Chapter 6- Fading Memory

Story and Storyline: Radix

Note of disclaimer: We don't own Fatal Frame. Temco own Fatal Frame.

Sometimes we should forget about the bitter past...Just run away, the sight that you think is forbidden to see. Just run away...Deep to the forest as like sink the bitter memory from you.

Don't look back even my voice echoing toward, just run away...my child

-Shizu Amakura-


The white flash appeared, flickering on and off, brings the bright light and then black pitch for few times. Mayu covered her sight; preventing her from blind. The flash begins to stop at the bright lights, showing the place that she standing. It is an empty space, an open space with the endless view of emptiness. No wall to be seen, nothing at all.

What does it mean? What it wants to show her?
Another place that about to enter?
Another tragic that she will see?
Another dying that she will feel?

"What do you want?" Mayu finally spoke out, tired with mental torture. She made one step forward to face with someone playing games with her. There is no response after her shout. Mayu looked around, could not find a single soul. "What do you want from me?" Mayu shouted loud again, waiting the response for whomever person or ghost watching at her. Nothing was there.

"I want to go home. Please..." Mayu kneeled as she begins to cry. She crying, hoping her vision takes away from her. The only thing she wanted is to be her sister together and live in her happy life again. Want to wake up from this nightmare

"Where is your home?" A girl voice appears in a sudden. Mayu looked up and saw a girl squat in front of her, putting a small smile. She wears simple plain white Kimono with green belt attached on her waist. Her age almost similar with Mayu age.

"Where is your home?" The girl asked again but this time with a clearer voice. Mayu looked around her and found that she still in the empty space except the girl. "I don't know where I am?" Mayu spoke softly. "Where I am?"

"Huh?" The girl puzzled with Mayu question and then giggles as she found it funny. But Mayu didn't, she looks down, away the girl sight. The girl stopped her giggle.

"Are you lost?" The girl asked with concern voice.
"I don't know. What made any different anyway?" Mayu replied back.
"You can't say that, your family worries about you."

Mayu stood up and turned away from the girl, tried to walk away from the girl. Probably another ghost playing with her but the little girl followed her in a distance, waiting Mayu response.

"Don't follow me" Mayu asked. But the girl insisted to follow her. Mayu stopped and turn around to tell her off. "What do you want?"

"I am worry about you." The girl looked at Mayu with a sad face. Mayu sneered as she heard what the girl said. How funny? A ghost concerning about her, all these time, Mayu run away from them in her dream recently and now…

"There is no place to go from here." The girl said sadly, She looked around, find her direction, she seem lost like Mayu. "There is no end of walking" The girl explained.
"What do you mean?' Mayu asked more specific answer.
"I don't know." That was her answer she got from the girl
"What do you mean that? You don't know." Mayu narrowed her eyes, show her displease with the girl answer.

"I am lost like you. Don't know where I am too." The girl said.

Mayu couldn't believe her answer. Was it a trick? Mayu began her walk, knowing there is a way to get out from here.

"Are you looking for something?" The girl changed her topic as she watched Mayu moving without stop.
"A person?"
"A place?"

Mayu just ignore the girl, letting her shout alone. She wanted to get back to see Mio. Mayu could imagine Mio sad face, sitting beside on her, holding Mayu hand and waiting Mayu awake.

" It is memory" The little girl shouted. Mayu stopped her track as she heard the word.
"Memory, It should be forgotten" Mayu said.
"Why must be forget?" The girl walked toward Mayu.
"Because I wanted too" Mayu tried not to recall it.


"Your mom is dead. I..." Her mother sit on her own bed, looking with a bewilder eyes at Mayu. Those eyes froze Mayu in fear. She could not forget her mother face expression as it burn deep on Mayu mind.

The cold sweat forms on her mother face...
Her messy black hair covered half of her face...
Her shallow breathes blowing on Mayu face...
The sadistic evil smiles ...

"You are a curse. You shouldn't born, you must die" Her mother reached out her hand, tried to grasp on Mayu neck. Mayu stumble herself to the ground to avoid her mother hand reaching her. "Mother, Why?" Mayu asked, didn't understand her mother action. Her mother begin crawl from her bed and then her body fall lifeless on the ground.

Mayu sat there, unable to think her next action; she had seen her mother act different in far distance or hiding one of the corners without her mother notices her. Only Mayu saw her mother struggling to control herself. Sometime for few second or minutes, she had to witness her mother. After that her mother recover back to normal self again and pretending that nothing had happen.

Her mother would smile at Mayu and Mio, doing thing together as she tried to make her daily life as much as she could. Sometime it made Mayu cry alone, bear to witness the thing happen to her mother.

"Mommy, I know what happen to you. Mommy, are you fighting inside of you." Mayu asked her mother. But she didn't the answer from her mother, still lying on the ground.

"Mommy...mommy... I want to help you. I can't stand watching you like that." Mayu eyes swell up with tears. She wanted to reach her mother but her mind told her not to, worry about her own safety.

"Mayu...my child. I am sorry." Her mother spoke out with her gentle voice. She tried to move, her left arm begin to move and push herself up from the ground but she could not manage it as her fall back to the ground again. She lost her strength from battle with the other spirit try to control her.

"Mommy..." Mayu crawls toward her mother but her mother shouted her not to.

"I guess you knew about it, I already know that you saw me like this before." Her mother said with regret voice. Mayu tried to move, she place her hand on the ground to move closer to her mother. "Mayu...Stop! Don't get closer. I am scare...unable to control myself anymore" her mother warned her child to stay away from her.

"Mommy, I can help you. I will call Mio to help you." Mayu begged her mother to let Mayu to help. Her mother refused as she knew that is no hope for that. What can her children could do? They are young to understand about the spirit possession and come to worse, they both end up dead in her hand without knowing it.

"Mayu...listen to me. There some people are going to come here. They are nice people and come to take you and Mio out from this place and me." Her mother explained. Mayu sat there with confusion. "I know this is all sudden but this is your own good."

"I can't leave you, Mio and I will not leave you. Family should stay together. You told me and Mio. No matter what will happen. We stay together" Mayu remind her mother about the word her mother said before.

"It is different now, I can't control myself anymore. You have to go. Before it is too late." Her mother shouted Mayu. "Go now...before she uses me again..." Her mother unable complete her sentence as if she fainted

Then silence appeared between them, Mayu stood up and walked step by step toward her mother." Mommy...Mommy..." Mayu called, check her mother, walking with caution.

She stood in front as looking down at her mother lying on the floor. "Mommy..." Mayu begin to squat to check mother by shaking her. Suddenly her mother grabbed Mayu leg.

"I got you, little one. Come and join me." Her mother laughed evilly, Mayu letting a scream, knowing her mother being possessed again by unknown spirit. Mayu shakes her leg but could not break free from the grip.

"Don't worry; I would not hurt so much, just a little pain." The spirit said, pulled Mayu leg with full force, made Mayu fall to the ground. As Mayu fell, her hand reach the table to get her balance but the force was too strong, cause the table fall over it side to the ground and the thing on the table crashing down.

Mayu struggles and begin kick with her other leg to break the spirit grip. But she don't do anything much to help herself but made the spirit burst with laughter. "You see. Shizu. Your daughter is hurt you. All people are the same, Even they are same flesh and blood family. They intended to kill each other to survive." The spirit looked up at Mayu with her red eyes, the burning hatred. With her hatred expression and yet her smiles never fade from her face.

"It is over." The spirit notices a knife lying on the ground. So as Mayu, she already notices but she would not take it to harm her mother. The spirit tried to reach the knife but she stopped her movement as her mother being to fight to gain control.

"Mayu...do it." Her mother commands her daughter to take the knife to kill her. Mayu shook her head, refused to listen; she could not kill her own mother. "Do it..." her mother begging Mayu again. "She can't because she is weak. Come Mayu…Are you afraid? Do it or I am going kill you." The spirit shouted.

it was too late for the spirit to reach the knife as Mayu grab the knife and point at her own mother.

"Let go, my mommy. Please" Mayu said with tearful voice. The spirit laughed, watching Mayu crying. "Please, leave us alone." Mayu began beg the spirit. "Your mommy is dead already, on the bed as you two left the house this morning." The spirit said.

"No, it can't be." Mayu shook her head.
"I am going to kill you and next is your little sister Mio. I made sure her dead is painful before I sent her to meet you all in heaven." The spirit laugh tried to grab the knife"Mommy" Mayu shouted...


Mayu stood there, without noticing the girl holding her hand She did it and then she ran away with Mio without tell her mother was dead under Mayu hand. The tear rolls down to her cheek and drip to her clothes form a deep red stain, almost like blood on her red shirt.

"It is a bitter memory." The girl asked, tried to comfort her.
"Yes, it was the painful one." Mayu replied.
"Maybe, I know the way out from here." The girl said.
"How" Mayu asked.
"There is a wooden gate in somewhere. Maybe it is a way out there."

Mayu looked around and found the emptiness on the horizon. The girl pulled Mayu arm, to make the journey to look for the wooden gate. Mayu pulled her hand away as she felt unsecured for herself.

"Trust me, I will show you or you stuck in this place" The girl grabbed Mayu hand again. She looked up as she waiting for Mayu to agree. Mayu stared at her for awhile as the girl looked similar as if Mayu seen this girl before.

"Let the memory keep inside you, even is a bitter one and wanted you to forget. It's always remains inside you till the end." The girl said. Mayu shook her head with a smile as walk with her to find the gates to wake her up, Maybe it is the only way to made her vision disappear too.

She didn't want Mio to worry more about her anymore. She wanted to wake up and spend time with her.
"Mio...Sorry, just wait for me." Mayu whispered alone.