Chapter 4
Journal Mysteries Revealed
"This is our library. We document whatever we can involving our victims, any assignments we get, and really any event you wish to preserve."
"That's a lot of books! Can we write about what just happened? And what do you mean by assignments?"
"We've been around for a while. To your first question, of course! Whenever you have free time you're welcome to use any of the laptops in the library to document what just happened. Just save it into the google drive file that has your name and we take care of the rest. As soon as I have some time I for sure will write about our fun together."
"To your second question, the Society has to absolutely remain top secret. Sometimes you'll be given a specific person to kidnap and play with. That person could be completely random, someone who stumbled on our secret, or a threat like a former agent. Major threats are the only ones that need to be specified to you so that you exercise more caution. Minor threats or random women won't be elaborated on which one is which. Another assignment could be infiltration like my assignment now. I'm posing as a police officer in a precinct that got close to discovering us. My current job is to eliminate any evidence that could possibly lead someone to us."
Christina's head spun with so much information all at once. She was excited that a super secret organization like this existed. The answers Molly gave brought up more and more questions.
"How do you erase people's minds?"
"Ever see the movie Men In Black? Or any of the sequels?"
"No but I think I heard about it. They make sure people don't know about aliens among us."
"Exactly. I don't think an organization like that exists. It could, but we haven't found anything. And their organization if real wouldn't conflict with ours so we don't care either way. Anyway, do you know how MIB kept it's secrets in the movie?"
"It had something to do with why they wore sunglasses all the time right?"
"Yes, they used an object called a neuralyzer. It had the ability to erase someone's mind and the user would suggest a false memory. The false memory would be accepted by the person who would then go off on their merry way. Anyway, that movie sparked the invention of a real neuralyzer. Though, it hasn't been fully perfected yet. We can't give someone a false memory, but we can erase their minds. We have to do the mind erasing in a specific building while on any LK campus. Instead of using sunglasses as protection we use rings. The way they protect us is pretty technical, but the short version is whoever is wearing one of our rings won't be affected by a neuralyzer if one is used. Once you have been trained, go on a few test assignments, and become inducted in the Society you'll get your ring. That's why on campus we have to be careful and make sure neuralizing someone is done in one specific place. New recruits don't have rings yet and we don't want to have their minds accidentally erased. Once you get your ring it's very, very important to keep it on at all times. The only time you would ever take it off is when your mind needs to be erased for whatever reason."
"Uuuuh...ok so we have objects that can erase minds and rings protect us..."
"Yes, it's lot's of information. Don't worry! You will be trained well and eventually the information will be second nature to you. You'll know it just like you know your own name."
"What if I fail?"
"That's what I'm here for! I am your mentor and coach. My other assignment besides impersonating a police officer is to train you to become an agent. Something I think we'll both like after earlier..."
Both girls smiled as memories flashed of what they had done before coming to the library.
"To answer your question, if you are not suitable to be an agent then we will cease to exist for you. Just like if you were to decide to back out we would cease to exist. Your mind would be erased and all evidence of contact between you and the Society will be wiped clean. But don't worry, no one wants to see you fail. We all want you to succeed."
A few agents walked into the library then, completely nude. Christina suddenly felt weird about putting her clothes back on after she and Molly were intimate. It was an odd feeling to be somewhat embarrassed by actually wearing clothes instead of being naked. Molly sensed her embarrassment.
"You have another question for me?"
"Do we have to be nude? Is there a dress code? Rachel was the only one clothed so far that I've seen..."
"Oh, that. You can be naked or you can be clothed. No one will care either way. On assignments where you don't want to leave behind any possible evidence you can and should use a black full body suit. Beyond that we wear whatever we want. If you want to stay in clothes, stay in clothes. If you want to be nude, be nude. Obviously some conditions require you to be clothed. Like when you're out in general public so you don't draw attention to yourself. Also like Rachel. If you had seen her walking around naked in a bank...well, I'm sure you can use your imagination on how you would have reacted. Anyway, unless specified no one cares if you walk around clothed or walk around nude."
"So much information, it's like a dream only more complicated."
"It's real. I am real. We are real. Now, hold your questions for now. I want to give you your first lesson. It is said 'those who don't study history are doomed to repeat it.' Have you read the journals of The Hunter and Huntress?"
"Only the part where Huntress attempted lesbian rape."
"Here, read these journals. This is the best example of recent history that should not be repeated."
Christina read the journals. Horror filled her at the insanity of the man who called himself The Hunter. Huntress was just as insane as him. Finally, she got to the lesbian rape story in Huntress and felt her cunt get wet again. Molly spoke once Christina had finished reading.
"Ok, so now that you've read everything I can tell you some of the history behind this so you won't repeat the same mistakes made by others. First off, Rachel really was raped by The Hunter."
"Rachel...wait, the Rachel I met when I came here? That Rachel?"
"Yes."
"What the fuck?"
"Hard to believe I know, but it happened. Rachel hadn't been inducted into the Society yet. It was one of her tests to kidnap someone, but somehow she wound up in the wrong location. Luckily her trainer was able to keep track of her, but didn't get there in time to stop the rape. We of course took Paul, erased his mind, and placed him where he belonged. Rachel also got her mind erased of course so she wouldn't remember the trauma. As you can see, failing a test doesn't mean you're automatically out. Rachel is still with us."
"What about the dream before?"
"That jumps a little ahead but I can answer that now. Paul's journal allowed us to discover the neuralyzer can give someone false memories, make it appear as if the event was a dream, and even combine the false memory with the actual event in a dream. Other agents confirmed similar experiences to being neuralyzed, thinking they were the only ones. Rachel's trainer confirmed Melinda Warren was mentioned as the prior owner of the house and it was the wrong location before erasing both their minds. That's why Paul dreamed about her. Since this discovery we've increased attempts to place whatever memory we want to into an erased mind, but we cannot fully control it. Until we can, we are to only erase someone's mind and return them to their proper place in the world."
"Wow."
"Yeah, wow indeed. The next part is on us. We as a Society made a mistake and didn't think the young man was a threat. He just responded to someone who broke into his future home. An extreme response sure, but we felt like as long as we didn't bother him he wouldn't bother us. We had no idea he was The Hunter...until one of our agents was taken."
"Woah, who was the agent?"
"Caroline."
"Caroline...the one from the journal?"
"The one from the journal. Catherine would have been one of ours too, but she decided her sexual tastes were too different and didn't want to be part of it. Anyway, Caroline thankfully took off her ring and slid it into Paul's pocket before she was knocked out. I forgot to mention our rings also have a tracking device in case someone gets into trouble and needs to be rescued. We were certainly surprised to see the tracker register at a very familiar address once we learned Caroline had been taken by the serial kidnapper."
"So wait what happened to Caroline and Catherine? The journal doesn't say because pages were ripped out."
"Due to being completely off guard and because The Hunter seemed like he killed his first victim, we assumed the twins were dead. We took months to prepare our revenge against him. We didn't know then that Paul sold the twins into slavery. He traded them for various tricks and traps both to torment his victims and to protect himself. Caroline had became broken and told Paul all she knew about us. When an agent was killed by one of the traps to survey the surroundings of the old farmhouse we knew we had to be much more careful. Our leader decided to leave him be and avoid Paul at all costs. But then, he took another agent."
"Yikes!"
"Yikes indeed. It became even worse when people copied what Paul was doing and women were found dead. We had to cease our kidnap operations and lay low. The copycats gave us the idea to fake a few kidnappings, but we quickly learned it was pointless. Paul didn't care about the fake kidnappings. He thought it was funny. Anyway, the Melissa mentioned right before he took Tina Hill? That was our agent he took. We couldn't sit by any longer and watched him through the shadows to try and figure out a way to stop him. He wrote about this time in his journal too and called us 'the eyes.'"
"Unbelievable that one man could be formidable against this..."
"Well remember no one knew the first victim of The Hunter was an accidental death. Had we known that we wouldn't have been so cautious. But as you know, the idea that he was a serial killer ended up being his downfall."
"Yeah because his last victim thought he was going to kill her."
"Exactly. So, going back to Melissa he captured her and we just had to do something about it. His terrorizing needed to stop. 6 newly inducted agents were sent to observe, report, and kill Paul if the opportunity arose. We had enough of him."
"So the whispers Tina heard and the evidence investigators found were all real!"
"Yes. They were sloppy and left evidence behind. A good agent leaves little to no evidence. Anyway, they should have tested the defenses and killed Paul when they had the chance. Instead, they debated on whether or not to save the victim. They thought bringing someone to our base to erase their mind would have been harder. It’s true, it would have been harder, but it would have been the best thing to do. They also screwed up on Paul's journal."
"So the agents ripped out the pages of the journal!"
"It would have been better to have destroyed the journal. At the end of the day though we were happy to no longer have to worry about The Hunter. There was nothing in what was left of the journal that would lead anyone to us. A clue or two but not enough for someone to even come close to the truth."
"But then Huntress came into the picture and complicated things."
"Indeed. We knew who The Hunter was. I had already infiltrated the police in an effort to try and slowly guide the police to suspect Paul without drawing attention to myself. Thus we knew long before the general public about Huntress since she left behind her new name as evidence. This time we decided to take no chances and observed her every move. But Huntress only raped men to start off with. We thought because of that she wouldn't bother us."
"But eventually she did."
"Mary Turner was one of our agents. She conspired with another agent to go rogue. We aren't sure why they decided to kill people who knew them, but we believe that was their goal. It was a pointless way of attracting attention. As you know from Tina's journal, Mary's ring fell off before the rogue agent activated the neuralyzer. Thus the rogue agent mistakenly erased Mary Turner's mind."
"Who was this rogue agent?"
"Can't remember her name off the top of my head. It was a fresh recruit who had dreams of grandeur from what I remember. I think they wanted to be the leader or something and force their way to the top? Huh, interesting I don't remember fully. I must have been neuralyzed to forget that specific information."
"Are you concerned that you were neuralyzed?"
"No. It was probably someone I was close with and wanted to forget about so the betrayal wouldn't be as painful. Remember our leader and the agent about to get neuralyzed both sign off on having it done if wanted or needed."
"So I shouldn't worry about being neuralized then."
"No. No one will do that without your consent. Sometimes you might want to forget specific information too and ask for it to happen to yourself. In the case of the leader needing your consent it's usually a very, very good reason."
"Ok that's good to know I guess."
"Now you understand why you had to jump through the trust hoop to come here. You just need to give us your trust and you will have ours."
"Fair. Sorry, I got the conversation off topic. Continue."
"Right, where was I? Oh yeah! Mary Edwards regained her memory somehow and wanted to get back into the Society on good graces. We asked her to come to our first campus in Louisiana, quite interested in how she regained her memory. She claimed she didn't know how, but we now suspect it was through her dreams based on the journals of Paul and Tina. While she was there, Huntress killed her."
"I'm sure that didn't go over well..."
"It didn't. We of course knew Tina was in Louisiana. We were watching her after all. She wasn't as observant as Paul was and never saw us watching. So, when I returned to the hotel room and found Mary Edwards dead I knew exactly what had happened."
"Wait...you in the hotel room...so that means..."
"Yes, the last victim of Huntress was me."
"Wow, what did it feel like?"
"Despite my protests I enjoyed it aside from the mousetraps. I do enjoy playing the victim."
"I enjoy you as a victim too."
"Oh yes, you were an enjoyable rapist. So, as I was saying since I enjoy playing the victim I allowed myself to get captured by Huntress. It didn't take a genius to see what she was planning."
"So then Huntress escaped but met her end when you caught up to her."
"We had no idea Huntress kept a journal in her car. Fortunately since I'm someone on the inside I was able to read the journal pretty quickly after it became evidence. I then destroyed or manipulated as much evidence as I could to prevent the police from getting anywhere close to the truth."
"Wow. This story is just too crazy to be real..."
"That's how the Society existed before the neuralyzer. It was too absurd of a story for anyone to believe something like us existed. Agents were of course far more careful back then. You'll find little nuggets of our work here and there for the past hundred years or so, but no one outside the Society would ever be able to make any kind of connection."
"Hundred years? So it has been around a while."
"Yes we have. Now, what lesson does this history teach us?"
"Be on your guard always expecting the unexpected. Be reasonably cautious and gather as much information as you can. Leave little to no evidence you were ever there."
"Excellent. You learn quickly. I'm sure you have more questions. Before we go further though you need to be tested through a training assignment."
"Tested??? Already???"
"It's ok Christina, don't stress out over it. I wouldn't test you if I thought you weren't ready. Remember, Rachel failed a test and is still with us. This is only your first one. We don't expect you to be a master after knowing about us for less than a day."
"Ok, ready as I'll ever be I guess."
"That's the spirit!"
Molly led Christina to the other side of the library. At the other side was another door. Molly ushered Christina inside and shut the door behind her. She then walked up some nearby stairs to a control room in order to view Christina's progress.
