Siren:

The Next Five Years

Chapter one

Jacob: Day before, 12:00

Jacob looked around as the plane he rode arrived in Japan. He came off with his friend Lina, and the rest of the group was getting ready to come off the plane. Jacob helped Lina into a cab and it drove off with the two of them. "One way trip to Hanuda please," Jacob told the cab driver while riding toward the city.

Lina looked out the window while they were driving toward the city. "Why are we even going there Jacob, it was just in some stupid game."

"Well I had no idea that the city would turn out to be real," Jacob told Lina.

Lina just sighed and put on a smile; she knew Jacob was a little messed up so she would just deal with it.

It was senior year for Jacob and his friends; they were all eighteen at this time. All were excited about the trip but not exactly ecstatic about the trip to this town since in a simple video game it had been the misery of some fictional characters. It had no matter to Jacob anyway, and even if the game were real the incident was only supposed to happen every twenty-seven years.

Jacob looked as they pulled up to the town after thirty minutes. He stepped out and Lina followed him to the lively town. It was noon and most of the people were out getting lunch or doing their grocery shopping. Jacob pulled off an event poster on a wall and read it. "Hmmm, tonight at eleven o'clock there's going to be some odd ceremony Lina, we should go see it," Jacob told Lina.

Lina, standing next to him, nodded. "It sounds like some fun," she responded.

Jacob nodded and they arrived at their hotel five minutes later. He checked him and Lina in and they arrived in their rooms later. Jacob looked around his room. Not much, just one bed that was on the floor, a cabinet for clothes, a small end table near the ground with a lamp on it, and a low dining table with for cushion chairs around it.

Jacob dropped his luggage on the ground and laid down in the bed. "It's only eleven hours away, wouldn't hurt to get some rest…" Jacob said after yawning. He then fell to sleep.

Chapter 2:

Josh: Day one, 2:00

Josh had left the airport late on the second day; He wanted some rest before he started toward the town of Hanuda. He looked along the road and began to see much fog ahead, worse than any he'd ever seen. He stepped out of the car and looked at it. "What the hell?" he asked himself.

Josh stood out of the car for a minute and picked up a crowbar by the side of the road then headed into the fog. He had only stood there for a moment to see if any cars would come, but nothing had came.

As Josh walked through the fog he noticed crashed cars into trees ad police cars on the side of the road. He would stop in the officer's cars for a moment to see if a pistol or any gun was inside but found nothing. The fog also made it difficult to look too far, but there was something he could make out; a sign that read "Welcome to Hanuda".

Josh walked on knowing he was in town now, and all was quiet like it should have been since it was two in the morning. He was about to put the crowbar down when he heard somewhat of a laughing from a house next door. Josh opened the sliding door and looked at the people inside, feasting on something.

When Josh realized what it was, he started to back away. A Blood line was made from outside of the door toward the dining table of the two odd people inside the house. Bits and pieces of skin flew around, and the middle area of the body had been bitten into. The muscles and organs inside were torn apart, and Blood would splatter onto the walls of the home.

Josh starred at it without saying a word and started to walk away. "I need to get out of here," is what he told himself before he started toward the way he came in. when he arrived, it was like the whole road had vanished to the exit, and an endless ocean of red water was only visible.

Josh headed back into town and looked around for any weird things, and then the odd laughing came from the house he was looking in again. He looked in and found the dead corpse with the people still eating it laughing, laughing like it had no need to breathe.

Josh tried not to say another word but closed the door silently. He started down the road he was on and looked around hearing odd laughing and people crying about.

Feeling alarmed now that everything seemed dangerous, he held up his crowbar and started forward down the road not turning back, he was going to find a way out before one of those could kill him.

Chapter 3:

Lina: Day before 23:00

Lina knocked on Jacob's door three times then gave up and went to Kathy's door to get her out. When she did Lina said, "Come on let's go to something tonight!"

Kathy smiled and nodded. Afterwards she followed Lina to The ceremony that Jacob wanted go to, and they both stood on the right side of a line of people. Lina watched feeling like this was the only thing she was going to be doing while she was here for some odd reason.

When the ceremony was about to begin fifteen minutes later, a man came rushing from a path and yelled, "Everyone run, the ritual sacrifice has gone missing!" The people began to panic and ran away, leaving Kathy and Lina standing alone.

Lina looked around, "Where'd they go?" she asked looking around.

Kathy also looked getting and odd feeling of fear. Fog built around the two of them, and also around the city. Lina started to walk making sure Kathy was following, they were best friends after all.

Lina walked down the path the screaming man came from, and Kathy followed close behind her. Lina couldn't shake the feeling that the two were being watched somehow, and that there was something out there. She stopped when she saw someone walking back and forth on the path. "What is he doing…"

Kathy walked next to Lina and said hello in a high voice. The man turned his face for Lina and Kathy to see, and both of them went white. Blood tears ran from each eye, and the eyes were white. The man started to laugh, and it was a laugh that made your spine shiver.

Lina grabbed Kathy and the two were running back towards the way they came from, then made a turn into the nearby woods. The man was moving quickly, but it hadn't seemed to run. It took the man a minute to get to the ceremony grounds after Lina and Kathy got in the woods.

Lina led Kathy silently through the woods trying to stay calm, but her fear couldn't be more obvious. Kathy didn't try to hide it, she looked around scared out of her mind. Lina just led the way until they reached the city.

When they reached the fog seemed thick but crying and laughing could be heard throughout the village, and all the water had a red glow to it. "Kathy, let's find Jacob. He seemed to know a lot."

Kathy just starred, "I'd rather just leave, but he is a good friend. So let's go," She said following Lina into the core of the city.

Chapter 4:

Jacob: Day one, 0:00

Jacob woke up and rubbed his eyes looking around the room. It was dark so it must've been night and he had just woken up. He looked at a watch on his wrist to see it was midnight, the day after the ceremony. "Damn, I missed it!"

Jacob ignored that and got dressed without thinking of looking out the window at the moment, but after getting dressed he did so. Jacob then walked to the sink and turned it on, red water came from the faucet. "I knew it," Jacob got an odd grin on his face.

Jacob opened a bag of his and pulled out a 9 mm. pistol from within and ammo for the gun. He stepped outside and looked around for a map of the town. Jacob was looking for one location in particular, Miyata Clinic. It was near the other side of town.

Jacob put the map in his pocket and started off down a road to the left of him. One of the people with bloody tears came from a house and Jacob held up his gun and shot down the person with two bullets. He walked to the body and picked it up looking at an endless ocean of red water. He threw the body inside and started off more, then said to himself, "I hope you drown mother-fucker."

Jacob kept walking on shooting down the bloody tear people on his way, and refilling his ammo when needed. He then looked down at a wallet on the ground and opened it up. There was a Student I.D. inside that read, "Ashley," but the rest of the letters were covered in blood. "Damn it, where is she?" he asked himself looking around.

"So you're looking for a friend no?" a woman in a red robe came out of the woods. Jacob held up his gun to her.

"Who the hell are you, and you better not be who I think you are," Jacob said holding his finger on the trigger.

"No worries, my name is Jun. I am a priestess at a nearby Christian church. I just wondered why all this was happening," the woman asked Jacob.

Jacob pulled down the gun and looked at Jun, "A lot more than I can explain in the three days we have."

"Three…days?" Jun asked looking at him.

Jacob just starred at her and started off, "I'd be better off alone, and so would you. If you don't feel safe, though, then you may follow but I'm only eighteen; I'm not even sure if I can make it out myself."

Jun nodded and followed behind him as he walked down into a road near the endless ocean. Jun noticed something to start coming from it, but ten Jacob shot down the blood tear man that rose from the water, I threw him in there, I should've known that was stupid."

Jun starred for awhile while he walked and got behind him quickly. He was apparently American, but why would he seem to know more about something in Japan than something from his own home?

Chapter 5:

Ashley: Day before, 23:00

Ashley ran through the woods quickly as she was being followed by some weird guy with tears of blood. She kept screaming for help but no one would answer, and the man would keep chasing her.

Ashley stopped to catch her breathe and turned to see the man was gone. She let out a sigh of relief to see that no one was approaching her. Ashley stepped out onto the gravel road of the town and looked at the fog around the area. She was just going to have a fun time with her friends too.

Ashley walked to the right and looked at the cafeteria building hearing chomping and crying noises from the building. She just walked past it whispering to herself, "Please save me god, please save me."

Ashley arrived at a pay phone and reached into her pocket to get her wallet only to find a hole in her pocket and the wallet missing. She started to bang on the pay phone tears streaming down her face. "No, I want out! Let me find something, please just something god!" That's when she looked near the pay phone to find a key and a quarter. She quickly inserted the quarter into the pay phone and dialed a number only to hear white noise from the phone. She grabbed the key and started off once more, tears on her face again.

Ashley looked at a low bus stop and sat on the bench in the small stop. She started to cry to herself more ignoring the cries and laughing coming from everywhere. She stopped five minutes later and looked above the stop to see a path.

Ashley climbed onto the bus stop and then climbed up onto the path looking at the only exit available. She went down it wiping away the tears that were still streaming down her face.

Ashley stopped after fifteen minute and fell down leaning against a tree trying to stay calm. She closed her eyes and started to pray for safety since it was now the only thing she could hope for.

Chapter 6:

Sarah: Day one, 1:00

Sarah woke up and took a shower before getting herself dressed. She looked outside to find fog, white coated fog around the town. Sarah looked back at the water from the shower to find it red; she kept her eyes closed during most of the shower. Sarah then went out the door of her hotel room and knocked on her friend Nadia's.

Nadia hadn't come to the door, so Sarah twisted to knob to find that it could be opened. She peeked inside to find Nadia was still asleep at the early hour. Sarah crept toward Nadia and started to shake her so she'd wake up.

Sarah gave up after a minute of trying to wake Nadia up and looked outside to see people walking around town, but they seemed to always walk back and forth. She looked back to see if Nadia was there but she wasn't. Sarah picked up and umbrella and headed out into the hall.

"Nadia?" she asked looking around the area.

"Hey your one of Jacob's friends right?" a voice came from behind Sarah, which made turn quickly. It was Nayma.

Sarah nodded, with a nice and cheerful smile, "Yup"!

Nayma looked at Sarah, "Well we should leave, I looked out the window and there's blood almost everywhere."

Sarah nodded and Nayma followed behind her. But that wasn't for long because when Sarah reached the lobby she noticed someone walking slowly toward Nayma and her. Nayma watched the person too with odd eyes.

A girl started to show from the shadows, her face was the only thing hidden. She had three knife holes in her chest, but within her hand was a spade. "Sarah…" the girl said.

"Na…Nadia?" Sarah asked with a high pitched squeal. Nadia came from the shadows for them to see her face which had some sort of octopus or something like that on it. Nayma starred even more oddly.

Nayma quickly grabbed a fire extinguisher and sprayed it at the blood tear Nadia and blinded her. "Come on, we have to go!"

Sarah headed out and Nayma followed her. The fog made it hard but Sarah beat down the blood tear people with the umbrella when they came near, or Nayma would bash them with the fire extinguisher.

Sarah and Nayma reached the next territory of the city and walked into an empty house closing the door behind them. Nayma let Sarah sit for a little while since she needed to also. Sarah looked out the window for a second then ducked down.

Nayma looked at Sarah, "What is it?"

Sarah said, "It's Nadia, she's following us…"

Chapter 7:

Lina, Day one 6:00

Lina and Kathy were now behind a bush watching the blood tear people walk back and forth to each other. One appeared to cry, and the other appeared to laugh. Lina started with Kathy across the road when the two of the people turned around.

Kathy looked at Lina then followed her as Lina started forward. They arrived in the city again and Lina fell, "It's like we're going in circles!"

Kathy then looked at all the fog and the noises that it had produced. Ahead of her and Lina was the local cafeteria. "Lina come on, maybe Jacob went to get something to eat, you know how stupid he is." Lina just nodded and led the way to the cafeteria.

She looked in horrified. Inside was a cop with blood tears eating from a bowl with much blood falling onto the wooden table and floor staining each red. Muscle and tissue from a human fell into the mouth of the blood tear cop after he had grapped them.

"What is it?" Kathy asked.

"Let's just move along," Lina said walking down the road with Kathy behind her. Lina felt fear more than ever now, and couldn't hide it as well as Kathy did at the moment.

Then a pulsing sensation came to Lina and Kathy's head. During the sensation, a loud noise could be heard in the distance; it sounded much like a siren. Lina started to shake her head, "What is that irritating noise?"

Kathy still held her head falling to her ears, "It's hurting my head!"

The sensation stopped but the sound kept going after five minutes. Lina looked around to see if she could find out what was making the sound, but couldn't find anything. Kathy came behind her and nodded giving the sign it's ok to move on.

Lina started walking letting Kathy follow from behind. She looked at the buildings on the sides and listened to the crying around the area. Lina couldn't tell why, but it somehow made her feel a bit sad.

Lina opened the door of an abandoned house in the town and led Kathy inside with her. Upon closing the door behind her, she walked into the living room where Kathy had occupied and sat on one of the cushions. Lina just wanted to cry now; it was the oddest feeling in the world.

Fifteen minutes later the sound of the irritating siren as still sounded in the background of the village. Lina sat in the house while Kathy had lain down to get some rest. Line fluttered her eyes whispering to herself, "Can't… go to… sleep…" before her eyes closed, letting her fall into dreams.

Chapter 8

Josh: Day one, 5:00

Josh walked on down the street staying out of the gaze of the blood tear people; not knowing what else there was to do. The exit, it was gone like something just demolished it, and there was no one really around, so what was a true reason for trying to help those not around?

Josh looked left into a window only seeing blood splatter onto it, making the inside gaze blur red. It was the same for every window he saw, and it was just making the light of hope dim.

Then Josh turned when he heard some weird running, it was slow paced but there was panting that sounded normal. He headed toward the sound and looked the opposite way of it to see one of the blood tear people coming his way. When it came close he whacked it in the head making the head fall off.

Josh started to walk off but stopped when he heard something struggling to get up. He looked back at the blood tear body without a head get up, and watched as the head started to remake itself on the body. "No fucking way…" Josh told himself before he hit the thing down once more and started to run off.

Josh opened the doors of a large building and closed them behind himself, closing his eyes and letting out a sigh. When he opened his eyes he noticed he was in a school. He walked into a classroom and found a flashlight. Once in Josh's hands, he turned it on and looked around.

It was empty like it should have been in an incident like this. Cries could be heard from upstairs, which made Josh avoid from heading in that direction. Josh then looked at a picture on a wall and it seemed to look odd. The corners of the paper were folded back, and large horridly traced lines were drawn on the paper making weird symbols. After a minute of trying to figure it out he stopped hearing a voice. It said, "Kiki, please come back to Mommy…"

Josh turned to see a blood tear person holding a baseball bat. Josh tried his best to move around it, but it's gaze fell on him and started for him. Josh swung his crowbar at the person knocking them down to the ground, then kicked them before running out of the room.

Josh ran to the door and tried to open it, but the effort was useless. The woman blood tear person came out from the room and looked at Josh. "Where are you hiding Kiki?" it asked him before stumbling hastily toward Josh. Josh swung his crowbar at it one more time before seeing a key fall from it's pocket. He picked it up and opened the door, then told himself, "pretty ironic, heh…". Josh then started walking on into the fog.

Chapter 9

Kiki: Day one, 4:40

Kiki looked up from a bookcase she was behind at her elementary school. She was waiting for her mother to return but it had been two hours since her mother had vanished. Kiki only knew the things around the town, the blood tear people, as Shibito since her mother had researched some weird occurrence that happened five years ago. Her mother told her about it and that they'd leave when they performed the ritual again, but something weird had happened now and Kiki was stuck in a nightmare.

Kiki stepped out of the room after five minutes, it was senseless to wait for her mother now. She looked down the hall and turned on her flashlight, it was empty. Kiki walked on down the hall looking at the area since the school wasn't that big. She stopped by the stairs hearing screaming, it sounded much like her mommy.

Kiki walked down and looked into the faculty room where the screaming was coming from. Jab after jab a knife was shoved into the person Kiki referred to as mommy from this shibito laughing and crying at the same moment. It wasn't till a few seconds that the mother's body fell limb.

Kiki stood and started to back up, then blood splattered on her face from the final jab that the shibito put into the dead mommy, and it made her scream. The shibito turned to the face with blood on it, and smiled laughing franticly. Kiki then started to run for the front door, the shibito following close behind her. She struggled with the door until it opened then ran out into the fog and kept running.

Kiki ran for about ten minutes and sopped to hide in a bush. She watched as a man beat down the shibito that followed her and let out a sigh before getting herself back up. Instead of going with the man, though, she decided to head the opposite way.

Kiki looked ahead of her seeing a hospital and walked inside. She walked into the woman's bathroom and opened a stall, then hid behind the door of it. Kiki shivered from fright at seeing what these things could do.

"Mommy… where are you now?" Kiki asked herself before falling asleep since she hadn't.

Chapter 10

Ashley: Day one, 9:00

Ashley opened the doors of a hospital, and closed them behind her locking them quick. Banging came from it and she held up a board of wood to it screaming, "Stay the fuck away from me!" then fell on the ground drowning herself in tears. "Where do I go now god, where?" she asked herself.

Ashley stood and started down the first hall she saw in the hospital, crying and laughing came from the courtyard, and avoided it because of the noises. Everything in this town, it just made no since, and it just made her want to throw-up.

After ten minutes Ashley just stumbled about the halls laughing a little to herself with the board of wood in her hands. "I'll be the last one, and the police will come and save. That's why I'm here, to prove I was better than anyone here. Heheh, hahaha!"

Ashley fell against a wall laughing more to herself starring at the wall ahead of her laughing with no stop. Then she turned hearing a door open and crying being heard. Ashley looked t the shibito that walked in from the courtyard and slammed it's head with the board of wood and ran through the courtyard to the other side.

Ashley stumbled more until it was around ten thirty and found a woman running down the hall ahead of her. "Please, run in my direction!" the woman said before running off. Ashley starred at her and heard a gunshot, the bullet going through her heart. She fell and a boy stood over her, "No matter, I can still find out what Miyata couldn't…" She was then dragged by her legs, and it was now her corpse.

Chapter 11

Jacob: Day one, 10:00

Jacob lead Jun into a room that had files and two hospital beds. He started to looked through the files without talking to Jun and sat down at the desk inside the room. Jun was looking out the window thinking about was it safe to be with a boy with a pistol and wasn't afraid to shoot it at anything in his way.

"Just like I thought, these all happen to be Miyata's files about both of the incidents with the shibito. Now if I make it out I can prove that they existed, but first there are two things I have to do," Jacob then stood and headed out of the door, Jun stayed in the room feeling it was safer.

Jacob walked down the hall looking around for the stairs. He was going to go to the courtyard and find the trash chute since there was something there he needed. Jacob found his way into the courtyard and shot down a shibito that headed his way.

Jacob looked through the trash until he found two ceramic statues like things that fit into the palm of anyone. One had the symbol of a sword, and the other had the symbol of a shield. Jacob smiled, "I found them, now I need to find them…" he said aloud making it sound confusing.

Jun still stood looking out the window at the room the two had entered. She turned hearing something from downstairs and walked out. Before she could get far down the hall she saw Jacob walking up stumbling in an odd manner. "Are you alright?"

Jacob looked up and was still normal, and had a smile on his face now, "Jun, drop dead." Jacob held up his gun and Jun went wide eyed. She ducted and luckily it missed her, then she ran down the other end of the hall.

Jacob walked at a fast pace toward her following the open doors that Jun had no time to close as he chased her. "Come on Jun, I just need to kill you to find something out," he said smiling and walking forward still following the open doors.

Jun bumped into a girl as she went on and turned toward her and said, "Please, run in my direction…" before running off again. All Jun heard after that was a gun shot and some dragging down the hall opposite of her. Jun ran into a woman's restroom and entered a stall to find a small girl sleeping.

Jacob dragged Ashley's corpse onto a table and tied her down. "I didn't want it to be a friend, I'd rather it have been that woman but I must find out if Miyata was right," he said aloud.

Ashley started to laugh, and laugh even though she was supposedly dead. "You killed me," she said laughing more and more.

"Huh, they come awake faster than I thought," Jacob told himself pulling out a knife, "now let's find those main arteries shall we?"

Chapter 12

Josh: Day one, 8:00

Josh whacked down another shibito and kicked it in the gut before moving on down the open road he was on. He looked around at the sky as it lit up, but the fog had reflected most of the light so that it seemed a little darker than it was.

Josh's stomach turned and ached since he hadn't eaten while he was there. It was impossible to find any food really since the shibito ate human and all the animals had left. Vegetables and fruits were still inside the cafeteria on the road he was on, and luckily it was empty at the moment.

Josh finished eating and walked out into the fog once more. He walked to the edge of the road and watched the sea of red water. Shibito walked through the ocean toward the land at an endless rate. It seemed as if there was no end, and they just wouldn't stop coming. Josh smiled and made a small laugh. "This is great," he told himself.

Josh walked more into the fog watching the shadows shift left and right. Blood was on every window of every house Josh passed, and the images of these things eating that person stuck with him.

Josh walked on into an empty house and sat down inside of it for a second to get a little bit of a walking rest. "I can't leave, they won't die, and there'll be more and more of them. Damn this is bad…" he stood and walked on down the path.

Five minutes of walking made Josh just laugh a little more to himself. "Why the fuck does this happen to me! Why does it always happen to me damn it?" he asked aloud.

Josh then walked into a sugar cane field nearby and looked around at the stuff nearby. The cries and laughter from the shibito sounded so far away which made this place feel safe. Josh then looked on the stump of a tree to find a machete cut into it. He lifted it out of the stump and smiled, "No more worries," then walked off into the fog once more.

Chapter 13

Sarah: Day one, 10:00

Sarah and Nayma ran through the woods and found themselves back on a road. "We were just here!" Sarah said stomping down her foot and looking at the road.

"Let's just go down the road, it's the only thing left," Nayma said walking down the pavement. Sarah came next to her and listened for any of the cries and laughing of the shibito.

Sarah still had the image of her old friend in her mind. The spade in that friends hand, and then it would almost strike her as if trying to kill her friend. Sarah just shook her head but the vision would always come back.

Nayma stopped Sarah before they went down the path. Footsteps came and Nadia, the shibito, let herself be seen. She then started to laugh hysterically and walked hastily toward them.

Nayma and Sarah turned and ran back the other direction since neither of their weapons were strong enough to deal with the shibito. Sure Nayma had a fire extinguisher but the spade was long and sharp, and Sarah just had the umbrella, you do the math.

Sarah turned and Nayma followed as they went up a path to the right of them. Nadia was still behind them and saying, "What's the matter Sarah-chan?" Sarah just ignored and kept going leading Nayma down a path that she wasn't sure about.

Finally they reached a demolished house and both jumped in finding a way to hide from Nadia since she walked off away from the two. Sarah sighed and said, "What's wrong with her, and everyone else around here?"

Nayma just shook her head, "I bet Jacob and Lina couldn't make it through."

Sarah ignored and stepped out after waiting for one minute and looked at the path to left of the house leading up. "All we do is go up and down, but where does that lead us?" Sarah asked.

Nayma responded, "It leads us nowhere near the exit, it just makes this thing seem like… like a maze."

Sarah and Nayma moved on looking around and making sure there was nothing in their way. The place seemed so quiet for once, and nothing was like it was before. It was as if nothing around them existed, and the path was the only way out of the hell they were trapped in.

Sarah and Nayma now after twenty minutes found themselves to one of the two out roads, but came to a most chilling surprise. "The… the path it's gone," Sarah said pointing to the demolished outward road, and the endless sea of red water was the only visible thing now.

Nayma took it in slowly then fell to the floor. "How the hell do we get out then?"