Resturant Death Try 1

It was a warm winter day in New York and I was ridding in the car with my partner when we go a call.
"Hello this is Dective Ross, whats up.  Ah ha.  Yep.  Okay.  On our way.  Alrighty kid got a weird one and it is very weird."
"How weird?"
"Lets get to the dumpstor site and you will see."
The lights turn on and we wrer off to the local dumpstor site for the prinsinc.  This was not my frist rodio but I was still new to the department and people did not really care for me and my methods.  Ross still did not understand much but was still willing to give me a chance.  So got to the dumpster site and we walked up to the other officers.
"Hey Ross you will like this.  He was found earlier today by one of the hands helps move trach around.  No info on who it is yet but just give us some time."
"Alright show me the body and tell me what area this trach might have come from."
We all walked to where the body was found and the smell of rotten meat and spoiled food filled the air.  Mounds of trach everywhere knowing anything about a body might nearly imposible.  We reached the mound and body was nearly out of the mound.
"So this is where the body was found what do we know about where most of the trach came from?"
"Well based on the trash around the body I would say a resturant with spiral pasta and mash potato." [One of the workers.]
"Hm that eliminates MaDonalds."
They all looked at me with fasees if disgust, like I said something taboo.  Then after a moment they all started laughing.
"Nice one Joe, but lets not get a head of ourselves."
Then I finally notic the chess board for the body looking at it from a distance.
"sorry it took so long to get that visible.  With so much decay around it was not easy."
I ignored him as Ross walked past me and said
"We are off to a different princint because this mound belongs to them and I am going to see if we can help with the investigation. Come on kid lets get going."
We where quiet till we got into the car and Ross started it up.
"So tell me what you think."
"Well based off of decay that body has been their for about a month or more.  Restruant emplyoee and..."
"Thoughs are facts at hand you do not need to do that.  What did you see?"
I knew what he wanted to he so I told him.
"Based on the board it would have been two people that killed him."
"Why two people?"
"Well the bishop what in the kill zone which means the pawn that was gaurding that area was also involved in the killing."
"So what does it mean a holy man did it?"
"No in this situation the biship would repersnet an assassin of some sort."
"Well a shooter is out of the question since their are not brooken bones.  If the assassin used a blade the mussel would say so."
"Ah but do not forget that poison use to be the best way to kill anyone in the old days.  So that would be the best opption."
"So we should make sure that the body gets a toxiclogy done on it."
"It will help, but that tells us how not who."
"Okay we are almost here is thier anything else I should know?"
"Well our list of suspects is quite large."
"Why?"
"Well since it was a pawn that lead to the opening and pawns are know to be family and friends.  So once we know who it is we will have a list to work with."
"Its interesting you got a lot from the man with one look.  I still say cold cases would be beter then murders."
"I know I do like solving cold cases but being stuck down their everyday for the rest of my life listening to the reaper all the time I would go crazy."
"Hey that was not cool."
"I hear yeah.  Both are as rewarding in their own right.  I thought I still offer I know they are looking for more people."
"Yeah I will help when I can.  I like what I am doing right now."
"Well we are here lets go see if we can help them solve this."
We get out of the car at the other princint and walk in.  Since New York is so big there are multiple differnt police stations and some have a few detectives.  We meet Jonny and Tim the homiside detective for this princint and hopping they will let us help them with the case.
"Hello detectives I am Tim welcome to our neck of the woods.  I understand the body found came from our princint?"
"Hello Tim and we believe so, but at the moment we are not completly sure.  This is my partner Joe."
"Oh hello Joe this is Johnny my partner.  I get the sence you want to work together to solve the crime.  Am I right?"
"Yes we would like to help and solve this.  What do you say?"
"Well to work with Detective Ross, why not right.  We will learn a lot.  Any ideas where we can start?"
"For right now the garbige suggest a resturant that surves pasta with spiral noodles and mash potatos."
"Okay so lets go to the eaters and get some answers.  Whos hungry?"
Then me and Johnny rased our hand which at the time was the wrong answer.  But I was hungry when he asked.  We where both smaked in the back of the head.
"Okay lets go and find answers."
We left the princet to multiple eates to get some answers.  For about an hour we found five resturants that surved mash potato and spiral pasta, but since we had no name for the victom we could barly ask any questions.  Though we did find out that out of the five resturants 2 had a missing person reported to the police with in the same time period.
"Well that helped us out a little bit, but we do not know who it was or why they were killed."
"Yep but you must be hungry lets get something to eat and call it a night its getting late and Tim and Johnny can check the missing people records to see if one matches our victom.
"Okay what shall we have?"
Then I noticed we where at McDonalds.
"Come on kid lets get some food and head out."
So we went in got some food and got out quickly.  Rpss took me home and then told me that he will call if any info came up.  I went into my apartment and walked right to my chess board.
"Well that is a strange case you have man murdered and tossed into the trash.  Wierd.  Would be intersting to see who did it?"
"Yeah but something bothers me, out of the two resturants only one would have the money to pay someone to get him killed.  The other one is a small eatery and then do not make a lot."
"Hm that is interesting.  Well lets play a game of chess that should help."
We played a round of chess and it was about one in the morning before I went and got some sleep.
I slept till about seven in the morning with knooking at my door.
"Hey Joe we need to go we have a long day ahead of us."
"Give me 20 minutes I do not want you to smell trash this morning."
"I understand.  Herry up though.  The phernsice wants us first and Tim and Johnny will meet us their."
So I got up and jumped in the shower quickly and got dressed.  Got out my door to see Ross with coffee and a donut.  We then proseded to his car and went to see the morgtition.  The drive was nice and relaxing until my phone started ringing.  I look at the number and it was Stephey calling.
"Ross may I its my girlfriend."
"Sure wondering why she is calling so early."
So I answered
"Hello beautiful how are you?"
"I am fine how are you?"
"I am okay working on a case.  What can I do for you?"
"What time do you think you will be done?"
"What time do you think we will be done today?"
"Maybe I can get you done by 5pm if she wants to have dinner with you?"
"I can be done by 5pm what to have dinner somewhere?"
"Well my boss is having a big party tonight and I want you to come and meet everyone.  What do you say?"
"Sure it should be a lot of fun see you about 6pm them or later?"
"5pm will be fine.  See you later baby."
"Later baby."
"Uah.  If we are done before 5pm that will be great."
"No problem Joe, what does she have plan?"
"She want me to party and meet her co-workers.  It will be really boring."
"It will be fun so I should at your place at 6am tomorrow to wake you up right?"
I looked at him with the look that said try and I beat you up.  We got to the morge and meet up with Tim and Johnny and each were carring an extra cup of coffee.
"Morning gentalmen long day ahead of us and here is a cup of coffee to help wake you up more."
Thank goodness I just finished my first or I would feel bad about taking another cup.
"Thanks guys any more info about the two missing people from the resturants?"
"The filles are getting sorted out.  The person that deals with missing people is supper slow and dose not know the meaning fast."
"He did say once he finds the filles he will call.  Which might be tomorrow or later toningt."
"Alright then we have work to do after we ar done here."
We then walked into the morge to talk to the morgetition.
"Morning gentalmen how are we all?"
"Morning Doctor [Death in a different language] what do you have for us?"
"The victom is five foot five inches, a boxer, a..
"Wait he was a boxer?"
"Yes form some of the bone fractures it was made by someone punching each other and since it looks profesinal I asume he is a boxer.  He was mostly healthy before death or before the garbge got in him."
"Alright anything about cause of death or race?  Did you do a toxicolgy on the body?"
"I am still working on the toxicology report I still need time since seperating blood and trach is just being a little bit tricky.  So in short it will probably be about another six to 24 hours."
"Ah anything else we should know before we head out to get more info and see if we can get a name on the victum?"
"I can tell you race of your victum is hispanic and cause of death right now is being cruched."
"Okay thanks doc we will see you and once you know the toxicology report call please."
"Happy huntings boys."

Chapter Dead Horse tempt 1

Winter the white stuff falling from the sky like the other stuff, thank God it is good for you though.  It was going to be my first winter without my parents since the fire at the house at the end of October.  My world was still not the same and everyone noticed including my girlfriend and partner, both told me to take some time off to get myself back to the way I was.   An old friend of mine from college always sent me an invitation to his home every Christmas and I have always turned him down.  His name was Stuart and he was a great roommate through college and yes he took me drinking all thoughts times when I started school.  Stuart studied music at the college with a heavy concentration on business and his wife Courtney which went to school with us and studied education.  I was there at their wedding a couple of years back just after we all graduated.  Then now live in Tennence and they loved it and Stuart’s career was doing well with 3 band playing him over $20 every hour.  So I flew down 2 days before Christmas because Stuart wanted to go hunting with me and I wanted a day to relax.  The plane ride was very smooth but mid I realized that I did not have a gift for Stuart or his family and I looked through the airway magazine for great ideas.  I saw a great watch that I knew Stuart would like and then I found a lovely vase for flowers all in all it cost me $200 which will make it hard for the rest of the month.  I landed in Tenence and lone and behold there is Stuart waiting for me at arrivals ready to show me his happy life.  The man wearied glasses that fit a man of his stature and a gut that seems to never shrink even he cut back on everything he ate.

“Joe you made it how was the trip was good?” said Stuart waving to me.

“Hey Stuart how are you?  It was good and I bring gifts.”  I said heading to give Stuart a hand shake.

“Oh Joe you did not need to bring anything you just being here is enough for me and Courtney.  Come on the Joe or Courtney will kick both our ass if we are late.” Stuart said shaking my hand.

                I do wish he said something sooner about the gifts before I left New York and waste $200 on things that they probably do not need.  We got into Stuart’s nice red covetable and drove to his little place in the heart of Nashville.  When we entered the apartment there was Courtney setting up the table and there was four chairs and shortly after I learned that Stuart and Courtney had a child name Jen.  Jen was about 5 years old and she loved horses.  I slept on the couch that night and it was nice to be away from work and I wanted to call my partner up to make sure everything was okay.  Well at 6am I was up like when I was in New York and there was Stuart ready to go on our hunting.  Apernetly every year Stuart goes out hunting for quail and brings back what he gets and they cook it for Christmas dinner.  We left to his favorite hunting ground to get the food and he know that this year was going to be great most likely because I was here but I did not ask.  We got to the hunting grounds and started looking for the quail that he wanted.  Stuart blew a strange looking whistle and their birds flew and we shot and heard a loud thud like something bigger than a man feel to the muddy ground.  We both ran to where the sound was and there it was a horse on the ground for no real reason.

“Oh…My…God why is my daughters gift here?” Stuart said as his jaw dropped to the ground

“What do you mean its your daughters gift?” I said confused.

“I was going to give my daughter a horse for Christmas and have her learn how to ride it.” Stuart said still shaking.

“Wow that must have cost a lot to get.” I said seeming still unsirprised at the event.

“What am I going to do?  What am I going to say?  What..” Stuart said shaking worst than before.

“Relax man you will be find thing happen we can…” I began saying.

“Dude we just killed a horse for my daughter how can you be so calm?” Stuart said.

“Well I am a cop I do things like this on my bad days.” I said.

“So what are we going to do!?” Stuart clamed

“We I have an idea and I need you to hear me out.  Okay?” I asked

“What is your idea?” Stuart asked calming down.

“I have never had horse meat before and maybe we should give it a try.” I said with a smile

“WHAT are you crazy?  NO I GET IT SINCE YOU SHOT IT YOU GET TO DECIDED WHAT WE GET TO DO WITH IT.” Stuart proclaimed.

“Relax Stuart we can easily figure out which one of us kill the horse let me look of it and see how many shots it took.” I said calmly

“Oh so can make sure that you did not kill it yourself!  Ha I see through your trickery cop.” Stuart said

“Alright I will not check the horse so how would you like to take care of it?” I said getting mad.

“Ah I do not know can we just berry it and forget about it?” Stuart said.

“Sadly my friend if we did that and someone comes across the whole we make they will dig it up to find out what happened.  With cooking it right now people will find a camp fire and not think the wiser.” I said calming down

“Alright then we will eat it what do you need from me?” Stuart said calming down

“Well we need a fire, salt, pepper and I do not know maybe BBQ?  That does sound really good now.” I said getting a little bit hungry

“Well everything but the fire is at home so I can drive home and get it I will think of something to Courtney why I am home so soon.  I do have an ax in the car that can help cut wood for the fire.” Stuart said back to the way he was when we were in college.

“Alright I will start getting the fire rolling and you go home and take care of the other stuff.” I said with confidence.

                So I followed him to his car to get the ax and to start getting the fire wood all together.  After about hour of work I had about waist high worth of wood and I started to figure out how we are going to cook this large animal.  Then it hit me that I will cook it like Boston Market chicken which means I need to shave and gut this horse quickly before Stuart got back with the other stuff.  Slowly I cut the animals guts out and wow that smelled really bad as bad as some of the corpse in the morgue.   It was now about 12pm and Stuart shows back up with everything else, but I was only about half done trying to get this horse taken care of.

“So no trouble with the wife?” I said not trying to throw up.

“Only a little bit but she did not think the wiser, but Jen was surprised I was home so early though” Stuart said back to his normal self.

                So we started cooking the horse which took almost 6 hours to get done and that time we tried to hunt more quail and chatted about life.

“How are you feeling though Joe?  It must be hard to lose your parents like that.  I just want to help if I can if you need it.”  Stuart said sadly.

“Im okay it is getting in the way of work right now I think its because I have not let go of them yet.  I still can not believe it has happened yet. “ I said getting uneasy.

“Its okay Joe maybe this will help you being with friend that care.  Sorry I am bad at this please I know it will be hard since you are a cop and showing emotions is hard so people do not get hurt.” Stuart said trying to make Joe feel better.

“Thank you Stuart how many more quail do we need for dinner?” I said cheering up.

“Not to many more its getting late so need to wrap this up.” Stuart said

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Chapter 1.2

My life has never been easy since the day I met the Grim Reaper himself.  I was 5 years old when I noticed a strange figure near my parents just standing their and then I ran scared to the abhorred house that was at the end of out street.  While running I kept seeing the same dark figure that was near my parents was with everyone else.  When I started school I started hearing strange noised that made me jump out of my chair and it was easy to surge off but when I started hearing a voice it was harder.  It all started in the first grade the voice became more coherent and understandable and when it spook I ran out of the class room so fast you think I was part of the track and field. Everyday the voice got more coherent and many times I kept screaming "Stay away from me!"  After a months of this happening the school suggested that I needed to see a specialist to help me get through this problem.  The first time I meet my specialist I saw the dark figure that was standing near both my parent and it was a couple of weeks before I could be even in the same room as the specialist.  For many years till I was 10 I saw about 4 different specialist about me problem and not a single one could tell me what was wrong, well they all thought I had schizophrenia which was never true.  When I was about 11 the dark figure words were atible and it said to me.
"Hello my friend I am Death better known as the Grim Reaper."
"Hello I am John why can I see you and no one else can?"
"That is an interesting question and right now I do not know.  I am willing to work with you if you promises to never interfere with other peoples games."
"Wait you play a game with everyone in the world?"
"Yes I play an very unique game of chess against everyone on the planet Soul 3...
"Their are aliens in the universe?"
"Well for the time being their are not other life forms that I play a life or death game with me."
 I looked down and saw a chess board with very few white pieces and a lot of black pieces.
"Why is it like this with very few white pieces you have so many?"
"No it is not like Soul 3 chess it is more complex than that.  Right now I do not know the best way to explain this to you   Just know I am here to talk and help you discover why you can see me."
"Alright I can except it but I do not want to be startled by you.  I can except I see you but when you talk to me I do not want to be."
"I can do that but it will take a little time."
After that I felt much better but I still did not know what the Grim Reaper meant about not interfering with peoples games but that was not important right now.  Then I started learning chess to make it more difficult to loss to the Grim Reaper.  When I started middle school I joined the chess club to improve my skills and then I started seeing the death chess boards near all the students.  One day I was playing against an older student and I said "You should not move their that is a bad idea."  Then I realized it was still my turn and I felt a tap on my shoulder.  Their was the Grim Reaper wanting to chat with me near the door and so I got up and walked to the door to talk to him.
"You brook the promise but it was my fault anyway since I did not make sure you understood what I meant.  Relax everything is okay."
"So that is what you meant when we talked all thoughts years ago.  Well I will continue to practice chess and we will discover why this is happening."

Chapter 1.1

My life has never been easy since the day I met Death.  I was 5 years old when I noticed a strange figure near my parents just standing their and then I ran to my naborhud house.  Their it was the same figure that was near my parents was with everyone.  When I started first grade I started hearing a voice like someone was trying to learn how to use the phone for the first time.  I ran from the class room screaming "Stay away from me." and then the school sent me home.  Many specialist talked to me about my problem and none came close to solving the problem except the figure I saw near everyone.
"Hello my friend I am Death better known as the Grim Reaper."
"Hello I am John why can I see you and no one else can?"
"That is an interesting question and right now I do not know.  I am willing to work with you if you promiss to never interfere with other peoples games."
"Wait you play a game with everyone in the world?"
"Yes I play an very unique game of chess against everyone on the planet Earth...
"Their are aliens in the universe?"
"Yes there are but that is not important.  Like right now I am playing against you in the chess game look down."
 I looked down and saw a chess board with very few white pieces and a lot of black pieces.
"Why is it like this with very few white pieces did I lose a lot of them?"
"No it is not like Earth chess it is more complex than that.  Right now I do not know the best way to explain this to you   Just know I am here to talk and help you discover why you can see me."
After that I felt much better but I still did not know what Death ment about not interfiering with peoples games until I was 13 and in my chess club.  I was playing against an older student and I said "You should not move their that is a bad idea."  Then I realized it was still my turn and I felt a tap on my shoulder.  Their was Death wanting to chat with me.
"You brook the promiss but it was my fault anyway since I did not make sure you understood what I ment.  Relax everything is okay.

Rules

The rules are like regular chess just will a big difference, Death is always the black pieces, you start with a king only and every turn you get a new piece to work with.
Turn 1:  you add 2 Knights
Turn 2:  add 2 pawn
Turn 3: add 2 pawn
Turn 4:  add 2 pawn

So on and so forth.  It is very different for everyone but Death effects more than lives it effect the bond we form with people.

The story will be about a detective who has blamed Death for every case and since "Death" is not a real person he is nicknamed "Death did it" detective.  If this is a good or bad idea please post a comment.