Part 1 of the Murder story!“We need police officers! A bank just got robbed!” Said Koala answering the 911 call. The police officersstarted speeding down LakeWill Lane trying to catch up to the thief. “Alright everyone start packing up! Nightshift people will come in five minutes” said Noodle, who was the boss of the police department. Koala met upwith her bestie Weirch “sorry I can’t sleep over at your house, I agreed to help the custodian clean” she saidwalking into the janitor’s closet “it’s fine! We can meet up tomorrow” answered Weirch. Night shift came inand got to work as Koala started mopping the floors and dusting the dusty keyboards. Kholoud got up from herdesk and picked up a file from the ground “hey Koala! Do you know which person this file belongs to?” Koalaput the mop down and took the file “it’s case 360, it belongs to Weirch!” Koala took the file and put it in herpurse “I can take it to her house” Kholoud nodded and went back to work “you know… I’m also working onthat case right now” Koala nodded “what is case 360?” Kholoud stopped typing and turned around to face her“case 360, also known as the man who takes children is a case that we gotten four months ago about this manhiding behind a tree next to some little girl’s house when she was home alone and we think he kidnapped her”koala’s eyes widened “wow, I’m so shocked! Well I hope you guys solve it” Kholoud rolled her eyes “that’sgonna take years!” Kholoud went back to typing until she got another phone call“911 what is your emergency?”“Bang! Clang”“Uh hello? Anyone there?”“He is here… in my house”“Who? Who is there?”“My, my, sister and I are hiding”“From what?”“A man”*hangs up*“Send a cop to ****** a little boy and his sister are in trouble”“What’s wrong?” Asked Koala “I, I, I think the man is with some other kids!” Kholoud panicked “it can beanyone!” Koala said “just calm down” Kholoud took a deep breath “this is the 21st kid and we still haven'tsolved this!” After hours of working Kholoud and the other dispatchers left so the workers that work in themorning can come but before the people arrived Kholoud’s computer rang *ring, ring* Koala was curious soshe picked up the phone “911 what’s your emergency?”“Hello…”“Who is this?”“******”“Aaaaahhhh no please I’m sorry… *bang*. Hang up, HANG UP!”*hangs up*Koala has never heard anything like that. She was new to all of this so she got bank robberies or other thievesbut never did she ever get something like this. It made sense anyways, Kholoud has been working here for 20years now and she was 6 years older than Koala and she was the most popular dispatcher. Koala always wantedto be like her but she was still a newbie. “Koala!” Koala jumped after hearing her name but it was only her boss“you can stop working and I will pay you extra for helping out the custodian” koala grabbed her purse and ranout almost dropping the file. She had to look through it to see what was going on with this case. When she cameout of the back door she saw Mrs. Jackfire, the woman who worked at the coffee shop next door. Koala andWeirch would always go there for coffee and donuts. “Hey Mrs. Jackfire, what are you doing back here?” Mrs.Jackfire quickly turned around “oh Koala! You startled me! I’m giving the homeless people some extras becauseI feel bad and I know my boss wouldn’t let me so I stuck out that’s why you scared me. I thought you were myboss!” Koala understood. She would have done the same thing if her boss didn’t let her but Noodle was a kindperson and she used to be homeless too so she wouldn’t ignore a homeless person for food. “I know your store isabout to close but I need somewhere quiet to work on this case” Mrs. Jackfire thought about it for a second butfinally agreed “you can come into my office at the top floor, my boss is in a meeting right now for twentyminutes so you have only fifteen got it?” Koala jumped up with joy “yesssss! Thank you! Your the best!” Koalarushed in with Mrs. Jackfire in the back “slow down kiddo! You don’t even know where my office is!” Koala slowed down and stayed behind her. They went up the stairs and into her office “what case do you got there?”Asked Mrs. Jackfire “it’s case 360” Koala answered. She opened the file up and saw that there was missingposters of kids and recordings labeled with numbers. She searched for recording number 1 and finally found itat the bottom “I used to love listening to police calls from my dad all the time when I was 8” Koala nodded“your dad was a dispatcher?” Mrs. Jackfire nodded “yes he was” Koala grabbed the recording and put it in theradio in the corner of her office and listened“911 what’s your emergency?”“There is a man behind my apple tree!”“Ok sweetie what does he look…”“He is looking at me right now please send police! And he is at my door!”“What does he look like?”“He is tall and in a suit like what daddy wears when he goes to work”*Knocking* *door falls down*“Aaaaaahhhh he is inside and and he knocked my sister down!!!”“How old is your sister sweetie?”“Four she is four! Please send the police”“Oh it’s fine now… don’t send the police! He just wants to play toys with me!”“Little boy! What is going on now?”“Don’t worry the boy is with me… but your kids are next…”“I have to get home! My kids are in danger!”“Wow that was crazy” said Mrs. Jackfire “who was the dispatcher answering that?” Koala couldn’t talk.Imagine just being at work and your kids get kidnapped by a tall man who probably looked like slender man “Idon’t know who that dispatcher was but I just can’t imagine this actually happened. And Kholoud told me it’sbeen four months so the kids are probably…” she gulped. Koala didn’t want to say it but Mrs. Jackfire alreadyknew what she was gonna say. Suddenly a girl who looked Koala’s age came in holding a bunch of papers“grandma! Can you help me with the top one I don’t… who is that?” The girl had long black hair and browneyes “oh this is my friend from the police department next door” Mrs. Jackfire said. Koala waved and the girlwaved back “I’m Koala and you? Koala said putting her hand in front of her for a handshake “Anias, nice tomeet you!” She said shaking her hand. “Can you help me grandma?” Mrs. Jackfire sighed “I’m sorry sweetiemy shift isn’t over” Koala stood up “I can help you!” Mrs. Jackfire smiled “Koala is good at math and I shouldknow!” Koala smiled and took the papers “oh it’s just simple algebra” they both spent 8 minutes doing it whichmeant Koala only had 7 minutes in her office “what are you working on, Koala? Anias asked after Koalafinished her math “a case that my friend is working on” Anias froze “wow! Is it hard” Koala sighed “they havebeen working on it for more than four months”. In the 7 minutes the girls went over all 21 recordings andlooked at the kids missing posters. “Okay girls you have one minute until Koala has to go” said Mrs. Jackfire.Koala started packing the things “thank you for helping me Anias” Anias nodded and waved goodbye, Koalawaved back. While she was walking to Weirch’s house she saw a tall person giving money to another tallperson. The man who takes children? It can’t be but who is the other person over there “hey you stop there!”Koala started running after them so they ran away but after minutes of chasing she lost them. She got a phonecall from her boss right after the chasing“Koala! We need you! Weirch and Kholoud are busy to do this case and Kholoud told me you had the file”“I’m so sorry boss I’ll bring back the file”“No no no! We need you! We found something amazing!”*hangs up*Her boss hang up and she ran the other way towards the police station. After she got there she found photos ofthe kids everywhere. “Glad you made it! We found out that a girl is working with the man after hearing thisvideo the man sent me” Koala listened closely to the video“Hello Noodle, we found out that your police station is the one working to find me”*boy talking in the background*“Help us! A girl is holding a knife…”*phone drops**weird noises of kids crying in background*“Okay, I have all 21 kids tied up can I please have my son back”“Not yet” Then the video just cut off “the man thought he stopped recording but he was wrong” Noodle said “he sent usa message right after, it says…” (seven victims, if I get all seven I’m killing the kids as well and soon it will beyou!) Koala was shocked “we have to find him quick!” She said. How can a case be this hard! But she didpromise her boss she will try to help her friends finish this case “if you find any suspects or people who areacting suspicious please bring them here and we can investigate them” said her boss “I will, I promise”answered Koala “so will me and Weirch” Koala turned around and saw Kholoud and Weirch standing there.They went to Kholoud’s office to start working “I listened to all of the recordings and found nothing whilewatching them but think I found something on number 13 missing posters with a girl named Harper on it” saidKoala taking out the missing poster “what did you find?” Asked Weirch “in the poster it says that she was lastseen on Beachbay Drive which is in the neighborhood Hope and when I looked through the other posters mostof the kids are in the neighborhood and in Grander neighborhood” Kholoud smiled “we have it narroweddown to two different neighborhoods so we need two detectives to investigate both” they looked at each other“I am already a detective so I can investigate Grander and…” said Weirch “I can investigate Hope” someonesaid from behind them. It was Mia! She was the leader of the detectives and she knew what she was doing “hereis your coffee Kholoud and I can help you with the case” the girls smiled and accepted her to be the nextdetective “we also need police men to go with them just in case we catch the man and he has a weapon” saidKholoud “while me and Koala stay here just in case” Mia, Weirch, and some police men left to bothneighborhoods. With Mia in Hope neighborhood, she was going to each house and asking the parents *knock!Knock! KHOCK!* “hello I’m Mia and I’m the detective investigating the disappearance of your children” theparents let her in and told her everything “so we left Josh with a babysitter named Pin, she said that she waswith him but she had to pick up the mail because she got an email that Josh’s toy car was dropped off so shewent to get it and she got hit in the head… she woke up and Josh’s brothers were gone and Josh was beaten upin the basement” Mia started taking notes “is this what the babysitter said?” They both nodded and sighed “doyou know where this babysitter is?” The dad came upstairs and grabbed a piece of paper “here it is… she gaveit to us just in case something bad happens” Mia took the paper and went out of the house “did you findanything?” Asked Ty who was one of the police officers “I think I found a suspect who claims to have gotten hitin the head while Josh’s brothers got kidnapped by the man. Here is the address they gave us” the police officersgot into their police cars and drove off with Mia in her car following them. After arriving at her house theyknocked on the door “Open the door it’s the police!” Tall girl was standing there with her phone in her hand.She had long brown hair tied into a ponytail with blue eyes. “Do you mind telling us your babysitting story?”Asked Mia “the one about Josh?” She asked, Mia nodded “come in and I will tell you” Mia and two otherpolice officers came inside while the others stood outside “so I was getting the mail when something so hard hitmy head it caused me to pass out. Josh’s neighbors saw me and brought me in their house, I told them whathappened and they said that it was a tall man dressed in a working suit. I heard about that from my friend so Ithought it was the man who takes children. I was 100% sure it was because when I came in Josh was cryingwith bruises all over him and he told me a man came through their windows and took his little brothers whilehe was trying to fight back but he got beaten up.” Mia took notes but she didn’t trust Pin “did your neighborssee you right away or not” Pin shook her head “they were at work” Mia looked confused “then how did theysee the man?” Pin was about to answer until Mia got a call from Kholoud “another dispatcher got a call from alittle boy named Parker and he saw a woman with a suit” Mia looked confused “a woman? Is it the woman whowe think works for him?” Kholoud answered with “mhm” then she hang up “ok so I want you to come to thepolice department for investigation” they got into the police cars and left to the police department. On theother side with Weirch she was at a alleyway “I will save you Charlotte, I promise…” three girls were therestanding in front of her “what is a little girl doing here anyways?” Asked one of them “I’m not little and who areyou guys?” The girls looked at each other “I’m Legora and this is Lilly and Jamilex, now who are you?” Weirchlooked at them squinting “I’m Weirch and I’m here for a case called the man who takes children” the girlslooked at each other “is it a man with a suit?” Asked Lilly “yes it is and how do you know?” answered Weirch“that man kidnapped Jamilex’s sister while we were at the bank” Lilly said “well why were you at the bank?”Legora answered “we were checking if our boss actually put our money into our cards but he didn’t! ThatMan!” Legora started punching the wall pretending it was her boss. “Well can you guys come to the policedepartment with me” asked Weirch “if it means we get our money” said Legora, Jamilex elbowed her “ow, Imean Jamilex’s sister” they all got into the police car and they started heading to the police department… Murder story part 2Mia, Weirch, and the suspects were in the investigation room while Kholoud and Koala were in the Kholoud’soffice going through the recordings and missing papers. “I have a question, where were you, Jamilex, and Lillywhen Jamilex’s sister got kidnapped by we are guessing the man” asked Weirch “well we were at the bank whileJamilex’s sister was at Jamilex’s house” answered Legora while Mia was taking notes “and I heard that Pin, youwere a babysitter of one of the kids?” Said Weirch, Pin nodded “you said the neighbors saw you after they gotback from work right?” Pin nodded again “why didn’t anyone else save you?” Asked Mia “because it was 6 amand everyone was asleep except me, Josh, and his brothers” Mia gave the notebook for Weirch to start takingnotes “how did the neighbors see what hit you when they weren’t there to experience it?” Pin pointed to thecameras in the investigation room “there were cameras at their house and Josh’s mom told me that before theyleft” Weirch put the notebook down “I’m going to check on Kholoud and Koala if they found anything”Weirch went out of the room and into Kholoud’s office “you guys got anything new?” She asked, they bothshook their heads “but listen to this one. We don’t think it means anything but you should check it out” saidKoala playing the recording. It was a man in a suit with a rock in his hand. He threw the rock and it broke awindow “what the heck! Who is in my house” said a woman holding a bat in her hand “mommy there is a manin my room and he is playing with me!” Said a little girl but when the mom came in the girl was not thereanymore but she could hear her voice saying “bye mommy! I’m going to play with the man” then the mom saidwith tears in her eyes “Amelia! Where are you!” Then she got a phone call “Amelia’s is safe with me but not forlong”. This sounded so fake but it wasn’t, Amelia was one of the 21 kids who got kidnapped and this actuallyhappened. “The mom sent this to the police right after she called me last week” said Koala “what does thishave to do with anything?” Asked Weirch “look at his gloves. There is a tattoo of some kind of bird in theripped part of his glove” said Kholoud. Suddenly the girls heard gunshots near Mrs. Jackfire’s shop thenscreams. Then Ty who was the police officer that came with Mia handed them guns “what’s going on?” AskedMia coming out of the investigation room with the suspects “somebody shot one of the workers at the coffeeshop next door and that alert one of the police men and he is now trying to catch them” said Ty “is Mrs.Jackfire and Anias ok?” Asked Koala, he nodded “put the suspects in the investigation room for protectionwhile Me, Koala, Ty, and Weirch go and help” said Kholoud leading them to the back of the store. Thecriminal was a boy with black hair and green eyes “He is running away we have to catch up!” Said Ty aimingthe gun at him “I see you Ty!” Said the boy “do you know him?” Asked Kholoud, Ty shook his head “whywould a know a thief like him anyways?” Anias came out of the shop “Anias what are you doing here, it’sdangerous! Get back in” said Koala “I came to help you guys! And I know where he is going anyways so comewith me” Anias said pointing back of the coffee shop where the homeless people are “he is one of the homelesspeople! Now come” She said. They all followed her to a box right next to the garbage can “put the guns downor he will hurt you” Anias said. They all put the gun down and hid behind the garbage can, like Anias said theboy came with the stolen food and his gun and handed it to a little boy who looked 6-7 years old “stay here, Iwill come out” Anias said coming out. The shocked boy aimed the gun at her and was about to pull the triggeruntil he stopped “it’s just you!” Anias smiled and took out some candy from her back pocket of her jeans “howis he doing” she asked as the little boy came out “he is doing fine… but he is still sick” he said “why did youshoot that man over there?” Anias asked “he said that I was dirty and he tried to kick me out but when I didn’the took out a gun and by the time I knew it I was the one who shot him” He said as Anias sat by him “I will tellthe police officer that the man tried to hurt you and it wasn’t your fault so you wouldn’t go to jail, I mean whowould take care of him” Anias said. Suddenly Ty came out holding the gun! “Freeze Ryan!” Anias turnedaround “what are you doing!” Then Ryan looked angry “WHAT IS HE DOING HERE!?. ARE YOUTRYING TO GET ME IN TROUBLE!” he said looking pissed, Koala grabbed Ty’s arm and Kholoud tookthe gun away from him “what are you doing and I’m so confused I feel like a penguin in the desert!” SaidKoala, Ryan just ran away with his brother “WAIT! Ty?!. What were you thinking?” Anias said “why are youtaking his side!” Ty said “he is just bad and that’s what’s he will ever be!” Anias ran after him “I’m taking hisside because he is your brother! I felt bad that his own brother won’t believe him so I took his side!” Koala andKholoud just looked at each other “that’s your brother? You guys don’t look alike at all!” Said Kholoud “well he is gone and we should just get inside… let’s go” said Koala but then she stopped “actually you guys go I’ll gofind Anias and Ryan? Is that his name” she said running after them. Ryan finally stopped at Anias’ house “Waitfor meeee! Are you guys robots or cheetahs?” Said Koala “and you guys have a lot of explaining to do…”Koala said panting “this is Ty’s brother Ryan and they don’t like each other a lot…” Anias said “the best wordto us is hate then “don’t like’” Ryan said “like I was saying… they hate each other because when they were littleRyan killed Ty’s dad well didn’t actually kill. His dad saved him and died while saving him and now Ty hateshim” Anias said as Koala was nodding “how about that little kid that Ryan was with?” Ryan decided to answerthat time “he is my brother and something she didn’t mention was that I’m adopted and the little boy is too…his name is Liam” Koala now understood what was happening “ok so…” Koala’s phone rang “wait here let metake this.”“Hello Koala speaking, who is this”“Hello Koala…”“Who is this?”“Victim number 1 is coming”“What? Who?”*hangs up*Koala put her phone in her pocket “what’s wrong, Koala?” Asked Anias “the, the man said that victim number1 is coming” Koala Answered “what victim?” Said Ryan “the man who takes children said that we is going tokill 7 people and if he gets every single one he will kill the kids who he has kidnapped” Koala said with her headdown “well it’s ok, we can help you find out who this man is” Anias said smiling “and we just found out thatthere is a woman who is working with him” Koala said “and we will help you find this woman” said Anias. Mialet the suspects go and she told them that she was going to investigate them tomorrow. “Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!Someone screamed from her boss’ office, everyone ran to the office and saw blood pouring from the room “thedoor is locked!” Kholoud said trying to twist the doorknob “BOSS! ARE YOU OK?” Said a dispatcher “areyou still there?” Asked another “there is a window in his office come with me” Ryan said after hearing thescreams when coming back “how do you know that?” Asked Anias from behind him “I have my ways nowcome!” He said. Everyone ran after him except Ty “aren’t you gonna come?” Asked Koala “no I’m just gonnastay here… and it’s probably a good idea for someone to stay here just in case” he answered, Koala raised aneyebrow “ok see you later”. At the side of the police department Ryan grabbed a rock and aimed it at thewindow *Clang* the window broke into a million pieces of glass “do you guys need a ladder?” Asked a familiarvoice “Pin!” Said Mia “I got a ladder from the coffee shop next door because I needed to fix one of the lights atthe department anyways” Pin said giving the ladder to Mia “I’m not climbing this! I would die!” Said Kholoud“I could!” Said Anias. She grabbed the ladder and started climbing it and the moment she reached the windowshe screamed “Aaaaaahhhhhh!” Anias looked horrified, she climbed down and started shivering “your, yourboss is is is…” Ryan asked “is what?” Anias just stood there until she finally spoke “she is DEAD!” everyone juststood there standing and looked at her until Koala got a phone call“Hello?”“Victim number one is killed”“Wait victim number 1 was our boss?”“Good luck”*hangs up*“Victim number 1 was our boss…” Koala said after the man hanged up “what are we supposed to do now?The only clue we have is that he has a tattoo of some bird on his hand” said Kholoud “and that is what we willbe looking for” said Mia “We should all go through the town and search for a tall man in a suit with a birdtattoo on his hand” Said Anias “at least we have some clues…” said Ryan “and I will help” said Ty coming outof the doors in the back of the police department “we will go into 2 teams. Me, Ryan, and Anias will be team 1and team 2 will be Ty, Kholoud, and Mia” said Koala. The all went around to different houses and askedpeople if they have seen or known a person with these characteristics but nobody knows the man. “Nobodyknows him!” Said Anias walking back to the police station “I know who it is!” Said Ryan “who!?.” Said Koalaand Anias at the same time “it’s obviously Ty” he said which made the girls stare at him “it can’t be Ty and youknow it” Koala said “well I still think it’s him” said Ryan. “Let’s just go back” said Mia after asking the lasthouse “yeah, it’s not like we can find him this way” said Kholoud “It’s gonna take days until we find this manand the kids” said Ty “let’s just go and meet up with the other group to talk about it and make an actual plan”Kholoud said, Ty and Mia both nodded and headed back to the police department…