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Please Review and tell me who you want to win. Mai, Yasuhara, Masako, or John.

Chapter 13

Tadashi was no where to be found in the morning. They all gathered in the dinning room for breakfast. No one had mentioned Gene since Naru confirmed that was why he was there.

"I was thinking it would be nice to go the hot spring and maybe while we're there we can check out the cottage." Mai told them.

Naru about dropped his fork when she said that. The cottage and the swamp were fresh in his mind. He couldn't let Mai go there. He couldn't let her remember.

"Cool. Are we going to ride there?" John asked.

"I'm in." Yasuhara said.

"It sounds like fun." Masako added.

"I'm game." said Monk.

"I could really use a good soak." Ayako answered.

"Ok great!" Mai had said. "Now lets talk about Gene. Does anyone have any theories?" she asked.

Naru felt panic. He had forgotten that she had offered to help and he had accepted. He had to think of something fast.

"Well from what you said if he was here wouldn't you remember?" Yasuhara asked.

"Yeah I know right? I always had this feeling that the answer to what happened was right here in front of me, but I can't figure it out."

"These trees give off a strange vibe. Its like they are warning us to stay away." Ayako told them.

"Maybe we shouldn't mess with this then." Monk added.

"No, we have to. If he is here we have to find him." Mai said. "Masako have you felt anything?" Mai asked.

"Not much, but I haven't been to the cottage yet so maybe I'll pick something up there."

Naru had to stop this, he told himself to say something to make them change their minds. He couldn't do it. Lin was looking at him, waiting for Naru to say something. He also knew it was impossible now. There was no turning back.

They rode down the path and to the swamp. Masako stiffened. She let out a cry and almost fell off her horse. Yasuhara caught her in time.

"I can hear them. They're screaming! He killed them all! I can smell them." Masako cried.

"Who was it? Who killed who?" Mai asked.

"They are all women. He took them there and killed them." She pointed to the cottage "He threw their body parts in the swamp. His name is Katsumi." Masako uttered his name. Mai stiffened. She looked intent now as she turned her horse and rode to the cottage. They followed after her calling to her. She jumped from her horse and ran to the door. She pushed and it opened.

They walked into the room. It was small with an old table and one chair. Mai looked around. "There has to be more. If this is where he killed them here, there should be a sign of it." She was angry. Someone had used her beloved woods to cover their crimes. She was going to find out the truth once and for all.

They split up and searched the room. Monk called them over to under the table. There was a trapdoor. Monk pulled it open.

"Mai did you know this was done here?" Monk asked her. She shook her head.

A stench rose up from the black abyss that lay below. The team carefully made their way done the stone steps. Monk shone his flashlight around. It didn't do much help.

"Hey I think I found a switch." Yasuhara called out. He had been feeling along the wall. He flipped the large Frankenstein looking switch. There was a pop and sparks. The lights came on one by one exposing the horror that lay before them.

The room was large and vast. In one corner lay an operating table with a dark substance dried on it. They could only assume it was blood. The stains matched those on stone the floor and walls. On one side was a stainless steel counter. Laid out on it were tools, needles, and bottles of drugs. The sink, upon further investigation, had the same blood stains. Masako fainted. Yasuhara and Ayako helped her outside.

"I think we should all get out here. This place is making me sick…." Monk said. He looked over at Mai and noticed her gazing about the room. She walked down a narrow hallway no one had noticed. It had been in the shadows. The rest of the team followed her.

This room was even more horrifying. One wall was covered in pictures of various women screaming and crying in pain. There was a video camera set up facing a corner. In the corner were chains and shackles. There were bloodstains all over this area.

Mai made way over to the pictures. She pulled one off the wall and stared at. She began to shake and let of dry sobs. The team scrambled and looked the picture she held.

"Oh God!" screamed Monk. They looked at the lower half of the wall. Like the one Mai held in her hand, they were all pictures of her being abused.

*Mai's screams*

Mai's memories (M rated)

She had met them that summer. They told her that they wanted to document her and she let them. Gene and Peter became her best friends. She cooked for them and cut their hair. She let them stay in the one of the cabins and even taught Gene how to ride a horse.

Gene and Peter told her about England and their lives and she told them about hers. She had been having so much fun. Everything was great. Madame had to cancel her lesson because she broke her leg; Tadashi was nowhere to be found, probably away on business. To top it all off, she had friends to hangout with. Her only companions were her horses.

Of course all good things must come to an end. Tadashi came back and brought Katsumi with him. His brother that had been in a metal institute for several years. Katsumi gave her a hungry look every time he was near her. That's how it began.

Then he started to brush up against her. He would make her hug him and not let her go. She was taking a bath once and had gotten out of the tub when she noticed Katsumi was standing there staring at her. He watched her all the time. She could feel his eyes follow her. She hated him. If he wasn't tormenting her, he was in the cottage. Gene and Peter discovered his secret. It was all too clear why her grandfather had him put away and what Tadashi meant about cleaning up his messes.

She had tried to tell Tadashi. She hoped that maybe he could do something. Instead he told her to forget everything and to keep her mouth shut. She no longer felt safe. Gene and Peter promised that they would take her away. Gene promise to protect her, but he had failed.

They left that evening to make arrangements. They told her to stay at the cabin till they returned. She was washing dishes when a arm came out of nowhere and grabbed her around her waist. He breathed down her neck and licked her face. She screamed and tried to run, but he was too strong. He pulled her to the bathroom and filled the tub and turned on the shower. She struggled with him, but failed as he ripped her clothes off and pushed her into the water.

He kissed her hard and pushed her under the water. She clawed and struggled for air. Every time her head broke the surface, she gasped for air and then was pushed back down. She could feel him thrust his penis inside of her. It hurt so much. He continued to rape and beat her. When he was finished, he dragged her back to the house by her hair.

"You aren't leaving! I'll never let you leave." He growled at her. She cried and screamed.

She had heard Gene that night at the gates yelling for her. She was huddled on the floor of her bedroom whimpering. She rocked herself back and forth.

The next day she went to let Gene out of jail. She didn't want to see him. She didn't want to speak to him. She wanted him to go away. He broke his promise to her.

Mai tried to escape from Katsumi. She would get up early and ride her horse to the host spring. She felt like maybe somehow that would help her feel clean again. She stood there and brushed Ichigo and hummed. That's when Katsumi showed up.

He raped and beat her again. It was worse this time than it had been before.

"You thought I wouldn't notice them spying on me?" he told her.

"He said he would protect me. He said I would be safe." She cried.

"He can't protect you from me. You just learned that the hard way" he zipped up his pants. "I'll make sure you can't ever leave." He grabbed her hair and dragged her to the cottage and down the stone steps.

He chained her to the wall naked and that's where she stayed. Every day at various hours he beat and raped her. She shivered in the cold damp cellar prison. He video taped her all the time.

She lived in her own waste. He found different ways to torture her. He would starve her and only give her water every other day. He made her eat her food on the filthy ground. Mai lost track of how long she was down there. She had lost all feeling. The last thing she remembers was Gene calling to her and then she remembers screaming and an explosion.

So i hope you guys are still reading. I'm always excited to see reviews and that people are adding this to their faves and the story alert. I think my mom is starting to get a little concerned because i tend to look comatose when I'm writing. I sure you all understand that and when your on a roll you forget to eat sometimes or you just postpone it till you finish your chapter.

Please Review and tell me who you want to win. Mai, Yasuhara, Masako, or John.