King Agido waited impatiently for Lukas's return while he paced around the house, he didn't know how to stay still with legs he was used to his tail but these legs would always take the [peace out of him. It didn't take long before Lukas walked in, he had been called several times by Sandra and a few calls from his gang.
"Your majesty, Lukas has finally arrived. Maybe he should explain to us why he has been spending days with that human girl and he has not brought any messages concerning our main agenda for this," Sandra said as soon as Lukas walked in.
"sorry father for the late delay I have been studying and learning about her so that I can know what doors to use to get to the important information, I don't think she had the gem when that girl was murdered," he said humbly to his father but Sandra disagreed she was still bitter about him hanging out with Salma so much.
She was betrothed to him from birth as the first wife. When he becomes king, the mermaids would only mate with one merman, but the merman would mate with anyone else after mating with their first mermaid after the joining ceremony.
"We need to move faster and get the gem before these humans make the water a non-living place for us all. This is a matter of life's death" the king said to his son who nodded.
"Why don't we just break into that house and see what's there?" Sandra said, hoping for an end to her betrothed moving around that human child.
"That would be silly, I would advise we investigate this case of the murder of this girl she may have found what she was looking for and how can we know it wasn't the gem if we don't research on this" Lukas said to his father who appeared to be nodding.
"you do what it takes, I will be back eventually. We have other plans being taken care of by the soldiers."
Lukas took his team and began his operation to find out what happened to the young lady who died at Salma's former school. He had a group of friends with him that were also part of the mission, but in the group, he had three close friends whom he trusted more than the others. It was two mermen and one mermaid.
The four of them begin from where the story all began at Salma's old school. They were at that school on a weekend, it was the same day for the girl's memorial which was being conducted at the school compounds before laying her to rest that evening, the body was still stuck at the morgue but the family and friends had pushed for this memorial done to get her case back on and justice to be done.
The four went past the people as they keenly listened to what was going on, some of her friends were saying why she was a nice person and she did not deserve all this. They stood where there were some seats and sat close to the person who was also listening to the lady speaking who was Grace's mother.
"where did she die ?" Sly, who was part of Lukas's group, asked the lady sitting next to her.
"in the girl's locker room that's where they were arguing and the next day she is found at the sewer, her body covered and hardly unrecognizable. Whatever shit was done to her was cruel" she said with bitterness in her heart.
Sly turned to look at her friends who were also pretending to be listening to what the speaker was saying but they were paying attention to what that lady was saying. They could communicate telepathically and in a short time, they had planned how they were going to meet up inside the school where the incident happened.
Lukas walked out first with JB before Sly and Andy joined them, accessing the locker rooms was not easy because the school was closed and so most of the rooms were locked. Andy however was good with locked doors and so he helped them go through by unlocking them, they walked silently just in case there was anyone around but in a short time, they found where the locker rooms were, their task was to find where it all happened that was the one way they could use to have a clear vision of what happened between those two girls.
"It must be here," JB said looking at the locker that had curse words on it insulting Salma, that was her locker. Lukas was the only one who had multiple gifts so he was the one to see the vision of what happened, he needed energy from them because this was very strong magic and he was also not in the water where they are easier because of the energy from fishes swimming all around.
He stretched out his hand to the locker and closed his eyes as he muttered some words, JB and Andy were the ones powering him the energy he needed to go back all those few days that had already happened, Sly was acting as the watch in case anyone was coming in that direction and she was supposed to warn them.
Time went back and in his head, Lukas could see the kids who were cursing and writing on Salma Locker. It all went back to where Salma was last at that place and that was the day it all happened.
Salma was packing some of her things in her locker, Grace came to where she was holding a strand of hair in her hand.
"I finally know who you are, wicked bitch" she said to her but she kept focused on what she was doing.
"I guess you will be interested once you see what I got here" she went on to bother her and she turned to look at what she was holding. It was strands of her hair.
"Is that why you were pulling my hair yesterday to get strands of my hair! Give me back my hair" Salma said to her, getting upset about what Grace had done to her the previous day by pulling her hair.
"So you have been keeping this a secret" Grace said to her but Salma was trying to hold her anger.
"I put them on fire, they didn't burn. I cut them with the sharpest razor I have and they get back, and oow I finally realise it. You have it and you have just been pretending to not have it but where? You must tell me where is the gem!'' She screamed at her but Salma was not interested in arguing with her. She looked back at her fuming with anger before she snatched the strands of hair in her hand and locked them in her locker and turned to leave but she pulled her back forcefully.
"give them back to me!" she said to her.
"you are crazy you know that and I have no idea what stupid ideas you have in your head that is making you this crazy!" Salma said to her angrily but Grace was not giving up she tried to pull Salma's hair again but this time Salma pushed her and a bright light was seen.
"Someone is coming," Sly said out to them telepathically just when Lukas was trying to navigate through the light to see what was going on because all he could hear were screams from Grace.
Sly came back running fast asking them to leave the place but Lukas was still in his vision trying to see what happened. Both Andy and JB withdrew their energy but by the time he was coming back it was too late.