The sky was dark, and lighting streaked across it as if they were hands. The moons radiance was tainted by the ominous clouds, and not a star lay visible over the dark canvass of rain that plagued the town. Dollie was a small little town not too far off the coast. It wasn’t very popular, and held a population on nearly five hundred people. It was normally a calm and unexciting place to live, the crime rate was low, and most people didn’t even bother to lock their doors at night, that’s just what kind of place this was. The weather was damp usually, and on rare occasions hot or cold, but no one seemed to mind. Everyone here was humble, no one too rich or too poor, we were all hard workers, and most teenagers had jobs after school. The grass was always thick and green, and trees always tall, and we were well known for our huge forest that grew over the mountain range that surrounded the town. The forest was called Tester. Yes…our town was calm and boring…nothing bad ever happened…until now.
“Hey Sel, when your done with that paper, Mr. Thion wants to see you about your case…I think it was number seven.”
I nodded turning back to my computer and away from accomplice Alek “Yeah, I got it I’m almost done.” He smiled back at me, before walking down the hall of desks on our busy second floor.
Yes it was strange but I was a trained detective, I worked after school for a nice amount of money every case. My mind was naturally good at things like this, and I loved mysteries…this was probably the most exiting job in the town. I was young yeah, only seventeen, but people told me I was an amazing thinker. I was born and raised in this small town, and my parents died when I was a kid, but I was never alone, and never uncared for.
I sighed, saving the document on my computer, and leaning down over a file cabinet, I opened the metal drawer. Sitting idly inside were three thin cases. I flipped through them and finding one labeled “Case seven” pulled it out by the handle. I stuck it under my arm, and rolled my chair backwards, grabbing my coffee as I stood up.
The police and detectives both worked in this building, and three floors were all we needed, the five jail cells and a desk on the third floor. Rows of messy desks, with phones and computers on the second floor, and a nice waiting room, two bathrooms, and a long lunch table in the dining area placed on the first floor.
I walked past the other employees, as I made my way to the boss’s door, and before long I was in front of it, through it and behind it. The boss signaled for me to lock it behind me as I entered, and soon beckoned me to sit in one of the two chairs in front of his desk.
“How are you Selena?” I smiled slightly putting my coffee down beside the chair.
“I’m fine, I figured you would ask about case seven soon…this is what this is about isn’t it?”
Suddenly a stern expression crossed his face, his fingers crossing across one knee as he leaned back in his chair “Ah, yes…have you discovered anything new?”
I nodded “Yes…but not much…I can’t say there was too much evidence…but so far.” I slid a key out of my pocket, and flipped open the labeled case over my lap as I unlocked one of the three binds that covered it. Mr. Thion waited patiently as I removed the lock and flipped the case open, the soft clang of the swinging blinds from the wind interrupting the silence occasionally.
It opened with a click and before long my hands were flipping through bags and papers inside. “Ok…the two bodies were identified, as two high school girls…around age sixteen and seventeen.” I put the paper to the side and continued to review the information “The attack happened on their way back from a camping trip two nights ago…cause of death for both of them…blood loss. To be more specific, one girls jugular vein had been completely ripped from her throat…and she was missing two legs…she only had half a jaw left and the body was badly mutilated. The other girl…she was missing for a while, and they found her a nice ways away…lower down to the base of the mountain. She was also missing two limbs…her throat had been removed…and she had lost most of her blood.” I put the papers down as he spoke quickly from his chair, the blinds one again clanking against the top of the window as warm air blew through the opening. “Anything knew? Or are you holding back on me?” I swallowed lifting of a black folder “A little…but sir…you wont like this…not at all.” I pulled more papers from the last folder, swallowing again before I read. “Both of the girls were missing much blood, but the second ones had been rolled in my something…the murdered had dressed themselves in it…I went into the forest and found blood marks all over the trees…and sir…you saw that video on the girls cell phone didn’t you?”
He nodded “Yes…so are you trying to tell me this “person” is an animal?”
I nodded “It has to be…I got information from the doctors that studied the bodies…the wounds were most likely from teeth and claws.”
He grunted, closing his eyes for a moment “Just as suspected…that all things will fall into place.”
I tilted my head a little “So you’re going to tell the public?”
He shook his head, opening his eyes a little more “No…this case will remain a secret…we can’t be scaring away out civilians and the few tourists we have…I was sure this “thing” was an animal…so as you will find out…I hired a few people to hunt it.”
My jaw dropped, and my legs instantly shot up, the case falling and hitting the ground nearly spilling my coffee “What!?” I started pacing interrupting him from further argument “Sir you have to be kidding me! Do you have any idea how big this thing has to be!? It’s the size of a bear according to the bite marks, and we still don’t know what it is!” I knew I was rambling but I had a good reason for it, he didn’t know all the information. “I mean, with all do respect, but this is crazy! You don’t even know what this is!”
He sighed finally interrupting me “Selena, Selena calm down, the others will hear you…” I finally stopped crossing my hands over my chest, waiting for further explanation for why he did something so stupid. “Look I didn’t go randomly picking hunters here…I know this thing has to be huge…and depending on that video on the girls cell phone it’s fast too…I did my research.” I plopped back on my chair, with an exasperated moan. “Look I got the best hunters on this case, and a lot of money involved if they keep it all a secret, we’ll kill this thing before you know it. I hired a single hunter from
“You should have given me more time to investigate this before jumping to conclusions…you know I’ve never failed a case!”
He propped his hand down on the desk “Selena…your only seventeen you’re a pretty girl, and you still haven’t graduated high school…when are you going to get more involved in your social life?” I glared at him, my dark chocolate brown eyes holding his “Social life?” I hissed “I AM FINE.” He chuckled “Come on Selena, your smart quick beautiful, you can’t be planning to waste your life here.”
Yeah, it was weird but since my parents were always gone the police chief was a lot like my father, we spent a lot of time together, and sometimes I would have to cook for him since his wife was old and tired, I loved helping their family. Yes, and helping them also made them concerned about me…they always tried to convince me to get my nose out of the dangerous stuff and get a boyfriend…go to college, be a normal girl.
Our silence was broken as the phone rang on the side of his desk. He broke our gaze and placed his wrinkled hand on the phone picking it up.
“Hello?”
“Yes…ah yes this is him.”
“Ok hold on.”
He smirked at me “It’s the hunter from
“No one can take my place chief…bet on that, no one would want too.” He laughed “Ah, good I apologize for the long flight though…coming from Egypt you must have had to leave your family” The voice chuckled softly “No, I’m not Egyptian…my last hunt was in a village in one of its deserts, and again…I don’t have a family.”
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