GHOST HUNT: THE MISSING ARCHIVES
Hello this is my first Ghost Hunt story. I hope you all like it. The story will make use of contents from the games KUON and FATAL FRAME SERIES. I'll be mostly using the ghosts mentioned in the games.
Another chapter. I just get to exited about writing this parts and literally I can't stop!
DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the characters from Ghost Hunt, or any concept from the games mentioned before.
FILE #3: Blood stained manor#8
"Ahhhhh" I cried in panic " Bou-san! Lin-san! Help me…"
"Damn it! What's this?" Bou-san cursed " Lin…can't your shiki do something?"
"Something is repelling them… I can't reach the source" Lin-san said panting.
"Takigawa-san ! Lin-san!" Rei said firmly " Move…"
"What? " Bou-san said. I heard him gasp and his grip loosened, until he let go.
"On basara bajirihora mandamanda unhatta on sarasara bazaraharakyara unhatta on basara uginiya kyara shaya sowaka "
I was suddenly released and pushed back by an invisible force. When I raised my look, I saw a gray arm holding mine. The ghost's grip had weakened, but he still didn't let go. Suddenly there was a gaze, Aki had sliced the ghost arm with a clear cut from her katana.
I heard the ghost cry in pain, and then a quick shadow came out from the altar, and flew out of the shrine. Rei and Aki followed immediately after, while Bou-san rushed to check on me.
"Mai! Are you ok, are you hurt?" Bou-san asked shaking me.
"I…I'm fine, Bou-san, the ghost!" I replied shaking my head.
The Monk sighed in relief.
"Takigawa-san…you take care of Taniyama-san" Lin-san said before running out of the shrine as well. I heard a loud whistle and I knew that Lin-san had summoned his shiki to fight.
"On abiraunkyan sharakutan"
We could hear Rei's spells, Aki's sword pinging sound and also the soft whistle that Lin-san used to command his shiki.
Bou-san had began chanting a Mantra for protection. He was sitting cross legged in the entrance, with his eyes shout as if he was meditating.
I'd recovered my breath and my heart was starting to recover itself. I looked around me and saw something silver lying on the ground. It was…
"A broken mirror" I said softly as I got closer to it.
It was a shard from a broken mirror. I could see my face reflected on it. Was this what the ghost from my dream had been looking for? He went through so much pain just for a piece of mirror….?
I picked up the shard and as soon as my fingers brushed the flat surface, an intense pain hit me. Everything around me became blurry and white. A bunch of messy images began bomb my head: a girl with black hair covering her eyes and a white kimono, the masked man holding his katana, the girl being tied by her limbs, the sound of ropes being pulled, a young man, a small round mirror getting shattered…
I let out a soft scream of pain and then all images disappeared as I fell unconscious on the floor.
I opened my eyes. My eyes were blurry…but I realized I was lying in an unknown room. The surface I was lying on was hard and uncomfortable. Was it the floor? My head was pounding so badly…I tried to touch my forehead, but I realized that I couldn't move.
My arms and legs were tied with thick ropes. My heart began pounding harder. Where was I? I stared around in panic, I saw five people wearing some weird costumes and masks. I recognized one, the tallest wearing a yellow kimono, he was holding a rope on his hands. The five people were muttering something that I couldn't understand, suddenly the masked man looked at me, and I felt so scared.
He walked to me with the rope stretched. I wanted to scream when he tied the rope around my neck, but for some reason, I'd lost my voice…
I saw how the five people positioned themselves in some wheel like things, and they began to move them. To my horror, as they moved the wheels, I could feel the ropes begin to tighten. My arms began to be stretched so painfully that I felt as if they were being ripped from my body, the rope on my neck was beginning to choke me and I felt my knew being stretched, too.
If it kept going like this….then my body would….
I felt my tears begin to fall and screamed soundlessly…
"MAI"
I jumped up panting, and automatically I put my hands on my neck. I was back in the base, lying on my futon. Naru and Bou-san were looking at me; Aki was bandaging Rei's head and Ayako was tending Lin-san who had his shirt ripped by his left shoulder and stained with blood, with the help of Hikaru. Yasuhara , John and Kei were sitting in the corner, surrounded by piles of papers.
"Mai…" Bou-san said sweetly " Are you ok?"
My eyes filled with tears, I hugged him and cried on his chest. He just patted my head clumsily. I was grateful that Naru didn't try to make me tell him what I'd seen. I knew I'd have to tell him sooner or later, but right now, the fear and the pain were too fresh in my memory, and telling it would be impossible for me.
It took me some minutes calm down. I had let go of Bou-san, and stopped sobbing, but the tears wouldn't stop coming out. Suddenly, I saw a white handkerchief in front of my face.
"Take it…" Naru said bluntly. Even though he was good at hiding it, I knew he was concerned about me.
I thank him and used the handkerchief to clean my tears. It smelled just like him…but I shook my head. It wasn't the time to think stupid things like that.
"Naru…I had a dream" I said weakly.
"I supposed it…." He said " Want to tell us?"
I nodded, and began to tell them what happened in the shrine after I touched the mirror, and what I saw in my dream. When I finished the tale, I found myself sobbing once again. Rei sat next to me and began rubbing my back sweetly.
"W-what happened to you…?" I managed to ask.
"Well…we exorcised the ghost if that's what you wanted to know. I was hard, the guy turned a little violent. He threw my against a tree and almost rips Lin-san's arm, but we got rid of him…" Rei said.
"Judging by his looks…he was the spirit you saw being killed last night " Aki said " the camera by the stairs caught our exorcism, so we managed to identify him: Takamine Junsei…"
"The…novelist who got spirited away?" I asked.
"Well…we know what happened to him now" Bou-san said coldly.
"Uhg…The mirror! Where is it?" I asked. Somehow…I felt that it was important for this case.
"Kei has it. He's trying to see if it's cursed…" Rei said.
"Something bothers me…" Bou-san said " Those mutilated statues, Mai-chan's dream and the victim found mutilated…what is that suppose to mean?"
"We'll tell you what it means…" Yasuhara interrupted " It's a ritual…"
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