Post by Venelop3 on Jul 5, 2015 15:35:46 GMT -5
Chapter 0 - Here We Go Again
It was about 10pm on a Thursday night and there was one person left in the building. The woman left was sat in her room, her heeled black ankle boots crossed on the desk in front of her, surrounded by English Literature coursework she was in the middle of marking. The woman had pin striped trousers and a white shirt with the buttons open at the wrists. Her blonde hair was tied into a messy bun at the top of her head, apart from her bangs which start to go over her piercing brown eyes.
The woman was staring intensely at a brochure: 'Welcome to Rabbit Academy! An Academy with different teachers across the globe! Including English, American, Icelandic, Romanian and other nationalities whom with different teaching styles help the students learn the subjects they want to learn! This Academy has been world renowned for it's excelling students, who have now become world famous scientists, musicians, writers and other careers. The Academy is located on Kunoshima island. A once poisoned Japanese island, which in turn got over-run with rabbits, and is now the site for this Academy'.
The woman sighed, Well Ven you did it again. The woman knew that the Academy would again get lots of students ready for the next year, seeing as this year was almost over.
The woman closed and placed the leaflet on the desk very slowly and purposely and looked at her nails. They were shaped to perfection with her fingernails painted a dark burgundy red, and her thumb nails a deep purple. She sighed again and took out the hair tie which kept her bun in place, and her blonde hair fell in waves over her shoulders and around her waist. She looked at the coursework in front her, Tomorrow, I'll do it tomorrow.
The woman went to stand up when she heard a loud noise, BANG. The woman looked towards her classroom door. She should have been the only person left in the building, all the other faculty teachers had already left. She slowly walked over towards the door and opened it. The door creaked loudly, disrupting the silence of the building. She then turned left towards where she thought the sound was coming from.
As the woman slowly made her way though the darkly lit halls, with only the sound of her boots clicking away at the wooden floor she heard the breaking of glass. This time the sound was louder and in the room on her left. No, that's my chemical lab. This made the woman cautious. She had lots of poisons in that room, if the intruder was still in there, she could be dead within seconds. The woman slowly approached the door, and opened it even slower. This time there was no sound, as the door was a lot more younger in age. As the woman stepped into the room she was surrounded with darkness. The room had no windows, and as the woman was used to this she bent her left arm to the side against the wall and switched on the lights.
There in front of her was a man on the floor. The man's eyes, which were a bright piercing blue stared to the ceiling lifeless, as his blue hair which reached almost to his shoulders laid against the floor. He had a white neck scarf tied to his left side and a blue jacket with golden embroidery and black suit bottoms.
Jack.... The woman was sad. Not just because her friend laid dead on the floor, but also because she had seen this before in this school, a few times now, and she felt like she was used to it. Rabbit Academy... Where teachers come to die.
The woman reached into her pinstriped trouser pocket and grabbed some latex gloves which she then placed over her hands. She then crouched in front of her dead friend. The woman sighed again, she gently closed her friends eyes and then started her investigation. It didn’t take her long. She found the small bottle, which had rolled under a nearby bench. The bottle read 'Polonium', and it was empty. The women knew that if all of that Polonium had been injected into Jack, he would have been dead in seconds. Polonium is widely regarded as the most dangerous poison, because it has an LD-50 of 50 billionths per kg of body weight. This means that a single gram of polonium vaporized into the air could theoretically kill up to 1.5 million people. It’s incredibly dangerous due to its intense alpha particle radioactivity. Alpha radioactivity isn’t dangerous when it’s outside of your body; a sheet of paper, or even your thick skin has no trouble stopping the deadly particles. It’s when polonium enters your body that it causes havoc.
If all of this was injected into Jack, he would have no chance of survival. The question is, who would do such a thing? Even more, how did this person and Jack end up in the woman’s chemical laboratory. Jack could have been in the building if he was going to the library, Jack is a massive book worm just like herself, so they would often bump into each other there and talk about their latest reads.
The woman carried on searching for any type of syringe. She couldn't find one anywhere. So she sat back onto her knees next to the dead man. Jack....
Jack had only been a teacher at Rabbit Academy for a year and a bit, and was a History and Art teacher in the humanities building across the centre fountain from the English building. Of course this woman had her chemical laboratory in the English building. It was a side interest, that a few students had been interested in also along the years.
There is a Wolf in disguise. The woman laughed a little at her own joke, and shook her head to wipe it off. She placed the poison bottle next to Jack's head and removed her gloves which she placed next to it. She then removed her phone from her other pocket and unlocked it. She wiped through her contacts until she found it. Here we go, removal team.
Ring~Ring Ring~Ring
'Miss Mae, what a nice surprise' chuckled the voice on the other side of the phone.
'Reece, I've told you before, please call me Trinity' she sighed.
'Sorry Trinity, you know I like a joke when I can' replied Reece.
'I need your team to do a clean for me, Jack, the History teacher is dead in my chemical laboratory' said Trin.
'Another one? Here I thought we were lucky that no one else has died for almost a year', So did I.... thought Trin.
'I will personally tell the headmaster Reece' replied Trin.
'Okay Miss Trinity, we'll be there soon, hope you find the bugger who did this'.
'Me too Reece, me too'.
Click
Trinity ended the call and took one last look at Jack before taking a picture as evidence. She stood up and brushed herself off, before switching off the lights and shutting the door. She then walked back to her room. Once inside she grabbed her hot pink cross body bag and switched off the light, before leaving her room for the last time that day.
She walked out of the English building and headed towards the main Rabbit Academy building to the right of the centre fountain. As she approached the fountain she thought she saw the black shadow of a person behind her, from the moon shining. As Trin turned around there was nothing there, and the shadow had disappeared. Trin shivered, she needed to hurry.
She started to speed walk across the grass which was wet with dew towards the main building and walked inside. She walked across the foyer towards an old fashioned desk. Obviously the assistant has gone home at this time of night, but she knew who would be.
Trinity walked around the desk and knocked twice loudly on the brown old door.
'Come in', said a voice from inside. As Trin opened and walked through the door she saw Venelop3 look up from what looked like her Thursday nap on her desk.
~~Chapter 0 End
Chapter 1 - In The Past
Venelop3 looked up to see Trin walking into her office. She glanced at the digital clock on her desk which read '23:49'.
'Trin, what a pleasant surprise', Ven pointed to the seat on the other side of her desk, 'Please, sit'.
Trinity walked towards the wooden chair and sat in it, 'Not really pleasant Ven'. Venelop3 looked into her friends brown eyes.
'Do I even want to know?' she questioned.
'Of course not, but I have to tell you anyway', Trinity grabbed her phone out of her pocket, 'There's been another murder'.
'Show me'. Venelop3 watched in vain as Trin swiped through her phone until she found what she was looking for and showed Ven the picture of their dead colleague. Venelop3 took the phone out of her friends hand and studied the picture in detail, when she noticed it.
'Polonium?'.
'A nasty poison, the bottle was empty as you can see in the picture, but I couldn’t find any syringe'. Ven leaned back in her desk chair and closed her eyes. She didn't want to go though this again.
'Ven it's this school, you know it is, you need to tell the teachers more than they know, I know you won't tell the students, but they aren't the ones affected, the teachers need to know that something on this island could kill them'. Venelop3 could tell by the seriousness in Trin's voice that she needed to do this.
'What about the new teachers Trin? Do I really want to scare them straight away tomorrow morning before their first day?'. Ven opened her eyes again and looked at her friend. Trinity has been working here the same time as Venelop3, and helped push the building applications on Kunoshima island.
'Well you need to tell them', when Trinity opened her eyes wide, 'Wait you decided on the new teachers?'. Venelop3 nodded her head and pulled a file on her desk and opened it in front of Trin. Inside was information on two teachers.
'Lets just say after this death and Aki's holiday, they are perfect for what we need', Trinity bent her head over the opened file:
'Otsuki Yozora, teaches History as main subject, also teaches Archaeology and Japanese Literature'.
'Of course', laughed Trin, 'He teaches Archaeology and he's also quite good looking as well'. Venelop3 gave Trin a look of despair.
'I didn't hire the man on his looks Trin'.
'Who's the other teacher you chose Ven?'.
'Look'. Trinity kept reading:
'Xiulan Chen, teaches Art as main subject, also teaches Music and History'.
'That's what you meant by perfect after the death, she teaches subjects similar to Jack, his History lessons can mainly be taught be Yozora, and Chen would do his Art lessons'. Ven nodded her head at her friend. 'However looking at this picture this girl doesn't have a smart bone in her body, she is obviously a punk, and has no uniform standards'. Venelop3 laughs.
'She's an Art teacher, I'd allow it', Venelop3 grins. Trinity looked at her laughing friend with piercing eyes.
'Why did Aki decide to have his holiday one week early?' asked Trin.
'He didn't specify the reasons, he just said that his holiday must be a week early'.
'But there was only 1 more week of term, couldn’t he changed it, just for his students?' Venelop3 sighed.
'I don't know Trin, he said he'll be back in a few weeks, and then help with the setting up of the school for the new year', Venelop3 looked at Trin, 'But I don't know if staying on this island over summer is a good idea any more'.
'What if we use the summer to try and find out what is making the teachers turn into mass murderers?' asked Trinity.
Venelop3 looked at Trinity and started to weigh up her options. 'Trin, lets just get this last week of term over and then as a faculty we can decide if we stay or go'.
Trinity smiled, 'That sounds like a good idea'.
'Finally, I want all the teachers to report to the assembly room at 8am tomorrow morning, then I will tell them about this school', Venelop3 looked at her hands, 'I hope none of the teachers decide to leave'. Trinity looks at Venelop3 dumbstruck.
'Ven, you created this school, you funded all the events so we could build on this island, and you have made the teachers stay over the course of five years and two other murder events, we can do this, one last time'.
'One last time? You really think this will be the last time?', asked Ven.
'I will make sure of it' smiled Trin. Just then Trinity's phone rang. Venelop3 watched as her friend answered.
'Reece it's done?' Trinity asked. Venelop3 could only make out the occasional mutterings of Reece on the other side of the phone. Instead of being ignorant and trying to listen to their conversation, Ven started to clean her desk, closing the file with Yozora and Chen, and placing all her files in one pile. When Trin was finished with her call she put the phone back in her pocket and coughed to get Venelop3's attention.
'Reece has got rid of the body and also cleaned up my Chemical laboratory... he also says hi'. Venelop3 rolled her eyes at that thought, she really hates the removal team leader Reece.
'Well that's at least out of the way of students prying eyes, now Trin, I know Jack was your friend, but lets just get this week out of the way' Venelop3 smiled, 'Thank you Trin, you can go home now and get a must needed rest, I will see you bright and early in the morning'. Trinity nodded her head.
'Good night Ven, don't stay up all night, also if you feel like you will fall asleep again on your desk, wear your glasses not your contacts, it will only end up bad for you'. Venelop3 rolled her eyes again.
'I hate my glasses', Trin tries to stifle a laugh.
'They suit you'. Trinity excused herself and left Venelop3 alone in her office.
Venelop3 let out a breath she didn't know she was holding and walked over to her mirror and took a good look at herself.
Her light brown hair which came just past her shoulders was turning fluffy, her fringe was choppy and was shaped around her head which made it more noticeable that her blue eyes were turning dull with sleepiness and sore from her contacts. She took them out and placed her glasses on, they were rectangular frames which highlighted her eyes. She still hated it.
Venelop3 slowly stalked around her room until she came to be beside her old fashioned desk and opened a drawer. Inside the drawer was a picture of a man she hadn't seen in a long time and a packet of cigarettes. She grabbed one, closed the drawer, and grabbed the zippo off her shelf above the fireplace. She lit it and sat in her office chair which she spun around so she was facing the large window which takes up the entire wall behind her desk.
As Venelop3 took a drag of her cigarette she thought of someone else who was probably doing exactly the same thing as her. Aki, where are you, she thought to herself. As she sat there and thought, she thought back to the conversation they had earlier that evening before Trinity arrived:
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It was late evening about 7pm when Venelop3 faced Aki across her desk.
'So you're leaving a week early?' asked Venelop3. Aki faced her with a cigarette in his mouth as usual with his blonde short hair, his eyes were always strange to Ven, they were a green/blue with spots of brown in them, like he was a devil just there to taunt her, his glasses were on his face which enhanced the effect that his eyes did to Ven.
'Indeed Miss Venelop3. I have to you see, I will be back within a few weeks to help with the preparations of the upcoming year, of course if you find the gift I have given you', he chuckled.
'Gift?'.
'Yes, gift, I haven't technically created it yet, but by the time I leave tonight it will be in place, then all you have to do is find it', he laughed again, 'It should be easy for you to find'.
Aki's eyes bored into Venelop3, 'I will find your gift Aki'.
'Good. 'It should make your summer interesting you see'.
'If that is all you wanted to say Aki, you can see yourself out'. Aki smiled.
'I get on your nerves don't I?' laughed Aki.
'What do you mean? You are a very good Physics and Maths teacher, and I wouldn't have anyone else, you mean a great deal to this school, and we need you here' Ven was very serious in this matter. Aki chuckled again.
'If you say so Miss, if you say so', Aki excused himself and left the room.
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Venelop3 stared at the cigarette in her hand, and hated herself instantly. It's what she learnt to do after the first murder which happened after being at the school for a year. She sighed, she hated this part of the job. Trinity was right though, they will stop all of this year, for the students. She put the cigarette out in the ashtray on her desk and looked at the files again.
In these files was every teacher which worked at the Academy. Some have been here from the start, others had been here not as long. But are wanted either way. She opened up her work bag on the left side of her desk and grabbed her laptop. When she opened it she found that she left it on again. Stupid Ven.
She opened up her emails and started typing out the email she would send to all her colleagues about the meeting tomorrow:
Meeting about.... unfortunate events.
Everyone apart from the new teachers will have an idea what is going on, she just hoped that it wasn't too late, and she hoped that she could stop any more teachers from dying....
You know you will fail Ven, you always do.
~~Chapter 1 End.
Venelop3 looked up to see Trin walking into her office. She glanced at the digital clock on her desk which read '23:49'.
'Trin, what a pleasant surprise', Ven pointed to the seat on the other side of her desk, 'Please, sit'.
Trinity walked towards the wooden chair and sat in it, 'Not really pleasant Ven'. Venelop3 looked into her friends brown eyes.
'Do I even want to know?' she questioned.
'Of course not, but I have to tell you anyway', Trinity grabbed her phone out of her pocket, 'There's been another murder'.
'Show me'. Venelop3 watched in vain as Trin swiped through her phone until she found what she was looking for and showed Ven the picture of their dead colleague. Venelop3 took the phone out of her friends hand and studied the picture in detail, when she noticed it.
'Polonium?'.
'A nasty poison, the bottle was empty as you can see in the picture, but I couldn’t find any syringe'. Ven leaned back in her desk chair and closed her eyes. She didn't want to go though this again.
'Ven it's this school, you know it is, you need to tell the teachers more than they know, I know you won't tell the students, but they aren't the ones affected, the teachers need to know that something on this island could kill them'. Venelop3 could tell by the seriousness in Trin's voice that she needed to do this.
'What about the new teachers Trin? Do I really want to scare them straight away tomorrow morning before their first day?'. Ven opened her eyes again and looked at her friend. Trinity has been working here the same time as Venelop3, and helped push the building applications on Kunoshima island.
'Well you need to tell them', when Trinity opened her eyes wide, 'Wait you decided on the new teachers?'. Venelop3 nodded her head and pulled a file on her desk and opened it in front of Trin. Inside was information on two teachers.
'Lets just say after this death and Aki's holiday, they are perfect for what we need', Trinity bent her head over the opened file:
'Otsuki Yozora, teaches History as main subject, also teaches Archaeology and Japanese Literature'.
'Of course', laughed Trin, 'He teaches Archaeology and he's also quite good looking as well'. Venelop3 gave Trin a look of despair.
'I didn't hire the man on his looks Trin'.
'Who's the other teacher you chose Ven?'.
'Look'. Trinity kept reading:
'Xiulan Chen, teaches Art as main subject, also teaches Music and History'.
'That's what you meant by perfect after the death, she teaches subjects similar to Jack, his History lessons can mainly be taught be Yozora, and Chen would do his Art lessons'. Ven nodded her head at her friend. 'However looking at this picture this girl doesn't have a smart bone in her body, she is obviously a punk, and has no uniform standards'. Venelop3 laughs.
'She's an Art teacher, I'd allow it', Venelop3 grins. Trinity looked at her laughing friend with piercing eyes.
'Why did Aki decide to have his holiday one week early?' asked Trin.
'He didn't specify the reasons, he just said that his holiday must be a week early'.
'But there was only 1 more week of term, couldn’t he changed it, just for his students?' Venelop3 sighed.
'I don't know Trin, he said he'll be back in a few weeks, and then help with the setting up of the school for the new year', Venelop3 looked at Trin, 'But I don't know if staying on this island over summer is a good idea any more'.
'What if we use the summer to try and find out what is making the teachers turn into mass murderers?' asked Trinity.
Venelop3 looked at Trinity and started to weigh up her options. 'Trin, lets just get this last week of term over and then as a faculty we can decide if we stay or go'.
Trinity smiled, 'That sounds like a good idea'.
'Finally, I want all the teachers to report to the assembly room at 8am tomorrow morning, then I will tell them about this school', Venelop3 looked at her hands, 'I hope none of the teachers decide to leave'. Trinity looks at Venelop3 dumbstruck.
'Ven, you created this school, you funded all the events so we could build on this island, and you have made the teachers stay over the course of five years and two other murder events, we can do this, one last time'.
'One last time? You really think this will be the last time?', asked Ven.
'I will make sure of it' smiled Trin. Just then Trinity's phone rang. Venelop3 watched as her friend answered.
'Reece it's done?' Trinity asked. Venelop3 could only make out the occasional mutterings of Reece on the other side of the phone. Instead of being ignorant and trying to listen to their conversation, Ven started to clean her desk, closing the file with Yozora and Chen, and placing all her files in one pile. When Trin was finished with her call she put the phone back in her pocket and coughed to get Venelop3's attention.
'Reece has got rid of the body and also cleaned up my Chemical laboratory... he also says hi'. Venelop3 rolled her eyes at that thought, she really hates the removal team leader Reece.
'Well that's at least out of the way of students prying eyes, now Trin, I know Jack was your friend, but lets just get this week out of the way' Venelop3 smiled, 'Thank you Trin, you can go home now and get a must needed rest, I will see you bright and early in the morning'. Trinity nodded her head.
'Good night Ven, don't stay up all night, also if you feel like you will fall asleep again on your desk, wear your glasses not your contacts, it will only end up bad for you'. Venelop3 rolled her eyes again.
'I hate my glasses', Trin tries to stifle a laugh.
'They suit you'. Trinity excused herself and left Venelop3 alone in her office.
Venelop3 let out a breath she didn't know she was holding and walked over to her mirror and took a good look at herself.
Her light brown hair which came just past her shoulders was turning fluffy, her fringe was choppy and was shaped around her head which made it more noticeable that her blue eyes were turning dull with sleepiness and sore from her contacts. She took them out and placed her glasses on, they were rectangular frames which highlighted her eyes. She still hated it.
Venelop3 slowly stalked around her room until she came to be beside her old fashioned desk and opened a drawer. Inside the drawer was a picture of a man she hadn't seen in a long time and a packet of cigarettes. She grabbed one, closed the drawer, and grabbed the zippo off her shelf above the fireplace. She lit it and sat in her office chair which she spun around so she was facing the large window which takes up the entire wall behind her desk.
As Venelop3 took a drag of her cigarette she thought of someone else who was probably doing exactly the same thing as her. Aki, where are you, she thought to herself. As she sat there and thought, she thought back to the conversation they had earlier that evening before Trinity arrived:
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It was late evening about 7pm when Venelop3 faced Aki across her desk.
'So you're leaving a week early?' asked Venelop3. Aki faced her with a cigarette in his mouth as usual with his blonde short hair, his eyes were always strange to Ven, they were a green/blue with spots of brown in them, like he was a devil just there to taunt her, his glasses were on his face which enhanced the effect that his eyes did to Ven.
'Indeed Miss Venelop3. I have to you see, I will be back within a few weeks to help with the preparations of the upcoming year, of course if you find the gift I have given you', he chuckled.
'Gift?'.
'Yes, gift, I haven't technically created it yet, but by the time I leave tonight it will be in place, then all you have to do is find it', he laughed again, 'It should be easy for you to find'.
Aki's eyes bored into Venelop3, 'I will find your gift Aki'.
'Good. 'It should make your summer interesting you see'.
'If that is all you wanted to say Aki, you can see yourself out'. Aki smiled.
'I get on your nerves don't I?' laughed Aki.
'What do you mean? You are a very good Physics and Maths teacher, and I wouldn't have anyone else, you mean a great deal to this school, and we need you here' Ven was very serious in this matter. Aki chuckled again.
'If you say so Miss, if you say so', Aki excused himself and left the room.
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Venelop3 stared at the cigarette in her hand, and hated herself instantly. It's what she learnt to do after the first murder which happened after being at the school for a year. She sighed, she hated this part of the job. Trinity was right though, they will stop all of this year, for the students. She put the cigarette out in the ashtray on her desk and looked at the files again.
In these files was every teacher which worked at the Academy. Some have been here from the start, others had been here not as long. But are wanted either way. She opened up her work bag on the left side of her desk and grabbed her laptop. When she opened it she found that she left it on again. Stupid Ven.
She opened up her emails and started typing out the email she would send to all her colleagues about the meeting tomorrow:
Meeting about.... unfortunate events.
Everyone apart from the new teachers will have an idea what is going on, she just hoped that it wasn't too late, and she hoped that she could stop any more teachers from dying....
You know you will fail Ven, you always do.
~~Chapter 1 End.
Chapter 2 - New Teachers
A man walked towards Rabbit Academy in a white shirt, black pants and a black tie. Yozora stopped walking in front of the large gates which would welcome him to Rabbit Academy. There were large bronze gates which were taller than him and had small metal rabbits running across the top of the gates. Yozora looked at the letter in his hand:
'Thank you for applying to work at Rabbit Academy, we have read your application and would like you to join our team of teachers, as we help students reach their potential. Use the plane ticket acquired with this letter to Kunoshima island, here you will live and teach until you want to leave. Any holiday days will be discussed with the head of the Academy, Miss Venelop3 Colgan.'
Get your ass in there Yozora, he thought to himself. He took a breath and opened the gate when he turned around and saw, well what looked like an adult but with an air of... immaturity. She had long black hair which went past her hips. Golden eyes, and a warm smile. She had a pink punk skirt and over the knee white socks with some black shoes with a chunky heel that Yozora struggled to describe. She had a white vest top and a black and purple jacket, with black chain necklaces which overlapped each other with little crosses. She was carrying her phone, lost in her own little world, when she walked straight into Yozora.
'Oh my, I'm so sorry!' the girl exclaimed. Yozora stood there in awe, she was pretty, but she reminded him to much of a student, even though she was probably older.
'It's okay honestly' Yozora started, 'I'm a new teacher here, Otsuki Yozora'.
'Oh! I'm new too! My name is Xiulan Chen. I'm still very sorry Mr Otsuki'.
'Please, call me Yozora', Yozora smiled, Chen blushed. Oh god, another one. 'Anyway, um Chen? Did you happen to receive an email last night about an important meeting?'.
Chen nodded, 'I did, it's the Assembly hall in the main building, so it should be...' she stopped in the middle of the sentence, stuck her tongue out and surveyed the buildings, when she suddenly pointed to a building, '...that one'. Yozora nodded and both teachers walked towards the main building.
'So what do you teach Chen?' Yozora asked.
'My main subject is Art, you?'.
'History' he replied.
'Oh I sometimes teach that too! Maybe we'll bump into each other along the way' Chen grinned.
'Indeed so dear Chen', Chen blushed again, Oh God, thought Yozora, I wasn't supposed to do this again. Eventually both the teachers had slowly walked towards the dark building, which read, Rabbit Academy Welcomes All.
Yozora nodded at Chen before opening the doors to the main building. Inside there was two people. A man and a woman. The male had fluffy brown hair, wide eyes, the colour of grey and a wide mouth. He was wearing a black and grey pinstripe suit and looked very formal. The woman was dark in colour but with bright piercing blue eyes. She had brown hair which curled towards her waist and she wore a black pencil skirt with a light blue shirt which highlighted her eyes.
'Ah' the woman said, 'you must be the new teachers, my name is Azelf, and this is my colleague Lucius Ravenheart'. Yozora nodded at them.
'I am Otsuki Yozora, and my new latest friend Xiulan Chen', Chen replied with her greetings.
Then Lucius started to talk, 'We are here to help you around, I will take Yozora, and Azelf here will help Chen', Lucius walked towards the two new teachers.
'See you soon I expect', Chen nodded in reply, and left the room with Azelf though the far left door.
'A word of warning Yozora', Yozora's glance changed from the door to Lucius, 'Some of the things you might find out today may scare you or make you feel uncomfortable working here... but, you will find the good in this place'. This surprised Yozora, what did Lucius mean by this.
'Never the less, you will find out soon enough, come' and Lucius lead the way through a door on the right side of the hall. As Yozora walked though the door he was amazed by the buildings interior, it was so grand, you could never tell the building was only five years old in age. As Lucius stopped in front of two double doors he looked at Yozora, taking him all in.
'What?' asked Yozora.
'Nothing' Lucius replied whilst shaking his head, 'I was just thinking'.
'About?'.
'Well you have everything don't you? The looks, the brains, probably the women as well' Lucius sighed. 'Never mind, it doesn't matter, I've told miss Colgan that I can't make this meeting if I want my class to be set up properly, but she has already told me what it is about accordingly, so stand in there, and just take in what she says, don't be frightened'. Yozora tilted his head to one side, this Ravenheart was an odd fellow, he nodded his head and disappeared, leaving Yozora alone at the grand doors. He pushed the doors open and stepped inside the Assembly Hall.
The Hall was large with a giant stage at the front, and stands all around the outside. There was a single podium on the stage and all the teachers were standing in front of it. Yozora followed suit standing in the centre of the crowd. As he did so a women with brown hair clipped back with a jaw clip and blue eyes stepped in front of the podium, she was wearing a grey dress which came to her knees and had glasses hanging from a chain around her neck, she also had a black cardigan on which she pushed the sleeves up so they met her elbows. Wow, now she's pretty... she must Miss Colgan.
Miss Colgan coughed to clear her chest and began; 'I'm sorry to bring you all out here, most of you could probably guess why you are here, but there are some new faces in the crowd, I'm sorry to have to give them such information on a day like today'. Miss Colgan sighed. 'Another teacher was found dead last night by our fellow colleague miss Trinity'.
Wait, what. Teacher. Dead. Another. What?!
Miss Colgan carried on, 'Jack was a lovely teacher whom most of us knew, he taught History and Art, and his students loved him for the caring man he was'. Then she put a serious face on, 'I've been told that you need to know the truth, that truth is I believe, as well as others that something in this school turns teachers crazy and into mass murderers, it's happened twice before, and now it's happened again'.
THIS HAPPENS A LOT?!?!?!
'But I must tell you now, this will be the last time, we as a team will decide after this last week of term what to do'. Whether to not be here any more, or to hunt down this thing which hurts MY staff'. There was cheers around the room, Yozora turned pale.
'Hey, dude, calm down, didn't someone tell you before the assembly that there is nothing to be scared of?' said someone from Yozora's side. Yozora turned to his right and was surprised by what he saw... a person... in a panda suit.
'Um, a panda?' asked Yozora.
'As well as the teacher, I am a school mascot and help the students with blowing stuff up, it's a much needed outfit, besides, my students like it' the voice sounded like a female. 'My name is Lock, Lock Yamaguchi, I mainly teach computer science'. As she was saying this, Miss Colgan was still going on about fighting for our students.
'Um, Otsuki.. Yozora'.
'You shouldn't be afraid, the teachers are good, like she said, the school does this, but we will destroy it', Yozora thought he could tell that Lock was smiling under the mask.
'How do you know?' asked Yozora.
'Because I've witnessed the other two events'. Yozora was surprised by this fact.
'What happened?'.
'Each time the teacher responsible was found, they were crazy, there eyes were blood shot, and you could see their veins through their skin, bulging and blue, it only turned like that when they were about to kill someone' Lock replied.
'So they were infected with some sort of disease?' asked Yozora.
'I guess you could call it something like that, all I'm saying is, trust us, until you see our eyes turn red' laughed Lock the panda. Yozora turned his head back to face his boss.
'…. now that has been concluded I would like to personally talk to our new teachers in five minutes on this stage, can Trinity and Kuro please also join' Miss Colgan took one last glance at the crowd, 'Good luck, meeting adjourned'. At that second a crowd of teachers swarmed to get to the back double doors, as Yozora fought to get towards the stage. Eventually he ended up in front of everyone with; himself, Chen, Miss Colgan and what he guessed was Trinity and Kuro.
'Miss Colgan I presume?' stated Yozora.
'Oh please Yozora call me Ven, it's short for Venelop3 and I do hate my surname'.
'If I don't be so rude to say, it's a very strange spelling your name'.
'I had weird parents' laughed Ven, 'Ah Chen, I see you and Yozora have already met by your casual glances, please don't be so shy, these are my two closet colleagues, Trinity and Kuro'.
Yozora and Chen greeted them both. Yozora took in what both of his colleagues looked like. Trinity had long blonde hair with a strong fringe and bright brown eyes. Today she was wearing a suit, maybe as the meeting was a formal occasion. She wore a white suit with black heels and a black shirt, the contrasting colours really made her stand out from everyone else. Kuro on the other hand was a lot more less attractive in appearance. He had very short brown hair and very dull brown eyes, with thick eyeglasses, his teeth were perfect but you could tell he had braces when the man was younger. He wore black trousers and a white shirt with a red tie, he also had red braces as well, to complete his geek look, Obviously into computers, Yozora thought as he shook hand with both of them.
'I'm so sorry to tell you this grave news on your first day, but I hope you understand that as a school we are better than that, and our students always come first', Venelop3 sighed, 'I was hoping to use this week to teach you two the ropes, but I need to throw you both in straight away due to the unfortunate demise of Jack, Kuro will take Chen Jacks art class, and I have a special request for you Yozora'. Yozora blinked at this.
'What is that Venelop3?'.
'Well we recently had a teacher go on holiday, but he had finished his physics lessons, we were hoping if you'd like to give them a weeks trial with Archaeology?' Yozora grinned at this.
'I would love too'.
'Good Trinity will lead you there, now I hate to say good bye, but I have lots to do to get ready for the summer', Venelop3 looked sad, 'I really hope this first day goes smoothly'. With that, she said her good byes and left.
There was a quick discussion between the four left over colleagues but then they separated into two, to the classes they were to teach.
~~Chapter 2 End.
Chapter 3 – È un gran pacier la morte
Yozora followed Kuro down the halls of the science building. There walk had been quiet until Kuro stopped in front of a classroom of averagely noisy students waiting for their teacher to arrive. Kuro sighed and turned to look at Yozora.
'I know what you're thinking' said Kuro, Yozora was surprised by this.
'Um, okay, what was I thinking Mr. Kuro?'.
'You don't understand how someone so plain as me works at this amazing school'.
'Um well your appearance had come into to my mind once, when I first met you, but I never thought that, I would understand you to be a good teacher, especially if Ven appreciates you'. Kuro grins.
'I created all the software this school runs on', well I was right about computers, thought Yozora, 'We don't all need looks Mr. Handsome!', wait, did this guy just call me handsome? Yozora laughed and placed a hand on Kuro's shoulder.
'Kuro, I believe you fit right in with this school, and I'm here to teach students, not for my looks', Yozora smiled and Kuro returned it.
'Anyway, Yozora this is your classroom for this week, during the summer we'll give you your own, is that okay?'.
'Of course, see you around Kuro' replied Yozora. Kuro nodded his head and walked away. Yozora took a deep breath and walked into the door with speed to keep his students on their feet.
'Alright everyone quiet down', Yozora spoke loudly to grab all the students attention. He heard whisperings. He pointed at a boy near the back with black hair.
'What's so interesting?'.
'Where's Mr. Aki?' the boy asked.
'He took his holiday a week early, he'll be back next September', all the students let out a breath.
'What's wrong?'.
'Well apparently Mr. Jack the History teacher just upped and left', replied a girl with blonde plaits at the front.
'Who told you this information?' Yozora asked.
'It's a rumour sir', all the students agreed. Yozora knew what he had to do.
'Mr. Jack had a family emergency, so he had to fly home straight away. It looks like he won't return and will get a teaching job near where his family lives'. The students seemed happy with the response, 'Okay then, Mr. Aki had finished all your Physic lessons for the year, so for your last week we will go over Archaeology, as an overview'. All the students actually looked interested in Yozora as he started going on about fossils, and sometimes linked to Geology when the time came. This especially impressed this one boy who was apparently in Ven's Geology class.
'So Miss Colgan also teaches classes?' asked Yozora to the students.
'Oh yes', said the boy, 'As well as finding us the best teachers, she is one of them'. Yozora was impressed.
'So do the teachers change a lot?'.
'Not really', carried on the boy, 'But about once a year, there is a few changes, because of illness or different jobs, but not every year'. The murders are well and truly covered up. Yozora carried on teaching until about three quarters through the lesson there was a knocking on the door.
'Open'. As soon as Yozora said this, a herd of students came tumbling in to the room, and one came over and handed him a note. It read:
'First of all, well done on Jack's cover story, we have cameras in some rooms, this is one, oops, sorry, but we liked it, so it's staying. Secondly, there has been and incident with Raven... come quick.. follow the badly drawn instructions, the students are given a 25 minutes recession, it is Raven's class, we told them he suddenly started being very ill. See you there, Ven'.
Lucius, Oh no! He quickly told his students about their recession and left the two classes alone. Then he followed the make shift directions to the cooking rooms. Until he found. Cooking Storage cupboard. Yozora slowly opened the door and stepped inside, and closed the door behind him. Once inside he noticed that the room was much, much larger than he originally expected for a storage cupboard and in front of him was 12 people: Trin, Kuro, Ven, Azelf, Chen and Lock, and six teachers Yozora hadn't met yet. They were circled around something, or someone, and Yozora, against his most logical reactions, made it to the front of the group, next to Ven. He looked down, at the gruesome scene, lying on the ground was Lucius Ravenheart:
Lucius was lead face up with his hands and feet tied with cotton cooking string. Next to the neck is an empty bottle of muscle relaxant with no noticeable syringe, but puncture hole on his neck. He had meat skewers placed into his eyes, two in his stomach, one in his groin, and one where the heart would be. The murder was violent, and Lucius couldn't move.
Trin muttered, 'This Wolf is a sadist'.
'Not now Trin', replied Venelop3. Yozora wanted to be sick, but he couldn't look away.
'At least he wasn't the first to die', laughed a man's voice from the back, 'he always died first in all our games'. Yozora looked to take in his colleague. The man had black hair and grey eyes, and he had very pale skin. He was wearing a black suit with a grey bandanna, black gloves, and smart black shoes. He wore it with a black shirt and no tie. How monotone.
'Jay! Now is not the time for your stupid remarks!' shouted another man at him. This man also had black hair, which came just past his nose in a 'messy' look. He had crystal blue eyes, which showed compassion and sadness. He wore a white shirt and black tie with grey pants. He also had a black jacket which looks like it comes around his neck and closes. His first class had obviously not started yet. One by one all the teacher he had not met yet were talking up.
'Maybe none of us want to hear you too little boys squabbling over nothing' said a female teacher. This girl had Jade... wait no, Hazel eyes with long eye lashes which curl around them. She had long blonde/brown hair which fell to her waist and only part of fringe was held up by a single black hair clip. She had a light blue dress on that came to her knees and covered her shoulders like a T-shirt, with black pumps.
'Unifutures....' started Jay, 'I like arguing with BoyM4st3r, SO DON'T GET INVOLVED!'. Yozora placed his hand on his ear as Jay's shouting hurt his ear drums.
'Uni, you really shouldn't get involved... it's just getting interesting', laughed another man. This man had brown hair and brown eyes. But he had a slight devil look in his eye. He looked slightly more mature than most of the teachers in the room, but by that last comment, he sure doesn't act it. He wore a white shirt and a loose blue tie with his collar undone at the neck. Unlike most of the teachers he was wearing black jeans, and had a smart casual look going on. Yozora didn't know how else he could describe the man, he seemed more like a man who would likely tease someone, but differently to this Jay character.
'Degree don't be so selfish!' said a young teacher. She wore a lab coat and had on underneath a pink blouse and a black skirt. She had blue eyes, with wide brown glasses, and shoulder length blonde/brown hair. She was literally the description of cute.
'It's okay Nayu, let Ven get to grips with the situation and she'll shut up every one, okay?' another women smiled. This woman was Asian, Yozora didn't want to be offensive. She had long wavy hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a grey suit jacket which cut at the elbows a grey matching skirt and a white shirt.
'Okay Amie', smiled Nayu. Then Yozora saw Ven look at Amie, nodded and take in a deep breath.
'THATS.ENOUGH.STOP.BICKERING.FOR.FIVE.MINUTES'. Every one was silent. Venelop3 looked at me and Chen, 'I'm so sorry you two have to go through this on your first day, I never want anyone to go through this'. Yozora looked into her eyes, and saw real deep pain.
'At least none of us are going through this alone'. Every one looked at Yozora, and some even smiled.
'He has a point', said Boy, 'We need to work as a team...'.
'...Until someone’s eyes turn red, right?' finished Lock.
'Basically', sighed Boy. Yozora looked at Lucius again.
'Is it usually, this, violent?' asked Yozora.
'Sometimes' sighed Ven, 'One Wolf, as Trin likes to say, kills teachers in different ways to not make a usual pattern for us to track'. Yozora glanced at each teacher in turn.
'Even if I don't know all of you, I can't understand how any of you could do this'.
'It's a curse Yozora, I told you, something about this place', replied Lock.
'Well we can't find the cause now, we will have till wait till the end of this week, I just hope this isn't a daily thing, two teachers in two days is too much', stated Ven.
'I don't think they will kill any more teachers this week', stated Jay, 'This looks like a playful wolf, if the students aren't here they can have more fun'.
'We still have to decide if we are staying over the summer Jay', said Ven.
'We must! I don't want any more colleagues to die!' shouted Jay.
'But more teachers might die in the process, do you really want that?' asked Trin.
'Sometimes small sacrifices have to be made, to save a lot more people in the long run', Jay sighed, 'What if we all came back in September and the students started to be killed! How would you explain that to their parents! We already of to think of excuses to the students about the teachers, as well as the teachers family, do you really want more on you plate Ven?'.
'Of course not Jay, I don't want any one to die, that's my problem, I promised myself no one other than Jack was going to die....' Venelop3 sighed and she turned around and faced the group, 'You twelve teachers are the best in the school, the ones who the murderer will pick on, and the ones who will be staying over the summer. The nurse, catering staff, even the librarian will be gone, so we will use this as a way to track the teacher down'. All the teachers nodded there heads in agreement. Yozora had a proposition to make.
'How about we split into three groups of three and two groups of two in the holidays. Obviously the twos will have more weakness, but if only one is murdered, then we would know who killed them and we'll put close people together'. Ven smiled at the idea.
'If that's the case I would put Nayu and Amie together.....' both women smiled and agreed, 'and I will pair up with you Yozora'. Yozora took a step back.
'Um, me?'.
'Yes, I feel like I can trust you, so that will be that, as for the groups of three', Ven put her hand on her chin and stood there and thought. 'Group one will be; Jay, Degree and Trin. Group two will be; Kuro, Uni and Boy, and finally group three will be; Lock, Azelf and Chen. Any disagrees?'. None of the teachers said anything. 'Good, obviously this will start on Saturday, we will have a meeting at 8am in the same place as this morning, but with just us'. Yozora was impressed, this woman, who looked like a wreck after finding her colleague like this, had suddenly turned on a switch making her think a million things a second.
'Trin', said Ven.
'Yes Ven?'.
'Call Reece, I want this cleared up asap, tell him to think of a story this time'.
'Reece?' Yozora asked.
'He runs a clear up team on this island' said Trinity, 'We have had help from them since we've been on the island, Reece is a miracle worker, but Ven doesn't like him so I do all the contacting'.
'Why doesn't Ven like him?'.
'Let's just say he thinks he know women', laughed Trin.
'Anyway', coughed Ven, 'Everyone go back to your classes, there free time is almost up, Yozora I know you have both classes for the next hour, but they are both well behaved'. Yozora nodded his head at the thought and slowly everyone walked out of the room leaving Ven in there on her own.
'Is she okay in there on her own?' asked Yozora to Kuro.
'Yeah' said Kuro, 'All the teachers here mean the world to Ven, she'll be fine, she'll probably just leave him some parting words'.
'Okay, said Yozora, and headed back to his class.
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Ven knelt down next to Raven and slowly started pulling out the skewers. She knew that Reece and his team will be here soon, and they'd do the same anyway. She pulled out the ones from, his stomach, heart, groin, but she didn't dare touch his eyes, she'd leave that for Reece. She looked at her hands. They were covered in Raven's blood.
'Oh, Lucius, you silly man, you shouldn't have gone off early. You were easy prey', Ven sighed, 'I can't even close your eye lids, I hope the muscle relaxant helped with the pain, I will see you again Sir. Ravenheart, one day'.
As Venelop3 took one last look at her colleague. She sat there, and cried.
~~Chapter 3 End.
Chapter 4 – Old friends and New Mysteries
Venelop3 was sat in her office late Friday night. It had been four nights since the death of Lucius Ravenheart. The week had carried on as normal, and she felt that the Wolf was just toying with her. Playing by her rules. They want the school too stay open. They NEEDED the school to stay open. Little did they know that she had, well, some sort of back up plan. That is when she heard the knock at the door.
'Come in'. In walked a young woman, with long black hair with white streaks, she had very fair skin and very dark brown eyes, 'Ah Equinox, how is my favourite psychology teacher?'.
'Doing fine thank you', smiled Equinox, 'I was surprised you called me, you didn't need me last time. You found the killer all by yourself'.
'We are going to end this finally over the summer, and I need your help, you where one of the originals, and I know Kuro and Trinity will appreciate you here', replied Venelop3. Equinox laughed.
'Oh god Ven, remember the good old days?', she asked with a smirk and sat down in the chair opposite Venelop3.
'Good! Ha! Remember the first time we found a dead body?'.
'Yes! It was Yuki wasn't it, bless her heart, we were so scared we started running around in circles and called the police, they set up this giant investigation, the school closed for a week it was terrible...'.
'Yes... but then a murder happened just after they left! Santa, she was such a smart soul'.
'Isn't that when you realised something strange was happening?' asked Equinox.
'Well yes, if the killer was that clever it would of gone after the students that can't defend themselves'.
'That's when we got hold of Reece', Venelop3 gave a look of disgust. Equinox laughed. 'You still haven't forgiven him then'.
'Of course not'.
'We've lost lots of people over the course of 5 years Ven, each of them sad', said Equinox, she looked at Ven deeply, 'Even ones who stole your heart'. Ven's cheeks went pink for a few seconds and then she laughed it off.
'Oh stop that stupid business now, I haven't seen you in so long and you bring that up! Now again, hunting plan, I've put you into a group with two young teachers, Nayu and Amie, I think you'll like them'.
'Why not with you?' asked Equinox.
'I've paired up with a new young teacher, I want to watch him react to this situation, he seems to handled it so far, but hearing us two go on for hours will drive him round the bend'.
'Fair enough', Ven nodded her head.
'The building you used to stay in is still free, and it's clean too, so free to go their straight away, we have a meeting 8am sharp tomorrow'. Equinox exclaimed a face of disgust.
'It's a Saturday! I've just got off my 8 hour flight, seriously?'. Ven nodded her head at her old friend.
'It won't be every morning, but I need to battle plan our holiday, we still have a school to set up too. Usually, including tomorrow, we will meet at 6pm every day, which means you can discuss in your groups what times you will meet up, but every one else is waking up early tomorrow, so you do too', replied Venelop3.
'Eurgh, fine. Actually now that I think about it, where's Aki?' asked Equinox.
'He went on holiday a week earlier than expected but even so he would of left before your arrival today Equinox', Ven replied.
'Fair enough, well I shall see you bright and early in the morning Venelop3, sweet dreams, if you can', she smirked again, and then excused herself from the room. Ven was again sat in her office alone, but feeling slightly better about the situation, she started muttering to herself aloud, but she knew no one would here.
'I can predict that at least one more person will die, the Wolf had been waiting days for this, so it will probably be tomorrow, I've tried to put people in teams I can see them working best at, but in one of the teams is a murderer, which is... unfortunate'. Ven sighed and stood up from her chair, shuffled her hair against her head, picked up her work bag and looked out of the window which overlooked the fields in her school.
'We will find the teacher who has been cursed by this school, once and for all, I will make sure of it'. She turned off the lamp on her desk and through the darkness walked out of her office. She slowly stalked the halls of the main building until she left the building with the creak of the door and made her way back to her cabin, through the looping and swerves of the road, past the waterfall, and down the creak of paving stones, as she joined the other teacher all tucked away in their homes. She put her hand in her bag and fished out her keys, unlocked the wooden door and made her way inside with the click of the light switch.
'Home sweet home'. Ven placed her bag on the round table in front of her in the middle of the lounge area and made her way to the kitchen and opened the fridge.
The food, drinking and buying system on the island works like this. On the island there is one large shopping market where you can get ANYTHING from, it's interior is updated every week on a Monday from a ship which comes with supplies. The person who owns the shop is a lovely older women called Chelle, and she has lived on this island since the school opened, when Venelop3 made a proposition for her. Chelle was actually an old friend of her parents and in this way Ven had known this woman for the majority of her life. Chelle had never been anywhere but home but owned a little shop on the corner of her street very well. When Chelle heard the proposition, she gave the store to her son and took up the job of this lovely market.
Venelop3 looked in her fridge, took out a can of monster and went to lay on her brown artificial material sofa. It had been a long week of listening to students complain about stuff, teachers moaning about money and her watching every corner she came across to, as to not get stabbed in the back as she walked past. She even watched the two new teachers settle down well into their new roles, and can't wait to show them their own specific classrooms based on all the subjects they loved. They have taken her all week to create with the help with Reece's team of course. Even thought Venelop3 wasn't keen on Reece, his team does a well spectacular job on building and help create the place they lived in.
Reece was actually an old friend of Venelop3's from her teen years. They had slightly kept in touch, and she knew that Reece owned a team of men who come over any obstacle they come across, during the second murder, she didn't want to call the Japanese police again, so she called Reece's team, who just luckily happened to be in Japan on business, I know, classic right? She called him up saying it was urgent, and then found out that he and his team did a similar job when they first started, whom for, Ven didn't know, she got told it was confidential, the same way Reece wouldn't tell anyone about the things that happen on this island. Due to this however his team said during other times they will live on the island and help with any other manual labour Ven needs help with. The reason why Venelop3 isn't to keen on Reece any more, is because he sexually harassed one of her old colleagues, who left the island due to this incident. However she promised the teacher and Reece she wouldn't tell anyone about the situation and so every one thinks Reece tried chatting up Venelop3 when he first started. Obviously Reece knows the truth, so he doesn't mind Venelop3's bluntness to him.
Venelop3 whom, had been thinking about all of this information about the island, and the people whom live here. Had in fact finished her drink and decided that she should probably go to bed. She got off the sofa throwing the can into her open bin on the other side of the room, which she actually got into the bin. Then walked through her bedroom into the en suite bathroom.
Ven stopped. Her breathing was hitched. She looked at the mirror in front of her. Covered in her favourite lip stick:
'You won't win this Ven, you never will'.
Had someone broke into her cabin? The door was locked. She looked over to the bathroom window which was opened. It hadn't been forced. She must of left it open when she had a shower this morning. It also didn't look like anything else was tampered with in her cabin. The lipstick was also the only thing she left in the bathroom this morning, it looks that the person who did this was rushed. She went and shut the bathroom mirror and then fetched her mobile. Looks like she won't be sleeping tonight. She took a picture of the writing, went into the living room/lounge and opened her bag and fetched her laptop out. She opened it up and plugged her phone into it, and opened up powerpoint. She had decided this will be how she'll kick off the meeting tomorrow. She believed the murderer would expect her to talk about it, but not in the way that Ven has planned. She is going to personally break down this matter, and open up the mystery.
I will win this.
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A person was breathing heavily next to the building that Ven lived in.
'PUPPIES, they weren't meant to be home yet, I couldn't get the information I needed, this is not going to plan at all'. The person sunk down next to the building, slightly hidden by the green bushes that were there.
'She can't find me, I won't let her find me, I must rub down against her will power'. Once the person's breathing was back to normal they stood up and ran towards their cabin.
Chapter 4 End.
Chapter 5 - Let the Games Begin
A young women was spread out on her bed in her cabin in the early morning, when she rolled over and fell on the ground with a thump.
'Ow!' exclaimed Equinox as she rubbed her head better, 'Eurgh stupid bed!'. Equinox sort of got herself seated back on to her bed and unplugged her phone from it's charger, it read; '07:54am'.
'I'm going to be late!', she quickly scurried to her feet and made her way to her closet. She grabbed a pair of black jeans and a white vest with a red and black chequered shirt. She then made her way to her refrigerator. She grabbed a carton of milk, ran to the front door, kicked on her favourite black boots and slipped her phone and keys into her pockets. She took one last look in the mirror, kind of sorted her hair, nodded and ran out the door, all the way to the main Academy building. She ran past the big doors, whilst throwing her milk carton into a nearby bin, through the familiar hallways and into the great hall in the centre of the building. As she burst through the doors, she saw all the other teachers had already arrived, in casual clothing similar to her and looking at the breathless stranger, apart from a few unique people whom she had already met.
'Equinox?!', exclaimed Trinity, 'Why are you here?'.
'I asked her to come and help end this', Ven giggled, 'I knew you would just make it on time, anyway, everybody come closer to the stage'. All the teachers followed the request. Venelop3 put on a serious face and started her speech.
'Last night, after I had met Equinox after her trip and sent her to her cabin, I went home to find this...' The slide on the powerpoint which originally said welcome fellow detectives, changed to what can only be assumed as Ven's bathroom mirror, but vandalised with red lipstick. '… I was a bit surprised at first but realised I had left my bathroom window open, so it's no surprise how the person who did this, got in and out of the bathroom. What I also noticed was it was done with a lipstick which was right next to my mirror, and nothing else in my cabin was touched, which means it looks liked this so called person was rushed...' Venelop3 looked around at all the teachers in front of her.
'….I have no doubt that the person who did this crime will not come up and say they have done this, but I want them to know this, I will win, because I take care in my work'. There was a round of clapping afterwards which Equinox took place in, 'Amie, Nayu, I'm having Equinox join your group, I'm sure you will find her to your liking, which means the only pair is me and Yozora'. Equinox noticed the two women near the front of the stage nodding at Ven, so she gathered that they would be the women she was teaming up with.
'Now then, I will explain to you how this summer is going to go down, we need to split it up into two parts, investigating and setting up the school for next summer....' Ven changed the slide again on the screen, '… So I have split the groups into two sections, which will swap over the corresponding days until the holidays are over'.
'What does that mean precisely Ven?' asked a man beside Equinox, he had black hair and grey eyes, and was also wearing a grey bandanna with black jeans, black trainers and a black t-shirt.
'Well Jay, it means some days you will be looking for whatever is driving people crazy and other days you will get ready for next years students'. Ven clicked a button and the columns filled with different groups of teachers. 'Group One, also today's teaching teams: Me and Yozora, Chen, Azelf and Lock and finally Kuro, Boy and Uni. Group Two, today's investigation teams: Jay, Trin and Degree, and Amie, Nayu and Equinox, any questions?'. No one said anything.
'Good, oh and finally last points..', Ven changed the slide, which just read 'Good Luck', 'We meet here at 6pm every night on the dot for a review of that day, and to make sure we are still alive'. Venelop3 then pointed to the other side of the room.
'Over there you will see 5 radios, each team will have One. If any team finds a dead body, tell everyone else immediately, is that clear?'. There was a sea of nods from the teachers. Ven nodded her head at everyone. 'Everyone can now join and talk to their respective teams, there is no more early morning starts, unless you as a team decide to do so, we will meet again today at 6pm sharp, meeting adjourned'. Equinox followed Venelop3 off the stage with her eyes before she started walking towards the two teachers she was meant to be working with. Equinox had heard most of that meeting last night, but after that break in at Venelop3's cabin, it looked like it took a serious toll on her, even more, it still looked like she hadn't slept, Equinox sighed. As she came closer to the two woman facing her, she took into consideration what these woman look like. The woman on the left of Equinox had blue eyes, wide brown glasses, shoulder length blonde/brown hair and was wearing a black skirt, with a grey top, black pumps and a denim jacket. The other women was obviously Korean. She had long dark, wavy hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a white and pink dress with short straps, a white cardigan on top and white sandals. Equinox stuck her hand out in front of the Korean girl.
'Hi, I'm Equinox', the Korean girl shook her hand.
'Amie'.
'So you must be Nayu', as he moved his hand towards Nayu.
'Hmm, Equinox is too long... I'm going to call you.... Equi!'. Equinox tilted her head to one side, but let out a small giggle and shook her head into agreement.
'So...' Amie started, both Equinox and Nayu looked at her, '...First thing of order is I think we should meet at 9am each morning during the week, 10am on Saturdays and 11am on Sundays'.
'I think that is a lovely idea', laughed Equinox, 'I feel like 8am kind of killed me this morning'.
'Me too!' Nayu popped in. Equinox scanned the rest of the groups and saw them all talking.
'So we are on the investigation team, what do you two girls think we should do first as I've only just come back to this school after three years', said Equinox.
'I think first we should exam the place that Lucius died' replied Amie.
'Well that sounds like a good idea, I was given brief profiles on both of the dead before I arrived on this island, and he was a home economics teacher?'.
'Yes', replied Nayu, 'He was preparing for a cooking class when he... when he died...'.
'Well, I think it's a good place to start than nothing, lets have a look then'.
'Do you know where that room is in the school Equi?' asked Nayu.
'I remember vaguely where the cooking rooms are, but not a storage room, I think that was placed in recently, but I will be with you two obviously, so it'll be fine'. Both the girls nodded at Equinox and headed towards the big doors at the back of the room.
'The cooking rooms are in the humanities building nearest to the cabins where the students live when it's not the holidays' said Amie.
'Yeah, so we'll go through the back of this building as it's quicker', said Nayu. Both of the girls lead me down some short hallways until we reached the back of the main building. All three women pushed through the old creaky metal doors in front of them, and they entered the back gardens.
'I always thought this area was so beautiful....' said Equinox. Nayu nodded her head.
'I always come out here when it's sunny during the summer and plan my lessons... if we can find the cause of the problem fast, then maybe I can do that this year...' Nayu sighed. Amie patted her friends shoulder.
'You will Nayu, I promise'. Then the woman carried on walking through the garden until they came across a pebbled path.
'Um... guys?' asked Nayu.
'Yes?' the other two women said in unison.
'This.. uh path.. it never used to split into two directions... it's meant to lead to the Humanities building... but it's also leading over there...'. Amie and Equinox looked at what Nayu was on about. She was right though. The path had split towards the right side.
'Should we follow it?' asked Amie.
'Well, we should for a little while, unless we think it's too risky, then we'll pull back and call the others', replied Equinox. The other woman nodded at her, and they slowly crept down the new path. The path was leading them straight into the middle of the students cabins. As they were walking along, Nayu spoke up.
'I'm so confused though... I walk this way almost every day, I would notice a new path, how could someone do it in such little time?'.
'They could of started near the students cabins, and pretended it was just more scenery, the students wouldn’t of thought anything of it and not saying anything. Or it was more than one person', replied Equinox.
'I think I prefer the first theory, I really don't know what I'd do if the murderer had a partner', replied Nayu.
'Yes', agreed Amie, 'It would be disturbing to think about two people doing all of this, especially if only one is the murderer, it means someone was willing to do this. They finally got to the end of the pebble path, it led to the most central student cabin in the area. Equinox tried the door but nothing happened.
'Did someone remember to pick up the radio?', asked Equinox.
'I did', said Amie and she passed Equinox the radio. Equinox played with the radio until she turned it on, and then held down the microphone button.
'Hi everyone, it's Equinox, Amie and Nayu here. We found something weird, for people who've been here a while I think you'll remember that there is a pebble path that lead from the gardens behind the main building all the way to the humanities building. However we found that it had split into a separate path that has lead us all the way to the most central student cabin, however the cabin is locked, does Venelop3 have a spare key? And does anyone recall this building before?'.
Equinox stopped talking, but still had her finger pressed on the microphone button and turned around to look at Nayu and Amie, but they were both gone.
'Nayu!', 'Amie?!'. Before Equinox could begin searching for the girls, or even hear a reply from his fellow colleagues, he felt the blow of something round the back of her head, and everything faded to black....
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Yozora and Venelop3 were listening to the radio they had between them:
'Hi everyone, it's Equinox, Amie and Nayu here. We found something weird, for people who've been here a while I think you'll remember that there is a pebble path that lead from the gardens behind the main building all the way to the humanities building. However we found that it had split into a separate path that has lead us all the way to the most central student cabin, however the cabin is locked, does Venelop3 have a spare key? And does anyone recall this building before?..... Nayu! Amie?!....thump.....'.
The recording cut out.
'Equinox! Equinox are you there?!' exclaimed Venelop3, 'Everyone meet me at that building in five minutes!. Yozora was sat in the chair opposite Ven, watching her freak a little bit. She had opened a drawer and grabbed a ring of keys and shut it again'.
'Come on Yozora we have to get out there!' shouted Ven. Yozora nodded, he leaped out of his chair and followed and ran after Venelop3 as she went through the hallways to get to the back of the building. He helped her push open the metal door at the back of the building, the two of them made it much easier to push, into the garden which surrounded it. Yozora had never been to this part of the school before, and was amazed by the sight he was greeted with.
'Yozora, I know you haven't seen this before, but now is not the time to be taking in the view', said Ven.
'I know, I'm sorry', replied Yozora.
'It's fine, just I don't want anyone else to die', Ven said with a sad face.
'Then stop dilly-dallying and let's go!' exclaimed Yozora. He saw a brief smile on Ven's face before it faded, she nodded and the carried on running. It was easy to see what they meant by the pebble path splitting into two, and they followed the one which lead towards the students cabins, as they approached the end of the path they saw everyone there. Yozora did a head count: Venelop3, Trinity, Degree, Jay, Chen, Kuro, Boy, Lock, Uni, Azelf and himself. That means everyone was accounted for, except for Equinox, Nayu and Amie. It looked like everyone else had done the same thing. Ven made her way to the door, picked a certain key and unlocked the door. Inside the room was dark, and looked just like how a student would of left it, apart from a single note left in the middle of the room. Yozora went to pick it up. It was plain white lined paper, which had been ripped out of one of the Academy's average notebooks every student has. On it was a splash of blood and some writing, Yozora read it aloud:
'Let's play a little game, you find you friends in time, and I won't kill them. I have planned this summer to the very finest detail, I hope you don't ruin my fun.... Along the way you will come across puzzles which you must complete, after certain times I have planned, people are going to die, you can't stop that Venelop3..... To sum up this little note, let me leave you a little riddle: This girl likes to play music but sometimes that can lead her to be being a bit cusic..... Well have fun everybody! Let the games begin xx'.
'Um, what does cusic mean?' asked Boy.
'It's a literature term for getting very drunk and shouting profanities at in-animate objects', replied Uni.
'She's right' said Trin.
'Wait does this island even have a bar?' said Yozora.
'Kind of...', trailed off Ven.
'What do you mean kind of?'.
'Well it's something Reece owns...', Ven was still quite, 'The girl... he means Equinox..... or Nayu, so we know that we aren't looking for Amie yet.'
'Looks like were going there then'. All the teachers that were left nodded their heads and followed Ven to wherever this bar place was. However Yozora trailed behind a bit, and looked back at the cabin, why is this murderer playing games with them... what is the point of all this? Yozora looked back and saw he had trailed off quite a bit, and ran up to meet the rest of his colleagues.
Chapter 5 End.
'Ow!' exclaimed Equinox as she rubbed her head better, 'Eurgh stupid bed!'. Equinox sort of got herself seated back on to her bed and unplugged her phone from it's charger, it read; '07:54am'.
'I'm going to be late!', she quickly scurried to her feet and made her way to her closet. She grabbed a pair of black jeans and a white vest with a red and black chequered shirt. She then made her way to her refrigerator. She grabbed a carton of milk, ran to the front door, kicked on her favourite black boots and slipped her phone and keys into her pockets. She took one last look in the mirror, kind of sorted her hair, nodded and ran out the door, all the way to the main Academy building. She ran past the big doors, whilst throwing her milk carton into a nearby bin, through the familiar hallways and into the great hall in the centre of the building. As she burst through the doors, she saw all the other teachers had already arrived, in casual clothing similar to her and looking at the breathless stranger, apart from a few unique people whom she had already met.
'Equinox?!', exclaimed Trinity, 'Why are you here?'.
'I asked her to come and help end this', Ven giggled, 'I knew you would just make it on time, anyway, everybody come closer to the stage'. All the teachers followed the request. Venelop3 put on a serious face and started her speech.
'Last night, after I had met Equinox after her trip and sent her to her cabin, I went home to find this...' The slide on the powerpoint which originally said welcome fellow detectives, changed to what can only be assumed as Ven's bathroom mirror, but vandalised with red lipstick. '… I was a bit surprised at first but realised I had left my bathroom window open, so it's no surprise how the person who did this, got in and out of the bathroom. What I also noticed was it was done with a lipstick which was right next to my mirror, and nothing else in my cabin was touched, which means it looks liked this so called person was rushed...' Venelop3 looked around at all the teachers in front of her.
'….I have no doubt that the person who did this crime will not come up and say they have done this, but I want them to know this, I will win, because I take care in my work'. There was a round of clapping afterwards which Equinox took place in, 'Amie, Nayu, I'm having Equinox join your group, I'm sure you will find her to your liking, which means the only pair is me and Yozora'. Equinox noticed the two women near the front of the stage nodding at Ven, so she gathered that they would be the women she was teaming up with.
'Now then, I will explain to you how this summer is going to go down, we need to split it up into two parts, investigating and setting up the school for next summer....' Ven changed the slide again on the screen, '… So I have split the groups into two sections, which will swap over the corresponding days until the holidays are over'.
'What does that mean precisely Ven?' asked a man beside Equinox, he had black hair and grey eyes, and was also wearing a grey bandanna with black jeans, black trainers and a black t-shirt.
'Well Jay, it means some days you will be looking for whatever is driving people crazy and other days you will get ready for next years students'. Ven clicked a button and the columns filled with different groups of teachers. 'Group One, also today's teaching teams: Me and Yozora, Chen, Azelf and Lock and finally Kuro, Boy and Uni. Group Two, today's investigation teams: Jay, Trin and Degree, and Amie, Nayu and Equinox, any questions?'. No one said anything.
'Good, oh and finally last points..', Ven changed the slide, which just read 'Good Luck', 'We meet here at 6pm every night on the dot for a review of that day, and to make sure we are still alive'. Venelop3 then pointed to the other side of the room.
'Over there you will see 5 radios, each team will have One. If any team finds a dead body, tell everyone else immediately, is that clear?'. There was a sea of nods from the teachers. Ven nodded her head at everyone. 'Everyone can now join and talk to their respective teams, there is no more early morning starts, unless you as a team decide to do so, we will meet again today at 6pm sharp, meeting adjourned'. Equinox followed Venelop3 off the stage with her eyes before she started walking towards the two teachers she was meant to be working with. Equinox had heard most of that meeting last night, but after that break in at Venelop3's cabin, it looked like it took a serious toll on her, even more, it still looked like she hadn't slept, Equinox sighed. As she came closer to the two woman facing her, she took into consideration what these woman look like. The woman on the left of Equinox had blue eyes, wide brown glasses, shoulder length blonde/brown hair and was wearing a black skirt, with a grey top, black pumps and a denim jacket. The other women was obviously Korean. She had long dark, wavy hair and brown eyes. She was wearing a white and pink dress with short straps, a white cardigan on top and white sandals. Equinox stuck her hand out in front of the Korean girl.
'Hi, I'm Equinox', the Korean girl shook her hand.
'Amie'.
'So you must be Nayu', as he moved his hand towards Nayu.
'Hmm, Equinox is too long... I'm going to call you.... Equi!'. Equinox tilted her head to one side, but let out a small giggle and shook her head into agreement.
'So...' Amie started, both Equinox and Nayu looked at her, '...First thing of order is I think we should meet at 9am each morning during the week, 10am on Saturdays and 11am on Sundays'.
'I think that is a lovely idea', laughed Equinox, 'I feel like 8am kind of killed me this morning'.
'Me too!' Nayu popped in. Equinox scanned the rest of the groups and saw them all talking.
'So we are on the investigation team, what do you two girls think we should do first as I've only just come back to this school after three years', said Equinox.
'I think first we should exam the place that Lucius died' replied Amie.
'Well that sounds like a good idea, I was given brief profiles on both of the dead before I arrived on this island, and he was a home economics teacher?'.
'Yes', replied Nayu, 'He was preparing for a cooking class when he... when he died...'.
'Well, I think it's a good place to start than nothing, lets have a look then'.
'Do you know where that room is in the school Equi?' asked Nayu.
'I remember vaguely where the cooking rooms are, but not a storage room, I think that was placed in recently, but I will be with you two obviously, so it'll be fine'. Both the girls nodded at Equinox and headed towards the big doors at the back of the room.
'The cooking rooms are in the humanities building nearest to the cabins where the students live when it's not the holidays' said Amie.
'Yeah, so we'll go through the back of this building as it's quicker', said Nayu. Both of the girls lead me down some short hallways until we reached the back of the main building. All three women pushed through the old creaky metal doors in front of them, and they entered the back gardens.
'I always thought this area was so beautiful....' said Equinox. Nayu nodded her head.
'I always come out here when it's sunny during the summer and plan my lessons... if we can find the cause of the problem fast, then maybe I can do that this year...' Nayu sighed. Amie patted her friends shoulder.
'You will Nayu, I promise'. Then the woman carried on walking through the garden until they came across a pebbled path.
'Um... guys?' asked Nayu.
'Yes?' the other two women said in unison.
'This.. uh path.. it never used to split into two directions... it's meant to lead to the Humanities building... but it's also leading over there...'. Amie and Equinox looked at what Nayu was on about. She was right though. The path had split towards the right side.
'Should we follow it?' asked Amie.
'Well, we should for a little while, unless we think it's too risky, then we'll pull back and call the others', replied Equinox. The other woman nodded at her, and they slowly crept down the new path. The path was leading them straight into the middle of the students cabins. As they were walking along, Nayu spoke up.
'I'm so confused though... I walk this way almost every day, I would notice a new path, how could someone do it in such little time?'.
'They could of started near the students cabins, and pretended it was just more scenery, the students wouldn’t of thought anything of it and not saying anything. Or it was more than one person', replied Equinox.
'I think I prefer the first theory, I really don't know what I'd do if the murderer had a partner', replied Nayu.
'Yes', agreed Amie, 'It would be disturbing to think about two people doing all of this, especially if only one is the murderer, it means someone was willing to do this. They finally got to the end of the pebble path, it led to the most central student cabin in the area. Equinox tried the door but nothing happened.
'Did someone remember to pick up the radio?', asked Equinox.
'I did', said Amie and she passed Equinox the radio. Equinox played with the radio until she turned it on, and then held down the microphone button.
'Hi everyone, it's Equinox, Amie and Nayu here. We found something weird, for people who've been here a while I think you'll remember that there is a pebble path that lead from the gardens behind the main building all the way to the humanities building. However we found that it had split into a separate path that has lead us all the way to the most central student cabin, however the cabin is locked, does Venelop3 have a spare key? And does anyone recall this building before?'.
Equinox stopped talking, but still had her finger pressed on the microphone button and turned around to look at Nayu and Amie, but they were both gone.
'Nayu!', 'Amie?!'. Before Equinox could begin searching for the girls, or even hear a reply from his fellow colleagues, he felt the blow of something round the back of her head, and everything faded to black....
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Yozora and Venelop3 were listening to the radio they had between them:
'Hi everyone, it's Equinox, Amie and Nayu here. We found something weird, for people who've been here a while I think you'll remember that there is a pebble path that lead from the gardens behind the main building all the way to the humanities building. However we found that it had split into a separate path that has lead us all the way to the most central student cabin, however the cabin is locked, does Venelop3 have a spare key? And does anyone recall this building before?..... Nayu! Amie?!....thump.....'.
The recording cut out.
'Equinox! Equinox are you there?!' exclaimed Venelop3, 'Everyone meet me at that building in five minutes!. Yozora was sat in the chair opposite Ven, watching her freak a little bit. She had opened a drawer and grabbed a ring of keys and shut it again'.
'Come on Yozora we have to get out there!' shouted Ven. Yozora nodded, he leaped out of his chair and followed and ran after Venelop3 as she went through the hallways to get to the back of the building. He helped her push open the metal door at the back of the building, the two of them made it much easier to push, into the garden which surrounded it. Yozora had never been to this part of the school before, and was amazed by the sight he was greeted with.
'Yozora, I know you haven't seen this before, but now is not the time to be taking in the view', said Ven.
'I know, I'm sorry', replied Yozora.
'It's fine, just I don't want anyone else to die', Ven said with a sad face.
'Then stop dilly-dallying and let's go!' exclaimed Yozora. He saw a brief smile on Ven's face before it faded, she nodded and the carried on running. It was easy to see what they meant by the pebble path splitting into two, and they followed the one which lead towards the students cabins, as they approached the end of the path they saw everyone there. Yozora did a head count: Venelop3, Trinity, Degree, Jay, Chen, Kuro, Boy, Lock, Uni, Azelf and himself. That means everyone was accounted for, except for Equinox, Nayu and Amie. It looked like everyone else had done the same thing. Ven made her way to the door, picked a certain key and unlocked the door. Inside the room was dark, and looked just like how a student would of left it, apart from a single note left in the middle of the room. Yozora went to pick it up. It was plain white lined paper, which had been ripped out of one of the Academy's average notebooks every student has. On it was a splash of blood and some writing, Yozora read it aloud:
'Let's play a little game, you find you friends in time, and I won't kill them. I have planned this summer to the very finest detail, I hope you don't ruin my fun.... Along the way you will come across puzzles which you must complete, after certain times I have planned, people are going to die, you can't stop that Venelop3..... To sum up this little note, let me leave you a little riddle: This girl likes to play music but sometimes that can lead her to be being a bit cusic..... Well have fun everybody! Let the games begin xx'.
'Um, what does cusic mean?' asked Boy.
'It's a literature term for getting very drunk and shouting profanities at in-animate objects', replied Uni.
'She's right' said Trin.
'Wait does this island even have a bar?' said Yozora.
'Kind of...', trailed off Ven.
'What do you mean kind of?'.
'Well it's something Reece owns...', Ven was still quite, 'The girl... he means Equinox..... or Nayu, so we know that we aren't looking for Amie yet.'
'Looks like were going there then'. All the teachers that were left nodded their heads and followed Ven to wherever this bar place was. However Yozora trailed behind a bit, and looked back at the cabin, why is this murderer playing games with them... what is the point of all this? Yozora looked back and saw he had trailed off quite a bit, and ran up to meet the rest of his colleagues.
Chapter 5 End.
Chapter 6 – You're Not Drunk if you can Lie on the Floor Without Holding on
Nayu woke up groggy led out on a cold and damp floor, she tried opening her eyes, but the room she was in pitch black. She put her hand on her neck and felt a slight welt which was throbbing for a bit. She rolled her eyes, the path was just a trap. As she sat there and thought about the events which just happened she could smell a strong amount of alcohol. Once she got enough life and blood back into her legs, she carefully stood up, a bit wobbly from the fact her skirt was wrapped tightly around her legs, when she stopped moving, she could hear a slight gushing sound coming from the back room.
Nayu woke up groggy led out on a cold and damp floor, she tried opening her eyes, but the room she was in pitch black. She put her hand on her neck and felt a slight welt which was throbbing for a bit. She rolled her eyes, the path was just a trap. As she sat there and thought about the events which just happened she could smell a strong amount of alcohol. Once she got enough life and blood back into her legs, she carefully stood up, a bit wobbly from the fact her skirt was wrapped tightly around her legs, when she stopped moving, she could hear a slight gushing sound coming from the back room.
She moved slightly backwards, and felt a wall behind her, she then followed it around until she felt a piece of string touch the back of her arm, she decided to pull it. All of a sudden she was blinded by a bright white light, and it took about a minute for her eyes to adjust to her surroundings.
The room was a white rectangular box, and on the ceiling in the far right corner there was a sort of door, like for an attic, with a piece of string attached. As she looked around she could see large barrels used for alcohol around her, and a large clear box on the opposite side of the room from her. Inside the box was a candle, burning brightly, the box had a hinge at the bottom, which looked like it was controlled by a remote. Underneath she saw what was making the noise, one of the barrels, spilling out it's contents on the floor... Oh no.... Nayu ran towards the leak, took off her denim jacket and stuffed it in the hole, which sort of stopped the leaking of alcohol. Now she was closer to the alcohol as well she realised the stuff pouring out was pure ethanol, a really flammable alcohol, someone obviously wants to play a game, I feel like I'm in saw, if there are any blades I'm running....
Nayu looked around her surroundings once more, and decided to pull the string connected to the door. The string moved, and clicked but the door didn't open, all of a sudden a panel in the wall besides where she stood opened up to reveal a clock which said 2:00:00 on it, and what looked like a radio device. A crackled voice boomed out of the box.
'Ah, Nayu, you started the game early..' laughed the voice.
'Who are you!?' you shouted Nayu.
'Now, now, don't ruin my fun. Pretty please?' asked the voice.
'Why should I do anything for you?' replied Nayu.
'Because I can kill you now in a heartbeat, where as I'm giving two hours for you and your cute little colleagues to safe you.If they fail, you'll be burned to a crisp' told the voice, 'A starter anyone?'.
'What do you mean by starter?' asked Nayu.
'Your cute little friends Amie and Equinox will be the main course and dessert', replied the voice, 'Three little games for you and your friends to play'.
'Your disgusting', said Nayu as she pulled a horrified face.
'I know'.
Nayu couldn’t understand how the voice could say that so blankly without a care in the world. For herself or the other colleagues. Was this really one of the people she worked with?. 'So what do I do in this game?'.
'You'll find out when your friends get here, all in good time little Nayu'.
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Venelop3 and the other teachers arrived in front of a bland cabin like large building in the middle of no where on Kunoshima island. Ven sighed.
'Why are we here?' asked BoyM4st3r.
'You'll see', replied Ven, she knocked on the door three loud times, and waited for the door to open, showing Reece in all his glory. He had a white shirt on which was quite see through, he wasn't a fit man, as in muscles and such, but he was slim, and he could still pick up a lot of stuff. He had a short buzz cut hairstyle, and black jeans with black plain trainers. Ven despised what she was seeing. She didn’t care to look at her colleagues faces to see what they thought of this “man”.
'Hmm, I wasn't expecting visitors to my fine establishment, do what do I owe the pleasure?' asked Reece.
'When was the last time your bar was open?' asked Ven.
'About two weeks ago, why?'.
'We need to see it', replied Ven, she shoved the letter in the man's hand and barged past him, followed by the other 9 teachers behind her. She walked through the archway in front of her and into Reece's awful pub which he had made because he wanted to drink sometimes on the weekend with his colleagues, which was understandable. Ven flicked a light switched to show the pub in full view.
'Okay, let's split up and investigate' Ven said to the other teachers, and she had a swarm of nodding heads agree with her.
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1:22:12
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'I found something!' shouted Kuro, everyone went to where Kuro was standing behind Reece's bar and found a wooden door with a piece of string attached.
'Oh that's just where the alcohol is stored that we don't need yet' said Reece.
'Did you not think to tell us that you had this?' asked Ven, 'Surely the letter I had shown you might have pointed to this?'.
Reece threw his arms up in the air in a I don't know expression as Kuro pulled the string. Something clicked. All of the sudden part of the wall in front of them moved a puzzle board, a clock which read 1:09:37, speaker and microphone was shown on the wall. A crackled voice boomed out of the box.
'Cutting it kind of close aren't we? Your little friend Nayu started this clock almost an hour ago, it's not like she can get out without you', laughed the voice, 'Now let me explain this game to you guys, Nayu can also hear this message, this is a pre recording, so don't start yelling profanities at me, it will only waste your time. This game is about your team work skills, one of you guys will see this puzzle and automatically know what you'll have to do, but to get some of the information you'll have to talk to Nayu using that little tiny microphone you have there, only she has the answers. Oh and guys? If you don't hurry you may be caught by the bonfire'. The voice cuts out.
The teachers all look at the puzzle in front of them.
'It looks like a trigonometry puzzle', said Lock, she took her panda mask off, out came a young woman with long red hair and sharp brown eyes. 'Well it obviously is by the triangle shape, but the puzzle itself is quite easy, there is a question mark on this side, and a dot on this side, and this rounded area is obviously the angle I need, hmm'.
Everyone stopped and watched Lock carefully de-construct the puzzle in front of her, it really is amazing to watch someone in their flow. Lock shouted down the microphone, 'Hey Nayu can you hear me?'. Everyone could hear some bumbling in the background.
'Ah Lock?! Has anyone figured out what I need to find?' replied a crackled version of Nayu's voice.
'Actually yes its a trigonometry puzzle, I need you to find me two measurements, one should be an angle and the other should be a length of sorts, like in cm etc.'.
'Ah okay, they must be scribbled on the walls somewhere'.
That’s when Kuro took hold of the mic, 'Nayu what did the voice mean by a bonfire?' he asked.
'Um well the alcohol was leaking out on the floor, I think it's ethanol, and there’s a candle in a clear box with a hinge, I guess when we run out of time the box will open setting the fire a light'.
Venelop3 looked at Reece, 'How the hell was all this done behind your back?' she exclaimed.
'I don't have a clue Ven, and you can't blame me for god sake, I'm not in your school half the time, so how could I be the god damn murderer?' Reece shouted back.
'Don't shout at me and maybe I won't have a reason to suspect you then!'. All of a sudden Nayu's voice broke out of the speaker again.
'I found two numbers scribbled on the walls in hidden places but neither of them have units Lock, one is 20 and the other is 45' said Nayu.
Lock made a slight growling sound at that. 'Of course there isn't any units why would I even suspect that'. Lock took a deep breath and looked at the puzzle in a lot of detail. She started to speak aloud to help get her thoughts sorted, ' Okay the puzzle is a sine puzzle because it's the opposite we are trying to find and one of these numbers is the hypotenuse, there is a 90 degrees angle and a... hang on a second! That is pretty much half of a 90 degrees angle! That means the angle is 45 and the side is 20! Woo!' Lock was obviously impressed by her discovery. She thought she could hear Jay snickering in the background about her excitement, and flipped him off, he then grunted and obviously started investigating the wooden trap door.
'Okay so sin(45) would be about...' Lock did some mental maths work, she had been learning these numbers off by heart for years, '… 0.7071 if I round it up a little as I am not a human calculator... so oh the answer has to be two decimals... the answer would be 20×0.7071 which equals 14.14!'. Lock entered the final number into the machine and there was a click, the panel opened showing a key and a piece of paper. Jay grabbed the key from Lock's hand and stuffed it into a hole he found in the wooden door after doing his grumpy investigation on it, the door opened showing a flustered Nayu trying to crawl out. She looked uncomfortable and smelt of alcohol. Lock stuffed her panda head back on.
All the teachers looked at the clock it had frozen on 0:32:07.
'We made that all in good time, let's hope the next one goes as smoothly as that, Lock hand me the piece of paper'.
Oh, rabbit on the moon,
What are you leaping for?
I shall leap, I shall leap soon
At the large full moon!
'I don't get this one', said unifutures.
'It's a Japanese children’s song' replied Degree, 'I'm guessing that means next it's Amie, even though she's not Japanese she used to sing it to herself to cheer herself up, the rabbit is then a dig at us because apparently we are prey for the Wolf and I'm guessing there is meant to be a clue where we are meant to be heading next.
'I'm impressed Degree', said Yozora.
'Well it's obviously why you all need me', Degree replied with a wink.
'But where?' said Azelf.
'Um Venelop3?' questioned Chen.
'Yes?'.
'There's a painting in the hallway before you enter the main hall of the Academy, was that taken on the island?'.
'Yes', replied Ven with a sad face, 'Jack painted it last summer in his free time'.
'Where was it taking to?' asked Chen.
'Um the old hill which faces the cliff I think.. Why?'.
'Well in the painting there was a few bunny holes with a rabbits near them, it's a long shot, but where else have we got to go?'.
'I agree with Chen', said Azelf, 'We haven't got much time, and anywhere is better than staying in this stinking bar'.
'Hey!' shouted Reece, but everyone ignored him.
Ven nodded her head at them, 'Okay then lets head to the hill then'. All the teachers slowly left the bar and out back into the fresh air'.
'Even though I wasn't in there for long, I missed this', said Nayu.
'I'm so glad we found you' said Yozora, and Nayu smiled back at the handsome man.
'This way!' shouted Ven... and they headed towards the hill.
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Well that wasn't fun, Nayu found those numbers quicker than I thought... well they have a surprise to come yet, silly Rabbits.
Chapter 6 End.
I'm looking forward to seeing what's Venelop's job, what the school life will be like, pretty much everything. : D Have fun as you write more. 
