Ghostbusters: Return of the Grudge

It was a typical day warm day in May, in Chicago, Illinois and the Chicago Bulls were in the playoffs. They were up 3 games to 2 in the Eastern Conference Finals. All they had to do was win this game and they were going to the Finals. Their opponent in the Finals was the Seattle Supersonics but first they had to get past the Orlando Magic. A man in the section of the bleachers sat next to a few empty seats. He was in his late twenties with a goatee. According to his clothes, he lived a comfortable life. He sat there cheering on the Bulls. Even though he was excited that his team was winning a person could tell that something troubled him. He shot to his feet when he saw Bulls guard Kirk Hinrich steal the ball, run down court and score. The crowd roared with delight. The man clapped along with the other fans. Even in the loud arena the man heard a low tone sound coming from his right. He slowly turned to see a pale, long dark haired woman standing there next to him, staring at him with wide eyes full of rage. The sound she made was her signature death rattle sound. The man fell backwards and attempted to get away from the vengeful ghost. His hand slipped on the edge of a step and fell down the stairs to the end of the walkway. Spectators looked in confusion to the man. The man was in full panic. He quickly looked around for a way out. He backed up to the railing behind him. His only options were either to go forward towards Kayako or to go backwards and fall to his death. Kayako was only a few feet away. The man shut his eyes tightly in hopes the ghost would go away. People cautiously stepped toward him. The man could hear people asking him if he was ok. He opened his eyes to see nothing was in front of him except for concerned people. He slowed his heavy breathing, thinking he was ok and he was just hallucinating. Then without warning a pair of white hands grabbed him from behind and pulled him over the edge. People screamed as the man fell over the edge to his death. Officials called a timeout of the game as people and medics circled around the body.

Meanwhile in New York, the Ghostbusters arrived to the fire house. Dustin was driving. He pulled into the garage faster than he should have but he was in a hurry. He wanted to catch the remainder of the Bulls game. He missed most of it because of a call that sent them to the other side of Manhattan for a simple class 2. He jumped out of the car and ran up stairs. He turned on the TV to ESPN. Instead of the game, Stuart Scott was on the screen.

"Damn it. I missed it." Dustin said.

"Due to the accident at the United Center, game six of the Eastern Conference Finals was cancelled and will be replayed on Wednesday instead of game seven." The sports reporter said.

"What accident?"

The image of Stuart Scott was replaced by the inside of the United Center and of the accident that occurred. Dustin's annoyance was replaced by intrigue. He watched the guy fall but it wasn't the guy he was interested in. It was what had pulled him over the edge. He grabbed the remote and replayed the fall. He slowed it down and replayed it again. He saw a white ghastly figure on the screen. His eyes instantly widened and he gasped. He quickly grabbed the remote and turned off the TV. The screen went blank but he saw another reflection in the TV other than his own. The reflection was of a woman in white with long dark hair. He knew exactly who it was. He quickly turned around to see that nothing was there. He slightly relaxed a bit and let out a sigh of relief. His relieved expression quickly turned serious. He got up and ran downstairs. Kylie and Roland watched Dustin run down the stairs and run down into the basement with perplexed looks on their faces. They got up from their chairs and followed Dustin. Dustin ran up to the containment unit and looked into containment scope.

"Uh, Dustin? What are you doing?" Roland asked.

"Looking for the ghosts we trapped in Japan."

"Why?" Kylie asked.

"Because I have reason to believe that we aren't done with them yet."

"We trapped them and we put them in here when we got back." Roland said.

"Yeah and I just saw Kayako at a Bulls game."

Kylie let out a small laugh but put her hand over her mouth when she saw Dustin shoot her a look. Dustin continued to look into the containment unit.

"Why was Kayako at a Bulls game?" Roland asked.

"She offed somebody there. I'm trying to figure out why and how this person became affected by the curse."

"Is she in there?" Kylie asked.

"No. None of them are."

Dustin stopped his search and he went back up stairs. He sat down and opened his laptop.

"What are you doing?" Roland asked.

"I'm searching for any unusual occurrences in Chicago from the time when Karen Davis died in Japan to the time we went to Japan."

After a few seconds a few links appeared. Dustin clicked on the first one. Dustin's eyes darted around the page.

"It says here that mysterious deaths occurred in a Chicago apartment complex. Some were unexplainable but others looked like suicide and homicide. In one of the rooms newspapers were taped to the windows. After a few months the apartment building was reopened and people began moving in. That doesn't help us much."

"That really doesn't sound all that unusual." Roland said.

"The way that the curse worked was anybody that entered the house was affected." Dustin said as he clicked on more links. "That's how the death toll rose in Japan. I'm trying to find anything in common that would help us figure it out. And it would appear that I may have found something. Two of the victims were parents of a girl who studied abroad in Japan. The girl later came back to the states but when investigators searched the building, a body was never found. The school she went to just happen to be near the Saeki house. I believe we found our connection."

"I'm still not following." Roland said.

"The girl entered the house in Japan but when she came back stateside the curse followed and took over the building." Kylie said.

"Yeah. What she said." Dustin said.

"But that doesn't really explain why the ghosts are in Chicago when we trapped them in Japan."

"I'm guessing we didn't trap them entirely. Because that they were also in Chicago at the time of our battle with them in Japan, the ones we trapped were something like echoes. That's why they aren't in our containment unit." Dustin said.

"Well, it looks like we're going to Chicago." Roland said.