In the astral plain..
Mai opened her eyes and was surrounded by the darkness of the astral plain, the orbs of light coming from the souls of the deceased passed through the plain hoping for their a chance to pass on and be at peace.

After five minutes of complete silence Mai saw the outline of a familiar figure, though it wasn't the one she was expecting to see. Naru, not Gene walked toward her while looking around the plain confused as to why he was here. He looked over and saw Mai and walked faster thinking his 'dream' would end sooner than he wanted.

"Mai, is that you?" he asked. "Yes Naru it is me. Who else would you have expected to see?" she said passively. 'Was Naru expecting to see Gene here?' she thought to herself.

Mai looked over at Naru and saw his head was down and his shoulders were shaking. She cautiously walked over to him and grabbed his shoulder. "Naru what's wrong?" she asked gently. She moved closer to hear what he was saying. "You incompetent girl did you really think it was 'Naru'? Are you truly that ignorant to your surroundings?" he said. It was when 'Naru' said that she realized it was Yoshiro the ghost who kidnapped her.

"Yoshi? What the hell you can't be in here this is a private place located in the dark recesses of my mind. How did you even get in here?" she asked, though she was nervous to hear what he had to say. "Well Mai, sense you have a habit of getting sarcastic and not being fearful of me I decided it's time for you to know true fear." he said while grinning at her.

The temperature soon got colder and the souls started to dissipate into nothing. Mai was able to feel the air around her become electric, as if any sudden movement would electrocute her. She tested it anyway. She held out her arm and a sudden shock raced from the tips of her fingers across her entire body. Her heartbeat started to become irregular and she gripped her chest as if it would put it at ease. It didn't work. She felt a sharp pain cut across her back and then blood was rushing out of it.

Within five minutes Mai was on her knees shaking and crying out in pain. Her entire body was bloody and her clothes were ripped to shreds from wind sickles (I couldn't remember what they were called from the anime ) slashing into her skin. 'Stop!' her mind yelled out so she could get the pain to end but it didn't the pain intensified tenfold. Mai started to sob into her hands.

Ten minutes of this pain, Mai had endured but she couldn't deal with it any more. She slowly made her way off of the ground with her dwindling strength and stood up. She was proud that she didn't back down from the surprised eyes of Yoshiro. " So you are as stubborn as your words make people believe, no problem then it will be my great honor to watch as your stubbornness depletes long with your useless life" he said sadistically.

Mai had enough of this, the physical and emotional pain was starting to piss her off. As she stood tall and proud she grinned deviously, it was a grin that would make Naru run for his money. She gathered her power; she focused on it and grasped it from every inch and crevice within her body so she could destroy Yoshiro. With the increases of her power and strength her body started to levitate off of the ground, her eyes started to glow white and the wind started to whip and slash at Yoshiro. Yoshiro started yelling out to her but she didn't listen, she was going to destroy him even if it meant destroying herself. Her arms were spread apart and they started to glow like the rest of her body. She pulled her arms together and formed a ball of energy that could no doubt put Oliver Davis's to shame and flung it down towards Yoshiro. The energy spread across the way like a wave hitting the shore during a thunderstorm. Anything within its path diminished including the once yelling Yoshiro.

Mai's body collapsed onto ground and just laid there hopelessly trying to regain its strength. When she blacked out she missed the sound of familiar yelling.

With the narcissist and his 'dreams'…

Naru woke up to a dark place with white specks of light flying in every direction. He looked around curious to where he was until he saw her; he walked faster and saw it was really her. He asked her a stupid question and got one back. It was a classic conversation until her felt heat run down his spine and then he was shoved into the back of his mind as if he was nothing more than a passing thought. He watched as this ghost used his body as a host to hurt Mai. Though he was surprised after ten minutes of watching her in pain and she suddenly got up. He wasn't going to admit that he was impressed but it wasn't until he saw her start to levitate and start to glow did he realize that he had never seen anything like this. Her eyes where white as freshly fallen snow and the power she had around her grew stronger almost suffocating him. He saw her release the ball of energy she accumulated and watched as it spread across getting anything within a ten foot range on both sides of its original course.

He felt pain spread threw his body and felt the scream of the ghost reverberate across his mind. The ghost was gone and he had his body back. He watched as her body fell forward onto the ground and started screaming for her. "Mai! Mai, get up!" he screamed while running to her still form. The only sign of life being her chest rapidly inhaling and exhaling. He collapsed next to her body and sayed on his knees shaking her shoulders hoping she would open her eyes.

After five minutes of doing that, but nothing happened he stop shaking her and let her be knowing how drained she probably was. He sat next to her body silently hoping she would wake soon so he could figure out where she was.

With Lin on the airplane….

Lin sat next to Naru's sleeping form and watched as his breathing started to become shallow and he start to mumble out Mai's name. Lin put down his book on paranormal activity and tried to shake his charge awake but with no luck he wouldn't wake. After five minutes of his mumblings, his shallow breathing relaxed and the mumbling ceased, Lin picked up his book and went back to reading it, having an occasional glance at Naru's still slumbering form.

With the rest of SPR…

It had been days since they heard Mai's voice in their heads and they got into contact with each other. With some bickering over the phone any annoyed messages between Monk and Ayako they all made plans to meet at the old SPR office to discuss the issue concerning Mai and her welling being.

It took longer because they had to wait for Yasuhara to pack a bag and get back into the country from America. After they picked him up and dropped his things off at Ayakos place they left and went to the SPR building.

When they got inside, they went straight into their old office. The furniture was covered in dust and Mai's desk was surprising clean compared to the rest of the office. Monk tried turning on the lights in the office and they didn't work." Hey, I'm going to go to the basement and check the fuses. I'll be right back" he said and watched as they nodded their heads in understanding.

The farther down the stairs and the closer he got to the basement the colder it got. He sped himself down the stairs and towards the cement room the holds the buildings fuse box. He opened the door and walked towards the box turning the electricity on in the building. The light in the room turned on and as he turned to walk towards the door he saw something he never wanted to see again. He ran over and dropped to his knees while taking out his phone. He called up Ayako, " Ayako call an ambulance and get to the basement now." He said with a shaky voice while checking for a pulse. "Why do you need an ambulance?" she asked but he could hear the footsteps of her walking through the phone. He sighed, "Because I just found Mai." He told her and he could hear a quick intake of breath, then silence.