Morix: Web of Mistrust

Turnabout Abduction, Part 2

September 12

Blackgate High School

4:15 PM

Sky Amaya

I walked into the school building slowly, trailing after both Lily and Victoria. I couldn't help my nerves, and I already had a bad feeling about what was going to happen next. I barely understood what was going on, but I knew that it couldn't have been good if Yuri sounded so panicked. 

Up until she called us, we had all been lounging around the agency and enjoying ourselves while going about our daily business. Mr. Morix had been quietly paranoid because Chrysalis wasn't answering any of his messages, but I didn't know how to calm him down. Chrysalis had left a while beforehand to pick up Yuri from school, but since neither one of them made it back to the agency, he was freaking out. 

Yuri's call had helped all of the pieces to slip into place. Something had happened at the school, and they weren't sure fully what could have taken place. I hadn't been the one to answer her call (that was Victoria), but I could still hear her noisy panic from my place on the other side of the room. In the car on the way to the crime scene, I heard from Lily that Chrysalis was alright, so Mr. Morix was calmed down as well. That was a good thing, of course, but I couldn't help my overwhelming concern about what in the world could have been going on to cause such an uproar in the first place. 

When we arrived at the school, I glanced around with a frown. There were too many police officers to count, but I was almost alright with that. After all, the school itself was rather large, so chances were slim that we would wind up running into too many issues with being overly crowded. I took that as a good sign because I didn't have anything else to hold to. 

The crowd around the school was difficult to move through, to say the least. I didn't know how we were going to even begin to come close to finding the body if we couldn't get into the building, so I looked to Lily and Victoria for reassurance. Neither one of them seemed to have an answer for me unfortunately, so we remained where we were until a new person stumbled free of the chaos. 

"Hey! Detective Hayes!" Lily exclaimed, waving one hand above her head to catch his attention. The young man in question let out a gasp before walking closer to us. He looked incredibly pale, but he was still doing his best to keep his composure despite how much was happening. 

"You're here!" Detective Hayes yelped, his eyes going wide with surprise before they softened into something more natural. "Mukuro was arrested for the murder! Yuri told me that you were coming, but I was still nervous about it all... She, James, and Anton are being interrogated right now, so I'm afraid that you won't be able to talk to them for a while."

All of this information was more than too much for me to handle, and I felt like I was going to fall over under the weight of how overwhelming this was already. I glanced over to Lily and Victoria once again with hopes that they would know what to do from here. Victoria seemed anxious as well, but Lily wasn't allowing the situation to get the better of her. She gestured for us to follow her into the building, and I knew that she was trying to find us a quieter place to talk. I was silently thankful for her efforts, knowing that I was going to wind up with a terrible headache if we stayed outside surrounded by so many people for much longer than we already had. 

Lily and Detective Hayes took us into a classroom near the front of the building. I could still hear distant chattering outside, but I figured that it was better than where we had been. There were posters scattered about the room with motivational phrases painted on them, and I could tell based on the large number of textbooks slammed on most of the desks that this was a history classroom.