Battle of the Chapters Book #1: CFJ Academy

Chapter 11

Lamia's POV:

"Ahem like I said before, one of you killed your friend, The Ultimate Metal head who attacked me a few days ago and avoided death by me, Star." Johnson dawning his Judge's Outfit and gavel.

"Time to get this shindig started, All Rise." He added which was the indicator to start this trial.

"So where do we start?" Mireya asked.

"Well maybe the cause of death would be a good start." Angel answered pulling out his copy of the Johnson file.

"According to the file, Star was killed by poisoning." Jasmine answered.

"But the question is how did she get poisoned?" Michelle asked, "It seems unlikely that she would just down a bottle of poison and kill herself, I don't think she was that over the edge." She added.

"Yeah how did she get poison the poison let alone get some in her system" Hifsa said as I raised my hand.

"The poison came from this brown bottle of arsenic powder." I said reading the bottle, "Bottom line is that it's poison." I added.

"Well that would make sense as to where the poison came from, but the question remains how did she ingested it." Muhammad said.

"Well I know how she got it into her body, it was from this sponge cake." I said pulling out the pastry out from my pocket.

"Sponge Cake?" Hifsa asked with disbelief.

"Well it would make sense I saw her grab one from the dining hall before we split off to do whatever a few hours ago." Jasmine admitted as I put my hand on my chin.

'Hmm well that explained how the poison got there...' I thought as Francisco looked at me.

"But wait...how can we be so certain that the poison was the cause of murder, the Johnson file states that she was also stabbed through the chest." Hifsa said.

"Yeah that's right, she could have been stabbed and after the deed was done the killer put the poisoned sponge cake into her system." Michelle said.

"I don't think it's that simple though." Angel said.

"Maybe the murderer got sloppy after a while." Muhammad said.

"With their life on the line, they would not want to take any unnecessary risks." I said.

"But the knife had to be important somewhere right, or why else would Johnson put it in the file?" Jasmine asked.

"I wouldn't go that far." Francisco said.

"But the knife can be the murder weapon cant it?" Mireya asked.

"Ding Ding Ding Split Decision time, and it's evenly split this time...no more 2 vs 15 million people, time to morph the trial grounds." Johnson said pushing the blue button causing the podiums to move.

One side consisted of Mireya, Michelle, Hifsa, Muhammad, and Jasmine.

Against Francisco, Angel, and I.

"The topic for this debate is 'Whether Star was poisoned or stabbed.' ready...and debate." Johnson said banging his gavel.

"Star was stabbed in the chest with the knife." Mireya said.

"It was in her body, but it might not have been the murder weapon." I said.

"But in the Johnson file she was also stabbed in the chest region." Jasmine said.

"Sure it might have said it, but don't take it with a grain of salt." Francisco said.

"Why bother poisoning her if they could have just stabbed her and moved on?" Hifsa asked.