June 23rd, 1981

Emberly

"Let me get this straight, you went behind all our backs and made an outrageous deal with the devil, of all people!" Gerald said and slammed his glass on the table.

"Well yes but the plan didn't end there..." Candice trailed off.

"Yeah I get it you're just a bad seed still working with her with a plan to kill us all! I knew you couldn't be trusted." He walked out the door.

Candice looked hurt maybe a little offended but for some reason I believed in her, she had more to say and I wanted to hear it. She certainly wasn't stupid and she cured me. "Candice what was the rest of the plan?" I asked and she looked at me.

"I told her to go back to Japan, we need to go to Japan I think we can find the answers on how to send her back to hell there. It only makes sense, it's where it all started back in BC." She said and we all looked at each other.

"We can probably do this but," I sighed, "I'll talk to Gerald I'm sure he can get over himself." I got up and headed out the door to go find him.

He was sitting in his car looking pissed, so I walked over and sat in the passenger seat and mocked him. I crossed my arms over my chest, crinkled my forehead, and got this super angry look on my face.

"Stop that." He said and huffed.

"Why should I?" I huffed back and copied him.

"You are unbelievably so immature." He said but a gentle smile came on his face as he looked at me.

"I know now listen Candice does actually have a plan. We need to go to Japan where it all started to find the answers to send Michelle's ass back to hell. Are with us or are you gonna keep being a mcgrumpy pants?" I asked him and he sighed.

"Alright fine but I don't trust her still." Gerald said with a glare.

"You don't have to trust her, just trust me okay?" I responded and he nodded.

"I trust you." He kissed me gently and I climbed on his lap in the car. My ass hit the horn on the steering wheel and a few pedestrians looked over at us weirdly.

"Maybe uh not here..." He said chuckling.

"Yeah maybe not." We shared a laugh and climbed out of his car and went inside.

***

Candice

"Ok guys Lindsey just sent me a text saying she sent Michelle on a plane off to Japan. She's on her way so we can get ready." I told them and Ryan was beaming.

"I'm so excited I'm going to Japan to see the mysterious town where the biggest mystery of all time went down!" He said excitedly.

"Right you know the town has a name right?" I asked him and they all looked at me confused.

"It does?" He said and Gerald spoke up in Japanese.

"粉々になった魂の町" He muttered which caused more confusing stares.

"The Town Of Shattered Souls." I said then looked at Gerald myself, "how did you know?"

"I learned Japanese a long time ago," he pulled out a book, "the Empress gave this to me when I went to see her. It talks about how the town was named after the first person committed suicide and how the town was destined to be destroyed." He said and I looked at the book and nodded.

"That's not just a book Gerald that's the original copy of the Japanese bible. The first suicide was Michelle's, the book was said to be fake because it was beyond what anyone wanted to believe was true. Every copy was destroyed, well except that one. That's Hiromays copy." I said and he looked at it again.

"Is that why it seems like it was written so personally?" He asked and I nodded.

"It's not just Michelle's story it's hers, they named it Venus, a love story more tragic then Romeo and Juliet." I muttered and Emberly cut in.

"Right so we should probably get going Lindsey just pulled in." We all headed out the door with no idea what was going to happen.