Yo…Ugh, can CM Punk NOT interrupt the Chairman of the WWE? And the hell's up with that yellow shirt…? Sorry. Anyway, I've decided to stop making promises, cause whenever I do, I'm never able to keep them. Fanfic wise, at least. Heh, heh, Vince McMahon just dissed Punk's shirt… So, here we are. This is mainly an…informative chapter, bit frustrating at the end, but meh…
Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt or any of its characters…
Lin returned to the base with a camcorder, digital recorder, MEL meter, and a REM pod. He placed these down on the coffee table in front of the couch where Naru and Mai were seated and began to set them up. He placed the small recorder in the middle of the table, put the MEL meter on one side on its stand, and the REM pod on the other side. He then placed the camcorder in a position where the other three devices would be caught in frame.
Lin straightened up and looked at the young couple. "Noll, everything is set. All you need to do is turn them all on."
Naru nodded and glanced over at the monitors to see where the others were. "Make sure they don't enter the base until we're done. I want only Mai and myself in this room during the EVP session."
"Noll…are you absolutely sure?" asked Lin. And when Naru sent him a firm look, he gave them a curt nod and left the room, taking his position right outside the door.
Mai looked at her boyfriend. "Naru, what're we doing? What's an EVP? What's a…REM pod?"
Naru glanced over at her. "You know what EMF's are, but not EVP's? I thought you had studied?"
"I did!" the girl defended. "But it was a while ago!"
"Well, do you remember anything you read about them?" questioned Naru.
Mai sat there thinking. "EVP stands for…electronic voice phenomenon, right?"
Naru nodded. "Good. Now what exactly is an electronic voice phenomenon?"
"Umm…voices?"
"Yes? Go on," prompted the young man.
Mai leaned back, biting her lip, deep in thought. "Voices…you may not hear with your own ears at the time…I think."
Naru gave her a small smile, which showed that he was pleased. "That's exactly it. Extremely vague, but it." The girl punched him when he smirked. "What? That's a praise, Mai. The simpler, the better. You made it easy enough for anyone to understand. Ow!" And then he laughed. Well, it was more like a deep chuckle than a laugh, but close enough. When he stopped, he spoke. "Yes, EVP's are voices or noises we may capture on the digital recorder, voices or noises that we may not hear ourselves. Do you know why we can't hear them? No? It's because spirits speak on a higher frequency. A frequency that humans cannot hear, though, there are counts of certain animals being able to do so."
"Riiiight! I remember now!" exclaimed Mai. She paused. "Then what's a REM pod? That I've never heard of."
"That doesn't surprise me," replied Naru. "They're fairly new devices and not many people use them yet. Do you see that antenna, sticking out of the base? Yes? Around that antenna, is a sort of…bubble."
"A bubble?" repeated Mai in confusion.
"An EMF bubble," clarified Naru. "If something comes within that bubble, it disrupts the EMF field and the Pod alarms. Watch." He turned the Pod on. "See? It's completely silent." He then brought his hand close to the antenna, as if he were about to grab it. The Pod immediately began to light up and emit an alarm type sound. "This is exactly what will happen if a spirit attempts to get close to or touch it. Understand?"
Mai nodded. "Yeah. That's kinda cool. Then what's that?" This time she was pointing at the MEL meter. "I mean, it looks allot like an EMF meter, but…"
"Good eye," said Naru, faintly impressed. He hadn't expected her to notice that. "A MEL meter is rather similar to an EMF meter, except this one measures temperatures as well as EMF. As you should know, spirits can cause temperature fluctuations as well as interfere with EMF fields. A MEL meter documents both."
"Oh…I see," said Mai, staring down at the device curiously.
"So what we're going to do," said Naru, "is I'm going to turn all this on, and then we'll ask a series of questions and then listen back to see if we managed to capture anything on the recorder. While we're conducting the EVP session, we'll have to keep an eye on the MEL meter and the REM pod. Once everything's done, Lin will go over the camcorder's footage and we'll work from there."
"Got it," said Mai. She stared at him.
"What?" snapped Naru impatiently.
Mai smiled teasingly. "You've never explained things so willingly and…happily before," she said. "It makes it obvious that you really like what you do. It's cute."
Naru scowled. "Mai," he said warningly.
"What?" said the girl with a wide smile. "Do you want me to say that you're not cute? Cause I'd be lying if I did. Watashi no Naru-chan wa kawaii desu!"* And she leaned in and ruffled his soft black hair.
Naru made a noise that sounded almost like a growl, before he grabbed her by the wrists and pinned her down to the couch. His lips crashed onto hers in a desperate, heated kiss. Mai was slightly shocked by the intensity, but responded immediately, opening her mouth and allowing his tongue in. One of Naru's hands remained at the girl's wrist, while the other slipped under her shirt, running up the soft skin of her navel.
"Mmmngh!" Mai gasped when she felt Naru's hand cup one of her breasts. "Naru!"
They broke the kiss to breathe, but as soon as their lungs were full, they resumed the hot liplock. Naru was ready to take Mai right there on the couch and probably would have done so, when the REM pod (which Naru had forgotten to turn off after his demonstration) suddenly went off. The alarm from the Pod caused both teens to freeze and turn their heads to look at it. What they saw, made both them blush and scowl.
Eugene Davis stood there, a smug smile on his face. There wasn't much colour to him, he was more like a shadow, yet there was a brightness around him…surrounding him.
"Now I hate to break off what is clearly 'happy time' for the two of you, but I thought I'd remind you that you're supposed to be conducting an EVP session at the moment. I'm quite sure you'll have time to ravish one another later. Lin may get suspicious, you know. I also felt it would be wise to inform you, that right now is the best moment to do this EVP session. It seems that Jack is in a rather decent mood. All that remains, is for you to pose the right questions…" And on that enigmatic note, Gene was gone.
*I'm not sure whether that's correct or not. I kinda guessed. If it's wrong, feel free to let me know. If it's right, feel free to let me know.
And that's all for this week…McMahon wants to FIGHT Punk? Damn! Did anyone notice how the Resident Evil 6 logo looks like a chick sucking a giraffe's cock? Sorry about the random WWE and RE stuff, I'm watching Raw while typing this soo… Anyway, I apologize for leaving poor Naru and Mai in such tension, but hey, I need something to build up on for the actual…moment, right? Looking forward to reviews! Laterz!