I didn't but this chapter in italics because the whole chapter is one big dream so I found it completely redundant and annoying. Hope you like it.
Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt or I would have a lot more friends.
Chapter 10: The Reason Why
Mai was instantly thrust into a scene. She wasn't given a second's notice. She stood staring at a young girl with brown hair. The girl lay in a hospital bed, sleeping soundly. She had an oxygen mask over her face and an IV in her arm. It wasn't long before she started awake with a shriek, glancing around quickly.
"Mother?" the girl murmured eyes wide with fear. She could hear doctors and nurses rushing by her door. They were frantic yelling orders and for tools. Several doctors wearing green scrubs rushed past.
"She needs emergency surgery! We need to do it now!" a male doctor shouted, rushing over with his hands sheathed in latex.
The girl slipped from the bed, padding over to the door while dragging her oxygen tank with her. She glanced through the little window in the door. The doctor's back was to her, blocking the woman he was working on. She could only see dark brown hair. This was exactly how her dream had gone. What was going on?
The doctor worked tirelessly for a long time. He gasped. "Her heart stopped! Someone get the paddles!" he shouted, still working. Someone handed him paddles. He wrapped his bloodied hand around the handles. "Clear!" The doctor kept this up for more than ten minutes. Finally, the doctor stopped rubbing the paddles. He slowly put them down, backing away. "Kotaru Imai, died at twelve fifteen in the morning." With that, he stripped of his gloves and started pulling the white blood splattered sheet over the woman.
The girl just caught the woman's face before it was covered. Her mouth fell open slightly as she stared out at the covered form. "Mommy!" the girl cried, running out and throwing herself on the white form, "I saw this. Why couldn't I stop this?" Tears streamed down her face.
The children stood down the hall, watching the doctors and nurses swarm her and try to peel her off of her mother's body. "She's powerful. She will be ours," they murmured, those murderous grins splitting their faces.
The scene went dark and Mai was standing in the hospital room again. The girls sat curled up on her bed, sobbing quietly into the pillow. The children stood on the other side of the room, grinning evilly. Silently, they made their way over to the girl. "Oh miss, we would like to play a game with you," they said. The girl turned around just as they boy tore her mask off and the young girl pressed the pillow over the girl's face.
"No!" Mai screamed, slamming her hands over her eyes as she began to cry. That didn't stop her from hearing the muffled screams of the girl as she died. Once the girl's screams died away Mai was instantly thrust into another scene.
Another teenage girl with brown hair sat Indian-style on a hospital bed. She was hooked up to an IV giving her a blood transfusion. A teenage boy sat across from her on the bed. "Look, look, I can make it float!" the girl shouted, staring at a cup.
"Uh huh, yeah right," the boy laughed, watching her and the cup intently. He gasped when the cup started floating. It flew across the room and slammed against the wall as the girl flicked her head. "Woah!" he cried.
"See? I told you so!" the girl shouted, "I can bend spoons too!"
"Really? Show me then," the boy said, staring at the girl.
She grinned, grabbing a spoon up. She held in between her fingers, staring at it intently. "All you have to do is will it to bend," the girl recited, rubbing her fingers together with the piece of metal held between it. Before their very eyes, the spoon bent back slowly.
"Holy crap, how'd you do that?" the boy cried, staring at her with wondering eyes.
"I'm just awesome like that," the girl replied confidently, flipping the spoon into the boy's hands. He fumbled, but caught it none the less.
While the two teens continued with their banter, the little girl and boy watched them from a corner. "Another one, another one," the girl chanted quietly to her brother, here flat eyes boring holes into the girl's back.
A clock rang out nine o'clock and a nurse walked in. "Sir, visiting hours are over. You have to go now," she told him before stepping back out of the room.
The teens looked at each other pityingly. The boy slid off the bed and they hugged tightly. "I'll come back tomorrow right after school. Bye, see you tomorrow," he told her, kissing her on the cheek and then quickly escaping from the room.
Mai wanted to scream for the boy not to leave. If he left then the girl would die. But nothing came out. Her words stuck in her throat like someone had stuffed cork down her trachea. She watched in horror as the children came up behind the teen.
The little girl held a bottle of clear liquid in her hand and a syringe in the other. She tipped the bottle over, sticking the needle into the whole and pulling the plunger on the syringe. Clear liquid slowly filled it. When it was completely full the girl let the bottle slip to the floor. It smashed on the ground.
Mai just caught the glimpse of "Caution: Poisonous" on the label before it shattered into a million pieces.
The teenager swung around, stunned for just a moment too long. The little girl grinned evilly, stabbing the syringe and injecting the air and liquid into the teen's IV drip. She had enough time to say, "What?" before she started coughing. Blood splattered the white linens in spectacular fireworks. The teen's eyes went flat. She fell sideways into the pillows.
More tears slipped down Mai's face, but she couldn't tear her eyes away from the scene in front of her. She watched the little kids climb onto the bed on either side of the teen.
"Ready?" the girl asked. The boy nodded and the reached their hands towards the girl. They set their hands on her. A bright light flowed up from the teen and up the kid's arms. They sighed happily, closing their eyes. They reveled in the feeling of the power slipping through their dead veins, bringing them life again.
Sobs burst out from Mai. She attempted to cover her eyes with hands, but two warm strong hands grabbed onto her wrists. "I'm sorry Mai, but you have to keep watching," the familiar, yet different, voice whispered in her ear. He pulled her hands down, pinning them to her stomach with his hands.
The sobs increased, but Mai obediently peeled her eyes back open to watch the continuing scenes. She watched as the scene replayed backwards. The boy came back. The sun crawled back up the sky. People came in and out of the room. The girl disappears. Different patients took her place. All the while the calendar slowly ticked backwards, showing the days passing with each rise and fall of the sun. The years followed, falling away slowly until two years had been erased.
The boy and girl lay in the beds again side by side. Their hands were still in the same places they had been before, but white bed sheets were unfolded over their faces. The mother sat on her knees making soft keening sounds into the bed covers. "My babies, my babies," she moaned, hiccupping every few seconds.
Two nurses stood outside the door, staring it at her. "Where's her husband?" one whispered to the other, quiet enough to be drowned out by the mother's sobs.
"I heard he divorced her just last week," the other nurse whispered.
"Really? Why?" the first nurse questioned, flabbergasted.
"Something about the mother and kids having supernatural powers. The father was freaked out by them and couldn't handle it. She apparently shared her power with her kids to sustain them, but it wasn't enough to keep them alive," the second nurse explained.
"How sad," the first murmured with a nod from the other. Finally, the whole world faded away to black. Mai was allowed to break down, and cry her soul out.
There you go. I hope you liked it, it kind of depressed me though. Review please :D