Chapter Five: Other Ghosts In The Mansion This time Maru was ready to open the door, she was scared, but she knew that the camera in her hand was special. This time when Maru opened the door there were no ghosts, no books, but there was a piece of paper. It was another diary page, and Maru had to stop and read it. This page read, "June 5th my mommy went missing today. The last thing she told me was goodnight, I miss her so much. My daddy doesn't seem that upset about it. I have to know what happened. It's time I became Namie The Spy." Maru put the scrap in her journal and headed on. Her watch read seven o'clock, and that's when she realized her watch didn't work anymore. She remembered that it was seven o'clock when she entered. Maru couldn't stand there all night wondering what's stopping her watch; she had to find her grandma. There were two doors this time, and one of them was locked. So she knew that she had to go through the other, but before she did she checked to make sure there was nothing in this room. Maru searched and found nothing. So she entered the unlocked door, and found…Maru screamed at the top of her lungs. When she finally calmed down she realized that it was just a dummy standing there and not a ghost. This room was small and had one drawer and the dummy. Maru checked the drawer for anything and found two things: a map and a key.

The key had a real pretty symbol on it; it showed a rose with thorns on it. Maru remember the door in the other room had this symbol. She knew this would open the door.

Maru looked at the map and found a dark stain on one of the rooms. The room was not named; she looked and found that every other room was named, but not this one.

Just as Maru put the key and the map in her bag she heard a clock chime. The chiming was faint, but after every chime it grew louder. Maru tried to open the door that she just came from, but it wouldn't open. She panicked and screamed. When the clock chimed for the twelfth time, the harmless looking dummy started to move. Maru yanked and yanked on the doorknob, but it wouldn't budge. She decide to curl up in a little ball, she didn't know what else to do.

Slowly the dummy made it's way towards Maru. It reached its arms out for her, and when it got close enough it wrapped its arms around her neck. Maru tried to scream, but visions started to appear in her head.

The visions showed a little and her mommy playing, while the dad stared angrily. Then a teen girl with a sad face, and no one is playing with her, and finally she saw a vision of Namie. She looked the way Maru had first seen her, the thorns grew tighter around her skin. Namie cried out for Maru, and that's when Maru awoke in a different room.