Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN ANYTHING. GHOST HUNT CHARACTERS ARE NOT MINE.
MaixNaru
Chapter 1
The sound of Mai's small shoes echoed and spread like ripples along the walls of the damp, dungeon like basement.
'I knew I should have memorised those blueprints Naru had out. Why does this clients house have to be so extravagant anyway?'
As Mai continued to make her way down the path she noticed the unusual plant clinging to the stone walls. Small, thin, deadly green, vibrant, vines grew in the crevices along with dust, dirt, and dried puddles of stale blood. The area around her was lit only by a dull, greenish, light coming from the dust covered light bulbs hanging above her by stand of wire. Even so, the light source only illuminated parts of her narrow surroundings leaving the rest pitch dark. This left her vision at its worse state.
The humid air would change back and forth with a cold, icy breath that kept brushing against her skin delicately. Almost as though it were afraid to get to close but still it didn't want to stay away. Which, to Mai's conclusion, was most likely coming from moving and passing of the many wandering spirits who were unknowledgeable of how to pass on. As Naru had stated earlier, they seemed to be left in the repeating cycle of the deaths they had endured in the manor.
'I wish we never accepted this client to begin with,' Mai thought as her hands began to shake.
As Mai gripped both arms tightly around herself she passed by yet another area with large amounts of dried blood splattered around a maggot-filled, rotting, human corpse. A small whimper escaped her tightly pressed, pale lips, and she quickly took in a breath to stuffle a cry. Attempting at halting the tears that begged to flow.
With a dirty hand pressed against her sweaty face and quivering lips she quickened the pace of her walking speed. As she speed walked down the threatening path, it got darker and darker, until the flashlight in her hand was the only source of light she had left.
Suddenly a fresh metallic smell sneaked its way into nose, gliding aimlessly and leaving a sense of fear inside her lungs. She abruptly stopped with terror frozen eyes and sweat dropping carelessly down her forehead to take in in a sharp breath. Even as she exhaled the taste lingered in her mouth. It be described as one thing and no amount of sugar coating the reality of her situation would help. Blood.
She immediately turned a bend in the long corridor and ran desperately along the dark corridor.
Blood + Missing Naru = Time was running out.
Her determination set in and she balled up her fists. Mai quickened her running pace and her heart pulsed franticly within her. Her legs burned and her bones ached, but she kept pushing. She ran aimlessly for many minutes until she could finally see the dead end at the end of the corridor. There a door was placed.
She ran the short distance towards the door and slowed as she got a closer look. It was the same as the one in the dream she had just faced hours ago; the rustic, gold door handle seemed to tease her, begging her just to touch it. The long X shape that stretched towards the corners of each side made her shiver at its foreign style.
Throughout the entire time she had been aimlessly sprinting, she had never seen a door except the one she was facing at the moment. This was the only other door in the basement she had seen so it had to be the one from her dream, right? The only sounds in the quiet area was the timid taps of her toes, shifting back and forth, unsure if this was the right thing to do.
'I have to do this, if i'm right then Naru will be safe.' she thought nervously, trying to regain some sort of confidence in herself.
'But if I'm wrong…' she shook her head violently. Her short hazelnut hair danced in the air as she did, not waiting to hear the end of that thought.
Her attenuated fingers creaked open the door slightly with a pull, and she peeked inside. When inside the small cell like room, a high pitched cry escaped her lips and bounced along the walls of room and out into the corridor. She flung open the door entirely and ran straight towards the only thing she couldn't keep her eyes off.
Na-ru?