Darkness Falls - Chapter 6: Legend
There's a legend. The Himuro Mansion legend.
They say, hundreds of years ago, the Himuro family lived in a mansion, a mansion that was located over the Hell Gate, the physically portal into hell. The family made it their duty to keep the Gate shut, and in doing this they created the practice of the Rope Shrine Maiden.
A girl would be chosen on the 26th of the 11th month, a girl older than 7 years, 9 months, and 25 days. On the day she was chosen, her mother would be taken and sacrificed through the Blinding Ritual, sacrificed in order to start the maiden's separation from the world.
3,669 days later, on the 13th day of the 12th month, the maiden would be sent to purify herself. When she was done, the Strangling Ritual would begin. Tying a rope to the maiden's neck, wrists, and ankles, she would be pulled apart to provide power to the ropes. The ropes would then be used to keep the Gate shut, as the spirit of the maiden would stay with them, keeping the Calamity from happening, holding Malice back.
Until the maiden Kirie.
Kirie fell in love. She grew attached to the outside world. When the ritual was performed upon her, and when her ropes were used to keep the Gate shut, they failed, snapping, and Malice was set free. The Holy Mirror, set to guard the gate as well, shattered.
Kirie's spirit was trapped in the mansion, and over time she grew angry and spiteful, mad at the world that had done this to her. A small part of her, however, wished that she had succeeded in her duty, that she had closed the gate. Slowly, over time, she split into two beings.
Years afterwards, a family moved into the mansion. They came there because the mother and wife was a sickly woman, and the mountain air was thought to do her good. The child, a little girl named Mikoto, took to the mansion and the woods surrounding it, and soon made friends with the local children. The father soon began absorbed in searching out the history of the mansion.
Mikoto was soon given a camera by one of the children, a young girl wearing a white kimono. A few days later, both she and the other children disappeared.
The mother was frantic. After searching the mansion thoroughly, she came across the camera. Soon after, she hung herself. The husband disappeared a few hours later. When Mikoto was found, she was sent to live with a friend of her father's, Mr. Hinasaki.
Years later, her grandson came to the mansion, searching for someone. When he didn't return for two weeks, his sister, Mikoto's granddaughter, followed him. Three days later, she came back out with only his broken camera.
The Gate had been sealed, and the mirror had been restored.
Her granddaughter then moved to the United States. Marrying, she named her only child, a daughter, Kiri, after Kirie.
The Himuro mansion was torn down. In its place, Hunters was built.
The camera pieces were lost.