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SHADOW TOWN
Like a normal teenager,I used to spend my leisure with my two bestfriends Eva Summers and Noah Johnson.I live in a small town called Shadow Town which was named by the local people after a mysterious shadow like figure appeared in the woods and killed people and teeangers who went in the woods for camping .The shadow man was never caught and the people of the town still live in fear upto this day.As we were spending our normal day at our school"Springwood Highschool" our Principal Kruger made an announcement for all the students to gather in the auditorium.We all gathered at the auditorium and Principal Kruger gave us a heart breaking news.
Principal Kruger: Today I have gathered you all here to inform that one of our brightest student of Springwood Highschool Ms.Jade Michaels has been found dead in the woods..As the sheriff has informed us that she was camping last night with her friends in the woods.Her friends are at the station being interrogated .No student should go anywhere near the woods as you know about the killer shadow man who lives in the woods.It's for your own safety.Thank you.
The entire school as well as the town was talking about the murder of Jade Michaels and her mysterious killer The Shadow Man.
Eva:This is totally insane.A mysterious man appears out of nowhere and starts killing people in cold blood but what's his motive behind all this?
As I could say by the look on Noah's face that he was cooking up something in his mind.He turned to me and said,"Lucas and Eva lets investiagte.Anyways the summer holidays are coming up and we got nothing better to do.So lets find out who this shadow man really is.
And from that day our lives turned into a nightmare.My name is Lucas Smith and welcome to the dark mysteries of Shadow Town.
The summer holidays arrived and we started digging out information about our mysterious shadow man.But first, let me tell you about my bestfriends.Eva is a very good detective and one of the brightest students of Springwood Highschool.She caught one of my classmate who used to steal money from other students school bags.She caught him red handed stealing an empty bag which was planned by Eva and handed him over to Principal Kruger.The Summers are a rich family in Shadow town and own the very famous chocolate factory in the town called as Dark Cubes.Noah is the head of the football team and his mom is the mayor of the town and a family friend.And about me,my dad is a sheriff and I am the head of the newspaper club in my school.My mom and dad split like 5 years ago and I live with my dad.
So back to the shadow man thing. According to Eva's information,shadow man appeared in the town 8 years ago and he has killed 30 people in the town and most of them were teenagers who went to camping in the woods.According to the autopsy reports of Doctor Fredrick the bodies have missing organs.
Noah:Why would the shadow man take out their organs?
Eva: Maybe he feeds on those organs.Afterall he's not a human or that's what people say.
There were too many questions on my mind about the shadow man but i told my myself no to get too much involved because its just a summer vacation fun investigation or that's what I thought. Well we were all late for dinner so we head to our houses. I got home and took a shower and helped daddy set the dinner table.We were having a random discussions about school and summer plans until that one phone call that gave me chills.Daddy left the house in a rush and I had no clue what was going on.I hear the door noise and it was dad.
Me:What happened dad ?
Dad:We found a body near the woods.
Me:Was it the Shadow Man again?
Dad:Yes and I have been summoned by the Mayor Johnson tomorrow morning regarding two continuous murders by that damn shadow man.
Me:Don't worry dad you"ll catch him soon.
And then I went to my room and fell asleep thinking about the murderer and the woods.Next morning we planned to meet up at Eva's tree house in her backyard.
As we were going through some of the detials about shadow man and his killings I found a woman named Angie Simon who is a survivor.I told Eva and Noah about her and we agreed to find this woman and get information about this man.Noah said he'll find where she lives so we can go visit her and ask few questions.After some digging I found out that Mrs.Angie Simon is staying at St.Peter's Comfort Centers for trauma and domestic abuse.We went to the facility to visit Mrs.Simon and only one of us could meet her so we decided that I'll go in and question Mrs.Simon.
I was taken to her room.She was sitting at the window,staring out with a rosery in her right hand saying prayers.I was given 10 minutes to spend time with the patient.I pulled a chair from the corner and sat next to her.She turned towards me with those eyes still in fear and she had few fingers missing on her left hand and a scar on her forehead which looked like she was attacked with a sharp object probably a knife.
Me:Mrs.Simon, my name is Lucas Smith and I've...