The 1312 (New Project)

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Here’s Part 1 of the new project.

The Story Up ‘Til Now:

Don’t worry: You haven’t missed anything. Previously we discovered that our story seems to revolve around the five mysterious table sitters known as Jason, Keiri, Cece, Cloudless, and Passerby. Where the plot will go from there was not revealed; the general setting of this world was not revealed; most importantly why they were all sitting around a table was not revealed. In fact, the only thing revealed in the introduction appears to be a short stab at Jason (a.k.a. Mr. Moon Fang) who apparently does not speak to his mother. Where will the story go from here? Don’t ask me! I’m just the narrator.

Part 1

The 1312

I, the narrator, lied to you. Last time I ended the introduction with “This is where their story begins:” when it would be quite impossible for their story to actually begin there. If they already know each other than how did they meet? Who is the mysterious Passerby? Why doesn’t Cece just come out and confess her love for Pizza. To answer the first two questions (and completely discount the irrelevant third) we must travel back to the true beginning .This story begins like many others: This story begins with death.

The room was circular and white. The ceiling was white, the arced walls were buy acomplia online white, and the chair that sat at the top of white stairs was white. It was well lit which lead to the continual complaints of headaches upon entering. The brilliance would dazzle and hurt the eyes of those who visited. There is however one person no longer affected by the bright room. That person is currently also in the colorless room. He’s lying motionless in a pool of the only non-white thing in the entire room. The pool is the color of blood which is quite convenient considering order discount pills the substance is in fact blood.

You might think this is an atypical and meaningful scene, but I should remind the readers that they have no idea where they are. It might be perfectly ordinary for there to be millions of stark white rooms with recently deceased people in them. However, this is not the case. As you may have assumed (prematurely) this is not a typical scene. The man lying in the puddle of his own blood is not your typical dead person and he did not meet a typical demise.

*Thump Thump*

Someone was knocking on the door. After no response to the knock was given a tall girl with lion ears poking through her blonde hair opened the door.

I must remind the reader that normality in this world should not be taken for granted. Though you might believe lion ears makes this girl special it doesn’t. I’m sorry to inform you that all members of the Leo clan sport the wondrously proud lion ears. Thus, it should be no surprise that Keiri, the girl with lion ears, brought her hand to her head to scratch one; Keiri currently had fleas (another normality of the Leo clan). She was apparently waiting for someone because she didn’t look at all surprised to see a dead body in the middle of the floor and didn’t even jump in surprise when another *Thump Thump* could be heard from the door she just passed through.

“Come in!” she shouted. In walked a rather shaggy boy with hair running from his head all the way down his back. Though he wore a shirt where to buy doxycycline the back of it puffed out alerting us to this particular oddity. It, however, was not odd for a Lupus clan member like Jason to have hair running all the way down his back side. It was quite common; almost as common as the sharp teeth that appeared whenever he flashed one of his signature goofy grins.

“I see the kitty cat is early like normal” joked Jason.

“Baka Inu” retorted Keiri. This is quite a common way for a member of the Leo clan to greet a member of the Lupus (they don’t like each other very much). Both clans, of course, had forgotten the real reason they were supposed to carry a grudge. Apparently, the founder of the Leo clan (named Leo) was insulted by the founder of the Lupus clan (named Lupus). The comment went something like this:

[Lupus says to Leo] You know… It’s too bad we’re both guys because those lion ears are pretty cute.

Thus began the long and bloody history. Three more people came through the door in short order: The first was Passerby, a member of the Vipera clan. He sported yellow eyes and a very long tongue; across his face green scales glinted violently in the bright light. Next came Cece a member of the Phoenix clan; Red and Gold feathers covered her arms and decorated her hair. Last to walk through the door was Cloudless a member of the Dracon clan; He was perfectly normal except for the large horns that came out of his head. They were only about half a meter long.

The dead man in the center of the room stared at all five of them with blank eyes.

“So he’s really dead huh?” said Cloudless asking the obvious question. The question made them all uncomfortable because the dead man on the floor was previously addressed as Dai the 1312^th, the previous head and peace keeper of the five clans. He had been fair, just, and lots of other nice words to the five clans and his death spun a web of uncertainty for the future. The tension in the air could be scooped and spread on a slice of warm zucchini bread.

“Well the phoenix clan didn’t do it,” said Cece picking at one of the feathers on her arm. “We’re not as violent as the rest of you.”

“Well it wasn’t a Dracon either. We’ve been having a party for the last two days and you all know what those are like.” said Cloudless. Unfortunately they all did know what a Dracon party was like. Though it was rare for invites to be sent outside of the clan, for those in the clan, attendance was absolutely required… Or Else! It’s rumored that the meaning of life was finally discovered at a Dracon party, but was quickly forgotten in the twelve hours of booze, strobe lights, and general numbness that followed.

Passerby, however, was not convinced. “I’m extremely sorry to point this out to the two of you, but unfortunately we can’t rule out either of your clans as the source of the murderer. I’m sure everyone can see clearly the long marks left on Dai’s left arm.” He pointed and the three long straight red and black lines became apparent “Not only are talons particular talents of the phoenix, but the wounds also appear not to have bled at all.” Passerby looked around for confirmation. “I think you’ll all agree that those wounds were scorched closed at the same time they were made. What else but a phoenix can make those?”

Everyone turned their suspicious gaze on Cece who pretended to ignore them and continued to pick at a non-existent dust speck on a feather.

“But you said that’s not all” said Keiri, unmoved by the information. “I assume you’re referring to the water surrounding his right arm.” Everyone shifted their attention to the right arm. “You can see the bits of ice mixed in and how blue the arm is. The right arm of Dai was frozen and what’s more we can see a hand print of the person who did the freezing.” She pointed to a patch of pink outlined by blue skin; it did indeed resemble a hand that had wrapped around the wrist. “Therefore we can’t rule out a Dracon clan member either” she concluded.

Cloudless looked uneasy at this new information. He started rubbing one of the bone horns coming out of his head in agitation.

“Don’t go getting so high and mighty kitty,” Said Jason to Keiri’s obvious annoyance. “This whole body reeks of Leo to me and those marks strangling his neck” said Jason pointing to the neck “Have the same pad marks I saw on my buddy when he was strangled by a Leo.” Keiri rubbed her padded hands uncomfortably behind her back.

Unconvinced, Cece now leaned down to lift up Dai’s shirt. Upon the lifting she smiled a cruel and wicked grin,  “Well what do we have here Lupus? His stomach looks like it’s been ripped apart by Lupus fangs and I believe this tough hair all over would be a perfect match for your own.”

The five clan members were starting to not like where this investigation was heading.

Cloudless’s eyes narrowed “If there are four clans implicated in this killing than the suspicious party would be the clan that’s missing”. Everyone turned to look at Passerby whose tongue darted out with confidence.

“The two marks on his neck,” said Passerby pointing to Dai’s neck. “That’s where a Vipera clan member injected poison; the black veins surrounding should be confirmation enough that my clan is implicated as well.”

The room was eerily silent. They all seemed to be looking over the murdered body again searching for some defining clue as to who the killer was. All they saw, however, was the same thing they had seen before; apparently all of their clans were somehow implicated in the killing of Dai.

“This is all just too fishy” said Jason bludgeoning one of his long nails with his sharp teeth.

“I hate to agree with the baka inu, but he’s right; this doesn’t feel right at all” said Keiri.

Cloudless sat down on the floor, exhausted from two days straight of partying. “Why would someone go through all the trouble of implicating all of the clans in the murder?” he asked.

Cece responded, “Maybe one of the clans wants to declare war on another.”

Passerby continued “It’s also possible that the killer was simply trying to hide their own clan’s identity.”

“It could have been one of the lesser clans, like the Aquila, trying to start an all out war to weaken all of us” offered Keiri.

“Or it could just be one insidious bastard killing Dai because he could” grumbled Jason.

The air was heavy again. There were still too many suspects for a killer and all of their speculating hadn’t narrowed it down at all.

Cloudless was looking around the room now. He discovered that there was only the one entrance that they had all come through and it did not appear the body had been moved. Everything that happened, happened while the subject was standing right here; he pointed this out to the others which prompted Cece to ask “Who could do this?”

Keiri looked solemn as she scratched her ears. “There’s another possibility that we haven’t considered. What if a member from each of our clans participated in this?”

“Like a group consisting of mixed clan members?” asked Passerby?

Jason straightened, startled, “Wait a second. That sounds an awful lot like the rumors of the Ash clan? Are you suggesting that those mythical buggers came in and did this to Dai? You snakes and cats might not be as smart as us wolves, but I didn’t think you all believed rumors.”

“Rumors are seldom all false,” put in Cloudless “There was this one time my uncle and his friend Bob were rumored to be lovers. Now my uncle wasn’t gay, but it turned out Bob was.”

Passerby, Keiri, Jason, and Cece all gave Cloudless the same look. He apparently didn’t appreciate the look because he mumbled “What… It’s true.”

“Thanks for that,” said Jason. “But even assuming this magical Ash clan does exist we don’t know where they are. We barely even believe they exist at this point so how are we supposed to find them?”

“They took something didn’t they?” asked Cece “It looks like young Dai the 1313^th has been kidnapped.”

Cloudless was taken aback “What!? They took the princess?”

Keiri raised an eyebrow “I’m pretty sure he’s male.”

“No way…” Cloudless was crestfallen. “Can we call him princess anyways?”

Cece was annoyed “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. We can’t call him princess. Just call him Dai the 1313^th.”

“But cheap ampicilllin that’s boring,” wined Cloudless. “Come on; he looks like a princess anyways.”

“No he doesn’t what are you talking about?” asked Passerby.

“You know, he has the cute hair, and the soft skin…” said Cloudless clearly lost in a world of his own.

Keiri was starting to drool a little “Could this be boy love?” she murmured under her breath. When she saw Jason looking she quickly wiped it away and pretended to be very interested in the throne. “You can find the 1313^th with that nose of yours can’t you?” she asked then threw in a “Baka Inu” for good measure.

Jason nodded, but kept his thoughts to himself. He wasn’t worried about finding the Ash clan as any member of his clan could track down one of the Dais. No he was worried about what they would do when they found them. As he looked around the room he realized he still had little, to no, idea who these people were. For all he knew the Ash clan was as nonexistent as he imagined and waiting to ambush them were a whole bunch of Leos or Viperas. He could lead them to wherever Dai the 1313^th’s trail lead… The question was: What was he leading them to?

The five assembled investigators would find no more on that body. They knew so very much about the way he died, but at the same time, so very little. One thing, however, was as clear as well cleaned toilet water: Dai the 1312th did not die a peaceful death.

End Part 1

Well there you have it: The beginnings of a first plot and a little bit of a setting. There of course will be further character + other development later, but I was wondering if anyone has any favorite quirks for their or other people’s characters? I of course can put them in (like Keiri is way into girl love), but I think it would be fun to come up with some. Once again I hope you guys enjoyed it and are looking forward to another installment. If you want to be included as a character sooner rather than when I get around to it say so! I’m more than happy to work you into the next part.