The Shadow Knight Begins: Part One: Dark Origin

Chapter 4: A Night For Murder!

I was still thinking about what I had said to dad when Mariko and Rachel came to remind me of my promise to go with them for Mariko's big night.

Mariko was submitting her finally finished play to the lunar theater group to take a look at, to see if she would have a shot in the playwright academy. Rachel and I were coming along for moral support.

Yeah right...some moral support I turned out to be after when we drove home from the theatre, the night...the night that I witnessed evil's ugly, vicious, and forever hauntingly mortifying face!

We told mom where we were going, said we would be back in two hours, outside was a cop car with a trusted cop vouched for by Jeremy and the commissioner of lunar city that he was an honest cop, he would escort us safely to Mariko's play critique and back.

Mom wished us best and then went back inside the house to pack.

Two hours later...

Mom had just finished packing her clothes when her cell phone rang.

"Hello?" she asked.

"Hello, Mrs. Kishi is it?" asked a friendly female voice.

"Yes it is May I ask who is calling?" my mother asked.

"This is Justine ever hart of the scouts of the Writers guild of America's Playwright academy's 2010 judges, I'm calling in regards to you daughter Mariko" Mrs. Everheart explained who she was.

"Oh..." my mother said realizing who she was, "I don't know if it's safe to ask but did my daughter give you her play to read?"

"She gave me the draft copy two months ago, I liked it but she said she was close to the end of her finalised work, so I said come back in that weeks' time and I'll see how much you've improved, and I was sure that she had talent and could make it into our academy"

"I could have told you that" my mother joked proudly.

"Yes I bet you could have...but you see I'm calling out of concern as to where she is" Mrs. Everheart said.

My mother paused, "what do you mean?"

"Well she said she would be here in ten minutes Mrs. Kishi" Mrs. Everheart explained.

"And...?" my mother pressed.

"That was two hours ago" Mrs. Everheart explained with concern.

Before my mother could respond, my mother's "call waiting" sound on her cell phone began to chirp.

"Hold on...I have to put you on hold" my mother put Miss Everheart on hold and then answered the call that was waiting, it was my cousin Jeremy.

"Auntie Kishi..." he began, but my mother didn't like the tone of his voice, it was broken, sad...mournful.

"what?" my mother was almost too afraid to ask, but she knew the answer before Jeremy could say it "you have to go to the....to the hospital....lunar general...its...it's not good...just.....JUST COME!" he said sobbing, before he hung up my mother thought she heard the words "WHY, WHY THEM?!"

TWO HOURS EARLIER....

It was foggy that night, and it was also raining hard and lighting was flashing.

We had followed the cop car until Mariko's Chevy ran out of gas suddenly, and mysteriously.

We had wondered why the cop was escorting us down this way, maybe he thought it was a shortcut...or maybe he was just brain dead...because fog, or dark stormy night it was...all three of us knew where in the city we had just become stranded in.