Well, it's fall! YAY, the time for tea has begun. But also the season of spookiness AKA Halloween. to celebrate fall, I decided to write a super spoopy story. Of course, I couldn't think of anything so I took to the internet and chose a writing prompt from this website: 2016/09/19/50-spooky-writing-prompts-for-horror-thriller-ghost-and-mystery-stories/. I chose this prompt: Authorities go through the cluttered apartment of a deceased man who lived alone with no known friends or relatives for decades and finds something disturbing. I also listened to Spooky Scary skeletons on repeat writing this… So in the spirit of Halloween let's get started!

Jay Walker had never enjoyed working on murder cases. They had always creeped him out and he was not a fan of being spooked. But for some reason, this case had spoken to him. A man by the name of Zane Julien had been murdered. Now normally this had been a pretty normal case for the police of new Ninjago city, but the thing was that Zane had lived alone for thirty years rarely leaving his apartment on the outskirts of the city. All the food was delivered and the trash was taken away every Thursday. No one knew where his money came from or who he was exactly. As Jay stood on the steps of the foreboding white building. Scrubby bushes surrounded the house on all sides. Jay's partner Cole Brookstone was checking the case file.

"Wow, not much," Cole said flipping over the sheet of white paper. "Looks like the housekeeper went in to drop off his mail, and found his decomposing corpse on the ground." Jay stuck out his tongue at the thought. "Let's see, the housekeeper said the last time she saw him was three days ago." Cole kept reading the short paragraph. "The examiner said there was little evidence of a struggle and it looked like he had been stabbed in the chest multiple times." Cole shrugged.

"So, he was stabbed?" Jay asked his partner. Cole nodded. "Any suspects?"

"Unfortunately not. It looks like whoever carried it out was good, no fingerprints or any DNA at the crime scene." Jay was slightly surprised, he'd thought that anyone who wanted to murder a silent creep was probably not a professional. "But wait there's more, looks like the murderer went through some files in the bedroom. And that's why we're here."

"To investigate the evidence." Jay pulled out a small pouch of small yellow markers "And tag it." Cole nodded advancing towards the door. Cole knocked on the heavy oak door since it was locked. The doorknob twisted with a jolt causing Jay to nearly jump.

"Ello who ere yea." A small older woman answered. She was wearing a white button up shirt with a black pair of pants.

"We're with the police, we're here to investigate room number 13?" The woman nodded showing off her crooked teeth in an attempt at a smile.

"Poor, Nancy sure got a surprise." She shook her head wistfully. "My son, Lloyds got 'em nightmares over dis. I haven't slept since the murder." She said, Jay soon noticed the dark circles under her eyes. "Misako by'd the way I'm the owner." The woman added holding out her hand Jay took it. "You're welcome to go and take a look." She said pointing to the stairwell in the back of the crowded dark room. Jay and Cole shared a glance and they headed up the creaky wooden stairs. They passed by to rooms on their way upstairs. Rooms 1 thru 7 were on the bottom floor. Rooms 8 and 9 were on the staircase. Out of nowhere room, 9's door slammed open causing Cole and Jay to nearly scream in terror. A small boy around the age of four peered out.

"Have you seen my mommy?" The poor boy asked. He was holding onto a green teddy bear and he looked like he was about to cry. Cole exchanged looks with Jay.

"Is your mommy Misako?" Cole asked the wide eyed boy. He nodded sadly. "She's downstairs." The boy smiled.

"Who are you? Are you police?" The boy said excitedly.

"We are, and you are our newest honorary member!" Jay pulled out a small gold police badge sticker sticking it on the boys green sweatshirt.

"Yay! Imma gonna go tell mommy!" The boy bounded down the stairs happily.

"Aww, that kid was so cute!" Jay said watching as the boy ran to his mother.

"Hey, are you and Nya ever gonna have kids?" Cole asked the blue eyed man, Jay looked at Cole crossly.

"That is none of your business." Jay who was now peeved diverted his eyes from Cole the rest of the way up. Of course, Cole knew that maybe the answer wasn't are you but when. When they reached the door Cole pulled out the key and with a shaking hand, he entered into the room. They were both hit by the smell of disinfectant and iron. The iron being blood. The front room was covered with papers and shelves full of books. There were multiple cabinets. There were two other doors, one was cracked slightly open. "Ugh, this is gonna take hours… Nya wanted me home for dinner."

"And Esther was gonna make stir-fry for dinner." Cole made a pouty face at the thought of not getting any stir fry.

"Well, we should probably start before it's the middle of the night. Because I do not want to be here for the whole rest of the day." Jay pulled on a pair of rubber gloves and Cole followed suit. The main room was mostly crammed with non-important details, like old take out menus, books on science and tech stuff, most of the papers were sketches for inventions. After about two hours of sifting through the junk, the two had only tagged three items.

"Alright I'll take the bedroom and you can check the bathroom," Jay said to his black haired friend. Jay crept towards the bedroom door trying to take deep breaths. The floor was still stained where the blood had been. There was a bed that was made perfectly, a closet in the corner, a file cabinet, and a dresser. Other than that the room was perfectly neat. Jay breathed a sigh of relief, he would indeed be home for dinner. He decided that he would go through the closet first expecting nothing but some clothes. He was dead wrong.

When Cole heard the scream he tripped over the toilet smacking his head into the cabinet.

"Jay?" Cole crept into the bedroom expecting Jay freaking out over a spider. Jay was nowhere to be seen. "Jay where'd you go?" Cole tried to calm his heavy breathing, he listened for Jay but couldn't hear him at all.

"I'm in the closet!" Jay shouted from the closed door.

"Jay, this is not the time to come out as gay," Cole said shaking his head walking over to the closet door. When he opened Jay burst out of it he looked like he'd seen a ghost. Cole opened the door more and was hit by the strong smell of decaying something. "OH. My. God." There were at least ten bodies stacked in the closet. "We need to get out of here." Jay was shaking in fear At the sight. The chief is gonna blow his top that he didn't investigate more.

"I think… that the killer is still here." Jay's voice shook as he spoke.

"What makes you think that? C'mon we gotta go back to the office." Cole said rolling his eyes Jay, jeez he couldn't believe that his friend was being so over dramatic.

"Be-behind you," Jay said pointing behind Cole. Cole sucked in a breath and started turning around. What greeted him, was, to say the least, the last thing he ever saw.

How'd Ya liked it? Should there be a second part? I'm considering it… whadda Ya think? Thanks for reading and reviewing!