Chapter 16

Case 2: Shòujīng Souls

Day 3: 1:07 P.M.

"Mai! Wake up!"

And Mai jolted up only to end up colliding heads with someone and when she opened her eyes she saw that it was None other than her boyfriend and boss.

"Naru?" Mai question before seeing everyone else in the room looking st her with worried expressions. "What time is it? How long was I asleep?"

"Mai you were asleep for 5 hours almost. You probably fell asleep shortly after 9 this morning and it's now almost 1:10 in the afternoon."

Mai's eyes jumped from everyone including Lin and the Ma's as they were all showing some for of fear or concern. Yasu and the Ma's looked a little pale, had she said something?

"Why is everyone…?"

"Staring at you? Hell Mai… about an hour ago you started to thrash and scream and kick and bruises started shouting up on your legs more!" Ayako all but screamed at her.

"More?"

This time it was Monk's turn to answer her while Ayako tried to cool down and check her legs out.

"Kiddo, after about 2 hours of you being asleep you shouted out but nothing much more until recently. What happened? Were you trapped in you dream?"

Mai shook her head but as she did so, she had an immense amount of pain in her neck and she reached up to grab it, only to feel something cold touch it and heard a clinking sound.

"Mai? What is that?"

Mai was shocked but pulled her hand down to see 3 keys in it. The same 3 keys that Nashi had given her in the cell. She still had them but how? Mai did astral project them to herself which meant…

"Nashi…"

She heard Yasu take a sharp breath in and then asked her in a shaky voice, "You screamed Nashi before you woke up, why? Where is she? Is she with Najin?"

"Mai," Naru spoke as he grabbed her hands which caused her to look up, "what did you see? Did you see where Najin and Nashi were? Are they alive?"

Mais eyes got big as she remembered what Nashi saints her before she woke up.

"Rei is doing this! And if you guys don't come get us soon we are going to be dead! Killed Mai. We need you guys to come find us. I don't know how I got these keys from over there behind that cage by the door," Mai glanced over as Nashi pointed to where they keys should have been and were in the dream she had.

"Nashi…"

"Don't Nashi me. I don't care how you feel about me right now Mai, but you need to already save Najin. I've heard and seen Rei and I think she wants to just hurt Najin but wants to kill me. But she knows I want to protect Najin so she will kill her first."

"Because we are both Chinese with greenish eyes."

"Naru it was horrible! The 2 from our vision, Rei and Dashu, were adopted by this couple I think because I don't think they were their biological children but their adopted parents were half and half. Half Chinese and half Japanese. I first work up here in base and I walked toward the living room and heard a man and a woman talking in Japanese. So their Japanese must not have been great but it was good enough for Rei to hear and understand what they were saying. I was Rei in the dream. I tried to walk away but the man came up and grabbed me by my hair again put me in a choke hold. I couldn't breathe and I was dragged to the kitchen after being called a witch and other things. Like how I deserved this and don't bring that green and black fog or you will never find your brother. They had already hurt him! And he is about as old as Yong-Min."

Mai took a breath and looked at everyone quickly, tears threatening to spill out of her eyes. Ayako can and say behind her back for support and Naru was holding her hands still.

"Then she said in her head, mom…Miko, how could you agreed with dad, well Daishou now. And how she hated him and they were going to pay for this. She was dragged down stairs, still in a choke hold and that's how I got he bruises on my legs is front hat part of the dream. He opened up another metal door and there were 2 cells in there like jail cells. It was scary and they were side by side but one was in front of the other. In order to get to the back one you had to go through the front one. Rei was fighting so hard until she looked in the first cell," Mai started to let the tears fall, "Her brother, Dashu was in there in a small soft chair with hi ankle tied in chains and connected to the wall. He was injured badly with a large gash on his forehead and I couldn't tell if he was dead or not. He tosses Rei into the cell behind her brother, causing her to hit her head on this small table and said welcome to your now living space or something and locked all the doors and left."

Mai was full on crying but she knew there was more and she had to continue.

Then I was moved to a different dream. One where I was outside that second solid metal door and when I opened it I saw Najin! She was asleep in the first cell and looked up games except for a few bruises and cuts. But then I saw Nashi in the cell behind her, where Rei was put."

Mai looked over at Yasu, he was trying to stay calm and not worry too much. She had to go on.

I didn't think Nashi could see me but I was so excited to see her and she was up and walking in her cell I screamed her name. And she responded! Maybe she was in a dream or. I soon state to cause we converse a bit and she told me it was all Rei's doing. It was her revenge and…"

Mai shot up into a standing position realizing the dire situation the girls were in but got a bit dizzy before Yasu grabbed her to steady her and he spoke to her.

"Mai what is wrong? Why did you jump up like that? Are Nashi and Najin in danger?!"

"Oh my god yes! They are in a possible fatal situation. Rei wants to kill Nashi and just hurt Najin but Nashi is trying her hardest to protect her and she said Rei knows that and to hurt her further she would kill Najin first then her. And she said we needed to come quickly and gave me the keys sometime before that. So I didn't astral project this Nashi did! And I asked her why? Why does Rei want you dead Nashi? And Nashi said, 'Because we are both Chinese with greenish eyes.' And I didn't even think of that! Nashi has teal almost dark turquoise colored eyes and but what Nashi said, those aren't contacts or fake. Nashi is like Rei, well like me but she is a Chinese with greenish eyes and powers. Only Nashi didn't know about her powers! We have to go I know how to get to them! I have all the keys!"

-Bold is Chinese-

An evil laughing was heard echoing through the walls of the part of the basement they were in, unless it was lower. Najin jumped up and ran towards the bars by Nashi and Nashi held her the best she could through the bars.

"Najin, its ok well get out. Don't worry."

"You think you're leaving here alive? Haha! Cute. No you will die here Nashi, Najin I want you to leave but if I have to, I'll kill you too!"

Najin was crying and shaking and Nashi just held her. But suddenly there was a string force that pulled Najin out from her arms and the bars and toward the front of her cell without having her hit anything.

"Nashi! Help!"

Nashi looked up and saw the girl from her dream she had. But not the most recent one, all she saw was Mai and she had the keys in her right hand some how and it was odd. But it was Rei, with her long black hair, a plain light purple dress on and her eyes, they sure were green. But the only difference was the whites of her eyes. This time they were black and not white.

'Creepy…'

"Rei! No stop! Don't hurt her please!"

Rei just continues to look at Nashi but her straight face went into a smile suddenly.

"No. I want to kill you. You're like me. Green eyes Chinese. All of us must die."

Nashi was taken back by this.

'Her mind, and what her parents did to her, putting her down here…it must have really messed her up. She must have began to believe she and any others like her, Chinese, green eyes and or powers must be killed as well like she was.'

"What…?"

"And the way I've seen to really hurt you is to hurt people you are trying to protect before hurting and killing you!"

As soon as Rei has said that, smoke started to appear but not just any smoke. It was her horrid green and black fog and it was gathering around her.

"Now let the fun begin!"

She raised an arm toward where Najin was and the fog shot straight at her. All Najin could do was scream as she was frozen in place by intense fear.

"No! Najin!" Nashi scream and reached out for her, her only thought was to protect her and get her out of there.

1:56 PM

"Mai... All you did was lead us to a pantry. And how does this help?" Naru was very unamused at the situation.

"Will you listen?!" Mai shouted at him as she flung the door open and headed to the back shelving unit of the pantry. "Behind here is a door and the key is on the 3rd to top shelf on the inside of the side board," Mai felt around till she felt cool metal on her finger tips, "and these shelves move out of the ways to reveal a metal door with stairs behind it."

Monk and Yasu help move the shelving unit for Mai because of all the food that was on there and it was stuck, but after a few minutes and a few hard shoves they gave way and rolled to the left to reveal this metal door Mai was talking about. She immediately went over and put the key in there and it unlocked to reveal the stairs she had seen in her dream. They were much older than what she had seen but who knows how many years had passed since that had happened.

"Down here!" Mai shouted as she started to go down them with Naru and Yasu close behind her. "Down here there is another large metal door which uses the key I got in my pocket and the girls are behind there in these cells that Rei and Dashu were locked in and I assume died in. They were never let out I think."

When they reached it Mai grabbed the appropriate key and put it into the lock. They heard it click but as they tried to push on it to open it, it opened some and they saw a long black haired girl surrounded by black and green fog before it was forced shut on them.

"Shit!"

"Naru that was Rei! She's in there with them we have to get in! Shes gonna kill them."

Monk started his chant as Lin sent his shiki to attack the door.

"Nau maku san manda bazara dankon. Nau maku san manda bazara dankon."

And with all their efforts the door bent in and opened or was released by Rei and Lin sent his Shiki after Rei which put a stop in her plans and fog.

"No! I will not give up I will be back!"

And Rei somehow managed to get away from the Shiki and disappeared. Everyone ran over to the door to the cell and tried to see who was where because they could hear someone but couldn't tell who it was. But when Mai was unlocking the first door they had their answer.

"Nashi!?"

It was Najin and she was in the second cell. And that meant Nashi was in the first but they didn't see or hear her because of the fog. Well for sight at least.

"Najin?"

She looked up to see Mai unlocking the door but Lin was Translating something for her.

"Where is Nashi? Is she here with you?"

"Yes! She was here in this cell but they Rei moved me to the middle of my cell and she sent her fog after me but somehow it never hit me and when I opened my eyes I saw it was because I was here and when I looked it had thrown Nashi against the bars here and then I don't know. I heard her scream when she hit but…Nashi!"

Everyone looked at Najin and saw she was looking at the far side of the cell, the right side as you walk into the room, and there laid Nashi.

"Ayako!"

But she was already running over to her, and she started by checking her pulse and breathing and everything was good. Her pulse was strong and she was breathing normally. She could see some bar marks on her back, from where she assumed she was slammed into the bars by Rei. The bruises we already black and blue and covered her arms, shoulder and back from what she could tell with the back of her shirt being raised some from the attack. Also she once again had hand marks around her neck. And when Ayako looked at all of her and rolled her onto her back, she could see where the blood she slightly saw before was coming from and that she wasn't as badly hurt as she thought, but it was still bad. She had a large deep gash on her forehead above her right eye as well as one on her left arm, which is where the blood was coming from. The gash was deeper than her forehead one and ran from her elbow almost all the way up to her shoulder. It seemed to be from her hitting the small dresser with the mirror on it since there was blood on the corner of it. And Ayako also assumed she had some kind of concussion since she had a bad head injury already.

'Damn…these cuts will definitely need stitches but she is lucky. Though she might have a few fractured or bruised ribs too with how those bruises looks.'

"Ayako, is she…?" Mai started as her and Yasu watched Ayako and Nashi.

"Mai don't worry, she is alive or I would be acting much differently by screaming to call 911 and doing CPR. She is alive. It she will need to be taken to the hospital but not by ambulance," Ayako motioned for Monk to come her her get Nashi up and to be careful she could have fractured or bruised ribs, then Lin translated for the Ma's before going on.

"She definitely needs stitches in n her head and arm and may have a concussion of some sorts because of her head injury, but she will be ok in the end. Now Najin, let's get you out of here so I can give you a look at."

Lin translated into Chinese once again then they all left the room, Yasu staying close to Monk and Nashi and Najin's parents helped her out since she was weak. Once back in base, Ayako had Najin sit on the wooden coffee table, since this way she could tell better what was wrong with her if anything because a couch would be soft and could hide things. As Ayako began to check out Najin, Monk and Yasu took took Nashi to Ayako's car. Ayako was going to take her but she wanted to check out Najin first In case she had an injury where she needed to have it treated at the hospital, but she didn't. Just a few minor cuts and bruise and to make charms for everyone.

After Ayako, Yasu and Nashi left, Naru turned to Najin to finally ask her what happened.

"I thought it was Yong-min at first. We had a fight before dinner and this happened shortly after dinner. I thought it might have been him coming to apologize or talk about it or something. Only that was when I felt 2 arms wrap around me, one to pin my arms to my sides and one to grab around my neck. I fought until green and black smoke or fog surrounded me and I just lost consciousness. Then I woke up to Nashi shouting my name and her asking me what had happened and I told her what I just said but I started crying. And when I did she comforted me and something must have clicked because she suddenly shouted 'Rei' and I asked her how id she know that name? And that I heard someone whisper it before I fell unconscious. Nashi then told me, 'Not sure. She has something to do with this case and what happened to us for sure. Let us rest, my body is stich aching and I'm sure your still in pain too.' And that was all that happened, when we woke up Rei was attacking us."

Lin translated for Naru but Naru still had a big question for her.

"You said you were in the front cell and Nashi was in the back one, then when Rei started to attack you, and before she could hurt you, you and Nashi switched places? How?"

"Nǐ shuō nǐ zài qiánmiàn de láofáng lǐ,Nashi zài hòumiàn, ránhòu dāng Rei kāishǐ gōngjí nǐ shí, zài tā shānghài nǐ zhīqián, nǐ hé Nashi huànle wèizhì? Zěnme yàng?"

"I don't know. She screamed my name, held out her right hand as if trying to reach for me, then I felt and odd feeling. It was so quick it's hard to describe, but it felt like I was being pulled toward Nashi or to her and then I felt like her. That's sounds crazy I know. Then I guess because we switched places, I was her in that moment."

Naru assumes his thinking pose before saying, "sounds like an astral projection but instead of an one year coming just to her, you can't to here then she when to where you were somehow. I'll have to look into this more."

Naru has turned back to the computer, but Lin had a question this time.

"Najin, nǐ néng gàosù wǒmen Mai rúhé cóng Nashi huòdé yàoshi ma?"

Lin then translated for Naru.

"Najin, can you tell us how Mai got the keys from Nashi?"

Najin looked at him, very confused as to why he was asking this. Didn't he know already? But how did she get them?

"What do you mean? The keys to the cells were in some kind one small cage that seemed impossible to open. There were no key holes for a key and the holes were so small and big it was like a large mesh over it but it was clearly not. They were hanging up behind that cage still when I fell asleep for a bit after Nashi told me to rest. Nashi has said that the key to the other door must have been on the other side of the door."

After Lin translated, Mai sat up and had something to add.

"But Nashi gave me 3 keys. I didn't do it, she did. In my dream as Rei, her father Daishou was holding onto the key the the door going in. Though after he unlocked it, he hung it up on the hook outside the door. I never grabbed them, emphasis on I. Maybe Nashi had the same dream as I did about Rei, which could be why I understood them when they were speaking Chinese. Like she could have felt what Rei did like I did. Najin, was Nashi held up by her throat by Rei at all during the attack?"

"Méiyǒu."

"No," Lin said though that hardly needed translation.

Mai gave Naru a knowing look that said, 'I'm right, you're wrong.'

"Well Nashi maybe more impressive than when I first meet you Mai."

Mai turned red as a tomato in angry and annoyance.

"Really? Thanks boss."

A.N. I hope that clears up a few things! Last chapter was a bit confusing. And CaitHawke4Ever thanks for reviewing but you were wrong. It wasn't Mai astral projecting, it was Nashi. Seems like she is showing more powers huh? Uh oh. But this case should be wrapping up in the next chapter along with seeing what happens with Nashi and Lin. But even if it calms down a bit after and during the next chapter, more drama and crazy ghost hunt cases are coming. More and all will be revealed.