GHOST HUNT: THE MISSING ARCHIVES

Hello this is my first Ghost Hunt story. I hope you all like it. The story will make use of contents from the games KUON and FATAL FRAME SERIES. I'll be mostly using the ghosts mentioned in the games.

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Well this chapter is kind more of a prologue. Please read a review.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the characters from Ghost Hunt, or any concept from the games mentioned before.

FILE #1: Those who curse the tree #1

….Drip….

"Water?" I thought.

I turned around to check on my surroundings, but everything was too dark for me to even see my own hands, even though…I was sure that the sound I heard was water leaking.

Suddenly everything around ne turned into some kind of blur, almost as if was traveling in a incredible high speed, it was then that I heard it, something very different from the sound of leaking water.

A song…yes, it was a song. Something like a lullaby sang by childish voices. It was a strange song, and it was so low that I couldn't understand the lyrics, but even though the tune made chills crawl all over my spin.

My surroundings finally became clear and I found myself standing in the middle of a dark corridor. There were shoji doors (A/N: Japanese doors)on both sides and the only light I could see was the one that came from the thunder outside. There was a storm out there.

I heard the sound of a sliding door opening and a I turned around just to find an old man with a plain white yukata holding a lamp coming out from the room at the end of the corridor.

"Who's there?" he asked with a shaky voice. I could tell that he was scared. "Whoever it is…. Come out now!"

There was no reply, the man stepped into the corridor and walked through the corridor trembling. He passed by me completely unaware of my presence. Of course, it was a dream after all.

I watched as he made his way to the other end of the corridor. He stood in front of the last room and looked around as if he was trying to hear something. A horrible feeling came through my guts; a feeling I was already too familiar with.

"…Danger…" I whispered to myself " NOOOO! DON'T OPEN THAT DOOR!"I cried as the man's hand went over the door. Suddenly, the door burst open and something that I could only describe as black tentacles came out of the room grabbing the man from his limbs and waist. The man began screaming in panic and fear as he was being dragged into the room and the door slid closed.

Something horrible filled my ears. It was the sound of ripping flesh, painful cries and leaking … I fell on my knees covering my ears horrified.

I want it to end….Please someone….wake me up!

"Neee…neeesan" a childish broke into my thoughts making my heart skip a beat. I turned around slowly and panted in terror.

Two little children were standing behind me with mischievous…no… wicked smiles on their faces. They were terribly pale, with pitch black hair and small red yukatas. On their forehead I could see two strange dots.

"It's your turn to play…." They giggled as they stretched their hands at me, trying to grab my arms.

I gasped in horror as I left out an ear piercing scream….

"MAI! GET HOLD OF YOURSELF!" I heard someone saying as she slapped me on my face.

I looked around confused with my heart pounding fast. I was sitting in my room, a girl with blue-black hair and big gray eyes was staring at me with worry. Over her shoulder I saw a boy with an almost identical face as her lying against the door frame with sleepy eyes and sitting close to my side a girl with short burgundy hair stared at me biting her lower lip.

"You 'kay, Mai?" said the red haired girl.

"You were having a nightmare…" explained the dark haired girl.

"See? I told you not to study Ashitaka's class before bedtime…."commented the boy yawning.

"It wasn't a regular nightmare!" I cried out "It was one of those...dreams…."

"C'mon…I'll make you tea, 'kay?" said the red haired girl helping me out of the room.

My name is Taniyama Mai, and I'm nineteen years old. I'm studying parapsychology and folklore in Gakuden Tokyo University. I'm leaving on campus along with some friends: Sasaki Aki, the girl with the burgundy hair a Medicine student; Abe no Rei, the girl with blue –black hair, student of chemistry; Abe no Kei, Rei's twin brother and student electric engineering. They were bothe descendant of the famous Abe no Seimei,

"All right…Have you calmed down, Mai?" asked Aki as stroke my back comforting me.

"Yes…thank you"

"So….wanna talk about it?"

"KEI!"

"What? It might have to do with this new case, Ashitaka gave us"

A new case. Yes, Four years ago I used to work with Naru in SPR. After he closed the office and returned to England, everyone went on their own paths. Yasuhara was studying laws in the same college as I, so he was one of the people I met frequently; Ayako had began working on her family's clinic. She was so busy, that our contact was limited to one or two phone calls in a month. Bou-san was touring around with his band and he occasionally did one or another job as a monk. Masako was traveling around hosting her show. John still worked in the local church; he had recently come back from Rome, from a seminary for exorcist. That only left Naru and Lin-san. I kept in touch with both of them via e-mail. Lin- san was kind enough to reply to every of my e-mails. Naru rarely replied, of course that he wouldn't waste his time replying each of my emails, but he would occasionally reply to one or two. That made me happy, since it meant that he was actually reading them.

After SPR closed, I focused on finishing school and entering college. One of my teachers told me about a Paranormal Research Society formed by various students and teachers from campus. It was quite a large group, and we were divided into different teams. Each team was formed by four to eight members: a medical support, technology expert, a folklorist and some exorcists. In my teams case, Aki was our medical support, Kei our technology expert, my duties were pretty much of the folklorist; but our team was a special one, because we were the only team in which all members had spiritual powers, so that mean we all could do an exorcism or a cleansing, and if the things got carried away, we could always ask John's help.

"New case?" I said puzzled " We have one already?"

"Well yeah…if you weren't snoozing around during dinner you might had heard of it"

"Ah…sorry, sorry…." I apologized "So….what's this case about?"

"It might be a dangerous one,.." replied Rei " It's something about a haunted house on the outskirts of Mt. Kita. We don't have much info though. Apparently people disappear only to appear dead some days later or not appear at all…"

"Perhaps is a serial killer?" I suggested. It wouldn't be the first time that a case turn out to not be paranormal at all.

"Yeah…we thought that two…but the way the bodies are found…is grotesque…mmmm it can't be a human's doing"

Grotesque? What ever it was…if it made Kei shudder like that, it was definitely something horrible.

"Why us?"

"Well…we are the most competent team for this case, beside…the person who proposed this case, specifically requested that it was us who took it." Explained Rei " but we've been instructed that if the case gets carried away…we must drop it"

"Is it that bad?"

"Can't tell…"

" IT seems like a foreign team is gonna join us" added Kei " We're meeting the un Mt. Kita"

"What? Why?" asked Aki worried.

" We're quite famous now since the case in which we actually hunted down a devil. Now this people are interested on seeing how we handle the cases…geez…talking about pressure"

"Anyway… What about your dream, Mai?"

I told them everything about my dream, how the man had been dragged into the room, the strange song and the twins…

"Hummm….yes, it does look like one of those dreams…" said Rei grabbing her chin thinking. That pose reminded me a lot of Naru and I couldn't hide my smile " we can't be sure if it has something to do with the case…but I'm concerned about the twins…."

"Yes….if they were part of the dream…they weren't s'pose to see me, right?"

"Mmmm… we must think about this carefully; but like I said… we can't tell until we get to the place…"

"Well we have two days to get ready. Aki bring all the medicines you can, Kei and I will handle the equipment, and Mai…you go do some researching about that place…."

"heh? Research…?"

"Yep….try to find something about any legend or anything"

"Okay…"

"Well…that should do" said Kei stretching his arms "What time is it?"

"5:30 am. Why?"

"WHAT? Damn you Mai!" he cried.

We all laughed. And so…that's how this case began.