The Greenview Death Bringer

TGDB - Intro/Chapter 1

Lucy was very confused. She just heard her friend, who never cried, cry like never before. It was clear that something horrible had happened. With that thought in the back of her head, Lucy continued her usual morning routine. She packed everything she had at school that day into her black schoolbag.

She then got some clothes out of her large, white closet. After thinking about what to wear for the day, she took out a white sweater and blue jeans. She then went to the bathroom on the upper floor to comb her short, blond hair and to brush her teeth.

She finished brushing her teeth and put her electric toothbrush to charge. She left the bathroom after some five minutes. For the entire time, she thought about Amber's vague response to her question. She had no clue to why someone would call her if they couldn't explain what was going on. After another ten minutes of surfing social media, Lucy came back downstairs. It was half-past-seven in the morning when she came downstairs. "Billy! Hurry up!" Lucy shouted from the hallway. Not long after, Billy came sprinting down the stairs. "Don't run down the stairs, you'll tumble down!" Their dad warned Billy. "Bye mom!" Billy said goodbye to his mother, who was still in bed. Billy and Lucy took their grey jackets and left their two-story, L-shaped brick house.

Lucy, Billy and their father all sat into their red sedan. Lucy was sitting in the front seat, while her brother was in the back. "Can I take some gum?" She asked when her dad got in the car. Her dad allowed her to take a piece of gum from the cup holder. Lucy chewed on the spearmint gum for half the day. They drove off to school.

Billy arrived at his school first. It was a new, modern-looking school with a lot of windows. It was the biggest school in Greenview, with well over six hundred students. Lucy's school, Greenview High, had only about four hundred student capacity. Speaking of Greenview High...

Lucy arrived in front of the courtyard of a large, red building with a large outdoor lounge area. There was one thing that was different than usual, though. The place was crawling with journalists, police officers and confused students. "What the hell?" Lucy quietly murmured. "What happened?" Her dad asked. Lucy said that she didn't know before her father warned her to be careful. Lucy said goodbye to her dad and exited the car.

Immediately after, her best friend ran towards her. "Lucy!" She called out her friend's name. "Amber!" Lucy turned around. "What happened?" She asked with concern. "Lucy... Helen's..." Amber started to cry again. "Helen's what?" Lucy asked. "She's dead." Amber, the tallest girl in their class, with long, beautiful black hair, dark eyes and a very likeable and charming smile hugged her best friend. "What?" Lucy couldn't believe what she just heard. "She was murdered last night." Amber explained.

The two of them started to go into the school. "Who killed her?" Lucy asked Amber. "Apparently, some guy who calls himself 'The Raptor'." Amber responded while wiping her tears away. Lucy seemed confused. The girls entered the school through the big glass doors on the main entrance.

On the left-hand side from the doors, there were two rows of red lockers. One row on each wall. "Lucy!" She heard a male voice call for her. She turned around and saw a brown-haired boy her height, who was sporting light green hoodie. "Andy!" She hugged him. It was her boyfriend. "Helen's dead..." He started talking before Lucy interrupted him, saying that she already knew. "Who would've wanted to kill such a caring and friendly person?" Andy asked himself. "I know, it's terrible!" Amber commented.

A minute later, another one of Lucy's friends came. He was a tall, nerdy, brown-haired with glasses and a blue and white shirt. "Phil..." Amber asked him how Helen was killed. Phil's cousin, Peter, was the deputy of the county sheriff. Amber figured that Phil could know more about the murder because of that. "From what Peter tells me; she was stabbed ten times all over her body." He explained. Andy, Lucy and Amber looked at him in shock, sadness and a little bit of disgust. "The killer slightly reminds me of someone... The Zodiac specifically." Phil continued and told them what was on the note that the police officers had found on the crime scene. The note went like so:

Make this the front page or more will die than needed.

-The Raptor

"They're still trying to figure out who the handwriting belongs to." Phil also said that they wouldn't have school as per usual. "We're each gonna be called upstairs to be questioned." He uneasily said before taking his books from the locker and leaving for classroom number eight, where they would have Geography. "Helen was one of my best friends..." Amber almost broke down again.

Lucy, Andy and Amber entered the classroom not long after Phil. "Amber, love!" Will, Amber's boyfriend called for her. He was slightly shorter than Amber, with short hair and blue eyes. "Helen's been-" Before he could finish, Amber said that she knew. "Tim?" Andy murmured quietly while looking at a tall boy with blondish hair in a red pullover. "What about him?" Lucy asked and looked at her boyfriend. "Didn't Tim make jokes about killing others?" Andy asked Lucy, to which she recalled Tim being all about attention, saying he'd go as far as to kill for fame. "Holy shit!" Lucy cursed. "We gotta tell someone about it." She told her boyfriend while they were still looking at Tim chatting to a black girl named Cheryl.

Andy assured his girlfriend that they would tell that to the police officers when the interrogation started just as their teacher, Mr. Nagelsman, entered the big, green classroom. "Alright, settle down!" He started. "You will each be taken to the principal's office to be questioned." He announced that in a slightly menacing tone. "Don't worry, it's just a few quick questions, nothing to worry about!" He tried to calm everyone down. Lucy sat by Andy, while Amber and Will sat in front of them, in row three. "It's all gonna be fine." Andy placed his hand onto Lucy's. "Trust me." He looked at her with his big, green eyes. "I wouldn't trust him if I were you." Amber turned around to talk to Lucy and Andy. She was naturally a very talkative type. "Do you know what happened in California in 1996?" Amber asked her best friend. Lucy shook her head in unease. "A girl trusted her boyfriend, only to end up getting killed by him." Amber warned her in a slightly threatening voice. Andy was quick to defend. "Amber, what the hell are you talking about?" He asked. "I'm not accusing you of anything!" She tried her best to calm Andy down. "I'm just trying to prepare her for the worst!" Amber felt slightly uneasy. Will continued to back Amber's story up. Lucy was stuck there, quiet and afraid. Her best friend and her boyfriend were accusing one another with no concrete evidence, all the while she suspected an entirely different guy.

Speaking of Tim, he was sitting with his best friend, James. James was a tall, short-haired boy with a small beard and a slightly frowning face. He came from a poor family, so his clothes were virtually falling apart. He wasn't very friendly either. He was only eighteen, but he already looked like he had at least thirty. His only friends were Amber and Tim but not even they liked hanging out with him.

After a little bit of chatting about what happened to Helen, the county sheriff walked into their classroom. Sheriff Jason Marlow was a guy in his sixties, with little hair, a white mustache and was truly kind for a sheriff. "Alright, settle down!" He spoke in his deep voice. Everyone shut their mouths as soon as they saw who entered the classroom. "I need Phil Beaumont to come with me." He called for Phil. "I'm here!" He said and got up from his seat in row five. "Please come to the principal's office with me." Marlow asked. Phil couldn't wait to ask his cousin, who was in the office already, about what else there was to know about the murder.

Phil left the classroom with Marlow by his side. The two walked into the principal's office, where principal Sanchez welcomed them. "So, Phil..." His cousin started with a smile on his face. Peter was tall, with a short beard and light brown hair. "Did you have any strong connections to Helen Anderson?" He asked his cousin. Phil said that he only had her phone number but also stated that everyone in class did. "When was the last time you've visited her?" Peter asked after writing Phil's last claim down. "A couple months ago..." Phil tried to remember. Right as his cousin finished writing that down, Phil turned the interrogation on its head. "What else can you tell me about the case?" He asked. Peter would've gladly responded if he wasn't stopped by the sheriff. "I'm sorry, but we can't give out classified information about an ongoing case." Marlow explained to Phil. He was visibly disappointed but tried to hide it and seem reasonable.

Phil left the office after about five minutes. His cousin escorted him back to his classroom and called for another one to come. "Tim Cromwell?" Deputy Beaumont called. Lucy and Andy's prime suspect was the next to be questioned. He was asked remarkably comparable questions that Phil was asked before he was.

One by one, everyone was interrogated.