The Detectives

8:19 Pm

West Park Subway

NYU Entrance

 

            Angel and Joe stand outside the rear Maintenance entrance flash lights in hand looking down the tunnel past the No admittance sign and chain. Joe turns to Angel and smiles “You ready hun”? Angel chuckles and replies “what better place to hide if you’re a psycho creepy serial killer right”? Joe nods and radios other officers “ We’re going in keep moving grid by grid, Copy”?, Radio squawks back “copy”. Joe unhooks the chain and moves into the dark of the tunnel.

           Twenty minutes go by and nothing not even a peep or drop of blood nothing. Joe whispers to Angel “I think this may be a waste of time here”, Angel quietly replies “ Let’s give it a little more time at least finish this tunnel here and see how the others fair”. Joe agrees and they continue moving in the dark, just then they hear a clank from up ahead and both of them now alert swing their flash lights towards the sounds and they hear footsteps running off in the opposite direction. Joe quickly gives a shout into his radio “we’ve got movement north tunnel”! As they move into pursuit. Running down the tunnel tey see a flash light bouncing ahead and Joe calls out “FREEZE POLICE”!!!!, the Flash light comes to a stop ahead and Joe and Angel confused slowly move forward with guns drawn slowly towards the light source. Joe yells out at what appears to be a tall slender figure “ Slowly put your hands above your head and sloowly and I mean sloowly turn around and face us”!, The figure complies and slowly turns revealing a young woman with security badge on the front of her jacket. “ What the hell are you doing in here girly”? Joe barks, the woman answers “ I am NYU security we had a report of an abduction and I am investigating”. Joe looks at Angel and Angel moves in and frisks the woman pulling her I.D. from her jacket pocket. Giving a nod they both holster their weapons. Joe gives a scowl and says “ Listen here missy, you’d better scurry along and let the professionals handle this one this is a homicide investigation”, The woman puts her hands down and glares at the male officer “ If I left it up to you guys we’d never find the girl the students are my responsibility and I am no civilian here I am ex-military police and investigation was my department so maybe you should just keep on looking and with both of us we might actually get to the girl before she’s killed not like you’ve had such good luck so far right?”. Joe grinds his teeth and shouts “get the fuck outa here now before I arrest you for obstruction o…..” Just then they all hear a scream come from the corner up ahead faintly echoing through the tunnel. “Shit”! Joe and Angel grab their guns as Clarion reaches back and pulls out her own Glock, Joe looks towards her pointing his gun at her and yells “Drop it”! Clarion startled places the gun above her head and shouts back “I have a permit you asshole”! Angel looks at Joe and runs down the tunnel, Joe yells at her Angel wait”! But no response “Damn it! I don’t have time for this shit, stay behind us and don’t get in the way” as he runs after Angel with Clarion following. They turn the corner and Angel is nowhere to be seen, Joe Whispers into his radio” Angel where are you”? A single Chirp of static is heard then nothing, he repeats, nothing. He looks around shining his flash light 360 degrees then feels a tap on his shoulder Clarion is pointing her flash light to a small vent slightly ajar and gives a nod in the direction of the vent, Joe nods and points to his Clarion then back at His eyes as he crawls into the vent Clarion following closely behind him. Its dark wet and smells of bleach very unusual for an abandoned maintenance tunnel Joe thinks. He crawls on his hands and knees looking towards the end he sees a small faint flicker of light.

 

The Mask

 

             He leans down so close to her face that she can feel his hot breath, it smells horrible. She’s unable to move and he’s gagged her. As tears stream down her face she knows she’s going to die and that will not be the worse part, she looks towards his face with candle light illuminating his sick smile and she sees his painted macabre clownish face grinning at her, his eyes bright red. The Mask, her mind tells her and that’s it she is resolved to dying and simply moans and weeps muffled through the gag. He whispers into her ear “You need not cry I will release you” and she turns away with a shudder and screams although muffled fairly loud. She knows no one will hear her but she’s afraid and it’s a natural response, this can’t be the end she is just too young and almost graduating with honors from the college how can this be? She thinks. Then closing her eyes she begins to pray, She never was religious as an adult or even a teen but remembers going to church with her grandparents occasionally and the message she heard “God is always with you and all you need to do is call out to him” and so she does. The Mask reals back and yells at her with an unnatural voice “Shut the fuck up with that Praying bullshit”! and lunges towards her face with a shiny scalpel and says” Your God cannot save you now”. Just then a voice from the dark shadows speaks “Hey asshole”! The Mask jumps back and looks as a man appears from the shadows into the dimly lit room clearly startled and unprepared for visitors. Then the sounds of guns cocking and blades being unsheathed come from around the room as several other figures all heavily armed step into the light. A voice sounds from him clearly not his own “Haaaalf Breeeds”, The older man simply smiles and replies “That’s right you greasy bastard time to go home you piece of shits”! He draws a large cross from his coat and holds it up to be seen. The creature Laughs as A loud “shink” is heard and blades comes out of each end of the cross, the creatures eyes go black and wide. The others have moved to surround the creatures only escapes now, its head darts back and forth and then looks up seeing a shadowy figure above as well. Geist; once dark now hunts evil deformed by his brief time as a demon he now despises them more then himself, his blades catch the light of the candles and glimmers. “No way out for you but back to the void” The man says, a sound comes from behind the older man a clicking and Cross knows what that is; a gun cocking.

           

          “Nobody moves” Angel says calmly with another cocking sound from the left Joe steps out slowly gun pointed at the Mask “You heard the lady”. Cleric steps forward and places his hands up in surrender and says to Angel “Hey miss we mean you no harm were just trying to dispatch this piece of shit back to hell where it belongs” with a sharp jerk his shoulders jerk back and his eyes get wider, Clarion with her gun pressed to the back of his head the other hand on his shoulder looks to the Detectives and smiles.

The creature seeing this opportunity jumps onto the wall and climbs up towards the ceiling at incredible rate, “Jesus Christ”! Angel shouts out as Joe Opens fire chasing the creatures heels with his shots. Geist drops down slicing at the creature as it leaps towards the vent opening, now unguarded. Suddenly a strong blast of air pushes the creature backwards right into Talons arms as he bear hugs it, the creature lets out a roar and tries to bite him craning its neck 180 degrees but finds nothing there except armor and a smile. Cross Steps in about to stab the creature through the heart but Joe steps in front and yells “NO”!, Cross stops short of Joes Chest and backs off Angel walks up and pulls out her cuffs. Geist steps forward and punches the Mask in the face hard. Cleric moves closer and places his hand on the creature’s forehead and recites something in a language neither Joe nor Angel understand. Clarion moves up to Cleric and places her hand on his shoulder and asks “Is he possessed”? He looks at her and smartly replies “What you think that’s normal? Climbing up walls and shit! of course he is; my guess it’s by several demons or a really nasty one”! Cross moves up to Joes face and says calmly “ Listen if you don’t want us to kill it we have to at least exorcise it or your gonna be in trouble here”. Joe looks to Angel as she has frozen in fear and says “I don’t know what’s going on here but were police officers and we are trying to do our job here”, Cross shakes his head and replies “So are we! this is what we do”! A large bang and the steel door flies open and cops start pouring into the chamber yelling, shinning flash lights. Cross and his team quickly exit, through the ceiling above with one inhuman leap over 12 feet into the shadows. The Mask darts towards the girl still tied up screaming and gagged, Clarion dives towards her and spears the Mask in the midsection tackling him to the ground. Joe and Angel converge on him and secure the cuffs around the Masks wrists. The other Police officers pick him up and escort him out the chamber. Clarion cuts the girl free and ungags her, the girl hugs Clarion fiercely and sobs as Clarion comforts her giving the detectives a nod. Joe radios for paramedics with Angel sitting there on the floor she whispers “It’s finished finally” and sighs.

 

 

Donnie

 

             Angel was there early and as she promised she got him out of there. Angel turned to Donnie and asked smiling “So what do you want to do first”? Donnie looked up at the sky and smiled replying “First”?, “yes silly” Angel chuckled. Donnie looking confused paused for a bit then his eyes lit up and a huge smile came to his face and he stated enthusiastically…   ” Tacos”! And they both laughed hysterically. She had taken some time off to spend with her brother and help him back into life outside the sanitarium. She can never make up for time lost but at least she could try to make his life better from now on she thought. Donnie turned to Angel” It’s not over, you know”? Puzzled she asked” What’s not over”?

 Donnie looked out the window and stared over the water as they drove over the bridge its cables speeding by and sighed” He’s not just a sick man or a killer he is evil and evil can’t be locked up”. Angel looked at Donnie afraid to admit that she knew this to be true, she just kept driving.