Ok I have counted the votes I have received and here is the next chapter. I was going to have it play as a sub-chapter but that wait until later.

"Itsuki...I cant let you go. I have to do this for Mayu. Can you understand that?"

He sighed. "I guess I cant really stop you. Go ahead. I dont know which exit Mayu tried, but Sae might still be there."

I started walking to the exit before he stopped me. "Wait!"

"What is it?"

"If...the exit is open, run. Leave. Get out."

"What?! I cant. I came to-"

"You came to see Mayu. And you have. Now you have to escape before its too late."

I left the yard and ran down to the fork in the road.

"Where could I go? If I check atop the hill Id probably have a better chance of escaping back..." I decided. That would be the way I would go.

Rather than walk carefully, like I should have done, I decided to run quickly past the Osaka house and up the hill. When I got to the clearing there was...noone.

"Sae? Sae, are you here? Please come out, Sae. I want to talk."

Something crashed behind me. I turned to see what it was that crashed. It was the Crimson Lantern. Shakily, I held the camera to my face and looked around. Where could she be?

I heard...sobbing?

"Sae? Is that you?" I asked, not moving the camera.

"What is it...." I couldnt hear where the voice was coming from. It sounded like it was echoing everywhere.

"I wanted to talk to you. About escaping."

"So...are you leaving me too?"

"Sae...I dont want to leave without you. We want you to go with us."

"Liar! Youre just saying that to try to escape and when I open the entrances youll try to kill me!"

"No I wont!" I said, raising my voice considerably louder than I should have.

Suddenly, the voice took a form in front of me, lunging at me, her hands at my neck.

"Sae...please...let me go!" I said. She wouldnt. Not like I expected her to. "Please, Sae..." Still no answer.

"I said...let...me...go!" I shouted, clicking down on the shutter.

Sae let out a horrible shriek as she lurched back. I looked through the camera. The words "Fatal Frame" were listed under the meter marking her life.

I took off into a run down the hill. Sae had gone crazy. She would no longer listen to reason. She wanted all of us to stay in the village forever.

I turned a sharp corner to the fork in the road in attempt to add more distance and get back to Itsuki, when I turned Saes figure stood right in front of me. I tried to stop but fell through her, a chill flowing through me. The camera falling a good couple of feet away and the film knocked out.

I hated this feeling. The feeling that a person gets when they come in contact with a ghost. Ive felt it many times before, but this seemed to be the worse. Not only did the chill pierce to my heart, making my blood run cold, like it turned to ice, but it gave me this helpless feeling. The feeling like I knew I was going to die. It made me...afraid.

Mayu...Itsuki...please...help me...

"Why did you have to get in my way? I was perfectly content with staying in this village, but you had to come along and try to take everyone away from me. Well I wont let you!" Sae brought hands down and closed them around my throat.

My eyes rolled into the back of my head and my eyelids closed. I felt the chill turning into a numbness...the numbness separating me from all feeling.

So this is what the Darkness feels like...

"Stop!"

Hehe, another cliffhanger. So just what is it that happened? We may never know! Well...Ill know, but you wont unless you review and tell me what you think!