[b]Artemis[/b]

Artemis just stared blankly now, convinced he was insane. Perhaps because he was getting hysterical, the first thought that ran through his head was [i]I need to cut down on the caffeine.[/i] Almost unintentionally, he spoke. "I guess I don't have much of a choice. I'll take mystery over certain death, so I accept." He suddenly felt a weight settle on his chest, and somehow knew he had made the right decision.

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[b]Lawrence[/b]

A silver haired head popped around the corner of a building and focused on Maya and Vander. "Oh, hey. I heard some yelling, so I came over to check on it. What are you two doing here?" Lawrence stepped out from behind the building wearing some kind of insane contraption that looked like some kind of upper body exoskeleton with a metal box on the back. "I thought I'd finally get to test my best work in combat, but I guess you guys dealt with it already."

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[b]Melody[/b]

Melody looked around the crime scene, trying to find evidence of Puppeteer involvement. Before she could really find anything, though, the slightest of noises made her spin around. There was a flash as a man stepped out of the shadows behind Carson, raising something above his head. "Carson!" she yelled, pushing her way through the veil that kept her hidden. She wasn't going to be fast enough, and as she watched the hammer come down towards Carson's head, everything went black.

She came to a short while later, vaguely aware that somebody was shaking her and yelling something. "..elody! Melody, wake up!" It was Carson, yelling her name. Putting a hand to her head, she groggily shook it trying to dislodge the headache. "What happened?" She asked, only to have the question waved away. "Never mind that," Carson said hurriedly, "You need to vanish, now!" Melody didn't really understand, but she slowly faded from sight anyway. Moments after she was completely gone, two other police officers entered the room. "Holy shit..." One of them said, "Who did this?" Melody followed his gaze and gasped, instantly wishing she hadn't looked. The man who had attacked Carson was lying in a heap, almost unrecognizable after being torn to shreds. "I have no idea," Carson lied expertly, "I assume it was the same person who killed the other two, though why they switched from a blunt object to a blade is beyond me. My best guess is that this kill was special to them." After reporting everything else, Carson handed the crime scene over to those two and excused himself, Melody following behind invisibly. When they were in the safety of his home, Melody phased back into the real world. "I did it again, didn't I?" She asked, her voice sounding hollow.