This is the first horror story that I write. I'm inspired by the anime "Another", a good one I can say. This anime is inspired by a japanese legend about an eye that can see the dead (Do you know the film "The eye"? In the truth I'd never watched this film but I heard about it by some friends). Then I like the theme of this kind of eyes and I decided to write something. The character of Iris is inspired by Mei Misaki of the anime Another, but just for the eye and the eye patch (And the porcelain doll).
The first chapter is inspired by the episode Motocross trap (2nd season)
I won't do regular updates because of the FF "The Gladiators", or better its sequel xD and... yes... the study time... sob.. September exams are close! But remember, this story won't be long. Is just a "short" one :)
Cap 1- The damned girl
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"Don't bother the dead
or the Death will come
to take her price."
It was a regular day, the Biker Mice had fought against Limburger and defeated him easily. But that evening something took a strange way. Despite the first failure, the Big Cheese asked to Karbunkle to try again to use the zombies as goons. Last time it wasn't so good involving Mafia's members.
They were again in the graveyard of the city and this time they chose simple citizens. They were always zombies and the mice couldn't defeat them easily. The goons were ready to protect Limburger and the scientist and for let them revive the zombies. As expected the Martians arrived in perfect time. Vinnie's screams where audible by far distance "Let's take down the fat ball!" he exclaimed.
"Calm down Vincent!" Throttle told him off sighing. They couldn't make a lot of chaos in a graveyard. The last time in which they told Charley what happened the first time in that last place, the girl got angry. Humans had in their heart those places so much.
Despite everything was ready, Karbunkle hadn't the time to pour his strange potion on the white tomb. A female low voice told slowly "Please, move away." it seemed coming from a remote place and the girl that spoke was very strange. She was a human but she didn't seemed being so, it was a feeling so strange to describe. One of the goons screamed "IT'S HER!" and then got on his vehicle "Don't speak, look or something else!" and then he ran away. The other goons made the same as soon as they recognized the strange girl.
The girl continued to walk towards the white tomb without watching the scared goons. On her forearms was sitting a blond doll with a violet goth dress. The girl herself seemed a porcelain doll. She wore a long red dress full of black laces. A black top hat rested on her head covered by white hair. Her skin was pale and the right red eye looked before at Limburger, then at the mice and then at Karbunkle. The left eye was covered by a white eye patch. She stopped close to the tomb as waiting for something and meanwhile the wind started to blow strongly.
A moment of silence fell on the place and only the crows croaked. The girl was looking the mad scientist but in her face there wasn't trace of emotions, her eye seemed empty, close to the indifference "What are you doing on her tomb?" she asked then with the same low and slow voice. She mad a step ahead and Karbunkle trembled. That girl had a strange "aura" around her. The mad scientist couldn't see it but he felt it and he heard too strange rumors about the girl of the graveyard.
He hid behind the big body of Greasepit and watched her a bit scared. The girl sighed patiently and then walked again speaking "Your home is so dirt my dear." she took a hanky and rubbed it on the loculus of the photo of a black haired girl, she was smiling brightly and her blue eyes were beautiful. The red dressed girl rested the doll on the ground and started her usual routine: changing the flowers and cleaning the white marble.
"You finished it." a voice of an old man said, the guardian of the graveyard. He watched the girl with attention and came closer to her, he carried the doll "She's beautiful."
The girl turned to him "She liked her. I promised to finish her for our birthday but... the Death brought her away form me." she explained turning to her work "Do you have the key?" she asked.
The old man nodded and took by his pocket a little golden key "I saved it."
The girl took the key and the doll, then she opened a little showcase and put the doll inside it. She settled her better ad she could and then closed the showcase. Everything was done slowly and with cure "Happy Birthday sis." she said watching the photo but she murmured something else that nobody couldn't hear, the phrase finished with a "I promise".
Vinnie was going to speak but Throttle stopped him raising an arm, he wanted to watch. He had never seen a human taking care so much of a simple tomb. Charley never went to a graveyard since they were on the Earth, probably all her familiars were still alive so the girl hadn't the need to go in a place like that. Martians weren't so attentive in similar things. But there was something of strange in that girl.
The old guardian tried to start a conversation "Then, I think she'll like her." he said with a little sad smile, and so, another member of that family passed over in an horrible and mysterious circumstance "Will your little sister go to the Chi College?" he asked.
The girl seemed frozen, her left hand trembled spasmodically and she was forced to close it in a punch "I'd like to don't send her there, but she wants." she answered.
The old man sighed "Remember, if you need something... if something will happen there..." his face became white as a sheet, he'd never liked tell about what happened years ago, in that "haunted college".
The girl nodded slowly "I know... thanks for it." she turned to him and made a little curtsey and gave back the key "Please keep an eye on her." she asked and gave a last look on the tomb and the peoples that were here, she totally ignored them, she didn't think important speaking with the strangers "Are you sure that the rain doesn't wet the doll?" she asked looking the showcase.
The old guardian nodded the head and a thunder broke the sky "Oh... I did good taking the umbrella with me. Don't you have one?"
The girl shook the head slowly and watched the dark sky "I like the rain, above all the autumn's one." another thunder growled "Then I go, my little sister is waiting for me."
As the girl was gone, the old man watched the path through she was walking, it was dark and silent "Poor girl." sometimes he had the impression that she wasn't human, she had never smiled or get angry also if the that strange man with the white coat was so close to her sister. The guardian took a fast look on the tomb and turned to watch the path but the girl disappeared.
"I remember her." Greasepit said suddenly "The goons told about her a lot of times. They're so scared!"
"Why?" Karbunkle asked but then he remembered "Oh.. don't tell me.. she's..." he put the hands on the head
"Right.. she's she's." Greasepit said.
The mice looked each other, they wondered if Charley knew something about that girl. Then Throttle took the word "Hei, do you have intention to stay here or go away?"
Limburger seemed unease "I'm sorry but... today I think we have done..."
The guys arrived at the scoreboard just in time because a heavy rain started to fall, Charley was waiting for them and she started when they told her about the strange girl of the graveyard. Charley had watched them horrified and the eyes wide, suddenly she changed behavior and preferred stay silent "I don't remember a lot about her." she simply said toneless "Dogs and root beers, come on guys!"
So they started to eat but Throttle was still thinking about the girl "Seriously, I'd like to know more. The goons seemed scared and the grease ball too."
"That's normal. It says a lot of things about her, all rumors." the brown haired girl said sitting. A thunder made her boggle "Oh... that's bad." she rested the head on the hand's palms.
"Stay here tonight, you know we've space." Throttle proposed with a smile "It isn't a good idea walking under the rain.. and with this storm."
"Oh well I haven't an umbrella. I suppose I should accept the invitation." Charley said resigned. In the truth she was glad about it. A shiver ran across her back, nope, she wouldn't go at home.
"Really, Sweetheart what do you know about that girl?" Vinnie asked "Just what you remember."
"She seemed so alone despite she said to have another sister." Modo commented with the eye down.
Charley covered the face with the hands and rubbed them "Oh well..." she muttered, for years she tried to forget, for years she tried to don't think about what happened and now the mice asked to her to remember. She tried to speak but the voice blocked in the throat "Sorry guys, I can't. I go to bed... sorry." the girl said standing up and going on the sofa, she took a blanket and tried to sleep.
She walked through the corridor, the darkness was everywhere. She feared but she needed the bathroom. Her feet didn't made noise, the carpet cushioned it so her college mates didn't hear her. The green eyes wandered searching for a source of light and then they found it. The bathroom door was opened.
The brown haired girl swallowed and headed to the room but she heard a strange noise and then a chill shiver across her back. Her long dressing gown fluttered like moved by a invisible and untouchable wind. The girl turned backwards but she didn't see anyone. Maybe her imagination. She continued to walk and reached the bathroom and she saw a shadow moving on the tiles and then in the mirror.
Charlene Davidson would never imagine what she had seen that night through the mirror. The wall behind her was dripping of blood, someone slid along the wall leaving the traces of the fingers, the traces then led into the little closet, the door was semi closed.
The girl swallowed and a voice whispered in her ear "Why?".
Charley turned to the source of the voice but no one was at her side. She heard the voice again, the echoing voice of a girl "Why?"
The girl started to tremble and then came closer to the semi closed door, she opened it with a hand and screamed.
"Charley! Charley!" a male warm voice called.
"Sweetheart!" another male voice called her, she felt shaken by two strong hands.
Then the light came back and the earthling screamed and with the eyes full of tears. She covered the face with the hands murmuring something "No.. no... NO!" the head ached and panted. Then she raised the eyes and saw the guys, they looked at her scared.
"Are you ok ma'am?" Modo asked worried. He went to take a glass of fresh water.
The girl took it and drank at once "Thanks..." her hands still trembled.
YouU screamed and awoke us!" Vinnie exclaimed apprehensive.
Charley put an hand on the forehead "I'm sorry guys... just a nightmare."
"It must be a bad one for make you scream like that." the tan mouse said sitting at her side and pulling her close to him.
The girl curled in his arms and rested the head on his chest "I though I forgot it..." she covered the eyes with the hands and shook the head to drive away the horrible image that appeared in her mind. Her best friend... "Why... why..." the most difficult question to answer "Why?" she cried and murmured "I want forget... why..."
"Please ma'am..." Modo murmured caressing her brown hair, he took a look on Throttle who eyed back him and sighed. It was sure, something upset the girl, something of bad and that the peoples of that city preferred to forget. The goons escaped when they saw the girl, Greasepit and Karbunkle seemed scared by her. But the truth was that the mice too felt something of strange, something that they couldn't explain.
Throttle pressed the thin body of the girl against him and rubbed his chin on her head "If this concerns our question... I apologize for us all." he said.
Charley shook the head "Not your fault." she answered a little calm, she dried the eyes with the hands "But.. yes it concerns the girl..." she sighed "You know... that girl lost all her family except for the younger sister. She left the city and stood in Japan, as I've heard." she said "Some peoples said that she wanted improve her work of doll maker and that she knew someone in the land of the rising sun."
"Why do peoples fear her?" Throttle asked softly.
"They think she brings misfortune. Since she left Chicago no more deaths happened." she answered sniffing.
"Deaths?" Vinnie exclaimed, the eyes wide.
Charley nodded her head slowly and sniffed again "I was at the college when it happened. Oh better..." she closed the eyes "Sever years had been passed until I arrived at the college but ..." she shook the head and sighed "I dunno where's the truth but... the peoples say that something of strange happened in the college.. a girl disappeared in the building in renovation and no one found her. Since then the girls of the college, but also the profs and the guardian of the school, had always heard strange voices from the building, a kind of litany or a lament and the girls that walked close to the building the next day died in terrible way. The only thing that I know is that the mayor interrupted the renovation and closed the building. The Chi College was closed and a new building was made. Then the College opened again but the strangeness continued to happen. The worst one happened when I was at the last year of the studies..." she murmured.
The mice shivered and exchanged a look, they had heard similar storied in horror films and they could understand only partially what the girl was saying "What about the girl of the graveyard?" Throttle asked.
Charley shook the head "I wasn't in her classroom, then I can tell you only what I remember. In her class the girls started to get crazy... they tried to kill her and each others." she said running a hand across her hair "The girl, her name is Iris, was the victim of a lot of strange accidents before she left."
"Kill her? Accidents?" Throttle was skeptical "Did she have the eye patch?"
Charley nodded "She had always worn it. Nobody knows what she hides behind it."
"Why you screamed... Why?" Vinnie asked still worried, he felt restless as if someone was looking at him from somewhere.
Charley tried to remember "I dreamed about... about.. the death of a friend of mine, my best friend." she answered "I found her in the bathroom, someone had attacked her... or I thought... blood was everywhere, on the floor and on the wall as she had fought against something but no weapons or knives were found on the place." she swallowed "Then when I found her I ran into the corridor and I saw Iris." she needed to speak, she needed to tell someone about what happened "She stood on the feet at the center of the corridor and looked at me with her empty eye and she asked Have you heard her? I didn't understand but then I remembered the chill and the voice. Then Iris came close to me and said I saw her. There. And she pointed the door of the bathroom." Charley mimicked the act pointing the door of the scoreboard.
"What did she see?" Throttle asked.
Charley shook the head "I had never known it. Iris left the college before that the tragedy had started." she answered "The girls of the college started to kill each other like insane and my mother sent me in another college. A lot of girls did it as the strangeness started. Only who transferred survived. So me, my cousin Andrea and other few girls."
"Oh man... this.. this is... upsetting..." Vinnie commented jerking when the glass of the window trembled hit by the rain.
"I had nightmares for years..." said Charley carrying the legs to the chest and curling on herself like a ball, in the truth she omitted some details, some macabre details that persecuted her for years.