Chapter 9

Monk's POV –

I walked into the base expecting to find Naru ready to bite my head off since I didn't wake up last night to relieve him of his post. When I woke up I realized that it was nine am, six hours past the scheduled time I was supposed to be at base.

I did not expect to find the scene I currently walked in on. Mai was currently on top of Naru on the couch in the far corner of the base. Snuggled quite close to each other in fact and what is even stranger is that there was absolutely no one in base even though it was nine am. I thought evilly about waking Mai up and watching her freak out about being in a compromising position with Naru.

I was on my way to making the big scene happen when out of nowhere someone pulled me out of the room. Turning to look at the culprit and give them a piece of my mind I came face to face with the other Davis twin.

Gene was giving me the evil eyes that said 'mess with them and die'. "Don't wake them up Monk, I finally figured out what was wrong with my brother and if you wake them up and Mai freaks out then they will be back at square one.'Cause when Mai screams and wakes up Noll, he will say something stupid that will set her off on a tirade then another small war will break out ruining all my plans."

Mai's POV

Waking up the first thing I noticed was I was laying on a very firm yet warm surface, confused I glanced down to see what I was laying on and all I saw was a black shirt. Rubbing my eyes and yawning I go to get up so that whomever or whatever I am sitting on will not be squished by me any longer. Trying to get up without hurting the person I rose up and heard a grunt. Looking down to my astonishment it was Naru that had kept me warm all night.

Getting up slowly so that I wouldn't wake him, lord knows he never gets enough sleep. Mumbling to myself "Narcissistic workaholic, why do you do this to yourself, staying up all hours of the night."

Sighing I decide the best course of action to take would be taking a shower then making his highness breakfast and tea. Maybe then he would be in a better mood today.

-30 minutes later in the makeshift kitchen area-

"MAI, how are you feeling today you had quite an experience yesterday!"

Looking over at Monk I smiled "Yeah, I'm fine, a little sore but no worse for wear. All in all I slept pretty good last night, now I'm ready to hunt a ghost."

Grinning Monk replied "I bet you did sleep good! Who knew that Naru would be such a good pillow!"

I was blushing bright red and turned around to finish making Naru's breakfast.

Regular POV –

Mai made her way back to base so that she could wake Naru up. Fortunately for her someone had already woken him up, he was currently showered and dressed, since he was already sitting in front of the monitors reading the blasted black folder.

Mai took Naru his morning tea and small plate of food she had made him for breakfast. Not expecting a reply she turned to leave. Without much warning Naru's arm shot out and stopped her from leaving.

Looking at Naru like he had grown a three heads she asked "What?"

Looking away Naru said "Thank you"

"WHATTTT?!" Mai screeched. "Who are you and what do you want with my boss's body? Gene if you are trying to pretend to be Naru I'm going to kick you, and then I'm going to tell your brother that …"

Stopping her by glaring at her in the way only Naru can. "Mai as amusing as seeing you kick Gene would be I am afraid that I am indeed myself. I was telling you thank you for the food. However, now my tea is empty because I had to sit here and listen to your idiotic rants, I no longer have tea to drink with my meal. Therefore, Mai Tea."

Trying to keep from killing Naru, Mai takes the extended tea cup and stomps back to kitchen in order to make her gorgeous tea addicted boss some more precious tea.

Having witnessed the whole event from the sidelines Lin couldn't help but grin at his young charge's antics, for some reason Naru always felt that it was necessary to get the younger girl flustered.

"You know Noll, you would get further if you would just tell the poor girl you had feelings for her rather than goading her in to petty fights about nothing."

Huffing Naru turns to his bodyguard/friend, " I have no clue what you mean."

Before the discussion could go any further they heard Mai's unmistakable scream.

-With Mai in the kitchen -

She was making tea trying to simmer her temper after Naru had so graciously pissed her off!

While she was not paying attention the room became frigid, she noticed when she could see her breath.

Thinking to herself 'Great,now is not the time for a ghost to show up and I didn't even bother bringing someone with me, I'm a sitting duck.'

Trying to pull herself together and not freak out she turned to face whatever had come to visit, secretly she was hoping it was just a friendly visit from Hanako.

No such luck it was the "Beast Man". Looking at him now he looked even fiercer than before. He had glowing yellowish eyes and his face was horribly disfigured like someone had smashed his face in several different places and for some reason the room now smelt like dirt and rotting meat. His teeth looked like a mix between a man and wolf.

Mai decided that now was the time to throw the nine cuts. Before she could get herself together and start the chant he picked her up by the throat and threw her. As Mai made contact with the wall she let out a mind numbing scream trying to alert the others to the events unfolding in the makeshift kitchen.

The beast like man approached her slowly. When he went to pick her up again the kitchen door flew off and her savior in black stepped through.

At this point the beast man decided to take care of the SPR team before continuing his assault on Mai. As the beast man turned to charge at Naru a blast of white light erupted in the room blasting through the gruesome creature, he disappeared shortly after. Mai fainted and the room temp started to rise back to normal, leaving the team gaping at the disaster of the room before them.

Lin approached Naru and told him "It was wounded but it is not gone, we should get Mai back to base before it decides to make another attack."

Monk went over and picked up the unconscious physic.

Nodding Naru turned to follow the monk back to the base "Lin, Gene we need to get a hold of Madoka and Yasu and see if they have found anything else out about the manager and events that occurred in the theater."

Gene's POV –

'What do you think is going on here Noll?'

'I'm not sure.Mai said there was someone with that beast like creature last time she saw it and she believed that the person shesaw with it was Tamaki. So that is where I am going to start we need to bring him in for questioning'

'If he is involved how do you know we will get the truth out of him?'

'At this point I just want background history on his relationship with Hanako and the other victims. Mai's dream suggested that he didn't have much respect for the opposite sex, I just want to hear for myself what went on between him and our friendlier ghost then we can figure out if he knew the other victims. I also need to talk to anyone else that had any experiences with the ghost or beast man.'

'Sounds like a place to start.Masako and Ayako will be back around noon, we should walk around and cleanse what we can while looking for a possible curse or summoning circle. If this Tamaki person is working with the beast man there has to be something binding him to Tamaki in order for him to do his bidding. Maybe Mai will have a dream with some insight into what is going on.'

AN: Yay! The next Chapter is done! This one was so hard to write. It is a lot harder to put my vision in to words then I wanted it to be, hopefully you guys can visualize the beast man.

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