So here you go, the next chapter. I had some trouble writing this one, so I'm sooooo sorry that it took me this long to get it out. Just heads up, my chapters will become 4 days apart so I get into a schedule for school. School for me starts on the 15th of this month. Btw, my birthday is on the 19th! I might have something special for you guys then, but I can't promise anything.
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Chapter 35: Channeling Mother?
Mai's POV:
"Abram, where are you? I need help. I'm lost. Where are you? I need you Abram!" the little girl, Amber I think it was, shouted in my mind.
My eyes snapped open, wandering around the dark plain of a dream. It was silent except for the quiet echo of the girl's shout as it got further away. A dream had never been eerie before, but this one was.
It was a long time before Gene's hand finally came into view, reaching down to help me to my feet. I took it, asking, "Where were you? I was getting worried."
"Sorry, the little girl really doesn't like men so it took me awhile to get into your dream this time around," he said with an apologizing smile, scratching the back of his head.
I nodded my head in understanding. "Gene, is the reason she can't move on because she can't find Abram?"
"I believe so, but it might also be because she can't find her remains. Like me, though now I choose to stay behind," he said, trailing off at the end and not looking at me.
I ignored that last part and instead continued with my questions. "If that's the case, then what are you going to show me this time?" I asked, looking around for a hint of scene.
Gene chuckled. "Mai, I'm not the one who picks what you see. I'm just guiding you through them until you are able to do it on your own."
Before I could retort, a scene materialized in front of me. The little girl stood next to a bed, but this time she was wound free except for the burn on her back. In it the bed, there was another little girl with curly black hair.
Amber reached out a hand and stroked the little girl's hair. "Men are despicable. They never protect girls, only hurt them, so I must protect them," she whispered, bending forward and placing a gentle kiss on the girl's forehead. "Come find me," she whispered, her red eyes trained on me before both Amber and the girl disappeared.
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I sat u quickly on the couch, grounding my teeth against the pain that shot through my back. Instantly, someone's hands were around my shoulders, supporting me so I didn't fall back.
"Mai?" Naru asked quietly, looking at me with worried eyes as he crouched in front of me.
"She's done it again. Amber kidnapped someone else," I whispered, holding tight to one of his hands, "She wants us to find her."
As if they sensed what we were talking about, a frantic young mother with black hair burst through the door followed closely by Sai. She was sobbing hysterically. "My daughter! The ghost took my daughter! Please find my baby!" se sobbed, covering her face with her hands.
"We will, we definitely will," I told her, holding out a hand that she took while still rubbing her eyes with the other, hiccupping. She couldn't have been more then three or four years older then me, five at most. I drew her into a hug. "We'll find her, we will. She's going to be perfectly fine."
"Thank you! Thank you so much!" she sobbed before November led her back out with a kind smile.
"So what are you going to do about this?" Sai asked, looking angry instead of scared for the young girl.
"What do you think?" I asked angrily before Naru could open his mouth, "You are going to go get the roster of guests starting from the first kidnapping, and highlighting the ones that checked in yesterday. And we are going to search for the girl."
He looked taken aback. No doubt he expected me to have no answer. "You only need their names?" he made it a question.
"No, we need their age, room number and gender as well," Naru said with his signature holier-than-thou tone, catching on to my train of thought quickly, "The quicker you get them for us, the faster we solve this case, understand?"
Sai glared daggers at Naru, turning on his heel and sauntering out. His mangled pride dragged itself behind him. Only seconds after he had slammed the door shut, Julie burst in, waving a stack of papers.
"Here, I have the roster," she gasped, passing it to Naru before bending over with her hands resting on her knees.
"What? How…?" I stammered, looking between her and the papers in my fiancé's hands.
"I thought you might ask for them and decided to wait until you asked my brother so that it got him out of your hair for awhile," she breathed, sitting down hard on the floor.
I grinned at her, sitting straighter on the couch. "Thanks Julie, I owe you one."
"Will you help us with the search? We need more hands then just the ones we have," Naru said, glancing up at her from the papers.
"Sure," she said with a bright smile.
"Alright, well, I guess we should get going," I said, standing up with some help from Ayako.
"Oh, no you don't, Mai. You're staying here and resting," Naru said, putting his hands on my shoulders and applying light pressure to try and force me to sit back down. That wasn't going to happen.
"You just said we needed more help and if you're staying here to watch the kids and go over that information, then we'd have even less hands!" I cried indignantly, resisting the pressure, "Plus, I'm the only one who knows where and how everything has happened, and only Masako and I can see Amber."
Naru sighed, leaning his forehead against mine. "You make it very hard to make an argument against you," he said.
"I know," I chirped, giving his a swift kiss before escaping out the door.
…..
"We should split up," Monk suggested. We were standing in the foyer, deciding on what would be the best and quickest way to search and where.
We all nodded in agreement. "I call Monk!" Yasu shouted, grabbing Monk's arm playfully.
"Ugh, you choose a man over me? Fine, then I choose Mai. She's my new lover," November said, latching onto my arm and bringing her lips close to my ear. By the way everyone's, except for Lin's and my, faces burned red, she had a seductive grin and a devilish look in her eyes.
"I choose Masako then," Ayako said, a teasing smile creeping onto her face as she looked over at Masako.
John smiled good-naturedly. "I guess that leaves Lin, Julie and myself. Mai, where should we start searching first?" he asked, turning to me.
"Uh, I think it'd be good for one team to search the attic and another to search the basement, if they have them. Those two teams should also check the bedrooms of their corresponding floors. Attic to 2nd floor, basement to 1st floor. The other two, meaning November and me, and John, Lin and Julie, will search outside. Lin, John, Julie, you take the forest. November and I will take the coast. Men, under no circumstanced are you allowed to interact in any way with female children, got it? Whether they're teens or under ten," I said, giving orders like my mother used to while on the job. Maybe I was channeling her. I giggled to myself earning some worried glances.
I clapped my hands together, calling, "Chop, chop! Let's get moving! Daylight's a' wasting! You guys can decide who's taking which floors. I could really care who takes which."
With that, we went in our separate directions. Yasu and Monk stayed on the first floor while Masako and Ayako took to the stairs. Did they split like that because basements are scarier than attics? Honestly, I thought both were equally scary.
And there you have it my peeps, chapter 35. Hope you liked it, I didn't because it took me forever to write. For some reason, I've had a hard time coming up for chapters for this case. Maybe I'm just getting slow because school will be starting soon and the story will be over in another several cases, makes me sad. Don't worry though, I'm working on another Ghost Hunt fanfic that will be started after this one is over. I'm thinking about putting up another Soul Eater one, kind of a sequel to Instinct, to show what happened to Kidd and Black*Star.
Hope you stay tuned for the next chapter and review please!