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Friday, May 13th

It started out as a normal day in SPR, I showed up that morning and made tea for Naru, before he could even say "Mai, tea" it was all ready in front of him. Well any way, Lin was already there with Naru (sometimes I think they just sleep there).

It was around noon when a man came in, he had glasses, receding white hair and was probably about fifty or so years old. He look nervous as he sat down on our couch. Naru sat across from him in a single chair.

"Hello sir, I'm Kazuya Shibuya and this is my assistant Mai. Can you explain your situation for us, Mr…?"

"Oh… uh, you can call me Paul." The man said nervously.

"Mai get more tea, Mr. Paul tell us what happened." Naru said as he open his note book and clicked his pen. I left to get tea and put a glass in front of him and then for Naru.

"I'm the manager of Sanboku park."he started.

"oh! You mean that place that has the really big ancient forest!"

"Mai don't interrupt" Naru glared at me. I gave him a quick glance but didn't argue. The man looked at us confused but he nodded.

"Yes, well, that is the place and I love it there but we have been having problems there." He took a sip of tea. "you see, there have been many cases where people have gone missing in the woods and have never come back. Sometimes we even find the skeleton of a person every now and then. We don't know how or why these people disappeared but we don't want people to stop coming because they hear about this." The man was still nervous and kind of sad too.

"how long has this been going on?" I asked curiously.

"many, many years." He said tiredly. "but we have never figured out what has been happening."

"Then I suppose that we will just have to figure this out ourselves," Naru said as he closed his note book. "Mai go tell Lin to contact the others, we are leaving today at four o'clock..

Friday May 13th - evening

Every one showed up around the same time, mostly around six because of the long drive and traffic. Ayako came last, about maybe six thirty, with her usual claim that it was "probably an earth bound spirit." After that every one started to set up equipment. They set up the equipment in one of the picnic areas in the forest, it was dark and hard to see but Lin brought extra flash lights.

"Mai tell every one to get over here." Naru said to Mai when she walked by with a camera.

"Okay!" she said to Naru, then shouted. "HEY GUYS GET OVER HERE!"

Naru glared at Mai as every one came over. "Well now that everyone is here, I'm going to be splitting you all up into groups of twos. Takigawa, you and Ayako will take the path that goes toward the camping grounds. Take two cameras and microphones, Ms. Hara, John take a camera and microphone down the path near the water. Lin you stay here and finish setting up the base, Mai, you and I will take the path that leads to the cross roads and set up cameras there. Now get your equipment and head out." He finished his instructions with a ring of authority. They all picked up their stuff and headed out.

"Why do I have to carry the heavy camera?" Mai complained

"Stop whining." Naru said for about the fifth time. "We're here."

"This place is really creepy at night" she said as she set up the camera stand. It didn't take long to set up the cameras and mics. Mai was looking around the area, she felt uneasy. "this place doesn't feel right" she thought. Then she saw something out of the corner over her eye. "what was that!" Mai thought in her head. "I don't want Naru to think I was scared or something," she thought as she shined her flash light over the area. "I guess it was nothing," Mai said to her self.

"Did you say something Mai?" Naru asked as he turned on the camera.

"Me! No I didn't –

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Masako's high pitched scream filled the air.

"Masako! She must be in trouble!" Mai shouted.

They both started running toward the scream. Naru was calling Lin to tell him to stay at base and tell the others to go help "Ms. Hara." Mai was running behind Naru, "I didn't know he was so fast" she thought. All of a sudden mai tripped on a wayward root. "Aahhh!…… Ouch!"

Naru was still running and talking to Lin on his cell and he didn't notice Mai falling. "ouch! O'man my ankle hurts so much! I guess I twisted it. Oh no!, naru's gone! I guess he didn't hear me fall." She thought to her self. Mai got up using a near by tree for support. "Well at least I have my flash light." The light started to flicker.

And then it went out.

ooooohhhh yaaa! don't you love those cliff hangers and it gets better as you go! there will be more chapters so stay tuned!

well, i do hope you like this one, this actually started out as dream, seriously, and now i have the first chapter done! sweet! :D