Ding!
The elevator doors chimed open as Detective Jemma Mensa and her partner Randall Ross walked out. She held a pack of orange juice in her hand.
She could see orange tapes around the hallway. A middle-aged police officer came up to her.
"Detective Jemma, I'm officer Charles."
"Walk me through what happened, officer Charles." Jemma said as she took a sip from her juice pack.
"Well, there's not much here. Two bodies was found in the elevator by a resident of the building, the cause of death was knife stabs, and a fist." The officer replied.
Jemma was uninterested at what the man was saying, she had already been told that the bodies belonged to the Dragon's Head mafia group, and the only reason she was here was to see if there's any link between this one and the previous murder.
"This one, was tortured before his death." Officer Charles said before pointing at a body that was tied to a chair.
Randall immediately rushed out of the room, and one could hear him retching, he must have vomited his breakfast.
Jemma on the other hand, suddenly didn't feel so good about drinking the juice she was holding.. for on that chair sat a corpse that was skinned till its skeletal features were visible.
"I'll be damned.." Jemma said.
"This doesn't look like a simple gang hit." Randall said behind her. He seemed to have now gotten a hold of himself.
"You're right.. this was personal." Jemma said.
"Do you think it's linked? The murder of the Mateos and the one at Love and Fang club? Perhaps someone is going around capping the Dragon's Head people." Randall said.
"A vigilante? Doesn't make sense, yet highly possible." Jemma said and tossed the juice away. Just then, Randall's phone rang and he walked a bit off before returning a few seconds later.
"There's a hit at the Merchantos Mall. Lots of dead bodies." Randall said.
"Are you kidding me!? What the hell is happening in this fucken town." Jemma suddenly lost her cool. In just a span of two days, bodies have begun dropping faster than dominoes.
"First the Mateos, then the clubhouse, and now at the Merchantos Mall.. come on, let's go." she said with a frustrated sigh as she left the crime scene and the police officers who were still taking photos of the skinned corpse.
*
SCREEECH!!
Detective Jemma roughly parked her car and stepped out. On the way, the Police Chief had called her and told her to return to the station. But as always, Jemma didn't listen, and so he threatened to get her demoted for insubordination if she doesn't return to the station. Jemma had disconnected the call, hence her foul mood.
"Detective Jemma Mensa" she said as she flashed her badge at the officer outside the Mall.
She walked in and saw eight bodies covered up with white sheet. She walked towards the officer giving orders, she reckoned he was in charge.
"Detective Jemma," she said and flashed her badge, "Can you brief me of what happened?"
The officer glanced at the badge and nodded. "According to the eye witnesses, this all started as a simple misunderstanding, but the ones at fault were the Drakkov Cartel. Witnesses say they claimed to have been the one behind the death of the Dragon's Head leader, but then things escalated and now they're all dead."
"Huh!?" Jemma and Randall blurted out at once.
"Shocked as well huh? Same here. One man took down nine armed goons without a single weapon.. and get this.. most of the corpses there had part of the bodies caved in, as if they were hit by real heavy shit! But you wanna know what's even more bizarre? after carefully examining the caved in part, it showed that it was a fist that caused the cave in."
"A fist!" Randall said aloud with shock.
"Honest to God. Whoever did that most be either Superman, or a real buff bodybuilder." the officer said.
"This keeps getting better and better. Any identity on our bodybuilder?" Jemma asked.
"Well, that's even the weirdest part." The officer said as he scratched his head, unsure of how to report it.
"What happened?" Jemma asked.
"Apparently, it was a young man with a lean build, and he claimed to Damon Mateo, the presumed dead leader of the Dragon's Head Mafia, and even more weirder, we went through the CCTV records, and it checked out.. the killer indeed matched identity of the Dragon's Head Mafia's leader."
"WAIT! WHAT!?" Randall shouted in shock.
"Impossible! I'd like to see the video recordings" Jemma calmly said. But inwardly, her brain was working faster than a super computer. She was trying to make a link between all murders that had taken place in the past two days. Truly everyone who's been killed was associated with the Dragon's Head Mafia, and it started after the murder of the Mateos. But had ruled it as the work of a vigilante.. but what if things weren't as simple as she thought.. what if..
"Here it is, Detective." The officer said, breaking her chain of thought. He was handing her an iPad which she then took and tapped the 'play' icon on the screen.
For the next few minutes, she watched the recording replay the scene of Damon Mateo walking into the Mall, chatting with the receptionist, the misunderstanding with the Drakkov Cartel goon, and finally, the brutal way he killed off all eight men. The man in the video indeed matched the identity of Damon Mateo, but the way he fought, the strength and speed were frightening, inhuman even. But then, one sentence caught her attention, and she replayed that scene.
"...Your boy there said your Drakkov cartel killed me and my family. How is that true?.." she then replayed the second part. "..It clicks, doesn't it? You see, at first, I was gonna come to the Drakkov cartel and hire a few of you to help me take down the Dragon's Head Mafia for their betrayal against me, but now, it seems I have to reconsider."
Randall was beside her, his eyes glued on the screen. "Is it just me, or has the man who had his brains blown out, is now suddenly alive and have the strength of Superman?" Randall asked no one in particular.
Jemma turned off the iPad and then handed it towards the officer. "Send a copy of this to the Dragon's Head Mafia." Jemma said.
"Uhm, shouldn't we get an arrest warrant instead? This video is enough proof that the Dragon's Head group was involved with the murder of the Mateos." Randall said with a surprised look on his face.
Jemma simply gave a smile that made her look like an evil schemer. "No.. this is much more fun.. and I'm going to get me a popcorn and an orange juice. I can't wait to see the look on Carlos' face." Jemma laughed as she walked away. Her mood was lifted to cloud nine just thinking of what's about to happen.