The Rise Of The Wendigo

Chapter 5: Fear

It did have a note but it could only be seen when the paper was wet. "Oh my God! What is this!?" shouted Laura in astonishment. She has never come across a note written in invisible ink before; except for she had heard about it a few times but thought it was fake. And now she has one with her was exciting as well as scary, in a way, which felt like the killer was behind her watching the whole scene and playing magic tricks to confuse her. John saw the note and literally had a smile on his face, but it was supposed to be a happy moment because they just solved a small little piece of the puzzle.

Laura asked John," But isn't invisible ink only visible when water is mixed with lemon juice and stuff?" John sighed and said," Well... On the internet, sources say you need many stuff to see invisible ink which is not wrong as inks differ and each one has its liquid, you know... Here the killer used the invisible ink called 'water'. The paper on which they have written this is super-hi-tech I would say as it is coated with a load of chemicals." Said John looking at Laura's eyes with a spark through his 'black framed' glasses.

"Let's see what the killer has written for us." said Laura, with fear in the thought of what if she is the next person? The solution to this problem was if she read the note. The note said," Karma chose this. Whatever has been happening was what should've happened a long time ago. What I am doing is just being just. If your life is valuable to you then you won't stop me but if you do then I will have to do something I don't want to. Hope you won't give me a chance to do so."

Laura had no words. She was petrified but eventually, a flame of anger rose within her. She growled," What in the world! Is this person kidding me at this point? What justice are they talking about? Will killing students do any good? I don't see any good with it. Killing someone is not the solution, no matter how great the crime a person can do only the court can sentence a person to death. They have no right to do so, right John?" John replied," Yeah..... But this seems just too dangerous. We have no idea yet who they are, what their aim is, and why they killed the victims in such a brutal way. The way they have killed the others I'm getting worried about you Laura, you cannot continue this." And started looking at her with a slight tremble.

Laura saw his fear of having her hurt, it is what she thought, and she slowly started getting over her fear and said to John," John, I know you're worried about me, but I can't leave the school in danger, I don't know why they chose us only, but I guess they won't leave anyone and it feels like they're lying in this note. After all, who would be so generous to leave a girl who knows most of the things about the killer than any other?" John's mouth was as if it was sewed, without a word, left the house. Laura tried going after him but then she thought by tomorrow he will be ok and turned to go back home. She reached home and the silence brought up a wave of chills on her skin.

She didn't want to think about anything what had happened and realised that she needed some rest after everything happened. She locked the doors, closed the windows and slept with the lamp in her room on.

The next morning, Laura rushed to school to talk to tr. Cecilia who was incharge of the science laboratory and the 'Earth Igniters' club. When she reached there she found the teacher sitting in the laboratory and writing some notes. She went and said ," Excuse me teacher" Cecilia looked up at her and with a faint smile asked," May I help you child?" Laura said," I wanted to join the 'Earth Igniters' club." Cecilia was delighted since very few students were interested in it. She grinned and said," Of course! I would love to have you there but we cannot use any chemical substances on any experiments at the moment but we'll be doing all kinds of theoretical researches." Laura asked," Why can't we?" "Well according to yesterday's murder the body was damaged with chemicals stolen from the laboratory and we don't want any more accidents to occur so the principal has locked them up and kept the key with him."

Laura looked at teacher and pretended to be surprised. But at least she went in the club. "What do you think teacher? Who you think did it?" asked Laura and the words which came out from the teacher's mouth were 'You'.

To be continued...