Mai Pov:
Naru and I immediately ran out of the room, the scream was followed by more screams, and we raced down the corridors and hallways down to a door that was unlike any of the others in a secluded hallway. The door was plain oak with intricate designs made out of gold. The door knob was brass and seemed to be a handle with a lock at the bottom, and if you looked close enough, there were engraved carvings at the base of the lock, it seemed fresh:
'Non transiens,
Mens occupata in fines
Cavent,
Si transire limen includet.'
[Latin]
('No one shall pass,
The occupied mind is a border,
Take heed,
If you pass this threshold will lock.')
I translated the Latin text, thinking of the perfect spell for them to break free without getting into major trouble and leaking all of my abilities to the public eyes of Naru the 'super genius'. I kept on coming back and forth between using one of the lesser spells that would seem like I knew a lot, but in actuality it was one of my spells that used the least of my abilities. I kept on thinking of the incantation around the lock in my mind, "Oh ya!" I exclaimed desperately hoping that Naru didn't here me, I started chanting my incantation to blow the door right of the hinges; 'Quite Literally!' I started laughing and frowned, it becomes a time of a new kind of low, when you start laughing at your own jokes.
'I call upon the wind,
My being is in grave help,
Sweep around me,
Give me your power,
Lend me a hand in this fight."
I muttered the incantation as I slowly clasped my hands into a prayer stance, with my ring finger and pinky down. I swiped the air in front of me into an 'x' and yelled, "CAST!"
The door exploded and it flew off of the hinges, flinging itself down at my feet. The wind blowing in my face almost couldn't see the flaming red face of Ayako and a slightly fuming Masako. The seemed to not comprehend who had just saved them and went on their business carefully getting out of the room, and continuing their conversation.
"I can't believe you actually went through all that pain in the neck work, just because you thought that you could get on Naru's good side by looking through the door for the ghost!" Ayako nearly screamed.
"Well its not my fault Mai got lost and we had to start the job before her, I swear! If Mai gets lost it only puts Naru in a bad mood, so to bring him down from that cloud in hell he was manifesting, I wanted to get him out of that stupor with some good news, sorry we had to take a detour to only get saved by Naru!" Masako said all in one breath. She seemed to acknowledge our presence and calmed down quite a bit and so did a now ever so presently calm Ayako.
I just waltz over to them making my way around the door, "Hey guys! So what are we talking about?" I slightly made the stink eye at Masako, while continuing to look at Ayako, "Who was screaming earlier? I mean I was in this deep and interesting conversation with Naru, so I thought I might know who was screaming at the top of their lungs to get saved!"
They both blinked at each other before both turning slightly scarlet, Masako despite turning red was the one who answered, "I don't know what you're talking about Mai." She turned up her nose and turned around.
Ayako looked over my shoulder to change the subject, "By the way Naru, are you feeling ok?" Naru and I just looked at each other and then at Ayako with the 'what-do-you-mean' look, she seemed to have gotten what we meant, "What? Didn't Naru blast the door off its hinges using his PK?" I just looked to her in astonishment; did she really not see it?
"No Ayako, I am completely fine, who we should be asking that question is Mai." Naru said his face stoic.
"Mai?" Masako quickly looked at me astonished, she resolved into her bitchy little self, holding the sleeve of her kimono over her mouth, she said, "What could that twerp possibly do," rolling her eyes and continuing with much more venom in her voice than her last sentence, "she's just ghost bait, plus that one time that she actually tried to save me, we lost the case!" She exclaimed.
We were all flabbergasted at her words, that Naru slightly let his calm façade fall for a split second letting me see the enraged emotions climb all over his face, "Now Miss Hara, I implore you to stop this ridiculous tantrum and begin with how you were locked up in this room in the beginning, it does not matter who got you out of this room instead our efforts should be trying to see how and when you got locked in this room."
Shocked at his sudden outburst she seemed frozen, then thawed and made herself look regal starting her story, "In the beginning we were on our way to snoop out the rooms looking for missing passage ways and looking into adjoining rooms trying to make sense of the layout of this floor, but then suddenly I felt a strange presence come into this room. It felt like the spirit was content but a bitter rage was seething in the depth of its once human soul. I felt like it was going to something so I persuaded Ayako to follow me." Skipping over the part in what she and Ayako were arguing over the attention of one Narcissistic boss, instead blushed then continued, "We were guided into this room and right as we entered through the threshold the door slammed behind us and we started screaming when the spirits attacked us."
Then Ayako chimed in and said, "That's where Mai blasted the door open on us!"
They all looked to me, busted.
"In my defense! The words on the door below the lock were in Latin, saying:
'Non transiens,
Mens occupata in fines
Cavent,
Si transire limen includet.'
So for your defense too, this means that if you were to go through the door and pass through the opening it would immediately lock!" I looked at their astonished faces and braced for the onslaught of questions that were going to occur.