A Race Against Time Chapter 11 Song contest, a sailor moon fanfic

Summary:

Two years before a ghost named Samara appears in front of the traitors and she starts a curse. Serena made Michelle, Trista and Raye tell the others that the Princess was dead. Serena was murdered by Samara, but she returned. The four girls have to cooperate with the others to stop Samara and her mistress. Now Samara has killed all but Moon, Pluto, Tuxedo Mask and Uranus. Can Serena and Michelle put their anger aside and cooperate with Amara and Darien to save the souls of the others.

Disclaimer: I do not own the Ring, The Grudge, Sailor Moon or any of the songs I am using in this story. I do however own this plot

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A race against time

Chapter 11

By Serena1234

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Sailor Cosmos walked towards the library and powered down to Serena as she walked. She entered the library and quickly walked over to the books. She glared at them and took out two books about ghosts. 'Please let there be something about Samara and Kayoko in these' Serena thought as she walked over to the couch.

She opened the first book and smiled when she found something about Samara Morgan and her curse. 'Samara is a yurei. Samara Morgan was born to a single mother, identified only as Evelyn, at Saint Mary Magdalen Women's Shelter in Washington State. Evelyn was aware early on that Samara was no ordinary baby, as she had been born mentally unstable and would never sleep, but only complained if she was near water. Evelyn tried to drown Samara in a decorative pool at the shelter, later claiming that Samara telepathically told her to drown her. After that, shelter administrators put Samara up for adoption, and Evelyn was sent to a psychiatric hospital. Samara was adopted by horse ranchers Richard and Anna Morgan from Moesko Island, who had tried and failed to have a child of her own. Soon after, Anna began to go insane, disturbed by horrifying visions Samara was somehow feeding into her mind. Shortly afterward, Samara was placed in a psychiatric hospital, where medical studies showed the girl possessed a rare psychic ability known as projected thermography, allowing her to psychically "burn" images from her mind onto surfaces, or even into the minds of others. She never slept and was completely insensitive to pain. She also apparently did not know how to control her abilities. Eventually, she was released from the hospital at Richard's request (despite doctors' objections) and subsequently forced to live in the barn in the hope that the distance would alleviate Anna's visions. The visions continued, however, and most of the horses living in the barn went insane, driving themselves off a cliff to be away from Samara. Unable to deal with the continuing torment, Anna murdered Samara (likely encouraged by Richard). She suffocated her with a black garbage bag before dropping her into a watery grave at the bottom of a well on remote, mountainous land the Morgan has owned and later sold. Samara survived the suffocation attempt and the fall however, and lived in the well for seven days, tearing her own fingernails off trying to get out by climbing up the sides. The only visible light came from the edge of the well covering, forming a faint ring. Anna committed suicide soon thereafter off a nearby cliff on the Washington coastline. However, Samara's spirit lived on. Eventually a camping resort was built on the site, with a log cabin built over the well. Samara's spirit created a curse in the form of a blank, homemade VHS tape, which contained a series of grainy, disturbing black and white images that were inspired by her life and death. Those who watched the tape would immediately receive a phone call; when they answered, they would hear Samara whisper "Seven days." After seven days they would die. Her method of killing with the video curse is not explained, but when someone is killed by it she is seen climbing out of the nearest reflective surface and approaching them. The corpses are discovered with looks of unearthly anguish on their faces, so it could be concluded that they "die of fright", i.e. a heart attack. In later films, the curse is explained in detail, and is discovered to in fact be a Virus. When someone watches the cursed tape (or something else carrying the curse), some of their cells DNA is changed to become that of the Ring Virus (i.e. a hybrid of Samara's DNA and Smallpox's DNA). This travels through their body and (in most cases) causes a sarcoma to form on one of the arteries of their heart. After seven days (of contracting the virus), if the curse/virus has not been appeased the sarcoma detaches from the artery, and clogs it, causing heart failure.'

Serena turned the pages and started to read about yurei. 'The most recognizable image of Samara is a shadowy woman whose face is covered in hair, crawling out of a television. This appearance is typical of Japanese ghosts, known as yurei. Specifically, Samara is a type of yūrei known as an onryō, an yūrei bound by a desire for vengeance. Yūrei are Japanese ghosts, ones who have been bound to the physical world through strong emotions, which do not allow them to pass on. Depending on the emotion that binds them, they manifest as a particular type of ghost. Like many creatures of folklore, like vampires or werewolves, yūrei have a traditional appearance and follow a certain set of rules. They are generally female, although male yūrei do exist. They wear white clothing, which is the color of clothing that corpses are traditionally dressed with in Japan. They have long, often unkempt black hair and white faces, which comes from Kabuki Theater where each character has a particular type of wig and make-up that identifies them to the audience. In addition to the standard yūrei appearance, Samara is also an amalgamation of two famous Japanese ghosts, Oiwa and Okiku. From Oiwa, Samara takes the single, misshapen eye. From Okiku, the style of murder, of being thrown down a well and then having the ghost rise from the well to seek vengeance.'

Serena sighed and looked up when she heard someone entering the library. It was Amara and she walked straight over to the Princess. "So I should have known that if Trista and Raye was Cerberus and Phoenix, then you and Michelle had to be Cosmos and Nymph."

"Took you a lot shorter time than the Prince of idiots," Serena replied dryly. Amara smiled and went to sit beside Serena.

"Look, Serena. I am sorry for what I did. Can you please forgive me?"

Serena sighed and looked down at the article about Samara. "I do not know, Amara. Maybe I will forgive you, maybe I will not. However if I forgive you, you'll have to earn it."

"I will do my best to earn your forgiveness, Princess," Amara said as she bowed her head. Then she looked at the books. "What are you reading about?"

"I am trying to find out what I can about Samara and Kayoko." Serena said and grabbed the other book and opened it. She turned the pages and smiled when she found something about Kayoko.

'In some outskirt countryside of Japan, Kayoko spent her childhood years with her mother who was a spirit exorcist, but used the young Kayoko to "eat" the evil spirits she drove away from her patients. This led the child not only to be marked for the rest of her life, but made her introspective and shy enough to catch attention from all her friends from school and eventually university, where she first met Peter Kirk, who would later become her love obsession. Years later, Kayoko married to Takeo Saeki, who seemed to be the only person who understood her and liked her despite her shy behavior, and became mother of a little boy called Toshio. It just happened that Peter had become a teacher, and precisely Toshio's, what made his meetings with Kayoko happened quite often. She eventually fell in love with him again, reviving her teenager's crush on him, and started to write about her love in her journal. One day, the aggressive husband Takeo found her diary and read it. He became obsessed with the idea that his beloved Kayoko was cheating on him with his son's teacher - or worse, Toshio could not be his son, but Kirk's. When she got home that day, he violently attacked her upstairs, pushing her against the wall. Toshio was in his bedroom drawing and heard the noise, and hid in his closet. Kayoko tried to run away while Takeo was chasing her, but he pushed her down, and she sprained her ankle, and stumbled and fell, and had to go down their house stairs by crawling. After much effort she made it to the front door, only to find Takeo was slowly walking behind her, watching her pain. He then held her head, snapped her neck, took her to their bedroom and put her in a trash bag. Kayoko was still a bit alive, but was paralyzed and could only make her famous throatily noise. Takeo stared at her just sitting in a trash bag in the bedroom, then stabbed her multiple times. Then he put her in the attic through an attic door through their closet. After that, Takeo killed Toshio by drowning him in the bathtub together with his pet cat. He then ran to Peter Kirk's house, killing the teacher's pregnant wife and taking the fetus from her uterus and put it in a sack. In the middle of a tantrum of rage on the street when he hits the sack on the ground and pipes, Kayoko appeared a ghost coming out from the garbage dumped nearby, and attacked Takeo. Some time later Kayoko was found in the attic, Takeo was found on the nearby street (his death causes unknown to the police), and Toshio was found in the closet, with his dead cat in his lap along with him. Since this day, everyone who steps into Saeki's house gets killed by Kayoko, Toshio or Takeo's ghosts.'

Serena closed the book and looked at a picture at the desk. It showed her, Michelle, Raye, Toshio, Trista and Kayoko in one of their last days in Tokyo. She sighed and got up. Amara, who was reading about Samara, looked at Serena.

"Princess?" she asked and closed the book.

Serena looked briefly at Amara, but she didn't answer. Instead she got up and walked over to the stereo. "Anything you would like to hear?" she asked.

Amara smiled, and noticed a karaoke machine in the back of the library. "Can't we all have a singing contest? So we can relax just a little?" she asked.

Serena looked up. "Sure." she smiled and closed her eyes. Michelle. Darien. Come to the library immediately

Darien looked up at Michelle when he heard the message. She gave him a weak smile and got up. Darien too got up and they ran towards the library. They gasped when they saw popcorn, candy and huge grins.

"Serena.. Just what do you have in mind?" Michelle asked. She wasn't sure she even wanted to hear the answer.

Serena smiled. "Just a singing contest."

Darien glared at Serena. "I do not sing. You should know that I don't sing"

Amara looked at him. "Now you do. If you don't want to explain it to Helios when she blasts you straight up to the sun"

Serena blushed. "Amara.. I can be nice. If he doesn't want to sing then he can clean up the mess upstairs." she smiled wicked.

Darien sighed. "Fine. I'll sing…"

Michelle and Serena giggled and grabbed a microphone each. "What song?" Serena asked.

Michelle thought for a minute. "Spanish Guitar."

Serena gasped. "You are so singing that one alone"

Michelle smiled and nodded to Amara who started the song without the vocals.

"A smoky room, a small cafe
They come to hear you play
And drink and dance the night away
I sit out in the crowd
And close my eyes
Dream you're mine
But you don't know
You don't even know that I am there

I wish that I was in your arms
Like that Spanish guitar
And you would play me through the night
'Till the dawn
I wish you'd hold me in your arms
Like that Spanish guitar
All night long, all night long
I'd be your song, I'd be your song

Steal my heart with every note you play
I pray you'll look my way
And hold me to your heart someday
I long to be the one that you caress with
tenderness
And you don't know
You don't even know that I exist

Te sientas entre la gente
Cierras tu ojos
Y suenas que soy tuyo
Pero yo no siquiera se que estas ahi
Me gustaria tenerte entre mis brazos amor

I sit out in the crowd
And close my eyes
Dream you're mine
And you don't know
You don't even know that I exist

Michelle lowered the microphone and checked her score. 10 000 was it and nodded at Serena who chose Anything#

"Anything for you
Though you're not here
Since you said we're through
It seems like years
Time keeps dragging on and on
And forever's been and gone
Still I can't figure what went wrong

I'd still do anything for you
I'll play your game
You hurt me through and through
But you can have your way

I can pretend each time I see you
That I don't care and I don't need you
And though you'll never see me cryin'
You know inside I feel like dying

And I'd do anything for you
In spite of it all
I've learned so much from you
You made me strong
But don't you ever think that I don't love you
That for one minute I forgot you
But sometimes things don't work out right
And you just have to say goodbye

I hope you find someone to please you
Someone who'll care and never leave you
But if that someone ever hearts you
You just might need a friend to turn to

And I'd do anything for you
I'll give you up
If that's what I should do
To make you happy

I can pretend each time I see you
That I don't care and I don't need you
And though inside I feel like dying
You know you'll never see me cryin'

Don't you ever think that I don't love you
That for one minute I forgot you
But sometimes things don't work out right
And you just have to say goodbye"

Serena gained the same score as Michelle and now Amara was up with the song Clowns.

"Can you see me now?

Can you see me now?

All this weeping in the air

Who can tell where it will fall?

Through the floating forests in the air

'Cross the rolling open sea

Blow a kiss, I run through air

Leave the past, find nowhere

Floating forests in the air

Clowns all around you!

Clowns that only let you know

Where you let your senses go

Clowns all around you

It's a cross I need to bear

All this black and cruel despair

This is an emergency

Don't you hide eyes from me

Open them and see me now!

Can you see me now?

Can you see?

See me here in the air

Not holding on to anywhere

But holding on so beware

I have secrets I won't share

See me here pushing you

If I then deny I do

Contemplate or wish away

If I ask you not to stay

Clowns that only let you know

Where you let your senses go

Clowns all around you

It's a cross I need to bear

All this black and cruel despair

This is an emergency

Don't you hide eyes from me

Open them and see me now!

Can you see me now?

Can you see?

Can you see?"

Amara got the score 9998 and Darien was the last one. He knew which song he wanted to sing and he hoped it would make Serena understand that he would die without her love.

"Sitting here staring at the wall

Another lonely tear falls

I'm trying to write you this song

But I can hardly see the page at all

'Cause it's breaking my heart

When I look in your eyes

And I don't see me anymore

When you're all I'm living for

Baby tell me that you still believe

That you still love me

The way I love you

If you take your love away from me

You know I would die

'Cause I'm not ready for goodbye ohh oh oh

Baby please pick up the phone

Tell me I'm crazy I got it all wrong

I don't know what I'm gonna do

I don't know how to live without you

You are the first song my heart ever heard

Baby I (I), I believed (I believed), every word

You are my heart, my soul, my world

Baby tell me that you still believe (still believe)

That you still love me (you still love me baby)

The way I love you (the way I love you)

If you take your love away from me (away from me)

You know I would die (would die)

'Cause I'm not ready for goodbye (not ready for goodbye)

Every breath that I take

Every beat of my heart

You know it's all for you (baby that it's all for you)

I wanna hold you

I wanna love you

Forever and always

oooooooh--ohhhhhhh

Baby tell me that you still believe (tell me)

That you still love me (that you still love me, baby)

The way I love you (the way I love you)

If you take your love away from me (ohh oh you know I would die ohh)

You know I would die

'Cause I'm not ready for goodbye (ready for goodbyyyyyyyye)

Baby tell me that you still believe (tell me)

That you still love me (that you still love me)

The way I love you (the way I love you)

If you take your love away from me (if you take your love away)

You know I would die (I know I would die)

'Cause I'm not ready for goodbye (ready for goodbye)

(goodbye)(goodbye)(goodbye)"

Darien got the highest score with 15 000. He looked at Serena and saw her wipe away a tear. He felt the love she had for him through their link, but also the hate she held for him because of the whole Samara thing. He sighed and gave her a weak smile.

Serena opened her mouth to say something but laughter made her keep it shut.

"SERENITY! I WANT THAT CRYSTAL NOW!"

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There, now you have chapter 11 and I just had to have that singing contest.

Right Michelle sang Spanish Guitar by Toni Braxton, Serena sang Anything by I have no idea, Amara sang Clowns by T.a.t.U and Darien; Not Ready For Goodbye by All 4 One

Hope you liked it

Serena1234