C010 Kidnapped...!
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I unpacked the contents of my bag and arranged the items neatly in my footlocker at the end of the bed. My partner was Chikashi and he also did the same for his items and placed them in his own footlocker. It was already close to 11 pm after we had arranged our things when one of our teachers poked her head inside the door and announced to us and have an early rest for the night. She then switched off the lights near the door and left.
Since we had finished packing our things, we went straight to our individual single bunk beds. Soon the chirpings of cicadas and other insects outside near the forested area lulled us as sleep soon overcame us.
Little did we realized that there was a group of unknown persons with ill intent were prowling around the campground in the silhouette of the darkness like a ninja...!
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The main cottage door was being picked and it suddenly opened by just a c***k to ensure the occupants were already fast asleep. The door was opened so softly that not a creak was made. Two unknown intruders then tiptoed their way onto the wooden boardwalk and approached the two beds; whom the occupants were not aware of what was going to happen to them next.
On a synchronised note, the intruders immediately clamped a cloth over the mouth and nose of the occupants who were sleeping soundly on the bunk beds after it was soaked with a bit chloroform and this knocked the students almost immediately.
"Oommph... Ooommphhhh...!" I was rudely awakened and was shocked as a piece of damp cloth was covering my mouth and nose as I tried hard to scream with all my might to grab the attention of others who were sleeping next to our cottage. After the initial shock, I tried to resist as much as I could but then as I struggled, the more I became a sort of disorientated.
I flailed my arms and grabbed someone who was wearing a type of heavy and stiff material on the body. My eyes went wide and wild as I struggled in my bed and tried to stand up, punch or kick the person who was doing this thing to me...! I screamed for my bunkmate as he too was struggling against the force of those perpetrators.
I could take a whiff of a heavy kind of chemical smell was on the cloth that covered my mouth and nose. I was gripped in a kind of headlock and was unable to move much, albeit to scream and shout and claw at the intruder that had held me in such a defeating position.
I managed to glance over to my side and found that Chikashi was also in the same position as me, headlocked with a piece of cloth over his nose and mouth. He too was struggling as he was dragged on the ground and was kicking his legs about to be free from the headlock when suddenly his body went limp as though he was lifeless.
Before I was knocked unconscious, my eyes went dim and everything around me had a sort of swirling feeling. I tried futilely to scream but no words came out and lastly, all my energy suddenly left me as I slumped back into my bed. Before I went out cold in that manner., only then I realized that the intruder had removed the cloth that was filled with chloroform and laid me down on my bed as if nothing had happened in the past few 15 to 30 seconds earlier.
Chikashi and I were quickly bundled into a body bag each that was made of some kind of heavy material. A zipper was then pulled shut from the end of the body bag right to the top of the head. A small space between the ends of the zipper was left open to provide ventilation or else I would have suffocated a long time ago and unable to continue with this story.
Chikashi and I were unceremoniously carried out from our cottage and the door was softly closed, so as to not disturb the peace and tranquillity of those sleeping and untouched by the intruders, YET...!
Only God knows how many intruders were performing this kind of deed during that night as one by one, bundles of body bag that contained some of my classmates were carried out and dumped into a back of a vehicle, presumably a waiting van in the parking lot. A total of 12 body bags were stacked on top of one another as these perpetrators had just completed a random act of k********g.
None of the students is from any well known or filthy rich families. We are all consisted of average income families except for me of course, an orphan and that works part-time to sustain and survive in this world. Neither the students were from tycoon families or from families with significant recognition in the society. So what is the purpose of this a*******n?
*** Daybreak. 530 in the morning ***
The whole campground erupted with utter chaos as teachers and camping guides were shouting out the names of the missing students and were going from one cottage to another and into those cottages that do not belong from the school were not spared as their privacy was invaded by the storming teachers and guides. The visitors had a shock of their lives when they were rudely awakened from their slumber as no one would be expecting to have such occurrences at all.
The missing students were discovered during one of the morning roll call to awaken the sleepyheads to prepare for breakfast and also to announce the rest of the itinerary for the day. However, the next following scene was in the total opposite order!
Frantic scenarios were enacted as teachers and guides were calling everyone to assemble in the main dining hall as they made a proper headcount for those who were present and those who weren't. Some teachers were searching through the cottages for any clues of the missing students but found nothing that could give them a headstart.
They discovered that the camping equipment that was packed the night before by the students was not disturbed or discovered any plans that the students were intending to leave the campsite without any knowledge of the teachers or the guide. They were shocked beyond belief that something bad had happened to the missing students. There were no threat nor ransom notes found inside the cottages where the students were being kidn*pped at all.
The teachers made a list of the missing students that they were in charge. One of the teachers called the local police department and was told that a despatch would be arriving there in a short while. At the meantime, a teacher went to the Government Office Building to report the uneventful incidents.
Park rangers arrived shortly and with their electric buggies, assisted the teachers and guides to several possible places that they deduced the students may be hiding in the enormous Shimizu Park Camping Ground.
A park ranger and a teacher drove to another part of the camping ground, then to Nodashi Total Park and next to Noda Comprehensive Park Swimming Pools but their searches remained futile.
Another park ranger and teacher drove to Shinizukoen Field Athletics, Konjoin Buddhist Temple, Harizuka place of worship and Deva, where it was yet another historical place. The same results yielded and there was no sign of the missing students at all.
Meanwhile, another Park ranger and another teacher drove his buggy to the main road despite it was against the law to do so and headed to the Seki Sakuranosatoten Pharmacy, an electronics store up ahead after the junction before heading to a shopping mall called Beisia Super Centre. But the results remained grim and they have to call off the search as they made their way back to the campsite.
Meanwhile, at the campsite, 2 police cars had arrived with 4 smartly dressed cops with an investigating officer. The investigation officer took the clipboard from the teacher who was currently unable to grip with the current situation and had fallen into a heap of tears. The investigation officer scanned the names of the students and then read through the names of the missing students aloud to the rest of the police officers who took down the names.
They were the following:
Akitoshi Saito
> Male
> 15 years old
> 1.65 meters tall
> Approximately 58 kilogram
> Aqua hair
> Aqua coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number: +81 4-1234-5678
Chikashi Kobayashi
> Male
> 15 years old
> 1.68 meters tall
> Approximately 62 kilograms
> Black hair
> Black coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number; +81 4-2468-1214
Einosuke Nakamura
> Male
> 15 years old
> 1.67 meters tall
> Approximately 59 kilograms
> Brown hair
> Brown coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number: +81 4-2359-4440
Genji Yamamoto
> Male
> 15 years old
> 1.71 meters tall
> Approximately 65 kilograms
> Green hair
> Green coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number: +81 4-5555-0875
Itaru Ito
> Male
> 15 years old
> 1.62 meters tall
> Approximately 58 kilograms
> Red hair
> Red coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number: +81 4-8465-4679
Kenzo Watanabe
> Male
> 15 years old
> 1.75 meters tall
> Approximately 65 kilograms
> Silver-grey hair
> Grey coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number: +81 4-1478-5236
Ayumi Tanaka
> Female
> 15 years old
> 1.6 meters tall
> Approximately 50 kilograms
> Purple hair
> Purple coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number: +81 4-8456-9764
Chiya Takahashi
> Female
> 15 years old
> 1.62 meters tall
> Approximately 51 kilograms
> Pink hair
> Black coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number: +81 4-1487-6325
Emiko Suzuki
> Female
> 15 years old
> 1.65 meters tall
> Approximately 53 kilograms
> Yellow hair
> Brown coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number: +81 4-7890-1234
Hideko Takenaka
> Female
> 15 years old
> 1.68 meters tall
> Approximately 51 kilograms
> Grey hair
> Grey coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number: +81 4-0850-0704
Kagome Kuwahara
> Female
> 15 years old
> 1.69 meters tall
> Approximately 51 kilograms
> Blue hair
> Blue coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number: +81 4-1478-5236
Megumi Nishiwaki
> Female
> 15 years old
> 1.72 meters tall
> Approximately 54 kilograms
> Luminous Green hair
> Green coloured eyes
Next of kin contact number: +81-4235-3535
With the information that was accurately given by the teacher in charge, the investigation officer called to his headquarters and relayed the information. The person who was operating the switchboard immediately sent the urgent message over to the appropriate "Organised Crimes Department" or OCD for short.
Officers in the OCD began to hurriedly call up the next of kin immediately to inform of the situation, telling the next of kin or "NOK" to remain vigilant for any phone calls coming through asking for ransom or maybe the students were able to get to a phone and to call back to their NOK, et cetera. They informed the NOK to advise and call the OCD if they receive any news from their missing children or ward.
Wails of hysterical crying could be heard on each end of the phone call as the officers advised them to remain calm themselves and not to act rashly. A few parents insisted to rush over to the campsite but were strongly advised against it since there will be no one monitoring their phones at home as the numbers given were all residential landlines. They had to abide by the suggestions made by OCD and stayed at home and stay vigil by their phones instead.
The rest of the unaffected students began to form groups and lit candles among them. This practice was known in the Japanese customs in order to guide the missing students back to the campsite. Even though it was a long short effort, but at least these small acts gave them something to keep their minds off the horrid incident. Soon thereafter, several white vans with the words "Department First Investigation Scientific Criminal Unit" or simply termed as The Japanese CSI arrived.
The groups of investigators began to cordon off the affected area and dust the areas for fingerprints, traces of DNA as well as unusual tire and footprints left around the area. As it was a common area, combing for such shreds of evidence were like searching for a needle in a mountain heap of a haystack. It was a common area and finding such clues and combing the area would mean that it would take a whole lot of manpower and other resources.
Several hours later...
The Japanese CSI boarded their vans and left the vicinity with little of pieces of evidences that they had collected at the crime scene as well the perimeter of at least 300 feet surrounding it. Nothing was shared with the initial policemen and their investigation officer. Even if they were from the same group of law enforcement, but their scope of profession was from another level. It was all top secret as the Japanese CSI left the premises in their white vans to report back to their headquarters to process their findings.
Cups of hot coffee, tea and cocoa were passed around to calm down the teachers as well as the affected students. The scene was too intense and everyone was clearly shaken up from the uneventful happenings. The joy of being close to nature and enjoying themselves initially had been totally destroyed with the sudden a*******n of students with no apparent reasons whatsoever.
Meanwhile on a remote island far away from the civilization...
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