A serialkiller mystery

@Luceam

 

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The sun was setting, as an eerie chilling wind came from the east, whistling through the leaves of the trees. Amelia was walking through, unaffected by scenery as she is far to familiar with this type of job, however the Gynoid was more concerned about the Nature Fairy walking beside her.  She could tell something was wrong since Luna kept shifting her gaze, looking about at the environment, and randomly saying strange things with plants. She had gotten used to Luna somehow having the ability to talk to plants as well as animals, however it was never like this. All she gathered was, there was a masked man.

She held Luna's hand gently before looking up at the pink haired girl's eyes "Luna, what's wrong." A shadow had came over Luna, all that she had done in response as shakily take a deep breath. It was clear to Amelia, that there wasn't a mere minor issue. "Scared, she's scared..." Amelia stopped and walked in front of Luna, it was clear that something had to be taken care of before they approached the sight. "What? Who is scared? Are, you?"

Luna shook her head, what she has been hearing about for the past hour from the plants and wild life, and the feelings they had resonated within Luna. As a nature Fairy, she was emphatically aware and very influenced by their feelings. "No, nature, or at the very least the surrounding area is. look!" Luna walked off the trail by a few meters and through the forest, she activated her fire whip to illuminate the scene.

Amelia was stunned by what she saw, she gasped and took a few steps back, before leaning her side against tree, keeled over and vomited out what one could only assume to be some sort of yellow liquidized magic, presumably the oil she generates to keep herself running. She took a few deep breaths, before getting back up to see Luna was simply stunned by the sight.

Looking around, it was clear something walked through here by the trail of destruction on two sides, however the area they just walked into had the odor of rotten flesh, the grass and trees were painted red with blood. The guts and internal organs of what was once a large horse scattered about, the flesh torn to shreds while it's head laid in the center, split in half from the face brutally. What was once the teeth were now powdered dust. "This was not the work of a man, this, is the work of..." "A monster..." Amelia finished before the two walked back to the main path, and followed it to the camp.

Both knew full well they were chasing after a serial killer, someone who was no stranger to taking lives, however what they just saw proved that what they were dealing with was not some run of the mill criminal. "I, can't believe a man, did that... I have been around the block for a while, but that was just, even troubles me."

Luna still in some disbelief, pulled out the job details yet again, looking at the description. "The trees say it was him, and according to the information, he is just a man, and rumors say, he is a dead man, literally." A chill went down her spine as she began to speculate on what the man they'd be facing is like. However she pushed such thoughts out of her mind. The only thing that was clear out of everything, was that regardless of what he is, he is angry, very angry.

Approaching the scene, the summer Camp grounds that have been abandoned for a long time, Luna and Amelia saw in the distance the other person who took the job. Luna and Amelia approached the woman who appeared to be taller then the other two, appearing as though to be a beautiful woman in her twenties. "Hello there miss!" Luna called out to the woman as the two girls got near. "Hello, are you taking this job as well? I am Luna Mira, and this is my, um, Gynoid partner Amelia Thorn. Guildless mages."

Luna was relieved that there was someone else on the job, as this didn't seem to be normal. To make matters worse, the plant life around the camp, was silent, Luna could feel the essence of life, trembling.

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Luna was glad that the person that they met seemed on the surface to be kind and reasonable. However Luna saw something else, when she blinked she could sense life force a little stronger and in a sense see the life force. She sensed something old and unusual about the woman. At this point, she was wondering who she was dealing with, but she knew that this being, was not human. 

When the woman mentioned the horrible rumors surrounding their target, Luna shuddered a bit as the sight from earlier was still fresh in her mind. "Yea, Amelia and I found his trail, we think he tried to chase the kids who got away and alerted the authorities. It was a path of destruction, there was a poor horse that got in the way, it was, ripped apart like paper with it's teeth reduced to dust."

Amelia wasn't surprised that the mysterious woman was not familiar with the term Gynoid, the technological being too rare. The Lacrima eyes that were shaped to be realistic looked at the woman with a slight annoyance. "Essentially Gynoid means female robot, as opposed to Android. I am fully sentient, capable of feeling emotions, and while the damn law alternates me between person or property I do have free will. Before you ask what makes me tick, it's archive magic lacrima and a shard of a legendary Lighning Lacrima, that gaave me a spark of life."

Luna didn't bother trying to argue with Amelia on this one, she figured she had a right to speak up for herself. She did not wish for Amelia to seem like chattel,even if that was what the law said."It's alright Amelia, she didn't mean any disrespect, I hope."

Meanwhile the subject of how to proceed was a question that had been bothering Luna for a while. She tried to analyze all the details that she had available. As far as she knew, this place seemed to hold some form of heavy significance to the man. "All his killings seem to be based around this place, I think its got some significance, such as when the kids who just barely escaped, I think he might gather his strength here, probably mostly sentimental. From the sound of it we're dealing with someone purely with abnormal strength, and possibly not a normal human either. He is able to strike fear into Nature itself. However, while it's just a theory, if there is something here that binds or strengthens him in some way, there might be an Achilles heel, I think if we look around we might find some clue as to what he is-"

Luna was cut off by a sudden loud shrieking scream as the sun was setting and the darkness of the night approaching. Luna could hear the sound of scraping metal first from the distances but then from deep inside as her heart started to race fast, faster then it ever had since Luna's heart turend to gold. In a second Luna went from calm and rationing out a theory to being drenched in her own sweat. Amelia pulled out a cloth from under her sleeve, and handed it to Luna before Luna would dry her face and arms."Whatever is going on here, is beyond natural."

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While Luna was dealing with the feelings of the environment and trying to brave the paranormal herself on a battle of two fronts, Amelia started to get suspicious. The normal response to a shrieking voice is either to react with a fight or flight instinct, however Amelia couldn't hear any sign of distress from the woman, not even a rise in heartbeat. At first she chocked it up to calmness, but there was something unnerving about the woman. However, she knew she had to hide any such feeling of suspicion for the meantime, as she suspected that Kayson was going to be a larger threat for meanwhile. A person that can rip apart an animal stronger then most men like paper, and known to kill humans definitely was a stronger priority.

Luna and Amelia followed her to the camp, however Luna wondered how much the woman really knew about the job. Although in all fairness, Luna only knew about facilities like the place they were going to find the monster at. "This is what is known as a Summer Camp grounds. Essentially larger towns and most cities often have parents too busy to deal with their child at all hours during the summer. So places like this, the parent sends their child to have recreational fun with other children; and to make things more efficient long term they employ teenagers to work there as counselors so they can get away with paying less, parents of all sorts of minors can have a free summer so they can focus on work if summer is their busiest hours, it was a win on all fronts. I lost my parents at a young age, well my father actually died my mother just faked her death as she lied about her identity to the community, long story. Since I was the only thing keeping my brothers from falling apart, I couldn't come to places like this for financial and responsibility reasons. According the urban legend, a child died at this camp the year before it was closed, however the following year Kayson appeared, murdering all the counselors, and the campers. He was never found, the camp was closed down, then the site abandoned. Until recently, when a bunch of kids tried to explore the site, and the rest is obvious, Kayson resurfaced, and murdered them, and instead of investigation."

The two agreed with the woman's idea to search the compounds of the abandoned facility. As they walked, Luna looked, saw the buildings that suffered damage, broken windows, doors ripped off their hinges, and holes in the walls itself. Inside the cabins were scattered materials from what was some of the furniture inside the cabins. The grass was overgrown, however near the entrance were two large red rains in the grass, with a trail leading towards the water.  

Amelia looked a the dried blood in the grass, the particular. "Look carefully, you can see that these people in their last moment were running away, out of the camp. These pools, if you look at the end you can see the small spatters of blood dripping off their arms. Essentially, they were scared, running away... Let's add more light."

Amelia scanned the camp, and noticed various lacrima torches hanging off each roof. figuring them to be dead she pointed to fingers at the first one, and shot a small bolt of lightning that bounced off of four torches of four different houses, causing various lacrima torches to light up, illuminating the campsight further exposing a loose, dried eyeball connected to a dried right half of a brain. There were sharp tips of bone shards scattered about. "No wonder he scares nature itself, his brutality is beyond simple combat or fear mongering. But this level of physical strength? He popped skulls like peanuts."

Amelia walked over to the brain, before looking away, she looked around at the six cabins, four moderately sized ones, two larger ones, each in a row of two moderate and one large and a few sheds by the docks. There was rather large circular platform in the center, clearly meant to be a stage of some sorts. "So, want to divide this up? Two cabins each?"

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Feeling incredible fear sink in, Luna recited every prayer she was taught by her mother under her breath as she and Amelia divided paths to search their paths as they walked through the grounds. Amelia started searching the middle left cabin while Luna kept walking towards the last one on the left side. She could feel her heart racing with every step as the fear that had dominated the life around her was starting to creep into her mind, her soul, her very existence. When she approached the door she noticed it was ripped off it's hinges from the outside and thrown to the side of the cabin, wedged into the wall, however on second glance Luna saw a skeleton wedged into the wall through the ribs on the right side, while the right arm was on the floor. Luna gulped as she was able to start to see the trail of destruction as she examined the rest.

There was a path of destruction emanating from the doorway through to the end of the building, ending with the kitchen area almost untouched, except for the various blood stains and other dried liquids and bone fragments. Luna looked around and saw the stains, the torn fabric and wood. "Anger... such anger. When he imposed it onto this site, even the world itself whimpered in fear." She said before something caught her eye, the corner of a notebook through a hole in a floorboard. She knelled down and lifted the floorboard and found the board was already loose, and pulled out the notebook before opening it to look through. She noted that the writing was sloppy and hastily done, and filled with a lot of fear. Luna looked at the last few lines written.

"Why did I come here? Why didn't I say anything, this is my fault, if only I told the truth. I should have done something, I watched the sin  now he's coming, he's coming for his vengeance! It's only a matter of-"

The writing was abrupt and any other pages were torn or in a bad state of repair. Luna ran her fingers along the blood on the blade until everything turned black for her for a moment, until she saw what appeared to be the cabin but in a better state, she could see teenagers cowering and whimpering by their beds, hiding. She saw a teen boy writing in the notebook as well as scared and nervous chatter until ushered silence. She saw the teenagers turn pale as a hulking figure walked by the windows, before she saw the hand break through the wood of the cabin and rip the door off the hinges, and the counselors tried to panic and flee, and when one stood up she watched the door be tossed right through their chest.

"I am sorry, forgive me, what happened to Stanley was my-" was all the youth writing in the notebook could say before the large masked man's eyes pinned onto the youth, before starting to charge through the cabin destroying anything in his way before grabbing the youth by the face lifting him up keeping his pace until he slammed the youth's neck onto a counter. He then lifted the youth up before his grip tightened, Luna could see the a scared look in the eyes of the boy as they slowly seemed to extend from their sockets as Kayson's grip intensified, until the boy's head exploded sending blood everywhere.

Afterwards Kayson seemingly turned towards Luna, in that moment fear and panic seemed to overcome her as she looked deep into his eyes, normally when she had visions she never had such a clear and vivid sensation as the hatred emanating from this one man. Eventually she snapped out of it before finding herself drenched in a cold sweat letting out a loud scream....

Meanwhile as Luna was investigating the youth counselor's cabins, Amelia was searching the nearby camper cabin. Amelia looked through the various beds as she found the room pretty much intact. Most of the damage seemed to be in the middle of beds and others that were flipped over. She found a clipboard on the ground with a list of campers from the last year, noting that it was a few short of maximum. Flipping over a mattress she found a journal, picking it up she read it was the journal of a youth who was angry about being teased that he was doomed to die because of what happened to the last person that slept in that bed the previous year. 

However before she could get any further she heard the sound of Luna's scream and through their organic link felt the sheer rush of emotions going through the fairy's mind. "Luna!" She ran towards the door before she converted her body into lightning that shot out of the cabin and straight up towards the sky before turning around to reform in front of the cabin before running in. She saw Luna on the floor, against a wall in a cold sweat holding the other notebook, her eyes locked on a target that didn't exist. Amelia ran over and leaned in towards the pink haired wizard, putting her hands on Luna's shoulders. "Luna, girl, c'mon, talk to me."

She looked down at the book in Luna's hands before back to the girl, realizing what happened. "Integrated mind... apparently I still have enough left for that..." Was all Luna could say before Amelia slowly stood up, helping Luna stand up and supported her as the two left the cabin and back outside. "How good is this guy at raising fear, he scared nature which in turn is effecting you, but can he really scare solid lifeless matter?" She said as she sat Luna down on the porch outside the cabin. Luna was still shaking, Amelia pulled out a water bottle from Luna's pocket and held her hands steady as Luna drank nearly the whole bottle. After a few moments she managed to calm down as her breathing stabilized.

"I saw... him, the fear he imprinted on this journal was enough to trigger a vision from the remnants of Integration within my system. Normally I couldn't sense or feel anything beyond vague scopes when I had the full magic in my system, but this time, I could sense the magnitude, this time, was different. I saw him pop a kid's head before he looked right into my eyes." She took a deep breath shakily. "I think he's somehow transcended humanity through anger alone. An ungodly amount."

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