Mai stared at the lifeless building thinking to herself, that's so strange, I thought I saw the lights on. She walked up to the dark windowed door and grabbed the key from the pocket on her howdy and pushed it into the key hole under the door handle and turned. To her surprise when she walked in to the Shibuya Psychic Research head office, the outside looked the same, but the inside, well lets say it looked like a market. Shelves lined the walls covered in foods, others in drinks. She walked up to a refrigerated shelf and reached down to were a row of rice-balls sat. Mai grabbed one and held it to her nose, it's real, she thought to herself, in surprise. She started moving it towards my mouth when. "You know you have to pay for that, before you can eat it." she jumped, nearly dropping the rice-ball, she quickly replaced it and walked up to the quite young looking girl who had startled me.
"I'm sorry, I was just looking, I didn't mean to look mysterious," she said with a smile. "What's up there," she questioned, pointing to the stair-case that lead to Naru's and Lin's offices.
"Just some more refrigerated food, your allowed to go up there, it's not restricted you know," the lady said, giggling as Mai walked up the stairs. What's her deal, she thought as she reached the top step, what on earth, came strait to Mai's mind when she saw the second floor. Everything was gone all she saw was shelves full of food, even the walls were gone, it was an open space. Where's all the computers and software, the cameras, desks, everything, it's all gone, including the walls.
Suddenly things started forming around the room, making Mai jump and give a small scream. All the strange forms turned there heads and looked at Mai curiously, forming into regular people, some older, others younger. They seemed to just be shopping at any other store, she thought as people walked around her. She moved out of the of the way of people as she worked her way back to the stair-case. As she reached them an alarm went off making everyone stop and watch the stairs. Mai turned just in time to see a large man walk up to the stairs, he held a large gun that was pointed strait at her. She jumped, moving away from the stairs as fast as possible.
"What's happening," a woman, with long blond hair, cried to Mai. Behind her, two young children gripped to on over-coat that the woman wore. Just as Mai noticed the two kids, the man from the stairs, had made it to the top step. Behind him two other large men, with guns, walked up the stairs and stared at the unsettle people.
"Stay behind me," Mai whispered to the small group of people that were shaking behind her. Why did I just say that, she questioned herself, I'm freaked out here to, she put up her hands making the sine of the immoveable one, but before she could start chanting the words, someone interrupted her.
"Stop child, you will get killed if you offer to protect us," Mai stopped, something caught her thought, that voice, can it really be. She quickly turned her head, nearly turning to tears as she saw who was walking up behind her, holding a baby. Mommy, she cried to herself. Her mother had gotten to her no quicker then a hot pain that shot strait across her face, making her fly and hit the wall.
She sat up, rubbing the right side of her face that seemed to be on fire, Mai came to the conclusion that while she was looking at her mom, the one man that she had first noticed had slapped her. Before Mai could make it to her feet one of the other two men came up next to her and grabbed a large hand-full of her hair yanking her up to were she couldn't even touch the ground with her feet. Mai reached up and gripped the man's hand trying to take some of the pain off of her scalp.
The first man walked up to Mai, grabbing her face, hard, now that he was closer, Mai noticed his hair was a grayish color that had black hie-lights. "So you think you can protect these pathetic cry-babies," he laughed, slamming her head up against the wall, so hard she nearly past out. He laughed even harder at her as she went limp then tensed back up. "You're quite cute," he grinned, moving his head closer to her ", maybe I'll take you with us!" He moved closer to her, to the point of almost kissing her. He grabbed her head, and Mai was get scared, as quickly as she could, she spite in his face, making him fall back.
He flipped back up to his knees, whipping the saliva from his face and turned back to Mai, making her blood turn cold. Pain hit her like a giant hammer in her ribs, and warm blood shot up her throat, making her gag. The two men picked Mia up by her arms and held her in the air, as the first one rolled up his sleeves and popped his fingers. He walked up to Mai, smiling, then he punched her even harder then before, right in the exact same spot in her ribs, making her cough up more blood.
"So do you want to go through more pain and probably death, or will you be our hostage," he said kicking her leg. She fell limp to the pain as he punched her another time in the ribs, causing more blood to shot through her mouth and nose.
Suddenly there was a loud nosie, making all the three men stop laughing. Mai lifted her head, noticing a shopping cart that had hit the first man in the back. When she trailed to the person it had come from, Mai wanted to fall down dead. Her mother! The two men holding Mai's arms let go, and she collapsed to the floor, but quickly the frst man picked her up. Whipped something to the other two and pointed at Mai's mom. Mai started kicking, tryiing to get the man's grasp on her arms to lesson, but, of corse, it only made things worse.
He throw Mai against the wall, pining her arms and legs so they wouldn't move, so all she could do was watch as the two other men walked up to her mom, taking the baby and throwing her to the ground. They laid the crying child on a small table, one grabbed a large knife from his jacket and held it above the baby. In a quick flash of the knife the crying stopped, making Mai start to scream. The man let her go and she fell to the floor, sobbing. The first man walked away from Mai to were the other two stood.
As he stood next to them Mai found an escape, she would run strait to the police station and get the police over there at once. She stood strait up, running to the stairs. Mai was so scared, she was surprised that she could even walk, let alone run, but her fears cot up when she got to the stairs. The first man had some power in running, and cot up a little faster then she had hoped. He grabbed Mai's hand, throwing her at the wall, yet through all of her pain she could only think of that small baby, who on earth was that child? That question past through her mind so many time that if she spoke she would only say those six words. Mai looked over to were her mother sat on the ground cry in pain, she kept rocking back and forth, gripping on to her legs and screaming into her knees.
The first man noticed Mai not paying attention so he piked her up by the throat, holding her there for a while, letting her choke. Mai kept gasping for air, trying to get oxygen down to her lungs, hopping to be able to breath. As he let go, he throw her at the wall, making her back pop. She quickly flexed her legs, keeping her from falling to the ground, and took of for the stairs again. This time she made it to the steps, but still not fast enough to get away. The first man cot up again, but this time he grabbed the hod howdy yanking down. Mai's head found the edge of the step faster then a gun's bullet finding a bored.
She lay on the stairs, filling the warmth of her blood seeping down the back of her head. Mai looked up as the first man looked down at her, making a grin spread across his face, he kicked her in the head making her flip up on to her knees. As she did blackness covered her vision, making her go limp and place her hand on the ground to hold her up. A large foot rammed into Mai's back, she felt air rush past her face, she was flying strait down the stairs. Pain hit as she smacked head first into a wall, making blood run down her face. The pain in her body was to much, so all she could do was pass out.
"Mai, Mai were are you, anser... oh my god, Mai. Lin call and ambulance, now," a familiar voice awoke Mai. She tried to move, but the impact of the wall, and the pain in her ribs had left her limp.
"Naru," she heaved out, still not able to breath ", my mom, we-were is she," she barely got out her words.
"Your mom. Mai your mom is dead, you know that." To that the last things Mai felt were warm tears running down her face and Naru's knees under her head.