Shi No Romansu
Written By: Andrew Folchetti
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Time to wake up!
Voices?
"Unnnnnn….Where the fuck am I?"
I looked around me but it was completely dark. I felt something wet running down my arm and touched it.
"What is this? Its not...blood is it?"
My mind was pretty scrambled. I had no idea how I got here, when I got here, or even where the fuck here was!
"Think Aaron. What is the last thing you can remember?"
Oh shit...thats right.
One hour earlier
Chapter One: Remnants
My name is Aaron Foller. I was born in Seattle Washington but my family had relocated to Osaka Japan when I was 12. I dont remember a whole lot of my life in America but I do still love football and classic muscle cars. Ive been enjoying my life here now for almost 6 years. I have an amazing girlfriend, Akane, who is in the same class as me. My best friend Morsigue, who also plays guitar for our band Shinu Shunkan is dating my class leader Tomoyo. Im a major Otaku and kinda wish my girl was but I digress, that just means I can read my manga in piece.
It was raining outside. The drops were pounding as I was driving to our destination. It was our 2 year anniversary and we were coming Morsigues place to get him and Tomoyo for a double date. I eagerly rubbed my pocket and felt the box inside it. I was going to propose to Akane tonight. I couldn't imagine a more perfect way to do it. Second anniversary, our best friends, and a light dinner with a little bit of fun. Everything was going perfect, well aside from the rain. Akane had fallen asleep so it was a quiet drive. When we got there Morsigue and Tomoyo ran out the door and got in the car.
"Seriously! I hate this rain! How can you even see to drive in this shit!?", said Morshigue. "Ive never seen it so bad in my life! Oh. Shit. Hello Akane." He put his head down as he noticed her glaring at him. Akane is a light sleeper so any noise wakes her up. It didn't help that Shig is naturally a loud mouth. Tomoyo had her headphones in and just stared out the window for the duration of the trip. If you listened closely you could hear Blood Stain Child play songs like Void and Final Sky. I smiled as I thought about how great it was having my best friends with me on this special day.
Akane picked out where we were going out to have the date. She wanted to go to this supposedly haunted hospital that had been closed down for nearly 35 years. Legends say that the hospital was originally built during the war with Russia and used through the second world war as a military hospital. After world war two it was turned into a children's hospital which is when things start to get creepy. Children were known to talk to people who didn't exist. Often they would proclaim to only doing what that person said when doing something wrong. Occasionally these acts the children committed were murder, rape, and suicide. It is said that if anyone enters the hospital grounds they will never be allowed to leave and that the spirit of the hospital itself will take over your mind and body and devour you trapping your soul for all eternity.
"Like anyone actually believes this shit anyway." I thought as we pulled up.
We grabbed our things which included sleeping bags, our food for the evening, cameras, and other things that Tomoyo said we should take just in-case this place was indeed haunted. She never told me what all it was as she had it hidden in her suitcase. As we started toward the gate a van pulled up and four more people got out of the van. They looked like kids from our class so I said hey.
"Hey guys whats up."
All four turned and looked at me and sure enough I knew them alright. The students were Akio Torinashi, foreign exchange student from Italy Phillipi Porchelli, Haruka Suzimoto, and Nagisa Sunoshi. Together they formed the Paranormal Club and called themselves the Remnants. They were the students you would see never in uniform and always dressed in black with cross necklaces. We weren't exactly best friends with them but we never had issues with them either.
"Aaron is that you?, said Akio. Akio was essentially the leader of the group. Hey took his job as Club President very seriously. "You four shouldn't be here." he continued, "This place isn't safe. People have come here goofing off and never returning. Tomoyo cleared her throat. "Ahem." she said. "If we shouldn't be here than neither should you. Now if you don't mind..." She was cut of by Haruka, "Why dont they join us Akio? Tomoyo is well versed in the supernatural with her father being the head priest of the shrine anyway and it isn't like Aaron and Shig are useless either. Shig can help with all the equipment unloading and setting up since he's part of the Judo Club and Aarons dad is a big time Paranormal Investigator from America so he probably knows enough to keep him out of trouble."
Leave it to Hakura to calm down the tension. Out of the Remnants she was the peacemaker. She was also one of my first friends when I started school in Japan so we knew each other well. You see she was right about my dad. We moved to Japan because dad wanted to study the connection to Aokigahara in Mt. Fuji to paranormal activity that is believed to play a hand in the unbelievable amount of suicides in the forest every year. He taught me a lot about protecting myself from ghosts and demons so I'm always prepared just in case but, I'm not much of a believer. That being said I wont go unprepared in case of emergency.
"Ugh. Its up to them if they want to help." Akio said. At that very instant I felt as though something inside me was begging me to stop and just leave but I couldn't just give up and go home I had to propose to Akane tonight. We had already made it this far. Before I could say anything though…
"We're going in." Akane said. "Ghosts or no ghosts I want to make my second anniversary a fun one."
Well there was no turning back now. We grabbed our things and helped with the equipment and went through the gate. Again I felt like this was a bad idea. I shrugged it off and entered the abandoned hospital.