Wylie, Linh, Dex and Tam were huddled around Wylie's desk looking at a single piece of lined paper. On the paper were the names of all the known members of the Periculos. It was distressingly short. Prentice, Emery, Cadence, Quinlin, and Alden were all printed at the top of the page. They had left blank spaces of the sheet of paper, there had to have been more of them right?

Fitz was down the hall, doing his homework, angry rock music blaring from the speakers. He was listening to Sophie's angry playlist. He had made the decision to step away from the group. Well he had made the decision and not bothered to tell anyone but himself. The loss of Keefe, closely followed by Sophie had weakened the bonds of the group of friends. Fitz barely came out of his room. Della had taken to going up to his room and delivering it by hand.

"I think we should go back to the candy store," said Dex, breaking the silence. "This afternoon, my mom's going to be holding a press conference at city hall and all the town should be there."

"Do you think that she's going to resign as mayor," asked Linh quietly. They had all been waiting for the day when Juline resigned as mayor to stop the murders, though he doubted anyone actually thought that they would stop.

"No, she told me that it was just a time when she would answer questions from the townspeople about what was going on."

Dex was right, there was no one in the central square to the town. Every shop had been vacated and closed for the day. Even the fountain had stopped flowing.

"So, I was doing a little digging at City Hall the other day," Dex began. "It turns out that the candy store does not have an owner. There's almost no trace of it even existing. The only record I could find was an old lease signed with the name Clarence Bernard Terik. Which is weird cause that's old man Terik's name."

"That is weird," said Linh. "But we can't dwell on that because I think that now is the time to go." They rushed towards the store. Wylie slipped the lockpick from his jacket pocket. He didn't really know how to use it but, he had seen Biana do it once so he could probably copy it, probably. He raised the lockpick to the lock in question, and then he remembered that he hadn't actually watched Biana do this.

"Oh give it here," said Dex. he raised the lockpick to the lock and almost effortlessly picked it. "I've been practicing with some spare wire in my bedroom since you told me that Biana did it," he explained before reaching up and softening the bell with his gloved hand. They walked into the shop, it was unchanged from the last time he had visited. The same old candy, the same picture of Jensi on the wall. Wylie went behind the counter and was about to open up the hatch when something caught his eye. It was a book, similar to ones used in businesses today, in fact it was exactly like the ones used in businesses today. It was almost brand new. He walked over and opened it. Inside it was filled with lined paper. It appeared blank but as Wylie thumbed through the book he noticed writing filling the pages in the back. He opened the book to the written on pages.

"Guys, look." he called softly. The others came over and peered at the book with him.

"It looks like plans of some kind," said Linh. It did look like plans. And blueprints and sketches of roads and trails. Along each blueprint there was a set of instructions. Wait for signal, kill only one, wait for others, use escape routes. When he flipped through the pages, he saw that there was something that could only be described as a yearbook. There were no quotes, just pictures of everyone in the town. He flipped through those pages and came to a stop when he saw colour. Linh gasped. The page had big red Xs across the photos of Maruca, Stina, Valin, Marella, Keefe and Sophie.

The blueprints, the pictures, access a hideout that everyone thought was haunted. There was only one person in all of Britshire that held that much power. Fintan Pyren. He was the chief advisor to the mayor and held almost as much power as her. It all fell into place. The handwriting matched the ones that Tiergan left on his desk after coming home from a long day of work as a city councilman. He had probably been planning to do this since the day Juline beat him for the position as mayor.

"It's Fintan," he mumbled. "Fintan orchestrated the whole thing, every murder, every attack,,every move that they make, was made by Fintan."

"I think we should get out of here. It's starting to get kinda creepy," said Linh.

"Yeah, I think we should." they all agreed. Wylie took some pictures on his phone and followed the others out the door.

The next morning, when Della Tiergan and Wylie were all sitting around the breakfast table, listening to the radio when the usual music stopped and a man's voice came on.

"Attention people of Britshire, I have a report directly from city hall. This morning when City Hall was first opened a body was discovered. The police were called and the results from the blood test are in. The victim was none other than Dexter Allan Diznee, son of Mayor Diznee. He was found with a not in his pocket. It said, Now you know not to go meddling in my business. If you know what's good for you you'll stay out of it. The police have no suspects as of yet but We'll keep you posted." The radio announcer's voice was replaced by the cheery music that always played. But Wylie barely noticed. The Periculos had struck again.

(A:/N) Allison: So now I definitely have a problem with killing off characters. Also while I was writing the Radio announcer's scene I kept imagining his voice as the voice that does the catch ups in the Legend of Korra, sort of 1920s radio guy like.

I forgot, In the last chapter All credit to the poem goes to the author.

That's all for now, Ally