Chapter 3: Rain Girls
She had gotten back up on her legs looking for any sign of Leo, but he was no where to be found. Emiko turned around and had walked out of the building. Only this time it was raining and Emiko had to find shelter some where else. Her main goal now was to go out and find Brit to tell her of her sister, Ash. She ran down the path trying quickly to find a building that was unlocked. Already though she had been drenched in rain and had given up on doing things quickly. After a moments of looking for a building Emiko began to hear laughter.
In the village square where two invisible forms of young girls playing in the rain. You could not see them except where the rain had been landing on there invisible bodies.
"Hello?" Emiko said aloud, but nothing happened except that the girls giggled some more.
"Is that you Brit? Who are you with?"
Then to Emiko's surprise the girls became un transparent and you could see them quite clear now. One had short brown hair and pale skin and wore a purple kimono skirt with a white bow and the other had longer dark brown hair with a caramel skin tone and wore a yellow kimono skirt with a pink bow. They both where bare foot and for some reason where able to stay dry.
"Where not Ash and Brit" The yellow one said with a smile.
"Then who are you?" Emiko asked.
"I'm Lola and that's Alex" The purple one said.
"Well I'm Emiko pleased to meet you"
Emiko put her hand out for a greeting as both girls shook it.
"So how come you two aren't butterflies?"
They smiled and looked at each other.
"We didn't want to be part of that army Leo was creating" Alex said.
"What's the army for?" Emiko asked.
"It's for the spirit world, Leo thinks he can take over it but that's a laugh and a half" Lola said with a giggle.
"Well I'm looking for Brit, I need to tell her that Ash had become a butterfly"
"Oh Brit already knows that, she just can't except it"
"So what am I going to do?"
"Well you could destroy Leo that way every one would turn back" Alex said.
"And how am I to do that?"
"Well the camera obscura of course"
"And that is?"
"If taken at the correct time, which is known as a fatal frame your able to perform an exorcist upon the spirit returning it back to the spirit world."
"Interesting and how was this brought up?"
"By Seijiro Makabe"
"Who's Seijiro Makabe?"
"Don't you read the paper? He was some righter who came down to the village to do some research on it and then vanished"
Emiko tried thinking really hard then a thought did come to mind. She remembered sitting at home on her bed looking at the paper about a man by the same name who had gone missing in the woods. It was also the man Kiamo had told her about when she warned her not to go into the woods.
"So why would he come to this village?" Emiko asked.
"You don't know the story do you?" Lola asked.
"No"
"Long ago the village people would perform rituals, weird sadistic ones. Well one of them consist of twins where the older would kill the younger one. One night the towns people where to perform the ritual and that night the village mysteriously vanished now it's known as the Lost Village. Seijiro didn't know it vanished and died trying to find it. He wanted to do an article on the rituals so he could share it with the rest of Japan, but like we said before he died and was brought into the village and so he created the camera."
"So if it's lost how did I get here? And if it vanished how am I here?"
"The village is vanished because only spirits can live here, only spirits can see it. Otherwise it just looks like a normal woods to anyone else."
"Wait does that mean I'm dead?"
"Well it could be, or recently Leo has been luring humans into the village using the crimson butterflies"
"How does that work?"
"The crimson butterflies are another form of spirit, they can't be brought back to the spirit world; unless Leo let's them or he is brought back. In which they transform into there original spirit state, but because they are another form they have the power to let the living see what the living can't. It's the same with the camera obscura, it to can see what only the dead can. That is if you look through the lens."
"Wow, now that's a lot of information for me to swallow"
The two girls smiled at Emiko as they both said
"Go get move on and find that camera!"
Emiko smiled
"Will do!"
So with that Emiko began to walk away as the girls giggled and vanished into thin air.