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BREAKING NEWS! New Serial Killer on the Lose in Oakland California!
Seems as if tragedy can’t stay away from the residential area of Oakland California. Recent reports have come in confirming the existence of a serial killer that has recently come to light. Not much is known about this individual other than the fact that they target suburban residents. There have been at least five cases connected to this individual, making it clear by the similar stab wounds in the stomach and slit throats. Each victim's eyelids have also been burnt off leaving and their mouths cut to look like smiles. The police have no suspect on the identity of the killer but we do have reports of his likeness.
The most recent case of these killings happened to the Richardson family last night. Luckily the daughters Jane and Jessie Richardson survived by calling 911, but not before their parents heroically sacrificed themselves for their daughters. Jane Richardson has agreed to say this on the matter: “That… thing didn’t look like a real person, his face was all white, and his eyes unblinking, his face had this permanent smile on it. His eyes were like two white dots, but still somehow conveying his joy when killing. It looked like he carved his mouth into a crimson smile. Whatever they were, it wasn’t human, just a soulless monster.”
The California Police have launched an in depth investigation of who the culprit is and advise all Californian residents to lock any possible entrance into their homes and to keep a firearm at the ready in case of any intruders. They also advise to immediately contact them if any suspicious activity is seen. That is all on this story as of today, but stay tuned after these messages for our next story on national puppy day at the shelter. We’re taking a look at these cute puppers to see if they truly are as cute as they seem. Spoiler, they most definitely are.
Jeff the Killer:
Reborn
Jeff looked out the car window saying goodbye to yet another house and town. He’s used to it at this point, it’s been the third time this year. His family never seems to be able to stay in one place for too long. His dad constantly had to move for his job, forcing his mom to change jobs constantly every time they moved. He worked with the government somehow, which made him wonder why the hell they’re so damn poor. After about an hour they drove into the new town. Jeff hadn’t heard great things about Oakland, so he wasn’t thrilled about moving here. “Jeff, Liu, we’re almost there,” said Jeff’s mom Melony. Liu spotted three kids mugging a lone child in broad daylight as they drove past. “This place doesn’t look very safe, are you sure we’re living here,” questioned Liu. “It will be safe enough with me around.” Said Jeff’s dad Franklin. “I hate it here already,” said Jeff. “You don’t mean that,” said Melony. “This is all we can afford son,” said Frank gritting his teeth. “Yeah, sure, whatever,” responded Jeff. “Now listen here Boy!” Yelled his father, annoyed by Jeff’s attitude. “He’s just grumpy, I’m sure he’ll change his mind once we all get used to it,” said Liu trying to defuse the situation. The whole family has been on edge this whole trip. Nobody is very happy about the constant moving and the stress was getting to everyone. But Liu always tried to hold the family together like glue, unfortunately he was more of a glue stick. “He’s right honey, we’re all just tired is all,” Melody said apologetically. Frank sighed in resignation and soon stopped in front of their new home. “We’ve made it, and it looks like the moving truck beat us here.”
The family gets out of the car and starts unpacking. After a couple hours all the boxes were moved into the new house. They only unpacked the essentials, since it was already late and they all just wanted to go to bed. Jeff went to his new room to set all his boxes down. It was a blank empty room that smelled of dust. “Hey new room, don’t get too attached.” He hated everything at that moment. He wishes he could just do something about it. Something about… them. He suddenly started to get a strange feeling. Jeff couldn’t shake the feeling, it was so odd that feeling he could feel. Even as he unpacked his bed he could feel the feeling. It was a feel, the kind of feely feel, a feely feel that feels… feelily. However, Jeff just ignored it and it eventually went away after he was done unpacking. Wasn’t even sure why he unpacked at all now that he thought about it. They would probably move to an even shittier town a couple months later anyways. Maybe he should just run off, he was old enough to take care of himself. Lots of 16 year old teens lived by themselves he was sure. Jeff looked around his room, it was lazily put together, but his grey bed was all he needed at the moment. Jeff laid down and rested while listening to some My Chemical Romance.
The next day Jeff and Liu headed out to their new school after breakfast. Jeff planned on not making any friends since he found no point anymore. While waiting for the bus stop they both heard the noise of polyurethane wheels on concrete. Suddenly three boys slightly older than them started circling them on skateboards. “Look what we got here boys, some fresh meat!” said a blonde boy. “What’s your name, little worms,” said the blonde kid. “yeah what’re ya names,” interrogated a skinny kid. “I’m Liu and this is Jeff, we just moved in yesterday. Do you greet everyone like this, or is this a special introduction?” “Oh I saw you move in already. Pretty sure my dad is your dad’s boss,” taunted the blondie. Blondie then stopped, kicked up his board, then pointed to himself and said, “well I’m Randy. I’m kinda in charge around here.” “I’m Troy, and I’m the muscle of this operation.” Jeff looked to Troy, he was easily the largest of the three. More like the weight of the operation, Jeff thought to himself. “I’m Keith, I’m the uhh, Sarcastic one… yeah," said the skinny one who crossed his arms trying to look cool. Easy pickings, Jeff thought out of nowhere. Jeff started to get that feeling again. “So uhh, you got some money, new kids,” said Randy, pulling out a knife from his back pocket. The other two also pulled out knives and got closer to Jeff and Liu, closing them in. “Nah man, we’re way too poor to buy our own lunches,” said Liu trying to cool things down. Randy chuckled, “Oh well isn’t that a damn shame, isn’t it boys?” “Yeah, a real shame,” said Keith, showing off his knife threateningly. “Now we have ta make an example outta ya,” Randy said as he lifted his arms into the air. Jeff’s feely feeling that felt was coming in strong now, Jeff felt he had to act on this feeling as soon as possible.
Jeff sprinted to Randy and as he tried to stab him Jeff dodged and gut punched him hard. Randy kneeled over in pain gripping his stomach and dropping the knife. “Fu~ hurk” Jeff picked up the knife and looked over at the other two bullies with a blood thirsty look. “S-shit man, he’s crazy!” Keith said, trembling with fear. Jeff slowly approached Keith ready to slice him up. Troy came in from behind attempting to blindside Jeff. Jeff ducked while throwing the knife at Keith’s fore arm ”FUCK,” he yelped. Gripping his arm Keith fell to his knees in agony, unable to do anything now. Troy stood there shocked, but quickly regained his composure and said, “you aren’t getting away with hurting my crew.” Troy threw haymakers at Jeff who dodged every swing. Randy then came out of nowhere and restrained Jeff from behind. Liu stood there shocked the whole time while the fight was happening. He however had to do something now that Jeff was repeatedly getting hit in the face by Troy. “Hey!” Liu yelled, “you leave my little brother alone you assholes!” He ran to Randy and slugged him in the face making him let go of Jeff. Jeff then quickly swept Troy’s legs making him fall on his back. All Jeff needed was one quick kick to knock him out. Randy stumbled back from another punch from Liu and he looked at his two downed henchmen. “Okay fine, you win… this time.” Jeff and Liu noticed the bus arriving. They couldn’t think of a way out of getting in trouble so the brothers ran, they ran all the way to school that day.
Jeff and Liu were now both late for school on their first day. Liu wasn’t happy about this, worried by what their parents would think. Jeff however didn’t care at all, why bother with respecting school when you aren’t going to the same one next month? They soon saw Randy and Troy, but with Keith missing. They avoided the two, only giving the brothers mean stares as they passed by. It wasn’t until lunch that Randy came over to the two with Troy. “You messed up real bad you two fuckers,” Troy hissed with rage. “Nobody messes with me and gets away with it! Isn’t that right, big man?” “Yeah, nobody messes with Randy, or any other friend of mine,” Troy said glaring at Jeff. Jeff smirked and sarcastically said, “Oh, I’m so scared. What are you gonna do, kill me? Heh go ahead, Hell’s probably way better than this shithole.” Rand clenched his fists with rage, “oh, you don’t know the half of it you little FA-” “RANDY, what did we talk about,” interjected Troy. “Ugh, shut it fat ass! I can say whatever I want, it’s a free country!” Randy argued with Troy about his use of slurs as Jeff and Liu just slipped away going about the rest of the day. It went back to how it was before lunch. The two bullies watched Jeff and Liu like hawks on the bus the whole trip at the end of the day.
Jeff and Liu came home thinking their day was finally over when they spotted a police cruiser parked outside. “Shit, should have expected that,” said Jeff. “It’s okay, I’m sure things will work out if we explain calmly.” They walked to the house preparing themselves for the talk they were going to have once they opened the door. Liu gently opened the door… “Well took you two long enough, care to explain?” Greeted their father in a way that put a pit in Jeff’s stomach. Their mother looked furious standing behind two cops who looked down at the boys. “Well boy, we’ve been told to take you in for assaulting multiple unarmed kids this morning,” said one of the cops. Jeff was appalled by the blatant lie, “unarmed? They had knives and were threatening us! It was self defense!” The cop looked at Jeff unimpressed, “Sure kid, that’s not what we were told.” “YOU WERE TOLD WRONG,” yelled Jeff. The cop rolled his eyes then said, “Liu Woods, get in the vehicle quietly or we will be required to use force, anything you say can and will be used against you in the court of law.” “WAIT! But I attacked those kids,” said Jeff. “Yeah, and I’m the queen of England," said the cop as he chuckled. Liu looked at Jeff then said, “It’s okay, just let me take the fall for this one. I’ll be back in no time.” Liu smiled at Jeff as he was taken away “Liu…” Jeff whimpered. All he could do was watch as the cop drove away arresting his brother for something that he did.
“Well now that that’s out of the way, I got some news for you Jeff.” Said Frank. Jeff just looked up at Frank offended. “We’re going to a birthday party today, at my boss's house. We’re going to show them how sorry we are.” Jeff was baffled both by the timing of this announcement and the audacity of it. “Dad, NO.” Frank crossed his arms then sternly said, “You’re going Jeff, we all need to be there.” “This is exactly what we need to brighten the mood,” said Melody. “W-what is going on!? Liu just got arrested for something he didn’t do! Also wait, why are we sorry?” Jeff felt all sorts of emotion here, sorrow for his brother, anger towards his father and the cops, and utter confusion about the situation in general. “Better get ready Jeff, we’re headed out in a couple hours,” said Melody “oh and be sure to put on your best clothes.” Jeff went into his room then listened to Marilyn Manson’s Sweet Dreams for hours. Jeff hasn’t even gotten close to getting ready. “Jeff honey, it’s almost time to go!” Called his mom down the hallway. Jeff already knew he had no other choice but to go, so he got up and got some random button up shirt on the floor. Fancy enough he thought, and put it on sloppily buttoning it. He came down the hall and his mother looked at him disapprovingly. Both of Jeff’s parents were wearing something much nicer than necessary for a birthday party. Frank wore a tuxedo, and his mother a matching black dress and makeup. “Whatever, not enough time to fix it, let’s go.” said Frank and they all left for the party.
They made it and Jeff’s jaw dropped at what name he saw strung up at the front door, Happy Birthday Randy! It was a bad dream, off all the kids, it just had to be him. Jeff was forced into the house by his parents. Jeff looked around the party, it was full of parents and their kids. They were also all nicely dressed up similar to his own parents. What kind of party is this? Jeff wondered as he grew more weary of the birthday boy. Jeff turned to run but he was stopped by Troy who stood in front of the front door preventing him from escaping without making too much of a scene. He then saw Keith who had his stab wound bandaged. He walked up and said, “Garage, now.” Jeff’s parents didn’t care enough to even pay attention as he was forced into the back of the house. All they cared about was saving face. As Jeff was moving through the house he couldn’t help but notice that there were actually more adults at the party. Guess Randy didn’t have many friends, and nobody is willing to come other than his dad’s employees. Jeff didn’t have much time to think of that however as he was taken into the garage.
The Garage had no car and most of the clutter was relegated to the walls. There were various tools on the left wall, and boxes and junk on all others. Randy was standing in the middle of the room with his arms crossed trying to look scary. Troy and Keith blocked the door behind Jeff. “Well well well, look who’s showed up to my birthday,” taunted Randy. “Just so you know, my dad paid off those cops to take you pathetic brother in. I wanted you all to myself, nothing a little fag- er, shit head like you can do now.” Randy took out a gun he hid behind his back. Jeffs stepped back but he had nowhere to run. “You’re gunna do exactly what I tell you or else!” Jeff raised his hands and shuffled over near the tools. Randy had the gun pointed to Jeff, Jeff said, “do you even know how to use that?” Randy scoffed, “does it even matter?” He had a point there. Jeff was starting to get that feeling again. It was stronger than it ever had been before. Jeff Laughed, he laughed hard, it was all he could do anymore, everything had gone to shit, and he could do nothing but laugh, and cry. “Shit, I think we broke him,” said Keith. Randy was deeply unsettled by Jeff’s reactions and his aim got even more unsteady that it was when he was confident. Jeff leaned back on a shelf full of tools and he sneakily picked up a particularly sharp one screwdriver.
Jeff stopped laughing, he looked at Randy with a crazed look of glee. Randy yelled, “what the fuck are you smiling about bastard!?” “Oh, nothing,” said Jeff calmly, ”just thinking about how I’ll kill you.” Jeff without warning threw the sharp tool into Randy's hand with the gun. Randy dropped the gun, “FUCK!” Jeff picked up another screwdriver and threw it clean through Randy's eye. “FUCK FUCK FUCK! G-GET HIM, FUCKING KILL THE BASTARD!” Troy and Keith came in close. Troy stepped in front of Keith to force Jeff into taking him down first. Jeff socked Troy in the crotch, quickly taking him down and then tacked Keith. Jeff choked Keith with both his hands smiling like a madman. Keith couldn’t even make any other noise other than grunts and chokes while weakly trying to fight off Jeff with his one good arm. Jeff didn’t stop until Keith couldn’t breathe anymore. His first kill made Jeff feel good, and he finally understood what his feeling was. It was the desire to kill. The desire to kill the ones he wanted revenge on. Jeff stood up as the other two bullies watched in horror. “You, you killed him…” said Troy. “Whoa man, this is going too far,” said Randy. Suddenly Randy’s father busted in to see what the commotion was distracting Jeff long enough for Randy to pick up the gun with his good hand. “What in the world is going on he-” Randy took the shot, it landed directly in Jeff’s stomach. He shot again, and again, and again until there were no more bullets in the gun. “Good fucking riddance,” he said.
Troy looked at Randy in shock, “Randy, what did you just do?” When Troy said that Randy snapped out of his blind rage realizing what just happened. He dropped the gun and started shaking. He looked at Jeff, laying there in a pool of blood on the concrete floor. He then looked over to his dad and realized he wasn’t alone. Everyone else was also looking back at him. “I-is that Jeff?” said Melody. Frank also looked at Jeff but he didn’t seem as concerned about Jeff. Frank already knew what would happen next. Somebody screamed, but not because there was a dead kid, but because that kid stood back up. Randy looked back as Jeff slowly stood back up watching in horror. “W-w-w-w-what the f-f-f-f-f-fuck?” Troy couldn’t move, and neither could any one else. Jeff just looked at Randy with a blank stare. Jeff ran to Randy in less than a second almost looking as if he teleported right to him. All Randy could see was Jeff’s face, his crazed smile and eyes wide open. Randy felt a sudden and excruciating pain in his chest. He looked down to see Jeff’s hand inside his chest slowly pulling something out, his heart. Troy finally found the courage to stand up but it was too late as Jeff fully pulls out Randy’s heart and crushes it with his bare hand. “Not like you really had one of those to begin with anyway,” said Jeff. Randy fell to his knees and used the last of his breath to ask, “w-what are you?” Jeff leaned in close and whispered, “The monster you just unleashed.” Jeff then snapped Randy’s neck, killing him early.
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” Troy tackles Jeff to the wall knocking over a can of gasoline all over both of them. “YOU MOTHER FUCKER!” Troy screamed as tears rolled down his face. All he could feel was rage after seeing his friends die. He knew they were bad kids, as well as himself. That didn’t change anything to him though, he was already trying to nudge them into a better direction. None of that mattered anymore though, all Troy could do now was kill the monster who just brutalized them. Jeff rummaged through Troy’s pocket, who was too furious to notice, he grabbed the perfect thing. Jeff laughed maniacally. “WHAT’S SO FUNNY? HUH,” Troy screamed. “What’s funny is that we’re both covered in gasoline, and I got a match.” Randy’s eyes widened and Jeff lit the match. It felt like everything was going in slow motion as Jeff dropped the match onto himself. The two burst into flames and Troy let out a blood curdling scream as Jeff just laughed. There was the sound of police and Ambulance sirens blaring outside. Jeff blacked out listening to the screams of Troy, and the partygoers scrambling in panic.
Jeff was surrounded by black. Floating in the void all he could feel was emptiness. He aimlessly drifted about for what felt like a millennia with no concept of any sense. He eventually saw a figure, tall and slender, pure white skin, and no face. It reached out to Jeff and Jeff reached back. He was strangely drawn to this faceless figure, wearing a black tux and a red tie. Jeff was suddenly grabbed by a black tentacle, it seemed to be from the figure. More grabbed on and they wrapped around Jeff. The tentacles covered him completely, squeezing him so tightly that any more would crush him into a fine red paste. Then, he woke up. Jeff woke up in the morgue at the dead of night. He was on the table and the mortician was turned away. They were preparing their tools to operate on Jeff, and when the mortician turned around they were shocked to see that the body they were preserving was gone. Jeff picked up a scalpel behind the mortician who looked around in confusion. Jeff silently left but not before spotting himself in the mirror he stepped closer for a more clear look at his face. He thought he would be covered in burns, but instead he was a pale white. He touched his face, it was smooth, how did his burns heal? Jeff cut himself in the arm only to see that it would rapidly heal. Jeff looked back at his face, he just noticed he couldn’t blink anymore, he had no eyelids. Jeff cut a wide smile into his face with the scalpel. However it didn’t heal, Jeff knew why though, It was because he didn’t want it to, He liked looking like this.
Frank and Melody were in bed, neither of them sleeping looking at the ceiling. The house was quiet, completely dead with just the two of them. Melody was in shock at what happened at the party, she didn’t know what her son was. He scared her more than anything else, and for some reason she just knew he wasn’t dead. Frank on the other hand was deep in thought, he reminisced back to when Jeff and Liu were both young. He wanted to do something with them as an experiment. He stole an experimental serum meant to bond with human blood. They were creating a way to become immortal. But every other test subject for some reason died in the tests. Frank had a hypothesis though, he thought that the other subjects were too old. They needed younger ones, but the board wouldn’t let him do it, so he took it into his own hands. It’s clear to him now that the test was a success. It didn't matter what the higher ups thought anymore, he was right. It far exceeded his expectations too. They then heard a creak at the door that snapped Frank back to the present. The two looked at it, but nothing was there, the door moved slightly, likely just the wind. Frank got up to close the door wondering why it had opened to begin with. He closed the door but when he turned around he found that Melody’s throat was slit open. He rushed to her side, “what happened honey?” All she could do was choke on her own blood. “I showed mother how I really felt,” said a voice from behind. He couldn’t even turn around before he was killed. The last thing Frank heard was, “Go to sleep.”
End of chapter 1: Reborn