The Black Lily- chapter 1

Hi. I'm a 21-year-old detective. Well not exactly. I carry a gun and solve cases. But I don't run about lawns and look at cigarette ends. I go on dangerous rescue missions with my friends Hana and Malhaar. This IS the story of me and the Black Lily.

 

 

CHAPTER  1

I stood by the jetty, staring out onto the horizon. I came here every day to watch the sunset, which was heavenly on this part of the island. I was on my island named Daksh, which was located a few miles north of Havelock.

I ran a detective agency there and my full life ran around the agency. Over the past few years, this had become my home. Occasionally, I travelled through India for various cases. I had fought crime on many occasions. I had just returned from one such case in Kashmir, which was about an old lady's untimely and tragic death. She had been brutally murdered with just her house keys. But that is a story for another time. As I was saying, it had been barely two days since I had arrived home to see everything in a complete mess. papers trashed, tables upturned, closets broken. It took me a while to set things right. Now that I had managed to do that, I was free to think about this occurrence. Not only had they ruined my house and agency, but they had also taken with them the Black Lily. The black lily was a stone flower made out of black obsidian. Legally the stone was mine.it had been passed down for centuries in my family until my great – grandfather had ended up alone and unable to trust others. So, he hid the stone somewhere in the Nicobar Islands and the secret died with him. I had to find it as it was a priceless relic.

One might argue that I was foolish to leave the lily alone on an island, with absolutely no one to guard it but of course I'm not that stupid. I had kept it in a vault in the basement which was merged into a wall. So, unless you knew exactly where it was you could not 0pen it. It had one point that needed to be pressed for it to come into view. Then there was the vault itself. There were a million different combinations. It would take a year to crack it and I checked the vault every day at 10 in the night. On t0p of all of this, the basement itself was hidden underneath a layer of sand.

I sighed. If my enemy could get through all of these security measures and then crack my code, steal the lily and escape, then they were very smart indeed. That meant that I could not do this alone. I needed my friends now, if ever. I took out my phone and scrolled down to the bottom for I had not called them for a while. I dialed her number.

Asmi responded immediately," ya?"

"The black lily's gone."

"Stolen?"

"that's what it looks like "

"Be there in 5."

I hung up and was just about to call Malhaar when I noticed a boat trying to dock.

"hey", I said "you aren't allowed here."

The boat sailed still closer. Fine. I waited until the boat docked before starting on him.

"didn't you hear me? You aren't – "

I cut myself of, noticing that he was hurt. He was bleeding severely. I helped him get off the boat and looked around. I was glad to see Jennifer running towards us.

"he's been shot in the stomach", I told her.

Just then I saw Asmi's boat docking. I felt relief coarse through me. If Asmi was here, then he was safe. She was the best doctor he could get.

Even in all the chaos I could not help but notice that he had jet black hair and light brown eyes that were currently scrunched up in agony.