Chapter 7: House of Multilation
Miku and Mafuyu stood in front of the mansion. They exchanged worried glances before going up the stairs, one step at a time. When they reached the entrance, Mafuyu hestitated.
"Mafuyu, what's wrong?" Miku asked. Mafuyu seemed to snap out of a trance and shook his head.
"No, nothing's wrong." He smiled warmly at his younger sister, who was staring at him with worried eyes. With a big tug, the doors to the mansion creaked open. Miku and Mafuyu shined their flashlights in at the same time. As they walked through, the doors suddenly slammed shut behind them.
"Do you really think this is a good idea?" Miku, a little scared, looked up at Mafuyu, who laughed.
"Of course! We're not going to let it sit here, unexplored, right?" Mafuyu said nervously. Miku could easily see right through that though...
The brother and the sister held hands as they went through the door, and then walked up the small, broken stairs. As Miku walked by the unlit candle, it flared up, making her scream and fall backwars, pulling Mafuyu down with her. Miku landed on her booty while Mafuyu landed on his head. The two of them got back up as fast as they could and laughed nervously before putting on a serious look on their face and walked on.They slowly walked to the right, where a door awaits. Mafuyu looked at Miku, who was so scared, she stared straight ahead. Mafuyu grabbed the small nitch on the door and tugged it open. It slid slowly to the side.
"L-ladies first!" Mafuyu said hurriedly. Miku gave him a dirty look.
"Coward." She said loudly as she walked underneath Mafuyu's arm. He glared at her before following after her. The door slid shut behind them, making them whir around. Nothing was there. They hurried to the end of the hallway, where the huge mirror was. There was a loud scream after they stopped for a while, and a woman fell in front of them. Miku jumped and screamed and Mafuyu took a step back. The woman was pale, with short hair. She was wearing a red kimono and she crawled on her back as if her arms and legs were broken. She scurried around them, making Miku very uneasy, that was, until the woman got extremely close to Miku and grabbed her foot with two arms. Miku started screaming as the woman tugged on her foot. Mafuyu quickly brought up the camera and took a picture of the woman. She screamed and was pushed back a few paces. She leaned to her left, exposing her right shoulder. Mafuyu took a picture of her at that time too, making her scream some more. She was pushed into the wall. Mafuyu kept the picture of the woman exposing her left shoulder for "important" purposes.
Miku hugged Mafuyu. "My hero!" she triumphantly declared. However, the woman fell in front of them again, this time, Miku and Mafuyu both found out that they could not move. The woman wiggled her way to Mafuyu and grabbed his legs. He immediately started struggling to kick away the woman's grasp, while Miku, still frozen with fear, could not do anything but watch as Mafuyu started to lose his strength.
"Miku! Use the camera!" Mafuyu yelled, still fighting the battle that could never be won.
Miku finally pushed her fear aside, then took the camera out of her pocket. She quickly raised it to her eyes and said "Spirit, begone!" and snapped the picture. The woman in red kimono let out a final scream before disappearing. Miku fell to her knees and started crying. "I'm sorry, Mafuyu! I'm sorry!"
Mafuyu knelt down beside her. "There there, it's alright. You saved me." He hugged the crying Miku. She just wouldn't stop crying...