Fatal Frame 4: The Unknown Ritual
Chapter One: Another Sleepless Night
Maru awoke with sweat streaming down her face. She just had one of her usual nightmares, and this one was the worst. Her dream consisted of a mansion that was filled with dead. She researched the mansion once before and found that it was in pieces now, and she also found out what happened there. To make sure that her dream was just a dream she went to her desk and looked through the papers. There were news clippings, reports, and much more about the Suzuki Mansion. She started to read about the mansion, she had read these papers so many times before, but it made her feel better about her dreams.
One news clipping had to do with disappearing people, they had been hiking on a trail and they never came home. Another reported that the mansion was torn down in order to build something new, but during construction too many men died by mysterious accidents. All that was finished was knocking the mansion into pieces, and that's how it's been for five years. Maru had been having the dreams since she was a little girl, and her parents were always afraid that she would lose her mind. Maru proved her parents wrong and grew up to be a beautiful young woman, but she still had nightmares.
The one news clipping that made her feel uneasy all of the time was the one about what went on when the Suzuki family lived there. Maru found out about how the family did rituals to please their God, and she learned that they believed to have the gate to hell. Maru had heard this all before, she read about another mansion where people died, and that a ghost named Kirie hunted the place. Maru's friend is the one that convinced her of ghosts, her friend told Maru about a lost village, and how she lost her twin sister. Maru asked her friend how she lost her sister, and she replied that she killed her and her body was thrown into the hellish abyss. One thing that Maru remembered was the look in her friend's eyes when she told Maru that her sister was now lost in the village, and that she has to roam the village as a crimson butterfly.
Then Maru remembered her grandma telling her about her friend, and how she lost her boyfriend in a car accident. Her grandma told how her friend also had nightmares about a certain place, and how her dreams showed had shown her a new beginning. Maru wondered if her dreams were trying to tell her something, Maru decided to go talk to her grandma, her grandma would know just what to do.