A/N: I'm sorry about the slow update! Really! Another chapter for FFGB should be put up tonight, and the fifth chapter should this should be up as well.

Chapter Four: In Which No Snappy Title Was Thought ( AKA The Forbidden Ritual )

All right now, before we start back onto business as usual and I tell the tale of how I planned on ruining my twin's life, I just have one question for you: Why the hell would you create a ritual and then forbid it? Or did they go one step beyond with the stupidity and make the ritual with the intent of it being forbidden from the start? Wouldn't it make more sense to just... not create something like that? I don't see the point at all.

Sigh.

So my twin found me, and after jabbering about how she thought I was some creepy girl talking about how we could never be apart ( Seriously, Mio has issues. Though I have to admit that maybe Sae is getting to me. I did hug her in a rather... familiar manner ) she decided, like the brilliant person she is, that we needed to get out of this house. Wow, deep thoughts there! Bravo Mio. You earned yourself a gold star.

We leave the Doll Stand room and enter into the Flickering Room – weren't the Kurosawa's so creative when it came to naming the rooms? – and on the floor, waiting just for us, was one of those damn Ring ghosts. You know, the ones that kinda crawl around on the floor with their hair over their face making them look just like Samara/Sadako? Mio took care of her with the Camera O' Doom and quickly dragged me into the next room.

You know what the worse ghosts are in that entire village? C'mon, I bet you can't guess. Alright, you. Yeah, the one in Seattle. Come collect your price. You got it right. It's those damn torn apart women. Yeah, the Women in Dark. One of them was there, hanging out of the window with her arm flopping about. Mio, the dense git, didn't even notice the damn thing and just walked right by it, picking up a scrap of paper. What, another idiot decided to go around a haunted place and leave their last testament behind? That was getting rather cliched, don't you know?

Apparently there had been some folklorist here and he was being forced to become the Kusabi. Isn't that some sort of spicy dish? Ah, well...

We continue onwards to the entrance of the hell house, but I couldn't just let Mio leave. My whole plot of going through with the 'ritual' and beating her – but probably not to death – would fail if we could just walk out of the house. Sae must have thought of that, though, because when she tried to walk up to the door the ghost of some old man appeared. Scared the shit out of her and made her run the other way. Damnit though, now I have to follow her and my leg hurts!

Well, it's settled now. I am never ever having children. Stupid little brat ghosts started running around us, freaking Mio out once again. Of course, in her mind that somehow turned into me freaking out which I can't understand at all, but we all knew that she was crazy. And yes Mio, it's really smart to follow around the ghost of the guy that killed his own daughters many many years before. Though I suppose she wouldn't know that since I happened to forget to tell her that little tidbit of information.

Oh, I'm turning eeeviiiil, aren't I?

"Mayu, let's look in the prison area now that we have these cool keys to unlock it!" Okay, scratch that. I'm not eeeviiiil, I'm just doing what's good for the rest of humanity.

We go in, look around, find, predictably enough, more scraps from the folklorist, find a key ( which made me wonder why the supposed 'prisoner' would have a key to somewhere in his cell ) and we made to leave. But that couldn't happen. So when Mio wasn't looking I started to pull the door shut and I just stood there, looking scared when it shut and looked me in.

She bought the act and started rambling on about how she would go find a key ( wait a second, didn't we just have the keys to unlock this door? ) and how she we be back before I knew it, blah blah blah. I tuned her out, of course, and began to figure out my own escape route. There was a window...