SuperNatural Paradox
Volume 2 Chapter 2: The Words of Mary
Shin ran to the field filled with flowers that Naomi had brought him before. He began Visualizing the last moment that they were together.
"Sh-shin… p-please… t-turn me…" he remembered the lines Naomi began with.
"Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!" He knelt down with both of his palms on the ground. He punched the ground as hard as he could; causing his hand to break. His face covered up with tears as he stared at the ground. "I should have been paying more attention to the road before I started to cross. If I had… then Naomi would still be alive, and now… I'm losing my best friend to."
"I'm done waiting…" he remembered the last time he saw Tykato. "I'm sorry Shin… but this means we're no longer friends."
"S-Stop being such an idiot! I guess… this is just… l-like that movie… we-we watched… together. The only thing different... is that you're…" Naomi coughed." Not a vampire." Shin's hands punched the ground a few more times as he vision his last few memories with both Tykato and Naomi.
"Why!? Why couldn't it have been me instead? It's… just wrong for someone to die for another to live! It just isn't fair!" he kept punching the ground. His knuckles began to go numb to the point where he couldn't feel the blood dripping down his hand. "Why is this happening to me?" his head landed on the ground and he began crying.
"Shin, don't be such an idiot." Shin heard a whisper through the wind that sounded like Naomi.
"Naomi…? Is that you?" he looked up and saw Tykato standing there. "T… Tykato?"
"I thought that was you, Shin." Shin stared at him. "I felt that you should know before the teacher says anything." Shin sat there looking up at him waiting for him to say the next words. "We're moving away." These words struck Shin intensely.
"M-Moving…? Away…?" he was left speechless.
"It was the option my parents had come up with. It was the only thing we could think of to stop me from getting harassed. I'm sorry Shin. I won't be here to help you get over Naomi's death. I got to be going now." Tykato started to walk away.
"W… Wait… Wait Tykato!" Shin stood up. He couldn't bear anyone else vanish from his life. "Please don't go! I'm sorry I wasn't there for you!" Shin's eyes were beginning to fill with even more sorrow. Tykato stopped in his tracks to say a few more words.
"I know you are, but I'm sorry. We're moving away from this city. There's no going back now. So, goodbye… Shin." Tykato continued on walking forward without looking back. Tykato couldn't even look at Shin anymore because he knew he was leaving someone that was very close to him forever.
"Naomi… Tykato…" Shin mumbled, "This… this can't be happening." Shin began to cry out even louder than before. A pain in his heart appeared that couldn't be cured. Just two weeks ago life for Shin was perfect. Days went by. Tykato had moved away. Naomi's funeral had passed. Shin felt all alone in the world. Nothing his parents tried helped cheer him up.
He sat there quietly to himself every day at school. All of the other students didn't pay any attention to him; only ignored him like he didn't even exist. "Vampires…?" Shin thought to himself. "There's still one thing I must do. I must become a Vampire for Naomi. I will fulfill a wish for her." Shin tightened his hands into fists and started thinking about the last few words she had said.
"S-stop being such an i-diot. I guess… this is just… l-like that movie… we watched together… the only thing is… is that you're…" Naomi coughed. "Not a vampire."
"If I become a Vampire, then I can prevent the people close to me from dying. I will be able to help others in need. I will… for Naomi… become a… VAMPIRE!" Shin finished thinking to himself.
The memory ended at this and Surina stared blankly at the mirror. "H… How horrible." Surina began to say. "He lost everything just like that. No wonder he acts the way he does. He's become desperate in want of saving is friends, but in the same time he's afraid of making new friends because he's afraid of it turning out the same way."
"His heart is in the right place," Madam began speaking. "But he isn't doing the right thing. He needs guidance to help him go to the right path. It may be very difficult at this stage for him because it looks as though his motivation his very strong and hasn't let up much in the last few years."
Surina sat there thinking about what she watched. "Shin has witnessed so much tragedy that I'm surprised on how strong he really is. For most people, they would have given up on their life at this point, but because of his want of becoming a vampire it has gave him a new purpose to live."
"Maybe…" Madam looked at Surina with a smile. "You can give him a newer and better purpose for living. I think that is exactly what he needs."
"Indeed." She agreed and smiled. She looked around to see that the walls were still covered with mirrors. "I wonder where Shin and his parents are." Surina started to look around her. All of the mirrors suddenly changed from Shin's different memories to showing a mouth from a face screaming at the top of their lungs. "This is getting really strange… what is it showing now?" Madam didn't answer back. Instead she began to take off towards another room. "Madam…? W-W-W-WAIT FOR ME!" Surina chased after her. The mirrors began to vanish and the house turned to normal except the feeling of darkness surrounding you at every corner that you walked to. The lights didn't turn back on.
"I wonder where they could have gotten to. Are they hiding, captured, killed, or maybe even escaped before it was too late?" Madam spoke out.
"Don't talk like that. They're not dead. I can feel that Shin is still alive somewhere in this house. Maybe they were put into a spiritual realm?" Surina said trying to think positive.
"A realm?" Madam started to feel a little curious about Surina. "Have you seen something like this before?" Surina started to feel a little nervous.
"N-N-N-NO! I've just always liked ghost and stuff like that. So I've done tons of research on spiritual matters, demons, and any other types of monsters you can think of. It's just… I've never read anything that summons mirrors and blood everywhere."
"A Realm…? Blood…? And Mirrors? SURINA!" Madam accidently scared her. "You're a genius! I have an idea."
"Don't scare me like that!" Surina yelled back. "Huh? Where are you going?" Surina asked as she watched Madam walk towards a bathroom.
"Looking for a mirror." She answered back.
"A… mirror…?" Surina stood there confused on what Madam was trying to do.
"Think about it…" Madam stepped into the bathroom. Surina followed from behind. "That little thing that we just saw was a clue… a clue about mirrors. I bet they're doorways to a different realm from which this demon roams freely in." They both stared at the bathroom mirror. The mirror began dripping with blood. "Just as I thought…" The door slammed shut on them both.
Surina quickly turned around to try to open it. "It's not opening! It's locked!" she yelled, but sounded like she wasn't scared of anything.
"This can't be good." Madam mumbled. "The spirit wanted us to go into the bathroom. My suspicions are correct."
"What suspicions?" Surina asked curiously. She continued twisting the knob in hopes of it opening up, but it was pointless.
There was a soft child's giggle filling up the room. A soft whisper soon followed in saying, "Bloody Mary…"
"What is that voice?" Surina asked.
"I believe… it's our monster that we've been looking for." Madam spoke out. The room continued to giggle. "Bloody Mary…" They heard the voice again.
"Bloody… Mary…?" Madam said to herself.
The room didn't stay in complete silence without a giggle. "Bloody Mary…" The voice said for the third time.
"What is Bloody Mary…?" Surina asked Madam.
"DON'T! say those words again Surina." Madam yelled out.
"Why not?"
"Because… if you say it ten times she will come to kill us. It's already been said five times, three from her… and each from us. We don't want to say it anymore. We must find a way to get out of here fast."
"That giggling is starting to get really annoying to me." Surina mumbled to herself. "What is this Bloody Mary?" she began thinking.
"Bloody Mary!" The voice continued on with giggles in between each Bloody Mary.
"What is that?" Surina finally asked in wanting to know.
"Not what… it. I'll explain to you later after we save Shin and his parents. For now we need to figure a way out of here before it's said four more times. If so, we are as good as dead."
"Dead?" Surina thought. "It would be bad if we ended up dead, then I can't help Shin." She then quickly looked over at Madam and asked, "Out of the house?"
"No… just out of the bathroom. We have to escape now and find another mirror. Bathrooms for this creature are too dangerous."
"Bloody Mary…" The voice said again.
"Out of the bathroom…? Is that all?" Surina smiled.
"Bloody Mary…"
"Stand back Madam. I got this." Madam stood back curious of what she was about to do. She lifted up her foot and kicked the door as hard as she could. She enjoyed kicking the door because it helped relieve a lot of her frustration. She repeated herself, but this time the door cracked. "One more time!" She said.
"Bloody Mary…"
"Amazing…" Madam thought to herself. "What strength she has. She's breaking this door down with only three strikes at such a young age."
Surina kicked the door once more. The door broke. "Ok Madam! Let's go!" They both walk through as quickly as possible before they could hear the last final Bloody Mary.
"That was a close one…" Madam began. "If we stayed in there any second longer we would have been dead. The creature, no, I mean demon, that Shin summoned was in fact Bloody Mary."
"Who is that?" Surina asked again. "And I thought we weren't supposed to say it?"
"Only in bathrooms." answered Madam. "It's only dangerous to say her name within a bathroom. Out here… it's safe to say it. So for now… all bathrooms in this house are off limits until we find and get rid of Mary."
"It's funny…" Surina began. "I got this strange feeling that Shin isn't in a dimension or with his parents."
"Really…? Then where do you think they might be at?" Madam asked.
"The attic… or the basement." answered Surina.
"The attic… or basement…? That would be reasonable. If Shin and his parents are separated, this will make our whole search a lot more difficult. Where do you think Shin is at?" Madam asked curiously to hear her response.
"I think… the attic." Surina said. She felt as though she was right.
"The attic it is. We should try there first. Would you mind leading the way to the stairs? I don't know my way around this house yet." She asked Surina.
"Of course! They're right this way." The two walked on towards the stairs.
