The Grudge: Number 078
In a city, peace was forever eternal, until all hell breaks through. For among a cursed woman and child holds a grudge from a dark and painful past. For who enters their house and goes out…will DIE!
Here lies a story of a young man, he has no name but is only called by his birth number, 078….until now.
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078 walked in a hallway to his commanding officers office. He knocked on the door and was granted to come in. As he went inside, his commanding officer was looking out of the window; he turned around to face 078. The commander's face was a serious type, with dark green eyes, blond short hair and had a scar around his face.
"Welcome 078! This is your first time in my office no?" he said, his voice was rough as soar throated tiger.
078 shook his head in reply, "No sir, I haven't." he said in a flat tone "what is my order commander?"
The commander went over to his desk and sat down on his chair, "before that, I would like you to answer a few questions to see if your knowledge is up to date" he said
078 nodded "yes sir
"Alright!" the commander began "what are we?
"We are the living dead soldiers, born from test tubes and died when we came out" 078 said.
"And why are we dead?" The commander questioned again.
"We believe that Jesus cursed us for an unknown reason, we cannot die in peace until we have fore filled a certain goal which is something we have to find out ourselves. We do missions to see what must be done to die in peace." 078 said.
The commander nodded "well that's good enough, shall we move on to your mission?"
"Yes sir" 078 said.
"But for now I'm going to give you a name" the commander said.
"What's wrong with using my number?" 078 asked.
"This mission is a secret mission; no one must know what you are and if they know you can't die, it could lead to a disaster. So, you are now called…John. Your mission is to go into Japan in Tokyo and search for a curse, which is a treat to Tokyo; the details are unknown so I need you to find out more and get rid of this curse!" the commander ordered
"I accepted the mission, I shall leave immediately" John said, he saluted and left for his mission.
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John was on one of their planes to Japan with his comrades with missions of their own. When he arrived at the airport, he and his comrades took their separate ways; John looked at his piece of paper 'go to one of the hospitals in Tokyo and find out more information about the curse'. He then exited the airport and went to find the nearest hospital, he saw patients began to question them about the curse but found no luck, then a woman who wanted to see him came up to him.
"Excuse me! Are you looking for the curse?" the woman said.
John nodded "That is correct, do you know anything?"
"…monsters…ghosts…demons…I don't know what they are! They died in that house and who ever went in or even left…DIED!"
John quietly listened to her "do you know where the curse is?" he asked.
"Yes, here's the address, but why do you want to know this?" the woman asked and handed him the paper.
John took the paper and bowed "thank you for your help" and he walked off.
The woman tried to catch up with "WAIT! YOU'RE NOT GOING TO THAT HOUSE ARE YOU!" she shouted.
John didn't look back; he kept walking until he left the hospital. He read the paper, he advanced to the destination. Sometime later, he arrived at the house, it looked nice, and he slowly walked to the front door when he saw a black cat to his left. The cat stared at him and hissed, John tilted his head and he went inside the house. It was dark and very quiet; he looked at the staircase, on the top left he saw a pale skinned boy, they stared for god knows how long. John walked up the stairs to take closer look but the boy ran off and dispersed, 'That must be the cursed one, but the women said 'they''. He walked down stairs but then heard a croaking noise; he turned his head and saw a pale skinned woman with a white dress with blood crawling down the stairs to him.
'So…a cursed woman' he thought.
"CROOOAK!" the cursed woman called out, John thinks her necks broken.
The cursed woman grabbed John's leg and stared at him.
'Trying to scare me? Nice try' he thought but kept his expression flat.
John looked at her, by looking; it felt like she didn't understand why he was not scared.
She then used her hair and strangled John's neck, John raised his fist and punched her in the face 'BAM!' The woman's hair lost its grips and fell flat on the floor; she slowly got and turned her head to face John. Anger from hell was written all over her face.
'Hmm…she's pissed like hell' he thought.
The woman crawled up to him quickly and bit his neck; John felt pain as it was raining with blood.
'FUCK! If I was alive, I'd be dead' he furiously thought.
"YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT BITCH!" he shouted and pulled the woman's hair angrily.
"CROOOOOAAAAAK!" the woman screamed! And then returned into the darkness.
"What do you want!" the woman shouted, her voice croaking.
John looked around "I'm here on a mission to get rid of a curse that threatens Tokyo and look what I found!"
Her head popped up from the floor, "who are you? What are you?"
John took his time to think, should he tell her? What the hell, what could go wrong? "My names…John and I'm just like you…a bit".
"What do you mean?" she croaked.
"I'm dead" he said.
"You're…dead?" she said "how?"
"I was born from a test tube and we believe Jesus cursed us for us not to die until find out what we must do to die in peace" John said.
The woman got up and stood while her bones make cracking noises in front of John. "Will you leave me and my son?" she croaked.
"No, I can't go back until I have fore filled my mission" John said, crossing his arms.
"But you can't kill me…how will you fore fill your mission?" the woman said.
John stood in silence without looking at her 'FUCK! I never thought about that!' he thought. "I'll….find a way" he said while turning his head away.
The woman made a small smile "Right"
"Hey, since I'm going to be here, can you tell me your name?"
The woman took her time to think, "My name is…Saeki…Kayako Saeki" she croaked.
John smiled "Kayako…that's nice name"
Kayako paused "….thank you…."
John looked around "Oh yeah, where's the kid?" he asked
"Come out…Toshio" she ordered, the boy took a peeked around a corner.
"As you already know, this is my son, who shares the same my curse as well" said Kayako.
Toshio then slowly walked over to John, John kneeled down to level with his height.
"You heard all that?" he said politely
Toshio nodded, John looked up to Kayako, his facial expression turned serious as he stood up.
"Kayako…how did you two die?" he asked
"Well…" she started "Me, Toshio and my…ex-husband, lived a happy life, until one day, he found my diary and read it, I had a crush on his teacher even though I still loved him deeply. He thought I was cheating on him and he lost his temper, when I came back from shopping, I saw him reading my diary, I was scared and I ran but he caught up to me and my neck, arms and legs. I crawled down stairs for dear."
John stood frozen, unable to make a good reply "K-Kayako"
Kayako continued "When got up to me, he dragged me back up stairs and tied me to our bed. He then went into the bathroom and drowned Toshio and killed our cat, and finished me off and put our corpses in bags and left us…in the attic"
John looked up "the…attic"
Kayako smiled evilly "I don't know how, but me, Toshio and out cat came back with this…curse, and I killed my lovely husband"
John stood silently 'I…never…expected this.'
He tilted his down "I…won't…" he whispered.
"What?" Kayako said.
"I-I WON'T DO THIS MISSION!" John shouted, startling Kayako and Toshio. "You guys, your in huge pain, you been killed for what reason? A stupid crush on someone and you still loved you husband and he killed you! You guys are being treated as monsters, you did nothing wrong!"
Kayako felt something, something she hadn't felt in a long time. All the people who came to their house came for pathetic reasons, in her opinion. She never met anyone like him.
"But what about dying in peace?" she asked.
"….Don't know…." John said, he never said that in his dead life
He turned around and headed for the door "I'm going back, take care, Kayako, Toshio…and the cat"
John grabbed the door handle, he couldn't open the door, and he saw black lines holding.
"Don't…go" Kayako croaked, John looked down to his leg and saw Toshio holding on to it.
"I have to" he said.
"What will happen to you if you don't complete your mission?" Kayako asked.
John paused "…I…will be punished, I'll die from something they create that's extremely rare to make and kill me and send me to…somewhere worse then hell".
Kayako slowly walked up to john "stay here…with us"
John couldn't believe what he heard, did she say, "Why? Why do you do this for me? Don't you hate me?"
"I…have this feeling that I can trust you…and you're different" Kayako croaked.
John felt warm inside, she trusts him and thinks of him differently.
"Well…I guess…I can stay with you guys, after all, I can't leave can I?"
Kayako smiled "thank you.
End of chapter 1
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