Chapter 9: Climactic Scene (Atlast!)
AN: Have I already labeled this 13+ ?? gomenesai for younger readers... if I have one!…
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"Naru!"
I woke up…
'I woke up?'
I looked at her bed…
Empty!
"shit.shit.shit.shit…" I could hear myself mutter while I was walking out as fast as I could to the door. Obviously, she was on the other side of the hallway. Suddenly, it seemed as if the white walls of the hospital slowly narrowed. I ran to her side...
"You're awake." I said.
She just stared in a blindly daze. I looked at her more and then ...
Kzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!
A great explosion of psychic power hit me square in my stomach! I was off my feet and came flying to the other wall, across the hall way.
"Aaaargh.." I muttered to myself. I looked up. A swirling mass of purple energy floated around her body. Her eyes were in a daze. Then he lips curved in a dangerous smile.
"I'm afraid you will never see her alive again, Noll." she said. Her voice combined with that of Yukio's. She is definitely possessed.
"She has nothing to do with this, Yukio Tanaka." I grumbled.
The spirit and Mai laughed together.
"I'm afraid not. She is in the middle of this, much the same as your bastard father, no offense."
And the spirit laughed out more.
"Troublesome, really. You are such a pain." I muttered under my breath as I stood up. Something instantly hurt in my stomach! I nearly winced while I straightened myself and brushed my suit. The ghost/Mai gave a hearty laugh as the purple clouds encircling her body grew larger.
"Let's play the game "Cat and Mouse." the ghost said as he/she sneered. Then she ran off to her right.
I ran to my left and saw Mai running up ahead. I ran after her. The purple clouds swirling around her could not be compared to the clouds of worry in mine…
She reached a door and opened it. Once she got inside, I heard the lock working. I reached the said door and jiggled the knob but the door won't budge. I used my psychokinetic energy and opened the knob from the inside. Instantaneously, the pain in my rib cage seemed to burst, making me feel as if I cannot go on anymore. My knees weakened and I fell to the floor, kneeling. I took a long, deep breath and stood up. Too late to call for anybody…
Snakes seemed to have formed from the worry I felt inside. They seemed to add to the throbbing pain in my stomach and on my chest. Swirling snakes managed to swim in my stomach and make my heart ache. Add the throbbing pain in my rib cage seemed to make me dizzy…
I pushed the door and it opened.
It led to a stairway leading upward. The stairs was dusty, rough and dark. I managed to run, nonetheless. If only I could use all my power to banish this insolent spirit…!
I heard something like a muffled clanking of metal to metal and a loud crash. It made me run a bit faster but the pain in my body seemed to slow me down a lot. I heard metal to metal clanking and it seemed as if the metal were placed on the door at the end of the stairs.
I reached the top and everything is pitch-black. I tried pushing the door but it won't budge. I touched it with my unclothed hands and saw in its memory the workings of an evil ghost. The lock on the door was broken down badly and something like a metal railing was pushed onto the door at the other side. The ghost did all this with only his psychokinetic abilities.
I dug into any of my pockets for a mirror I always held in such cases as this. I touched it and sensed Gene out.
'Gene-'
'Ok. Just concentrate and don't break of this connection'
I could feel his psychic energy surge through me and I let it out on the metal railing on the other side of the door. I could hear it moving away. However –
'Naru!'
I heard Mai's voice in my mind! I gasped and drop the mirror. The railings on the other side of the door stopped moving. I was back again the pitch-blackness of the corridor.
"Darn." I muttered under my breath as I pushed the door it still won't budge. It can't be helped I guess…
Using my own psychokinetic powers, I moved the railings away from the door.
I could suddenly feel the wind blowing my face as I opened the door to the other side of the dim staircase. I almost winced at the pain in my body as I looked up and noticed the starry night and Mai walking on the edge of the building, starry eyed.
"Keep her out of this." I noticed myself form the words. At least, the spirit doesn't seem to notice my weak appearance.
"Do you know how many times she yelled your name? I almost felt like she was a robot or something, you know?" the ghost replied as he made Mai's body move back and forth on the edge of the building.
I moved a bit closer and-
"If you come in within another meter, you'll see this girl's brain on the pavement below." The ghost said and added in with another laugh, "It'll look beautiful seeing that this place is such an unpopulated place for a hospital. It should have at least one resident ghost."