Chapter 5
Case 1: Hoshikawa Manor
Day 2
"Is what Nashi?"
"That is besides the fact that you can hear it playing in the room."
Everyone at base was baffled. How was that possible?
"Lin turn up the volume and take out the headphones."
Lin did as Naru told him and suddenly everyone heard the creepy music box playing. But then silence. The music stopped and the music box disappeared off the screen.
"It's gone?" Ayako asked while gasping. Everyone went quiet after that, leaving Ayako's question unanswered.
"Mai and Nashi get out of there. If it stopped, you can leave."
"Ok," both girls answered and Nashi tried to open the door, but it was locked and not giving any.
"Ok who locked the door?" Mai asked over the walkie.
"No one. No one has even left base," Monk answered.
Suddenly the room shook, then stopped.
'What?' everyone seemed to think.
"Naru, what…?" but Mai was cut off as the room shook again. This time it was more violent and with the door being locked, the girls were trapped.
At Base
"Naru how are we going to get them out of there?!" shouted Monk due to Naru just standing there looking at the screen.
"Lin look," Naru said as he pointed to the screen of the room with the girls in it.
Lin zoomed it and that's when everyone at base saw it: a large crack forming in the wall and floor.
"Oh no! Get them out! Warn them now, Naru!" Ayako yelled at the unmoving Naru, but Lin was on it.
"Nashi, Mai, the floor behind you has a crack appearing and one in the wall as well."
In the room
Both Nashi and Mai turned around and saw that it was.
'It could collapse with us in it! What a great 1st 2 days for SPR.'
Nashi tried the door again and it gave some but then slammed shut on them and something flung Mai to the far left wall, and Nashi to the right but still close to the middle of the room.
"Ow. Mai, are you ok?" Nashi asked as she looked around to find Mai, and found her to the left of her by the wall.
'Why is she by the wall and I'm still close to the middle of the room?'
"Yeah. Sore from the throw but overall I'm good. Can we just get out of here now?"
"No need to tell me twice. Let's go."
But as both girls started to get up, 3 things happened.
1st thing: the cracking and shaking got tremendously worse and things started to move.
2nd thing: as Mai and Nashi started to get up, both had hands come up from the floor, wrap around their waist and stomachs and pulled them to the floor.
And the 3rd thing…
Everything collapsed.
And then silence.
At base everyone was in shock, even Lin and Naru.
"Mai, nashi do you hear me? Are you ok?" Nary said over the walkie.
But no answer. Not a sound.
And no movement from the rubble.
Until they realized things were still falling... From above them.
"Did the floor above them collapse too?" John asked clearly getting even more worried.
"Yasu and Monk come with me," Naru said before rushing off to the 1st floor room bellow the room they were in.
Naru and Yasu rushed to the room and opens the door to see nothing but furniture, floor and ceiling parts and various other parts of the rooms. But no obvious traces of Mai or Nashi.
"Mai!"
"Nashi!"
Yasu and Naru kept calling their names and after a few minutes they hear something and saw something move over to the left by the wall.
"I'm here..."
Naru rushed over and saw that it was Mai as Yasu kept looking for nashi.
Naru got all the boards and debris off of Mai and helped her sit up.
"You ok?" Naru asked surprising Mai by asking if she was ok.
"Yes but where is Nashi? Is she ok?"
Naru looked toward Yasu to see if he had any luck and shofar nothing.
Till he notice and unusual hump in the debris.
He went to move some of the wood and ceiling pieces and he saw a body. And it was right around where Nashi was thrown to. As he kept clearing more and more he saw it.
It was Nashi.
And she wasn't moving.
"Nashi!" Yasu shouted as he dug more and Monk came over to help him.
Once she was uncovered Yasu cradled her in his arms and tried to wake her as Monk checked her pulse. She had a good cut on her forehead and minor scrapes, bruises and cuts all over her body.
"She is breathing and has a strong pulse luckily. She's lucky."
Then Mai uttered something, that through the camera, even the people in base heard it.
"She was the target. I have that feeling."
"Nashi wake up. Can you hear me?"
After a few times of Yasu calling out to her and brushing hair out of her face and cut, she stirred and finally opened her eyes.
"Ugh...Yasu?" She tried to sit up but her body protested. Everything hurt and ached with every slight movement.
"Hey you need to be careful. You just not only fell with the collapsing floor but the ceiling floor above the 2nd floor room collapsed on you as well," Monk explained to her.
"Oh."
She was shocked to say the least. How did she survive that?
"Yasu, carry Nashi back to base. Monk, help Mai." And Naru walked out.
'What a jerk! He was standing right next to me but no he is to make someone else help me! He is to narcissistic to even help me back to base, which he is going to right now!'
But either way, everyone listened to Naru. Nashi just tested her pounding head against Yasu's shoulder and they went back to base. And as soon as they were all back, Ayako began to fuss over both girls, mostly Nashi once she saw that Mai wasn't really hurt.
"That's a nasty cut there on your forehead. I have plasters for it but it probably will scar."
"No it's ok Ayako. I actually don't scar. I've had stuff worse than this but it never scars. I only have one scar and it's from when I was 5 and fell out of a tree."
Ayako was shocked but didn't say anything just kept treating Nashi.
"Mai."
"Yes Naru?" Mai answered back with some attitude, which Naru ignored.
"You said in the room that she was the target."
"Yeah so?"
Once Ayako was done, Yasu helped Nashi move over to the couch so she could get in on the conversation.
"Why do you say that?"
"It's just I was thrown to the wall, a place that would get minimal debris falling on me while Nashi was thrown to the middle where all of it would hit her or get close to it."
"Nashi do you agree with Mai?"
Nashi didn't know what to say. "It makes sense...but how come the kettle exploded on Mai?"
Everyone thought but John finally spoke up.
"Nashi, you were with my when the kettle blew up. It even narrowly missed your head when it flew off the stove. That's what you said."
Everyone was shocked but Naru was still thinking.
"Mai is a danger ghost magnet so that could explain the severity but we can't deny the fact that it seems to keep targeting Nashi."
'So it's because of me? Great not again…'
"Naru, if that's the case then maybe you all should get out of here. I would understand and I don't want to put your lives in danger any more than it already has been the past 2 days."
'Nashi no….' Mai thought.
"I understand you concern for us. And I will leave it up to everyone if they want leave or stay here."
"Like hell I am leaving. My expertise might be needed as a priestess," Ayako said.
"Ha! More like you medical expertise cause it is me they will be needing."
But that earned Monk a hard hit to the head from said priestess.
Naru and Nashi looked over towards Masako, who just nodded and John who said, "I'm staying as well."
Mai and Yasu both said there was no way they were leaving.
"So thank you again Nashi for the concern but we are staying her. Now let's get to work on finding out who this violent ghost is."
'You'll never find me….'
AN: told you i would get it up soon! :) tada! i hppe for atleast 2/3 or even more reviews so i can post chapter 6 :) i hope you ;ike it and i left another sort of ciffhanger ;) hahahaha im evil and love those but dont worry it wont be all the time.
