Chapter Four: And Then a Hero Comes Along

Mio ran up again and tried the door, to no avail. She panicked.

"What now, dear sister?" Mayu asked, STILL giggling.

Mio ran back to where she came from before the cellar. She kept running, Mayu following closely after. Is it just me, or has she gotten faster? She asked in her head.

Running, running, and more running. She didn't realize that she had already arrived at the place she saw in her vision: the place with the pit and the mourner who points down.

Mayu entered the room after her. Strangely, she stopped chasing Mio for a while. She looked around in the room. For a while, she looked like her normal self. Quietly standing, a worried look on her face, hands on her chest. This made Mio relax for a few minutes. It gave her time to take a good look around the place. The mourner didn't seem to be around.

She turned around. "Mayu…"

She was startled, seeing her sister with outstretched arms again, the evil expression on her face once more. She didn't have time to react. She was too close for running. She would end up falling in the pit, whether she ran or not.

Before what she considered her 'untimely death' came, Mio saw a pair of arms grabbed Mayu's and pulled her back.

"Uncle Kei?" Mio cried.

"You shouldn't have gone in here," Kei said, struggling for Mayu was squirming really hard. "What's wrong with your sister?"

"I don't know," she replied, looking at Mayu. "She could be possessed or something."

Mayu pushed Kei back and charged for Mio once more, but Mio dodged her. Mayu managed to stop before she fell in the pit, and quickly turned around to face her family. Before Mayu could grab her sister, Mio snapped a photo with the camera. Mayu got dizzy, but was still her crazy self.

Mio grabbed her black bag and pulled out her type 0 film. She inserted it in the camera and snapped a photo of Mayu before she could be grabbed again.

This time, Mayu fell back. As she did, the spirit of Sae Kurosawa separated from her body and they fell back together, screaming. Mio immediately dropped her camera and grabbed her sister's hand. She managed to get a grip on it, but she slipped. She was about to fall, until Kei grabbed her and tried to pull them both up, but that's a big load for one guy.

Mio's eyes were closed. She was afraid to look down, for it might be a long height. But that's when she heard the most unusual thing.

"Don't look in there!"

It wouldn't have been so unusual if It was just her uncle's voice. Well, yes, it was his voice, but mixed with another. It sounded…somewhat like Itsuki, the trapped boy.

Alarmed, Mio opened her eyes and saw the inside of the *, which wasn't pleasant. Her grip on her sister released, and Mayu fell in the pit, lost forever.

**Mio's POV**

I don't remember how we got out of the village. Uncle Kei must've led me out. We met Aunt Rae and they rushed me to a hospital. I didn't see anything; my eyes were closed the entire time. The doctor said something about 'how he couldn't do anything for me'. I didn't know what was wrong with me at first…but then I opened my eyes.

I couldn't see a thing.