So apparently doing nothing over break means doing a bunch of stuff within the same state to my mom. -_- Well anyway here's the next part, it's the second to last T^T how sad the case is almost over. Haha yeah so I hope you enjoy it, on to the disclaimer.

Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Hunt or it's characters, I only own the random plot lines and characters I make up.

Case 1: A hidden creature: part 7

"Where am I," Mai mumbled to herself as she looked around what seemed to be some sort of dark cave. She could hear a woman crying and found said person curled up and leaning against a wall. Mai couldn't see very well and didn't know who it was, she approached the woman slowly.

"Excuse me?" She said startling the woman.

"W-who are you?" She asked staring at Mai wide eyed.

"Uhm…I'm Mai Taniyama." She was surprised the woman could see her, normally people in her dreams couldn't, maybe this was just a normal dream, although to Mai it felt real and she couldn't seem to make herself believe it was anything but .

"How'd you get here?"

"I don't know, I just sorta found myself here I guess."

"So you're a real human? Y-you're not a ghost, like that boy."

"No….wait what boy?" Mai was now very curious about who this woman was.

"I don't know, he says he's protecting me from the "bad man" by keeping me here." The lady said irritated.

"What's your name?" She thought she knew who this lady could be by now.

"Kana (Akiyuki's last name)"

"You're Akiyuki's wife?"

"Yes, how do you know him?" Kana was now looking at Mai skeptically.

"A group of ghost hunters including myself are working on a case at your house right now…" Mai thought back to all the dreams she had. There was one she had forgotten, it may have been the most important one as well.

Flashback

Some sort of monster-like thing was devouring small white orbs, Mai had no idea what either of them was but she had a bad feeling about the creature.

"Kyo summoned that." Mai jumped at the sound of a voice she turned around and saw a young boy.

"Daichi?" He nodded in response. "Why did he summon it?"

"He's going to use it to kill everyone and the people you guys helped escape."

"What are those white things then?" Mai asked as she felt a small pang of sadness as it devoured another.

"They're the souls of people Kyo catches for it. He kills the person first and then manipulates their soul once they have become a spirit. The monster needs certain people's souls before it will do the task requested by the one who summoned it."

"What! That's horrible…" Mai's eyes filled with tears. "How many more does it need?"

"It only needs one more…my brother Akiyuki's wife." Daichi said quietly as he stared at the ground. "If it gets the wrong soul though then the deal is off and it devours Kyo's soul instead for failing. That's the only way to get rid of it."

End Flashback

At this moment Mai realized she was astral projecting although not really understanding how she ended up doing it. But she did know that with this last bit of information Naru might be able to solve the case.

"Ah I'm sorry I really have to wake up now." Mai said quickly attempting to stop the astral projection.
"What?" The woman said baffled. She didn't know what Mai meant when she said she needed to "wake up" but suddenly Mai was gone.

"Naru!" Mai screamed as she shot up from her bed, she sprinted to base yelling his name repeatedly. She was almost at the door when she managed to run into someone her momentum forcing them both off balance. Soon she found herself on the ground lying on top of an annoyed Naru, normally she would have blushed but the enormity of the situation overpowered every other thought in her mind. "Naru I think I know what's happening."

"What?" He asked pushing back his irritation because he was curious and wanted this case solved as soon as possible. He sat up forcing her to move off his torso and sit next to him.

"There's a monster and it eats souls. Kyo summoned it and Akiyuki's wife is the last soul it needs but she was hidden so Kyo couldn't kill her and get her soul that's why she's missing. But I astral projected and saw her and she's still alive so we have time. Except the one way to get rid of it is to give it the wrong soul after that it'll eat Kyo." Mai said in one breath as fast as she possibly could.

"Hmmm…" Naru rubbed his chin thinking to himself. As Mai thought about it she began to dread this whole thing.

"…But we can't just sacrifice an innocent person." She mumbled, Naru looked at her out of the corner of his eye and then stood up.

"Mai, tea." He said before walking into base. Mai stood up crossing her arms and sticking her tongue out at the door before leaving to go to the kitchen.

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