Disclaimer: If I'm this bad of a writer, what makes you think I own it?
Author's Note: THREE CHEERS!!!!!!!! I am so happy!! Not only do I have ten chapters up, but ten separate reviews!! This chapter is dedicated to my tenth actual reviewer: Rurouni-Phantom (Rurouni Kenshin lover!). What I mean is unincluding my reviews, and those who reviewed more than twice. DMN, yes you can use the name because you gave me the Japanese term for Black Priestess. Now there will be 3 fics with the Miko- uh oh, I said too much. Anywho, I have made some adjustment on this chapter. I would like to thank SawCyn-WroteSin. I shall take the fact you called me twisted as a compliment. And I thank you for calling me a pro-class mystery writer. I hope that this chapter is more interesting. Kybo, yes I tell myself that my stories are bad, but in the words of Calvin from 'Calvin and Hobbes': I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectation. On with the fic!!!
Chapter Ten: Unexplained. com
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Danny, Sam and Tuck ran up to Tuck's room. When they entered the room, all Danny saw was that the site was still on the search page. But when he got closer, he saw the arrow pointing to a website:
Apparitions and sourt!
The spirits you don't hear about: A story on one night of the burning of Zozobra, 'Robert the Doll', some of England's most Deadly, and a new ghost called The Black Miko.
www. unexplained. com
"Interesting" Danny said staring at the screen. He clicked the site. They found themselves in a site with a purple background and black lettering:
Unexplained. com
This site includes:
The night of Zozobra
The New Jersey Devil
'Robert the Doll'
The Ouija Debate
England's Most Deadly
Secrets of the Myrtles
Haunted Wisconsin
Grave's End
And the newest addition:
The Black Priestess (miko)
"This is the site we were hoping for" Danny told them.
(No really? - me)
Danny placed his hand back on the mouse and clicked on the link to the Black Priestess (as they referred to her). The site they had for her was fairly nice. The border for the page was a vine of white roses and the background was black with red writing. But it wasn't so pretty after the effects made the roses burn. The border didn't matter. What was on the site was what mattered:
The Black Priestess (miko)
Real name: Nadeshiko
15??-15?? (Age fifteen)
Occupation: Priestess
Description: Auburn hair with dark brown eyes, formal priestess attire.
Story: Long ago in the in the Warring States Era of Japan's Muromachi period (Sengoku-jidai 1467-1568 CE) was a village near present day Tokyo. Nadeshiko was being trained to be the priestess of the village. But a sudden illness killed her sensei, leaving her to keep the village going. The only problem was that she wasn't very good at the priestess sorcery. She couldn't shoot an arrow, make a simple remedy, bandage up a wound, nor did she remember any of the medicinal herbs. One day, she accidentally gave one of her patients the wrong tonic. Her patient died. The village had enough of her and consulted a local demon. He agreed to get rid of her. He didn't say how. He possessed the village into killing her. They brutally beat her and then set her on fire while she was still alive. The village went back to normal, forgetting their priestess and that they ever killed her. It is heard she has now been raised by someone who again needs her for something. This involved something with killing a few people. She willingly agreed. She has taken a hatred for humans, but still fears them in a way. Too many scare her, but she doesn't show it. If she possesses them herself, she's not as afraid.
To see a hand drawn picture we found, Click here.
"That's terrible" Sam said softly. "She was killed only because she wasn't good with her job."
"I agree" Tuck said. "That is one of the saddest things I've ever heard of. And the way she died, that is just terrible!!!"
Danny clicked on the link to the picture. Another window popped up. The window was minimized, so as a smart person, he maximized it. The picture finish downloading to reveal a girl with auburn hair and dark brown eyes with her bangs framing her face. Her hair in a very loose ponytail tied at her neck, letting her hair fall down to her knees. She wore a (in Danny vision) white jacket with red hemming on the sleeves and a red string tied in a bow, dangling around her neck. She also wore very baggy, pants or some kind of a long poofy red skirt. She had sandals on with a pair of socks too. She was very pretty.
"Wow, she hot!" Tuck said in amazement.
"Shut up, Tuck" Danny said to him. He closed up the window to see another link:
To see a video clip, Click here.
A video clip? Danny thought. Interesting…
He clicked on it. As it loaded, there was a note on the bottom of the screen. It said:
This is something me and my brother caught on my new video camera. I got it for my birthday. It was our first time with any kind of a video camera, so we don't know how to work the zoom or anything else in that matter. And there is a faulty at one point with the sound. So don't go sending me flames, ok? This is something we caught on tape around the last week of May. It was about midnight. If you're wondering why the heck we were up so late, well, I can't tell you. But we caught some good stuff. You will notice though, that there are four other images in what we caught. One of them is an orb of light, but then one of them disappears. Well, see for yourself. And if you're wondering how I know it's the Black Priestess, well, I heard someone shout her name.
Four images, May, disappearance? Danny thought. Wait a minute! It can't be…
The clip started:
Girl's voice: Evan, gimmie my camera!
Boy's voice: Hold on, Ashley! I wanna see somn'.
Girl's voice: You hit record moron!
Boy's voice: So?
Girl's voice: Give it!
(someone grabs camera)
Boy's voice: Wait!
(two people grabbing camera. Camera is shaking. Camera then points to the window. Image appears)
Girl's voice: WAIT!!!! There's something outside!!!!
(Image outside is of an abnormal white light image floating about the fifth floor. There is also another image floating about the same height, only this one is a black mist now I know that everyone has seen the commercial to the 'Grudge.' It looks like the black smoky image and on the ground, there are three people. Then, a ball of light started to form. It looked like it was coming from the miko. The light shot at the people on the ground. The bright image shot at the people and pushed them into the alley. The image came out of the alley. The image then turned to the alley. Another form of light started forming from the black image, only this time it was twice as big. The dark image shot the ball of light at the other image of light. The image was shot down to the sidewalk. It looked like it hit the stop sign, for the sign was shaking very violently all of them: "Ooooo!!!". At this moment, the camera started to have audio deficiency. The black image hovered over the light image for a few seconds. Then a line of light shot out of the black image and grabber one of the people in the alley and drew her into the smoke. The person and the black image disappeared. The last two people rushed to the image that was on the floor. Two brighter rings of light formed around the image, one went up and the other went down, 'erasing' the light of the image, leaving some teenage kid).
The video clip ended.
Danny, Tucker and Sam stared at the screen, mouths agape.
"Oh… my… gosh" was all that Sam could say.
"Your battle was on the internet" Tuck said.
"That's bad" Danny said. "What if someone could use the clip to see who I really am? It could fall into the wrong hands!!"
"Man, I hope that no one gets the urge to find out who you really are" Sam said.
Danny logged off the internet. There are now two sides of the Miko. One was the human hating cloaked fiend, and the young and clumsy priestess. He didn't know if he should feel sorry for her or hate her. There was too much. Danny looked at the computer clock: 10:48 pm. It was almost eleven and they had school tomorrow.
Sam and Danny said their goodbyes and left Tuck's house. Danny and Sam were heading in the same direction. Danny lived a little bit farther than Sam, so he was a gentleman and walked her home. The entire way there was awkward silence. Danny couldn't forget what Ri had told him.
Sam has deep feelings for you…
Thinking of this made Danny red with embarrassment. Sam saw him.
"Danny, are you okay?" she asked.
"Huh? Oh, no. I'm fine." He smiled at her. She looked at him suspiciously, but then turned her head.
Sunday had come and gone very quickly. Tomorrow would be buzzing about Halloween, but they wouldn't be caring. They would be busy, finding Ri. But now, they had something…
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That Monday, the school was buzzing with teens talking about what they would do on Sunday. The teachers still had their haunted house on Maple Street. This year, it was Mr. Kabolican. He probably had the best idea of all the teachers: The Child's Playhouse. The three of them thought that they might stop at the house, that is, if they had time. Other than them the only person that didn't seemed mesmerized by the Halloween atmosphere, was Kelsie.
"She really creeps me out" Tuck said.
"You know what? She's a drug addict too" Sam said to them.
"Really?" Danny asked.
"Yup. I saw her the other day during P.E. While we were out in the field, I saw her behind the dumpster with a cigarette lit and in her hand. Once P.E. was over, she threw it to the ground and stomped on it with her shoe. She was all dressed up and ready for P.E and her hair was back in a loose ponytail, well, except for the bangs she keeps in front of her face. But it's strange…"
"What?" Danny asked.
"Kelsie looked and looks like that girl from the picture of that Nadeshiko girl."
"She's right!" Danny agreed.
"What a strange coincidence" Tuck said.
"One major coincidence! Ri suddenly disappears, she comes. I pass her one day in the hall, all of a sudden, I'm in pain. And she looks like the girl in the picture! Coincidence?! -Pfft- I doubt it!!!"
"Well," Tuck said. "Should we talk to her? Ask her a few harmless questions?"
"Yeah, I guess so" Danny said.
He walked up to her as the classes slowly filed in. Kelsie was just closing her locker when she saw Danny.
"Uh, Kelsie?" Danny asked her. She turned and stared at him. The stare was eerie. Talk you idiot, talk!! Danny thought.
"Okay, I need to ask you a question" he said.
"About what?" she asked. Her voice was hypnotizing and kind of monotone.
"About Ri-. " Before he could finish, she had grabbed him by the neck and threw him into the lockers so hard they shook. She dug her long nails into the back of his neck.
"Listen here you," she growled. "I know nothing of Ri, okay?! Now, if I hear another thing about her coming from you, I will kill you." She let go of Danny's neck and stormed off to her class. He could feel the blood from the wound drizzle down his neck. The cuts stung really badly, and he had four of them. She didn't need to worry about him talking about Ri in front of her. He wouldn't.
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Darn it! I can't make my stories interesting!!!!! I am so mad at myself! Everyone agrees that this one's as bad as the rest, don't they? I do. Until next time, Signing Off!!!! PS: All the things listed on are true. Email me if you want to know anyone of them or any other ghost information if you're curious.