Chapter 857

Chapter 857: Chapter 42- Trinity – The Investigation Continues Part 1 (VOLUME 5)

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Trinity

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“Ahem.” Everyone basically dropped their forks and stared at me the moment that I cleared my throat. “There is something about the case that I want to discuss.” I was looking at one person specifically as I spoke, but I could tell that they were on edge. “Dietrich.”

“Yes, Trinity?” he smiled and looked at me with a blank expression. That alone told me that he knew what it was that I was going to bring up. He wasn’t curious at all, he was trying to hide his emotions.

“If you would rather, we can talk about this in private, but I think you know what I want to talk about.” I saw the way that Dietrich actually thought about that for a moment. There were things in his past that none of us knew about. I doubt that even Shawn, his lover of almost twenty years, knew the things that we were discovering about him now.

“Let us talk alone, Trinity. If you decide that what I am going to tell you is important enough to tell the others, then that is up to you. Until then, I would like to keep it a secret.” There was tension in all the faces around us, even Shawn’s. They were all curious about what we were talking about.

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“Very well then.” I smiled at him. “Leon, I will be borrowing your office.” I didn’t ask, I told him. He was sitting there, staring at me as if I was speaking another language that he didn’t understand.

“O..OK.” He finally forced the word out. “Yes. G..go ahead.”

“Thank you.”

Dietrich took my arm after I rose to my feet. He was escorting me not as a guard, but as a friend. If we were going to a ball, this would have been perfectly normal. However, we were going to discuss things about his past that I didn’t think the others should hear at the moment, and that meant that the kindness he was showing me was a little odd. However, upset or not, Dietrich has always been a perfect gentleman.

Once we were in the office, Dietrich and I sat opposite of each other. There was a pair of armchairs near the window that were facing each other and it made for the perfect place where two people could talk like this.

“So, Trinity, you want to know about my past. More specifically, about the time that I spent with Alaric.”

“Yes, Dietrich. I need to know more about it. There are things that you might know that could possibly be relevant. And now that we have a moment to actually talk, I think that we need to get it out into the open. You know that I trust you and that I would never think less of you. You are now and will always be just like a brother to me. I just want to know what this stuff might have to do with the man that you once knew.”

“I understand Trinity. I really do.” Dietrich hung his head and sighed deeply. “I want you to know that back then things were different. I was different, and so were the other people that I socialized with. This was before I took over the leader position of the vampires. In fact, I do believe that my time with Alaric had much to do with me being offered the position.”

“You are an amazing man, Dietrich. I’ve always known that. From the moment that I met you, I knew that you were not like others. And I will not think less of you for taking care of a problem that was plaguing the world at the time. I am just as capable of learning our histories as you are. I already knew that there were rogues that didn’t conform to society. They wouldn’t abide by the human laws or the supernatural ones. They were dangerous to everyone, but more so the humans.” I remember what I learned from my grandfather growing up as well as from Gabriel when I studied history with him. It was all stuff that I needed to know.

“That is true. And it was those people that we hunted. I regret that I ever called myself such a barbaric thing, but I will never regret what I did. There may be methods that I regret, but not the end result. We made the world a safer place for everyone. And I would do the same thing again if I was asked to do it.”

“Good.” I was glad that there had been people out there to protect the innocent. They were like superheroes back then, literally. If humans saw them then they would see people that had powers above and beyond that of a human. “What I want to know, Dietrich, is if you know anything about that runed water. Did Alaric use something like that?”

“No. I don’t remember him having that. He used runes, but it was either on a tool, a room, or the body itself. He wanted to stop evil souls from being reincarnated, at least at first. But he hated the idea of permanent torture to the deceased soul. That was why he stopped trapping them in their bodies. We hunted evil beings for a very long time. Many, many years of working together. There were a lot of people on our team at the time and we all did our jobs flawlessly. And only during the first year or two did Alaric trap the souls. I think he felt too much remorse for them and decided to release them. Had he known that actually releasing them would cause them more pain, he might have kept them trapped.” I remembered the terror that was in his eyes when he learned that the cremated souls felt like they were burning alive. That had to be hard on him.

“So, he didn’t have the runed water. That is good.” I nodded. It made me feel better knowing that this probably was not tied to this man in any way. Just someone that had figured out what he had all those years ago.

“No. We never needed it. However, I would like to know how these people managed to make an effective holy water. I know that it is most likely runes, but the fact that it is so effective is troubling. What if these people were to put that water in the main supply? What will happen to the super naturals of the world?”

That was something that we couldn’t let happen. There were more nonhuman people in the world than there were humans. We hid ourselves well, but we lived seamlessly with them all. We used the same resources. We shopped at the same stores. We were their neighbors and their friends. If these people were to taint the world’s water, or even just one city’s drinking water, with that runed holy water, then it could literally kill millions. And that there was something that we needed to avoid.

For a while longer I listened to Dietrich talk about his times with Alaric. He told me how a typical hunt might happen, assuming that there were no surprises or complications that arose. It seemed standard enough to me. Securing the evidence, locating the condemned, and then executing them. It was not something that they took pleasure in doing, but they did it nonetheless.

I briefly thought about the stories of vampire hunters that filled legends and storybooks. I wondered if there might actually be some truth to them after all. It seems that more than half of the fiction stories throughout history were actually based in fact. Who would have thought? Next, we just needed to meet the aliens, then I would be satisfied that they were all true. And I just knew that there had to be aliens. There was no way that Earth was the only populated planet in the galaxies or all the galaxies. They were out there, I knew that they were.

With the talk over, we returned to the others. It was time for us to leave and start finding more clues. Like the aliens, I knew that the clues were out there somewhere. We just needed to keep looking for them so that we could find them.

We traveled to the next location by door. This clan was in the wooded and forest-like ‘bush’ that you always hear about. It was rural, but still moderately populated. Once we got there we met with Muriel, a witch that led the area. She was even the person that the local wolves would answer to, even though they had their Alpha. This was something that I had not experienced first hand, but it was interesting. Apparently, sharing power and land got easier when the people of my kingdom were united. They didn’t fight like they used to and had found a way to cooperate and cohabitate with each other.

Muriel showed us where three of the people had been killed in her lands. There was a warlock named Rory, a Djinn by the name of Hennessy, and a werecat named Lionel that had been murdered. Their bodies had all been found hidden in the trees.

We found the same words in the location, but there didn’t seem to be any of that rune water in these locations. That was good for us. There also seemed to be nothing that was left for us to find. They had done a good job of combing the area. And the only thing that they found were sets of footprints.

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The locals knew that the footprints were not from their people because of the soles of the shoes. There was a rune on them as well. The rune was in the shape of a capitalized letter ‘B’ but it was all angular. The rune had many meanings, but one of the things that it signified was silence and secrecy. This would explain how their movements went unnoticed. It also made me wonder if the other had worn shoes with these marks as well. If they had, then it would explain why no one noticed them or remembered them.

There were three more murders that happened in the heart of Australia’s outback. These bodies had been left out in the arid landscapes of that harsh territory, but still no one saw anything. The area was so sparsely populated, and primarily by the nonhuman variety. It would have been easy for them to spot a newcomer to the area.

On the northern island of New Zealand there was one murder that had taken place. The person in question was a Mermaid that was living near the beach with her family. She was found on a buoy off the coast. It took time to find her remains and the evidence was completely gone by the time that anyone got there. There was nothing at all for us to find there either. I had a feeling that she was lured to her death by someone feigning distress in the water and was then murdered on a boat. That was just a theory, but it was a plausible one considering that her family said that she was kind to all and helped many people in her time.

Also, all of the bodies that were found in Australia and New Zealand, aside from the one in Sydney, had already been cremated. It was common for the nonhuman community, I knew that, but it was still frustrating. And it just meant that Talia was going to need Lucifer’s help to find these souls.

From New Zealand, we traveled to Asia and the rest of Europe. It was a whirlwind trip, but it wasn’t meant to be fun. We were hopping from pack to clan so fast that it was enough to make us dizzy. It was necessary though. We needed as much evidence as possible, and I meant to find it. Also, I was still waiting to hear back from Rawlynne about the samples that I had given her.

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