Red Walls: a Ghost Hunt fanfiction

Chapter 4: After a Storm Comes Tragedy

(A/N: Do you guys think the story is progressing to quickly? I feel like it is, I hope it's not. sorry for the late update- I had severe writers block! Anyways, here's the next chapter!)

Mai POV

I looked at the monitors when the lights went out. Because something nobody else- not even Naru noticed was that the monitors went out before anything else. When the power came back on, on the monitors one thing was to be seen.

Blood.

I ran out as fast as my feet could carry me, ignoring the calls of my boss as he chased after me. He may have wanted to, but he couldn't stop me from running as fast as I could. For even he couldn't keep up to me I was running so desperately fast. I ran as quickly as I could, it may be to late for who ever it was that was screaming- but that waasn't going to stop me from making sure.

Monk and Ayako had walked me around the building so finding the room was easy. If I hadn't remembered the camera number in the room I wouldn't have been able to tell what room it was. 'Why' I thought 'am I running so fast? I'm scared. Scared to check, scared to see, scared to know. Shouldn't it be weighing me down? Or does it make me run faster? There's the door, I'm so scared to open it my hands are trembling. But I have to. I don't  know why, but I have to open this door. Even if it kills me.' 

I took a shaky breath and nodded, mentally preparing myself for whatever lied behind this door. I gulped and raised a trembling hand to the door knob, slowly wrapping my weak quivering fingers around the knob before they could fall back to my side. I turned the knob and inched the door open, when it slammed completely open without my help.

My eyes widened- I wasn't wrong, but I wasn't completely right either. There was blood everywhere, whoever's blood this was wasn't alive. I dropped to me knees, sobbing into my hands. I looked up at a small orange glow from the corner of my eye. A small piece of paper was burning, and it was amplifying the smell of blood that drenched the room.

I froze in my wake, staring wide-eyed at the horrifying sight before me. I wanted to look away, to close my eyes and never open them again. But I couldn't I tried desperately hard to tear my eyes away - everything with no avail. The sight that lay before me sent shivers down my spine, my blood pulsating rapidly, and my mind to cloud.

Limbs. 

I finally regained control over my body after what felt like an eternity, I screamed. So loud that I started to feel faint.

"Mai!" I heard someone shout, 'Naru?' I felt someone run up behind me, but my vision was so clouded that I couldn't see. "Mai, are you okay?" I tried my best to nod, but wasn't sure if I'd managed it. I knew for sure it was Naru by now. I could hear him sigh, taking a moment to look at the damage. I heard a tiny gasp, my hearing starting to fade by now too. My head lulled back as I drifted off, a feeling of being swung around before I was asleep.

No POV

Naru ran after Mai, not even thinking about what he might've gotten himself into. No, right now, all that mattered was that Mai was safe. He ran down the halls, barely keeping Mai in sight. Naru heard the door slam open - surely Mai couldn't open a door with such force that it would make such a  loud noise?

When he didn't hear anything, he feared the worse.

Naru rounded the last corner, the room coming into sight. An ear piercing scream resonated from the room - Mai's scream. "Mai!" he charged into the room only to see Mai laying on the floor, staring at nothing in particular. "Mai, are you okay?" he asked as he walked up to her, relieved to see that she was still breathing, but seemed basically dead besides that. She was pale, and wide eyed, yet her eyes held no emotion, and were glossy, worrying him more than he'd like to admit.