They went on an empty highland road with grass covering everything but the roads, beautiful blue sky, with mountains with a touch of frost at the top which you could see over thousands of kilometres away, as they kept on walking the temperature became lower and as the time went past the sky turned darker until it was pitch black. “Pass me a scarf Ryu” Mo asked with a shivering voice. “Sorry mate I’m wearing all five of them, heh heh heh” Ryu laughed sinisterly. “Well fuck you, you fucking square!!” Mo shouted angrily. “Only joking, here you go,” he said as he threw him a scarf and a pair of gloves. “Yeah safe, you know I was joking about the stuff.” Mo said, as he felt a little guilty. “Yea yea, I’m used to it now” Ryu said as he laughed a bit. “You to are really a funny pair” Sally said as she giggled.
As they walked talking, joking, for another hour they finally got to their destination
“Here we are, Mermaid’s hotel, one of the oldest hotel’s in McElroy, the police are still looking for some kind of evidence or weapon” she said. As they walked up to the door, a man came and said, “Sorry you children you’re not authorised in this area, unless you are a police or detective. Ryu took his right glove off and put his hand in his back pocket and searched it as if he was looking for something, he took it back out and he showed his official detective card. “What you cant be the Ryu Holmes great grandson of Mr Sherlock Holmes” the man said with a very surprised look on his face. “The one and only” Mo proudly said. “Who is that?” Sally asked the man. “(With a little hesitance) Who! Who you ask? He is one of the youngest and undoubtedly the greatest detectives ever” the man said as if it was obvious. “What, not that Ryu Holmes who found the evidence with his x-ray vision” she shouted with misbelieve. “Sigh……Not another one; do you really think anyone can have x-ray vision? You probably think fireball comes out from my eyes and thunderbolts shoot out from my bum cheeks.” (Everyone laughs)
“Come on in sir you’re more then welcome to go and search as much as you want” the man kindly said. “Thank you, Mr?” “(hesitation) C…C...Collins” the man quickly shouted out. “Thank you Mr Collins” Ryu said again.
As soon as they went in Ryu and Mo was dreadfully stunned, the victim in fact had no leg bones. Ryu asked all the police officers except for Mr Collins to leave the room, Ryu went in for a closer look. “Hum? What’s that” he picked it up it look like a scale from a fish. And there was another one next to it, and another, and another it looked like there was a path, Mo followed him outside, there was a beach right next to it. The scales lead all the way into the sea. “Holy shit! Is it really a mermaid?” Mo yelled with a frightened face. Ryu slapped Mo on the back of his head “Do you actually think mermaids exist?” “Sorry” Mo apologised.
“The killer just put fish scales on the floor with a flat surfaced board so it makes no mark in the sand” Ryu explained. He went back inside the hotel and while slightly clenching his fist he tapped his fore head with his index finger as though he was thinking how all this commotion could’ve happened, Ryu was trying to look for more clues. “(There was a unexpected sudden scream from upstairs) Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh!” “Sally?” Mo shouted out. Ryu and Mo ran up the stairs. “Where are you Sally?” they both shouted out. Mo found Sally. While calling Ryu he ran up to Sally, Mo looked at her straight in the eyes, her eyes looked dead. Ryu ran towards Mo’s voice around the corner and there she was on the opposite side of the dark door while Sally just sits and stares at the guest room door with the most disbelieved face. “Sally speak….What happened?” Ryu asked. “Mr……. Mr Collins……. He’s……He’s dead” Sally said in a shivering voice. “What?” Ryu and Mo shouted. “Mr Collins!? Are you there?” Ryu shouted as he knocked the door. Ryu couldn’t hear anything so he kicked the door as hard as possible. Mo rushed inside first, he saw Mr Collins bleeding in his stomach with a knife in his hands. “It….It can’t be he committed suicide, but why?” Mo was very surprised. “No Mo this is not suicide this is a murder” Ryu said. Ryu looked like he had no doubt in his mind. Before any one asked him how he thought that, he looked outside the open window he saw a man with a brown coat acting quite suspicious, turning back every second, also Ryu saw a small man with a blue cap a few strides behind him Ryu shouted out “Hey you! (The man looked up)Yea you with the blue cap catch the guy in the brown coat, he might be a murderer” the man in the brown coat started to run “And don’t worry we got the weapon.” As Ryu ran down the stairs he went after the guy in the brown coat. When they eventually caught him they handcuffed him and took him inside, including the man with the blue cap.
They all sat down in the sitting room. “Tick tock…..tick tock” The room was so quiet you could here the grandfather clock.
“(Ryu took a deep breath) Ok sir what is your name?” Ryu approached the man in the brown coat first. “It’s Alley, Alley McGregor” the man said as if he didn’t know why he got caught. “How about you, Mr….?” Ryu asked the thief looking guy in the blue cap. “It’s Bobby, just Bobby. I’m an orphan; the name was given to me by the orphanage.” “Hold on, hold on, first of all how did you know it wasn’t a suicide?” Mo asked. “Ok, I’ll tell you, Mo put your hands in a position if you were going to kill yourself” Mo was a little puzzled but he knew Ryu was up to something, so he put his two hands together and touched his stomach with his thumbs away from his stomach. “Now make the action if you were going to pull the knife out”, so he did, he got one hand and made the action with him pulling it with his thumb touching his stomach. Remember that action, now all of you come with me upstairs and check the knife” They all went upstairs and went inside the toilet. “!!!” They all were surprised. “The, the knife, he’s holding it the wrong way” Mo was surprised. Everybody knew what he was talking about. Ryu explained “Normally if you stab yourself and then pull the knife back out the knife will be pointing forward, however if you was being killed and you tried to take the knife out the easiest way to take the knife out is to pull it with your thumb away that will make the knife point backwards. Now one of you three killed him” “Me?” Sally asked. “I’m afraid you are, now at one at a time, can I ask each one of you for your alibis” Ryu asked seriously. “You first Mr McGregor” Mo said as he picked the most suspicious. “Ok here’s the story i just went out for a pint with my mate Steve as we always do at about 1pm I can’t remember properly, but when we went in, there was these people, they were very disturbing so I approached them to say can you keep the noise down, but they were already a bit drunk so they wanted to have a fight outside, me mate Steve is a little bit of a wanker so he kept quiet, while I was walking out and thinking what a dickhead Steve was, the guy punched me from nowhere, I didn’t want trouble so I ran, the guy followed me everywhere! Just when I thought I lost him I thought I saw some one with his built chasing me again, so I ran as fast as I can, I turned around again and the man became two I thought it was my vision and never thought a lot about it. Few minutes later I got caught, I knew I was going to get my brains kicked in, when I saw him properly, it was you two, the last thing I know is I ended up here.” “So have you got a witness?” Ryu asked. “Sure go down the pub me mate Steve is bound to be there” he told self-assuredly.
They all went down the pub to see if they could find Steve.
Mo went in the pushed the creaky-old main double door. “Err, some shit on the doors watch out for some sticky crap on the doors you lot.” Mo called out. “Thanks Mo” Sally said. “No problemo” Mo said while making a face trying to ask him self why he said problemo. Sally saw his face and laughed. Mo laughed afterwards. Alley asked the landlord “Ben! Is Steve still here its urgent” “Oh yes I saw him leave a good old while ago, but while the door was closing I think I saw him go to a different direction from his home” Ben said. “Which way is that” Ryu requested. “(He walked outside) Over that way” Ben said while pointing near the woods. Ryu quickly asked Ben “Can I borrow a torch.”
They all walked towards the woods it was getting darker and colder.
Sally suggested with anticipation “Why don’t we all go back to the hotel and wait until tomorrow” “It’s kind of you to ask Sally, but we need to solve this now.” Ryu said with a severe tone. “I know let me and Sally wait in the pub while you lot go, I’m getting a bit chilly myself.” Mo voluntarily suggested. “Okay, but be careful the killer can be any one right now, he might be anywhere” Ryu cautioned. “I’m fine, you take care of your own ass” Mo said as if he knew what he was doing. “Okay boys let’s go, let’s make it quick” Ryu ordered while shivering. They went on a path made by people’s footprints.
While walking for few minutes Ryu tripped over what was thought to be a log.
“Ahhhh, shame” Bobby laughed out. “Holy shit look at that” Alley shouted with a scared face. “What the…” Bobby asked to Ryu. Ryu pointed his flashlight at it. “It’s an arm” The joint to the arm was covered with lots of leaves. “And it looks like the arm leads to its owner; anyone got a pair of gloves?” Ryu asked both males. “Yea you can borrow mines, but it’s got a few holes sorry” Bobby said while taking them off. Bobby lent it to Ryu. “Thanks a lot Bobby” Ryu thanked with appreciation. Ryu put the gloves on and pulled the bloody and dead arm. “Fuck!” Alley and Bobby shouted. The body had no legs. “Was it by the mermaid?” Bobby asked. “Course it isn’t, there’s no such thing” Ryu said confidently. “Is this Steve?” Ryu asked Alley while putting the light on the victims face. “…..yea (He said with a sad expression)” Alley said. Ryu got his mobile out and called some one. “Yea its Ryu I got a grade B victim….as quick as possible……track down this location……..thanks” Ryu talked while the there two didn’t know what he was on about. Ryu asked to Alley “Can you carry Steve back to the pub, my helpers are near there waiting for your mate” “Thanks a lot Ryu…thanks a lot” Alley said thankfully. They carried him back to the pub. There waited a man in a suit “Mr Ryu Holmes, the coffin is ready” “Alley the body, they will take care of him from now on” Ryu told Alley. Then Ryu sees something fall out of Steve’s pocket, Ryu picked it up. It was four cards, it looked like it was from a whole deck because it had aces, it also looked like one animal on each card, and one card was folded, it was a picture of a panda, Ryu put it in his pocket and thought what it might be, he walked to the pub with the others. It was closed. “They might be back in the hotel Bobby suggested.” “Let’s go back then” Ryu said with a tired tone. They walked back Bobby and Alley was walking with there heads down like it was being hanged. As there reached there location the door was locked, he rung the bell no one answered, Ryu thought the murderer might have came back. He told the other two to break the door down. “Why?” Bobby asked. “Mo and Sally might be dead!” He shouted out. “Holy shit no way!” Alley said. They banged the door try after try they broke it eventually. They ran in they heard noise upstairs. Ryu dashed up the stairs, Sally was banging on the door she saw Ryu. “In there!” she screamed. Ryu kicked the door as hard as he could, He saw Mo he had a stab wound on his abdomen, Ryu checked to see if he was alive. “He’s breathing” Ryu said with relief. “Are you sure Ryu?!” Sally questioned while breathing heavily. He felt a chill behind him, the window was open. He looked outside no one was there and he thought to himself can any one jump and not get injured, he looked around the window there was what looked like a long plastic hair. While Sally was worrying her purse fell out. Ryu picked it up; he saw a card that said police federations Simon Morris. “Sally what’s this?” Ryu asked about the card. “Nothing” She said uncomfortably. He thought about everything. Then like a lightning bolt flashed in front of him, the way it was all done. “He called the people from his services and told them to bring a car around to take Mo to a hospital. “Now all of you, Go downstairs, I know who done this”. The car came and picked Mo up. Ryu said to Mo’s unconscious face “I got it now, Mo just relax in your bed I’ve got him.” They took Mo away. Now you lot I know who it is and how they done it. “What?” All of them said surprisingly.
Tension built around the whole room, everyone was tense and edgy.
Ryu looked at everyone’s face one by one. “(he told everyone) When I first woke up this morning I knew something evil was going to occur, I knew something was wrong, I knew something was going to happen. As days went along every member I met with brought me one step closer to the killer. (He looked at a suspect straight in the eyes) It’s you……….Sally!!” Ryu said with not one doubt. “(she sniggered) what…….how could it be me a weak women” Sally asked. “Because Sally if that is your real name……..you’re a man!” Ryu said while he ripped her skirt off. And there it was her pants with a dick in it. Shock was all around the room. “That is how you killed them; you are in fact a man. That is how you dominated Mr Collins, Steve and almost killed Mo” Ryu stated. “How do you know I’m a man?!” Sally asked Ryu “Before, when we found Steve’s body, something fell out of his pocket four cards and one card in particular had a fold on it, it had a picture of a panda on it. It had to mean something, I saw your police card and that’s when it came to me. In the olden times people used to call police cars panda cars because of the distinctive colours” “I’ve heard of that” Alley said “Steve saw your card and before he died he folded the card to make dying message!” “Okay! Okay! I admit I’m a man, but how did I kill Mr Collins, lock the door and then go back out? Huh?” Sally asked. “hm hm hm (Ryu smiled)” “What’s so funny!” Sally shouted. “Easy I saw the long hair looking thread stuck on the window. That helped me figure it out; you just crawled out the window and came in from the next room, if I’m right the window next to this room should be open.” They all went to the other room. “!!!” It was open. “Shit, shit shit shit” Sally said. “Simon Morris, You’re very clever, but not clever enough.” Ryu told him. “What was the purpose?” Bobby asked. “Because…..Because I saw all of you spreading the rumours about the tale of the mermaid to the newspaper companies like idiots! My family worked so hard on making a very popular island. Thanks to all you fucks McElroy is nothing.” Simon told. Ryu called his helper to bring in the police to arrest Simon. “Simon Morris you are now arrested for committing two murders and attempting a murder, anything you say or do may be held against you in court do you understand?” The police said to Simon. “…………Yes” Simon replied.
Ryu quickly took one of the police cars to the hospital, he went to Mo’s room.
There Mo was sleeping. “You okay Mo?” Ryu asked Mo with a very worried face. Mo’s eye’s twitched, and then eventually opened. “Of course I’m okay you fuck” Mo Whispered and laughed a bit. Ryu Laughed with relief. “When are you going to be 100%?” Ryu asked Mo. “Soon I hope” Mo begged. “Good because there’s this match I want you to watch with me, I got the tickets, its Manchester united against Barcelona, Champions league” Ryu said. “Yes! Please please please god!”
And so they went on all night.
But who sent the parcel…………………Who?
