I'd strongly advise to not listen to the 'haunting' soundtracks in the Ghost Hunt OST while reading... e.g. The Theme Suite, Insanity, Last Contact Pt. 1 =/
FILE 9 - YOUR SOUL, MY SOUL - #11
"Mai... Mai... wake up..." nuh, someone's calling me again, sometimes I really wish I can just sleep without having to talk to Naru- Oh, Naru! My heart leapt happily as I saw Naru's gentle face peering worriedly at me.
"Thank goodness you're awake. Are you alright?" I nodded and tried to get up but Naru tenderly pushed me back down.
"Yeah, I think I passed out again- This usual dream again... Furitaka-san! He's not going to come is he?" I gripped at Naru's arm in alarm, "I can't have him attack you again! We need to move-!"
"Mai, there's nothing to worry about. He hasn't gained enough strength to come again after your amazing and brave attack from you."
"But that was you unsealing it... I didn't even want to use it," Naru never stopped smiling.
I wasn't going to argue with him if he really thought that about me, and I didn't want that smile to disappear. Moh, I feel so dumb! Wait... I need to gather information again now that I'm here!
"Neh, Naru what's a 'higher being'?"
"Ah, a higher being... Instead of telling you, maybe it'll be easier if I showed you? Don't worry, there isn't one around and I won't call on one either. Would you like to see the one involved with your current situation?" this is was it, he was pointing me down the path of the past.
"Hm, yeah."
"If it's alright with you, do you mind being carried? Your spirit is still very weak," I blinked and bit my lip from stopping the joy that filled my chest to show.
"I-I don't mind!" I squeaked. So much for looking cool...
...
"Higher beings, in other words, gods or angels that can freely pass between their world and the spirit realm," Naru's voice vibrated against my shoulder as he princess-carried me. I tried really hard to concentrate. But my thoughts on Naru immediately disappeared as the scene in front of us played out.
"W-What is he doing?" I whispered in shock.
"I want to take my vengeance, it's their fault... all there's! I shouldn't be here, neither should nee-san!" Furitaka-san weeped.
I fell silent at how human he sounded but what really sealed my voice and lips was the being in front of him. There was no mistake in the gold aura it radiated... an angel. I stared at the aura and suddenly a wave of nausea passed through me. I shuddered involuntarily. Everything looked wrong, the way Furitaka was on one knee bowing to the angel; the way he took the angel's hands as if they were made of glass; the way his eyes conveyed a deep desire of need of the angel to the point it looked obsessive... I gagged.
"Mai?" Naru whispered.
"I-I feel slightly ill, I don't understand why but this scene... I really don't want to look at it."
"Is it the angel?"
"I'm sorry for being so weak," I said in a small voice, feeling ashamed as I turned my head away from the scene. What was wrong with me?
"No, you're right in feeling that way. That angel, is anything but pure. No, I should say it is pure in one aspect, pure in corruption."
"Anything you say! It's their fault for not turning up when we most needed them! They did it for the money, I'm sure of it! I must avenge her, I must!" Furitaka-san cried out in anguish, clutching at the angel's hands in desperation.
No... don't do it, something bad will happen!
"I'm sorry, we couldn't rush there in time to save Furitaka Reiko-san in time-" my voice refused to speak as the angel reacted.
To my horror, the angel stretched its white wings out. They were definitely not white it was a tainted white, a white of sickliness. The extra limbs made a smooth arc around the angel's body and extended towards Furitaka-san.
"NO! Stop! Get away from it!" I yelled even though I knew fully well there was no use. I struggled in Naru's arms but he held onto me tightly.
My breathing became increasingly laboured whilst the wings moved in slow motion. I blinked, they were no longer wings. In the brief microsecond I had closed my eyes, the limbs were now distorted to two pairs of silvery grossly formed arms. Furitaka-san's eyes were shut, a smile upon his face as he greeted his 'salvation'. It was wrong, completely other-worldly wrong! Wait a moment, where have I seen those silvery arms before...?
Before I could place a finger on the memory that the arms reminded me of, warm suddenly left me. I turned my head. I was no longer in Naru's arms.
There was no-one here. I was alone, so very alone.
"Nee-chan?" I called out to the darkness that enveloped me, suffocated me. I spun around. I was sure I was in the dining room with nee-chan and Sari-chan. How did I-?
"You killed me," I spun round.
My eyes widened in shock to see nee-chan's face inches away from mine. Her hair was toussled, it fell in clumps around her obscurred face. A trickle of blood fell from beneath her fringe, snaking its way around the contours of her face. Reaching her chin, the droplet fell. My gaze followed its slow-motion descent towards the unseen floor. It soon disappeared into the darkness, I only knew it hit the floor from the harsh echo of its splatter.
"Taneku..." I drew my attention back to nee-chan.
Nee-san was no longer there. In front of me was a skeletal face. I couldn't tear my eyes away from her one eye that roved in its unlubricated socket. Their once deep mahogany shine was now tinted with a dead silvery layer. My skull numbed.
"Help. Me," and her lower jaw slowly climbed down from her face.
There was crack and crunch as the jaw dislocated itself from the head. A dark abyss filled the hole that was once her mouth.
"You. Will. Avenge. Me," I heard last as my head, wrapped in her silver hair, was yanked towards the abyss.
I'm glad that there are funny soundtracks in the Ghost Hunt OST e.g. Natural Charm, School... always reminds me of either Yasuhara or Madoka xD
Shaari