Chapter 69: Chapter 69

MYSTIC HOLLOW

Homicide

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BY NAOMI INNOCENT

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CHAPTER 69

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"Now drive!" she said pointing the gun at his stomach while he drove off.

"Crazy bitch!" He muttered under his breath as she frowned.

"Did you say something?" She asked furrowing her brows, he glanced at the mirror, seeing the stony look on her face, he shivered and shook his head sideways.

"Nothing. I said nothing" he said thinking of what to do to get them out of his car.

"Just know that I am watching you and would not hesitate to put the slugs inside this gun in you. Get that?" He nodded and gave her a smug smile.

"I found out you don't like Chris Liam. Guess that's making us two cause I don't like him either" Elena said as Sarah laughed.

"You know the other day I came to your house and your dad was talking to me. The way you reacted towards him was strange" Elena started.

"I don't like my dad," Sarah said sadly. Elena looked down at her because she was lying on her lap now.

"What? Why don't you like him?" Elena asked with a raised brow as the driver listening to their chat was almost whimpering because of the gun, he had been drinking, and was a bit tipsy but not drunk to stupor.

(I must be out of my mind to think of doing something nasty to annoy these girls) he thought as he kept on listening to their conversation.

"Because of what he did to me... You are not going to believe it, Elena" Sarah said.

"Hey! Don't say that, okay? No matter what he did to you, he is still your dad" Elena watched as she closed her eyes as she continued the lecture.

"You were lucky to know your dad. Mine died at the war when mom was pregnant with me. I didn't get to see him, neither did he set his eyes on me. So, count yourself lucky because I wish I had a dad"

"It is better not to have a dad have mine as a dad. He is not worth being called a father. I wish I never knew nor set my eyes on him."

"No matter what he did. He is still your father."

"Elena you would not understand. I really wish you would" she almost cried as she patted her back.

"Hey, it's ok. I do not know what he did but Don't cry. Sarah, what did he... " she stopped when she noticed the driver was staring at her weirdly through the mirror.

"What are you staring at?" She yelled at the driver who swallowed hard.

"I'm sorry Miss," he said looking down.

"You better be and step on it! We are not going to sleep out here, it is taking too long."

"I'm sorry Miss. I am just following the speed limit. The last thing I don't want to do now is to draw the attention of the cops, I don't like them" he explained

"Save the talk and just drive" with that, he kept mute and drove off.

*. *. *

The killer came down from his van, he already knew they were having an important meeting and also knows where the security men would be positioned, he quickly shot at them before they knew it. He walked into the council hall, he shot all the Police Officers outside as he pushed open the door with his shoes, just the clerk and two council members were present, it was actually a secret meeting.

Mr. Greg and Mr. Brown raised their faces to meet his gaze as he pointed his gun at them, they flinched immediately.

"Guards! Guards!" Mr. Brown called.

"Do not bother, they are dead" the mask he wore concealed the smug smile on his lips.

"Having some meeting without the Mayor huh? I've always known you guys were dirty!" The killer said as the clerk, Mr. Greg, and Mr. Brown raised their hands.

"Please don't kill us," Mr. Brown said as he almost pee on his trousers.

"Are you scared now, Mr. Brown?" The killer said laughing evilly.

"How did you know my name?" He asked shaking as the killer smiled but wasn't noticed because he was putting on a mask.

"Who are you? Why don't you show your face?!" Mr. Greg asked as the killer smirked.

"I'm your worst nightmare," the killer said as he shot at the clerk's hand who was trying to dial a number.

"Ouhhh!" The clerk yelped in pain as the killer shot his hand, making three of his fingers and the phone fall off.

"Oh my God! You fuckin... stupid!.. " He screamed on the ground holding his hand.

"What do you want!?" Mr. Greg asked as Mr. Brown began to wee on his trousers.

"Nice question," the killer said and smiled.

"Now, where the hell is the Mayor?" He asked as they began to shake.

"And why are we gonna.." Mr. Greg didn't finish his speech as the killer blew off his brain.

"Oh, My God!" Mr. Brown said as he began to cry.

"Please don't kill me. The Mayor has gone home. Please spare my life. I have a family " Mr. Brown cried as the clerk began to cry too.

"I've offended no one. Please spare me. I have a fiancee" the clerk cried too as the killer blew off their skulls.

"I've always wanted to do that" he kissed his gun and smiled.

He walked out of the hall and entered his van, driving straight to the Mayor's house.

He knocked on the gate as one of the guards opened the door. Revealing a strange man putting on a hoodie.

"Who are you?" The guard asked and pointed his gun as the killer raised his face, revealing his masked face.

He quickly held the gun as they struggled with it, he hit him on his neck as he fell to the ground, and shot him in the leg with his own gun.

"Oh!" He yelped in pain

The killer searched his pocket, found nothing as he kicked him aside.

"How many of you are inside?" The killer asked as the guard shook.

"Why do you think I'll tell you? You motherfucking son of bitch" he rushed his words as the killer laughed.

"You have a mouth in there, don't you?"

"There's an intruder!" He yelled as the killer put a slug in his skull and he dropped dead without struggle.

A guard rushed towards the sound of his gun, alerted because they heard the gunshot and the call for an intruder.

The killer stood at a corner and waited as he heard footsteps slowly walking in his direction.

"Hold it" he pointed the gun at him immediately after the guard reached where he was located.

"Give me your gun," he told the guard who did as instructed.

"Place your hands at the back of your head where I can see them" He obeyed without objection as his brain started working fast on what to do. A little mistake would ruin everything.

"Now, Walk," the killer said as they both walked inside the compound.

"What do you want?" The guard asked as they walked.

"Shut up! I know what you are trying to do! You want to keep me talking so that I would get distracted. Well, guess what? It is not going to work! Now keep your mouth shut and walk!"

The other guard saw this and became alert as the Killer pointed his gun at his colleague.

"Put your gun down or I'm gonna blow his skull off," the killer said.

"Maxwell! Do not listen to him! Blow his fucking brain off!" The guard said.

"Slowly" he added as the guard slowly put his gun down.

"Damn you, Maxwell!" The guard on gunpoint said.

"Now, push it very far away from you" the killer instructed as he did so.

"Now, place your hand on the back of your head and turn around," the kill told him as he did that.

The killer pushed the other guard he was holding as he asked them both to walk inside the mansion while pointing the gun at them.

"Move," he told them as they began to walk slowly inside the mansion.

They got to the sitting room and it was empty.

The maid heard footsteps from the sitting room as she wondered who it might be.

She walked out of the kitchen to the living room to meet the shock of her life.

The killer shot her immediately she came out as she fell to the ground.

The Mayor heard the gunshot and was surprised.

"What is going on there?" He mumbled and dropped the newspapers he was reading. He searched and gripped his gun as he came out of his room holding the gun.

He walked to the sitting room and was shocked to see what was going on, before he could say, Jack, the killer shot his leg as he fell to the ground.

"Now drop your gun," the killer said as he threw his gun away.

"Come on now! Don't shoot me! That shit hurts" he grunted.

One of the guards wanted to take the killer unaware, but too bad the killer was a trained and skilled man. Immediately he saw his movement, he became alert and quickly shot the guard on his head as he fell to the ground.

"That should be a warning to you if you misbehave," the killer told the other guard.

The killer walked to where the Mayor's gun was, he took it and faced the other guard.

"Now tie him up and carry him outside," the killer said as the guard scaredly did what he was told.

The killer followed them pointing his gun at them till the guard dropped the Mayor in the booth of the van.

"Who are you? What did I do to you! You son of a bitch!" The Mayor yelled.

"Shut up! You talk too much!" the killer and the guard went inside to search the house with the killer pointing a gun at him.

They found Liam who was still paralyzed and Emily who has woken up and was still paralyzed too. The killer made the guard tie them up and carried them to the booth of the van.

"What do you want from me?" Emily said in her head and no one could hear.

"Thanks," the killer said and shot the guard on his head as he entered the van and started driving.

"Let's go back to where it all started," the killer said and revved the car.

Meanwhile, Zoe was still wondering why Emily wasn't responding to her texts and wasn't taking her calls either. And she was given an order to remain there, If not, she would have gone home to check things out.

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"Are you sure this tracker is taking us to the right place?" Alex asked as Laura nodded.

"Yup. It's right. Maybe she went back to the woods" Laura said as they walked in the woods, following the tracker.

"I don't know why I'm having a bad feeling about this" Peter said as they saw the cottage.

"That must be the cottage! Come on, let's go" Laura said racing to the door.

"Laura I don't think it's wise to do that!" Alex yelled at her but she was inside the cottage already so they had to go in. His phone started buzzing in his pocket, he took it out and saw that the caller was his dad.

"Excuse me, guys! I have to take this call" he turned and pressed the receive button.

"Hey, dad!" He said bowing his head as he placed the other hand in his pocket and listened.

"Where's Bonnie?" He heard his dad's raised voice.

"You did not receive the text message I sent you a few days ago?"

"What text message?" He asked.

"Wait a second" Alex removed the phone from his ears and went to the message he sent his dad. He saw it was actually unsent as he cursed under his breath.

"Darn it" he mumbled lowly and placed the phone back to his ear.

"You've been at Office for some days, you haven't been home so you wouldn't know I took Bonnie to Bloomspring at Laura's grandparents' home. I thought I sent you a message, I never knew I didn't" he explained as his dad breathed down.

"Ok son. You did a great job. I came home just now to pick up a few things and couldn't find Bonnie. I phoned Fay, she said you would explain better to me"

"It's Ok son, duty calls" he ended the call.

Alex heaved a sigh of relief and met the pace of his friends who gave him questioning looks.

"It's dad, he's asking about Bonnie"

They got to the huge cottage, opening the windows as the rays of the sunlight shone inside the cottage.

"Isn't this Elena and Sarah's science project?" Peter asked raising the scattered time machine as they searched the place.

"Hmm, what happened here?" Laura said as Peter stumbled on something on the ground, looking at his feet, he saw Elena's phone, he quickly picked it from the ground and pressed the power button.

"Hey, guys! Come see" he called out to them.

"Elena is not here. But her phone is" Peter said showing them the phone as they gathered around it.

"Damn it!" Alex cursed under his breathe as Laura took the phone from him and started operating it as they saw the video.

She played it as they all watched it being scared and confused same time.

"This doesn't make any sense at all right?" Peter asked unbelievably.

"Wait, she's in 2033? How are we going to get her out now?" Alex asked as they heard a car pulling over, outside the cottage.

"Did you hear a sound?" Peter said.

"Yh, the sound of a car" Alex added.

"Hmm, I thought Mystic Hollow locals never come to the woods," Laura said wondering who that might be.

"Yh me too. Maybe it's some teenage lovers. This place looks like a love nest after all" Peter said as they focused on Elena's phone.

"But this place seemed abandoned!" Alex shrugged as they waited for who it was to show his/her face.

"What are you kids doing here?" The killer asked pointing the gun at them as they all raised their hands.

"Oh my God!" Peter muttered under his breath.

"Wait! I know you" the killer said referring to Peter as Alex gave him a look.

"Look kids, if you want to live, you have to do exactly as I say! Am I understood?" They nodded and gave each other a horrid look.

"Now, you both should tie her up and follow me!" He yelled at them as they tied Laura up and followed him.

They were shocked to see the Mayor and his family tied up in his van as he ordered them to carry them to the cottage after which he asked Peter and Alex to tie them too.

"This is better" he smiled.

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"Pull over at the front of that building. I have to go meet my friends" Elena said pointing at the front of Alex's house as they both alighted.

"Thank you, sire," Elena said as the driver revved his engine.

"Fuck you!" He screamed at her.

"You know I can still blow off your tires!" She yelled at him as Sarah laughed.

"Won't you go back to your home? At least let your mom see that you're alive" Elena said.

"Can't I stay with you for a little while? That place makes me sick" Sarah said as Elena shrugged and moved to the door.

"Ok, if you wish. The door is locked. I have to call my friends" Elena said moving away from the door as she placed her hands in her pocket but couldn't find her phone.

"And I forgot, I must have dropped it at the cottage by mistake. Come on, we have to go back to the cottage. I need to get my phone and call my friends. They must be worried about me by now" Elena said as she and Sarah started walking away.

"My mom did this?" Sarah asked seeing the shattered windows of buildings and how the place was deserted.

"She said this is just the beginning, come on! Let's go"

AN HOUR LATER.

They got to the cottage and found the door open and a van outside.

"Hmm, this is new" Sarah said as she gave Elena a look who shrugged.

"Wait," Sarah said stopping her from going to the cottage.

"We have to be careful," Sarah said as Elena nodded and brought out her gun so they slowly walked towards the cottage.

"And you... I feel like blowing off your skull already. For all you did!" The killer said and the Mayor bowed his head.

"All I did? That is all you've been saying and I'm fed up. Why don't you just end things by killing me? I don't even know who the hell you are!" The Mayor said out of frustration.

"Silence! I do the talking! Not you!"

Elena and Sarah heard this and they wondered what was going on.

"Freeze!" Elena said as she got inside the cottage, pointing the gun at the standing figure that happened to be the killer, seeing Laura, Peter, Liam, Alex, Mayor and Emily tied.

"Drop your gun down Elena!" The killer said pointing the gun at her and Sarah.

"Who are you and his did you know my name!"

"Just listen to me and do what I say!"

'I don't take instructions from murderers!"

Elena shot the killer's hand as the gun fell from his hand.

"Damn you! Elena!" The killer yelled in pain.

"Take off your mask now!" Elena yelled at the killer who was holding his hand.

"Elena.. "

"Shut up! I should be surprised you know my name right?" She yelled at the killer and shot his leg.

The killer yelped in pain and fell.

"Now take off your mask!" She yelled at him as he slowly removed his mask.

Elena couldn't believe her eyes as a flicker of tears dropped on her cheeks.

"I can explain," her mom said as Elena's mouth shook.

Everyone was perplexed to see Sheriff Ruth behind the mask. But why?

"Just shut up mom!" She yelled at her mom who was removing the artificial chest and the wiring that changed her voice to be robotic.

"You knew?" She turned to Alex who faced down. Elena felt dizzy as her head began to spin. Everyone was shocked as Alex faced down.

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TBC