Hehe... here's the long chapter I've made! :D
Please enjoy.. and review afterwards, or I'll hurt someone in the team, and you know I keep my words.. (just look at John last time... ... -_-)
File 8.
Twice the Hauntings.
Mai gasped "no.. it can't be.." Bou looked at her "you can read that?" Mai nodded "then what?" he asked, she swallowed and opened her mouth to answer.
"The girls failed, now they shall pay!" Mai stated slowly and both men gasped at the meaning "girls.. as in.." "most likely.. but failed in what?" Mai wondered out loud, then she nodded to herself "we should tell Naru at once, do any of you have camera on you?" John nodded and pulled up a small camera, he took several pictures before they rushed back to Naru, completely ignored the task they set out for.
They almost ran over the court yard and burst into the other building, scaring both patients and nurses before they ran up to the floor their base was, then they burst into that room as well, probably scaring them a lot more, well, Ayako and Masako that is, Naru did flinch, but his glare could be taken into the account.
"Naru.." Mai wheezed and tried to regain her breath.
He looked at them, then he looked at Mai and looked into her eyes "what happened?" he asked and Mai looked at John "show him.. please" John nodded and took up the camera, then he showed it to Naru, who stared at for a long time "and what does les filles ont échoué, maintenant ils doivent payer mean?" Mai looked down at the floor "it's French, the girls failed, now they shall pay" she whispered and Naru frowned "so they've become the targets!" Mai bit her lower lip "probably.. I'm not really sure, but to account everything I've seen, they are!"
Naru scribbled down the letters and thought more about it "why French though?" he wondered out loud, Mai raised an eyebrow, think hard "I'll see what I can find out.." she stated and turned to leave, Naru gave her a short nod and turned to Lin "call Yasuhara-san, ask him to gather whatever you can get about their family"
Mai sighed as she sat down on one of the beds in the room the girls where going to use, it was, like a usual hospital, white "now I know why Oliver hates hospitals!" she sighed again and laid down, her eyelids began to fall and she tried so hard to stay awake, but she soon gave up and just seconds later, she was sound asleep, unaware of the shadow creeping up on her.
Mai opened her eyes and found herself in the hallway again, but this time there was no crying, no girls that met her, just a silence.
Not a single sound at all, just her own breathing.
"It's too silent!" she thought and began to walk, suddenly fingers was wrapped around her arms and she gasped as she was pulled away from the hall and soon she was standing in a complete darkness, Mai didn't dare to looked over her shoulder as she didn't know who did it.
"Mai-chan" this voice though, made her spin around and she sighed "geezes Gene, don't scare me like that!" she complained and put a hand to her chest, trying to calm herself "why did you do that?" she asked and looked back up at Gene, who smiled, then he turned serious and Mai found him all to much similar to Naru again "your in danger, wake up.. please.. I've called Naru just seconds ago.. he's on his way!" Mai blinked in confusion "ha?" then she began to pull the strings together "you mean.." Gene nodded "wake up Mai.. you should have someone with you when your asleep!" Mai blinked in agreement.
"Okay.. see you.." Mai closed her eyes and felt herself returning to her consciousness.
Mai opened her eyes slowly and tried to focus, as far as she knew, everything was a blur, but she could make out a twisted, dark shape that hovered over her, she could hear the frantic banging on the door "I didn't lock the door.." she thought as her eyes went into focus.
Then she froze and stared with wide eyes at the shape over her, she recognized him now, a dark mattered man that could turn into a beast any second and had threatened Mai's life once, was he back to finally take it?
Mai found her voice again as she heard Naru calling her name from the other side of the door, the man smirked with his sick, evil smile and reached out to take a hold of Mai, who screamed and backed off until she fell down of the bed, Naru swore from the other side of the door as the rest of the team arrived, hearing the end of Mai's scream as they neared the room.
"What's going on?" Bou asked, but Naru didn't hear him, his blood was boiling in his ears and he was concentrating on blowing the door away, sadly, he couldn't, it wouldn't bulge, no matter what he did or how much his slashed at it with his powers, a new scream came from the other side of the door as Mai crawled away from the man, soon hiting the wall where she mentally shrunk to hide from the evil man "no... not you.." she whispered and the man chuckled "yes me!" they both heard a long line of bad words from the other side of the door and Mai blinked, Naru sure knew a lot of words for never using them.
She winced as he closed in on her "no.." she whispered again and cried out as he took a hold of hand, he pulled her up from her arm, seeing that the was a lot longer than her, she was hanging without any chances to escape, but Mai had done it once, so why not twice!
Then Mai felt the pain from her side grow at least tenfolds and she screamed, he smirked and was about to throw her into the wall when something sharp hit him hard, and fast.
"Wha.." the man let go of Mai, who fell down to the floor and held her side, that was bleeding and colouring her nice jumper red, her eyes was now bright blue and she glared up at him "don't you dare.." she hissed and another slash made the man stumble backwards, suddenly the wall behind him creaked and seconds later, it fell on top of the man, on the other side of the wall, a petrified nurse and a poor patient was standing, both looked like they'd seen the eclipse and just gawked at her, she didn't though as the bricks moved and the man rose from the ex-wall.
"Give it up!" he said and reached out a hand to grab Mai, but was thrown through the room and into the next one, slamming hard into the wall, the door of that room opened and Naru came in, his eyes latched onto the demon, before he too lashed out with impressive, but very strong and dangerous powers.
This must have been too much for the demon, who seconds later vanished into smoke as Mai and Naru was ready to launch another, maybe more fatal attack, the two poor humans in between this, was ushered out of the room with Ayako, John and Bou's help, Masako just stared from Naru to Mai.
"Mai!" Naru exclaimed and walked through the holde in the wall, pretty impressive to manage that, Naru had deside that long ago, but he had also deside not to piss of Mai anymore as well.
"Oliver..." Mai whispered as Naru sat down and looked at her, the first thing he saw was her holding her right ribs and the bleeding "Mai..." he said again as she let out a sob "it hurts.." she whispered "it hurts so much.. and it wont stop bleeding" her voice inched a level up and Naru had to calm her down by putting both palms against her face "Mai.. it's going to be alright!" or so he thought.
Day 3.
Mai winced as she turned in the bed, she hadn't actually thought she'd end up in a hospital bed for something as an injury, but knowing her luck, a case didn't without her getting hurt or going missing.
"Boring.." she complained and received a chuckled "what.. what's so funny Oliver?" she asked, slightly annoyed with him "nothing Mai!" he stated and turned back to his file "why are you here then?" she asked "I don't think it's to keep me company!" she stated and raised an eyebrow, Naru smirked "oh my.. you've gotten smarter!" Mai ment to slap his shoulder, but her pain kept her from it as she winced "why then?" "because I don't want you to be any more hurt than you already are!"
Mai blushed at that before she smiled "thank you.. Oliver" he smiled back, although it was his usual 'back to business' smile it didn't really bother her that much.
Mai leaned back against the pillow and soon, she was sound asleep, not seeing the smile making it's way to Naru's face, not like the one the demon gave, but a caring one, wich was one of the rarest things in the world, seeing that Naru almost never smiled, well, a real one anyway.
Mai opened her eye slowly and looked right into Gene's eyes, then she smiled "thank you.. for telling me.." she said and he chuckled, but in a serious way of course "nothing to thank me for, I would've told you anyway, how's the injury going?" he asked and Mai smiled "I'm good to go, and the injury too.. it's already healing, albeit slower than last time, but it is healing just like it should!" Gene smiled more gently this time "then.. follow me" Mai nodded and took the hand reached out to her.
They walked out of the darkness and into the hall again, this time Gene was with him "I guess you know what that demon did to their mother!" Mai blinked, then she frowned "so it was their mother I saw, I thought it was weird, then.. Rachel is their stepmother?" Gene nodded "yes, this is the continuation of what you saw that time, this time though.. I'll punch Noll if he tries to wake you up again!" Mai laughed "aw.. I'd want to do that myself!" they both laughed, unknown that Naru was sitting in his chair and having the shiver of his life.
They entered the room again and Mai flinched when she saw the demon, but Gene being here this time helped her a lot.
The demon once again reached out, but was, like all the other times Mai had watched, was cut up badly and thrown into the wall behind him, then he threw something at the girls and they coughed in their beds, both stopping to cry for some seconds, then the oldest' eyes latched onto him and Mai felt that she was looking at herself when she was 5 from a seat outside, like it was a movie.
But she knew, just as any other would, that this was very different, those girls where not of Gods Children, well, not anymore, that demon had made sure of that, both children had a thorn sticking out of their forehead and Mai knew it was probably the same with their ribs as well, the children was crying hard in pain now, then the thorns sank into the skin and disappeared, Mai felt tears run down her cheeks and she nearly run to punch the demon if Gene hadn't held her back "there's nothing you can do.. it's the past, it cannot be changed!"
Mai nodded "so that's why they appeared in front of me as children once!" she stated and Gene nodded, Mai frowned and looked away "it's horrible, how can they keep doing that.. I would never be able too.." "that's because you have a heart Mai-chan!" Gene told her and she looked up at him "is that's what the demon's are missing?" Gene nodded "and that's why they kill grown-ups but leave the children, to get their own heart and produce more demons at the same time!"
Mai gasped "so you mean that.. Natalie-san and Toane-san is.. they have become.." Gene nodded in a sad manner "yes" Mai let out a sob and clung to Gene "why.. they're so innocent, so bright and has their whole life before them.. they're not even Apostles so they can't handle it as well as we do!" Gene sighed "I know.. although, there's something I should tell you.." Mai looked up at him "what?" "you know the old saying with Noah?" Mai nodded "there was pairs of animals.. I think you could say Noll and I are like that.. and also those two girls, we where made to hold up each other through bad times and good times.. Toane-san or Natalie-san must not die, the other will also suffer from it!"
Mai nodded "then.. what should I do, pray to God and ask him if there is any way to get the thorns away from them?" Gene snickered "sure, go ahead.. it might help.. hey, I'm doing what I can!" the last sentence was said while he looked up at the sky, wich had now appeared over them, the sky was almost clear blue, except a huge, white cloud that seemed to represent a cross.
Mai giggled "we'll all do our jobs!" she smiled up at the sky and was almost sure someone up there smiled back.
"Then.. I'll head back.. see you later!" she said and kissed Gene on the cheek, he went bright red and raised an eyebrow "if Noll saw you right, he would murder me!" Mai giggled again "but your already dead" "that doesn't hinder him to kill me again!" then she faded away.
Mai opened her eyes slowly and turned her head around, seeing that Naru was sitting just like he was earlier when she fell asleep, still with that file in his hands and looked like he was thinking hard.
"Oliver" Mai said and the man turned towards her "you finally woke up!" Mai glared "to your record I've found out more, I've found out the rest about the dream you woke me up from!" he snickered "you did.. tell me!" she nodded and sat up despited her pain "that demon, the same that attacked me, attacked their real mother, killed her and made the twin's into demons as well!" Naru nodded and frowned slightly "so they are the cause of this?" "I think so, can't be sure, but.. the evidence speaks against them"
Seconds later Madoka entered and saw Naru siting by the bed and looking at Mai "Naru" she said and both looked at her "what is it?" "the youngest of the girls, Natalie-san has disappeared.."
Day 4.
Everyone was both sad and stressed by the fact that the youngest of the siblings had disappeared, Naru and Mai had chosen to tell only Lin about the twins being demons, thus they desided the it was wise to ask the family about the relationship the husband had to the late mother.
Toane was sitting on the couch, looking very lost, sad, angry and desperate at the same time and it didn't help that Rachel was crying and Katsuko had to wrap his arms around his wife to keep her still.
"Tsukashiwa-san, this questions are related to the twins late mother, will you please accept and give me the answers?" Naru asked as he sat down in front of them, the man turned his head sharply towards him "how did you.." but Toane was also very confused "late mother, but Rachel is my mother, isn't she!" she stated and Naru's look made her doubt.
Then Katsuko sighed "okay, I give up, we choose to not tell the girls because their mother just disappeared" "died you mean" Mai corrected and Katsuko blinked "what.. how?" Mai looked down "she was killed by something that was less human than a ghost.. something with the ability to change a person completely, wich it did to those two!" she pointed and Toane and also reminded them of the missing little sister, but Katsuko frowned "how do you know something like that?" it wasn't rather how it happened, since they had accepted the paranormal a long time ago "in fact, the same thing that attacked Mai two days ago, was the same thing that attacked their mother and the girls when they where just infants!" Naru stated and Katsuko raised an eyebrow "then.. how do you know!" Mai turned back to him "I'm a psychic.. I can do a lot within the paranormal!" she explained as Bou snickered "as well as hurting someone with a wall of bricks!" he shut up when both Mai and Naru sent him a glare.
"I can also look into the past!" Mai stated "and I saw what happened, the demon is keeping a close eye one them, that's probably why he took Natalie-san, because he didn't want her to tell us anything" Toane gasped and tears welled up in her eyes, Mai smiled "it's okay, if you tried too.. he'd probably take you too"
She nodded and Mai sat down beside Naru, who looked right at Katsuko "she died and that thing gave the twins something called a thorn.. or.. a lot of them!" he explained and Katsuko blinked confused "what.. what is a thorn in this?" Mai sighed and he turned to her "a thorn is used to describe a way to recognize a demon, but also to transfer powers and making others demons as well.." she looked down while one hand rested on the nearly healed wound on her right ribs, Katsuko looked at her hand "did that.. thing do that to you too?" the rest of the SPR team except Lin turned their heads to Mai, who shook her head.
"He re-opened an old wound.. that demon... attacked me when I was little as well, not as young as those two.. but, young enough!" she explained and Katsuko nodded, while the SPR team just gawked in the woman's direction.
Naru stood up "then we should try to find out where Natalie-san is.. Mai!" Mai nodded and stood up "you could do it yourself!" she complained on telepathy, but Naru just answered with a snort "and tell them right out I'm Oliver Davis.. you know how those monkey's are!" Mai smiled to herself.
"Fine.. could you bring me something that belongs to Natalie-san" she asked and Toane nodded "I'll bring something right away!" then she disappeared out the door.
Mai turned back to the SPR team and smiled "now, let's hunt a demon.."
Well.. guess what, I'm finished with Bioligy *sings to heaven with joy* finally! now only to get done with school :D