Chapter 4

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First Crime Scene

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From the view, the land was plane and the visual side from the sea to the dry land, the police car siren and emergency ambulance can be seen in the scene, it was glowing across the atmosphere of the new dawn. The intelligent organizations were in the scene trying to finding out the accident which had just happened about few hours ago at the beach.

The fisher man’s body was covered a with coat, revealing Barack standing above it, Alfred on the other hand, was with him, he was in his navy uniform.

Barrack squat over to examine the body again, he observe over and sigh in deep breathe.

     "I called your attention immediately I sighted the body," alfred said.

Barrack sigh inspecting the wound on the body. "That was around 3am, just saw your text this morning. No clue to any suspicious activity?"

Alfred shook his head. "My team and I just found only the body."

     "My boys will wrap the body up for the lab test."

Alfred picks up his ringing phone. "When... Just now....how.",

     "What happened?" Barrack asked stroking his chin.

"Sheriff, team two just called now, they found two lifeless body at the next checkpoint."

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"How can three civilians be dead under your watch?”

Barack said out of frustration.

"The worse can happen when people go against the law that protects them, I wouldn’t say that you shouldn’t blame me but I will want you to think otherwise and know what to say when the press starts asking question because I might not take that insult from you. So let’s say we will find a way to go about this sir." One of Alfred teammate said.

Barrack nod his head in agreement, it is wrong to just finalize his judgment. "That's what I want to hear. I need answers from you guys soon, find a solution."

     "This two guys look familiar to me," alfred spoke up at once. "I think they are working with Jessica, seen them with her few days ago."

     "You mean my daughter's friend, your fiance?"

Alfred nods. 

     "I will get across to her as soon as possible, hope she doesn't has a hand in all this. the ocean remain restricted and the town of a curfew of 7am to 7pm ”

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Alfred summon his teammates as the morning shift arrived.

     "I don't like taking orders from a police," john a slender guy confessed on their way back.

"We have no choice, the state handed the case to him," alfred replied. "What we are going to do now is what to say when he calls us."

     "It's simple," Simone a plum and yellow guy suggest. "We just tell him it's the devil's work or what else do we know."

     "I bet we would find a better suggestion soon. Let's keep our eyes and ears Open." Alfred hope.

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"Would love to drink at the bar, need to clear my head," he thought and burst into the road. He board a taxi, a cop doesn't drink in duty but barrack had broken that rules many times and he sees no problem with it. 

     "Give me my strong dry gin, two glass."

Immediately he sips, he starts to think about the crimes, trying to connect the together to see if he might get a clue. 

"The fish vendor must know something about this," he thought. "I can't trust jessica neither, she is rather behaving so strange like she is hiding something. And my daughter, not always home."

He remembers the deep cut on the first dead body, it's so deep that a knife can bearly do that. He suddenly remembers nai.

     "I must file a further investigation on that thief anytime I set my eyes on him."

His phone suddenly rang and his thinking cut off.

     "The test is ready?... I will be there in a few.... really?..... Am on my way."

He jerked up, paying his bills before heading towards the exit.

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Analyst lab

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     "This is the worst cut I have ever worked on, the wounds are so deep, all in one shape," jane speaks.

Jane is the police lab analyst, she runs the fingerprints, cell phone tracking and also analysis of bodies 

Barrack finally sits on one of the lab stools. "Can you be clear about the analysis?"

Grace switched on the tv and some test runs popped on the screen. "That's the scan on the first body..."

Barrack interrupts. "My sources found out he is a fisherman. Probably sneaked in without anyone seeing him. Deserves what he got."

Jane nods her head slowly. "The sharp objects used on the fisherman and the other two bodies aligned with each other."

Barrack smiles and rubs his palm slowly. "So there is finally a clue. What object was used in this bodies?"

Jane shakes her head in dissapoinent. "What was used on them is a traditional weapon but I don't know which one exactly. It's either a spear, a trident or an arrow."

     "Because they have same mouth shape," barrack complete and jane nods. "Did you find any fingerprints on the body?"

     "The water probably washed them off but I found this in the fisherman's palm."

She brought out a local snail shell.

Barrack laughed and stands to his feet. "I would rather get going now. Call me if you need anything or find anything."

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Barrack walked out of jane's office into the streets. He looked into a deep and narrow close to see three men, one with a trident while the remaining two look lost, they look like they were protecting the one with the trident. He remembers Jane talked about a weapon of trident spear or arrow, and this was a three headed golden trident. He picked up his walkie-talkie and called for backup.

"Immediate response, Alpha team, block 105 crimson close!"

The men heard him and they tried walking away, they were wearing unfit clothes and looked old school, he brought out his pistol and aim towards them.

“Hey! Stop there!!” he said aiming hard, the three stops walking and looks back at him, their eye ball view different to be human.

“Holy shit!” Barack mutter as the trident man Shriek out at him.

Light off

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Light on

Barack remain on his spot as his stance was well presented, looking at him from afar he looks more presented more for him to be a police officer.

Ghad took him a threat; yes he was, seeing a man pointing a gun at you. Ghad was the guy with trident, two other with him are his soldiers, and they listen to his command, he had a large scar on his face which cut from his fore head to his eyes and end up below his eyes, Scar was suppose make people ugly but his make him a bit scary and very attractive, he was of course young, probably in his early 18s or 20. He is build and heavily strong, he had a hard and shiny skin.

The two other were holding a white craft spear, made from a cowry shells, beat to weapon by a powerful magic, the merman soldiers recognized their leader by trident and depends on the type of trident, that is by quality, shape and each title and power they possessed.

"Don't try anything stupid, who are you?" Said Barack The dead response made him mad. "well, you have the right to remain silent! Anything you say or do will be used against you in the court of law." Barack said and he didn’t move from his spot. A wise thinking though, this people are dangerous and he will die if he dare trends to arrest them alone. The best is to keep them best till backup arrives.

Ghad stared at him and observe him the more, a man holding what ever he is holding is confident, of course he is doing a weapon, and it is smaller, almost a size of his palm. Ghad growl toward him and Barack didn’t move or freak. Ghad look at his two soldiers and groan from his throat, a language that mean they should run for their life, Barack shoot towards the sky thinking they will stop but they run fast the more and he chased after them and spoke into his walkie-talkie.

     "Towards the market, double cross them."

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.{this scene is clipped from “The Aliens Among us”}

While he chased after them, crossing roams and running along the street, people and passerby will ignore and hide them selves, a crazy cop running after three mad men. 

A rough scene happened when the street happened to be at the market side, so many goods were fallen down by Ghad to slow down Barack from catching up with them, Barack seems like a tough old son of a bitch. This mission made him remember his young age, he was called “the Big B”, because of his height and buff. He cant be messed with, he run his entire strength and almost catching up with a supernatural being. Foolishly enough, Ghanaian Police were so incredible with their immediate siren to cross the road with their gun aimed at the suspects.

People gather round to watch this, some with pity, and some with gladness they praised their police for awesome hard work in strategy. 

"Drop your weapon now!" Barack said, Ghad glowed his eyes back at him, he seem to understand what is going on. He drops his trident while his guard were about to do the same, he shriek at them and the step back from him.

“all of you!!” a policeman said, Barack gives the permission to have Ghad arrested as the two of the police walked towards him, but one was faster than the other "You are under arrest...." he said The police man was about to touch him with the handcuff as Ghad knock him off, he was pushed back few feet away, Ghad stretch towards his trident which he attract back to his hand . The other policemen took their aims, moving back. The second police man almost close to him, crocking his gun and shoot at Ghad twice in his chest, he watch as the bullet went in and healed with immediate effect. He turn back to run when Ghad grab him by the neck as he struggle free, the police shoots him again twice at the same stop thinking it might hurt and let go of him.

Of course it was, he staggered and groan in pain a bit, he must have felt a slight the pain and drops him. He reacts back immediately, stabbing the policeman in the leg, his trident getting stuck to the ground. With this the other backup police shoot at Ghad and his soldiers.

Then the other officers open fire on them, the whole market has now become a chaos scene, everyone running here and there to avoid been hit by the bullets. Ghad did not have enough time to pull out his weapon as he ran with the other two leaving his trident behind as he result he was shot while trying to remove it, His soldiers help him and take him out the scene.

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Barrack took the trident to the lab. "I need you to examine the trident and the wound on the victim."

Jane is astonished. "How did you get that? That was fast."

She sees the sheriff sweating and looking dirty, she then know that is not the right time to talk. The lab test on the trident begins as barrack removed the glove he used to pick up the trident.

*Few minutes later*

Jane after conducting a test on the trident, she was happy she is definitely sure and her guess isn’t wrong after all

"The finger print is stored and positively for us, this is the weapon that was used," Jane breaks the silence.

“you know he was a kid, and I have different reports of a kid terrorizing the town of Accra” said Barack. “some said he is batman superman, I have never see superman doing what I saw today.

“do you think it is the same boy?” she asked

“No, I don’t, he is a different person entirely, be careful, this are dangerous time and there might be aliens among us.”

   

"Good, have lot of work to do. See you later, I guess." Jane said as Barack nods He wore back his jacket and walked out of the lab.

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"Come in," jessica calls.

The sheriff walks in with a straight face.

"To whom may I owe this visit? Such a sunny afternoon. Have a sit please."

     "Good afternoon Miss jessica," barrack greets in a serious tone and Jessica is suprise. He has never been so cold to her like this. 

     "Good afternoon Sheriff. Would you like a soda?"

     "No thanks, let's get into the talk."

Jessica sits calmly. "If it's about the divers, I know nothing about it and I have no hand in it."

Barrack doesn't believe her. "Why would they go in without your permission? I don't think they can without the boss permission."

     "Greed could make them," she fired back, resting her back.

     "We found some footage they recorded in the water, we are still trying to retrieve the video in the cam.

     "Good luck with that. I am always here if you need me."

He scoffs. "How is your research going and what have you found?"

She would definitely not tell him about nai because her job as a marine scientist is to protect the aquatics.

     "Still on it, haven't found anything serious yet." She replied

Barrack still don't believe her. "You would never tell me even if you found something, “Well, I called in the national agency in charge of water resource, they will be here in a week, which was the plan every of my crew agree on. I would rather get going. Good day."

Jessica gasp immediately he left."hope all this won't become a threat.