make a more thorough examination. I'll call you once I get something."
"Do you know who the victims are?" David asked crouching down to examine the severed arm.
Gary smiled as he consulted his notes, "Apparently, the body that was found in eight pieces belonged to Alex Hill. Remember him?"
"The guy suspected for the rape and murder of Marie Saunders?"
"The very same one, the other bodies belong to some of his known associates. Some of who we suspected of being involved in the Saunders case. Guess someone decided to make them pay for their crimes."
"Detectives," A uniformed officer called as he approached them, "dispatch just called apparently there are seven similar crime scenes within a mile of this area. They want you guys to check them out."
"What the hell is going on?" Gary asked turning to his partner.
David looked at the crowd around them his eyes attracted to a figure that was shrouded in darkness. The figure lingered for a few seconds before it disappeared, "I don't know Gary but I have a feeling it's going to get much worse."
"Tell us what you got Callie."David and Gary walked into the morgue to find the medical examiner working on one of the bodies.
"Well, I haven't gone through all the bodies but I found some stab wounds on those that I have examined." Callie pointed at some wounds on the meat puzzle in front of them. "Based on the wounds, you're looking for a knife with two blades."
"What do you mean two blades?" Gary asked.
"The knife has two blades facing each other with a one centimeter gap between them, like so." Callie put her hands together leaving a small gap in between. "That means that with every stab-"
"It inflicted twice the damage." David took a deep breath before asking his next question. If he was right then things were about to get much worse than he had anticipated. "Was there any other markings left on the bodies? Like a symbol carved into the skin?"
"Yeah, did you work on one of the other cases?"
"What other cases?" Gary asked turning to his partner.
"When I ran the symbol through our database I found twelve unsolved murders in the past eighteen months bringing the total body count to twenty seven." Callie handed the autopsy files to the detectives in front of her before she went back to the body. "Now seven of these murders were out of state but all the victims were known or suspected sex offenders and all of them had a trident carved into their skin above the heart. I think we might be looking at the work of a serial killer."
Jade usually paid attention in her class but too many things were going through her mind. What really happened last night? Was it just a prank or did something bad happen? And if so why would Trina lie about it? And did Tori really mean what she said? Or did she just notice Jade's slight attraction to her and decided to exploit it? And then there was this new girl, Emily. She seemed to be pretty close to the bubbly Latina, how did they know each other?
Before she knew it class was over. She grabbed her things and walked with Beck back to her locker to put her things away before going for lunch. "So how do you think Tori and Emily know each other?" Beck asked as he watched said girls walking past them.
"I don't know and I don't care." Jade said shoving her books into her locker.
"You're just mad that she isn't scared of you like most of the school." Beck shrugged as Jade glared at him. Keeping his mouth shut, he walked with her towards the Asphalt to join their friends for lunch.
"You like her." Tori turned to her companion with a questioning look on her face. "Don't give me that look. I've seen the way you stare at that Jade chick, you like her." Tori remained quiet and Emily waited until she had finished with her locker before she dragged the Latina to an empty classroom. She closed the door and removed the necklace hanging from her neck placing it around the door handle. Satisfied that they would not be interrupted or overheard she turned to the Latina giving her a crushing hug. "I have missed you so much Tor."
Tori returned the hug a smile on her face, "I've missed you to Em, but I think you brought me in here for something else."
"You bet I did." Emily stepped back and crossed her arms over her chest, "the tremors and the blackouts are getting worse aren't they?"
Tori dropped her head to look at her hands before her gaze locked with bright green eyes. "Yes but it's nothing I can't handle."
Emily scoffed, "yeah, nothing you can't handle. So tell me, what would have happened if I wasn't there last night?"
Tori didn't answer, Emily had a point but there was something that got her attention. "Your right, but what were you doing there?"
"I was following you, there's always someone following you or did you think he would leave you unprotected. Last night was a Thursday and I know how it affects you so I insisted on watching you for the day."
"So what are you doing here?"
Emily sighed and walked over to a desk leaning against it. "Magnus is worried about you. He thinks that you might be getting worse and he wants me to look after you."
"I can take care of myself." Tori growled angrily.
"Really, look at your hand Tori." Tori glanced down and saw her hand was shaking violently. "The tremors are getting worse, your blackouts last hours instead of minutes. You are not fine and you need help before you get into even more trouble." Emily stood up and walked over to the Latina, putting a comforting hand on her shoulder. "If you are not careful you could die and none of us want that. Please let me help you."
"Look, I know that you mean well but this is something I have to do by myself and neither you nor Magnus can help me with that. Or did you forget that these are my demons I have to defeat."
"No I didn't but you are like a sister to me Tori. We've already gone through so much together I just want you to be safe. So please, at least let me hang around, just in case." Emily smiled at the older girl waiting for her to do the same.
"Fine." Tori relented. Emily gave her another hug before she took back her necklace and returned it to its rightful place around her neck. "See you after school?" Receiving Tori's nod of approval, Emily closed the door behind her as she headed to the parking lot. Lunch was almost over and she had other things to deal with. She turned a corner and ran into none other than Jade West and her best friend Cat.
"Watch where you're going bitch." Jade growled earning a squeak of disapproval from Cat.
Emily ignored her and continued towards her destination before she remembered something. "Look Jade, Tori is going through something right now-"
"Is she okay?" The bubbly redhead inquired in a worried tone.
Emily gave Cat a strange look, "She's fine just battling some inner demons and you treating her the way you do is not helping. Now I know it's in your nature but if you can't be nice to her then stay away from her." Emily walked closer to the Goth and spoke in a quiet voice so that nobody could hear them. "Because one of these days you are going to push her too far and you'll end up getting hurt. Just some friendly advice." And with that, the new girl walked away leaving behind a confused Cat and an equally confused Jade.
A few miles away, a black car pulled up outside a dull, grey building. The passenger, a man in a crisp suit, watched as uniformed police officers walk in and out attending to their everyday business. He had sharp blue eyes and short well groomed brown hair. His right hand bore a ring with a symbol of a shield etched into it. "So tell me more about these officers I'm going to be working with."
The driver, a bald man with horn rimmed glasses, hands him a folder with some files in it. "Detectives Vega and Miller, partners for over four years, they're good at their job. Busted a lot of bad people, they would make great Keepers. Anyway, most of the victims were suspects in their cases so we think one of them may be leaking information to our killer. Either that or the killer is getting information from them without their knowledge. If that's the case then it has to be someone close to them. We dug everything up on them and they seem to be ordinary humans but you never know so be careful."
"And are you sure an Abomination linked to Magnus is involved?" The passenger asked as he studied the files.
"Crime scenes match those of Trident to a T. Investigate and when you get a lead inform us immediately. Last time we went up against one of those things we lost a lot of good people. I won't add you to that list."
"Anything else I should know?"
His companion hesitated for a second before he spoke, "We heard from one of our operatives that a new student enrolled at Hollywood Arts by the name of Emily Ford."
"Magnus' second in command?"
"The very same one."
"She never leaves his side unless on the most important of missions so what is she doing in a high school?"
"We think that she is after the girl. Now I don't need to tell you what would happen if he gained her loyalty especially if she is as strong as her mother was."
"So what's the plan?"
"Our operative in the school will keep an eye on her for now while you find out who the Abomination is. Let's just hope we get to her before it's too late."
The man in the suit gets out of the car and walks into the building. He approaches an officer seated behind a desk, "Could you please direct me to Detectives Vega and Miller." The officer points at the two officers seated at a desk in the large room next to the reception area. The suit walks towards the detectives and removes a badge from his pocket. "How are you detectives?"
Gary and David share a look before the latter answers, "fine thank you and who might you be?"
The man removes a badge from his pocket and flips it open. "I'm F.B.I special agent Alistair Simmons, I'm here to help you out on your case."
Emily pulled up in front of the Vega residence and turned to her passenger. "So, what are you going to do for the rest of the day?"
Tori gave her a smile before she leaned over and gave her a hug. "I'm not sure, maybe do my homework then get some rest."
"Are you sure about that?" Emily eyed her skeptically.
Tori shrugged, "I had a long night yesterday and I barely got any sleep so, I'll see you tomorrow?"
Emily gave her a small nod and Tori got out of the car and walked up to her house. She unlocked the door and with a final glance at her companion, she entered the house and closed the door behind her. Seeing that Tori was inside safely and knowing that there were three highly trained warriors watching the house she backed the car out of the driveway and was about to head off to her appointment when she saw Trina's car heading towards her. She slowed down before coming to a stop next to the Latina who had done the same. "Hello Trina."
"Emily, I heard you were in school but I didn't quite believe it. Did he send you?" Trina asked a grim look on her face.
"Yes, he cares about her."
"Yeah but nothing good ever comes out of his visits."
"Maybe but this time may be different. So, I heard what you told Jade. What were you thinking?"
"I was thinking that I needed to distract her from questioning what really happened until I could deal with her." Trina explained her grip on the steering wheel tightening. "It's happening isn't it?"
Emily gave her a small smile and nodded, "Yeah, but that is why I am here. So whatever you were planning you need to stop. I will take care of Jade, you just watch out for Tori especially at night."
"Okay, it was nice seeing you after all these years Em."
"Nice seeing you to Trina." Emily put her car in drive and was about to leave when Trina spoke again.
"Give him my love, won't you?" Emily nodded and drove away.
"You're late."
Emily scoffed as she stood next to the Hollywood sign. "I am never late. Trina says hi by the way."
Magnus, walked out of the shadows to stand next to her, gave her a warm smile and a nod before he turned his gaze to the city spread out in front of him. "So, how was your first day of school?"
Emily chuckled at the absurd question, "I was bored out of my mind, if it wasn't for Tori I would have lost it."
"Speaking of, how is she?"
Emily took a deep breath, "She refused my help, said that she could handle it on her own."
"That's nothing we didn't expect. What else?"
"The tremors are getting worse. I don't think she has much time left."
"Yes, she doesn't have much time but she'll pull through." Magnus turned his gaze to his protégée and gave her a small smile. "She is much stronger than you realise."
"And what if she loses? What happens then?"
"She won't. Tell me about her friend."
"Jade, she's hot headed, temperamental, she thinks that nothing can touch her but she does genuinely care for Tori."
"Good." Magnus remained quiet for a moment as he processed the information gathered and how they affected his plans. "I received some news today. Agent Simmons is in town."
"The Keepers are here? Does that mean they know about our plans?" Emily asked concern clear in her voice.
"I highly doubt it but I'll keep an eye out for anything troubling. Just watch out for Tori and I'll do the rest."
Emily studied her mentor carefully, he seemed tense and in all the years she had known him she had only seen him this troubled on a few occasions. "Is everything alright?"
Magnus let out a small laugh. "You know me well." This earned him a smile from the young woman. "Delphi saw something of great importance. We are at the brink of a war that may destroy the world as we know it. We cannot fail, not know when we are so close."
"Okay, I'll watch over Tori. What should I do if anyone poses a threat?"
"Kill them."
"Even the West girl?"
"No, I think it would be best if you let Tori deal with her on her own. After all, you don't want to get on her bad side."
"And what if Jade gets on her bad side?"
"Calm her down before she does something she might regret. Stay in contact and if you get into any trouble call me, okay."
Emily nodded and watched as her mentor disappeared in a haze of black smoke. She took a deep breath severing the link before she awoke back in her car. "This will not end well."She thought turning the key in the ignition, she started the car and headed back to the Vega residence.
A/N
Confusing chapter I know but the next one explains everything or almost everything. I'll try to update as soon as I can. I would like to hear your thoughts on the story so far so review if you can. Thanks for all the story favorites and alerts. Till next time. I deleted a part of the story that wasn't supposed to be there. I had written down a few ideas of where I wanted the story to go but forgot to delete it, sorry for that.