Spiritual Knight

Case 1: The Smell of Troll part 2

“Alright” she started to scribble “We have our Victim, that dies here, but the argument was here. According to the evidence it pointed to a troll, but our troll is part of a gang, but this gang is not as deadly as the other, they have just a troll as the leader, the rest are humans, but get this, I found traces of cotton fiber on the thing that Nicolas brought...” they all shiver “... also traces of cement dust and latex glove on it, meaning that your Killer isn’t the troll leader, is more like one of the minions that are following him, witch I manage to find out big bad troll leader..” Scarlet click one again the mouse, revealing a picture of the troll “...Meet our gang leader Trevor Swamp, born in June, 19, 1987, in Michigan, travels all around the world helping other demons, he settle here in the year 2000, and created gang that helps others. I thought at first why would a good gang gets involve with murder, the answer is simple, because 3 of those gang members are release from prison two years ago, those are Michael King, Adrian Solar and Ethan Alvarado. One of them is your murder” explain Scarlet with a proud smile on her face.

Scarlet is picking up her stuff and turning the lights off, once out of the building, she started to walk to her apartment when she notice that a car is following her in a slow pace, she glare at the driver knowing exactly who it is, she stops on her tracks and the car stop, she turns around and walk to the drive’s window, the driver pull down the window revealing Aron there, she glare at him as he stares at her honey color eyes.

“May I ask Agent Kingston, what are you doing?” ask Scarlet fill with irritation on her voice

“I am making sure you get home safe Scarlet” Aron said in a direct answer

“As long as I remember, I can take care of myself and I don’t need you to escort me back home, good night” Scarlet fast walk away from the car

Aron got out of the car and yelling back at her “What happen between us Scarlet?! Everything was fine until one day that you didn’t show up anymore of our classes, and when you see me, you treated me like some kind of pest” Aron said as he walks toward her “I need to know what I did wrong to deserve such hate from you?” ask Aron gazing at Scarlet’s eyes

She look at Aron’s blue eyes, Scarlet can’t escape those hypnotic eyes that drawn her to him, begging him to take her the same way he did back in High School, but then a flash of image of what he has done to her came in her mind, she closed her eyes “There is no us anymore Aron” with that she left him in the street alone.

Scarlet close he apartment door, she slide to the floor and started to sob, she knows that no matter what she can’t bring herself to hate him, but what he did to her has no forgiveness, nor mercy, he play with her, but his eyes reflect everything that he want’s with her, he loves her and she loves him back, but she rather bite her tongue than been with him again.

She calm down after crying her eyes out, she walk toward the kitchen and started to make rice balls with miso soup (Scarlet likes Japanese cooking and food), she finish her cooking, wield eating she reads the forensic fields about the troll case, there is something that has been bothering her, but she can’t put her finger on it. Then she open her laptop and look at the forensic results that she’s been working on, then she sees that inside the latex glove there was a dead skin there, she make the search and the result came as a snake dead skin, she got even more confuse, because all of the trolls minions are humans, she made a background check on the three convicts, there is a sentence that shock Scarlet and she made sense of all the crime, the Vic was a lawyer in a case where a Hibiki is the murder of five more crimes, she watch the sentence with disgust “You F******g, son of a b***h, I’ve should have known” she girted her teeth.

Scarlet gulp her food, she left the apartment in a hurry, arriving on the Forensic Lab, and she turn the equipment on and started to work her ass off. When dawn appear, Nicolas enter the lab, waling to the back office, he notice the scatter papers all around the desk and all the things out of place, he slowly backs away, then he sees Scarlet sleeping on the couch, he walk closer to her, she is sleeping peacefully and with research papers on hand, Nicolas bend his need close to her ear.

“Wake up!!!” he shouted near her ear

Scarlett jump in fright and surprise, falling on the floor with a scare beating heart, she jump on him and mess his hair “Get off me! Get off me! You heavy Reptile!” yell Nicolas

Now it was Scarlett’s turn to laugh her ass off “That is what happens if you mess with a sleeping Dragon, only you get off the hook, others would probably bleed to death”

Nicolas manage to get Scarlet off his back, glaring at his co-worker “Not funny”

Scarlet rubs her sleepy eyes, Nicolas let go his bag and coat as he talks to her “Anyhow, what are you doing here, I thought that you were happy sleeping in bed, it takes me 3 phone calls to wake you up” said Nicolas confuse

“I found something that can help us close this case...” she walks toward her test results “... Adrian Solar is our Murder, he is not human he is a Snake demon” she hands over her results to Nicolas “... Our snake was sneaky, but I manage to get him, it turns out that he uses some kind of splash that hides his scent very well, but he got careless, you see, every reptile tent to move their old skin to a new one, which includes snakes... ” explain Scarlet to Nicolas

“I know, I remember the day you move skin, it was the grosses day of my life” answer Nicolas

“... So it just so happen that our murder Adrian, has just change skin, leaving some traces on it” finish explaining Scarlet

Nicolas widen his eyes “So the traces of the old skin in the latex glove, were snake skin” finish the conclusion “All we need is Adrian’s skin DNA to close the case” fast walk Nicolas to tell the Knights Team, he turn back giving a Kiss on Scarlet’s cheek “You are a genius, that is why I love you” Grab the paper of Adrian Solar’s profiled

The Knight’s team manage to capture the 3 convicts, Titania’s phone is vibrating, she pick it up, the caller is informing Titania what the Forensic Team found out, at the revelation of things, Titania eyes widen, she let go of the phone and walk toward the interrogation room, where she finds Aron interrogating Ethan, on the other room Otto is listening to the interrogation, when Titania enter in a hurry, she inform Otto about the results of the Forensic Team, He call Aron to the lobby, once in the lobby, the three Knights with Aron.

“This better be something important, I was about to crack him open like an egg” said Aron frustrated

“Even better, the Forensic Team found our murder” answer Titania happy

“It turns out that there were four demons on the group, the leader, Ethan Alvarado...” said Otto

Titania finish his sentence “...Michael King and Adrian Solar, but Adrian happen to be a snake demon that used some sort of Splash to hide his identity”

“It turns out that, Adrian was convict of five other murder cases and the victim was none other than the lawyer of the people” Explain Otto

“Finding him again wasn’t an easy task for Adrian, so he join in the gangs to hear information about his whereabouts, that is when Trevor sees our Vic, Trevor informs the Vic about demons or people that had been doing bad things to the innocent and gives the evidence to him, that is why Adrian kill him, Trevor is the spy and the Vic is the authority” finish Titania

Aron got all the information he need it, he walk toward Adrian’s interrogation room, he confront him, that damn snake wouldn’t stand a chance with a Golden Dragon, Otto is there to put a stop to Aron in case he gets overboard. As Aron question Adrian, the others could see that he is losing his patience, when Adrian made a silly comment that made Aron snap at him, Otto grab him around his fist wrist holding him back as he insults the scare snake by his outburst, Titania swore that she saw a vein popping on his forehead, he calm down and glare at Adrian as he confess his murder. They put him behind bars and this time for good, Aron let go a deep sigh as he walks down back to the Forensic Lab, he sees Nicolas getting ready to leave the building. Aron look around the room to see the short hair beauty.

“If you are looking for Scarlet, she isn’t here” said Nicolas closing the door and locking it “Chief gave her the rest of the day off since she spend it working all night just to get the evidence you guys need to catch this murder”

“I see, thanks Dr. Stone” answer Aron

As they walk by each other toward the elevator, Nicolas turns toward Aron “I’ve been wondering what is wrong with the two of you, I mean, I try to ask Scarlet, but that woman can rip me to shreds just by looking at me. So what’s the story?” ask Nicolas

“To tell you the true, I don’t even know, just something that happen in the past, but she won’t say a word of it” answer Aron in the elevator

“You know, when I was in High School, I meet a very beautiful girl, her name is Monica, she is the light of my eyes, I ask her out couple of times, it took me almost a year for her to accept, we became the weirdoes of a couple, then one day she broke up with me, I never understood why, until I heard that because her parent’s didn’t want their daughter to be with a no body’s son. I remember that the day we broke up, she grabs my hand and tells me something that gave me hope, she said ‘Don’t worry Nick, one day in the future we might meet again, and if that day comes, then that would mean that I’ve been destine to be with you for all eternity’. A few years past and we reunited once again, ever since I reunited with her, I’ve became the best in the Science world, and Monica and I got married, now she is my lovely wife with a two year old and a second on the way. All I am saying Agent Kingston, if you believe destine brought you and Scarlet together again, don’t miss the chance to make things right now that she is here with you” they manage to get out of the building

Nicolas bid his good-bye and left, Aron is standing in the middle of the entrance, on thoughts of what Nicolas said to him, with those simple words Aron can’t give up on what he feels for Scarlet, he knows that she knows that they are meant to be together.