Hour III

"The Camera Obscura"

(OOK...ON WITH THIS. I AM ALSO TERRIBLY SORRY THAT ITS TAKEN LIKE MORE THEN A YEAR OR SO TO UPLOAD EVEN ONE CHAPTER OF MY MANY STORIES. I PLAN TO WORK ON THE OTHERS TOO...EVENTUALLY.)

"Mayu?.." Mayu and I were currently sitting in our living room while Mayu read a thick book of Urban Legends and I wrote a list of the items that we would be buying on our trip to the store. "Yes Mio?" I put my pen down on the coffee table and looked at Mayu. "Remember Unlce Kei mentioning the Camera Obscura in his last letter?" I asked her and continued, "He wrote that he showed it you once...Well when he showed it to you?...What did he say about it?" Hearing my questions, Mayu set her book down and started to say. "Uncle Kei explained that the Camera Obscura is used to capture the deceased." She liked her lips and continued, " It was created by Dr. Aso...look" She handed me the book of Urban Legends she was reading before to a specific page. "It is all mentioned there...The Camera...Rituals...all from years long ago" I looked down at the book and saw a picture of the Camera Obscura on the bottom left of the left page. Mayu continued to speak. "I found the book in Uncle Kei's collection...I've been...wanting to research some stuff..." She said making her voice into a whisper. I looked up from the book " Mayu?" She shook her head from side to side and dashed upstairs mumbling something about feeling tired and wanting to rest. I looked were she had been a minute ago and stared. "Mayu..."

I set the book down on the coffee table and walked towards Uncle Kei's room. He said he would be getting here soon so I might as well have the camera ready for him. It would be a lot easier for me now that I at least had a clue of how it looked from the picture of the book. His room...up in the attic...right? I asked myself as I walked up the stairs and around the corner to the hallway that led to Unlce's room.

I opened the door with a creak and stepted in. Everything was the same way he had left it. Clean. In the center of the room I looked up and saw the small string atached to a small ball hanging from the cealing. Reaching as far as I could, I streched my hand and brought the latter down. I Climbed up and as soon as my head pocked in the attic, I could see boxes, a lot of dirt and...more boxes.

"This will most likely take a long time" I said as I now stood and looked around. So I got to work. Going from box to box. In some boxes I would find old clothes. What really fascinated me were the small rectangular boxes that seemed really fancy. I opened one to reveal a white Kimono. It was beautifully white that it sort of glowed and made your eyes hurt. It was breathtaking. I slowly touched the silk. 'How old is this?' I asked myself as I caressed the white soft silk. I slowly took it out of the box with such care as if it were to dissolve in my hands. As it made its way out of the box it revealed a trail of raging Crimson Butterflies at the right lower side. 'oh my...its amazing!' I couldn't believe such beauty could exist. But it did. I wondered who it had belonged to. Or why even Uncle Kei had it. I put it back and decided to see one more box of Kimono after gently putting away the previous one. There where about seven to eight, but I didn't want to disturb my Uncle's possessions. I opened my last box and saw a black Kimono. It was equally beautiful as the previous one. Even though it was black it glowed with such dark intensity. I lifted it out the box as well and saw that it had the same pattern of Crimson Butterflies at the right bottom like the white Kimono had.

"How...beautiful" I murmured to myself. Within a few more minutes of rummaging through stuff and such, The Camera Obscura was found. It was dusty and definitely looked really old. I turned it over to see some functions already equipped on it, some reading 'stun' and 'see' in Japanese symbols. The Camera also seemed to have had some film already installed in. "Odd..."

"Mio?" I turned quickly. "Yes...Mayu?" It was definitely Mayu's voice that had just called out for me...but she wasn't there. Walking around the attic I noticed I was indeed alone. A shiver running down my spine. I started to close out the rest of the boxes and with The Camera Obscura in hand, started to descend down the latter.

"Hey Mayu?" Calling out for my sister as I stepped in the bedroom, Camera in hand, I noticed Mayu just deep in sleep. "Then it was definitely not her..." Proceeding to put the Camera down, it startled me a bit to see that the Camera Obscura was emitting a strange noise, as if reloading film and a small faint blue glow was starting to be shown above the view finder. The glow seemed to grow brighter and brighter as I approached Mayu.

"Help me..." She sleep talked. Like on impulse, I brought the Camera to my face and imediatly a radiant blue glow surrounded Mayu. Gasping and with not much thought, the shutter was clicked. Strange noises, film loading, the light gone and a picture which showed was not really there left behind.

(NOW, I UNDERSTAND THAT IN THE GAME, THERE MIGHT NOT ACTUAL PHOTOS LEFT BEHIND, BUT THIS IS A STORY, SO THERE IS GOTTA BE A WAY TO SEE THE PICTURES...SO SAY THAT YOU ACTUALLY GET A PICTURE OUT...AND NO PEOPLE DON'T BE FUNNY OR DUMB AND PICTURE A DAMN POLAROID...OR HOWEVER YOU SPELL IT )

"...what?!" The images in the pictures seemed unreal. Had just taken a picture of Mayu sleeping had actually made an unreal Mayu being strangled by...me? appear on the picture! 'This cant be!' I rushed downstairs and desperately searched for the book of rituals and urban legends. Skimming and reading through I came to realize that if it was all really true, which had been proved to me before, that we were in grave danger.

Taking a final glance at The Camera Obscura, neatly poised on the coffie table, my heart started to beat uncontrolably fast.

"This...is it's...power...The Camera Obscura..."

(I UNDERSTAND THAT ITS BEEN SUCH A LONG LONG TIME AND THAT I HADN'T POSTED BUT I'M TRYING AGAIN NOW...SO I HOPE THAT THOSE PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY WERE INTERESTED IN THIS STORY CAN FORGIVE ME AND GIVE ME SOME OF MY HOPES BACK HEHE STORY HOPES I MEAN :P AND WELL I UNDERSTAND ITS SHORT BUT ITS HARD FOR ME TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS AFTER SO LONG. ILL TRY TRY TO UPLOAD SOON, THANK YOU! LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU ALL THINK!)