The Red Shoed Ghost #1

Tohya Mizusawa - Room#12 to Hall#10 near Area#13

Opening his eye's to total darkness, Watson is bewildered for a moment. Instinctively reaching over to his right to turn on his lamp, he pats at nothing but air. Reaching for his watch on his left arm, he gives a twist and light beams from it. "The.. hell...." he mutters in absolute disarray as he looks around. In front of him are rows after rows of empty, rusted, and collapsed metal shelves.

Panning the small light left then right he see's the room is full of nothing but the shelves. Looking up at the ceiling he can notice area's which have been damaged by water. Where am I!? He thinks to himself as the last thing he recalls is getting sleepy reading a book. Standing up from where he was sitting he walks around to try and hopefully find where he's at. Wandering the room looking at the faded walls and rust settled on the floor he see's nothing useful.

Must have been a storage... at this thought his light passes by a door across the room and stops. Recognizing what it is by the handle he walks toward it scanning the room a final time before leaving it behind to be greeted by another one. This one different in that it didn't have row after row of dilapidated shelves. Unlike the room behind him this one was completely empty. Walking to the middle to get a better view of the other side his steps echo off the walls.

"Thump..Thump..Thump..Thump.." He then stops. Something sounded weird in his footsteps. Starting a slower stride he continues again "Thump.... Thump.... Thump....Thump...." he hears it again. Turning his ears and not moving he hears a faint noise. Something similar to a muffled shout though he can't make out what. Turning ninety degree's his light falls upon another door. Opening it, it leads down a hallway which he can't see the end of, though the noise was slightly louder. Taking a step forward he tries to make out what it is.

Reiko Shizuka - Room #33 to Corridors connecting rooms #'s 33, 32, 31 and Area #30

Yoshio Shizuka - Room #22 to Room #25, near Area #24

Yuuki Shizuka - Room #17 to Room #16, near Area 15

As soon as the boy went out of the room and started to shout, alone in the darkness with only a flickering font of light, darkness slowly surrounded him and, as he walked, he would see the world around him contort and distort as a small red string floated by his left side and towards the right side of the hallway, nearing a small door to a room( Room 18 ) with a heavy-looking iron door.

The string called to Tohya as if it was daring him to follow it. It was far too shiney to be ignored, as it glowed in the dark. The iron door was wide open before the string flew in, but it closed tight right after it passed through, not allowing anyone else inside.

If Tohya had paid attention so far, he would look up and see multiple bodies hanging from the ceiling, all of them dripping with purely red blood, seemingly fresh. The bodies were apprently skinned alive, which caused all organs to appear from the outside as everything was shown. Some of them even had their eyes pulled out.

In case Tohya hadn't noticed so far already, the bodies dripped multiple drops of blood, which slowly coursed throught the dead bodies until they found their way to the feet of the bodies, then dropping by and hitting Tohya's head, slowly dripping down his head and towards his cheek, leaving a red mark accross his face.

Watson's steps grew slightly faster as soon as he walked into the hallway. Or so he thought. As soon as he stepped onto the hallway, he started to hear "more" steps than supposed. Every step Watson took had a response from the void darkness behind him, revealing another step right behind him as if something was clearly following him.

It had no intentions in showing itself and whenever Watson turned around, he would see nothing but another large void of light from his wirst. However, when he turned around, he would see a red, glowing string, floating through the air as if it was magical. It slowly flew around before finally going towards an Iron Door, which was wide open right before the string went inside. After that, the string disappeared inside the darkness of the room and then the iron door closed and shut tight all by itself. It wasn't eletronic so it couldn't be controled by far and it was clearly too heavy to have been pulled so fast. The silence afterward was the most scary part as the eerie sounds of the steps became more active.

Watson was immobile for a few minutes as the steps came towards his ear. He could feel something breathing on his neck as it spoke. "There is a radio on the table on the next room. Take it." The female voice was distorted, different from whatever someone heard their entire life. Whatever it was, it was not human.

As soon as the girl went out of her room and walked into a seemingly empty and dark hall without any source of light in it except for her own cellphone. From behind Reiko, a quick sound echoed through the hall. A seemingly metalic sound, as if a rock had hitten a piece of wide metal. After it hit, however, it was pretty obvious that Reiko would react by looking towards it, and it was all that the person who threw the rock needed.

Suddenly right in front of Reiko, someone sweeped her legs and brought her down with ease before aiming a knife on her neck without any hesitation. It was so dark and Reiko's cellphone had dropped on the ground, she probably couldn't see anything ahead of her but she could easily feel the icy steel on her neck. "You're the one who captured me, aren't you? Didn't expect me to escape that room, didn't you?" A clearly female voice.

It didn't take not even a second after the female question and then suddenly lights had been activated at the hallway and on the entire place. However, not on the entire building, just on their section( Area 31, 32, 33, 30 and 29 ). Reiko would then see the girl that was on top of her. A stern expression with her strangely purple eyes aimed at the Reiko. Her eyes were unmoving, completely devoid of any warm on them, cold as they could be. Her black hair was so long and so clean that someone could see a reflection of light on them. Her knife was a strangely-bent one, aimed at Reiko's neck with not even a small hesitation. She awaited for surprised Reiko's response as she stared at the girl with a stern, serious and deadly expression, probably different from anything she had seen so far.

Yoshio's steps were careful and calculated. Even if he had tried to go through the left door, it was locked anyways, being a heavy iron door, completely unnaccessible for him.

Going towards the right was his only choice and he quickly walked towards a clean room. There was nothing there, until he moved his phone around. He would then see multiple bodies, so many that he wouldn't even be able to count. Strangely, they didn't seem dead, just not moving at all, like dolls. Some of them would twitch and move slightly as Yoshio moved. Their eyes were completely devoied of emotion and completely blank, not even a small hint of emotion or mind at it. The corpses didn't seem to feel light when Yoshio aimed it at them, but they could clearly hear him moving around the room, as they would sometimes stare at him and coldly await for another move. All dolls had their legs strangely cut off, but, though they were clearly made out of human flesh, they were not bleeding or bleedy at all. They were completely clean as if this had been a sirurgical operation.

Quickly turning around at the voice Watson was greeted again with the empty hallway. Heart racing and shaking slightly in his breaths the tactics of whoever this woman was were working on him. Taking a few seconds to regain his composure he took a deep breath and ended it with a forced exhale. Expelling his frustrations and fear, clearing his mind. "Where is this noise coming from?" he thought to himself as he looked down the hallway where he had came from.

The steps had started as soon as he had left the room and drew stronger the farther he went down the hallway. Shining his light upon the ceiling he tried looking for a speaker. Seeing nothing of the sort down the hallway he turned around and scanned the intersection between the door and the hallway to his left. Again nothing, about to give up on the notion he looks straight above him. Being greeted with a small dusty square metal box right above his head.

"So that's the trick." He thought with a slight smile. "She probably has camera's somewhere as well." He surmised by how precise she was with the foot steps and voice. Giving another quick look around, he unfortunately couldn't spot anything else so assumed they were too small to see. Shining his light on the door he walked up to it and tried to find if there were any noticeable details that could let him know how it worked.

Finding nothing he sighed and guessed it worked due to a piston system he couldn't see. Adverting his attention now to the hallway he hadn't been down, he thought of the red string. The way it had moved and seemingly disappeared behind the door. A few possibilities jumped around in his head as to what it could have been, as he started to make his way toward the radio. One of which made him stop in his tracks.

Looking up at the ceiling again with his light and looking behind him he thought of a grizzly possibility. One of which made his scenario more grim than he had thought. Stepping to the far right and staying close to the wall he made his way again toward the radio. Making sure to turn around every few steps to check behind him in case his suspicions were true or if he was being cornered.

Reiko Shizuka - Room #33

Yoshio Shizuka - Room #25 to Area #24

Yuuki Shizuka - Room #16

Tohya Mizusawa - Area#10 to Area#14

As soon as he picked up the radio, he would hear a female voice, as if it was echoing through the radio and into reality. "Do not enter the iron doored room... It is another world... Another place where everyone dies... If you dare venture yourself into this, death is the only gift you will be presented." The female voice was the same that had asked him a few minutes, but not as distorted as before. Suddenly, the voice changed completely. A human voice came through the radio after a few minutes of silence. The voice was that of someone clearly desperate, the person didn't know what to do, so she had picked up the radio to talk with someone. "You see, Mr. Detective, I am looking for someone but I can't find this person. Can I ask for your help?" The mother asked in a troubled tone. She was clearly desperate. So desperate that she didn't even expected Watson to agree but she asked nonetheless.

The girl was serious and her expressions were slightly blank, which difficulted Reiko's discovery of what this girl was thinking. The girl pressed the knife slightly against Reiko's neck during one of her long statements and shutted her mouth with a good scare. Right after that, the girl got up and left her target alone. After getting up, the girl placed the knife in what seemed to be a concealed sheath.

"Myu." She stated coldly in the air, not explaining anything and just stating her name. It took a few seconds of staring silence for her to speak again. "You can call me Myu." She said as she helped Reiko up. If what the girl said was true, she had no reasons to doubt her. Not to mention that their name was, indeed, a very known one. Since Myu barely watched TV, however, she couldn't say if this girl was really a member of the Shizuka or not. Even so, she didn't really care right now, she had bigger problems to solve.

The black-haired, green-eyed girl spun around as she made her way away from Reiko, not saying anything else. It seemed like Reiko was someone who spoke quite a lot, and Myu sincerely disliked people like that. Across the small hallway, Reiko and Myu found themselves on a large machinery room of the factory, with multiple cutting tools and various furnaces. On the deep end of the hall stood a table radio, similar to the one found on Watson's room. "A radio..." Myu mused mindlessly as she walked towards the thing. So far, the entire place was lighted up by the sudden burst of energy that was now feeding the lightbulbs above the two girl's heads. The illumination was very old, as the lightbulbs were still a very strong yellow that crossed the entire room.

Opening the door revealed a large machinery room. However, most machineries were very small compared to what he immediatly faced when he opened the door.

A gigantic, massive furnace with it's fiery maw wide open revealing the light of flames aimed at the door Yoshio was. Above the mouth of the furnace was a small piece of paper, with words written in what seemed to be red ink, dripping to the floor. Feed me. Those were the words written on the furnace.

If Yoshio walked around, all he would see was just a giant metal door leading to Area 23, obviously locked. On Area 28, he would see nothing as the door to the next area was concealed, but he would still be able to listen faint machinery sounds of blades penetrating through flesh and then skinning it alive. No matter how much he tried, the only thing that had any hint on what to do was the "Feed me" written above the maw of the inferno.

It said:

Don't look into her eyes

Hesitant to move it, Watson reluctantly picked up the radio. As soon as he had possession of it the voice from earlier returned. Though this time it was less distorted and giving a warning. Looking around in the room with his light he tried looking for new speakers, as that would explain the change in the voice. Sadly he spotted nothing of the sort and assumed they weren't visible to him.

Thinking on the warning he was a bit confused. Who was this distorted woman's voice and what did she want? Directing him to a radio only to warn him to stay trapped or else face death. Was she protecting him or trying to prevent him from meddling? If that was the case, she could have just killed me. Watson thought right before his pondering was interrupted by the radio.

It was the voice of a mature woman who seemed clearly desperate by her anxious tone of voice. "You see, Mr. Detective " How does she know I'm a detective? Watson thought, as this statement grabbed his attention. Is this another trick to mess with me? He theorized. A few seconds of silence followed the plead for help before Watson replied. "No guarantees but..... who are you looking for and where are you? He asked the radio as he began thoroughly searching the room around him. Putting the radio in his left hand he began walking around inspecting the walls, looking for ventilation, or any signs of an exit besides the iron door supposedly leading to death.

Tohya Mizusawa - Area#14 to Room#12

The woman's voice released a small sigh of relief when Watson said he would try to help. However, as soon as she was starting to speak, her voice seemed like it started to cut. The radio would cut most of her words and she wasn't able to talk with Watson the way she wanted. "Mr. Detective, she's just a li--" She was trying to explain it to Watson but, as if her voice cutting wasn't enough, she suddenly screamed. "No... No... It's coming... It's coming to get me... Sorry, Mr. Detective... I need to run..." Stating that, the woman's radio cut and, in her place, stayed another female voice, this time much less old and stoic, cold as it could be.

"Testing, testing. Is there anyone on this frequency?" The stoic, cold and emotionless voice asked as it awaited a small time for a response.

Myu's eyes suddenly stared a the girl when she asked if something on her life caused her to be stoic like this, reserved and quiet. Her stare was enough to say "take care of your own business" but she opened her mouth to clear the thing before the girl had any chance to say something. "It's my own problem. Keep it to yourself. I don't need anyone else trying to get into my mind." She stated as she turned around and once more returned on making her way across the hallway to the end.

As she did so, many machines inside the room creaked and the silence was broken by the sound of the furnaces that apparently 'woke up', making burning sounds as if they were feeding. Above the furnaces stood a chain, with many bodies, all of them skinned, hanging at it. The chain carried the bodies and periodically dropped them into what seemed to be a tube leading to the multiple furnaces. Apparently, the tube would find an empty furnace and would then dump the body there for it to burn and feed the furnace.

"What kind of sickening place is this..." Myu mused as, suddenly, Reiko faked what seemed to be a scaredy cat reaction. She suddenly huddled against Myu and faked a damnsel in distress. Myu wasted no time in pushing the girl away, almost making Reiko fall. "You can fend for yourself!" She almost yelled as she did so. Sighing, Myu walked towards the table and grabbed the radio. It seemed to be still working, so Myu quickly pressed the button a spoke a few things on the radio to try and test if the frequency had anyone on it. "Testing, testing. Is there anyone on this frequency?" She spoke to the radio and then awaited to see if she would have any response. By now, she was already ignoring most of Reiko's statements and words, seeing how the girl didn't seem to take anything seriously.

It took Shizuka a few minutes for him to walk around and, once more, he couldn't find anyone. When he returned to the furnace, however, it was still mostly the same. However, the message above it's mouth was quite different. "Feed me flesh" were the words that were written now. Flesh being written in what seemed to be dripping, as if it had been written a few seconds ago.

"Okay, then! I can take us outside." The childish voice seemed to completely ignore Yuuki's previous questions. "Let's play hide and seek, big brother! If you find me, you win, if I find you, you lose." The child said as the door behind Yuuki opened and he was allowed to go outside for the first time.

If Yuuki looked up now, he would see the multiple bodies hanging and the seemingly infinite blood dripping down their bodies before droping on his head and running down his skin. It fared like a rain of blood, while the bodies hit each other like a bunch of sandbags.

On Yuuki's cellphone, again, a message appeared.

Thoroughly feeling and scanning the walls, ceiling and floor to the left of the room, Watson unfortunately didn't find anything that lead to an exit. Listening to the woman's voice begin to cut out in the process, he assumed she was going out of range or something was interfering with the signal. From "she's just a li" he theorized it was a small child who had gotten lost or kidnapped like himself. Though unlike him wasn't trapped and had wandered off from her mother or caretaker. The final part of the audio made a slight chill go up his spine.

Apparently there was something in this place trying to harm people. The way she used "it" was what made it most strange and frightening. If it was a person she would have used he/she, but instead chose "it". Thinking over all of this, Watson turned around and made his way to the right of the room to search more. Before he could begin though, a colder female voice came over the radio.

Considering the frequency could cut out like the previous woman or the batteries die he made his reply quick and to the point. "Roger. Name, Location?" he repeated into it as he started working on the right side of the room.

Reiko Shizuka/Myu - Area #30


Yoshio Shizuka:


Yuuki Shizuka:


Watson:

Stopping before he started to search the rest of the room, his attention was caught by the radio, map, and papers. Smiling slightly with his spirits raised at the new information, he began scanning the map. Pressing the switch to activate the receiver of the radio he replied to the woman named Myu. "Watson, locked in a three chamber section." as he said this he searched the map for where he and Myu might possibly be.

Taking a few seconds to process it he spoke once again into the radio. "Furnaces would probably be coal generator or kitchen. There's something after people, be on guard." he said somewhat quickly as he wasn't aware how long the signal would last. After pinpointing his own location from the shapes of previous rooms. He then began focusing intently on the map, to memorize it for later if he escaped alive.

Systematically blinking while imagining an equivalent map in his head. Assigning numbers and locations, repeating their names over and over in his mind.

"Kitchen, you say? Well, there sure is a lot of carnage and meat here... Not animal, though." The girl said in senseless notion as she turned off the radio again and turned her attention back to Reiko. "Stop with the bullcrap, then. I don't want to know anything about you. You already told me that your physical capabilities are something I shouldn't fear, so you're no threat to me." Myu said as she scowled and then folded her arms. Sighing, she then spoke without the agressiveness clear on her tone now.

"The man said something about... Something hunting us down." Myu repeated to herself as she picked up the radio again. However, she hesitated. She sighed and then looked towards Reiko with a strange stare on her face. "If you're so good at sweet talking people, here's your chance." Saying that, she threw the radio towards Reiko and made a serious expression on her face for a second before she turned around and made her way around the place. She decided that analysing it was her best option and leaving Reiko to do the talking seemed like a good idea, given her abillities to speak.

"I'll take a look around. Try and get something out of that guy before I come back." Saying that, she made a rather friendly wink towards Reiko before she walked past the girl and made her way back into the hallway they were on.

She came from a room that stood right in the middle of the hallway, but there were two other rooms. She sighed as she walked towards the only room she knew nothing about. "Room 33" the number stated above the door. With a small serious expression, Myu took her hands towards the concealed sheath on her hip and took the knife.

She walked towards the door and placed her left hand at the handle while her right hand held the blade. She seemed used to doing this, if someone looked closely. Opening the door, she prepared her dagger and took a look inside, only to see what seemed to be a small generator, making a noise loud enough that Myu questioned why she hadn't heard it so far, even if the door was closed. The room apparently had a generator made solely for the kitchen and also had a few tools around, most of them being hooks and cleavers. With a sigh, she walked in and took what seemed to be a useful cleaver.

She turned around and made her way out of the room as she closed the door. This area seemed very strange, to say the least. So far, they hadn't seen anything unatural and Myu was questioning herself why. She looked towards the room where Reiko woke up and pondered about going in. She made her way towards the door and pushed it as she went inside. The room was lit up now and the light illuminated the entire area. A yellow light from the ceiling. Strangely, Myu heard a strange sound inside here. Like water flowing through the walls, ready to burst at any given time. She took some time on the room and placed her left ear on a wall as she payed attention to the sound. "A leak..." Myu mused to herself as she heard it. However, the sound was too strong to not be worried about, Myu pondered a few seconds as she came to a conclusion. Nodding to herself slightly, she made her way out of the room and walked back to meet Reiko. "Water is leaking on the room you woke up. Apparently, the leak is getting worse. I don't know how much time we got until the thing blows up and drowns us inside here. Perhaps only half an hour or so." She told Reiko as she walked towards the girl. "And about me protecting you... Here..." The girl said in a strange tone as she handled Reiko a cleaver. "You need to protect yourself. We don't know what waits us out there, so if I go down, you need to be able to protect yourself." She told Reiko in a serious, protective tone. After Reiko got the cleaver, she once more returned to her stoic and cold demeanour.

"At any rate, did you get something out of the guy?" She asked, once more getting back to business.

Something was quite different. The furnace's maw closed as soon as Yoshio threw the body in and burned the doll to death... If it was alive. The doll silently accepted it's destiny as it could not speak. It's mouth was open but no sounds came out. The fires that burned the doll were so strong that they lighted up the entire room.

After a few seconds, the fire slowly started to become weaker and a loud sound could be heard. The sound of something collapsing and a door opening. Not an iron door, though, as it seemed. It was actually an stone that covered the concealed door leading to the kitchen. Now that it was open, above the door one could read the number 29 and the word kitchen close to each other.

After that, the furnace opened up once more and it released what seemed to be a red key. "Thank you, Human." A distorted, male voice, echoed in the hallway as if it came out of the furnace. The voice was slow, like a sloth speaking, but it was clearly not human.

Yuuki's path was clean for most part, but the feeling of being watched and tailed didn't finish. It actually got worse as time ran by. The wicked laugh could be heard from time to time, periodically and the child's voice eventually would say "I found you, Big Brother." every time Yuuki looked back. By now, Yuuki's spirit was slowly being torn appart by the child's voice, torturing him and slowly damaging his brain.

Slowly, the hallway started to distort itself and it didn't allow Yuuki to keep going on his way. Every time he got close to a long, mining hallway( Area 8 ) he would simply turn around and walk back, even against his will. As if he was being controled, something forced him to walk back into the fray, where something watched him and stared at him with deadly eyes.

"Big Brother, there's someone hiding around here..." The child spoke something different for the first time, when Yuuki got close to what seemed to be a mining dormitory( room 11 ).

Having stared and memorized the map roughly, Watson moved on to the papers laying on the table. Starting with the news paper first he fixated his light the best he could manage and began reading. He though it would give the most clews and details about this place. Though halfway through the radio sprang to life with a new voice. Slowing his pace but not completely stopping he read the passages while listening to the new more lively voice ask if he was there. Responding with a quick "Roger.", he listened to her lengthy inquires. Sure is talkative.... He thought to himself as she finally stopped speaking.

Not needing to stop in order to reply since the receiver was in his left hand, he responded but with more pause than before as he continued reading. "Earlier on this same signal...... someone screamed... said "no it's coming to get me, I have to run", in a voice of terror.... lost contact with them after that..... I've been alone except.... for the voice and noises. Someone watching me..... using speakers to frighten me or guide me not sure which..... Apparently death is in the door behind me." Completing this long drawn out response with the question "Do you have power?", before letting off the receiver button.

Tohya Mizusawa - Room#12 to Room#11

Tohya Mizusawa - Room#11

Having finished the newspaper, Watson looked down at the rest of the papers. Spotting one about a water problem in the kitchen he picks it up and begins scanning it. He knew the girls relative location was between the kitchen or the coal generator. So it would be best to know about any problems near them in case they needed help. Talking into the receiver once again he responds to Reiko's earlier requests with less lengthy pauses. " Reading so bear with it...been pitch black here since I awoke, how long have you been awake and do you remember anything?...Also, bind for time? "

Tohya Mizusawa - Room#11