File 19: Fatal Frame Our Spring Break » Volume 1
The title is based on the video game series, "Fatal Frame".
Happy Valentine's Day! Here is my gift to you readers!
Announcement! There is going to be an extra chapter added to volume 1 making it a total of 25 chapters. The reason is because I really want this whole ghost thing to develop well and not rushed without some good and clear explanations. If you're wondering which storyline I'm attacking at the moment, it is mainly the back-story of what happen to Kairi's dad, Zack and the mysteries of the island. Also, this chapter will be mainly based on the latest one, "Fatal Frame IV". Also, I won't be introducing the Camera Obscura. In case you don't know, it is the main weapon in the game used to battle ghosts and such. Roxas and the others will have some scene but this one is mainly focused on the ghost tale.
Genre: Adventure/Romance
Disclaimer: The following characters of "Secret Agent Kairi" are from the video game, Kingdom Hearts. Square Enix and Disney rightfully own them. The setting-taking place in the story is original also and does not exist anywhere in Japan. The story, plot, and maybe some original characters are under my name. There will be some references to the game. Don't attempt to copyright.
(Pence's voice) – "Previously on Secret Agent Kairi"
Kairi and the others were getting out of the car with sunglasses and bags on as the bright yellow sun shined above them. They had arrived at the dock for departures. There was no particular destination actually for the cruise but just to go around the waters of Japan. Just far away. "We're finally here," she said softly but good enough to hear.
"Ya know, it's called go up and ask her," Xion told Riku.
"I don't know Xion," Riku answered. Again, he was staring at his mute blond friend.
"It has been a month."
"But still… I don't know if it's the right time." He has always been Namine in school more than her friends. He was starting to like Namine for some reason and just did not want to make a move on her. It would be too soon. She still has been damaged from the Roxas thing. Boy, did Riku hate the guy for fooling Namine and breaking her heart.
"Well Olette, back in the… feudal era, there was this island, near Japan, that perform spiritual rituals of the otherworld." The atmosphere suddenly felt like camp at night. "On the night of a lunar eclipse, they perform the rituals that involved a maiden wearing a mask. It was a performance to open the gate…" Xion stopped and went to turn off the lights. Soon, she turns on a flashlight to show her evil creepy face. "To the Otherworld!"
Leon just stared at the familiar face. "What are doing here Terra?"
"I was expecting for Aerith and the other to be here but I guess there not," Terra replied. Leon tilt his head a little to see a few bags behind him.
"Roxas! Your job hello?" Lea said.
"Right, it's just entertaining watching you and Isa go back to back about something." With that, Roxas left to get some orders. After he left, Lea and Isa got into another conversation.
"Who has the potential?" a familiar female voice asked. It appeared to be Arlene. "Are you talking about that blond spiky boy Roxas?" She just walked into the kitchen taking a seat as she gathers around a table the two were on.
"You know the guy?" Isa asked him. Arlene nodded.
"Yeah, he is, well, was friends with my co-worker at the place I work at," she answered.
"Well, as all of you may know, the island we're on is the same one in the story." Aerith looked at the island from the beach. You could see the small mountains, forests, houses, and such including a lighthouse that sits on top of the cliff they hit. Among them was of course the moon becoming a lunar eclipse very little by little as time passes. "This is Gesshoku Island."
Kairi and the others separated into groups of four. Kairi was with Yuffie and Vincent. She had difficulty giving a reasonable explanation why he couldn't come with. The reason, she made him watch over Namine. Seeing their situation, she would have to go into agent mode. Although, she had to give another reason why Vincent could come and not him, which was that he knew Yuffie more out of all them than them. It would be weird for him to be paired with the others. Aerith and Cloud paired up with each other. Sora was with Xion, Riku, and Namine while Hayner got stuck with Pence and Olette. Some have tried to get some outside contact but there was no signal. Not even one bar. The passengers of the ship had fled the ship naïve what they are getting into. Kairi wanted to help them but her mom said they had to worry about themselves right now and that you can't save everybody. Once they part ways in the middle of a dark forest, each arrived at a different destination on the island.
"I can't believe we're actually here," Aerith told Cloud standing by his side. The two were in the Gesshoku Hall, a large sanatorium on the island. It was completely abandon but there light that were dim to light it up. The walls are old, cracked, and falling apart. They had three option directions to go in. Cloud felt a pain in his head again. "Cloud!" He dropped to his knees holding both sides of his side. He had flashes of him and what supposedly look like Zack, going left. It seemed he was familiar with the place in some way. He slowly got up and went into the same direction from what he saw. His curiosity leads him to a small hallway with arrows pointing in one direction. "Cloud?" Aerith softly said as she followed him. She saw him in front of door holding the handle. She goes up to him and shakes him. "You all right?"
"Huh? Ah, yeah," he replied looking down on the handle. His eyes went wide when saw another hand on his. "Do you see that?" he asked Aerith.
"See what?" she asked.
"The hand on mines!"
"I don't see one Cloud." He looked at his hand again and it wasn't there anymore. Was he losing his mind? "Well, let's check what is in there. There could be at least hope to get off this island. The phone and ours don't even work." Cloud opens the door to find a hallway. There were windows and on the walls were masks. "Hm, masks. I remember this in the report back in '96. As the ghost story goes, the ritual, Gesshoku Kagura, held on the night of the lunar eclipse. The maiden dancer would wear a mask along with five kanades. A ritual to worship the moon." Aerith heard a door open and Cloud entering in. The front of it said Dr. Hamasaki Museum.
Clou walks inside a room. It was a room that had various things on display, a desk with a typewriter, and news clippings on the wall including notes. Cloud looks around and sees a notebook. He opens it and looks through it. As he read it, it was mainly about a syndrome on the island called Gesshokioku says it is a syndrome where the person suffers from mild memory loss and would be caught sleepwalking sometimes. Cloud then wonders as he seems to have a memory with this island but can't seem to remember it but one came to him.
Cloud and Zack were on a small boat approaching an island. "So that's the island huh?" Cloud asked Zack.
"Yes, Gesshoku Island. There have been reports of people disappearing on the island and Kingdom Hearts wants us to investigate it," Zack replied. "Is this your first assignment man?"
"Yeah, I just joined and getting assigned a ghost missions was something to look into I guess." It really was Cloud's first assignment. He was the fresh face of Kingdom Hearts trying to get snag a mission because he wanted to be part of the action. However, on his first day was coffee duty and all that other stuff your boss would make you does on your first day. "So, what about you?"
"Me?" Zack asked and Cloud nodded. "Well, my wife and I have a two year old daughter named Kairi and we had joined Kingdom Hearts when it was created by our old friends."
"Daughter?" Cloud wondered. "You seem young to have a daughter at this age. Aren't you in college?"
"No, but my wife is and thanks to Kingdom Hearts, we have a stable life to raise our daughter." When either the two would be off or Kairi was alone, someone from the agency would take care of her. Mainly Tifa would be the babysitter since she worked inside the office of the agency and her classes would start later after Aerith was done with hers.
Cloud smiled. "You know, I would love to meet your daughter one day," he said.
"Sure, I will have you two meet after this," Zack answered. He sees the ship has dock at the port and he and Cloud begin to get off to investigate the island.
Aerith was about to enter in the same room as Cloud but heard someone call her name. It seemed to come from down the hallway. She slowly walks the creepy hallway hearing nothing but the sound of her feet. She arrives at the end to see another door but no one was there. She looks down to see a small item and bends down. Her eyes went wide as she recognizes it. It was Zack's ring.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
Kairi, Yuffie and Vincent were strolling through the dark woods following a path that led somewhere. Kairi was leading with Yuffie and Vincent behind side by side. It sure was quiet with only the sound of the wind blowing the trees and grass. As the three walk, they enter what looks like the residential areas. Several houses started to appear now. "What is this place?" Vincent asked.
"It looks like a place where people lived and appears to be empty," Yuffie answered. She then saw Kairi trying to look inside one of them. "Kairi, what are you doing?"
"I can hear something in this house," she answered. She checks the door and finds it open but stuck. She takes her two hands on the handle and tries to slide it open. She succeeds and opens it and enters. Yuffie and Vincent follow. Kairi walks in the old rusty dirty house to hear a conversation going on. She slowly walks to the living room to find the ceiling light on and four people sitting at a table. They seemed normal.
"Kairi!" Yuffie screamed as she was running. "Never again go into a stranger's house! Especially if there are ghosts!" Apparently the normal people were actually ghosts and now the three were running from a group of ghosts. When they discover they were ghosts, once they left the house, another set of them exits the other houses.
"I will keep that in mind!" Kairi replied.
"I was never scared ghosts," Vincent told them. "Until now." The three run in the forest not looking back.
"In there!" Kairi yelled. In front of them was a mansion from the looks of it. Once they arrived at the entrance, Kairi opens the door but finds it lock. Being desperate, she kung fu it open as they enter and close the door behind them. The three of them were catching their breath. Kairi looked and noticed and it wasn't a mansion. She told Yuffie and Vincent it was a sanatorium. The sound of footsteps from afar made them look in the same direction of where it came from. Again, Kairi went to check it out.
"Kairi! Not again!" Yuffie whispered. Kairi just mouth that she was going to see in anybody was there. She comes across a hallway and finds a closed door. She grasped the handle, as she heard nothing. She twists the knob and swiftly opens it and screams. In front of her were Cloud and her mom screaming too. "What are you doing here?!"
"I should be asking you the same thing," her mom asked. Yuffie and Vincent arrived at the scene.
"Whoa, I thought you saw a ghost for a second," Yuffie told her.
"Kairi, do you, um, remember your father? Your real father?" Aerith asked out of the blue. Kairi got the clue when she said 'real' in her sentence. She said no but missed him a lot and how sad it was to lose him from a plane crash. "I'm sorry but that isn't true." Kairi lifted her and looked her mom with a stunned look when Aerith shows her, her father's wedding ring.
Sora, Xion, Riku, and Namine were together approaching an old building structure that spawn two floors. The moon was shining down on them and could see the whole thing. Outside was a well that led into darkness. Xion could've sworn she heard something down there. Sora was pulling her away from it to say she was imagining it. "No! I swear I heard something down there! And why do we have to go inside?"
"I don't know. We all agreed to investigate this island and to head for the lighthouse once we seem to be done."
"Okay, we're done," Xion immediately. "Creepy hospital check." She was about to run off but Sora stopped her.
"No, we are going in whether you like it or not," Sora told her. "Even Namine doesn't seem to be afraid." He looked at her to say she wrote, in caps, a big no. "Anyways, we have to."
"Fine," she said giving in. She grabs the flashlight in her pocket and tries to turn it on but it wouldn't. She tries shaking it a little and later begun hitting it. It worked as it was pointing upward. She begins to point down she noticed something was by one of second floor window making her gasp. She points back to the window and sees nothing.
"Xion, lets go," Sora told her waiting by the door already.
"Y-yeah," she stuttered. As she walks to the entrance she gazes up at the same window. Sora awaits her as she closes the door. It really was dark inside and the place sure did not seem to have any power. "You must be pretty brave to have to go into a hospital like this. Hospital like these is bound to be scary."
"Yeah, I know but to be honest with you guys, I saw something go in here," he told them. All three of his friends looked at him. "And I'm curious about what is going on here." Sora came across crossroads in the middle. In front was a dead end with two elevators on each side. On his left and right were hallways and rooms for patients. Behind were his friends in the lobby.
"Sora!" Xion said but not rowdy. He came to her at the front counter to see what was it. "Look." She showed him a picture. Who was in it was a younger version of his uncle Ventus along with two other people. One had blue hair and the other brown. "Huh? My uncle is in this picture?"
"Sora!" Riku shouted. He puts the picture in his pocket as he and Xion turn around with the help of the flashlight. The two saw ghosts approaching them slowly. They were dead and pale with worn out clothes. You could hear them moaning and floating right at them.
"The door!" Sora and Xion run including Riku and Namine but finds it lock somehow. "Come on! Open up!" He finds a clear path and guides his friends to escape but heard Namine scream. A ghost caught her but Riku was trying to let it go, which looked weird considering it is a ghost. It let goes of Namine and the four ran for it.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
Kairi, Yuffie, and Vincent were exploring the upper floors of Gesshoku Hall while Aerith and Cloud explored the other above them. The news about her father struck her. She felt everybody around was connected somehow now. Cloud was her dad's partner and this island too was some sort of connection. There were also hopes of a reunion that made her smile in her head. Her father could still be on this island but her mom told her it was impossible after being left on this island with no contact after thirteen to fourteen years but she wasn't giving up to know what happened.
"I always wondered why you two never seem to have blond hair," Vincent told Kairi and Yuffie. "It was hard to believe he was your father."
"Yeah and Kairi didn't know him much but I did," Yuffie said twisting some truth in that. "When we were younger, our mom would tell us about him as we got older and wished to see him again. Now we might have that wish." Yuffie was looking at Kairi seeing she was trying each door, all which appear to be locked. "Kairi, let's check the other floor. The door happen to be locked." They leave the second floor and go up to the third one.
Cloud and Aerith were exploring the fourth floor of Gesshoky Hall. Like its previously floors, there was masks on display. "Each floor seems the same as the last," Aerith pointed out. The entire floor seemed quiet. They saw the management office as did the previous floors had. Both walk inside to have it looks like the others. Nothing out of the ordinary. Cloud takes a look around and checks to see if phones worked. He picks it up and nothing. Then he started to have another flashback.
Cloud closes the door of the fourth floor management office while Zack attempts to grab the phone to get help. Zack heard nothing coming from the phone indicating it was dead. "Damn it! The phones are not working."
"Get down!" Cloud ordered shoving him down to hide from the ghost. They have been running away from a woman in red kimono floating of the ground and appeared to be a ghost with various ghostly faces appearing around her. She has been chasing the two since they entered the sanatorium. It has been a countless game of hide and goes seek, as she would appear suddenly during their investigation. "I'm checking my phone," Cloud whispered but no signal. "Damnit! The future better have better phones with reception." The presence of the ghost seemed to be gone. "How long can we keep this up?" Cloud turned his attention to Zack who was looking at a picture. "That ya family?" he asked.
"Yeah. If I feel like something is going to happen to me, I look at this," Zack answered.
Aerith looks around to finds a key but do not know what it can unlock. Underneath the key was a picture. A picture she remembered from before. It was the wallet size picture Zack had before back then of him, her and Kairi as a very young child. What was it doing here? Aerith snapped out of her thoughts and remembered there were big double doors on the first floor locked. Maybe this was the key. As she picks it up she heard someone breathing by her ear. Her eyes widen and slowly look on her right and see a ghost with long black hair making her scream and drop to the floor. "Cloud!" He looks at Aerith and sees the ghost but had a set back.
"Come on!" Cloud yelled at Zack. Zack struggles to get the key inside the door as the ghost that has been hunting them down was approaching them close.
"Got it!" He opens one of the doors and enters along with Cloud and closes. Both run down a set of stairs and run across and wooden floored hallway to come across another door. Zack looks behind to see if the ghost was pursuing them still but there was none. Cloud opens the door and it did not appear to be Gesshoku Hall anymore but a different place.
"Cloud!" Aerith called out for him terrified of the approaching figure. She manages to get back on her feet after he wouldn't respond and runs past the ghost grabbing him by his wrist and dragging him out. She randomly picks a room that was open and closes it. "Snap of it!" She saw in some kind of trance or something. She snapped her fingers in front of him and he blinked returning her a look.
"What? Huh?"
"What is going on with you?!" Aerith asked. "You are always in this state."
"I'm sorry but I keep getting these flashbacks since we've arrived here," he answered. "It is always triggered by something that seem connected with it." He looks at the room and it materialize to be a women's. He gets up and so does Aerith, taking a look of the place. Drawing near the window, he stares at the moon. The lunar eclipse was approaching.
Roxas was taking a break from his new job. He saw a familiar place at work and it was Arlene. It was Xion's friend from her working place. It sure feels like it has been a long day since he started and it did get his mind off things with the drama in his life. Then he remembered he was going to perform at his junior prom. He was surprised Olette allowed him to do so but he knew this would be good considering the colleges he would want to go and how it can help him. He was wondering which song he would do. He made a lot of original songs, which were mainly ballads about him and Namine or something similar to it. He was thinking of one particular song that completely fit the situation but kind of afraid to sing it. His thoughts were interrupted from Lea.
"Enjoying this right?" he asked.
"Yeah, it does. Thanks man for getting the job."
"I know. Just get it memorized that I helped you get it." Roxas laughed and said he would. "So, my friends and I were planning on taking you to these classes were taking."
"What kind?" Roxas asked crossing his arms.
"Um, well, it is a place where you can a lot things from karate, kung fu, and to the use of various weapons."
"That does sound fun. I mean, I've got nothing else to do after school and trying new things seems fun for me." Roxas sure was feeling different this time around. He started to feel more pleased with his life. Maybe he didn't need his other friends anymore but his mind was still on Namine at times like right now. He then asked his new friend Lea what song should he perform that could get Namine to forgive him.
"This isn't a way to get her back is it?" he asked. Roxas shook his head. "Do you have lingering feelings for her now?" He was about to respond but then stopped to think about it. He wondered if he does or was it a feeling sorry for everything he did to her? He just said no. "Then I suggest one song and it is 'What Hurts the Most.' It would be perfect."
"That is kind of depressing if you ask me," Roxas replied.
"Yeah but it also can showcase your emotions to her and she might forgive you… I think. You never know till you try." Lea got up from his seat and told Isa there were two orders of vanilla twilight. Roxas gave him a clueless look not remembering anybody ordering those items.
"Lea, I don't-"
"Shh!" Lea put his finger on Roxas' mouth. "He doesn't know that," Lea whispered. "We are going to the roof to have our break and we need to eat man." Roxas leaves the front of the kitchen and heads for the roof going up the steps. Lea was waiting for Isa to be done with the orders and he did. He picked it up pretending to go to a table because his friend Isa was by his side to talk with Arlene in private booth near.
"It's great Lea and I can trust each other with some things," Isa told Arlene. Arlene looked at Lea's direction and saw him leave to go up the roof off with the orders. She rolled her eyes amused as she looked at her blue haired friend.
"Yep Isa, you must have a close friendship," she told him. (Haha, yep. I took that scene from "Wizards or Waverly Place" if you remember it)
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
As Kairi, Yuffie, and Vincent approach the third floor, they see yet another management office. They enter it and see what they saw from the last two but Kairi discovered a diary. She grabs and opens it up to read it. She seemed to be a nurse working here treating people with Gesshokioku Syndrome. It explains how the third floor was where patients were taken if they had severe symptoms of the disease. It later then said that she was chosen to do a mock-up version of the Gesshoku Kagura ritual for tourists on the island as the main dancer. She was honored to do it considering her not being a native to the island. It ends there. "A mock-up version? What does that mean?" Kairi then tries to remember how the story went.
"During the ritual, when the eclipse finally set in, the ritual had failed. However, the book doesn't say why it failed." Those were the words she remembered but if there was a "tourist" version, what about the one that failed in the story?
"A tourist version?" Sora questioned looking at the document with the flashlight. Sora and the other found refuge in a room and discovered it was full of documents concerning the whole island. Luckily the light on the ceiling worked but it was very dimmed. "A tourist version was performed the exact same time as the real ritual, which was performed in a chamber right underneath it. When the real one failed, it struck their version with a powerful force killing the dancer and her five kanade."
"Where was the ritual taken place?" Xion asked watching Sora shuffle through other documents they found.
"I don't know which one, but I'm sure one of these can give us an answer." Sora looked behind him to see a frighten Namine sitting on a bed with Riku. Kairi told him to watch out for her but Riku seemed to have replaced him with that job.
"I can't find it but I found something else that is interesting," Xion said to Sora. "A women named Aki Inoue was chosen to do the real ritual."
Hayner, Pence, and Olette were together inside a house on the island. Olette had a paper in her hands with Hayner hovering over her with a flashlight and Pence along her side. "I always loved my friend. She had strong sixth sense ability but she was diagnosed with Gesshokioku Syndrome. Under the influence of her father, she had to perform the Gesshoku Kagura and I too was part of it of making the mask."
Aerith and Cloud were in Aki's room on the fourth floor of the sanatorium. They were reading the diary she had left in the room. "The Gesshoku Kagura was based on a more ancient ritual called Kiraigou; to worship the lunar eclipse and to and open the gate to the Otherworld. It was discontinued after it once failed and had frightened the islanders labeling it taboo. The director from the hospital ordered my dear friend, Hiro Yamaguchi, in order to revive the old tradition. We were both caught in a situation we couldn't escape."
"The mask had broke due it to not being complete causing Aki's face to Bloom. She was later struck into a coma between life and death and confined underneath the basement of Gesshoku Hall," Sora said as the document says so.
"I got an article of something. It's about what happened to the mask." Xion said showing her friends. "It says after the ritual had failed, the mask broke and were scattered around the island and nobody were able to find them."
"Two years later, she somehow broke out and spread the Blooming to others killing them." Riku and Namine approach him and Xion bending down. "It says here that path to the ritual site is directly underneath this hospital."
"I got an article of something. It's about what happened to the mask." Xion said showing her friends. "It says after the ritual had failed, the mask broke into four pieces and were scattered around the island and nobody was able to find them."
"Don't tell we're going there?" Riku asked. "Cuz' I hope we don't." Sora looked at Namine who nodded agreeing with Riku.
"We are and we have to."
"Man!" Xion stressed out. "Tell me why?"
"I feel like Kairi and her family have some kind of connection to this place… including me. That picture you found Xion got me curious about this place." He got up and decided to leave the room.
"You are going out there again with those things?!" Xion told him. Sora opened it and Xion, Riku, and Namine knew they had to follow him now or else they could face there impending doom in this place.
Hayner, Pence, and Olette leave the house and decided to head for the lighthouse already. "Doesn't that last name sound familiar to you two?" Pence asked his friends.
"What do you mean?" Hayner asked.
"Yamaguchi was his name, isn't that Vincent's last name?" Pence pointed out.
"This is Japan Pence," Olette answered. "A lot of us could be roaming around with the same last names but we won't be related in some way."
"I guess so." Pence was looking around the place the three heard screams throughout the island. It seemed to be the other people from the ship and Pence was starting to feel bad about the others. "I hope the others are all right. Those screams better not belong to them."
"We can only hope they are," Olette answered as she looked at the moon. "The lunar eclipse is coming and it seems something will happen once it sets in. We all agreed to meet up at the light house if we're done exploring." A sudden sound made her jump and cling to Hayner's arm. "Ah! Ghost!"
"Uh, Olette… it's just a frog," Hayner told her as she saw a frog hopping out of the darkness.
"Oh, sorry about that," she said brushing his arm. "My bad. Ahehehe. I thought I saw a ghost like that one behind Pence." Olette and Hayner turned pale including Pence. All it took was moan from the ghost to make them scream and run for their lives.
~ Secret Agent Kairi ~
Kairi, Yuffie, and Vincent were still inside the third floor management office taking a small break before moving forward. It just felt overwhelming before here on this island already. The ghosts, getting stranded on this island, the mysterious back-story, these connections everybody seems to have, and of course no outside contact. Oh, and along with the screams of the innocent passengers of the ship getting killed or getting scared. Inside the diary, Kairi also found a sheet music titled, "The Lunar Melody". She recites the title and it sounded familiar to her.
"Kairi," Aerith called out. A young version of Kairi came to her mother as her mom lifted her into the air. "There you are my little girl. I have something to show you. It is something I've been to show you for a while now."
"Ohhh, gimme!" Kairi said. Aerith showed her a sheet music but remembered something.
"Nah ah, what do you say?" she asked.
"Gimme pretty please!" Kairi begged trying to grab it from her mom.
"Here you go," Aerith sweetly replied handing it over.
"The Lunar Melody?" she said trying to pronounce it. Kairi was only six years old and still didn't many words or how to say it but she could learn things quick if she really wants to learn it. "Yay! New song!" Her mom descended her onto the ground and ran for the piano. Of course, her mom had to be there to teach her daughter.
"Kairi?" Yuffie called out snapping her out of her thoughts. Yuffie and Vincent were heading on out already and Kairi still sat where she was. Kairi also noticed something within the diary, it was some sort of piece. Like a piece from a mask.
Hayner, Pence, and Olette arrived at the lighthouse and saw at the top that it's lights were rotating already. The lunar eclipse was halfway through already in the night. Pence then took out something from his pocket and Olette immediately questioned him where he got it. "I don't know, but it was a broken piece of something I found in that house we were in."
"Then why'd you take it?" Olette asked him.
"It looked like a piece of a mask and we've seen some of them hear on the island. I'm taking it as a souvenir to symbolize our survival here on this island," Pence explained. "If we do."
Aerith finds a piece of mask in the diary wondering how it gets there. "A piece of mask?"
"You think that's a piece of the one used in the actual ritual?" Cloud asked.
Like the article stated, there were four pieces of the mask on the island. The gang has been at different places and was discovering the truth about what happened on the island. More importantly, Kairi was getting hyped to see if she would get to her father again or for one last time if she gets to see him. Sora found a picture of his uncle Ventus and questions himself what is it doing there. Cloud has lately been getting flashbacks of the past of him and Zack working together. He thinks he doesn't remember it because he may have Gesshokioku Syndrome, a disease around the place but he can remember everything else from before and not this. However, there is also another question. Where was the other piece of the mask?
Fun fact: Since this whole ghost tale is based on a video game, I changed the names of the characters and other things they were based on but I also kept only a few names the same as the game.
Everything was supposed to wrap in this chapter but the way it was going, there needed to be more of this. I mean this is an important chapter. It is to showcase all these sort of connections that the gang has and you readers know it is getting twisted and deep with each new chapter. There is more to be revealed as I kept some things from you guys until later. Hope you are paying attention to all this.
What happens in chapter 20: You all will get to see Zack! That's all I'm going to say!
Happy Valentine's Day!
Thanks for reading this chapter and review please!