*breathes in and out* I'm finally able to update *tears running down* I was a fool thinking I could update on weekends *hits the table while getting drunk on wine* for crying out loud when will the high time ends? *Kills an innocent pillow" there was a day that I stayed working till 3am *throws a chair* my shift starts at 8am but I work through tasks not with time so I don't get paid extra *eats fat food without care* but I love my freaking job *whining uncontrollably to a corner of my room*
*Cough * I'm fine. I'm suffering writing withdrawals, it ain't that bad my life, well probably *coughing* I do it for my cats, * manly tear gets sucked back to the eyes*
I shall fight and fight till this is complete, I won't give up. I need to get to the blood stained lab... Last week when I thought I could write, I was writing the continuation of the motel night for the first time stories and yup u guess it, my sworn enemy got me there. Error 404 I will get back at u for sure. Erasing everything, every single word... It did wound me.
Drama time over from anime-addict-fan. Let's do this story!
"..."
Mai stared at the burned wall, it was an intense fire and she couldn't help but wonder what would had happened if she had kept the information of the dream to herself...
"Well done Jou-chan" monk slapped her back making her come back to reality.
"Where are the other locations where there are will-o'-the-wisps?"
"The Printing Room and… LL classroom and…"
She felt a huge responsibility growing up on her shoulders... She had to remember everything, otherwise accidents like this one could...
"Mai?" Naru urged her
"The will-o'-the-wisp in the Sickbay felt larger... I can probably get more information if I -"
"No that's enough for today"
"But-"
"Lin"
The tall assistant nodded and walked to her, Mai stepped back in response but she didn't had time to react. A bunch of files where they had recorded all the interviews was pushed to her hands.
"We have plenty of information to sort out, get started" Naru smirked as he and Lin walked out.
Her mouth opened in disbelief, then after hearing snickers from behind her coming from Masako and Ayako a blood vein popped on the back of her head.
"Jerk"
She slammed the files to the table and angrily sat down. In the back of her mind she was re-evaluating the situation, what if she had been wrong? She turned to look at Masako.
"..."
This is the responsibility she always had to carry... 'It's heavy, what should I do?'
As if reading her mind, the doll looking girl answered her
"Don't think too much about it. Just behave as you normally would. If you think too much you would end up not being able to come up with anything."
Mai blinked, that's right, even if she was able to get more information, it wouldn't do them any good, they needed to start connecting the pieces to see which they were missing.
"Thank you" Mai said as she felt the weight of her shoulders shrink a little.
Just then she heard Monk, John and Yasuhara talk, while looking at the ruined tape
"This is a real example of a roll of tape being more precious than human life."
Mai simply sighed.
...
It was bound to be her luck, just when she decided to skip on the duty of collecting tapes, she had to run into Matsuyama.
Mai managed to keep herself in check and was about to leave after arguing on Sakauchi-kun case but a scream coming from a classroom had both of the running towards it.
Matsuyama instantly opened the door.
"What happened?!" He asked the students and the teacher, who were trying to get closer to the walls.
"Over there!" A girl pointed out, her voice full of fear...
There on the middle of the classroom a black dog began to manifest.
"!' Matsuyama was frozen on the spot.
Students screamed as the dog growled, and took a chair in his mouth...
"Move out!" Mai pulled Matsuyama just in time to avoid being hit by the chair thrown to him with force
"W-what the hell is going on!?" The stubborn man screamed out with a panicked voice. Mai was pleased but it wasn't the time to celebrate, she grabbed the chair behind her and slammed it against the dog.
It hit the animal and it fell but it began to stand again.
"Hurry up! get everyone out!" Mai screamed, her voice made the teacher on the wall act. He was stumbling but even Matsuyama couldn't stand without shaky legs.
As if noticing her intention to escape, the dog barked and jumped in the air, she had no time to chant the spell monk taught her. Instead she grabbed another chair and used it to keep the dog's teeth away.
She was slammed against the floor but luckily she had pushed part of the chair into the dog's mouth.
The dog barked and bite the chair without reserve, spilling his saliva all over Mai.
Mai growled disgusted but she was loosing on strength. Just when she thought she was done for, Bou-san and company arrived.
Monk slammed the door open and began his chant. Someone had screamed her name but she didn't had time to care who.
She pushed the chair as much as she could, making the dog jump out and escape through the window..
"That bastard, ugh" Mai cursed and wiped her face but it only stocked to her hands
Surprisingly it was Masako who came to help her. She held a handkerchief on her hand and began to clean Mai's face.
"Hurry, take it off, that evil spirit-" she couldn't continue, her voice was cut off as her body arched forward,
"Masako, what's wrong-"
Mai herself didn't know what happened but her vision changed. She saw Masako covering her mouth while looking at the black will-o'-the-wisp.
The fact that they could see it wasn't the cause for Masako's distress. What was horrifying the young medium was that at one side of the black will-o'-the-wisp was a white spirit reaching out and screaming in pain
"!" Mai nearly screamed in surprise.
It was Sakauchi-kun.
Masako had identified him as well as she ran towards him but Mai knew, she knew he could no longer be saved. She held Masako's hand, just like how Gene had stopped her when she tried to prevent the woman from killing herself on the doll house case.
"M-Mai" Masako cried, surprised to see her there but that didn't matter. Mai shook her head and covered Masako ears.
"No, stop, Sakauchi-kun is-"
Mai shook her head again, tears dropping from her eyes. She hugged Masako until the last scream vanished.
Masako herself buried her face on Mai's shoulder, trying to hide what couldn't be hidden even by closing their eyes.
"-!"
"Hey! Both of you, answer! What's wrong?" Ayako shook them.
Both girls had sit down on the floor, their faces were green. Masako couldn't help but cover her face, while Mai simply looked down, tears streaming down their faces.
"Sakauchi-kun disappeared"
Masako turned to glare at Mai "It was just as Mai-san said. The spirits here are feeding on each other. Sakauchi-kun… had been devoured... " Her glare intensified as tears kept dropping "if you, if you had let go of me, I could ha-"
Mai looked up, her eyes stared into her "..." No words were needed to express what was needed to be said, it cut the doll looking girl's complain.
...
Back on the base, the strange atmosphere between Masako and Mai continued, Yasuhara however, reported his findings regarding the possibility of Sakauchi-kun being the creator of the kokkuri.
"That can't be a coincidence " monk nodded.
"Ah that's right it may be irrelevant but our school is built on a cemetery"
*Sighing* everyone rolled their eyes
"Shounen that's nothing much, it is very common." the monk said
The megane boy sighed, and tilted his head backwards.
"Ah, you think I'm lying. No, this is true. This place is called the Ryokuryo Ruins, it became a cemetery in the Nara era. If you dig in the field, tombstones and human remains can be found."
"If that is true... Then..." Naru muttered deep in thought.
The pieces began to connect with Yasuhara's in put of the school being built on a real cemetery, they could count for half of what was going on.
"Then since ancient cemeteries are bound by kekkais to prevent spirits from trawling the Earth and causing hauntings. The floating spirits summoned into the school are unable to leave due to the Kekkai… there's a possibility that it's like that." Naru commented and Bou-san continued since it still had room for discussion.
"Could it be that somewhere in the ruins, there is something that can summon and attract spirits? Since amateurs students have been successful in summoning, we can't discard this out"
"If that's the case will need to investigate and-"
Mai stood up, she grabbed a flashlight and headed towards the door. She couldn't concentrate on what they were talking so she needed a break.
"Mai?" Monk called out, putting on hold the conversation.
"Be right back, bathroom break"
"On your way back bring the tape from the LL classroom" Naru ordered as he resumed the conversation.
She simply rolled her eyes and got out.
...
*Flush*
She washed her hands and turned to look at herself on the mirror, she had bangs underneath her eyes.
*Sigh*
"You shouldn't be alone Mai"
"Wahh Gene, for crying out loud, don't scare me like that" she held her chest, and scolded him."more importantly this is the girl's bathroom"
"Eh?" Gene blinked and turned a bit red. "Sorry, not my intention, I just felt you were alone and woke up"
"Eh? you can feel that?"
"Not always, but in this place I can"
"Because it's filled to the top with spirits?"
"Sorta, any way where are you going? The base is that way" Gene pointed to a different direction.
"Your brother asked me to take the tape from the LL classroom"
"And he calls himself a genius" he slapped his face. "You're a danger magnet for crying out loud, just wait till I see him" Gene pulled his face.
"I dare you to say that again to my face" Mai smiled.
Gene closed his lips and looked away. Silently following her around. Mai opened the LL classroom, took out the tape and went out without any issue.
She smiled in success and was about to brag when her flashlight died. She tried to turn it on but no avail. A chill ran down her back, she turned to look at Gene but he was looking at the middle of the hallway.
"Mai..."
"Yeah?"
The dog from before manifested, it was bigger than last time.
"Did you learn a spell?"
"Yup"
"That's good, cause that thing is looking at me like am a steak"
As if to agree the dog licked his teeth and growled.
"Who's the danger magnet now" Mai smirked.
"Haha very funny" Gene stepped back, the dog ran cutting their conversation off.
Gene took Mai's had and ran.
"What about the spell?" Mai called out as they passed the LL classroom
"You can try that in another chance, I'm not risking it, we don't know if it will work!"
"The hell are you making me learn that for then?"
The dog chasing them hit a wall as they turned over a corner.
"No time to explain get the hell out of here Mai!" Gene disappeared
"The f*ck? If you're going to sleep, at least let me know!" Mai stumbled but recovered her running. "Both of them! I swear, keeping me on the blank I will make them pay!" She jumped a flight of stairs
The corridors were dark and her steps sounded loudly but if she had anything else to complain was the dog chasing her with all his will, it was definitely a revenge matter now for the prior encounter.
She made it to the north block but couldn't close the door, hands began to appear on the windows but like hell she had time to look at them. At the last window a silhouette of a person pressing himself at the window and looking at her made her dash to the east block.
She saw a set of stairs and instantly went up.
'I want to go back. I want to go back to the Meeting Room.'
*Bark*
"F*ck!"
She was getting tired, she got to the second floor and instantly sprinted to the third. Looking up she could see the roof of the third floor. But no relief came over her... just below there was a blinking green light that looked like an emergency light. And, there, was the small figure of a person.
She jumped back into the second floor, she had managed to make distance from the dog but now she was running to him, behind her, she heard the kid like figure running, the dog jumped in the air just like before but this time she dashed beneath it.
The kid screamed as it landed on him, but that kid was not a kid. Kids didn't had red eyes nor sharp teeth.
Using the momentum she broke in to the classroom on her right. Her legs were no longer responding but she used her body to close the door and collapse on it. With trembling hands she searched for the lock, it was a very simple latch lock but it helped, she let out a sigh of relief.
"Why on Earth no one show up?" She nearly cried but the adrenaline was still on her system, it only made her angrier. Her stomach began to hurt as her heart pounded on her chest, even the ringing on her ears annoyed her.
"Sh*t" she held her hair backwards, she was thirsty, her throat felt as if it had been sliced open whenever she breathe
"I'll wait here for a while, someone may had heard me, one of them better show up now" she huffed hugging her shaking legs
"This tape better be worth it" she pressed the pocket of her hoodie and was starting to calm down.
*Ka Dong*
She jumped out of the door, something was hitting it *ka dong*
"Argh! Stupid dog, give me a break, you just ate!"
She kicked the door but instantly stood up and backed away. The thing just hit harder.
She was staggering she was tired, 'no more-'
A chill ran down her back.
Her legs and arms felt like lead but even so she turned to her right. There was a shelf.
On it were jars... Topped with formalin and... Specimens.
"No"
She shook her head, a pair of eyes followed her hand as it reached her mouth.
A snake on a jar began to move inside. She turned around heading towards the door, she would rather fight the dog, than see this.
one jar fell down.
And she turned to see in shock. It had shattered and a frog was on the floor. She almost threw up as she saw it move. Holding her mouth she unlocked the door and tried to open it, but it didn't move.
She used her whole body to push it but it was useless. In her attempts more jars continued to fall. The smell of formalin became stronger.
"Ugh" small droplets of liquids splashed on her feet.
She began to bang the door.
"Monk! John! Yasuhara!" She didn't want to call him, that jerk.
Another pair of jars were heard shattering."ugh"
The sweet smell intensified and she began to feel dizzy.
"Ayako, Masako! Lin! Anyone please!"
*Crash*
"..." That was stronger
"Wahh uhaww"
Her eyes widened
"!"
The things which are stored in formalin in bottles in the Biology Preparation Room. All of them were here
"N-Naru! Naru! Help me!" she banged stronger but she didn't last long
Her lungs no longer received any oxygen, she was unable to breath as more jars fell to the floor... She was nauseous, dizzy and slowly she saw her view turn upside down.
'is no one coming?' tears drop from her slowly closing eyes
Sorry, kinda dark
You will notice the story is going my way now, following the original but a different dimension, I have more to come that will be slightly different from the original *cough* spices *cough*
Review time (a bit long)
CaitHawked4Ever: thank you so much! The stalker seems to have backed up a bit, I haven't heard or seen from him after telling him to stop. Still keeping an eye out for him. Now Yasuhara in this dimension his back is wide open, he leaves it open on purpose so when they attack him he can get back at them with blackmail xD so Naru better be careful xD thank yous for reviewing! *Hugs*
Zdraco: oh Yasuhara is certainly watching, watching the drama unfold xD yup the case has lots of info but necessary info more now that Gene is involved ;) thank you so much! Stalker has backed out for now *happy dance* will try to update soon, hope you enjoyed this one :D and my sincere gratitude for reviewing! *Hugs*
Mortisvenom: aw thank you so much *blushing and shying away* *happy bounce* my country doesn't deal with stuff like this, so it ain't illegal *flips table* but I managed to tell him to stop, and I made sure to tell the people around me, so I'm not alone. *Hugs* thank you! Loved that you loved it! I'm back that's for sure! A bit slower but still here *high five* see you next time hopefully soon!
RichkeyZero: thank you kindly for reviewing *hugs*
Karibel. : Jajaja ups! perdon! Pero tal vez asi encuentras mas rapido Las pistas xD jk tratare de subir nuevos chapters aunq Sean cortos mas seguidos esto no lo dejo hasta q lo termine ;) Gracias por El apoyo ;3
Kallen21: thank you so much! Here it is! *Raises curtains* thank you so much for reviewing *bows*
Nagisa akabane: thank you as well for reviewing *hugs* will certainly do! *Salutes*
LoverofAnime27:. A bit like Gene because he made her be like that xD but not a catalyst thou I may do a story about it once am done with this one *gives a cookie for the idea* thank you so much! You will find out soon through clues or through the blood stained lab case ;3 am reading lots of Chinese web novels as well so you might be onto something similar with what am planning xD but I mix a bit of everything from Spanish dramas to Japanese beliefs xD will see. Hope you had a great read with the links x3 and thank you greatly for re-reading this as much as you have. It means a lot *hugs*
Hikari Ino: thank you so much! On the manga the first volumes I loved how Mai looked and Naru aw my heart, it was a great read specially since they continue further than the anime, I recommend to take a look, it is on mangapark xD if you're not into manga that's alright, I just wish they continue the animation or make a kdrama out of it. Or even better get another sequel for the novel *hearts flying on daydream land* thank you greatly for reviewing *hugs*
Pein's number 1 Girl: *happy dancing* thank you greatly *dancing* love that you loved it! Love that you reviewed and rated it *hugs" *continue to dance in happiness*
Moon1era: thank you! Loving that you are loving it! Mystery awaits *Sherlock Holmes music playing* soon it shall be revealed. Thank you kindly for reviewing *hugs*
Guest: I'm so thankful to you as well for reviewing and keeping track of it :3 *hugs* hopefully I can update faster soon! Correct that's what am aiming for xD this is a NaruXMai forever story xD thank you so much! Will do *salutes*
Love you all thank you for reaching out and for those that only read thank you as well! *Bows twice* thank you for motivating me to keep going at it, you are all amazing *hugs viewers* see y'all soon!
