A Murder So Strange
Amy Sadler © 2021
Author’s Notes
This story is a complete re-imagining and a reinvention of an old tale under my old user name of PetBabyAmy. This version of the story however, is at least a first for me personally, as I have never done one before, the combination of a Sci-Fi and A Murder Mystery story combined. So I hope that you will all enjoy it.
Prologue
Stellar University, Raya
Tom Hayward was an 18 yarn old boy, he had long blonde hair that was kept in a pony tale, he had baby blue eyes, he was 5ft 4in tall, with a very slender build, but this was normal for all Rayans, even the females, however, he was quite short, as most males his age are 6ft tall and over and the same is for the females, only the young ones are of a small height. He was in his own room of the boy’s dorms of the University itself, keeping the boys in separate rooms happen to help curb bad behaviour, such as no one boy daring the other boy to do something foolish etc. That sort of thing, it was the same however with the girls, they too had their own rooms. (Not Shared)
Tom was a Rayan, he was an alien, of a human like nature, only that he had light brown freckles going down both sides of his face and he had two high ridges atop of his head, where eyebrows would be if he were human. However, he was not, everyone that lived on Raya, were Rayans. They lived almost like humans, in buildings that represented their homes, which were hexagon in shape, some were topped with spires, some were not. There was an array of oddly shaped what humans would call, skyscrapers, though their shapes varied and as such, they are difficult to near almost impossible to describe, but some of them do seem to defy the laws of physics, but this was Raya, which had it’s own unique style of physics.
Tom was wearing a 3 piece blue suit that was shiny, the fabric was metallic, a fabric that had a shiny sheen, yet it was not silk or satin in nature. The material was the same both sides and on the inside, the material had a way to regulate the body temperature, so that the person wearing it, would not even get cold, even if they were to step out into a snow covered world. The secret of how this fabric did what it did, was a well guarded one at that. Anyway the suite was of royal blue in colour, compromising of a jacket, a waist coat, a bow tie and trousers. The socks were of a like cotton fabric and his shoes which matched his entire outfit, were of blue PVC.
Tonight was a very special night, hence why he was dressed the way that he was, normally he would just be wearing a T-Shirt, with trousers, socks and Sports Shoes (Trainers) It was an Evening Gala Night, which is held once every yarn. (Rayans equivalent to the humans Prom Night and a yarn is the same length of 2 Earth Years.) He had a date, which was Shazina Fortuna, who was 5ft 6in tall, she had dazzling sapphire blue eyes, very long blonde hair, down to her waist, with a curvy figure to die for. This made a lot of the other male students there at the University, jealous of Tom for getting her as his date for that all important event.
The door of his room opened automatically, the moment he approached it, but it did not slide open from side to side, instead, it slid open starting from the bottom all the way up into a recess of some kind at the top, where the door stayed there, until he was out of his room entirely. he was soon inside a long and decorative massive hallway that lead to other rooms on the 1st floor level of the University, the door to his room slid back down from where it was held, the girls dorms were on the 2nd floor.
The moment that Tom had stepped out into the grand hallway, several male figures suddenly surrounded him and they all began to attack him and then they began to cart off his unconscious body along the hallway and out of the university itself. The gang of males had been very careful as not to be seen carrying Tom away, far from the grounds of the university.
It had to be a place though where he would not be so easily found, but at long last the male gang had found the perfect spot, which was a densely thick woodland, obviously the gang knew their way around the woodland, or they would end up being lost in the vast expanse of the forest.
The male gang had reached the middle of the woods, Tom’s shiny suit was now torn in several places, with traces of blood, from where the gang had beaten him severely. The gang placed Tom on the ground and then they all ran off, back to the safety and the warmth of the university itself. Tom had been unconscious for quite sometime, by the time he came to, there was a small breeze in the wind, it wasn’t too cold, as he strained to get up, his body was bruised all over the place, any movement caused him some pain, but he had soon gotten to his feet.
“What the?” Tom remarked as he noticed the woodland now all around him. He tried to look for the shape of the University building and it was one of those odd shaped one’s that no one could possibly miss. But alas, to no avail, all he could see was miles and miles of trees in either direction, Tom looked down at his right wrist. “Damn. They have taken my locator band.” He remarked in total dismay. A Locator Band, was piece of plate metal with a unique locking system but there are ways to open one, they were supposed to be tamper proof, so that students could not take them off, as it was a means to locate them, should they ever dare try to skip class etc.
The wrist bands were of a smart metal band with micro technology embedded within it. Though it took quite some time for the very first person to manage a way of how to unlock the locator bands in the first place, but soon this trick got spread around through various gang members of dubious behaviour. But for a long time, no one had ever hacked into these locator bands, in a very long time, as those who wore them had gotten used to them, etc. Tom now realised that he was lost in the middle of the forest with no way of telling which direction the university to be in.
All of a sudden there was a tinge of semi-coldness that swept across Tom’s face now. This told him that it was going to get even colder, should he stay where he is. Tom took one more look around his surroundings, he then spotted what seem to look vaguely like an opening in the far off distance. Even though there was no sign of the university in sight in that direction, it was the only one that was different from the rest of his surroundings, and so Tom began to make his way toward that opening that was far off in the distance.
Tom had been right, about the coldness, the more further he walked, the colder it began to get, he had to rub his arms and his legs repeatedly, as so to keep the circulation in his blood, going. Doing this though slowed him down a little, but he finally had reached the opening, but much to his dismay, there was no sign of the university. However, there was a huge lake and on the other side of this lake in the light of the twin full moons of Raya, there was a mansion of some kind, just then a figure of girl that looked to be near his age and height, came to the end of the lake and she saw him.
Tom smiled, or at least tried to do so, with the chill cold biting into his arms and legs. The girl was wearing a pretty frilly white dress with pink ribbons all around it, of what Tom could see at least, yet the dress looked oddly short and child like in it’s design, with it’s short puffy sleeves, the girl on the other side of the lake then suddenly waved to Tom. Not wanting to appear to be rude, he waved back at her.
But all of a sudden, the girl turned around as though startled by something, she backed away, nearly almost on the edge of the lake itself. There was no way out, no place for to run to, as a figure that was right in front of her, shot her with a laser blaster, which sent the poor girl flying right into the air and then into the lake itself. Tom screamed out, then a laser blast shot just right past of him. Tom saw a bridge that crossed over the lake and the one who had fired at him ran right towards it.
Tom then realised that he had just witnessed a terrible murder and that he had been a witness to it, but now he was a potential victim, which meant, that he was going to be killed, if he does not do something fast and find a place to hide. But where? Tom looked for a sign of anything, just then he noticed some smoke in the far off distance, which meant only one thing, that smoke was coming from some ones home, the owner may think him crazy, but Tom had no choice but to try and run in the direction of that house smoke and hoped against all hope.
TO BE CONTINUED.
