Chapter 4: Dusty Rose
An hour had past and Emiko had finally found a building where the door was unlocked. She entered it with caution. Once again she had heard the soft humming of the boy. She looked around the room she was in which was made out to be some sort of dinning area. The humming seemed to be louder near the table. That's when it crossed her mind to check under it. With in doing so she saw the white shadow again with blackened eyes. He was laying on the ground in the fetal position.
"Who are you?" She asked.
Very quietly she herd a whisper
"Brad"
But oddly enough his lips did not move. Emiko looked around herself trying to figure out who had said it. Then she felt a sharp pain against her back pushing her to the floor. She looked ahead under the table, somehow the boy had vanished. The pain still drove into her as she looked behind her she saw the boy pushing his arm with in her back. Frightened Emiko squirmed trying to get out of his grip. After a short moment of pain he had let loose his grip as she quickly crawled forward.
The boy though drove himself forward towards Emiko as she got up and began to run into another room. The room was empty except for the staircase that led downward. Emiko had no other choice and decided to take it. Quickly running down the stairs and taking a right turn she found herself in a darkened room. She looked behind her self and up the stairs to see if she could see the boy, but no one was to be found. Then her flashlight began to flicker.
"Shoot! Come on stay on!"
But it died and now she was in darkness. Walking very carefully with both arms out she stepped forward into the center of the room. After a few moments of careful stepping her foot hit something hard. She slowly bent down picking up the square like object then feeling it's surface with her hand trying to observe it blindly.
"It's the camera!" She said aloud.
Carefully finding the view she placed it up to her left eye. Inside the room now seemed brighter, but every thing seem to be in a grainy black and white image. Then looking downward she found hundreds of dead corps laying around. Emiko became very frightened at the moment as she noticed the blood stains around the room where the only things with color. Emiko put the camera away from her eye and began to run up the stairs. Once again in the dinning room the boy was still there.
"Your heart! I want your heart!" He said screaming at her as he began to fly towards her.
Emiko lifted the camera and took a shot of the boy. A loud yell could be heard as he vanished leaving out echoes of pain. Emiko set the camera on the table and took a deep breath as she sat down at a chair.
Then she began to here a creaky noise. Looking around no one could be found.
"Who's there?" She asked aloud.
"It's me Lola"
"Show yourself"
So sitting across from Emiko was Lola smiling.
"Where's Alex?" Emiko asked.
"Oh just doing her own thing"
"Oh, so who is Brad?"
"The boy"
"What was he saying about a heart?"
"Oh, Brad was another victim of Leo he refused to be turned into a butterfly so Leo took his heart. Brad now feeds on the living jealously dwelling on them for there hearts"
"Scary"
"Yah, well that's the price you pay for disobeying Leo"
"What about yourself?"
"Me and Alex where here before Leo, where older. So we had a choice if wanted to become such things but because we are older spirits, he could not harm us if we refused"
"Why is that?"
"It's just the rules everyone has rules"
"Interesting. Well now all I have to do is find Leo and I can leave."
"Well there might be a small problem"
"What?"
"Did Ash ever speak of a Dusty Rose?"
"No"
"Well it's a weapon Leo wields and it has the power of changing your affection for him. Only if your living of course"
"So he can what?"
"He can make you love him and then you won't want to kill him"
"What?"
"Yah, I know it sucks so just be careful"
Emiko took another breath and thought to herself.
"Yah will do, guess it's show time"
"Right on"
Lola winked and then vanished.