The Old Lady

Nobunaga's Perspective

My parents went out today, so I decided to stay home with my sisters, Gracia, Ina, Xing Cai, and Oichi. After showering, which was around 10:45pm, I tucked my little sister, Oichi, to bed. As I was tucking her in, I saw my other sister, Gracia, already sleeping with her face turned away. I said goodnight to Oichi and left the door wide open, since she told me not to close the door. Then I turned the lights off and left to my room to sleep.

Ina's Perspective

In the evening, my brother, Nobunaga, went into the backyard when my older sister, Gracia, came to me, Xing Cai, and Oichi, and told us that she was going out with her boyfriend, Magoichi, and won't be back until later. She said for me and Xing Cai to let Oichi sleep with us, which we were totally fine with it, but Oichi insisted that she was a big girl and could handle sleeping alone.

Oichi was watching T.V. in the living room when I began walking downstairs, getting ready to tuck her to bed. Halfway walking down the stairs, I saw that Nobunaga had already carried my sister and was going to tuck her into bed. I turned around and walked back to my room. Xing Cai and I were talking for a while, and when it was 11:30pm, we both fell asleep.

We were both sleeping peacefully until Nobunaga stormed into our room with Oichi crying in his arms. I quickly checked the time and it was 2:25am. Xing Cai and I were totally confused and asked Oichi what was going on. She kept saying something about an old lady, but we couldn't see what she was seeing. It scared the hell out of us.

Oichi's Perspective

I shared a room upstairs with my oldest sister, Gracia. I am nine years old only. Today my sister Gracia went out with her boyfriend, Magoichi, which left me to sleep alone in our room. She didn't say when she would be back though. My parent's also went out today too. I have two other older sisters, Ina and Xing Cai, but they were in their room doing their things. It was getting late, so my brother, Nobunaga, tucked me in bed. I told him to leave the door open, but I didn't say why. Deep down inside, I knew I was kinda scared to be sleeping alone.

I was deep asleep when I woke up to hearing footsteps on my carpet. I pretended to toss and turn, just so I could peek at who it was that was walking on my carpet. The first thing I noticed was that my door was closed and locked. I didn't see anything but continued hearing footsteps from the other side of my room. I assumed it was Gracia.

Once again, I tossed and turned the other way to get a good look at who it was. Suddenly, I saw this old lady wearing very traditional clothes-Hmong clothes. She came walking towards my bed and sat down on the corner of it. I couldn't really see her face because her long hair covered it. Her hands were blue and from her looks, I knew this woman was dangerous. Whoever she was, she definitely wasn't Gracia!

I sat up and stared at her. I was so paralyzed; I couldn't move or make a sound. My heart raced as though it was going to end. Never in my life have I felt so scared before. The old lady sat still and whispered something to me.

"Oichi…," she said, in a dry, hoarse voice. "Oichi….You are going to die…." Then she started laughing and pointing at me. "There's no escape…"

At that point, I started crying, but no sound came out.

"You are going to die, Oichi…" she said again. Then she laughed, "E-e-e-e-e-e-e-e-e…." She repeated this for about seven times, which scared the hell out of me.

I cried so much, and before I knew it, I found the courage to get up and run to my door. I tried opening it, but it wouldn't open. Finally, my mouth dropped open and I screamed in horror as loud as I could. As I struggled to get the door to open, the lady continued laughing.

"Where do you think you're going, Oichi?" she said, in a cracky, taunting voice. "You're not going anywhere, my sweet, sweet Oichi." Then she got up, laughed, pointed at me, and started walking to me.

Once again, I screamed even louder than before. She was less than eight feet away from me when the door finally opened. I made a run, but bumped into my older brother, Nobunaga. He picked me up as I held onto him real tight.

"What's going on? Why are you crying?" he asked me.

I tried to tell him what had happened, but from fear and shock, I couldn't speak at all. All I could do was point to my room and cry for him to get away from it. He carried me downstairs and sat down on the couch. He tried to calm me down.

I was shaking and crying for five minutes when I saw the old lady sitting down on the sofa across from us. Once again, Nobunaga asked me what had happened. I cried even more and pointed at the old lady.

This time when I saw her, I got to look at her face. It was rotten and blue, and you could see some bones coming out of her face. There were also maggots crawling into and out of her eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. She smiled creepily and said, "Tsk. Tsk. Tsk," to me. She enjoyed watching me freak out, and before I knew it, Nobunaga carried me back upstairs into my other sister's room.

"Watch her. There's something going on. I'm going to call mom and dad," Nobunaga said, handing me to Ina. Then he stormed out of the room. Xing Cai quickly closed the door and along with Ina, she asked me what had happened. It took me five minutes to calm down, and when I did, I saw the old lady standing by their closet. One more time, I started crying and pointing at the old lady.

"What's going on? What do you see?" Ina asked me, looking at the closet.

"There's…an old lady standing by your closet! She's a monster and she said that I was going to die!" I cried, pointing and hiding behind Ina.

"Don't look at her!" Xing Cai suggested, hugging me from behind.

The old woman laughed dryly and threatened, "You better not look away or else something bad will happen to you!"

"I can't!" I replied, crying. "She said that if I look away, something bad will happen!"

Then the old woman laughed and laughed. I cried so much, because I was the only who could see her. Then the ambulance came and Nobunaga took me downstairs. He put my shoe on me, and as I got on the bed, the old lady came up to me and laughed. She told me that she would be waiting to kill me when I got home.

Nobunaga's Perspective

After dropping Oichi into Ina's room, I was totally confused as to why Oichi was crying so much. There was only one person that I was angry at-Gracia. She had snuck out and left Oichi sleeping all alone! I stormed into their room, and of course, she wasn't in there. I took out my cell phone angrily and began calling her. After five rings, she picked up.

"Hello?" Gracia said.

Enraged, I began yelling at her. "Why did you leave Oichi all alone? Don't you know that she's scared to sleep alone? And if you were going to ditch her and leave her like that, you could've at least taken her to sleep with Ina them! You freaken bitch!"

"Okay…I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't ditch her," Gracia replied. "I told her that I was going out with Mago, and for her to sleep with Ina them."

"Right. And what time did you leave?" I shouted.

"I left at 9:30," Gracia said.

Then my jaw dropped opened. I remembered around 10:30pm when I tucked Oichi in bed, I saw Gracia sleeping!

"You're serious?" I asked her.

"I'm serious," Gracia replied.

"Don't lie to me," I said.

"I'm not. And why are you saying that?" she asked.

"You know…I saw you sleeping around 10:30 when I tucked Oichi in bed…" I told her. Then there was a long silence.

"Are you for reals?" she asked, freaked out.

"Yeah," I replied. "Anyways, hurry up and come home."

"Okay," she said.

After we hung up, I called my parents and told them what happened to Oichi. They said for me to call the ambulance and they would meet them at the hospital, so I did.

The next day, my parents had some people who knew how to contact spirits come over to our house. There were three of them; Shingen, Kenshin, and Ieyasu. They did their ritual thingy and when it was over, I listened to them explaining to my parents why the old lady did that to Oichi.

"It appears that one of Oichi's friends passed away a few months ago," said Shingen. "Am I right?"

I remembered back a couple months ago, Oichi's best friend, Nagamasa, had passed away from cancer. My parents and I nodded our heads.

"Ever since that incident, has she been taking strange walks alone?" Shingen asked. We nodded our heads again. "This old woman that came to her…followed her from one of her walks…She sensed the fact that Oichi was so sad and depressed and ready to leave Earth so she spent a couple months looking for Oichi and finally found her."

"Oh my," said my mother, Zhen Ji. "Is there any way how to get rid of it?"

"Yes," said Shingen. "We can work on that right now with your consent."

"You are more than welcomed to have our permission," said my father, Cao Pi.

Then they said some more ritual words for about half an hour. Then they told us that the old lady has left and will not be coming back.

Oichi's Perspective

It was a couple days after I had been brought into the hospital when the doctors told me that I could go home. I was so afraid that the old lady would be waiting to kill me, like what she said, but my mother told me that she was long gone. I hoped that what she said was true, and to my surprise, I never saw that old lady again!