SOO long time no chapter. Forgive me this chapter was difficult to make sure what happened in the last chapter would fit with this one. So without further ado ON with the story:
Standing there looking at my friends I realized I was in trouble. I couldn't reveal my secret to them I didn't want them to know just yet. This is not good I didn't really think about the consequences of knocking everyone out earlier.
"That much is obvious I will help you Mai."
Looking to my left I say Saphire standing there. " what are you going to do Saphire?" I asked him.
" Not what I am going to do, I am going to teach you how to change a person's memory to fit how something happened." Saphire said.
" Really how do I do that, but wait isn't that like erasing their memories?"
"No because, your simple altering their memory of the event not erasing it from their minds completely." Saphire explained.
" Oh I see so how do I do that exactly?" I said while looking at my friends prone forms.
" place your hand on whoever you chose forehead and imagine how you wished the fight to have gone if they were all awake and you were hiding your powers. Then pushed that memory into their mind after their vision had gone dark , but make sure it will fit with everyone else's memories." Saphire said.
I nodded my head and I decided to use Monk, I started from when he was knocked out then I had him gain conscious once again when masako, Naru, and Ayako passed out. He looked at me and asked me to bring him the dagger. I did, I ran across the room with Peter watching me. He attacked Peter again but this time I distracted him so he wouldn't pay attention to monk sneaking up on him. When peter was stabbed he hit bou-san again knocking him out for the second time.
When I was done I moved bou-san to the spot I had put him in his memory that he was knocked out in. I didn't have to change Masako, Naru, and Ayako's for they will wake up and monk will tell them his version of what went on while they were knocked out. Lin didn't need a memory change for he already knew about me and I would tell him what really happened later. After I was done I called upon my power again. Saphire had already disappeared when I was changing bou-san's memory. "Wake up" the words were again filled with power. I leaned over bou-san waiting for him to open his eyes.
"Mai is that you?" bou-san asked.
"Yes monk it is me." I whispered.
"Mai what happened to the demon?" Monk voice was soft and groggy due to him just waking up.
When he asked me this I knew the memory replacement had worked.
"Dead monk, you did it after he knocked you out the dagger did its job and killed him." I told him while standing looking at the others who were sitting up and listening.
Looking at Lin I saw he had, "tell me everything later "look on his face; I nodded and moved on to the others. Naru looked pissed off and he was staring at his hands. I decided to try out my powers a little bit on Naru. I concentrated on Naru and tried to push my way into the barriers he had around his mind keeping me from reading it. Strangely they fell quite easily.
" Why the hell did my powers not work, could it have been the Demons doing."
I saw his brows furrow just a little bit, it was such a small change only someone who knew him well would notice it.
"I don't understand though, I can destroy demi-gods but I can't deal with a Demon. Nonsense, it had nothing to do with my powers I am sure the Demon had some kind of spell that blocked my power. Yes, that is it, I am not weak it was a spell."
Wow, I knew Naru was conceited but I didn't know it was so great, he can't admit he wasn't powerful enough to take on Peter by himself. Shaking my head I turned and looked at John. When I did I spoke to him.
" John how are you feeling?"
When I had spoken directly to John everyone seemed to come back and started worrying over John well except Naru, and Lin.
" It seems he will be fine I don't see that spell that was placed on him anymore and everything else looks fine and normal." Ayako announced.
" That is great then everyone back to base we leave in the morning". Naru spoke up finally.
Everyone groaned but did as ordered. Once we were back in base we started breaking it down and putting everything back in the van. Until I felt the presence of a ghost in the room, I ignored it for the time being. That is until Masako gasped two minutes later. Oh wow her medium skills are not that good if it took her that long to notice the Ghost.
"What do you want?" Masako asked.
"Who are you talking to ?" Naru asked her.
" There is a ghost in this room, a ghost of a woman." She replied.
" Yes, I am here child and it took you an awfully long time to notice me." As she said this she looked at me and glared. I knew she knew I had noticed her the moment she appeared in the room. Apparently she didn't like that I had ignored her.
" What business do you have with us?" Naru asked
I smacked my forehead did he not remember we had promised to free her and everyone else from this house once Peter was taken care of. I was about to say this to him but Lin beat me there.
" Naru, she wants us to release her from this house remember we promised her this." Lin said without looking up from what he was doing.
" I remember , Bou-san , Ayako, and Mai find these seals and destroy them." Naru ordered
"Why me?" I whined.
"Because I told you to and getting rid of these seals isn't hard just erase them with something." Naru sighed.
"Humph whatever." I said while spinning on my heel and walking out behind Ayako and Monk. Finding the seals was easy they were outside at every cardinal direction of the house. We just erased the lines with our feet and the seal was broken. Of course I could see the actual chains of the seal holding the spirits in this house break and disappear. When we were done the woman turned to us, bowed her head, and said thank you.
"Wait a minute Mai." The woman said.
I turned back only after making sure Ayako and Monk wouldn't notice I was gone.
"Yes?" I asked
"By this house there is a lake something tragic happened there, but I believe you are the only one able to reverse the effects of this event." She told me.
After her words I remembered the Dream I had forgotten on the way to this case.
Dream flashback
The darkness around me started to lighten up and balls of light appeared. I looked around for dream Naru but he wasn't there yet. After a few seconds passed a scene of a lake appeared in front of my eyes. I instantly felt a pull towards the center of the lake I couldn't understand why but Naru's face flashed in front of my eyes but something was different about it. He looked more like Dream Naru then the Jerk. The pull started getting stronger till I was literally pulled into the lake. I tried swimming for the top but I kept getting dragged down. Until I heard a voice, "Mai stop fighting, the water can not harm you in any way it will always obey your every command from here on never be afraid again of the water it is your protector." What do you mean it will protect me?" Shh you will understand eventually look down Mai. AHHH when I looked down there was Naru but not Naru because Naru wasn't dead like this one was. I didn't know what to think but I felt that I could help this Naru somehow. I reached out and touched his face and all of a sudden there was a flash of blue and I was jerked out of the water.
Back to present:
I gasped and turned to ask her about the dead looking Naru but she had already moved on. I stood there for a while staring at the sky wondering who that Naru was.
" Mai what are you doing out here"
Turning I saw that Lin was standing in the doorway.
" Ah I am sorry Lin I was just thinking." I apologized.
" I see well then mind telling me what really happened earlier today with the demon."
" Of course." I told Lin everything from the time he was knocked out to fixing Monk's memories so that my secret wouldn't be revealed. While we were talking the sun started to set, we stared at is after I was done the moment was peaceful.
"Lin, Mai what are you two doing?" A cold voice asked.
We both spun around to see Naru looking at us with a glare. I wondered what his problem was but I just shrugged it off.
"Nothing Naru, Lin had just came looking for me and he asked me a question." I told him.
"What was the question?" Naru asked.
"Oh it wasn't important, come on lets go inside it is getting cold."
I quickly ran back inside and back to base seeing that everything was cleaned up and ready to go in the morning.
"I have already called the client and told him the news, go get some sleep now so we can leave early and get back to the office by noon." Naru said from behind me.
I nodded and walked to the girl's room. After I had gotten changed and ready for bed I stared at the ceiling my mind again falling to Naru I saw in the lake. Right before I fell asleep I though he sort of looked like Dream Naru.
And Done *whips forehead* wow that took me forever to figure out how I was going to explain how the Demon died without revealing Mai's secret. Thank you everyone for your reviews I will be looking forward to this set of Reviews. ~Alex~