Chapter one: Fated
Written by Radix
Storline by White kimono girl
Item and Dairy: Kiku
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Why do we have to search the past? We could leave it and continue our life without worry and pain that we will suffer. My beloved sister, I understand you that the past gives the temptation to you to search our missing memory as it also give me too. But do you know that the danger we had to face. Do you know?
Mayu Amakura
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Mayu lying in the wooden platform and slowly regain her conscious. "Where I am?" Mayu whispered, massaging her forehead, as dizziness still had not faded inside her head. She couldn't remember what happen at the moment ago except her mind clearly told her to save Mio from the trapped temple prison. Mayu tried to get up, heading to the temple prison as soon as possible; she knew every second of delay she made would lead Mio to expose to danger. She did explored the temple to search that key, but she failed to safe Mio as she encounters the ghosts await to attack her when Mayu managed obtain the key in one of the hall. Overpowered by the ghost, she fell unconscious; her strength withered away as the icy hand of the death grab her.
Now Mayu resting her knee on the wooden platform, letting the pain itself go away before she able to made her move. "The key" Mayu remembered the important item she must have now. She looked to her pocket on her red shirt, where she places the key safely before the attack. She quickly reached her hands down into her pocket to ensure that the key is there, resting safety in her pocket." Where is it?" Her heart pound fast as her hand scramble fanatic inside her pocket, found the key is not there anymore. Mayu let her frustration out, as her only hope to rescue her sister is gone. "Why" She blamed her careless for losing the key. It could be anywhere in the temple. It will take some time to find it and she didn't forget that the ghost would be lurking in every shadow, waiting to strike to any living soul walked to their trap. "Mio, I could not save you"
But her hope was not lost at all as Mayu noticed there is something glittering in front of her, not far away from a few step. It was the key that Mayu was looking for and just hiding under the shadow of the wooden table. Mayu didn't expect the key just lying there. Now Mayu had to reach her hand and collect it. Mayu would not make a mistake this time. Her hand slowly reaches it, almost grabbing the key. But someone walked and step the key complete under a person foot, sound of the metal rubbing the floor made screech loud sound as the foot turn and face her
She saw a girl standing in front of her, swaying her both hands up and down, waiting for Mayu to stand up. The girl head tilt down, exposing her white face to Mayu. " Where have you been? I am waiting for you." The girl spoke softly with her lips tremble. She looked at Mayu with her overjoyed expression like she had been waiting her come for a long time. Mayu became speechless as her mind alerted her that the girl was one of the ghosts in the village. Mayu could not move the arm like it froze solid. Mayu could do is gazed the girl foot that step the key and a red thin rope dangling next to her foot as it ends almost touch the ground. The rope swaying it all direction, tried to follow the movement of her arm swing.
Mayu eyes move up, tried to follow the red rope line that tied on the girl left wrist. The knot was cruel tied on the girl, Mayu could see the other rope marking leave blue bruise on the girl wrist. It seem the girl had put up a fight on something against her will, until someone tie a rope to her wrist. Somehow she loses her fight. "You have come back," the girl asked gladly; slowly kneel down in front on Mayu. "The key" Mayu eyes open wide as the key exposed a little of it side as the girl foot lift a little up. It was only opportunity to grab it. Mayu just needed a little courage to beat the fear she had. But the girl kneeled down and picked the key without look back. "Are you here to set someone free?" She noticed Mayu wanted the key. She knew what Mayu needed for. To save Mio
"What about me? You come back for the other. Why not me?" The girl said with a crying voice, feeling disappointed. The girl disappears in a blink from her sight without gave Mayu a chance to say anything. The key drops in front of Mayu, waiting her collect to save Mio. Mayu breathe out slowly, controlling herself from panicking. Mayu thought the girl will hurt her but she didn't. " No time." Mayu must reach to Mio.
She tried to stand up but her leg is too weak. She placed her hand on a big wooden table that located next to her and slowly used her strength to pulling herself up. She still felt giddy as she stood up, seem the dizziness still had not fade. Mayu eyes scans around the place to know her where bout. Mayu could not see the place clearly as the light is not bright enough to support her sight. The only source light came from the huge door located at far end and some ray came from small hole on the roof. Mayu guess it is a hall, by looking the size of the room. But it looks familiar like she had being before but she could not recall it.
Mayu placed the key into her pocket, as she is ready to leave this dark place, a red bright dot flying as it emits a weak light. It seems flying near toward Mayu, leaving a trail of red bright dust behind as it fly.
"A Crimson Butterfly" Mayu whispered herself. It is a first time she encounter it. She couldn't believe to see it with her own eye; even Mio did tell Mayu that she saw them when they are young. Not one but many of them.
The butterfly majestically flickers its wings gently in the mid air just above Mayu head. The butterfly wings glowing in red and it is so bright like a small fire. Mayu looked amaze the beauty of the butterfly wing and seem the butterfly flew around her head, leaving the trail of light above on Mayu head. Then the butterfly landed on Mayu shoulder and flapping it wings up and down gently as it resting. Mayu slowly raised her hand, tried to touch but it flies away as Mayu finger almost touches the butterfly wings.
The butterfly flies away and landing one of the nearby-unlit red candles that laid in a row on the stone stab that placed for quite some time.
The butterfly wing started to flap up and down slowly, leaving a red dust falling from it wing on the candle surface. Then candle lighted it as the red dust sparked the burned candle string, ignited the flame. Leave no time for the butterfly to escape from the candle fire clutch it wings. The butterfly soars to the air, flying wild and blindly in front Mayu eyes
"No!" Mayu shouted as she raised her arm to capture it, but it too late as fire consumes the butterfly wing, tearing piece to piece from it body. In the end, the burned butterfly falling slowly the dark gray marble floor, leaving the fire dies off slowly after it consumes all remaining its black charred body. Mayu looked sadly to saw such beautiful thing being destroyed just like that in front her feet. Mayu looked the charred butterfly and pick it up carefully. She placed it on her left hand leaving Mayu heart ached to witness the butterfly torture by engulfing flame
Before she moves away from the wooden platform, another candle lit. She looked at the lighted candle and saw nobody stood there to light the candle. Then another candle lit by itself again, the rest of it follows, creating a wave as travel started from the left corner of the hall. It goes around against the wall and ended to the platform on the right side where Mayu stood in the center on the platform. Mayu looked around the size of the hall clearly as all candle lit" This is the hall, the vision about the altar…is true" Mayu finally realized that she standing in front of the altar. She stared the picture and symbol tainted on the wall. The picture's line and symbol draw in red color, red like fresh blood. The picture holds a story and it drawn on the entire dark wall, showing gore scene that horror Mayu.
One of the pictures the caught on Mayu eyes is the picture of the two girls standing the platform as where Mayu standing on. It seems the girls tie their hands each other with a rope. Mayu eyes gazed of the girl face that standing to the left side with other girl for a long time. She looked deep to her eyes, the eyes fill with sad and sorrow. The eyes of that girl starts to bleed and dripping to the floor.
Mayu stumbled back and her back hit against the table, made the cups tipped and roll away from their place and some of them fall off from the table make the crashing sound that echo the hall.
"Welcome back. Dear child" a soft rough voice greeted behind Mayu back. Mayu quickly turn around and see a person wearing the hood robe standing behind the table. Mayu steps back and knew that nobody a while ago but now there is a person standing in front of her. The person wore a dark black robe with a weird gold symbol on the stitches left side on robe. "You looked a bit frighten, my child" the voice appeared from the hooded person. Mayu could not see the face as the hood cover the face completely like a black pitch hole. "Who are you" Mayu asked. "Why do you what to know?" He answered back.
Mayu slows back from the platform and decided to run toward the exit of this eerie place. "What are you going, I am going to start the ceremony," he asked Mayu to stay. Mayu slowly back off and keep eyes on the hood person. "Please stay here, the time had come" He started to beg with sorrow voice, echoing across the hall. Mayu back off and reaches almost the center on the hall. She lifted her courage and reply back to the hooded man "No". She turned toward the door and run to the exit with her might. "What about your sister?"
"Are you decided to leave her behind with us?" he asked Mayu. "Like you did before? Why refuse to fulfill your task?"
"Wait for me. Please don't leave" Mayu stopped her track at the door as she recognized the soft voice. She turned back and saw her sister wearing a white plain robe, standing at the wooden platform in front the hooded man. "Mio, run." Mayu shouted. But Mio stood there motionless, as if she couldn't hear her sister voice. "Mio! Run" Mayu shout again. But Mio stood there, raising her arm to beckon Mayu to come back. "Please run" Mayu whispers. The hooded man gave a hideous low pitch laugh "She can't hear you. If you want her, come and get her." Mayu had no choice but to walk there to get her sister.
She walked the step on the platform. Mayu glared the hooded man as she gets her sister." Do not worry my child. I will not harm you" the hooded man growled, gaze on Mayu for each step she makes. The man narrow his eyes underneath his covered hood like a predator ready to make a kill of his prey.
Mayu looked her twin sister stand there emotionless with her head tilt down" Mio, what are you doing here. Are you OK?" Mayu grabs her sister's left hand. Mio stood there and looking up to her sister face. "Mio, what is wrong with you. Why you look so pale" Mayu got worries and grabs her hand as she pulls her sister to leave this dark place. Suddenly Mio pulls away and shakes from Mayu hand to release the grasp.
"Mio. Let go. What is wrong with you" Mayu said to her sister. A chills tickles on Mayu's spine, she hear soft chant from her behind back." Now the time has come for the ceremony," the hooded man announced with boom voice, echoing the dark hall
The chants grew louder and louder. Mayu turned her back and see the hall fill with people kneeling and recited the chant. More of them walking to the hall and started to fill up the place. Mayu stuns to witness horrifying scene as she see their face is disfigured badly and some of their face covered with dry stained blood. Mayu tried to move but could not as her leg unwilling obey her as it stuck on the wooden platform.
"Why do you leave me there? The promise we made together…" Mio whispered to Mayu. "I didn't. I was attacked and…and I found myself here" Mayu shook her head. Mio gazed her eyes on Mayu with her sadness and disbelief. Counting the word of Mayu said as the word contained behind all lie and false secure in her mind. Mio had found the truth of her past. All her trust and love from Mayu for all her life are making believe.
"Do you love me?" Mio asked her sister, gently touches Mayu face. For long she miss her sister soft skin, "Do you love me?" Mio asked again, gently touches her sister hair from the forehead to back on Mayu neck.
"Why you ask me this question. You are my only sister." Mayu shook her sister shoulder. "Sister… I remember now." Mio smiled, position her both hand toward Mayu neck.
"What you are doing Mio?" Mayu tried to block it but too late as Mio hands clasped on her neck. "I could not breathe. Let go Mio!" Mayu started to cough and tried to break her sister grip clinching her neck. Mayu looked her sister face. She could not believe what she saw her sister give a gloomy sadistic smile. Mayu started to loss her strength to stand and she tried break her sister grip for her last attempt.
"I told that I will not harm you, but I forget to tell you that she would," The hooded man laughed as the ritual went smooth as plan. Now he had to waited Mayu to die.
"Please Mio, why you are doing this?" Mayu coughed, struggle to breath. Mayu left bit of her strength, only enough to fight back. Mayu could heard her blood flow in her head as Mio applied on her neck as her sister showing no remorse for do it. Mayu extended her both hand on Mio neck. She had to do it for save herself.
"Mio, I am sorry." Mayu coughed. Her both of hands slowly reach to Mio neck. She could feel Mio neck with her hand tremble but Mayu decided not to do so as kept her promise to protect her, not to harm her. She believes Mio didn't know what is doing right now?
"What you waiting for? Mayu, You are dying." Her other voice in her mind told Mayu to save herself. " Do it as Mio did to you"
"I would not do it. I will not hurt her. She my only sister left" Mayu protested her inner voice.
"She is killing you. You allow her to do." The voice asked
"Yes" Mayu cry softly to give own life away than rather to hurt her sister, uphold the promise she had made before. The voice inside of her disappears, left Mayu with the choice of death.
She kneeled down on the wooden platform and her finger scratches her Mia shoulder to begging her to release her grip. So later her struggle came to the end, her arms dangling helpless to the grounds.
"Why? Mio" Mayu asked her for a reason.
Was it the incident that Mayu responsible of Mio has injury legs that couldn't be healed anymore? Was it the secret that she kept so long from Mio about her mother past? Or was it all because their life had to be fated to end this way as the tool for the sacrifice ritual?
"Why? Mio"
"Because you left me behind to die. Run away and forget about me," Mio whispered.
"I didn't." Mayu hand try to reach to her pocket, show the key to Mio. But she unable to move her arm as the strength turns weaker and weaker.
"Lair, you never. You are all the same. Yae and you. Leaving me behind."
"No. I…didn't"
The pain slowly disappear from Mayu neck, she felt no pain anymore but only warm hands clasped on her neck that she could felt it now. She couldn't Mio clearly anymore, no longer seeing Mio sad or anger expression as her vision turn blur.
Mayu felt her whole body light as if she floats. "Did I die? Mio please tell me" Mayu felt so tired, close her eyes as her body told her to go to sleep. " What if I will not wake up anymore?" Mayu remind herself to stay awake but the tiredness overcomes her. Slowly she drift to sleep, started to fade away of the recited pray echo the hall and the madness laugh of the hooded man. All of slowly started to fade away except her sister voice.
"Sleep forever my sister."
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This is a prologue story started where Mayu and Mio have to face this sacrifice ritual in the village. Almost the final ending of this story, you will see almost similar storyline and how they end it the sacrifice ritual. We had been editing the entire story to improve the writing and storyline plot. We hope and thank you for the support that you gave to us.
Crimson Sacrifice Ritual:
The ritual of the Fatal Frame:
(Not inside the game storyline. Only part of the story)
Please for the people read this part, the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual in the Red Crimson Tales is total different story from the games. In this story, there is a linkage of all Ritual of Fatal Frame 1, Fatal Frame 2 and Fatal Frame 3. As a remind note, please don't do any investigation as some of the hardcore did it before.
The Crimson Sacrifice Ritual:
The doors between Hell and Earth had opened since beginning of the Crimson Sacrifice Ritual performs for the first time. It was opened by a group of great shaman with a great desire to learn the secret of immortality life. In exchange Crimson Sacrifice Ritual must perform to calm the Hellish Abyss.
The first twin perform the task is the great Shaman son's (The Kurosawa family is the Great Shaman family) to open the Hellish gates, believe that their bloodline had the power is the key to control the Hellish gates. But the Great Shaman didn't know that a spirit escaped from Hellish gates as the ritual perform, waiting the time is right to free the Master from the deadlock of Hellish Gates. Many of twins child are bound to use as a sacrifice tools for the ritual to perform, just to stall the time as the research the secret of immortality still had not fully uncovered.