The Shades Of Killers

Chapter 11

"Raven? Earth to Raven!"

I jumped slightly.

"Raven can you stay here for a few weeks? " Luiza asked.

"Oh, um sure. " I muttered, still in thought.

"Great. If you have any evidence to prove that Nathan is innocent, I am open." Luiza smiled and patted my shoulder firmly, with that, she trotted away.

I can't believe it. Nathan was lying to me? Or he... Never knew? All this seems so, illusory. I met him just about a week ago, and... I became, attached I guess. We became friends. He's a good friend. But apparently, he is with MALICE. According to our information, the abnormals are created by MALICE. The abnormals aren't natural birthed humans. MALICE used a very advanced biological technology known as CRISPR (Clustered regularly-interspaced short palindromic repeats are segments of prokaryotic DNA containing short repetitions of base sequences. Each repetition is followed by short segments of "spacer DNA" from previous exposures to a bacterial virus or plasmid.) to change the pattern of their DNA by inserting other living organisms' DNA into their DNA to make then practically invincible. So does this mean, Nathan is a test subject of MALICE? Is he willingly working for them? UGH! Why do I even care? Why does this "Nathan" guy bother me so much? Raven, stop, he is not your area of concern. I rolled my eyes at my own nosiness and absurdity. I turned away from the alley next to OUR prison base, and decided to walk away from this whole thing and pretend it never happened. Nathan is not worth remembering, not anymore. Don't let him bother you Raven! Like that, I sprinted full speed all the way back to the apartment Founder James got me.

When I got back to my apartment, I instantly noticed the crease on my bed, from Nathan of course. I walked to my bed and lifted the sheets, un-wrinkling them. Suddenly, when I straightened my sheets, my hand touched a hard object. I tossed my blanket away at once, to reveal a necklace pendant of MALICE. I remember seeing the summary of MALICE, they are known to be a lot more ostentatious than OUR. On the pendant, it wrote in cursive: NXC 2027.

NXC... Those letters are awfully familiar. An initial perhaps. Then it hit me. Nathan Xavier Creecion. Of course it makes sense for this to be Nathan's. Then 2027. MALICE was started in 2023. Now it's the end of 2029. This must have been the time he joined MALICE. Hold on.

I ran to the my bathroom, roughly pulled my shirt off to reveal my OUR tattoo below the side my left rib, near to my back. It was an azalea flower with the number 1 on top of it, and the letters NXC below the flower. NXC. I thought. How Luiza James does OUR branding is an azalea flower on any part of the body with the number of years since 2022 and when you joined, which was when the community was created. The letters were the initials of another person who joined the same year as you, in this case, I am pretty sure NXC is Nathan. Besides, nobody else has such a weird name... Poop.

I walked out of the bathroom, still in my bra, I set the pendant on a table carefully and pulled out a few files about MALICE out of my locked cabinet, setting them all on the bed. So Nathan joined the same year as me, 2023, one year after the community was created. Nathan joined MALICE just two years ago, but he joined OUR six years ago, and he clearly did not quit OUR because Luiza James uses laser tattoo removal technology to remove the branding if anyone quits. Technically, he is not allowed to be in two communities at the same time. I was stuck. I opened one of the MALICE files and started crazily flipping through it. Suddenly, I saw a picture of a familiar object, specifically the bronze pendant of MALICE, and I stopped at that page.

I quickly started skim reading everything about the pendant, until I saw the sentence: Used as a key to unlock "The Killians' Secrets". My eyes widen at this. No. How did MALICE know about The Killians... Where are the secrets kept? What does it mean "Key to unlock" ? Father never told me.

I put on my shirt and sped to Nathan's prison immediately.

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