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Chapter 8 ~ An Ancient Curse

I awoke to be standing in a small room. A small twin bed against the wall , a desk next to it. A very plain room and I had no idea where I was. I scanned the room and noticed a bookshelf full of books about paranormal phenomena and ghost hunting and types of haunting. I smiled wondering what Naru would think if he saw this. But, something about this room was lonely. As if it were let alone for a long time.

I walked over to the desk to get an idea of whose room it could be. I perceived a student I.D on it. I flipped it over and the persons name was Shaun Lucas. I was in Shaun Lucas' room. My heart dropped as my vision changed to me sitting in a dark hallway, in front me was a petrifying scene I didn't want to see; a white light was devoured by a huge red orb. Just like Shaun. I closed my eyes. I opened them back up to be in the Chemistry Lab, except, all of H.P.R was there including Finn.

Susan was shaking something and seemed she was about to cry . Drake tried to pull her away but she refused. I look peeped over Riley's shoulders to see. He didn't seem to notice me and then I saw why he couldn't. There, on the ground, was my conscious self barely breathing.

Naru whispered something in Finn's ear. Finn nodded and he slipped his arms under my limp body (for some reason I preferred Naru). He then, carried my body to the Sickroom as Naru followed behind and so did I.

"Wait a minute," I told myself. "Am I dead? It can't be." Finn backed away after he gently laid my body on the cot. Naru assembled himself next to me. He caressed my cheek with his hand, his face inches from mine than I expected it to be. He said something that I could hear. I leaned closer.

"Marti."

I discovered that my body was fading until all I could see was black.

"Marti."

I blinked as I felt something tap my nose. Then my forehead. I opened my eyes to find piercing blue eyes looking down at me. He tapped my forehead again.

"Are you awake?"

I impulsively sat up and he quickly moved so I could do so. My head suddenly felt dizzy and I felt like I wanted to vomit. I laid back down. "I don't feel so good." My voice was hoarse.

"Then, don't sit up so fast, dummy."

"Gee thanks." I felt an ice cold rag land on my eyes.

"Just rest Marti." It was Susan. I lifted the rag and saw that Drake, Riley, and Kaitlyn were sitting on the cot next to mine.

"Hey guys."

Drake waved back at me. "You had me extremely worried kid."

"Just what exactly were you doing?" Susan questioned.

I laughed uneasily. "I went to retrieve a tape."

Susan cocked her head to the right. "Naru," she said frustratingly. "you sent her on her own to get a tape?"

He stood up. "If she isn't injured then we need to get back to work." He turned to leave. "Susan stay with her."

The other three followed him out. Susan touched my forehead. "If you still font feel well, stay in bed as long as you like, okay?"

I nodded and closed my eyes drifting off back to sleep. I apprehended that I was in that same meadow as every other dream I have. And every time I have this dream - I turned to my left and saw Naru walking toward me - he always appears in it.

"Marti," he said. "it's not safe for you to be here."

I stood up to face him. "What do you mean?"

He waved his hand in midair, showing me a vision of Riley and Drake walking into the copy room where a large red orb awaits for them. "You have to wake up." he said calmly. "It's dangerous."

"I can't just automatically wake up." I threw my hands up.

He smiled gently at me. "Yes you can." he closed my eyes with his fore and middle finger. I woke abruptly at the same time sat up. Susan was sitting beside me. I got up from the bed immediately. I felt a wave of nausea and dizziness take over. My body swayed back onto the bed.

"What are you thinking?" she fussed. "Don't get up so suddenly."

"Susan," my raspy voice managed to say. "go find Riley and Drake in the copy room. They are going to be in trouble if you don't." Her wide eyes looked up at me. "Please go."

"I don't think I should leave you alone."

"I'll be fine. Now go." I pushed her.

"This is a bad idea." She muttered she turned back to see me. "Marti, do not move from that exact spot, understand?" I nodded. She dashed out the room. I sighed in relief to know that someone will get to them in time. I plopped back down on the cot, hand above my head. I still felt dizzy and sick.

The light flickered off. I groaned. "How many times do you want to play?" I asked aloud. A consideration crossed my mind. On the second to last bed, there will suddenly be someone laying in it. I slowly twisted my head to the right and saw a lump in the bed cocooned up in the sheets. "Of course I have to be right next to it." I mumbled.

I sat up as it mocked the same moves. It was only the sheets nothing else. I couldn't see a face - nothing. I felt that the air was dropping rapidly. As I was about to move off the bed, a force hit me, smacking me against the wall. I coughed, hardly breathing.

"I think it's time to leave," I said as I swiftly moved toward the door. Right when I touched to knob a loud cracking noise came out of nowhere. I stopped my breathing. I felt the hard floor beneath me disappear and I landed intensely hard on my left shoulder.

"Why does everything only happen to me?" I whined. I plunked up to reach for the door. There was nothing there but plain cement. "What? Where the hell is the door?" I looped behind and saw pieces of the floor everywhere and above my head was huge whole in the floor.

I hear the sound of rats or critters crawling. That is not the sound of rats. It kept getting closer and closer until someone opened the door right above me. "Marti." he yelled. It was Naru.

"Naru," I yelled back. "Down here."

"What happened in here?" he asked in disbelief.

"I don't know," I panicked. "everything started shaking and the next thing I knew I'm down here." Naru kneeled down with his hand out to help me up. I rapidly grabbed it as the noise of a loud crack was heard. Naru's eyes widened just like mine. We both looked up at the small ceiling above us. The crack made it's way around the ceiling, making a circle.

My breaths were becoming quicker. The next thing happened so quickly, I shut my eyes and instinctively raised both hands. Then came the loud intense sound of the ceiling crashing down. I promptly lost consciousness.

I could feel the ice-floor beneath my cheek. I opened my eyes to nothing but pitch-black but I do feel something warm on me. My vision cleared as I heard the terror in Susan's voice as she called my name.

"Marti, are you alright?" she yelled. "Marti! Answer me."

"We're fine." My vision cleared to see Naru above me, hands on both sides of my head. He stood up, rubbing the rock away from him. He helped me up as Finn came in, an angry expression on his face.

"What happened?" he demanded.

"The ceiling just collapsed and the floor was indented." Naru said as if it didn't even happen.

Susan dragged me to base as Naru and Finn followed. "You two are so lucky you weren't seriously injured." Susan lectured. "Both of you sit down." Kaitlyn glanced at us immediately and went to the first aid kit. Susan tended my wounds as Kaityn tended Naru's.

"I would expect you to be more cautious Naru," Susan continued. "It's a miracle that you're even walking away with cuts and bruises."

"The ceiling collapsed because of weak beams," Naru said coolly. "No big deal."

Drake patted my head. "We should still bring you to the hospital just to be on the safe side." He gave me a friendly smile like a big brother would to a little sister.

I swiped his hand away though. "Really." I repeated for the third time. "I'm fine. I'm sure Naru's back took almost all the damage."

"Does anyone else think this is weird?" Drake suggested. "It would take an incredible amount of power for a spirit to make the entire ceiling collapse like that." Drake's face became more serious. "But what is more dangerous is it's mortality."

I suddenly felt a shiver crawl up my spine. "It erupted." he stared down at me now. "It's been absorbing so many other spirits for power and up to this point it erupted like a bomb." I said quietly. "If that dream I had is true then," I paused. "no one will be able to stop it."

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"Go home?" I shouted. "Why?" It was morning in the base room but I arrived late to a black atmospheric room with everyone including Blake were sulking. That was when I was told we had to pack up and go home.

Drake folded his arms. "The principal decided it at their meeting." he grumbled.

"But we can't," I refused. "the investigation isn't over. We can't just leave when we haven't even finished our job."

"I don't know." Drake inhaled a breath in. Naru was to busy talking to Finn to listen to my rampage. "Our hands are tight Marti. If the principal says go home we go home."

I threw my hands up in fury. "That's nuts. Right, Naru?" I looked over at him and he paused his conversation to look at me and then he went back to conversing with Finn. "But, we can't."

The red orb in my dream; we can't just leave it here. Something bad will happen if we don't do something about it.

"Look we can't just leave now," I told them all. "if we do, the spirits will keep feeding on each other until one huge gigantic powerful and dangerous spirit is formed." Naru snapped his head at me.

"What did you say?" I looked at him. "They feed on each other until the strongest remains?" he asked me. I nodded. "Can it be we are dealing with a type of curse?" Finn gave Naru a realizing look.

"What type?" I heard myself ask.

"It's an ancient one." he explained. "It dates back to ancient China. Although, I don't know why a Chinese curse would end up here. But this type of curse was used for living beings. It should've been extinct thousands of years ago."

"How did it start?" Susan asked.

Naru didn't seem to mind explaining. "It was said it had started with the use of a silk worm, along with other creatures like centipedes, snakes, and etc… they would put all those bug in a jar, bury it in the ground, come back to find one remaining that has devoured the others. The curse is performed on the owner. It was said to bring a lot of wealth to the house hold but in return - a human must be sacrificed for the curse to be complete. If not, the bug will devour the home owner. It's known as the Golden Silk Worm curse or death curse."

"Hold on," I held my hand to stop him. "the bug in the pot are in there eating each other, that is exactly what's happening here." I clarified.

Naru nodded. "That's why I believe it's just like the Death curse."

"But instead of bugs, it's spirits." Drake said.

"So, if they keep eating each other and one spirit is left then…what'll happen?" I asked aloud.

"I'm not sure," Naru replied. "If someone is doing this intently hoping for a Death curse, then the remaining spirit will be used to implement the target, but, if this happen purely by chance because this school sits in a closed location, then there is no telling what could happen."

"If one spirit is remaining and the school has taken possession of it, then they will have to feed it." Drake added. "Just like the home owner did. Like the way they feed a human to the bug."

Susan slammed her hands on the table rising in her chair. "Now hold on -"

"That's how it works." Drake cut her off. "If not the home owner is eaten."

Riley spoke up for the first time after listening. "But in this case, who will the home owner be?"

"Probably the students who summoned the spirits here." Naru said.

"Are you serious?" I gave him an incredulous look. "Can we do anything to avoid that?" He closed his eyes, trying to avoid my question. "Nobody knew what the outcome would be. They didn't know the consequences. If all those students started Ouija Boarding and eaten that would include Blake too. Right, Naru?" I asked him once again.

"There is nothing I can do." he finally said. "However, Finn, what are your thoughts?"

Finn glanced at him, then took off the headphones that were placed upon his head. He spoke in a very professional tone. "The Chinese curse seems to be at a lost with many psychologists. In my entire career I have never heard of anyone coming across anything such as this. There is only two ways to get rid of this curse, either -"

Naru finished for him. "Either transfer it to someone or feed it human."

"But you can't do that." I protested.

"We don't even know if it is a curse yet." Naru said. "But we should continue with the investigation."

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Naru left us in the base room as he tried to convince the principal to extend our stay. While he was doing that the rest of us tried to draw conclusions.

"I just hope Naru convinces the principal to let us stay." I said.

"Well," Drake said looking at papers. "if we're booted out this case is as good as gone. Knowing Naru he'll probably make it work even though he told us to keep investigating. I don't know what to do." he leaned his head back to face Susan who had an agitated look on her face.

"Use your brain a little." she told him.

"Same goes for you," he smirked. "Oh, wait, I'm sorry, you don't have a brain -" Susan smacked him across the head. "Hey!" He stood up from his seat, getting in Susan's personal space. "Take it easy. My cranium can take so much abuse."

"Oh, just shut up." Susan snapped, her face inches from Drake's. "You probably don't know what cranium means."

That was where I needed to calm them down. They can be amusing for little bit before they get to violent. Riley tried to help me calm them down. "Okay guys." I said but they kept on arguing.

Blake laughed and said, "Maybe we should use this time to analyze the information we have. Its got to be better than this."

"Yeah."

"To start then," once he began Susan and Drake's bickering died down. " One Wish' started at the beginning of the school of last year. The school then, became invaded with ghost sightings."

"Yes," I added. "and since this school is a closed environment, it caused the spirits to be trapped here."

Riley nodded. "Then, the spirits started devouring each other making it look like it's an Ancient Chinese curse."

"Okay we aren't getting anywhere." I told them. Drake and Susan were finally listening in. "Here is what I think: the way they do 'One Wish' around here is way different from the way I used to Ouija Board."

"But there are many different ways of Ouija Boarding." Riley said.

"Yes, but the paper they are using is weird." I paced around the room. "It has the alphabet, numbers, and the 'yes' and 'no': everything is normal up to that point. But, what I don't understand is the word 'demon' encircling the whole thing with a stick figure in the middle."

Finn, who had unmoved listened to our conversation, had suddenly grabbed my forearm. "What did you say?" his Irish accent thick. "Are you sure it 'demon'?"

"I'm sure but ask Blake, he's seen it more than I." I turned to Blake.

"I've only done it once," he recalled. "but I can try to remember."

" 'One Wish' after you wish one your crush, you bury it, right?" Finn asked.

"Yes, " Blake snapped his fingers. "then you bury it."

"Where do most of them bury it though?"

"Right down the street by an old church."

We ended up walking down the street to the church to investigate there. Susan stayed with Kaitlyn because she wasn't feeling well. As we approached the church we heard two sixteen year old girls behind us whispering.

"We aren't supposed to let anyone see us do this." one girl whispered to the other. I noticed she as holding the paper of 'One Wish'. I could see Drake was getting very angry because he told them not to do it ever again.

Finn walked up to the two girls. "May I see that paper please?" he was being very generous than he ever was.

Blake smiled at them. "Don't worry. You're not in trouble." They handed it to Finn slowly.

Finn observed it before he said anything. "I knew it."

"Is it bad?" I asked.

"This is a talisman."

I slumped my shoulders. "What is that?"

"When these are used, and buried in the ground, especially holy ground," he looked up at the church. "it can curse a person to death."

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"A talisman?" Naru questioned. We were in base with everyone present.

"Yes," Finn confirmed. "when one of these is just buried it is meant to confuse someone but to be buried on holy grounds, it would mean death. Someone must've spread these around school claiming to be harmless Ouija Boards. Anyone who has participated in this has aided into casting a death curse."

"No way." Blake raised from his seat.

"We should consider ourselves lucky that whoever did this was an amateur. A professional like me can kill someone easily with just one of these." I lowered my head as he spoke. He handed Naru the stack of 'One Wish.' papers.

"From what I understand it still is the Chinese Death Curse." Naru cleared. Finn nodded. "What will happen once it is complete?"

"The persons name on the talisman will die."

"And whose name is it?"

"Mr. Harold Posey."

So sorry I haven't uploaded in like a week. Busy busy but i made this chapter extra long for you guys. I'll update again soon. Um, thanks for read and please review! Pretty please! It would mean a lot. And the reason it took me so long was I had to research some stuff for the story about the curse and blah anyway Are you ready for School to start? I am (not really LOL)