Note: Phew finally got this one finished. Hope you all enjoy it. A big thanks to wenwalke for her help and having to put up with my bad punctuation and change all my English terms so you know what the hell I'm talking about.

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Chapter One

Danny woke to the sound of his phone ringing and glanced at the bedside clock. "4.36 am, this better be good." He picked up his phone and saw the picture of his goofy partner smiling back at him.

"This better be good Steven. Just because you like to rise at dawn doesn't mean the rest of us do."

"We got another one, Danny."

"Shit!" Danny exclaimed while throwing back the bed covers and rising from his bed. "Text me the address and I'll meet you there."

Danny quickly jumped in the shower then dressed. Grabbing his phone he saw that Steve had done as asked, and sent him the address. Thirty minutes later he was pulling up alongside Steve's truck. He could see HPD, and the CSU team, off in the distance, so carefully started to walk towards them.

"Another damn pineapple field." He muttered to himself.

Seeing his partner, he headed straight for him. Steve stood next to a mound covered by a white sheet.

"Is it the same MO?"

"Yeah." Steve replied. "A couple of teenagers found her, they were out here drinking late last night."

"Her?" Danny asked surprised. "The last two victims were male, are we sure it's the same person responsible for this?"

"Without a doubt, Detective," Max came over to join them. He bent down and pulled back the sheet revealing the body of a young Chinese woman. She was dressed only in her underwear, her body covered in stab wounds. Her torso told the story of a severe beating by an object that had sliced through her skin. Her abdomen, like the others, had been sliced open and disembowelled.

"I'm sure you will recognise the familiar wounds from the last two bodies. Unfortunately, I have yet to identify the type of weapon they were inflicted by. There is also bruising to suggest she was restrained for some time by the wrists, ankles, and upper arms. The cause of death is her throat was slit. Just like the two previous victims and I believe the disembowelling took place post-mortem. There appears to be some bowel missing, as with the other two victims."

"How long do you think she was restrained for?" Danny asked.

"Some of the bruising is older than 48 hours. Once I get her back to the lab I will be able to better determine a time."

"We need an I.D. Max. That will help us narrow down a time frame." Steve ordered.

"I'll do my best Commander, but I think it would be fair to say that she was most likely held for around three days, as were the previous two victims."

"Three bodies, in three months, you know what that means don't you?" Danny turned to Steve.

"That we have a serial killer on our hands. The Governor is going to flip." Steve sighed.

"We don't just have a serial killer, Steve. We have a devolving serial killer. It was two months between the first two bodies. It's only been a month since the last one. His time between kills is decreasing. He's getting a real taste for it."

"He also doesn't care about the sex of his victims. Max is there any sign of sexual assault." Steve asked concerned.

"Not that I can see from my initial assessment." Max answered replacing the sheet.

"He also doesn't care about the race. The first guy was Caucasian, the second African, now a Chinese woman. What draws him to these victims? Is it just opportunity?" Danny wondered.

"It could be, we know the first victim was taken from a bar parking lot, the second while walking his dog late at night. Both were isolated and easy targets."

"We need to find out more about our latest victim, maybe we can piece it together, see if we can get any evidence to lead us to this guy. And why the hell is he dumping the bodies in damn pineapple fields?" Danny vented.

"Come on, let's head back to the office and call the others in." Steve couldn't help but give a little smile.

"Oh so it was only me that you dragged out of bed, and down here?"

"I thought you'd appreciate the scenery." Steve laughed as he headed back to his truck.

5-0-5-0-5-0-5-0

Danny was busy briefing Chin, Kono and Lou, while Steve was on the phone to the Governor in his office.

"Whoever's doing this is sick. He takes three days to torture and beat his victims before slitting their throats and dumping them like garbage. And what is the post disembowelling all about?" Kono spat out while looking at the photos of their latest victim on the big screen.

"He's very careful to leave no evidence behind." Chin added. "We have nothing to go on, even after three murders."

Steve finally emerged from his office looking none too pleased.

"How did the Governor take it? Danny asked seeing his partner looking unsettled.

"Not good, he's given us 'till the end of the day to find a good lead, or he's calling the FBI for help." Steve explained.

"What? He doesn't trust us to take care of this?" Danny asked angrily.

"He does, but he is panicking. He's worried this will affect his chances in the election. He wants the public to see he is acting on it."

"Great so we have to deal with the FBI because of his political dramas." Lou sighed.

"Well not if we get a lead by tonight." Steve stated. "Kono, get Max on the screen for me."

Kono immediately hit the smart table and soon Max appeared on the screen.

"Good morning team, I was just about to call you with the results of my autopsy."

"That's what we were hoping for Max. Please tell me you have something." Steve begged.

"Well today is your lucky day, Commander. I do, in fact, have something, although I am not sure of its relevance." Max filled them in.

"Anything is better than what we have so far." Steve placed his hands on his hips.

"Indeed. Well during my examination of the many stab wounds I found a shard of something left behind. Mostly likely from the weapon used to inflict the wounds. Now I sent this over to the crime lab straight away, and they have identified it as part of a Marlin bill."

"Marlin bill?" Kono questioned. "They were stabbed with a fish?"

"The bill from the fish, yes," Max confirmed.

"Perhaps we're looking for a fisherman, or a dock worker." Chin suggested.

"Like the other victims wounds, none of these were lethal. They were positioned very carefully to incapacitate, but not kill. The wounds and bruising to the torso also match that of the other victims, the wounds have the same jagged appearance to them."

Steve noticed Danny's brow furrow, and it was obvious he was thinking hard. He knew Danny's thinking face, and that it was best to give his partner time to work though his thoughts. So he continued to question Max to gain as much information as possible.

"Did you find any drugs in her system?"

"Yes. There were traces of sedatives in her system, and I found a puncture mark on her back."

"Just like the two men." Kono thought aloud.

"Danny." Steve called out, snapping his partner from his thoughts.

"Mmm, yeah?"

"What are you thinking? I can see the cogs turning from here."

"Err… Ok, this might be a stupid question but Max, those wounds to the torso. Could they have been caused by teeth?" Danny asked much to the confusion of the others.

"These wounds don't match any bite marks that I know of, the wounds are long." Max replied also confused as to where the Detective's train of thought was going.

"Not a bite mark, Max, but teeth in a row. Shark's teeth, to be exact."

"You think they were attacked by a Marlin, and then a shark joined the party? I know you're not a fan of the sea, brah, but the creatures of the deep aren't out to get us." Chin joked.

"Funny." Danny replied, then leaned forward and started to access the team's data base. After watching Danny struggle with the files, Kono stepped in.

"What do you need Danny?"

Danny looked at her with relief.

"I swear this thing hates me. Can you bring up the files for the Brandon Koruba murder we worked a few years ago?" With a few taps Kono had the files on display. "Can you bring up the murder weapon?"

"Sure." Kono swiped the picture of a paddle surrounded by shark teeth, so it appeared on the big screen, along side Max.

"Now I see it brah, a Leiomano." Chin nodded and Steve patted Danny on the back.

"Sending the image to Max, now." Kono confirmed and they all watched as Max leaned in to examine the e-mail attachment he had just received.

"Well done, Detective Williams. I believe you just identified one of our torture weapons. Something like this could very well inflict the blunt force trauma, and the teeth cause the wounds."

"That doesn't explain the Marlin though." Lou pointed out.

"Maybe it does." Danny wondered. "These paddles are just one type of the old Hawaiian weapons. They also used to have knuckle dusters which had Marlin bill spears attached."

"Well aren't you the fountain of knowledge on Hawaiian weaponry." Steve stated, shocked at his best friend, who was well known for his dislike of most things Hawaiian.

"You're forgetting I used to date the curator of the Bishop Museum. I may have spent a few nights helping Gabby sort out these things. I think they have some pictures on their website. They had this one piece that was made from Koa wood, and I'm pretty sure that had a Marlin bill spear. Personally, I prefer a gun, but I could appreciate the craftsmanship that went into making it."

"Something like this, Danny?" Kono brought up the picture of the old Hawaiian artefact.

"Yeah. That's the piece I was thinking of."

Kono immediately sent this picture to Max, who once again agreed that something like that could have inflicted the stab wounds.

"Well I guess we finally have a lead." Steve smiled. "Good work Danny."

TBC