Blah…I apologize to all for not updating for a long time. I really do. Have you ever had one of those times when all of your teachers decided that they were going to bombard you with extreme amounts of work at one time? Well, that's what happened. I know no excuse.
A) Okay peoples after much deliberation and asking of other peoples I decided to make this a John/Katen pairing. I know John is a catholic priest and cannot be involved in a relationship but the way I figure it is this is a fan fiction so I can do as I please. I apologize if this upsets and/or offends anyone.
I do not own Ghost Hunt or any of the characters.
The following morning was rather uneventful, well if one could include Katen threatening Ayako with a dark curse if she didn't move the hell out of her way so she could get to the bathroom. Mai sighed at the interaction.
They found the boys in the base room, gathered around the computer screen, apparently watching something intently.
"Yo. What's up?" Katen asked, prodding Reno in the back with her staff, which she had picked up on her way in.
"Hey Mai, take a look at this. You too Katen." Kaye motioned for the two girls to come over to him. They stepped around Shinji, who made room for them.
Permanent marker smeared across the screen of the expensive laptop. Scrawled in rather archaic print was a single symbol of an "X" with a smaller diamond fitted into the top quadrant of it.
"DEATH." Katen murmured.
"Pardon me!" John turned to her, surprised.
"That symbol. It's the pagan ruin for DEATH." was the quiet reply. She turned to Mai. "Well? What do you think?"
Mai's eyes were wide and she was shaking. "There's something not right about this…it's not like the other spirits. It feels young yet ancient at the same time." She sank to the ground, shaking as Masako put an arm around her.
"How can something be both ancient and young at the same time?" Lin asked.
"Probably the same way that something can feel big and small at the same time…it's been mutated by black magic." Kaye whispered his face drawn and pale.
"And that means…?" Reno prodded.
Ry answered for him, looking very serious. "It means that this is going to be very bad."
Lin shot him a worried look. "We should go see if anything else in the house was harmed. And also question the owners."
Ry nodded. "I'll go with you." he offered, "My ability will help us see if they are lying or not!" Lin smiled rather uncharacteristically at him and they went off together.
Not long after they left the room, Masako decided that Mai would be better left to go lie down. "Come on, I'll help you back to our room." she carefully helped the still shaking girl up and they headed back to the room.
Switch to Ry and Lin going around the house
"Whatever that was, it freaked Mai out a lot. I haven't seen her that bad since…before…" Ry trailed off, apparently realizing he was talking about things that he shouldn't have been talking about.
Lin glanced at him, but decided not to comment on it but instead ask another question that had been plaguing him. "How do you people know so much about mutated spirits and ghosts?"
Ry looked at him, surprised, before frowning slightly. "Katie's always been interested in that sort of stuff."
They turned a corner and went into the first room, where he continued, "How magic interacts with the spirit world is kinda a hobby for her. Also a couple of years back we dealt with a case where the spirit was severely mutated by Black magic…it didn't end well…"
"What happened?" Lin asked.
Ry turned a surprisingly somber gaze to him. "When she's ready, she'll tell you." With that he turned on his heels and walked out of the room, leaving Lin staring after him.
Switch to Naru and Kaye in Base Room
"Is she going to be alright?" Naru asked quietly.
"Like you care." Kaye scoffed.
Naru turned and glared angrily at him, "And why the hell wouldn't I care?!"
"Because you got her into this mess in the first place! If it hadn't been for you, she'd be safe at home right now!" was the responding outburst.
"Me!? She's the one who said yes to working with me!"
"And if you knew anything about her before you fired her you'd know that she couldn't say no to anyone who asked her for help!"
"I didn't ask for her help!"
"You might as well have! She's like my sister! I know her! I know how her mind works! There is no way that she would have wen against my orders and gotten involved if she hadn't felt obligated to help!" Kaye yelled. Ayako, Monk-san (WHAT IS HIS NAME!!!! I WILL DO A REGUEST ONESHOT OF WHETEVER THEY WANT TO THE FIRST PERSON TO TELL ME HIS NAME!!!!!), Katen, and John began to sneak out of the room, trying to attract as little attention as possible from the two feuding boys.
"See that's where you're wrong! If you're her so called brother, you shouldn't be giving her orders!" Naru yelled back, looking triumphant.
Kaye's eyes narrowed into slits. "I. Was. Trying. To. Save. Her. Life. Some thing that I don't think you would understand. Don't you get it? She could die if she keeps this up. And it would be all your fault."
And with that, Kaye stormed out of the room, leaving Naru staring in mute shock behind him.
