Here is the next chapter! I got it up just like I promised!
---- Flashback ----
"There are no records of what happened before, but I managed to track down the boy," Lin said.
"Where is he?" Masako asked.
---- End Flashback ----
"He lives next door to this very house. Turns out he's a thirty-year-old author of several ghost books," Lin responded.
"Let's go talk to him," Takigawa suggested.
"That won't be necessary," Naru told him, "I have him on the phone." Naru put it on speaker.
Naru started the interview, "We're sorry for calling you mister…"
"Oscar," the voice on the phone stated.
"Right, Mister Oscar. We had a few questions for you," Naru stated.
"Very well, about what?"
"About the disappearance of Anika Sweets. You were with her when she disappeared. What happened?" Naru asked.
There was a pause on the phone before the voice came back on, "Do you want the whole story?"
"Yes, that would be preferable," Takigawa said.
"It started after Anika ran out of her house. She sat down at a park bench and began to cry. That's when I found her. She told me all about her troubles at home and I sympathized with her. She told me all about the secret places of the house and that she was terrific at hiding. She smiled when she talked about it so I wanted to cheer her up. I asked her to take me there and show me which she was delighted to do."
"Continue," Naru said.
"After exploring for a little while, we came upon a door that led to the basement. She said she had never been there…so we decided to explore. We found a light switch and we turned the light on, only to find something…horrible. Inside the basement was a bunch of bodies. They were missing limbs, pale, horrid. They were also piled around in a perfect circle. In the middle, was a small doll. I took a picture of the circle. Right after that, Anika screamed and said she was being pulled towards the circle. True enough, she was. I grabbed onto her arm, but she still kept moving towards the circle. As soon as she entered the circle, she vanished. I was left alone in the basement. Suddenly, something grabbed me from behind and said some weird words, I wrote them down somewhere…oh yeah! Whatever it was said 'Du me su tis la.' I got knocked out. I woke up in the woods about twenty miles away from the site. I never had the chance to go back because when I told my story, I was put into an asylum for a while because I was declared 'mentally unsound.'"
"Can you show us the picture?" Naru asked.
"Sure! I'll walk it over!" the phone hung up.
All around the room the faces showed horror, disgust.
Soon a knock was heard at the door.
Naru went towards it and took off the barrier and opened it. On the doorstep stood a sloppily dressed blonde-haired blue-eyed man. In his hand he held a package. "Are you the person who called me on the phone? Good! Because I brought all the stuff over!" the man readily entered and as if he knew exactly where he was going, he found the kitchen table and sat down.
"My, this is a crowd," he said as he opened the envelope. He took out the pictures and set them on the table. One picture was taken away from the table, by Naru, before anyone could look at it. The SPR team studied the rest of the photos. Among them were many pictures of a young girl.
"She looks an awful lot like Mai," Takigawa said.
Ayako picked up a picture of Anika. "Yes, she does."
"Hey, look at this," John said as he held up a photo. On the photo was Anika standing in the middle of the living room with a ghost behind her. The ghost was that of a young girl. The ghost was holding Anika's legs and pointing towards the basement, on which was written "Burial Ground."
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Sorry it's so short. I'm running a little late.
