C6: Things That Can Go Wrong

The group followed the demon back into the woods. The demon continued to laughing the whole time. Naru ran with all the speed that he had; however, the demon seemed to stay just out of reach. Lin, who was right beside Naru, raised his figures to his lips as if to whistle. Before he could whistle, the demon gave a burst of speed leaving the team behind. Play time had ended and now it was time to get down to business. The team continued to run in the direction that the demon went. It seemed like they have been running for hours, but the truth is that they have been running for less then ten minutes.

The demon entered the clearing that he was heading for. In the middle of the clearing, was a stone table. On the table there was a star shape engraved into. The demon laid Mai down on the table before looking around the clearing for anyone. The demon bound her hands above her head and tied each of her ankles to one corner of the table and placed a knife that looked to be made out of bones by her head. Demon began to chant in a language that wasn't understandable. At the sound of chanting, Mai moan and opened her eyes. Becoming frighten, she struggled against the ropes that held her down. The demon grabbed the bottom of her shirt and pulling it up to expose her stomach.

Terrified of what was happening, Mai began to beg, "Please! Please let me go! Naru! Help me!" The demon only laugh at her begging. Picking the knife up, the demon began to trace a symbol into her stomach. The pain was to intense that Mai began to scream, and buck.

In the distance, Naru could hear a girl screaming. "Mai!" Naru screamed her name. The group turn towards the screaming and soon entered the clearing. The screams turned into a whimper, and then a moan as Mai drifted in and out of consciousness. Naru eyes traveled around the clearing before they came to rest on Mai's limp body. They rushed to the table covered in her own blood, and that the demon was nowhere to be seen. "Mai!" Naru called as the undid the banding that held her hands. As Naru went to release her legs, he noticed her stomach was covered with cuts. Gently, Naru ran his hand over the wounds, causing Mai moan in pain.

"Here use this." Monk said as he hand Naru his jacket. Naru took the jacket from him, and tied it to the wounds on Mai's stomach. Gently lifting her up, Naru with the group made their way back to the church. Once there, John showed Naru to the hospital wing of the church, and in no time they had Mai patched up and resting.

~Mai Dreaming~

Mai could here voices talking around her, but she couldn't respond to them. The voices belong to her friends... well the people who she thought to be her friends. If they were her friends,then way were they talking bad about her.

The voices became quiet when one voice over powered the others. "What a mess. Why do I even put up with her. She does nothing but complain and get in trouble?" said the voice that sounded like Naru's.

"I don't know. I told you I didn't like her from the beginning didn't I?" Lin's voice came out of the darkness. The pain of hearing the voices of her so called friends became to much for her to bear.

"Make it stop! Please make it stop!" Mai said as she covered her ears. Slowly the sound stop and was replaced with another voice.

The voice sweetly drifted out of the darkness towards her. "It's okay, I'm still your friend. Remember what I was always there for you." The voice said as a large dragon appeared out of the darkness. The dragon touched it's noise to Mai's forehead and disappeared into Mai's body.

"Now we can be together forever. Lets not tell them that we know their secret yet. We will make them pay one by one." Said a voice that was a mixture of both the dragon's and Mai's. Smiling, Mai nodded before she stopped dreaming.

~End of Dream~

Mai slowly opened her eyes and sat up. Looking around the room, she found herself alone in what looked to be a hospital room. "As we thought, there is no one here to see if we're awake." The two of them thought. Smiling, they got up and left to find their first victim.

It didn't take long to stumble across Monk. Smiling, they called out, "long time no see! I'm so glad that you the first one that I ran into."

"Mai! Your awake! When did you wake up?" Monk asked as he gave her a big hug. Keeping a arm around her shoulders, Monk lead her to where the others were. Upon entering the room, they noticed that everyone had a shocked expression. Monk's hands quickly grabbed Mai's arms and forced her to a chair before binding her to it.

"How are you awake Mai?" Lin asked as him and Naru came closer.

They narrowed their eyes at Lin and demanded, "Release us now! We called you guys our friends and this is how you treat us?"

"So that is where the demon went." Naru said as he tried to grab onto Mai's chin, only to be bitten by her. "John get it out of her." Naru said as he walked away from her.

John nodded and opened his book and began to chant his prayer. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God..." John didn't get far when the demon in Mai's body screamed, "SHE'S ALREADY GONE! SHE GAVE UP WHEN YOU LET HER BE TAKEN!"

Turning to Naru, John raised a eyebrow. Naru, understanding his unspoken question, nodded his head in approval. Nodding back, John turned around and continued with his prayer, "I command you, unclean spirit, whoever you are, along with all your minions now attacking this servant of God, to obey me to the letter, I who am a minister of God despite my unworthiness; nor shall you be emboldened to harm in any way this creature of God, or the bystanders, or any of their possessions. I command you to leave this body, and go back to Hell to which you belong."

"NO! I WON'T LET YOU HAVE THIS BODY BACK! I ATTANED IT FAIR AND SQUARE. YOU NOT WORTHY OF HAVING HER!" the demon screamed back at John.

John, moving closer to Mai's body, placed his hand on her head and said again, "I command you, unclean spirit, whoever you are, to leave this body and go straight to Hell where you belong. Go there and walk this plain no more."

As John repeated his prayer, the group noticed that gashes were forming on arms. Blood slowly filled the gashes before spilling over and running down her arms to drip on the floor. "John! The demon is hurting her!" Ayako said as she point to Mai's arms.

"Don't stop John! You have to get it out of her before it is too late." Lin said as he placed a hand on Ayako's shoulder.

Turning back around John picked up once again with his prayer, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. I, a servant of God, commands thee to leave this body without doing anymore harm, and go straight to Hell and walk this realm no more!"

When John felt the demon losing straight, he made a cross of holy water on Mai's head, before praying over her. "Our father who aren't in heaven, please place your hand on you child that is fighting to stay by your side. Drive the demon out, I beg you. Oh powerful God on high, protect your child from harm. Let her see your all healing light! In Jesus name Amen!"

As John finished his prayer, a dark mist lifted off of Mai's body. Mai's eyes rolled back in her head as she slumped unconscious. The mist hovered a second before screaming, "HOW DARE YOU!". John raised his hand and point as he yelled, "BEGONE FROM MY SIGHT YOU UNHOLY CREATER! WE ARE GOD'S CHILDERN THERE FOR YOU CAN DO NO MORE HARM!" With that the mist disappeared.

The group turned their attention back to Mai's battered body. They untied her and gently laid her on the ground. After a few seconds her breathing became labored due to blood loss. Lin rushed to call for an ambulance; however, as every second passed it seemed that Mai's condition continued to get worse. Finally, the ambulance showed up and charted Mai away with Naru fallowing them. As the Ambulance speed its way to the hospital, Naru sat by Mai's side, listening to the heart monitor. The beeping of the heart monitor beeped a few more time before going flat line.