FILE 2

THE MANSION

So far it was already the next day and Masako and John arrived in the morning. After the preparation, they headed straight to the clients home which was located around Okinawa.

Lin brought his van which was filled with equipment and Naru with him as well as Takigawa drove with his SUV with everyone else.

"Oh, finally land!! My butt is killing me from nonstop sitting!" Mai was first to get out of the vehicle and started to stretched her whole body out.

Looking at her surroundings, the whole place was covered in Bermuda grass and peonies sticking out on different directions. There was a nice garden and a small fountain at the front side of the house.

"Wow! This mansion…it's adorable!" Mai awed as she squealed from the site. The mansion had a red rooftop as well as the whole house was colored in light pink.

"I can agree with Mai-san, but how can a wonderful house have ghost problem?" John asked.

As they all enter to check things out, Mai stayed and looked for her bag inside the back of Takigawa's car.

"Ah, there you are. Now I wouldn't forget about you." she reached her bag with tea bags inside and her thermos.

Following the group knowing she was last, she felt a cold wind just passed by making her shiver.

"Mommy, Daddy…" a soft crying whisper ran through her ear.

She looked back to look for where the sound was coming from and it wasn't there or nowhere to be seen.

'Was that just my imagination? I just heard a-'

"Mai, you should be inside with the others. Is there something wrong?" Takigawa came out to check on her and found her in a daze. Walking towards her, he noticed the fright in her eyes and grabbed her by the cheeks and asked again.

"Mai, are you alright?" she snapped back and answered,

"Y-yes, what is it?" she stuttered.

'Was she even listening to me?' he asked himself. Leaning in front of her, she quickly grabbed her by the neck and started to mess up her hair.

"Now don't go lying to me little girl!" he toyed with her.

"OW! OWWIE OWWIE THAT REALLY HURTS! NO MORE MONK-SAN HAHAHA!" She started feeling better.

"Honestly you picking on younger girls would lead you in the dog house."

The two looked in front of them and found Ayako leaning on the doorframe looking slightly annoyed.

"A-Ayako," Mai first to take notice.

Takigawa let go of Mai for while and gave a smirk to Ayako then suddenly give Mai an embrace.

"Aw, why is Ayako-chan so mean? Can't she tell that I love Mai-chan so much!" he said in playful tone that could get on Ayako's nerve.

"Monk-san…I can't breathe!" Mai tried escaping from his strong arms.

"Why? I just wanna see Ayako-chan's jealous face!" he said then suddenly Ayako got really pissed off that she starts chasing him around with a metal pole.

"ARRGH! You jerk come over here!" She shrieked in anger.

Mai had a sweat drop falling and as John arrives,

"Um, you three. Shibuya-san is calling you guys and he's really-" he opened his eyes and found Ayako chasing after Takigawa in anger and he two had a sweat drop falling.

"What is this?" he asked Mai feeling clueless.

"I don't know, I think their flirting.," she answered.

Ayako and Takigawa stopped there rampage after hearing Mai's reply.

"FLIRTING!?" the two said in unison.

"Why would I flirt with a so-called-priestess if she's useless?" Takigawa yelled out pointing at her with a flushed faced.

Ayako suddenly and finally hit him with a pole and said,

"Who you calling 'useless' you old geezer!" she yelled.

"The hell that HURTS! THAT'S A FREAKIN' METAL POLE!" Takigawa yelled angrily as he rubs his wounded head.

John and Mai gave a sigh and she added,

"Here we go again; we'll never hear the end of it."

"Shibuya-san would get furious if this doesn't stops." he placed his hand on his forehead.

"I don't know what he'll say if he sees this." she said watching Ayako hitting Takigawa so hard.

"Simple, he would say that 'I'll just simply fire those two if they start this again.'" Naru popped out of nowhere scaring the wits of Mai.

"Where did you come from!?" Mai cried in fright.

"I followed John, why is that a problem?" he asked.

'What! Why didn't I notice!? Darn it Mai, maybe he heard me what I said!' she cried to herself.

"Precisely, I heard you talking and if those two don't stop, you won't be having any day offs for this year." the narcissus said.

"I said that out loud again! Argh! Why are you taking the blame on me!?" she asked in an angry tone.

Naru ignored her making her more furious and he went to Takigawa and Ayako with another plastic smile.

"Matsuzaki-san and Takigawa-san, is flirting part of the job? I would like to know if you want me to carry all these equipment and maybe you two could continue on."

The place turned into the same temperature or Antarctica and Mai, Ayako, and Takigawa were freezing to death after hearing Naru's so-called innocent voice.

"Were very sorry." the two stopped and bowed to their boss, but Naru just left them with anger fuming out of his head.

Getting the equipments, the two were still furious with each other. Takigawa took the cameras with John, Ayako carried the boxes with headphones, and Mai carried the boxes of microphones.

"This all your fault! If only you would just grow up!" Ayako said in an anger tone, but Takigawa scoffed at her and replied,

"My fault! Why won't you grow up and be useful for once and are you even really a priestess!?"

The little argument was becoming out of hand and Mai wanted to stop it.

"Hey guys, it's no ones fault." she said.

"You tell her that." Takigawa said as he turned his head around not facing the two.

"Look who's talking, he already broken every law of being a monk." Ayako said ignoring Takigawa's comment.

"I'm a 'former' monk, my days as one are gone.," he corrected.

"Like yourself, you haven't done anything good to this group since you set foot and entering to this job. So what good are you?" he added.

"Monk-san, I think you're going too far." Mai tried to stop him.

Ayako didn't say anything in defense and suddenly the three felt something.

"You guys felt that?" Mai whispered as she felt shivers inside her body.

It was quiet for a moment until Mai felt as she was struck by lightning and suddenly fell in faint only being caught by Takigawa.

"MAI!" the two said in unison.

"Is she?" Ayako looked down in worried and Takigawa answered,

"I don't know, we have to bring her to Masako." he carried Mai bridal style and the two ran to the base.

Mai lied on the sofa unconscious and after the two told what had happened, Naru called them so irresponsible and should stop their nonsense. Although the two stopped talking to each other and shared any glances, they both know that their furious at each other.

Masako could feel a tremendous aura coming out of Mai's body. She covered her mouth with her kimono and heart started to ache.

"The aura seems so sad." she whispered. Walking towards Mai's sleeping body, a wind out of nowhere suddenly pushed her to the wall, but instead, John knew was gonna hurt so he took a risk to use his body as a cushion so Masako wouldn't get hurt.

"Ouch," John said as he took the hit.

Masako gasped and found him in her back and he asked,

"Hara-san, are you all right?" he asked cheerfully, trying to cover his pain.

She helped him up and gave her thanks.

"What just happened?" Takigawa asked.

"Mai, sh-she's possessed." she stated.

"But, what just pushed you? Wasn't that a poltergeist?" Ayako asked.

Masako turned her head from side to side and answered,

"No, it's the spirit's aura, it shows great sadness. It's so intense that it could use its energy to physically hurt someone."

"So what are we gonna do?" the monk asked in a worried tone.

"We must let her wake up on her own, and then later on we could use John to exorcise the spirit once and for all." Naru explained as he stares at Mai is sleeping feature.

Three hours had passed and Mai was still asleep and Takigawa was driving nuts when it was dead silence and for sure he wouldn't like to pick on Ayako, he's freakin' piss at her. In addition, talking to John would be like talking to a person who doesn't understand Japanese and definitely Naru and Lin are too scary to talk to.

He wanted Mai to wake up so John would exorcise the spirit and make fun of her as always.

'Come on Mai, please wake up. I am going to go crazy without you around.' he gave a thought as he looks at the girl who acts like his sister.

John gave a heavy sigh then said in a calm tone,

"Well, I don't wanna loose my patience like Monk-san, so I guess I would just do it the hard way."

"What are you gonna do?" Takigawa asked.

John walked towards Mai, held out his cross, and spilled holy water on it then he began saying his verse that was from the bible. Walking towards Mai, the spirits defense didn't notice him walking to her, the air was turning to smoke, and Masako opened the door to let the smoke out.

Shutting his eyes, he continued on,

"Our Father in Heaven, who shines his light above us, let thy sins be forgiven and evil be vanish. Let the light guide us away from darkness." the aura became more intense as John approaches and is suddenly rips his skin, but he stills continues.

"Let us pray for God and together light will prevail from darkness!" he dumped the holy water on Mai's head then the aura of the spirit pushed John to the wall again and this time it really hurt his back and he was half conscious.

"John!" Ayako, Takigawa, and Masako yelled in unison.

The light faded and Mai was dried up as if nothing had ever happened.

"John is you alright?" Masako helped him lift his body, but it was excessively painful.

"My back," he coughed and blood spat out.

"He needs a hospital, Lin, call an ambulance." Naru ordered.

John suddenly fell onto Masako unconscious. And everyone started to worry.

Ayako took a glance at Mai and she cried,

"Mai!"

She was glowing for a short while then as it faded, Takigawa went to her side quickly and called her.

"Mai, are you alright!?" he asked.

She slowly opened her eyes and found Takigawa in front of her. Tears would form in her eyes and she called him,

"D-daddy?"

Everyone gasped as they heard what Mai at called him.

OMAKE

"MAI!" the two said in unison.

"Is she?" Ayako looked down in worried and Takigawa answered,

"I don't know, we have to bring her to Masako." he carried Mai bridal style and the two ran to the base.….

"What happened?" John asked.

"She fainted, I think a poltergeist had done something." Takigawa explained.…..

Lin was still in the van carrying the heavy cameras and found all the equipment on the ground.

'So you expect me to carry all this to the base!'

he wanted to pull his hair out, but instead he gave a heavy sigh and veins were still visible.

Lin finally arrived at the base looking angry and tired and as he looked at the monk and the priestess, they were both scolded by their boss.….

"Lin call an ambulance!" Naru ordered.

Hurrying to outside, he couldn't fine the phone.

'This is a mansion for god's sake where the heck's the phone!?' he thought.

20 MINUTES LATER….

"(PANT, PANT, PANT) Naru I called the ambulance…they're on their way." he said tiredly.

A/N:

I revised everything due to grammatical errors. Sorry 'bout that.