The Criminal Chronicles Story 1 - Shayzo Bright part 1
#1 of The Criminal Chronicles
The Criminal Chronicles Story 1 - Shayzo Bright
Part 1 - Introduction
By Ikari Kitsune
Shayzo lay on the dust covered ground of the warehouse, looking up at the ceiling but not really seeing anything much at all. He coughed a bit, blood spattering the inside of his mask, his paw reaching slowly to his chest before moving further up over his face where he could just about see the blood dripping from his fingers. He smiled a little bit, even chuckled for a moment as well. He had always been fascinated by death and now here he was experiencing it for himself. He closed his eyes as his arm fell to his side, allowing his mind to wander back....
From the shadows the hyena watched his prey, every now and again taking a moment to look all around to see who else could be watching. Being the cities most wanted criminal was exhilarating but it was also dangerous for his health. He knew he should be lying low or even moving out of the city, but he couldn't control his urges, nor did he want to. He had tried to force himself to take a break but it was like a drug to him, calling to his very soul, a call that he happily answered, and tonight that desire would be sated for a while.
Shayzo Bright was a highly intelligent hyena, placed in the very top of his class when he had attended university studying biology. He never finished that course however due to the fact that halfway through his first year he killed one of the other students. It had started in the campus bar as a joke on the hyena, but Shayzo rarely took kindly to jokes about him and had punched the offending senior, a big jock rat out for trouble. Both of them were then ejected from the bar and Shayzo had been ready to just go back to his dorm, but the rat had not wanted to leave it there. As the hyena was walking back a fist came out of nowhere, knocking him to the ground where he quickly scrabbled to his feet. The rat had picked up two of his jock buddies and the three of them were all drunk and very quickly began to rain blows down upon the hyena. Shayzo however was not as weak as the older men believed, returning blow after blow, but was outnumbered and bound to lose. As the hyena grabbed the large rat around the neck he had kicked out to both sides, knocking the other two to the ground, then without thinking he wrenched his arm around and broke the rat's neck with a sickening crack. The next moment campus security had been all over them, apparently someone had seen the fight from nearby and called security. Shayzo was to be charged with killing the rat but had gotten of on probation for arguing self defense and the witness backing up that he had been attacked first. The entire incident however got him expelled from university, but had given him his first taste of death, a taste he never forgot and one that grew on him. Shayzo had gone on to kill seven more people before this night, and had quickly become one of the most sought after people in the city.
Shaking his head, the hyena narrowed his eyes upon his target, a lone prostitute standing on a dimly lit street corner. His eyes scanned her body, a tall, black furred wolf dressed in a very revealing top and leather miniskirt. Shayzo liked variation in his targets, finding out how different types of people reacted in the face of death, watching them die and reveling the feelings the act brought forth inside him. Taking a deep breath he finally peeled himself away from the shadows he was concealed in, walking across the road and down towards the girl, his body covered by a black trench coat, only his head on view. As he neared the prostitute she turned her head towards him and smiled softly, a very inviting smile that Shayzo returned.
"Hey there honey, you looking for a good time tonight maybe?" said the wolf, turning to face him and giving him an ever better view of her body under the single street lamp.
"As a matter of fact I am, yes," the hyena replied, smiling even more to her.
"You got somewhere we can go to mister?" This question made Shayzo pause for a moment and look around slowly. There was no-one visible and he couldn't hear anything nearby.
"Not really, but there's a nice alleyway back there," he said as he turned back towards her, "if that's alright." She nodded to him and he turned around, putting an arm around her small frame, walking her back the way he had just come, pausing as they reached the alleyway to take a last look around and then step down it. Taking note that the alley only had the one exit, Shayzo pressed his catch up against the wall slowly and began to kiss her neck softly. He slipped one arm around her body to hold her and the other reached into his pocket, grasping the blade that he had there. "I'm afraid I'm going to kill you now." Shayzo whispered as he leant his head up with his lips close to her ear. Her eyes went wide and she was about to scream for help when one of the hyena's paws engulfed her mouth, shutting her up completely. With the other hand he placed his knife to her neck and spoke once more in a whisper, "my name is Shayzo Bright; remember that as you leave this world." With that he drew the knife across, slitting her throat in a smooth motion and looked into her eyes before letting her collapse to the floor, blood drenching her outfit now. He licked across the blade, cleaning the blood from it before pocketing it once more. As he turned to go his foot kicked the girl's purse, spilling its contents and causing him to look down. He grinned a little bit and chuckled as one item caught his eye, the gleaming badge that had rolled out identifying the girl as a police officer. His head snapped up and growled as there was a squeal of tires as a car pulled across the alley entrance and two figures leapt from it.
"Freeze, police!" came the cry from one of the men, followed by a soft prayer to God as a light fell into the alley and illuminated the dead body on the ground. Shayzo looked up and around, instantly seeing a fire escape and as the two cops shouted at him again he took a small running jump, catching the bottom rung of the ladder. He strained and began lifting his body up, but felt hands on his legs that tugged and heaved him right back down off the ladder, crashing to the ground where the two cops jumped on top of him and cuffed him before dragging him into their car.
It wasn't until reaching the police station and after processing that his identity was discovered and the truth about who they had captured sunk in to the two cops who were now hailed as heroes. As he awaited trial, Shayzo was visited several times by a leading psychiatric doctor, Dr. Serner who talked with him for a few hours each visit and then told the authorities that they hyena was rather insane, seemingly without any real sense of morals and certainly no traces or guilt, remorse or regret and recommended that Shayzo be incarcerated at a psychiatric institute for study. This was met with hostile opposition as it was widely believed by just about everyone that the hyena deserved to die for everything that he had done.
The day of the trial came round and the evidence was stacked up against him, the prosecution going for the death penalty and his attorney fighting for incarceration at a mental institute. The trial was fairly short, not even needing a guilty verdict as everyone knew he had done it; all that was needed was sentencing. Slowly the hyena stood in his chair, shackles holding his wrists to his waist and his ankles together, and the judge stared down upon him.
"Shayzo Bright, you are a disgusting individual but I would have granted your lawyers argument to put you in an institute. However your last victim was a police officer and that changed everything, no-one can get away from the only verdict for that crime," the judge began," and so you are hereby sentenced to death."
To Be Continued...
So what does everyone think of this story so far? Who wants to know more about the story of Shayzo Bright? This is my first submitted attempt at writing something non-sexual and serious. Please leave your comments as I'd love hearing them.