Note: The original ring was Ringu, and the americans did The Ring, and the Koreans did The Ring Virus, so this is my little Chinese remake, but it has some different twists and doesn't follow the exact same plot so please read!
Li Ming lazily turned off the TV after the movie finished. Every week on saturday night, Ting would come over and they'd watch a movie.
"Well that movie was stupid," Ting said.
"Yeah it was," Li Ming agreed. She yawned. "It's late, and I'm tired."
"Let's go to sleep," Ting said.
Li Ming pulled the sheets over herself and turned on the small lantern light above her, as she knew her and Ting would probably talk until they fell asleep, as they did every week.
"Remember that video we watched last week?" Ting said with a slight hint of fear in her voice.
How could Li Ming forget? They were at the video store like usual, picking their movie. That week, her boyfriend Lok had joined them. When they brought it home they had noticed there was no writing on the front of the tape, like there usually was on most films. It looked like a recording tape. They had watched it anyway and it was the most bizarre thing- it was like watching someones thoughts. There were so many strange images that the whole thing didn't make any sense. When the movie had ended, they had received a phone call, and a raspy, low female voice had whispered "Seven days...and you die." They had thought it was a joke. Some kid was probably prank calling them and coincidentally after they had just completed the creepiest 2 minutes of their life. They had gone on with the night like nothing had happened. They had taken pictures that night, she remembered. But the weird thing was, their faces were all distorted. Li Ming had figured the camera was broken, it was old anyway.
"Yeah I remember," Li Ming said. "It was so creepy,"
"Do you remember what time we watched it?" Ting asked.
"I think 10:37...why?"
Ting motioned to the clock. It was 10:34, exactly 7 days later.
Li Ming laughed. "It was a joke! You don't really think someones going to come over here and murder us, do you?" Li Ming laughed.
"Well-," Ting was cut short by the high pitched ring of the telephone. Both girls stopped. They looked at each other, bewildered looks on their faces.Ting slowly lifted herself out of bed and walked forward to the phone. With a shaky hand, she picked Li Ming's phone up and raised it to her ear.
"He-he-hello?" she said shakily.
Li Ming watched Ting nervously, wondering what was going on. Then Ting...laughed! What was going on? Ting handed the phone to Li Ming, still giggling. Li Ming picked up the phone.
"Hello?"
"Li Ming!" Li Ming heaved a large sigh of relief. It was just her mother.
"Yes mother?"
"Don't forget to make sure Feng brushes her teeth and combs her hair before she goes to sleep." Her mother said. Feng was Li Ming's younger sister.
"Yes mom." They hung up.
"Come on, Ting. I have to see to my sister."
The two walked downstairs to where Feng slept.
"Hey Feng, time to brush your teeth," Li Ming said.
"Okay..." Feng groaned.
Suddenly there was a sound. It sounded like...static. Li Ming spun around to see Feng's TV. It was buzzing on and off, each time with static.
"Was the tv on, Feng?" Li Ming asked.
"N-no!" Feng said, obviously scared.
Ting tapped Li Ming's shoulder. She looked at the clock. It was 10:37. They both shivered.Li Ming suddenly noticed her feet. Something cold was on it. Something...wet. She looked down. Blood! Blood was seeping under Feng's door and into the room, and it was piling around their feet. Feng screamed. Slowly, Ting and Li Ming turned to face the tv. When they were fully turned, they saw it. And screamed.
Reporter Wan was driving in her car, on her way to her brother's house. She had been sitting in traffic for 45 minutes and it wasn't getting any faster.
"Come on!" Wan said angrily aloud. "What's the hold up?"
As she inched closer, she began to see police lights. She found herself parked in front of a large home she recognized as Li Ming's, who was a friend of her niece. Several police cars were there, along with an ambulence. A mess of people were outside. Wan then spotted The Ng's, Li Ming's parents.
"Ng, what's going on?" Wan asked.
"Li Ming..." She began. She was obviously totally freaked by whatever had happened. "We came home last night...we couldn't find her and Ting anywhere...""Ting was there?" Wan asked, frightened.
"Yes," she said slowly. "We still can't find them and-," she was cut short by a shrill scream.
Doctors were carrying out a screaming girl of about 8, whom Wan recognized as Li Ming's younger sister Feng.
"Don't take me! Let go of me!" She was shouting. "She killed her, she killed her! That girl! The well!"Tears were pouring down Mrs. Ng's face.
"Feng claims there was a girl who came out of the TV and killed them." Ng shook her head. "But that's impossible. She must have not been able to find them and got scared."
Wan walked up to a police officer. "May I go in there?"
"Sorry but it's off limits," He said.
"But I'm a reporter. And I was told my niece was over here too."
The man sighed and made way for Wan to enter. It was dark, except for a few dim lights. Wan slowly walked up the steps to Li Ming's room. She slowly slid open the rice paper doors to get a full view. There was a single lantern light on above her head. There were sheets sprawled on the floor, and a half eaten egg roll on a plate. But nothing seemed out of place. Then she noticed Li Ming's diary sitting on top of the TV set. She flipped open to the middle of the book.
"October 19, 2002. Ting came over today like usual, and Lok came too. We went to the video store, and got our movie. But it was so weird because when we watched the video, it was not what we rented. And it was only 2 minutes long anyways. When the movie was over someone called us and said we would die in 7 days." Wan thought for a moment. Today was October 26, 7 days later.
"Ha, yeah right. Someone probably prank calling us. We took some pictures after that. They turned out really weird, I think the camera was broken." Wan flipped the page. A picture Li Ming had stuck in there fell out. It was of Li Ming, Ting, and Lok in Li Ming's room. There faces were completely distorted. "What is this?" Wan said aloud. "Maybe I should check Feng's room."
Wan walked back down the stairs and into the young girls room. Nothing seemed out of place there either. She was about to turn and leave when she noticed that her closet door was slightly ajar. Slowly she slid it open.
"Oh my god!" She must've screamed loud enough, because 2 policemen came running.
"What is it?"
Wan couldn't speak. She just pointed. In the closet were the missing girls. Li Ming's jaw was open and slightly to the side, and her eyes were rolled in the back of her head. Ting's eyes were wide open, as well as her mouth, and her hands her over her ears.
"Ting..." Wan said sadly.
"Is she your niece, ma'am?" Said a police officer, pointing to Li Ming.
"No...no...her..." Wan pointed to Ting.
The officer felt their body temperature. "They seem to have died somewhere around 10:37 pm,"
A few doctors came in and removed the bodies. Wan remembered the diary and how it mentioned a third person at the house the previous week. Just then, the officer got a page from another officer a few streets down. "There's another in this house too. His face is very strange, and he seemed to have died somewhere around 10:37."
"That's strange..." The officer said. "Well I have to go."
Wan slowly walked outside. She saw Mrs. Ng weeping and Mr. Ng talking to an officer.
"Wan!" It was her brother.
"Kong!" Wan wrapped her arms around him and began to cry a little. "I'm so sorry...Ting..."
Before Kong could respond, a officer came to them with news. "They seem to have died of a heart attack. Although I'm not sure what could've given it to them." She said.
Wan decided to leave Kong to talk with the officer. "Bye Kong." She hugged him and left.
to be continued soon...please R&R!
