November
Sunday
Fade to the outside of SPR

May: (Narrating) She came to see us on a Sunday in November...

Cut to the inside of SPR. Mai sets down a cup of tea for a girl wearing a different school uniform than her own.

Mai: Here you go.

Girl: Thanks a lot.

Naru: (sitting across from the girl in a big comfy purple chair/ Writing in his black book) So you're say that your friend has been acting strangely ever since using a Ouija board

Girl: Yeah... She'd jump up onto her desk in the middle of class... And in gym she was eating sand from the sand box... I know it sounds crazy, but... I really think that she might be possessed by a fox... Can you help her?

Music starts playing at a soft volume and becomes louder...

Fade to a scene of a concert; zoom in closer to the stage. The bass player looks oddly familiar.

Cut back to SPR headquarters.

Naru: (sets down his black book/ Gets up from the chair.) Take your friend to the hospital... She needs a doctor. (He leaves the room.)

Mai: Naru wait!

May: NARU!

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File 4:

The After School Hexer

Part 1

Mai: Why did you treat her like that?

Naru: All I said was it sounded like her friend needed a doctor's care.

May: You're gonna need a whole set 'o doctors when I'm done with ya! You IDIOT! That obviously sounded like a possession!

Naru: May, I highly doubt you can identify a possession.

May: I'm a tall girl, with a short fuse, and I'm two second away from shoving my foot so far up your ass you'll be able to taste it...!

Mai: May... Calm down.

May: What? He's askin' for it.

Naru: I'm not asking for anything...

Mai: Naru, you still could've been nice and referred to someone else.

The door opens.

Person: Knock, knock.

Mai and May turn their attention to the door to see a man wearing a cowboy hat, Sunglasses, a white leather jacket with a deep purple shirt underneath and he's carrying a black guitar case.

Man: Hey Naru, what's up?

Mai: Uh... Who're you?

Man: Man, let me tell ya, coming to Shibuya on a Sunday is crazy. Mai, be a dear and get me an iced coffee would ya?

Mai: No way... Is that Monk in there?

May: You mean it took you till now to figure out It was Housho-kun?

Mai: You knew?

May: I knew it was Housho from the second opened his mouth. I mean, he couldn't have been just a monk.

Housho: Was the outfit too much for ya Mai? (taking off his shades.) I gotta admit, I love being in front of a crowd. Playing in basement studios isn't nearly exciting.

Mai: Hey! Does that mean you used to be in a rock band or something?

Housho: I didn't used to be in a rock band Mai, It's my main gig. (Taking the strap of the guitar case.) I play bass.

Mai: But how can you work at Mt. Koya and be in a band? Are you just a Monk on the side?

Housho: Kinda... The temple belongs to my family and my dad really wanted me to be a monk, But when I couldn't bring CD's and stuff up there I had to make a choice.

Mai: (Sigh)

Housho: Ya know, I see a lotta curses in rock and roll. More than you could imagine.

May: Really?

Housho: Yeah. So whenever something happens and an exorcism is needed they call me, since I'm already in the biz. See?

May: I see.

Mai: I get it. (Thinking) Wow.. Guess you really never know about people... Although in Monk's case it was harder to believe that he was a Monk than a rocker...

Naru: (Sigh) How bout you fill us in about what business you have here today.

Housho: Oh yeah. Right. There really was a point in my coming here I promise. I was hoping you'd let me pick your brain a little.

~Flash Back~

Outside of the concert hall where Housho and his band had played earlier.

Housho: (Narrating flash back) There's a high school that follow's our band. After our last gig, she struck up a conversation with me…

Girl: So is it true you do exorcisms?

Housho: (Nervous) Uh... well...

~Flash Back over~

Mai sets down Housho's drink and continues to listen.

Housho: So after some initial fan girl chatting she started telling me about this desk at her school that's apparently cursed. Every single person who sat there in the last three months has been in an accident... Not just that but the same type of accident... They've all gotten their arms caught in a door of a train and then been dragged by it...

Mai/ May: (Gasp)

Housho: A total of four people have sat in that desk since September and all of them had fallen victim. One had only minor injuries while the others were seriously hurt. The teacher of that class was also being affected; He kept going on and on about seeing ghosts and ended up in the hospital; he keeps but they can't seem to figure out what's wrong. There's all sort of strange stories about thing happening at that school... I've even heard that they think someone there is possessed...

Mai: Wait, possessed?

~Flash Back of earlier~

Girl: Is sounds crazy, but I possessed by a fox..

~Flash Back over~

Mai: Hey Monk, do you happen to remember if the school she was talking about was Yuwasa High school?

Housho: That's right. How'd you know?

Just then they hear the door open and an Old man enters.

Old man: Hello... Hope I'm not intruding.

Mai: (walks over to the man) Hi. What can we do for you?

Old man: (Gives her a business card) Well you see I was hoping you could help me.

Mai: Hm? Yuwasa High school?

Naru, Housho, and May: Huh?

Monday

Naru and Lin pull up on the school grounds to meet Mai, May and Housho.

Inside the school they meet in the principal's office.

(YH= Yuwasa High)

YH Principal: We're grateful for your time... Mr. Yoshino is our guidance counselor, he'll give you a full tour of the school.

Mr. Yoshino: Hi there... it's nice to meet you.

YH Principal: As you've requested a conference room has been cleared out for you to set up in. We announced that any one that wants to speak with you should go there.

(In the conference room)

Mai: This is home base, Huh?

Naru: We should start setting up the equipment right away, Lin.

Lin: Right.

Naru: May, you can help.

May: Doesn't make a big diff to me...

Mr. Yoshino: (to Housho) Um, excuse me, are you the one who's in charge here?

Housho: No sir, you want him. (Points a thumb at Naru)

Naru: What's wrong?

Mr. Yoshino: Um... Well... Before the student's come in I'd like to talk to you about something...

Naru: Yes of course have a seat, please.

Lin takes out a black laptop and starts typing

Mini flash-

Mr. Yoshino's house at night.

Mr. Yoshino: (Narrating Mini flash) You see at night I've been hearing this knocking noise... It wouldn't stop so finally I got up to open the curtain...

He opens the curtain to reveal a hand and nothing more knocking on his window.

Mini flash over-

Naru: I see and has anyone else heard the knocking?

Mr. Yoshino: Yes, but it doesn't seem to bother them as much as it does me.

Naru: I see...

Later at 3:00pm

Naru is talking with the girl from yesterday.

Naru: You said your name was Kyomi, Kyomi Ito?

Kyomi: Yes...

Naru: When you came to see us, I believe you said that your friend was possessed by a fox. Is she here?

Kyomi: No, sir. She's at home.

Naru: And you also said that she was jumping up on desks and eating sand?

Kyomi: And there's other stuff too… One time she dove into the pool with her uniform on, it was like forty degrees that day...

Naru: Has your friend ever hurt anybody?

Kyomi: O-oh, no sir.

Naru: When she started acting strangely, why did you believe that she was possessed by a fox? Why didn't you think that she just might be sick?

Kyomi: Because she said 'I'm the White Fox of the Harvest God.' It all happened after that darn Ouija board. When every on was leaving she, told us she thought she was possessed. I told her there was no way, but she said that she felt really weird. And then the next day she started acting differently...

Mai Looks at Housho.

Naru: Where we're you using the Ouija board?

Kyomi: Class room one dash three.

Cut to a while later, Naru is talking to a girl from the school's track team.

Girl: ... But the track team's locker room is really creepy. The lockers just fall over by them selves and our equipment would move around. At first we just thought some one was playing a joke, so we hid, to see if we could catch them in the act. No on knows how it happened exactly, but the sot put ball that were put in a box were all lined up on the floor.

Later he's talking to another student.

Student: Last months some friends and I were do a test of courage in the gym and I've been seeing these weird shadows ever since and one of the other girls even said that she even saw ghost coming out of her desk.

Naru: During class?

Student: Yeah, she said it was like all of the sudden couldn't move. And felt like some one was touching her stomach, and when she looked down.

Mini flash of the other girl looking down at her stomach she sees a white hand touching her.

Student: She said it happened all the time and her stomach wouldn't stop hurting... she ended up going to the hospital.

Cut to a little while later, the girl from Housho's Mini flash shows up. Her name is Yuko Takahashi.

Yuko: Is anyone here? Oh my gosh Norio! You came!

Housho: Hey. Meet my friends, That handsome devil is, Mr. Shibuya the director of Shibuya Physic Research, and these two are his assistants, Mai and May Taniyama.

Yuko: Nice to meet you, I'm Yuko Takahashi

A girl with a crutch a cast and bandages on walks up next to Yuko.

Mai: Oh, same here. (to Housho) Uh.. Norio?

Housho: That's what they decided to call me in the band. See my real name is Housho, right? So –

Naru: (to the other girl) So getting back to the point, I'm guessing that you were on of the victims.

(Naru is such a dick sometimes... ~_~')

Girl: I was the second one it happened to. The train arrived at my stop and I stepped out and started walk away like normal. Then it was like someone pulled me back and I got caught. I wasn't dragged very far, but my shoulder was dislocated, and my legs looked pretty bad.

Naru: Was there anyone standing near the door?

Girl: Mm-mm. In fact I remember the train was pretty much empty. Only a couple of people were there.

Naru: Do you have any idea as of what the connection between these accidents?

Girl: (To Yuko) I don't, do you?

Yuko: No.

Naru: I'd really like to see this desk...

Yuko: Sure I can take you to it.

Later in class room 2-5

Yuko: It's back there...

Naru: Does anyone sit here now?

Yuko: No one wants to... And the girl who was sitting here, was hurt so badly, she's still in the hospital.

Naru: And the desk has always been in this position?

Yuko: Uh-huh. Just like that.

Cut to a little while later Mai, Naru, and May, returning to base, and Housho is surrounded by a crowd of girls, Lin is just completely ignoring it.

Housho: Oh, hey what's up?

A little while later, Housho's lying his head down on the table.

Housho: What the heck is going on at this school? I can't believe all the craziness happening here. Who's gonna exorcise it all? There's no way I could do it alone...

Mai: Sorry Monk, I wish I could help, but its outta my league.

May: Don't look at me either.

Naru: Something's not right here.

Housho: Huh?

Naru: Individually, these cases are no big deal, of course that's assuming that they're all true, but with all these similarities there has to be something here causing it...

Mai: (Thinking) He's right... this goes way beyond coincidence...

May: (Thinking) As much as I hate to agree with him... he's right... This is all too weird...

Tuesday

John, Masako, and Ayako have arrived at the school.

Mai: (Thinking) What exactly is happening at this school...?

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Back at base, Naru's laying it down. And by it I mean what he wants everyone else to do.

Naru: I think we need to move quickly; With this many occurrences, I propose we exorcise anything we come across. If that doesn't work we'll come back here and try something else. Ms. Hara I'd like you to take a look around the school. Start with the desk and then head over to the track team's locker room.

Masako: (Giggle) Oh, please. I'd be more comfortable if you'd call me Masako.

Mai: (Thinking) IS SHE FLIRTING WITH HIM?

May: (Thinking) Well then… That didn't take long.

Naru: Join her Ms. Matsuzaki, exorcise anything you see fit.

Ayako: Hold on, are you sure there's nothing else you'd like to say to Masako? I ask because it seems that lately you've been extra courteous to our celebrity friend.

Naru: We could stand around all day chit-chatting about things that don't really matter, but I'd much prefer to see you in action. Wouldn't you much rather impress us than waste everyone else's time?

Naru: Because of the number of cases, I don't have enough equipment to send with you, so you'll have to rely on your instincts. Monk and John, same goes for you.

Housho: You got it.

John: Sure thing, no worries.

Naru: Lin and I will continue the investigation. Mai and May, you wait here and wait for everyone to report back.

Mai: Sure.

May: Okay...

Naru: Alright... Let's begin.

Phase to Lin and Naru in another room in the school.

Naru: (Holding a temperature scanner) It's about the same temperature out side.

Everyone is doing what Naru told them.

Cut to Housho and John walking down a hallway of the school.

John: Hey Takagawa?

Housho: What's up?

John: (exhales slowly).

The Taniyama sisters are back at base.

Mai: (thinking) And once again... We're the ones left behind... Well what should we expect? We can't exorcism like the others... If we could I'm sure Naru would-!

Yuko walks in.

Mai: Holy cow, you scared the crap outta me.

May: Oh God! Please don't do that...

Yuko: (Walking over to the table) Oh, I'm sorry I didn't mean to, I just thought that Norio might be in here. (Sitting down) So are you busy?

May: No not really...

Mai: Just holding down the fort.

Yuko: Oh, I see. So how are the exorcisms going?

Mai: Well we've only really just gotten started, but I don't think it's gonna be that easy though... There's so many cases here.

May: Yeah... there's so much... I want a cookie...

Yuko and Mai: Right...

May: What? I'm hungry…

Yuko: Any way... I know what you mean... It really makes you wonder what's going on at this school. Curses and ghosts and super natural powers, like where's the UFO, you know?

Mai/May: (Gasp!)

Mai: Hold on s second! Supernatural powers?

Yuko stares at Mai.

Phase to a while later Lin, and Naru are back at base.

Naru: did you say 'Kazai panic'?

Yuko: Yeah. There's this third year girl, named Shiaki Kazai that can bend a spoon with just the power of her mind.

~Flash back~ (Note the people in this flash back are black figures the only things visible are their hair mouths and clothes.)

Yuko: (Narrating the flash back) It was just after summer vacation, suddenly every one at school know her name. and bending spoons and other supernatural things be came a really big deal. The school was divided over the whole thing, some people believed in it while other didn't. Then one day Kazai was called up in front of everyone during a morning assembly.

Male teacher: (holding up a metal key) If you really do have powers, bend this right here and now. You can't can you?

Kazai's figure snatches the key away from the teacher.

~Flash Back disrupted~

Mai: Whoa! She bent it?

Yuko: After that, things got really bad. A group of teacher started to attack her credibility...

~Flash Back continues~

Male teacher: This is obviously a trick! You're just making fools of us!

Yuko: (Narrating flash back) I guess that sent Kazai over the edge, because she yelled back at them.

Kazai's figure: I'll curse you to death!

~Flash Back over~

Yuko: And after that, all of these crazy things started happening around the school, like with the desk and the track locker room. People were starting to get frightened. They thought it had to because of Kazai's curse. I'm pretty sure that's why she hasn't been coming to class lately.

Phase to later, Naru, Mai and May are outside of the Biology prep room.

Yuko: (voice over) When she's at school she's usually hiding out in the Biology prep room. I don't blame her...

Naru knocks on the door.

Woman's voice: Yes?

Naru: (opens the door) Excuse me; we're looking for Ms. Shiaki Kazai.

The girl sitting in there turns away from them.

Woman: May I ask what this is regarding?

Naru: I'm here investigating with Shibuya Physic Research, and I would very much like to speak with Ms. Kazai.

Woman: Oh, right... What was your name?

Naru: My name is Kazuya Shibuya...

Woman: Ah, yes. The principal said there were going to be some people coming to investigate all these strange things happening around the school. It's so nice to meet you all. Please come in my name is Kai Ubusena, and I teach Biology here.

Naru: Ubusena? That's quite an unusual name you have.

Ms. Ubusena: So you're looking for Kazai? I'm guessing you want to ask her about the incident from this past September.

Kazai: Leave me alone! I have nothing to say.

May: (thinking) Geez… Could she be any more of a drag…?

Ms. Ubusena: (Walking over to Shiaki) Kazai, I think that you should clear up any confusion and tell these people exactly what happened.

Shiaki: Why should I? So they can call me a liar too?

Ubusena: But they investigate psychic phenomena all the time. So they're not going immediate reject or laugh at the things you say.

Shiaki: Okay, well Whadda ya wanna know?

Naru: I've heard some very interesting stories about you... Stories that connect you to these events. That you have powers... The kinds of powers that bend spoons and keys at will.

Shiaki: They aren't just stories... they're the truth... I can bend them but I don't expect you to believe me...

Naru: Why wouldn't I? You're not the only one who can bend a spoon you know...

Shiaki, Mai, and May turn to Naru.

Mai: What?

May: Really?

Shiaki: Can you?

Naru: I can. But even if I couldn't any psychic researcher would believe in P.K.

Shiaki: (holds out a spoon and holds it out to Naru.) Then show me.

Naru: (hesitates) Guess I have no choice. (Takes the spoon.)

May: (Airy) Whoa…

He holds it up to his eye then he places a finger at the tip and pushes. The spoon bends and breaks... Not too soon after Kazai is telling them everything.

Shiaki: Over summer vacation, I was watching one of those late night TV show's you know? This one was about spoon bending. So I got a spoon and started trying it my self and eventually I learned to do it. I can't break them like you though...

Naru: That was in the summer? But you can still do it right?

Shiaki: Of course! (grabs a spoon)

She takes a spoon from the cup on the table and places her thumb and index finger around the neck of the utensil. She begins to hunch over to that no one can see what she's doing. But Naru tells her to stop.

Naru: Stop! Right Now! You were about to bend the spoon using the edge of the chair weren't you? You do realize that if any one caught you doing that trick they'd never believe you again.

Shiaki: You're lying! I really can bend a spoon!

Naru: Any psychic researcher knows that psychic abilities can be effected by outside sources and therefore unstable. When you can't do something it's okay to admit defeat. The people, who called you a fake never believed in you any way, so don't worry what they think.

Shiaki: That's easy for you to say... but you don't have to deal with how mean people can be if you can't do it. Ms. K. was treated horribly by the other teachers just because she had the nerve to defend me.

Ms. Ubusena: Oh... Don't worry about me, please. It's been incredibly difficult to watch. I felt so bad for how they were acting towards her.

Shiaki: And every one in the biology club quit because they thought we were doing something crazy or evil... but I don't understand why this is happening to me.

Naru: Is that why you cursed them?

Mini flash- (this time Shiaki is visible)

Shiaki: I'll curse you to death!

Mini flash over-

Shiaki: Well yeah I said that, but c'mon, I couldn't really do that; could I? Right...?

Cut to a short while later Mai, Naru and May are walking back to base.

Mai: You know I kinda feel sorry for Kazai... All this fear and hatred over something so little like bending spoons.

May: Totally... It's really sad...

Naru: (Grips the door knob.) Girls, can I ask a favor of you?

Mai: (Thinking) Did he say favor?

Naru: I'd appreciate it if you kept the spoon bending thing a secret from the others, especially Lin.

Mai: (Thinking) Oh, man this is gonna kill me! I really wish I could ask him why. (Aloud) Sure, I won't tell. I promise.

May: Same here; my lips are sealed.

Naru: Thank you. (opens the door)

Mai: (Thinking/ turns around and covers her mouth to conceal her squeals of joy.) Oh my gosh! This is Naru and I's first private secret! Except for the fact that May knows... But still!

Housho: But that can't be true!

Masako: Well I'm telling you it is. There are no sprits here. I've looked all over. And if there were I would know by now.

Housho: Oh come on! There at least has to be some thing in that desk and don't forget about the four accidents in a row!

Masako: There's some kind of deception going on at this school.

Housho: Oh! And I guess all of the students and teacher are in on it! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME! (angry breathing)

John: Calm down, mate...

Ayako: You know Masako's theory may not be accurate.

Masako: Well I'm certain It's more accurate than yours Ms. Matsuzaki.

Mai: (Sigh)

Masako: In fact I wonder if any thing you've said so far was accurate.

Ayako: Oh, you may be able to see 'em but can you exorcise 'em?

Naru: Lin, let's get back to work.

Lin: Of course.

Housho: (to John) Hey, whadda say we go take another look around?

John: I'm right behind ya.

Ayako: (To Masako) You may want to look closer this time.

Masako: It won't matter I'll still be right.

Phase to later, and once again May and Mai are left alone at base... Poor girls...

Mai: I'm having dejavu.

May: (singing in the song Brittney Spears 'Hit me baby one more time') Oh baby sister they left us alone again. Why do they always leave us here? Oh baby sister I'm feelin' so lonely always bein' left here. Why do we always stay here? Who cares about what we can do. I wanna know now because. My boredom is killin' me. I say this because I still believe (still believe). If I'm not huntin' ghosts I loose my mind. So give me a sign. Hit me sister one more time!

Mai: Sis,

May: Yeah?

Mai: Shut up.

May: Screw you! You're just mad you can't sing like me.

Mai: No... It's just that I'm not a big Brittney Spears fan.

Phase to a little while later, and no one had come back yet. May is on her lap top, and Mai is just sitting there.

Mai: (thinking) So Masako thinks there aren't any spirits. If that's true then why are all of these things happening? (YAWN!) (Thinking) Oh snap out of it! Naru will freak if he catches me sleeping in here.

Still Mai drifts off to sleep... In her dream she stands in an lighted area surrounded by different colored orbs of light. She looks to her left to see Naru.

Mai: Naru?

Naru: (points to a blue colored fire.) Fox fires...

-The screen goes negative-

Mai: (Thinking) Fox fires?

Normal screen

(Out of Mai's dream)

May: Naru won't be happy to see her sleeping again...

She reaches out a hand and touches Mai's shoulder when a vision shoots her mind.

A strange blue flame sits before her...

May: A blue flame? No.. a fox fire..!

She reaches out to touch it when suddenly it snaps at her, she closes her eyes and a face flashes before her...

Then she's standing out side of the school with fox fires burning in nearly every room...

May: This... Can't be happening...!

May yanks her hand off of her shoulder and stumbles back.

May: (Scared) What the (huff) hell (huff) was that (huff) about? Fox fires?

She sits down at her laptop and starts her research.

May: (Thinking) That vision... and her face... was no accident...

Fade to black.

Hoped you liked it. But things are off to a very strange start... If you wanna see how it all goes down, read Part two of this arc coming soon! See ya next time, bye! And I had to add this last part in here because the next part wouldn't make sense with out it.