Fatal Frame: Lost Reality

Disclaimer: Yep, still don't own it. ;-;

Chapter Three: Visions

Scraping together patchwork happiness, and sowing it,
I was crushed by your strength

The house was badly rundown inside and so cold. Mayu shivered, hugging herself in order to keep warm. Mio was a few feet in front of her, glancing around to get a better look at everything.

"Where did you go?"

Mayu started. Had she just heard someone's voice? She glanced over at Mio who had not seemed to have noticed anything unusual. Maybe she was just imaging things because of this creepy atmosphere?

"Masumi!"

This time, she had definitely heard something. A chill shot through her body, and she began shaking violently. Mio turned to then, mouth opened as if to speak, but stopped when she saw her sister.

"Mayu, what is it?" Mio asked in concern, gently grasping her sister's arm.

And then, the visions came. Flashing through her mind in black and white, taking away her sense of reality.

"Masumi? Where are you?" A woman with a flashlight was walking through a dark corridor, an expression of fear on her face.

Twin girls hanging in front of a round window at the end of another corridor. A man standing facing a door, then just beyond a folding screen. Everything then went dark for a moment.

"I don't want to kill anymore."

"Why?" The woman's face again, screaming and more terrified than before. A man covered in cuts and gashes. Insane laughter, and a fleeting image of a girl laughing madly in another room.

Mayu gasped as she awoke from her trance. Mio pulled away from her, now shaking herself. "What…just happened?"

The older twin just shook her head. "I don't know…I don't know…" She'd had visions before, but never ones like this. "We should…keep looking around…" She said, hoping to advert her sister's attention.

Mio stared at her for a moment, then nodded. She lead the way as they was through the empty house. What had happened to the people that had once lived here? To add to the mystery, the girls kept finding parts of a notebook,-and Mayu kept swearing she saw the woman from her dream, but mentioned nothing about it to Mio. They seemed to have belonged to someone-a woman?- who had wandered into the village in search of somebody. Some of the things she had written seemed like pretty crazy stuff. But she also mentioned hearing the maniacal laughter of a woman.

In one of the notebooks, they had found an entry about the history of the village. How it and all who had lived there had just vanished one day. It mentioned there being only one person left behind after it disappeared…a young girl.

Their search eventually led them to a room that was a mess. Drawers were ramsacked and many things had been carelessly knocked over and strewn on the floor. A fairly new-looking flashlight had been left sitting on a table, out of place in the otherwise old-fashioned room. Mio picked it up and turned it on. Amazingly, it still worked.

A strange buzzing sound drew the girls' attention to a corner enveloped in shadows. Mio shined the flashlight upon it, revealing an antique camera sitting there. Curious, Mayu knelt down a reached out for it, only to be pulled from reality once more as soon as her fingers brushed the dusty object.

A bearded man in front of an oddly-shaped stone held the camera now, muttering about how it was supposed to be able to photograph that which should not be normally seen. He spoke of using it to photograph the village's secret ritual as he raised it to his eye. Hands reached out from the darkness at him. Startled, he stumbled backwards, letting the camera fall to the ground.

Mayu jerked her hand away. Mio knelt beside her. "What's wrong?" When no answer came, she picked up the camera herself. "Where did this thing come from? It looks really old…"

A sudden noise came from the door they had used to enter the room. Both girls gasped and stood up. Mayu hid behind her sister, trembling. Mio placed a comforting hand on her arm. Both were tense as they eyed the door warily, taking small steps toward it.

Taking a deep breath, Mio slid the door open with one, quick motion.

Patching together a patchwork happiness
As I sowed the seed, I was crushed by your strength

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