Ghost Hunt AU: Mai Lovely Ghost

Chapter 5

"No!! Please spare me! "

Screams of agony and fear made Mai look at the direction of the voice. It made her gag and automatically covered her mouth.

A beaten out middle aged woman was kneeling in front of a darker haired, bulky tall guy holding a bottle of beer.

They are in the kitchen.

The woman- crying, has her blonde hair on a messy pony tail, wears a  blooded battered clothes and has a bruised covered body, hang on for dear life and begs for mercy on her abusive lover who is now intoxicated by alcohol.

The man sneered at her and gave out a chuckle as if the scenario of the woman is funny and gave another kick on the poor blonde, making her topple over and unable to breathe properly from the impact making her almost lost consciousness.

But no.

The abusive guy, forcefully grabbed her hair and yanked her up to face him and spit onto her face and showed his maniacal grin and laughed aloud.

A total psycho!

And then the scenario change.

The guy dragging her towards the toilet and then placed her face onto the toilet bowl.

The woman trying to get up for lack of oxygen but unable to because of the guys obvious prowess than her.

Then another change of  scenery wherein the woman is crying, legs folded and head hang low, rocking herself back and fort, is inside a dark storage room. Imprisoned, hungry and totally abused.

Then she saw it happened.

The guy, blood shot eyes, obviously intoxicated, holds a mallet on his hands blood dripping on it and the woman lay on her own blood on the floor, losing it.

With one final blow, which Mai knew will end it all, happened.

Unable to take it in she looked away...  And then it was over.

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"....ai"

Huh? 

"Mai"

Who?

She opened her eyes, and was greeted by a dashing blue eyes. A face of a young man she barely knew was inches away from her face.

Eyes widening. She immediately stood up resulting on a brief dizziness that made her went back to supine position.

Naru shook his head in disbelief.

Taking a deep breath, she took noticed of the sorroundings.

She was splayed on the couch of the base. Naru, Lin and Yasu as the only companion she has.

"W-what happen? " she asked.

Naru - now sitting properly with his legs cross, looked at her.

"You tell me. You just collapsed all of a sudden. I didn't know that it was possible for a ghost but...." You just did.  Ineresting. He thought as he scribe away his findings on his black notebook.

"I-is that so.. " she thought for a moment and then it all came back to her.

She just saw something in her dreams but is it possible that it was the cause of the haunting in this house?

Should she tell Naru?

As she was debating to tell or not, the others already came. She tried to sit up, slowly this time.

"Did you find anything?" He asked.

The monk scratch his head and look down indicating that their search was no good.

He sighed. The sooner they get to the bottom of it the better.

"Yasu? Lin?"

"Well, we did find something. Isn't that right Lin-san?" The chinese man nodded, supporting Yasu's statement.

When no one utter a word, he continued.

"This house was originally owned by the O'Neil family. The last of them was Robert O'Neil and his lover Sheila Johnson." he showed an old photo with the group.

She gasped. Her eyes widen. The couple were the ones in her dream.

How could she have dreamt that!?

Her reaction was of course noticed by Naru, but he needed to know the details that Yasu found before he could ask her the later.

Seeing that nobody wants to speak, Yasu continued.

"Robert was known for his abusive tendencies because of alcohol intoxication and was also believed that he is into illegal drugs.

Sheila was actually his maid and at some point she became his lover. In the end, she became the outlet of the guys outrage and was killed in this house.

Robert was shot in a crossfire after a raid in this house and the police had found the woman's body almost decaying."

"So it is safe to presume that the aggressive ghost is Robert." Monk stated.

"Yes."

Mai sighed. She actually want to ask Yasu something but...

"Mai?"

She look up. Who?

"Hey! Is that Mai?!" Asked by the excited Yasuhara.

The others look her way and all those that can't see her previously gasped in shock.

No way!  They can now see me!

"A-ah... hello?"

"Kyaaaaaaa~ "

Then she was engulf in a bear hug by Madoka.

"Noll, you didn't tell me Mai-chan is this cute!"

She blushed at the comment.

"There is nothing to tell Madoka."

She scowled at the narcissist.

"Besides you can now see her because of her intense emotion just as what had happened with Lin."

"Wow. I hope all ghost looks like you. Not those ugly beast that we usually caught on cam."

"Don't flatter her too much Yasu."

That's it. Her vein popped.

"Naru!"

The said guy just look at her with his Stoic expression.

She sighed. There's really no helping with this guys personality.

"Well, maybe that really is the reason you were able to see me now. I was actually depress that I can't speak with you guys and asked this questions."

"Then go ahead Mai. What is that question that you have?" said Naru who looked at her as if he knew this was coming.

"Well, was this woman killed inside a... storage room with... with a m-mallet?"

Yasu gasped and Lin's eye widened a bit.

"How'd you know?"

She scratched her nape. "I...  I might have dreamt of it at some point when I pass out." she gave a sheepish smile.

"WHAT!!!!????"