Hey, Mighty here! So, someone beta-read the story, so it should be better! Thanks to DatLittleStar! :D
Unknown tale
Prologue
You think you know my story. You know, the story about a gang of four students going into a supposedly haunted mansion in the outskirts of town. That story where there is a demon chasing me and my crew.
That story is not entirely true. By not entirely true, I mean that it's pretty far from reality. The mansion was in the middle of a thick forest. It was way more than just an hour by foot. Even with a helicopter, it couldn't be seen because of the tall trees covering it. I can guarantee it was plain terrifying at night. There actually was a…demon. I guess you could call him that, though he wasn't that much of a demon.
Takuro, Takeshi, and Mika weren't the only people I saw there, unlike what most people think. Actually, I didn't even know Takuro and Takeshi. The tale you all know makes us look like complete idiots. I never solved any so-called piano puzzle while I knew I was being chased and that the others were in danger. People say I just left my friends behind, some even say I don't care about them and that I hated them actually. Some think I killed them. They say I turned insane and stabbed them with a plate shard. The plate shard wasn't mine, actually. I don't think I held one.
The story makes you think that Takuro was stupid and always wanted to split up regardless of the obvious danger. They say he was a limping bastard and only found a half-empty bottle of vinegar in that whole mansion. He wasn't like that. In fact, I would be long dead if he hadn't been there. Thinking of it, I had never crossed him in the street before I ended up in the mansion.
It's the same for Takeshi. It was the very first time I saw him. The story everyone knows says he was a big baby; always running away, leaving us behind, or always shivering and crying. He wasn't a very high spirited boy, that's a fact, but he wasn't a coward or someone who thought only of himself. Actually, I think we would've been great friends if we had the occasion to meet somewhere else. You know, someplace where your life doesn't depend on how much you check your back.
Mika wasn't a stupid bitch. She was my best friend. If she stayed in a room, she had a better reason than there is a monster running around. She was very kind and did her best to help others, even though there wasn't much she could've done. Even if it was a desperate situation, she preferred to go back for someone and take the risk to die than continue living with someone's death on her conscience.
Maybe…maybe I loved her. My feelings weren't even possible to understand back there. I had difficulty identifying what I felt, even though it was obviously fear. Even now, I feel like I'm not myself. I know I miss her, though. She's far away now. I'd like to see her again, but I doubt it's possible. Yes…I think I loved her.
That mansion didn't change me in a good way. I can't come out of my house after dark, nowadays, even if I'm not alone. The ones who don't know my story think I'm a wimp for saying that, but it's the truth. I have nightmares too, and pretty much everything I see reminds me of something in the mansion. I can't look at a door without hearing a boy screaming and trying to claw his way out of the room.
I saw a lot of people in there. They were all forgotten. They didn't deserve to be forgotten. I'm the only one who remembers them, and I'll never forget them. In fact, I remember every little detail of what happened in this mansion. Life can be cruel, but I never thought it could be that cruel. Things equivalent to what I went through shouldn't exist.
The story you all know is just a censored story remodeled over and over again until it's not even remotely close to what happened. The true story, the story I'm about to tell you, that's the truth, but you might not thank me for telling you.
I think it's time for the real story to be something more than an unknown tale.
As you probably guessed, it will be a story at the first person. I don't know if I'll be good but I'll try my best.
Now, there will be more characters including OCs. So, if you wish, you can send me an OC via PM or Review. He/she might not have a good fate, keep this in mind, please. There are no restrictions, except four things:
1. No lone wolves or someone who wants to be alone or your OC will be OOC.
2. No siblings/hidden siblings and Max of one OC developping a romance relationship with a canon character. If your character does, it's not with Hiroshi, Naoki or Mika.
3. Max age of 17 and minimum of 7.
4. He/she must be human with a Japanese name. No animals, pokemons, vampires, immortals or anything else out of the ordinary and non-human.