So I played Fatal Frame 5: Maiden of Black Water, and thought it was great, and eventually this story came to my mind. I know Maiden of Black Water added the Shadow Reading/Kagemi ability (correct me if I'm wrong), and I added my own thing for this story. Nothing big, but you'll know it when you see it. Plus there are a few fictional locations in the story. I do not own Fatal Frame, just my OC's.


My name is Hunter Maycomb, I'm a high school student who lives in Louisiana. Ever since I can remember I've seemed to have a strong sixth sense or something like that. I can see glimpses of a spirits memories, of the past, or an event that occurred at a place and time. I never knew why I had this ability or anybody with anything similar to it. Using my abilities and my holy cross, I try to help spirits make it to paradise in the next life.

I traveled quite a distance on the day where you could say everything really started. My friend from school, Wade Gillespie, invited me to come to California to visit some family. Wade always invites me whenever he goes on trips, I go with him whenever I can. To make myself useful I went to grab some stuff for dinner for the family at the store. On the way back, I met the spirit of a woman who was staring off at Alcatraz Island. Her name was Sara King, and told me her husband Jon was a prison guard at Alcatraz. She could feel his soul was still there and didn't want to leave this world without him, I told her I would go and help him. After some research, I learned that two prisoners killed a guard in the catacombs beneath the prison in an escape attempt, I had a feeling that was my target. Me and Wade arrived at dusk to check it out.

Alcatraz Island - The Catacombs 6:30

"So tell me again why we came at this hour Hunter?" Wade asked his friend.

"Well we wouldn't really be able to get around that well with all the tourists." Hunter answered "Guess we have to go deeper. The two made their way to the lower levels of the catacombs. They contained cells used years before Alcatraz was federal prison. The conditions down there were too much for even the standards of the rock and thus weren't used when the prison was still active.

"Hunter, your cross is glowing." Wade pointed out. Hunter pulled the cross off his belt and it had a faint glow to it.

"We must be close." Hunter almost stepped on what looked like an old piece of scrap metal, but upon closer inspection realized it was a makeshift knife. He reached to touch the knife and was shown a glimpse of the past. He witnessed two burly looking prisoners violently murder a guard. He then seen another glimpse, the two prisoners were cornered and gunned down.

"Hunter?" Wade noticed his friend was motionless.

"We're on the right track." Hunter and Wade found another staircase and went downwards, they were in the lowest level of the catacombs. It was a long corridor, that contained old cells used prior to Alcatraz opening. Hunter noticed something on the ground, it looked like a strange camera, he reached to grab it, only to see another glimpse of the past. The owner of the camera was attacked by what looked like the two prisoners that were gunned down, he was chased to end of the corridor and was killed by them.

"What happened here... Huh?" Hunter's cross started glowing more brightly, but not the light color from earlier, but a darker sinister color. "Somethings coming."

"Hunter behind you!" Wade shouted, Hunter turned around to see two men charging him, he barely got out of the way of them. He got a better look at them, they were the prisoners in his visions. He noticed how they were covered in gun shot wounds and were carrying rusty looking makeshift knives. One of the spirits appeared in front of Hunter and knocked him on the ground, and reared his knife arm back to kill him. Hunter held up his arms to shield himself, he accidentally activated the camera. The ghost reeled back in pain from the effect of the camera, realizing the camera could do, he aimed the camera at the hostile spirit and snapped several more shots before the ghost was immobilized. Hunter shined the cross with the dark light in it's face.

"Enjoy you next life sentence." Hunter said, the spirit screamed in agony before dissolving into the ground, condemned to Hell.

"Hunter Help!" Wade was trying to keep from getting stabbed by the other ghost. Hunter managed to use the camera to paralyze the ghost.

"Bless your heart asshole." Hunter sent the spirit to the Underworld with it's partner."You alright?"

"Yeah, thank you... what did you do?" This was the first time Wade seen Hunter do his thing.

"I sent them to Hell, the crosses dark glow signifies the sins a person committed when they were alive, but I have no idea how this camera did that." Hunter's cross then emitted light holy color. They turned to see the spirit of the prison guard who as killed by the inmates.

"Thank you for serving them justice." the spirit said, They assumed this was Jon King, their target.

"Your wife is waiting for you Mr. King, she's waiting for you before she goes to the other side." Hunter told him, he understood and allowed Hunter to shine the crosses holy light on him, the soul then dissipated, having successfully passed on.

"Mission accomplished?" Wade asked, amazed by what he had seen.

"Yeah, lets skedaddle before more freaks show up." Hunter and Wade left the prison and made their way back to mainland.

My cross was given to me by a priest in my hometown of Timber when I told him of my unusual abilities. He told me not many like it in existence, and it's origins aren't exactly clear. He also told me it also belonged to my father, a man never met. I never thought much of his whereabouts, if I'm wasn't important enough for him to stick around, then he wasn't important enough to worry about, or at least that's what I thought. Even with that mind, it did seem strange that he basically vanished without a trace. He's not the only one, several other people, most of them young children. All of them happening during a similar time. I used to think of it as just coincidental, but after so much exposure to the supernatural I began to have second thoughts. I'll tell you about what we had seen in the shadows of Moonlight.


There you have the prologue, I also tried writing in a format I haven't done before. So the cross was my addition for this story, I got the inspiration from the cross in Dante's Inferno. One thing I'm considering is whether or not I should involve anyone from Maiden of Black Water or not, and if so how much? Anyways, a review and some criticism would be appreciated.