…Loser's Weeper's…
Once Mai had woken up, she did exactly what Naru had told her to do. She felt her way around the room until she found a stack of old boxes that seemed damp from the moister in the air. She reached for the top box and lifted it up. She had to stand on her tippy toes to reach it, but once she got a hold of it, all she had to do was lift the light box up a little and pull it away. She set it down on the floor by her feet and reached up for the next. This box was just as light as the first. She placed it down on top of the first box and looked up to find three more boxes in her way.
Just of the top of her head, she could feel a nice cool breeze coming through the small cracks in the door. The smell of fresh air and dew on the grass blew in, making the old musty smell of the basement fade away. Mai could see a little of the moon that hung low in the sky.
Mai reached over and grabbed the third box and tried to lift it. It was extremely heavy compared to the other two boxes. Mai, who hadn't realized this in time, let her hand slip as the heavy box began to fall. A loud sound echoed all around her as the box and its contents spilled out everywhere. Mai covered her ears as the last of the sound echoed and slowly faded away. Mai slowly removed her hands from her ears in time to hear a noise from above.
"What's was that?" asked a voice.
"I'm not sure." A sound that sounded a lot like someone was quickly walking across the floor and over to the door at the top of the stairs appeared and Mai began to panic. She quickly climbed on top of the two boxes left and tried to push open the door, but it was too heavy for her. It seemed to be made out of some heavy metal, one that would not push open, no matter how hard she pushed.
The door at the top of the stairs and a light shinned down the stairs.
"Mai are you alright?" called down the voice of the priest.
"I'm fine, I just tripped over a box." called Mai up, hoping he would not start to climb down the stairs.
"Do you need some help?" he asked, taking a step down the stairs. Mai began to panic and quickly called up. "No, I am fine, please don't come down….I'm um….Naked!"
"Excuse me?" called the voice. Mai's face went bright red in the dark when she realized what she had just said. The first thing that came to her mind was that when she had to come up with an excuse. She was just glad that there wasn't anyone she knew was around to hear that.
"Yea I um, had to take off my clothes. They got wet from something." Mai realized how ridiculous she sounded. What could she possible have gotten wet from down in the basement. The priest was thinking along the same lines because he began to walk down the stairs.
"What are you talking about" He asked as he looked around, shining a flashlight around the basement. When he turned and the light landed on Mai in the old doorway, trying to push open the door, he realized what was happening.
"Hey get out of there!" he called when he ran down the rest of the stairs. Mai pushed with all of her might, trying to get the door to open. There was a small creak, and before she knew it, the door pushed open slowly. She got it far enough out for it to set in and fall back onto the ground on the outside. Mai quickly struggled to climb out as some rain hit her in the face. She reached up for the grass and grabbed a handful, pulling herself up.
"No you don't!" screamed the priest as he grabbed her ankle and yanked her down. Mai slid back inside a little, but her grip on the ground would not let up. She struggled, trying to get free of the priest's grip.
"Let go!" screamed Mai as she kicked her free foot around, and hitting the priest in the face. His grip on her ankle let up and she was able to scramble out of the basement.
Mai got to her feet and began to run as fast as she could towards the forest that was a couple hundred yards away from the house. The cold ice rain drops slashed at her face as she cut through the small field as she could hear his voice calling out to her.
As Mai reached the edge of the forest, she slowed down. It was pitch black in there and a lot of trees, something she could easily get lost in. Yes, Naru had told her to hide in there, but would he be able to find her when he comes tomorrow, or will she just be alone until he does, if he does.
"Mai come back, you are in danger!" called the voice. Mai turned to find the priest running out of the house and towards her at a much slower pace then she had run. Mai took one more look inside the forest before making up her mind. Naru had told her to hide in there and all she had to do was trust his judgment. He would find her, she knew he would.
"Alright, thank you Father." Naru hung up the phone and looked all around the room. "Father Shiro will help us look more in the morning, but he said that there isn't anything he can do tonight." The room stayed silent as everyone waited for someone to say something. Naru had Father Shiro to ask if he had seen Mai, but he had apparently lost her a block or two away from the church. "Father Shiro thinks that she may have run off into a forest or something. There are a lot around here, and like he said, we can't go wondering around in the forest at night. We might get lost ourselves."
"Well than what are we to do!" Ayako said, breaking the silence. "Just wait until morning? What if something happens to her and no one can get to her in time because they 'waited until morning'!"
"There is nothing more we can do. It is dangerous out there." Naru said, more to himself then to Ayako. It was true, he was worried about her, but there wasn't much he could do. He had no idea which way she ran or how far. She could be anywhere by now and running around aimlessly will only tired himself and everyone else out.
"Fine then you stay here, I'll go by myself!" Bou-san said standing up. "Who's with me?"
"I guess I'll go." John said, raising his hand a little in the air.
"And I'll go with my bubby-wobby!" Yasuhara said grabbing onto Bou-san's arm.
"Get off me!" Bou-san said pushing Yasuhara away.
"Aw~ don't be like that. I just wanted to make you feel better." Yasuhara said.
"Look, no one is going anywhere, now just get some rest and wait until morning." Naru snapped, interrupting them. Everyone stayed silent, unsure of what to do. Naru sighed, not meaning to snap. He was just tired and had too much to do. The last thing he needed was this. "I'm going to bed. I expect all of you to, too" With that Naru walked out of the room.
Naru walked down the hall, thinking to himself. Where could Mai have gone? I thought I made it clear to stay inside the church. To run off like this is not like her at all. Mostly she just cried or screams until someone comes to get her, but to run out of the church without telling anyone? Not to mention it was during a Holy Service. What were you thinking?
Naru stopped and looked around. Somehow he had ended up in the back part of the basement, which, according to Father Shiro, was off limits because of its holy powers. up at the door to his right. Something seemed off about it. Looking closer, he noticed that the wood seemed warp in some way. He reached out and touched the ice cold handle, slowly turning it until he heard a click. Then he pushed it lightly open and looked inside. It was a dark room that had no light switch other than the one on the far wall. Naru walked over to it and flipped the switch, relieving a room filled with selves and pictures.
Naru walked around the room, looking at all of the pictures on the wall. They were of people who had gone to the church. One was of a blonder girl who looked to be twenty years old. She was smiling at the picture with her green eyes and bright smile. The next one was of the same girl, but she was gardening at what Naru assumed was her house. The next picture was the same girl, this time eating at a small café. All the pictures were like this. There had to be over fifty some pictures that were on the wall, only four or five different people. Even on the selves, Naru pulled out a book that was a photo album that had the same people doing something that made Naru guess they did not know their picture was taken.
It wasn't until Naru flipped to the last page of one of the albums that he saw a brand new pictures that had only been placed their hours before.
It was a picture of Mai making tea.
There was also another one of her walking along side Bou-san when they put up the cameras and another of her walking with the detective.
Naru suddenly realized why Father Shiro had run out of the church and why he suggested that they wait until morning to start to search for Mai. He wanted to find her first, or, the worst possibility, that he already had her and wanted to have time to kill her.
Naru grabbed the phone from his pocket and dialed the number he had remembered from dialing so many times before.
Ring…..Ring….Ring…..Ring…..Voicemail.
Naru hung up the phone and dial another number.
"Hello?" said a sleepy voice on the line. It had been answers on the second ring.
"Detective Masahiko, I know who the killer is and I know he who his next target it."
"Who?" said the detective suddenly awake.
"It's Mai."
Crack
Mai took in deep breaths as she ran through the forest, her feet crushing fallen branches and leaves as her feet touched the ground. Her lungs were on fire and the pain in her side was getting worse, but she could not stop. She had to keep going. If she didn't, he would find her, and he would kill her.
morningnight: Hello life forms known as humans on some astrological sphere of minerals known as Earth! (I did not come up with that, that was said by...JayEyedWolf, which i decided to use, i hope you don't mind JayEyedWolf) ANYWAY, Today I have a special guest with me! It's whitephoenix18! *claps from invisible crowd* yes and if you don't know her, then I don't care!
whitephoenix18: morningnight did anyone ever tell you, you were an idiot?
morningnight: whoa! Where did that come from?
whitephoenix18: Well, I mean really, an invisible crowd?
morningnight: yes, an invisaible crowd sh*t I can't spell, an invisible crowd, just be happy you even got one. I mean do you know how many people I had to pay to come and clap for like 30 a second? A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT'S HOW MANY!
whitephoenix18: You do realize that "like 30 a second" doesn't make any sense, right?
morningnight- you know what doesn't make sense? Your face!
whitephoenix18: It's been a while since we have done one of these and it still amazes me how simple minded you are.
morningnight: down here all the fish are happy! the fish on the land aren't happy cause they are in their bowls all day~! life is the bubbles~!
whitephoenix18: Oh my god, are we really going to do this, are you really going to make your readers suffer?
morningnight; um I don't know if you remember, but them just reading my authors note causes them to suffer as it is, a little more won't kill them...or will it?...She's got a knife…..RUN!
whitephoenix18: *stops chasing* this is for your chapter right?
morningnight: yes...well not the last few because we were off topic unless you want them to be
whitephoenix18: i dont care but anyway we have said anything about it yet.
morningnight: what is there to say? its a chapter with words
whitephoenix18: Well we need to tell them to review!
morningnight: why? telling them is just going to make them and then I feel like I HAVE to do something about it.
whitephoenix18: Ohh..okay well if there is no more of a point to this conversation then good-bye.
morningnight: whoa whoa whoa...how can YOU tell them to review if you yourself have not review AND/OR read the chapter yet?
whitephoenix18:Well, because I read your unpublished original!
morningnight: you mean the one I am CURRENTLY working on at this moment? cause like you haven't read it and im only at the point Mai is climbing on top of boxes and farting as she tries to push open the metal door...oh no wait that was you sweetie^^
whitephoenix18: Huh
morningnight: what?
whitephoenix18: you're weird
morningnight:I was just thinking...why are we allowed to write these things? better question, why are we even allowed in the same chat room talking about this stuff, I mean, just re-read what we wrote. Something is wrong here. (We are on a chat room cause she is still at her stupid college {shh, I didn't say that})
whitephoenix18: I don't know.
morningnight: but you see my point right?
whitephoenix18: Maybe….
morningnight:...maybe? AH DOGGIE IS EATING KITTY! yet I don't care
whitephoenix18: Good ...Well back on topic review for morningnight and tell her how she did because she never believes me
morningnight: well you tell me i suck, (which I do) so wait what?...I'm lost
whitephoenix18: I love you and because it is late good bye to you avid readers.
morningnight:avid?
whitephoenix18: Yes avid.
morningnight: well whatever, good bye whitephoenix18 *crowd claps and waves goodbye* see they aren't invisible anymore. And doesn't it feel good to have a crowd cheering for you?
whitephoenix18: Um..not really... to be truthful I feels weird.
morningnight: Alright, whitephoenix18 is bye-bye and I say good-bye to you all, even though this conversation is longer then the actually chapter. I just want to say thank you for coming this far. Though if you want to laugh or comment on how stupid we are go to whitephoenix18 profile or my favorite story thing and Find the story "Awaken My God". You don't have to read it, you can just skip to the bottom of the page and read our conversations. I mean, it's a good story, so if you want to read it you can….I helped write it….