WHOOP! I HAVE FINALY UPDATED!!! REJOICE IN HAPPINESS MY FELLOWS!!!! Majorly sorry peoples! I have been busy beyond imagination!!!!
I do not own Ghost Hunt. I swear.
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"Masako!!" Mai yelled, running out of the room, the others hot on her trail, "Are you alright!"
Masako was sitting in the middle of the floor, a look of absolute terror across her face. "There was-did you see-WHAT WAS THAT!!!!" she stuttered.
"What was it?!" Ayako demanded.
"There was-something in the wall. Not normal. Don't know what it was." she was babbling now, tears running freely down her face. In all the jobs that they had done together, Mai had never seen one that scared the other girl that badly before.
"Shinji!" Mai turned toward the taller male.
"I
don't know. I don't see anyone. Do you sense anything?"
Mai
just shook her head. She continued to glance around, there was
absolutely nothing bad in the area, no heebie jeebies as Ry would
call it and absolutely nothing that could have scared Masako so
badly.
"What did it look like?" Kaye asked, kneeling down beside the distraught girl.
"I don't know! I don't know how to describe it. It was big, and small."
"How can something be big and small at the same time…?" Reno muttered in Mai's ear, "Sounds to me like the little girlie got spooked by a shadow." Mai turned to shoot him a dark glare.
"I know Masako. She wouldn't spook at a shadow." She snapped back, annoyed when he responded with just a shrug.
"Just calling it like I see it mini." he answered, before moving on down the hallway.
"Where are you going?" Katen called after him.
"Going to see if I can get anything from any of the rooms. Ta." Kaye sighed in frustration at Reno's attitude, standing up to go next to Mai.
"Any ideas?" he asked Katen and Naru.
"A vengeful spirit." Naru immediately responded.
"Not likely." was Katen' s response, "If it was a spirit I'm sure on of the three or four physics in the room would have been able to sense it as it left…unless…" She trailed off, apparently thinking.
"Wouldn't it be possible for a spirit to be affected by black magic?" Lin asked.
"Actually, that was exactly what I was thinking…that perhaps the spirit or ghost or whatever was mutated (for lack of a better word) by the black magic, making it so it's not easily visible by normal standards."
"Can that actually happen?" John asked at the same time that Ayako said, "That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard!"
"You're a miko priestess that exorcists spirits on a nearly daily basis and mutated ghosts are ridiculous?" Shinji asked lightheartedly before heading off to follow Reno.
Naru coughed, clearly trying to get the attention to focus back on him. "We should set up the equipment, I know that you people in WI.T.C.H. don't normally use hem but we at SPR find them to be quite helpful."
Others nodded and Mai went with Lin to carry boxes of cameras in.
"You're friends are quite…interesting…" he commented as he rifled through them, looking for a lighter box for Mai to carry.
"Thanks for putting it politely!" she chirped and smiled as he looked at her in sheepish surprise, "I know my friends. I've know Kaye my whole life and the others almost as long. In fact the most recent acquisition was Ry and that was about four years ago. I know that they can be a little weird and overbearing sometimes. Kaye doesn't like to give up an inch when dealing with people, and Naru pushing him to do this. And the same does for Naru. Reno's just hard to deal with, we're lucky that we have Shinji to attempt to keep him in line. Shinji is sweet and low key. Ry is hyper and hard to manage. And finally Katen is rough and dry."
"Funny, I've noticed all of those traits in just knowing them for a little while." Lin commented, making Mai giggle. They began to head back into the house.
"They're all really nice people and my best friends in the whole world, like my family, but they can drive even me crazy."
"Why did you leave Hong Kong?" Lin asked her as they began to set up cameras and microphones.
Mai was silent for a moment. "Something happened and I had to stop all of my psychic doings. Kaye and Katen put a block on my abilities so I couldn't use them but it hurt too much to be around them all and not be able to help. Also being near other psychics could cause the block to break."
"Which is exactly what happened when you got here." Lin said simply. Mai nodded sadly. "Why did you have to block it?"
"I'm going to go get Naru and tell him we're done." Mai stood up and left suddenly, leaving a surprised and confused Lin behind.
She rested outside of the doorway. That was close. Not exactly the most subtle of ignoring him, but it worked. She didn't think that she could handle them finding out about her…affliction.
"Oh! Naru!" she called out to the passing boy. He turned his head to her. "Lin and I are done setting up." He nodded.
"It's getting late. I recommend that you get some sleep. All of the girls are in the spare bedroom while the boys are in the living room."
She nodded and bid Naru a goodnight before heading into the spare bedroom with the other girls/women. Inside, Katen was already making herself comfortable on the window seat in the dormer window. Ayako had laid claim to the twin bed while Masako was curled up on the couch. That left a nice puffy chair for herself. After bidding all of the others goodnight, she soon dropped of into darkness.
Well, there you go. The next chapter in the wonderful world of Never Over. Sorry that it's not very good, I have a sudden epiphany and had to get it out, whether it was good or not.
