Stars had made their way into the once blue sky when we got to the alley where we were told Suzy Richards was last seen.

According to our Intel we were in the right place, so we searched around carefully.

Some of the cops found the Volvo, a few inspected it while, Wes and I went deep into the dark in search of the Crucifier. I found red threads on the ground. I called Wes and he picked them up for further observation. They looked very familiar.

"Tina! This is Tina's hair! She must have cut it so we could find her!" I screamed.

"Well she's brave but we might have a problem. Some of the hair strands might have been scattered by the wind or something else. Let's just hope that whatever's been on this street for the past twelve hours was not a fan of clearing out Tina's hair." Wes replied.

It took a while but some of Tina's hair remained intact and just beside a pile of junk we found a yellow ribbon close to what seemed to be a white carpet.

"This looks like what she wore in the security footage. I think I saw this ribbon on her pony tail." I said after keen observation.

"There's got to be something else. This carpet can't be a dead end." Wes mumbled as he walked round the carpet.

He turned to the other officers behind us.

"Guys search round. Some go north, others go to the east and west but no one should go beyond three meters. Let's go!" He ordered. 

In what seemed to be a second he swept his hair and then lifted the white carpet. He threw it to the side to reveal an opening on the ground.

"I knew it! Everyone! There's some sort of secret passage here!" He said. 

The other officers gathered round, while some tried to tactfully open the little wooden door found under the carpet in haste and without a sound.

Wes and I crept into the large hole first after it had been opened. There was a sturdy staircase, which continued in the dark until our feet hit cemented ground. There was some sort of scent. A very familiar scent. Roses.

Soon, we passed a bed of roses. Red roses. They grew around a grave in a room with no door.

In another room, we found humans. Dead humans. Some were hung and others were lain on the floor with roses at the centre of their chest. 

The bodies that were hung, swung from the ceiling by ropes. Their hands were sewn together by long copper wires. The dried blood which once crept down their palms was a horrible sight.

The eyes of some bodies were closed, others open and a few had their eyes gouged out of its socket, leaving dark and hollow circles on their faces from which red liquid once dripped towards the earth. 

The room shone brightly from the rays of a fluorescent bulb. The bodies did have one thing in common. They all wore nylon. Black nylon torn to look like a gown of some sort. It was a horrific sight indeed.

One of the cops threw up, but Wes had another officer escort him back to the surface.

In another little room which had a touch of red and green neon bulb rays, we found another abysmal sight. 

There was a scabby reading table and a wooden chair in the room. There were also boards. Boards which had skulls on them. I knew about wooden boards which had animal heads on them. 

I had seen such headboards in our wooden cabin when I was a kid during my family's vacation in the woods. I knew a lot of the heads were fake, but this time it was real and they were human skulls. I was terrified.

My heart strolled towards my mouth, at the sight of three of the skulls which still had rotten skin on them with bloody eye balls which were clung to their sockets by a cluster of veins.

Tears fled from my eyelids and I closed my mouth with my hands, so my whimper would remain unheard. It was awful. Wesley held me close and was in the verge of comforting me, when we heard a sound. 

"Over there! We found someone at twelve o'clock! Stop! In the name of the law!" one of the officers screamed.

Wes and I ran as fast as we could. My heart held in a mixture of fear, anger and hatred. At a point we lost the chased but we split up to find the criminal faster.

After pants and paces for half an hour, we found the criminal.

Wes and I found the Crucifier. Then in another drastic moment, we lost the devil when she struck Wes with an object I could not see. I felt warm liquid roll down swiftly beneath his sleeves. He gnashed his teeth in pain but insisted that we keep moving.

I caught a glimpse of the human we chased. She did have blue eyes but her hair was tucked in the red beanie she wore, while a few swayed underneath. I could not see the colour of her hair clearly. The baggy pants and over-size jacket she wore hid her stature. Anyone could have thought she was a man. Her face was covered by a black mask. I had to know who it was. Was it really Daisy? I had to find out.

We chased the Crucifier until we caught up with her in another room. The killer stopped and backed us. We got the feeling she tried to hide her identification.

"Too late. We'll know now. This is a dead end for her." I whispered to Wes. 

We also found Tina tied to a chair at the far end of the room. Her mouth was covered but her green eyes were wide open. Her face was battered and her hair was unevenly short. She was brave indeed. There was also someone else. Another human lain lifeless on the floor, covered by a huge green cloth.

The culprit attempted to lift something, but I felt anger released in my fingers. With a speed unknown I shot at the roof. 

After the thundering sound I slowly pointed my gun at the criminal. I felt courage wrapped in hate as my adrenaline pumped in increase.

"Don't you dare make a move or take a step! All these years you've chased me. You killed everyone I knew and every person I loved. You went after Wesley too. I can't remember the last time I slept without having a nightmare. I can't remember the last time I strolled the city streets without fear. Tears never stopped flowing down my cheeks because you exist. You ruined my life! So don't you dare move or I swear to God Daisy, I'll shoot. Of all the people I could think of. You just bounce back from high school for the sake of making me miserable. What did I do to deserve this Daisy? What did I ever do to you? What?! I've always wanted to kill you but the law wouldn't let me do it my way. Take just one step and I'll damn the consequences. I'll put a hole right through your head and shatter that brain of yours! At least the world would be better off without it. So one step and you're done for! It's not a threat. It's a promise but I pray you move. So please move! Move you bastard and I'll pull the trigger!!"

Wes followed up after me and in a calmer tone he spoke to the Crucifier. "Remove that mask from your face and with your hands above your head, slowly turn around."

The Crucifier lifted the red beanie from her head and removed the black mask from her face. Her long hair fell on her shoulders. I still couldn't tell the colour. The light in the room was too dull. 

In that moment, I looked at Tina's face. Her eyes had widened and they looked twice larger than a minute ago. 

"Of course, she'll react in that way. Her so called mother's the Crucifier. It's shocking indeed." I thought.

The Crucifier spun around slowly and soon her face was as clear as the blue skies on a sunny day. My eyes became wet in an instant and hot tears fell freely from my reddened cornea. 

I wept within me so hard, my heart ached, my lungs struggled for breath and my throat became dried accompanied by writhing pain. My mouth remained wide open until I tried to sputter a few words.

"Oh my God! I can't...It's not...You're..."

My eyes were blinded by tears and my limbs were weakened,  but my ears were wide open to grasp the first words spoken by the Crucifier.

The Crucifier smiled at me and in a voice so familiar yet implausible she said;

"Hello dearie!"