KNOCK KNOCK CHAPTER 18 "THE FINAL ACT"
CHAPTER 18
THE FINAL ACT
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“Good to see you back Charles, but where is the killer? Five young deaths and your team has not caught him yet, on which side you’re playing Charles?” Chief scolded.
“I understand
your concern sir but you have to stay calm. With the killer, we are also going
to catch a big and very old group of drug suppliers in England” Charles replied
respectfully.
“How many more
days? Huh?” Chief asked furiously.
“Within a week,
everything will sort out hopefully” Charles replied.
“OK but remember
my words Charles! After this week, if you’ve got nothing, your whole team will
be in trouble” Chief said before leaving the room. Charles called the whole
team in his room to discuss about their next move.
“I am sorry I got
all of your careers in trouble” Charles started with an apology.
“That’s not gonna
happen, we still have seven more days to close this case once and for all”
Harry replied confidently.
“Let’s not waste
any more time now. What do you guys think about the next victim?” Jennifer
asked.
“The words are
written in blue paint this time, is there any phobia of paint or blue color?”
Sara put her question.
“Yeah, both of
the phobias exist but are very rare, pigmentophobia is the fear of paints and
cyanophobia is the fear of blue color” John explained.
“Then we have to
find people with both these phobias as soon as possible in whole country.
Inform every city police station to check the records for people with these
phobias. We can’t take risk of another murder now” Charles ordered.
“Yes sir”
Everyone replied.
“And John, you go
and check the call recordings of Flinch, there must be someone who had talked
with Flinch about drugs” Charles gave another task.
“OK sir, I’ll do
it today” John replied.
“You all have to
do it today and provide security to all the peoples with these phobias before
night because the next murder is going to be tonight and most probably the last
one” Charles explained.
“Why are you so sure
about it?” asked Jennifer curiously.
“Haven’t you
noticed the sequence of murder dates, 15…...21…..26….30…2 and the next will be
on 4. See the gaps between them, reducing with a sequence, I wish I could have
sorted it out earlier” Charles got the trick brilliantly.
“6…5…4…3….2…1….
Absolutely right. He’s going to attack after midnight” Sara added.
“Let’s go then,
we don’t have much time left to save the next kid” Harry said in a hurry and
left with John and Sara.
“You should also
go Jenny; I am totally fine now. They need your help more than me today”
Charles advised.
“OK if you say
so, see you later” Jennifer agreed and went with the others leaving Charles
alone in his room.
They
got a total of 3 case of pigmentophobia and 2 cases of cyanophobia in whole
country and secured their homes. Charles was thinking about every possible
answer to all the questions about the case, he closed his eyes and the only
thing he saw was darkness.
*******
The
person in the black room was also seeing the same but with open eyes.
[Voice 2] “They will know about you soon”
[Voice 1] “Not before I tell them myself”
[Voice 2] “You will surrender and confess
everything after the completion of your plan?”
[Voice 1] “Even if I surrender, no law in this
world can prove me guilty. All the kids had their natural deaths; how can I be
responsible for what nature does”
[Voice 2] “Your plan is about to end; you have to decide about your next
step”
[Voice 1] “All my steps are already decided a long
ago, it’s a flawless plan”
[Voice 2] “I hope it is”
[Voice 1] “Don’t you worry. It’s time for the final
act!!!”
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JANUARY
4,2016
MAIDENHEAD
12:20 AM
Another dark and cold night of
January, people had gone in their cozy beds to save themselves from the
intensity of cold outside. The sky was clear with a shining moon spreading its
light all around. Like everyone else, Bella was also in her bed and watching a
movie.
Bella Andrew, an average looking 20
years old girl with golden hair and black eyes. She had an inferiority complex
because of her looks and this complex was so great that she left her college
and she stopped going outside in the public. As his only daughter, Andrew
allowed her full freedom to make her life decisions herself. Bella’s mother
died during her birth. Bella’s talent and only interest was her voice, a
beautiful voice that attacked on everyone’s heart. She had been uploading her
music recordings on social media without revealing her face for quite a long
time, and Bella was quite famous at such a young age just because of her voice.
She had also started composing songs herself. Andrew had some important work to
do in London so he didn’t get home that night and Bella was alone.
The beast came floating through the
street with the characteristic sound of different shoes and stopped in front of
Bella’s home. Bella, completely unaware of the impending danger, was busy in
her movie, when the door was knocked for the first time. She couldn’t hear the
knock. Then the door was knocked for the second time with a harder force which
suddenly scared Bella. She paused her movie and thought for a second about what
she had heard. She was thinking when she heard another harder knock and a
shiver of fear flew across her body. She thought it to be her father and went
outside to open the door. But as she was about to open the door, she heard
something which made her pupil dilate.
It was hissing of snake, and not
only one, it was hissing of a lot of snakes together. She suddenly jumped back
from the door and kept moving backwards slowly but to increase the intensity of
her fear, the door opened itself in front of her and there was standing a
human-like beast wearing a black cloak and having a big snake wrapped around
its neck. Bella got her hand on a vase and she threw it at the beast but she
missed her target because she was sweating and constantly trembling with fear.
Then the beast started floating gradually towards her but as it moved forward,
a lot of small snakes started slithering all around after getting out of the
black cloak. The number of small snakes kept increasing as the beast was
floating forward.
Hissing of snakes were all around.
Bella put hands on her ears, closed her eyes and screamed as loud as she could
but her beautiful voice had gone in fright. She opened her eyes, wanted to run
but it was too late, small snakes were all around her slithering on the floor.
Now she could even hear her heart beating at a very fast rate. She was avoiding
the snakes around her when she realized that the beast had come right next to
her. She hit upon a strange idea. She removed her jacket and put it on snakes on
the floor to make way for her to run. She tried to walk over the snakes but
unfortunately, her foot came on a snake, she slipped and fell down into the
snakes once again. She started panting and gave up trying and was ready to die
there.
The beast put down the big snake
wrapped around its neck on the ground right in front of Bella. Bella was
gradually dozing off as her mind was not able to bear that much fright. The big
snake started moving towards her. That was the moment when Bella saw the beast
with her half-closed eyes. Small pointed nose, dead white skin, blood red eyes,
wrinkled forehead and a scar on its chin. After putting down the snake, it
pulled out the sharp dagger. The big snake started wrapping around her body
when Bella saw that beast ready to move that dagger across her body. She closed
her eyes never to open again when the beast started moving the dagger towards
her.
Not a single snake was present there
with the Bella(late) when the sun spread its light to throw away all the
darkness of the night, just seven silver alphabet moulds were present there,
filled with water and a miniature ship floating in the last alphabet. The
alphabets were …. S…E…A…O…F…S…M….
*******
The morning light was present in the
black room where a person was lying on bed and was much satisfied, an air of calmness
was in the room. All six pictures of the people on wall had now been crossed.
The people were all parents of the murdered children.
[Voice 1] “Now they will realize the pain of losing
someone you love”
[Voice 2] “You’ve done a very bold thing to take
your revenge. I wish your flawless plan will go to completion as well”
[Voice 1] “It will go. Just a few more days and
everything will become OK”
[Voice 2] “Why you turned the alphabet *W* upside
down in the moulds?”
[Voice 1] “Because *W* is dead for them”
*******
Everyone kept waiting for the whole night to catch the murderer red-handed but in vain. On returning home in the morning, Andrew immediately called the cops after seeing his daughter dead on the floor. The wait was over, they got the news of the last murder but unfortunately, they had missed the killer once again. The killer was one step ahead of the police since the beginning. The body was sent for autopsy and the feeling of a lost game was over the Charles’ team but one thing was still left to be done. Andrew’s statement could expose the drug business running in England for a long time.
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