User blog:HAWAIIANpikachu/Town of the Assassin, Chapter 8.

In the morning, there were only a few people were at the diner, which was temporary owner was a kirby. Addfire, Mattbab, Ghosty, Desert, Playful and I were sitting at the diner, all of us having coffee, trying to remove the effects of low sleep from us. “Say… where is everybody?” Playful asked “From what I know, except for us.... Uli and Zed are trying to cause peace to the town… and Vertroyer’s cleaning up an anon massacre… Have no clue where Spicy is…” I said. “And I have to do some investigations soon…” “Alright.” Matt said, “Better do so now then, quicker you get onto it, the quicker the murderer gets caught, am I right?” “Yep.” I stood up as I walked over and started doing some investigations about Sondz’s death. The thing that I first started to investigate was where the weapon was fired, the main thing that was ticking in my head is how hard the shot was. Then, firetiger walked pass with a crossbow, and then an idea popped in my head. -- “It appears this town isn’t listening to reason…” Uli muttered. “As expected from how fast they expect us to catch on to whoever the hell the murderer is among us.” Zed said back. “But we told them nothing but the whole truth, we’re working on it.” Uli had moved his desk as a barricade in front of the door to stop the rampaging anons from breaking in. There was no way Uli was taking any chances with anything now. “Yes, but the anons don’t appear to agree with it.”

“Why would they? There’s a murderer on the loose, pretty sure I would be worried AF as well.” “True, can’t say that I don’t agree there.”

-- I walked up to a weapon merchant and began talking about crossbows with him, which then confirmed that my theory was correct. The weapon was not a bow, but a crossbow. Which then makes it a whole lot easier to figure out where and how he was killed. Sondz was killed by a crossbow, his murderer was on the roof of a house, meaning that they could have easily snuck away while they got distracted looking at the corpse. I then started walking back to the diner. -- Vertroyer sighed as he dragged the last anon body away. “Finally done.” He grumbled as he threw it into a storage truck, closed it, and hit his palm on the side of it twice. The truck then drove away. “Well… now I can finally take a break…” Vertroyer then heard rustling in a bush nearby, Vertroyer turned around and looked in the bush, and a kirby jumped out of the bush and onto his face saying “Hi!”

Onlookers later reported that the kirby was covering Vertroyer’s vision, as he ran into many objects while screaming “HELP ME!” and then ran into a light pole, knocking both the kirby and himself out. -- I had just finished walking back to the diner as he noticed Matt, Addfire, Ghosty, Desert and Playful walking towards the pond. Wondering what they were doing I followed them carefully, careful not to make a sound. I wasn’t in earshot of them, so I couldn’t hear what they were saying to each other. I then noticed out of the corner of my eye that Matt’s door was slightly open, to most people that wouldn’t matter, but to me it did, clearly someone was not worried that they were going to be killed… so I slowly opened the door and entered Matt’s house. What I saw surprised me. Blades marks where everywhere. No blood, just blade marks on every wall there was… looking closer, I saw it was the same message repeated over and over. “Better safe than sorry.” “Better safe than sorry.”

Then, I look at the blade rack, all the blades are there… except for a knife. Adrenaline kicked in, and I started running towards the pond, knowing they were in trouble. -- Matt and the gang had finally made it to the pond, where they all saw Spicy’s dead, soaked, floating body.

Screams of panic filled through the air. But between the screams there was Matt, laughing like a psychopath. He then turned around, a long bladed knife in his hand. Then all hell broke loose at the pond… -- I finally made it to eyesight of the pond, usually, this long of a sprint I would be lying down trying to catch my breath. But I was still running, I wasn’t even winded. Looking around the pool, I saw what appeared to be the aftermatch. Addfire, Playful, Matt, and Desert, all lying down. Spicy, face down in the water, and Ghosty, in the pond, trying to climb out soaking wet. “No…” I muttered. Desert neck was sliced open. Playful’s stomach was deeply stabbed into, and she had a .44 colt in her hand. Matt had a bullet in his head, with a knife in his hand. And Addfire was stuck under playful’s and matt’s body.

“Umm…  a little help?” Addfire asked. I blink out of my daze, “Oh, yes, sure.” I say, carefully moving Matt’s and then Playful’s body off of Addfire. Ghosty, Addfire and I began the walk back to the town, in nothing but silence.