The Mystery of the Vanishing Brides

Chapter 2 - It's Just Starting

 In the early days of the year 1957, Marco started dating a woman who was named

Claire when he had gone to the United States. He had fallen in love with her beautiful and

stunning physique and maintained structure, which he used for his own pleasure. Because he was

too obsessed with Claire, he turned her into a mannequin, and set it in his work office, beside his other 'mannequin'. These things happened whenever Marco had been dating or married women, 8 to be exact actually, and others thought it was weird that the women who were in a

relationship with him would always go missing, only one had gone to an asylum for an unknown

reason, she was the 5th person known to be in a relationship with him. People still question why

though, because all the relationships were perfect, what could've gone wrong?

As the years had come down slowly, it was already the late 90's. And there was a man, he was

around the early age of 20, and was called by his manager to the office. Upon arriving at his

boss's office, his boss had offered him to investigate a suspicious house, because some people in

town had reported strange things happening in that house, and just recently there was a murder

case that happened there. Because he would get paid a decent amount of money, he agreed, but

asked for one thing.

On the day of his investigation, he brought a friend with the approval of his boss. His friend,

Vanessa was the only one who he thought would be able to help in this type of investigation.

The faint sound of children playing and crickets chirping, as he opened the door to the house, a cold breeze was felt by the two friends, giving shivers to their spines.

The house was unrealistically large, and there were so many doors leading to rooms that they would look at it later. They saw blood stains on the wooden floor, probably from what had

happened recently. They saw many old paintings of women, it was very stunning, but something

felt off. After a few minutes of analyzing that part of the house, they decide to make their way

into a random room. It was there they saw many different kinds of mannequins, all with different

features. One thing that was weird to them was that the mannequins all looked so realistic, which

confused them a bit, but decided to brush it off since it 'wasn't' important.

After hours of searching, they didn't 'see' anything that they could use to find any clues of what happened, until they opened one specific door. 

The door itself was creepy to him, but Vanessa told him that they wouldn't find anything if they didn't check, and there could be some clues in there. So they entered, it looked like it was leading to the basement, and they walked down the stairs. 

And when both of them got there, they saw a bloody bag, and decided to check it. There, they found a body, it was Marco's body, Vanessa assumed, since who else's body would be in that house, and the police never found the body yet. They decided to call the police so that the body could be with them since it would be bad if they had just left it there. 

Later they decided to go again the next day to investigate since they were both very fatigued.

The Next Day

On the following morning, he and Vanessa both arrived at the house, feeling a bit more motivated to solve the mystery. Heading to a different room this time, in the room, they noticed that it was very dull and was a mess, like something had happened in there.

The sounds of movements were heard from the walls, but no one else was there except for them.

As they searched for evidence of anything that would help solve this case, they found a rather old what seemed like a diary. He decided to keep it and try to check it later when he got home. He noticed that the room was quiet now, and he looked around, and Vanessa was nowhere to be seen.

Nervously, he searches the house for her, hoping that he will be able to find her. Even after minutes of searching, no luck. He decided to go out of the house since maybe she had gone out, but when he got to the door, it wouldn't open, no matter how hard he tried to open it. He was now trapped in there with no escape, so he tried to find an exit somewhere.

He tried and tried, getting tired as he was searching, hearing the giggling of little children, that was scary for him. He sat on one of the chairs in the house, and thought of something. He opened the diary, hoping to find something that could help him and his work. 

What he found in the book, was a bit surprising for him, he read and read, and each page was interesting and weird, but this one page was what kept going through his mind, he found his own name on it, Edsiah Lim Maderazo, his original name before he changed it to be exact.

 It was a bit weird that it was there, but when it kept being on other pages after that, he checked the one who wrote on it, it was a woman named Sharon, the first wife of the person he was investigating. But when he read that it was her son, he was taken aback, he had forgotten his birth parents after he was adopted, remembered the name of the man, and realized that the house was owned by his biological father. 

This information was too much for him, until he felt something grabbing his shirt, Edsiah turned to see a spirit behind him. A bit scared, but he asked the spirit who they were, the voice of the spirit was glitchy, but Edsiah could hear it say Kimberly. He then proceeded to ask if the soul knew a way out of the house, because he didn't want to stay there forever. But all the soul said was for him to come with her, he ignored that at first and continued asking, until he got enough of it and followed.

As he entered, he saw a body, it looked quite familiar to him, weirdly. He had taken a closer look at it, and what he saw made him feel like puking, it was Vanessa, but, she had been sliced open in her abdomen, her intestines clearly visible to him. He covers his mouth, how could this have happened? He thought, until he heard some giggling, from behind him.

 It was Kimberly, it was her who had done this, Edsiah thought, as who else would be there. He shouted at her, he thought he could trust that soul, but he could not, I guess.