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2024-10-29 19:42:56Jonas laughed at the joke. They got into the car and headed for the morgue to try finding some answers to the disappearance of the Minister’s body. After a short drive around the city, they arrived and entered the morgue. Indeed, it was just as Ruddick had explained.
Nothing was out of place and there was no sign of breakage or violence. That indicated whoever had taken the body must have had easy access to the morgue. The only problem was that, Ruddick was the only one with the keys to the morgue.
The other pair of keys was in the custody of Kibich Central Teaching and Referral Hospital (KCTRH). At the time, none of them thought anyone would even get access to the keys from the hospital.
The fact was, no one thought about the keys to have been taken. They moved around looking for clues but found none. Even in the security footages, there was nothing at the time the body disappeared.
Whoever had taken the Minister’s body was good and must have
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The detectives went to search the car for any clues about who could have taken the Minister’s body. The car was burnt but… fire does not always destroy things. Sometimes it can preserve evidence.They had to take a shot, although, a long shot. After a while of going through the burnt remains, Jonas finally found something. It seemed one of the kidnappers dropped a ticket he had acquired from the impound yard earlier the previous day.Indeed, the fire had not consumed everything after all. With the receipt, it was easy for them to track the kidnappers. They went back to the impound lock and asked about anyone suspicious that could have visited the impound yard earlier the previous day. The guard confessed of a visit from one person who claimed to be in the police force and following up on a car involved in a past case.The so-termed officer did not specify which vehicle he was looking for but the guard confessed to have given him the pass. When the d
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Moments later, news from the officers sent out to get the Minister’s mistress reached the detective. The mistress was nowhere to be found. She was not in her apartment. According to her neighbors, she had not been seen in the past couple of days. Things got more complicated. The only person that could prove the Minister’s wife story was missing and no one knew how to find her.As bad as that seemed, it was not yet time to give up the case. It was not the end of the trail. After a while of silence, the Minister’s wife asked the detective to open the documents that she had been sent showing her husband and the mistress together. Detective Jean opened them without knowing what the Minister’s wife was looking for. She asked detective Jean to check the dates on the pictures as well as on the envelop they were in.According to the statements from her neighbors, it happened to be the very same dates, a couple of days earlier, which the lady was said to
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Back at David’s home, Jessica was still going through her grandmother’s work. She was trying to find any more clues that could lead them to solving the riddles. It was until then that his son and husband came back home safe. Kate was still with her, she would visit regularly, and trying to help her in every way possible. They still could not get why one of her grandmother’s journals was missing and what could have been in it. Above all, whomever else besides them that knew about the journal and, how they took it.At that time, she had started to get the picture that no other beasts but the ‘man-kind’ were threatening the world. As it seemed, the warnings were in relation to everything that was happening in the city. She realized that there was no other threat greater than what her husband and son were facing together with the detectives.She knew that all the powers her son had for seeing visions and the fact that the detective knock
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The two agents that gave her the Minister’s case were present. They were not happy to see Jean and her team though. The look on their faces said it all. They came towards them at once and this time, they were not interested in sharing with Jean but David.The news were that David was in trouble and arrested for the murder of the victim found at the scene. They were all staggered and tried to defend David saying there was nothing linking him to the crime. They all alibied to be with him the entire time.What Jean and the rest did not know was that the two agents had enough evidence against David that he could not get off the hook. First, they found his Beretta M9 pistol at the scene as the murder weapon. Second, he was caught on camera doing the killing. Funny enough, someone came along and tried to confront him and that is when he dropped the weapon and fled.Jean could not comprehend what had just happened. In all her entire career as a detective, she had
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On arrival at home, Jessica and Kate sensed something was wrong from a mile away after seeing the car pull up outside that fast and that early. Finally, when everyone got out and there was no David, Jessica knew that hell was about to break lose and the world was crashing on them.She knew all was about to smash them hard. Jonas’ vision and his great grandmother’s vision about the serpent had started to happen. It was not time to find the serpent or bother to know who or what it might have been but to get David off the hook.To their surprise, when they searched for his weapons, they were no longer there. In fact, all his weapons were missing. All they found was a bunch of fake guns and pistols in his firearm cabinet. Things got from bad to worse, strange to a mystery that they needed to solve as fast as they could or David could be the next missing person.Jean was sure that whoever was pulling the strings was someone very powerful. She also knew th
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Before she could embark on the search for the burning garment under her skin, she had to do something for David first. She might have called off every effort to get David off the hook but she still had to do something about it. There are very many ways of killing rats. This includes burning the house at times. It was time for her to burn the house. The rats were proving so lethal for any other way.She went for the only other option there was to help David. She had to break the law and break him out. She also knew that breaking into a prison was not an easy task. Prisons were and are designed to keep those inside in and those outside out. Breaking him out of a prison was impossible with her working alone.There was only one other way she would help David. For David to be imprisoned, he had to be moved to the facility. During transportation, there was security but nothing compared to what could be found inside a prison. She stood a better chance breaking him out en rout
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At the precinct, she found both the captain and John looking for her. It’s like; they were growing impatient about her missing. Lucky for her she got there in time. The search for David continued and as she promised him, she did her best to give him a heads up and to keep them off his back whenever she could.A couple of hours later, as she was preparing to go to David’s house and warn Jessica as was requested by him, she got a text message from an anonymous number requesting her to pick the package that was about to be delivered to the precinct for her. The text was specific that she should get the package herself and that it was for her eyes only.Moments later, a deliveryman did come by the precinct with a package for her. It was a simple A5 brown sealed envelope. As she was signing for it, John saw it and got curious to know what was in the envelope. She eluded him by saying that it was from her personal lawyer about some deeds she was following up. She
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Detective Jean went to the Credonia National Bank, Kibich Central branch, to find out what could have been in the deposit box. Once she was there, she requested access to the deposit boxes and went searching for the specific box. Finally, she found it and opened.Inside this box was nothing much but just a voice recorder. She took out the recorder and played it. What she heard was the voice of two men talking about the Minister’s efforts to cripple their deals and that the Minister had to be taken care of.Indeed, Cindy was right that the information was very valuable. It confirmed her statement of the Minister being nervous when he called her. Jean had gotten enough information to clear the Minister’s wife. It also entrenched that some populaces in the government were planning something life-sized.She could not use the evidence to clear the Minister’s wife yet. She had to do something for Cindy though. She helped her get out of the country un
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A while later, they arrived at the location and took cover leaving only Claire. Such an ambush was the best advantage they had against the Clairvoyant. He had played them long enough. It was time they got to be one-step ahead of him.On his arrival, before he could even get a chance to leave his vehicle, they began to give him their best. Indeed, he was the true Clairvoyant for bullets did not seem to have much effect on him. He switched to his alien form to deal with them squarely as well. He was one very ugly beast in his alien being and scary to even look at.As Jonas was busy weakening him with his powers, the rest of the team was busy giving him everything they had. Indeed, they were very ready for the battle. They had gotten every weapon they could get their hands on at the precinct to fight against the beast. He was one tough alien to kill. Were it not for the Chosen, truly, the world was doomed and about to end. All the power he had to challenge Jonas with and
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A while later, they arrived at the church and got the key. After putting it to the port, it was a perfect fit and the chest opened revealing yet another scroll for them to read. As usual, it was another paradox that they needed to solve if they were to be anywhere near making sense of it.The message read, ‘He who is chosen has everything needed to defeat the evil one. His weakness is his greatest weapon and tool against he that seeks to destroy. Beware, he has to be defeated before the sun meets the moon else, he shall grow strong and will be unbeatable. In the shadows, he has lived waiting to the time. When the time does come, he shall have the power of the seven equestrians in one body. You must not let this happen, otherwise, the world is doomed to come to end. As always, you should have faith and believe in yourself for only then will your weakness be your only strength against him.’Having read the message on the scroll, it was clear to them that inde
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On another part of the city was Jonas and Jean as well. It was also their first time in an amorous relationship with each other. Since theirs was more of an ambush, they had not a good chance to properly express each other’s affections besides the stolen glances to each other as they worked together. They too decided to make up for the lost time. Unlike John and Claire who were trying to build a relationship from a first date, theirs was different.Their first date came after their relationship had already taken off. His visions, Rebecca’s journals and the chest made it so. They had gone out for their first date as well. They were not the hotel type though. Instead of booking a table for two at an elite hotel, they decided to make theirs unique. They chose the top of the greatest tower in the city for their venue. It was the very same place he kissed his first girlfriend Kate for the first time.The date was not as normal as any other first date. Theirs inv
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The Clairvoyant was no more. They finally culminated the case. Being free, it was time to embark on other better things. After the captain’s burial, it was time to concentrate on their lives. They had spent so much time working the case that they did not have enough for leisure and personal lives.John embarked on his new mission, to take Claire out as promised. He prepared himself and dressed to look his best. That day was one among the few countable that he wore a tuxedo. He surely looked good in the black so-fitting tuxedo. After the meticulous preparation was over, he walked out magnificently and drove to Claire’s place to pick her up. Considering the fact that fate had taken Jonas from her, she needed to give John a chance. After all, she was also very eager to hear what he had to say. He had promised her an explanation on how Ruth was not his wife nor Eve his daughter.After a short drive, he arrived at her residence. As usual, in his hands was a bouq
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Indeed, their plan worked so well and Peterson fell for the trap, so they thought. What they did not know was that Peterson had something in store for them as well. Instead of showing up at the hospital as they thought and expected, he planned a rendezvous of his own. They had made a good plan but with one omission; the Clairvoyant was as clever as they were.He knew their greatest weakness was caring about people. He knew they would go to any lengths just to save a life. He got hold of a few hostages and called David. He instructed them to head to his rendezvous point if they were at any position of saving the hostages.That was the time they fully realized that he would have never fell for their first idea about David trying to make him feel guilty. Since they had him believe Jonas was hospitalized, they had to keep it so. Someone had to play the role of Jonas. Peterson made his plan just to make sure Jonas could not show.They decided to give him just that. J
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Jean flipped the chest around looking for anything after the fact. Indeed, this time, she found something. On one side of the chest was the message, ‘His weakness is his greatest Weapon’. It was yet another riddle for them to solve. The question was what weakness it was and how it was his weapon.As they tried to figure out what it was, Meake got a call from the CIBSC director. He was required at the CIBSC headquarters for matters concerning National security. He left at that moment leaving the others trying to solve the riddle.According to what they thought, Peterson was just another clone. Still without any other clue pointing to who the Clairvoyant was and to make sense of the message on the chest, they just had to conclude the obvious; the Clairvoyant had impersonated Peterson.With that in mind, they just had to find Peterson’s weakness and use it against him. It was the only option making sense. Had Peterson been a clone, the chest could
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Early the following morning, the task force gathered at the precinct as usual. It was time for them to find out more about the chest and how it was a weapon against the Clairvoyant. It was no ordinary chest though. Unlike any other normal chest, that one had no opening seams. It was smooth all round and more like a solid cube.Jonas tried everything he could think of that could have opened it but to no avail. After several failures, it was the time they remembered the part about the Chosen’s better half. They shifted from trying to open it to figuring out who the better half was. Since Jonas and Claire were dating at the time, they suggested her.Although they had not dated for long, there was no one else in Jonas’ life. She had to be the one. Since they did not know of what the better half was to do, they just had her hold the chest in her hands. Still, there was nothing to show for it. The question they all asked was who else it could have been; there was
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Upon arrival at David’s compound, they all left the cars and walked following David as he led them to the stowage. Upon entry, they saw the enormous shield first. It was then that they suspected to be at the right place as well. He just did as he saw his wife do and the floor clicked. Some of the other members, the likes of Matthew and Ruddick, were scared.Into the spiral stairway to the underground they went. A short while later, David lit the lanterns as Jessica did. They walked on to the enormous door with a riddle for a key. This time, David already knew about it. He pushed and they got inside. He then walked to one end of the stowage where he had seen a spear when they were in there with his wife.Upon lifting the spear, it offset some kind of a trapdoor. It was at the highest part of one of the walls. It became the source of light from outside. David was astounded by the fact just like the others. He never thought the room could have a window. The opening
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Those were the last words of the journal. From that moment on, it was time for Jonas and his crew to figure out the riddle and get that which he was to use against the Clairvoyant.“Can anyone just make sense of what we just read? It’s not that I do not understand but, how are we to crack this riddle this time?" Meake questioned very curiously and looking confused.“Well, as you have heard, the Chosen is said to have everything he needs to defeat this evil one and who happens to be the Clairvoyant in our case,” Johnpaul responded.“Is it me or have anyone else heard something about God speaking and his anger and plead to turn back to the ways of the light?” Matthew asked.“I have heard that too. I just wish someone would tell us more,” Jean uttered.“That’s a good idea. We should start by turning to the ways of the light ourselves. Honestly, I have never understood how bad our situation is
