Spirited Away by the Demon Chapter

鬼隠し編,

Blinded by fear and rage, the base ball bat seemed to make a disgusting and yet satisfying sound as it pelted the bodies of the two robots on the ground.

They were already dead. It didn't matter, he was uncontrollable, nothing could stop him not even himself. Finally he felt his adrenaline rush die down.

Panting, he ran the bat over their dented and broken bodies, as if he was checking that they were certainly dead. He made a horrified choking sound.

Where did this go wrong? Where did everything go wrong? Why was he being the centre of this whole mess? So many questions ran through his head

he was afraid. His robotic eyes narrowed as he stared at them.

Oh GOD WHAT HAVE I DONE!?!?!?!

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(WALL-E'S POV)

June , 28, 2826

Daylight stung his eyes. He had a dream that night that had disturbed him deeply, he desperately wanted to talk to EVE about it... where was she?

He sat up on the pull out bed that was recently installed into his home (him and EVE had taken a real liking to sleeping like humans, more cozy) and jumped down off the mangled sheets.

She must be waiting for me at the club, he thought.

He began making the bed and re-laying the sheets the way that looked some-what tidy. He felt under the bed for the handle and pushed the bed back into the closet and shut the door. Looking over at the clock on the night table and yelped. 12:54.

ACK! I'm late! SAM is going to kill me!!! he thought.

He grabbed his black back pack that was packed with a deck of cards, markers, and some more odd things and rushed out the door.

The world had changed drastically.

Trees were sprouting left and right, a river ran through what used to be a barren waste land. Tall grass grew everywhere else. It was summer, meaning there were many flowers and cicadas.

'Higurashi' he thought contently to himself, a kind of beautiful cicada EVE had taught him the name of. After all, she was Japanese.

He saw a white figure at the end of the grass covered path he took every day to get to town. It was EVE. She stood there holding her lighter, flicking it on and off.

She had waited for him.

"Ev-ah!" he called

She turned her floating head towards him. She smiled and waved at him.

"HIYA!" she called back, "...you took long."

He finally got to her, "Sorry... clock...alarm broken" he panted. He hoped she hadn't been waiting for too long.

She giggled.

"Don't worry..." she said in a very sweet voice"... I would wait... forever."

She glided up beside him and sparked him on the cheek. He blushed, and they began to speed towards the club together. He had completely forgotten about the dream.

"YO!" called a familiar voice.

They slowed down to a halt and came face to face with ROSE, EVE's younger sister. ROSE had green eyes and a deeper, bossy leader-like voice.

"LATE!!" she hollered and glided up next to them. "SAM's mad."

SAM was the younger of the two probes and had yellow eyes. The problem with her is, if you make her wait, she sets up booby traps around the club as a punishment for wasting time. She is an expert trap setter and is very intelligent, she gets on everyone's nerves.

"Oh... crap." muttered EVE. She really gets ticked off by her sisters sometimes.

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The trio made it to the club.

The club was a cabin beside the beach that was made out of old wood scraps instead of harming any new trees. It was a nice little cabin with a porch swing out front, many windows, an attic, and a deck that had everyone's names carved into swing's armrests. There was a painted sign over the door that said in big red letters "ROBOTZ". Crude, and yet cute. It was a gift to the robots from the humans (whom by now had lost a lot of weight). After all, 26 years on earth was long enough to lose all that weight (with determination)and still love the robots.

WALL-E, EVE and ROSE stood outside the cabin waiting with great anticipation and caution. In the fifteen minutes it took them to get there, SAM had definitely set up hundreds of traps by now.

WALL-E rolled up to the door and was about to open it when ROSE grabbed him by the arm and shouted. Clearly understanding the warning he looked up, wedged in the door was a black board eraser.

Clever, very clever...he thought. He opened the door and caught the eraser before it fell on his head.

"HAH! Pathetic SAM!" He cried in victory charging into the cabin.

EVE very well knew that was a decoy.

But before she could warn WALL-E he had already tripped over a child's jump rope that was tied in front of the door to trip him (he's the only one who'd fall victim of the trap because he can't fly) and he was about to do a face plant into an ink pad. But he was fast enough to roll himself out of the way before landing face down in the ink pad.

"Ahahahahahahaha!!! WALL-E... you never learn!" called a voice from in the cabin.

EVE looked up to see SAM and M-O staring down at him on the floor.

"You okay... WALL-E?" asked M-O.

"Nice job." complimented EVE. But WALL-E stayed down, "Uhh...WALL-E? WALL-E?!"

WALL-E lay motionless on the floor. Is he dead? thought SAM. Cautiously SAM flew up to him and unsheathed her fingers.

"WALL-E?" she asked as she poked him.

Suddenly he grabbed her by the arm and everyone jumped back and screamed.

"I... get...you...next time!!!" he growled playfully.

Everyone laughed.

"NO! SAM, BAD GIRL!" he shouted as he stood up and playfully flicked her on the forehead with his finger. She paused, then let out a wail that made EVE jump.

"WHY... YOU... SO... MEAN?!?!" she cried.

"AH! Sorry! Sorry! Kidding...KIDDING!!!" he tried to comfort her as best he could.

Suddenly, he heard EVE say something behind him. He turned around to see her with her eyes in giddy upturned U's, her face was red from blushing.

"OOOOOH!!! OMO...CHI...KAE...RI!!!!!!!!" she shrieked.

She grabbed SAM under her arm and began flying around the room uncontrollably. SAM was greatly sorry she started crying.

Oh no! WALL-E thought, she's gone into 'omochikaeri' mode. I have to save SAM!!!

Omochikaeri is a Japanese saying for "I'm taking it home with me!". EVE found it easier to say than the English definition. When EVE sees cute things (her little sister crying in this case) she goes crazy and, well, tries to take it home with her.

WALL-E knew the only thing to get her out of her 'omochikaeri' fit. He ran after her, when she was close enough to him he lunged at her from behind and grabbed the bowl forms in which her hands collapse into and began to tickle her. She shrieked and let go of SAM, and turned around to face her attacker.

She fought back.

She pried open his compartment and began to feel around the inside. That made him fall over, bringing EVE with him on the wood floor. WALL-E pried open her compartment and began feeling around too.

SAM, ROSE and M-O stared down at the couple tickling each other to death.

"Eager? WALL-E?" ROSE teased.

They both froze and began to untangle themselves from... well... whatever that was. Their faces totally red.

"It's... it's... not... what...think!" he tried to convince her.

"Suuuuuuuure it's not" replied ROSE.

"ROSE!!!" he cried.

EVE just sort of sat there, blushing, mildly confused and drained of her energy from her fit.

"Play...cards?" M-O asked.

That was one thing they did in the club, play games. They'd spend all afternoon playing games (they're on summer vacation) and doing fun things.

"Yes, cards!" agreed EVE.

WALL-E opened his backpack and took out the pack of cards he had brought with him.

"Uh... what we play?" he asked.

"CHEAT!!!" screamed SAM. It was her favourite game because she always beat WALL-E.

"Okay!" agreed ROSE, and they all began to play.

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He couldn't believe it. He lost. Somehow he knew the girls and M-O had cheated... well... not EVE.

"WALL-E lost!" declared ROSE, "... PUNISHMENT TIME!"

That was another thing about the club, if you lost a game you had to pick a scrap of paper from a hat that had a listed punishment written on it. The punishments always were very awkward and made for public humiliation.

ROSE came back with the hat full of paper scraps and pulled one out. The four Axiom bots gathered around the scrap, then a look came over their faces... PURE EVIL!!!

Uh oh... this is gonna be bad he thought.

EVE began to giggle, then they all started to giggle, then it turned into a laugh of pure evil! Before he knew what was going on, EVE and SAM had him pinned to the ground and M-O had him in a head lock. ROSE turned to face him.

"Punishment: Graffiti" she said with MUCH amusement.

That meant everyone was going to take a marker and draw on him. Damn.

After the torture was over, WALL-E was a real mess. He had cat whiskers on the sides of his optics, the Superman symbol on his front, a few cartoon-like scars, and a written threat on his back that said 'PROPERTY OF EVE!!!' written in big letters (as if he needed a sign for that!).

"Fun." he said.

He was walking with EVE on his right and ROSE on his left towards the shaded grassy path that led to his home.

"See ya!" called ROSE.

"BYE!!!"

As soon as ROSE was out of sight EVE scooped up WALL-E and began to fly in the opposite direction.

"Ev-ah?" he asked.

"Come! Want... show you... something."

They flew for awhile until they came to a big grassy hill, on the other side was a large mountain of trash, the last one in the colony. Ever since a formula was developed to break down the chemicals holding the garbage together the trash was able to decompose on it's own into soil. Meaning there were no more places that WALL-E could find his little treasures.

"Ta-DAH!" she giggled.

"Oh..oh..OH MY GAH!" he cried. There were so many treasures he could see just from where he was standing. It was beautiful.

"Ev-ah! Treasures!" he cried, his voice was a little high pitched now from the shock.

She giggled, "Surprise!"

He grabbed her sides, tilted her back, and kissed her, letting a long spark of joy pass between them.

She smiled. "Go... have fun!" she called.

After five minutes of exploration he discovered something. A... pillow? No... a giant stuffed animal! He couldn't use his laser to dislodge it... that would burn the fabric.

EVE would want this!

"Ev-ah!" he called.

"Yes?!"

"Get tools... get out treasure!"

"Ok!"

Staring at the probe as she flew off, he lost his footing (er... treading) and fell backwards into a pile of magazines.

Hey!!! I thought we recycled all the new and old paper already! he thought angrily to himself, Stupid teenagers.

He got a closer look at it, it had a big red stamp on it that said 'REJECTED' over the cover. He began to flip through it, there seemed to be no reason to not publish it. Then something on a page caught his eye, a picture in red ink. He read the cover title, "DISMEMBERED BODY FOUND IN TRASH MOUNTAIN". He gasped.

"D...d...dis... mem... bered" he said the word out loud.

He continued to read the article, 'horrible murder', 'body chopped up into six pieces', 'one arm still not found' came up. Horrified, he dropped the article. He sank low on his treads.

He looked at the cover again, 'May, 15, 2825'.

That was published last year.

He couldn't believe it, last year someone was murdered... no one was told... no one knows... no one knows who did it...

His eyes were now just two little black dots in the center of his light grey eyes... he was truly terrified. Then he heard a sound, like a 'clang'.

He turned around slowly... there was a figure staring down at him... face blocked by the sunset... and holding a large metal cleaver in it's hands.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The figure jumped back and dropped the cleaver, it was EVE.

"Oh! WALL-E!!!" she cried. "Are you... okay?!"

He was panting, he'd never been so scared in his life, not even when he stood up to Auto!

His voice came out squeaky, "Y...yeah... uh... clea...ver?"

"Oh! You...said...'get tools'."

Oh yeah... that's right... he had been so caught up in his reading that he forgot about the stuffed cat. He shook his head.

"Home... getting dark...", he said.

EVE was on his side today and didn't ask questions on the way home. Maybe she did know something about this, but was too afraid to talk about it.

"Ev-ah?" he asked, building his confidence.

"Yes?"

He attempted the next sentence to be clear and short, so she understood it.

"Was... there... a... murder?" he asked as boldly as he could.

EVE suddenly stopped moving and began to hover in one place.

"NO." her voice boomed, it had gone from cute and sweet to... something that made his whole body shiver. As if he had accused her. Her eyes were in angry slits, and her hands were in their 'fin' position.

"oh..." he attempted to be as bold as he was before, trying not to show how much this whole thing was terrifying him, "... ok."

EVE's face snapped back to it's original cute form. She giggled and began to float back to the home beside him. They did not speak the rest of the night.

Even as he lay in bed, he could not forget the words ' dismembered body', and got no sleep that night.

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"Ooh! YAY! Festival!"

It was the night of the Festival of Green. Two days after the strangeness he recived from was held every year in honour of the robots who saved the earth and brought them home. There was singing dancing and one of the robots would host the festival by ripping open an old mattress of cotton and giving everyone piece to let float down the river (it was bio-degradable)as a way of spiritually getting rid of our worries. It was M-O's turn this year. Everyone watched in the crowd as he took a large sickle, and delicately tore a hole in the mattress, letting the cotton spill out. Everyone cheered.

After M-O was done They all met up at the river bank.

"Good job... M-O!" exclaimed WALL-E.

The group that had come to congratulate him WALL-E, EVE, ROSE, SAM, John, Mary, Captain Mc. Crea and a NAN-E bot named ANNE. Everyone chatted for awhile, then they took their cotton pieces and let them slip away into the river current. ROSE and SAM were fighting over who's cotton they thought would get the farthest down the river without getting caught on a piece of drift wood, WALL-E and EVE let their cotton pieces drift and held each other's hands as they watched the puffy balls float gracefully down the river, John, Mary and Mc. Crea were chatting as John snapped a couple of pictures and M-O was watching from further upstream.

After everyone had gone home, WALL-E remained at the river and was watching the full moon. ROSE was sitting next to him. He thought maybe she had some answers to the dismembered body thing.

"ROSE..." he began.

She turned to face him, her lime green eyes cheerfully smiling back at him.

"... was there... um... a murder?"

ROSE's face snapped into angry position and her eyes narrowed at him.

"None."

Her sudden rejection took him by surprise and he jumped back, but he fell over.

She hovered away.

Same answer as EVE.

"Y' know it may happen again this year."

WALL-E turned around to see ANNE staring at him.

"Th' curse, of Oyashiro."

He was completely puzzled. "Huh?"

"Don't y' know?" she giggled "Every year now for about four years, someone dies on th' night 'o' th' festival, another goes missing."

He froze, the words 'DISMEMBERED BODY' ran through his head again.

"Wonder who it will be this year..."

ANNE left, WALL-E was left there, This has happened every year... for four years... no one knows... so how does she? What's an Oyashiro? THIS IS INSAINE!!!

He walked home by himself. EVE was waiting in bed for him.

"...WALL-E!"

He didn't answer, he remembered EVE's reaction to the question yesterday... better not get her mad now he thought, he simply climbed into bed and closed his eyes, waiting for the darkness of sleep to consume him.

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The next day, at the club, mid way through a game, WALL-E went out on the porch for a breather.

"WALL-E!"

He looked up to see Captain Mc. Crea staring back at him.

"Come! I need to talk to you!" he called.

WALL-E rolled himself off the porch and onto the sandy beach and up to Mc. Crea. "Follow me." he commanded. Finally, they approached a hover-car. "Get in," he commanded, "we need to talk." After getting himself into the back seat of the hover-car, Mc. Crea sat in the front and began to speak to him in a very serious tone.

"WALL-E, you were with John last night, right?"

He nodded.

"After the festival, where did you last see him?"

"... At bridge... with ANNE." he replied. Why's he asking such strange questions?

"*sigh*... WALL-E, John... died last night."

His hard-drive nearly stopped.

"W...w... WAHT?!"

"I'm so sorry, we haven't released it to the public yet, not even to Mary. It's the way he died though, that unsettles me the most..."

WALL-E was utterly shocked, John was the first human he met, they were really close.

"... he scratched out his throat with his own finger nails."

Yet again, WALL-E let out another "WAHT?!"

"We haven't told anyone yet... but this has happened five years in a row now."

WALL-E jumped, The curse of Oyashiro he thought.

"Every year since 2021 on the night of the festival, one person dies, another goes missing... and well... ANNE's gone missing."

This can't be happening!

"From what I heard, it has something to do with the curse of Oyashiro. Though, I think its someone in the colony who's been killing off all these people. Some idiot paper boy tried to publicly reveal this in the magazines, luckily we rejected the article before it was sent out."

"DISMEMBERED BODY" the words rang through his head again.

"D... dis... mem...bered... body" he said weakly.

"Oh! You know about last year's fatality, I knew you'd come across the rejects sooner or later, I warned the officials!"

He nodded weakly, the murders, the curse, it was all true!

"Oh, before you go, don't tell EVE or ROSE what I told you."

"Why?" He remembered the way she reacted to his question.

"Lets just say, its better for our safety if they don't know. And theirs."

At that WALL-E left the hover-car and began rolling up to the cabin to conitunue his game. Though he couldn't help but wonder why he couldn't tell EVE...

Sadly, he was about to find out...

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Everyone had left, but it was WALL-E's turn to clean up... meaning EVE would be there too.

He came across something... a piece of paper? A note! It said in sloppy letters 'I'M SORRY SAM- BURN-E'

Who's BURN-E? he wondered.

Now he was desperate for answers.

"Ev-ah? BURN-E?"

EVE froze, like she did the last time, "He... got sent to Axiom duty." That seemed to be her attempt at calm.

"Oh..." he could tell very well she was lying. Why was everyone lying to him? What did he do? Was is because he wasn't 'Axiom material'? That was it he guessed.

On the walk back home, he finally concluded that he needed answers, so he was going to ask EVE again about it... no more lies.

"Ev-ah...", he began.

She turned her head and looked at him with big beautiful blue eyes. "Yea?"

"Why... you... lie... to... me?" he asked as boldly as he could.

She was stunned.

"Eh? I... don't... lie!"

He was growing impatient.

"Lying!" he retorted. Losing his temper, he grabbed her by the arms and screamed, "WHAT-ARE-YOU-HIDING?!?!"

EVE was silent. He regret yelling at her. His optics drooped and he let go of her arms. He was about to appologize when...

"Then..." she said at last, "what about you?...WALL-E?" her voice was tinted with something... then she looked up at him.

Her eyes were wide and... horrifying! They were suddenly a slightly darker blue and had a long black slit down the middle of them, like a cat... no... a demon!

"Are you hiding things... are you?" she asked, holding her wide, evil, stare.

"N-no!" he prompted. Anything he hid, it was because it was going to keep her safe... right?

"Liar!" she spat.

She moved closer to him... her demonic eyes getting closer all the time... it sent tremors throughout his whole body.

"You were talking... with Mc. Crea... about what? What did you talk about?"

He promised he'd keep that a secret! But... how did she know? He didn't see her near the hover-car.

"N..." he started to become desperate, "NOTHING...ABOUT...YOU!!!" he shouted... hoping it was more convincing than it sounded.

She paused... he waited in utter silence, if could have sweated he'd be drenched.

"So..." she began at last, "it... nothing to do with us?" she said in her original cute voice.

He nodded, full of relief. Then she lunged forward at him. Her eyes as demonic as ever in furious slits.

"YOU'RE LYING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

The nearby window panes on houses shattered, and birds took off into the sky at the terrible disturbance, he wish he could have too.

His entire body was trembling as she hovered towards him.

"Just like you have secrets... EVE and everyone else do to." her voice was softer now, more seductive... that didn't calm him one bit.

Th...that's not EVE... who is that... who looks like my EVE?!

And just like that, her eyes became full, light blue, normal, up-turned U's.

"WALL-E, home! It... getting dark!" she called cheerfully. She sped away towards their truck.

He sank low on his treads and made a 'bloop' that meant something like What the hell was that?!?! EVE's eyes were... scary... and she yelled at him (worse than usual)... threatened him! Why was she acting like this? Why did she hate him so suddenly? What the hell is wrong in this colony? People murdered and no one knows why, Axiom robots are acting like demons, humans killing themselves, curses, dismembered bodies, EVE acting psycho, his best human friend dead and not even his wife knows why! WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS TOWN!?!?

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He finally got home, EVE wasn't there. There was a note on the side table, it read 'WALL-E, I'm going over to ROSE's home, she needs help with her TV. Be back later! Love EVE.' Good he thought. He'd never thought he'd be so happy to be alone. Suddenly the phone rang. He rushed for it.

"H...hello?" he said.

"Ah! WALL-E! Good it's you, there's something I should tell you about EVE... she not there... is she?"

"No..."he replied

"Good, because this may scare you a little."

"Okay... go ahead." by now he thought nothing could scare him.

"Well... I was hoping I'd never tell you this... when EVE was created... she was sent on the Axiom to work as an attendant. But then things happened around 2105..."

His eyes were wide with anticipation, "W... what happened?"

"EVE started to act funny... then one day she took a baseball bat from the virtual games and went around the Axiom, and broke every single window."

"EV-AH?!?!" he exclaimed.

He stared in horror... EVE... HIS EVE... would do something like that!??!

A dream... this has to be a dream... a nightmare! EVE would never EVER do something like that!

"But it wasn't just her, one probe was shut down forever for what she did! ROSE and SAM were acting funny too, so we shut them down and only woke them up when they had to complete their directives. By then no one knew of her past, I looked it up one day by accident. Ever since then she's been completely normal."

Wh... what the hell?! This is gone too far... why did I never hear this?! He thought angrily to himself.

"WALL-E? You still there?"

He jerked back into reality, "y...y...yea."

"Good... the good thing about this is that the probes' memories were deleted from the incident, hopefully removing whatever it was that disturbed her so much, she doesn't remember a thing."

A knock on the door made him jump.

"WALL-E what's that?" Mc. Crea had probably heard the loud noise he made.

"I... call back... someone here."

"Okay, bye."

"Bye"

He hung up and rushed to the door. He opened it, and there was EVE and ROSE. He nearly had a heart attack.

"WALL-E!" ROSE said playfully, "Heard you not feel good."

"So, we bring you medcidine!" EVE continued.

The way robots took 'medicine' (or 'medcidine" as EVE says) was through a tube filled with liquid medicine into the power chords connected to his mother board. It was the safest way.

"Oh, thank you!" he replied. He stared at EVE, her beautiful face, her slender body, her beautiful voice, there's no way she could have done all that horrible stuff!

"Oh, by the way..."began ROSE.

"How are you feeling?" her voice had drastically changed the way EVE's had earlier that day. The two probes looked back at him with demonic eyes, blue and green stares of pure suspicion and demonic evil burning into him.

"I... uh... um... Okay" he managed at last.

"Oh really? You don't look 'okay'." said EVE in the soft demonic way she did earlier that day, tilting her floating head to one side.

"You should have some 'Adviz' (what robots take when they don't feel too good). "here... take this... guess who prepared it for you." ROSE said in the same demonic way.

They shoved the package at him and both turned away towards ROSE's home. WALL-E stood there fear stricken, shutting the door.

"Oh, one more thing..." ROSE had wedged her hand in the door, her left eye only visible through the crack of the door. "... EVE's sleeping over... make sure you're not absent tomorrow." she pulled her hand out of the way and let the door close. WALL-E's eyes were nothing more than two little dots again. He looked at the package and opened it. There was a note, ' Hope you feel better, use every drop, guess who made it!"

He sighed, maybe they were just trying to help, maybe this whole thing was his imagination, maybe he did need some Adviz.

He unwrapped the package to find five vials with the letters A to E written on them. He wrapped his hand around the last vial with the letter 'E' on it. EVE probably made this one, he could just guess. He was about to insert the tube into his wires, when he tripped and the vial went flying, it smashed onto the floor. Running to get a wet rag to mop up the blue mess when something pricked his finger. He leaned forward and picked up the almost invisible object out of the blue medicine puddle and examined it.

It was a needle.

A sewing needle.

Inside the medicine.

Then he lost it.

Terrified and confused, he screamed as loud as he could, took the remaining vials and threw them against the wall, glass and medicine flying everywhere. They had tried to kill him. They made it very clear. He knew now, the robot he loved was gone and trying to destroy him, his best friends are lying and keeping secrets, and he was in serious danger.

He knew he was going into a battle he'd have to fight alone.

So he got out a black marker and piece of paper and began to write:

My name is WALL-E, if you are reading this, I am dead. I don't know why but someone is trying to kill me, it all has to do with Oyashiro's curse..."

Now he needed a place to hide it. Where was a place the cops would look if the unthinkable happened? Then it hit him. HELLO, DOLLY!!! It was perfect! He took the note, folded it and taped it to the back of the video.

Tomorrow, he'd begin his battle alone.

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He got up early.

He went out to the out back behind the club and took a base-ball bat from the closet and practiced swinging. He did that all morning long.

"WALL-E?"

He turned around, there was M-O and SAM.

"Watcha' doin?" SAM asked.

He kept his guard, he remembered the captain's words "ROSE and SAM were acting funny too...", he kept calm and made his voice steady, but he didn't smile.

"Base-ball... practice!" he replied and held up the bat.

SAM stared at it for a moment with a hint of... something in her eyes. Sadness? She turned and flew away. He stared after her.

"WALL-E..." began M-O, "... don't... lose... that bat."

He wasn't sure, but to him, that sounded like a warning.

"Okay... will."

Later that evening he continued to whip the bat across the air, when he heard a noise.

He whipped around to see ROSE and EVE looking at him oddly, not demonically, as if to say "WTF are you doing?"

"Yo, you okay?" ROSE asked.

He cringed, how could she even ask that?! After what she had tried to do to him!

"I..." he began, he needed an aliby, "...I... I think... I want... join baseball team! Practicing!"

"Oh, " EVE replied. She and ROSE exchanged a worried look. "... have fun!"

He took a long pause, then said something that seemed to make the two probes cringe.

"Leave. Me. Alone." he growled, "I... not come... to club anymore."

He turned away to continue his swinging, he didn't even notice the horrified looks on the probes' faces.

After awhile, the two of them left, once out of sight, WALL-E whipped the bat at the ground, like he was trying to beat the ground into power. He took another swing to the ground, and again, and again, and again.

"DAMN IT!!!" he screamed.

He continued to whip the ground with the bat.

"DAMN IT!!! DAMN IT!!! DAMN IT!!! DAMN IT!!! DAMN IT!!!"

After awhile, he began to make his way home. Then he heard a noise behind him. He swung around to see EVE staring at him.

"What?!" he shouted.

She cringed and hid behind her backpack.

"W... w..."

"WHAT?!?!"

"... we live together! I... g-go... this way!"

He narowed his eyes, not like he was gonna be home while she was there, he might not survive the next attempt at his life! He move to the side and pointed towards his home.

"Go..." he commanded. He didn't want her behind him, incase she had a cleaver in her backpack.

EVE looked a little unsure, but he wasn't letting his guard down for a second.

"GO!!!"

"WALL-E... put down bat... you scaring me..." she pleaded.

"No."

She cringed and then floated slowly towrds the home, he followed not to far behind her making sure she wasn't going to try anything funny. She stopped dead and it made him jump.

"I. SAID. GO." he growled.

She seemed to be shivering.

"...why?" she began. "... why... you... like this?"

He tensened up his robotic mucles.

"KEEP. MOVING." he growled.

"... why?"

"KEEP. MOVING."

"... why?"

"I. SAID. KEEP. MOVING."

"... why?"

"DAMN IT!!!!!!!!!!!"

"WHY YOU BEING LIKE BURN-E!?!?!" she screamed through her tears.

He froze, what did that mean?

"THAT'S NOT YOUR BAT!!! IT'S BURN-E'S!!!" she shouted.

Stunned, he looked on the handle of the bat, there was the name 'BURN-E' carved into the handle with big letters. EVE began to sob and shiver.

"... BURN-E... start coming to club... alone... just like you!" she sobbed, "... and then... he stop coming... to club... just like you!"

WALL-E stared at the quvering probe infrot of him. He was starting to get a little scared.

"... and then... he join base ball team... just like you... and then... he starts... carrying bat... everywhere... just like you!!!"

"Ev-ah..." he began.

"... and... and... then... one day... he-"

"Ev-ah... what happen? To BURN-E?"

She began her horrifying transformation yet again. She turned around to reveal her demonic eyes.

"I told you... BURN-E... was sent away to the Axiom..."

more like 'disappeared' he thought.

She lunged forward to him, her face barely touching his, eyes burning into him.

"You won't go to the Axiom... will you? Will you? Because there is no way I'm going to let you transfer."

Terrified, he shook his head. He wasn't going to run away. He wasn't going to end up like BURN-E... no way in hell.

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There was a knock on the door.

He got up to answer it when a white hand shoved it's way through the opening crack. Stunned he stopped the door.

"WALL-E! Do feel better?"

It was EVE... for once in his long existence... he didn't want to see her.

"...good." he said at last.

"Let me come in... we watch 'Hello, Dolly!' okay?"

"Uh... no... I-I going to bed... tired."

She paused, he wasn't going to open the door.

"WALL-E, who was that... on the phone? The other night?" her tone changed again.

His eyes darted towards hers, they were hidden in the shadows.

"Uh... John! Talking about... pictures!" that seemed like a reasonable anwser, no one but him knew John was dead.

"You're mean, what have I done to make you lie to me?"

He froze, her eyes were in the awful dark position that sent tremors throughout his body.

"That was not John... that was Mc. Crea!" she boomed, "John... was killed... by Oyashiro."

This was too much. How did she know all this?

"How..." he asked "...how do... you know... all this?"

She began to giggle... then laugh hysterically.

"I KNOW, BECAUSE I WAS RIGHT BEHIND YOU THE WHOLE TIME!!!!!!"

His eyes were nothing more that small black specks. On the phone, his back was up against the wall, a wall of 2 layers of thick steel. She couldn't have heard their conversation, could she?

Her hand was reaching for the lever to open the door.

"Let me in... WALL-E..."

Please...

"...I said let me in!"

... just go...

"... WALL-E!"

"GO AWAY!!!!!!"

He grabbed the lever and jammed it to the floor crushing EVE's hands in the door.

"Ow! WALL-E! It hurts! STOP!" her voice was normal again. But he couldn't stop, if he let go... she'd go 'demon' and kill him.

"GO AWAY!!!!!!"

Her screams echoed in his home, she was in real pain! But he was over the deep end, he couldn't be stopped!

"I'm sorry!"

"GO AWAY!!!!!!"

Finally she got her hands unstuck and fell to the ground on the other side of the door. She floated up and sadly rested her floating head on the door. WALL-E was doing the same on the other side of the door.

"I'm sorry." she whispered through the door.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry..." she continued to whisper through her sobs.

"GO AWAY!!!!!!" he shouted.

She flew away.

"I'm sorry." she called behind her.

Part of him was too. He sank low to the floor and began to sob quietly to himself.

Insane... this is insane... I just hurt EVE! Why... why is she trying to kill me?

The phone rang. He wiped his eyes and picked it up, but he looked behind himself first.

"H... hello?"

"WALL-E!"

It was Mc. Crea.

"My man! How ya doin'?"

He couldn't bring himself to talk to him about what just happened.

"...good."

"WALL-E, have the two girls been acting odd lately?"

He couldn't stop, before he knew it he had spilled the entire story of what happened over the past three days.

"I see..." Mc. Crea finally said at last, "...do you still have the needle?"

He gasped and began searching the floor for it.

That's odd... where did it go? Where did the medicine go too? I don't remeber cleaning up the other vials... and EVE hasn't been home since her sleepover with ROSE!

He picked up the phone again.

"Did you find it?"

"No."

He heard a low rumble and a crack. It was raining.

"WALL-E... I'm sorry... I should have taken more precaution with..."

He opened the door a crack to take a look at the rain, when he saw her. EVE was standing under the street lamp at the corner of the street. Her eyes in sad U's. He could hear her voice drift over the wind and rain to his heart.

What are you saying...?

"WALL-E, you still there?"

"I'm sorry." he said.

"...what?"

He realized she was apologizing over and over, tears running down her face, rain and tears pooling in the dome under her head and spilling out in tiny streams of water.

"I'm sorry." he repeated.

"... WALL-E are you ok?" Mc. Crea asked.

"I'm sorry."

"WALL-E?!? What are you apologizing for?!?"

He snapped back to reality, "C-captain? BURN-E? What... happen to... BURN-E?"

"Ah, I knew sometime you were going to ask that sometime, BURN-E was a welder bot on the Axiom, he was built at the same time as SAM and was programmed with her, they were like brother and sister!"

Oh! That makes sense why she was so sad when she saw his bat.

"They lived together, but because they were younger models, they were sent to live with a human family around 2819. But something was wrong."

He tensed himself, cautiously looking behind him every 2 minutes.

"Reports of abuse were coming from near by homes saying that it sounded that the couple taking care of them were abusing them, then on the night of the 'Green festival' the woman who was taking care of them 'Dianne' was murdered. She was the third person to become the victim of Oyashiro's curse in 2823."

"SAM... was... abused?" he gasped.

"Yes, I'm afraid so."

He was stunned. He never got to know the probes that well, until earlier that summer.

Poor girl... NO! She's a demon-bot too! I can't be ensnared into their traps!

"After that, for some reason, BURN-E disappeared too, confirming Oyashiro's curse for yet another year. After he disapeared, Brent was taken away from SAM, as a prime suspect for the two... strange happenings. She now lives with M-O, she seems happier than before."

He paused then looked towards the door again, there were long streaks of oil where EVE had her fingers smashed into.

"C-Captain... what... can you... tell me..." he whipped behind him to see if anyone was there, "... about EVE?"

Mc. Crea paused. Then he began to speak in a sad tone.

"I can tell you a few things, but don't go telling other people about this, okay?"

"Okay..."

"Okay, here goes. Remeber the little story I told you? Where EVE smashed all the windows in the axiom?"

He shivered.

"Uh huh..."

"Well, there were a few victims that day too, three men were beaten by EVE with her baseball bat, one even lost an eye."

He gasped.

"That's not all, you know, when I said to you earlier that Oyashiro's Curse was probably a cover-up for someone in the colony commiting these horrible acts?" he took a long pause, "I'm starting to believe maybe the curse is real."

WALL-E's eyes widened.

"When we sent a counsellor to try to find out what mentally possessed her to do such horrible things, she'd say that Oyashiro would stand over her at night, watching her every move, she said that he was real. And really mad."

He hung up. The room seemed to echo in his dispair. It was true, EVE wasn't what she apeared to be. His eyes rested on BURN-E's bat beside his bed and shivered.

So, BURN-E did become a victim of the curse... or a conspiracy... maybe, he got too close to the demon side of his 'sister', or EVE and ROSE...

He opened the door again, EVE was still out there, watching him, apologizing, and still sobbing.

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The next day he continued to swing his bat outside the club on the front lawn.

EVE glided silently and saddly past him. He noticed the bandages wrapped around her fingers.

"Yo! WALL-E!"

He didn't even turn around to greet ROSE. This annoyed her.

"Put down... that annoying." she commanded.

He stopped swinging and turned around to face ROSE.

"Shut up." he growled.

He turned back to continue his swinging.

"What. Your. Problem." ROSE snorted.

He stopped once again. But this time, he had more to say.

"You... all... lie... to... me!" he hissed.

ROSE was stunned.

"W-we... didn't-"

"YES YOU DID!!!"

ROSE was taken aback by his ferocity.

"You said... nothing happen... at dump... BUT SOMEONE WAS CHOPPED UP INTO LITTLE BITS THERE?!?!?!?!"

ROSE's eyes were beginning to for sad green U's.

"WALL-E... friends... don't lie!"

"LIAR!!!! YOU AREN'T MY FRIENDS!!!"

ROSE began sobbing. He didn't care, she was obviously faking it, then once his guard was down, she'd kill him. He rolled away towards the path that led to his house, when ROSE's voice made him stop dead in his tracks.

"I know... " she growled, "... It was Mc. Crea who told you all this... that bastard..."

He turned around but kept a firm grip on the bat.

"... you're time is up old man... YOU'RE DEAD!!!"

She shot off like a rocket into the sky leaving WALL-E alone and paranoid.

He turned towards the pathway to his home at around sunset and started rolling quicker than usual... then he heard a noise. Not wanting to take any chances, he hid behind a tree. Peeking out, he could clearly see EVE... carrying a cleaver, eyes in demon form, coming towards him. He shuddered.

Crap! What's she doing with a hachet?

He glanced over at the path again, but she was gone.

"Found you, WALL-E!"

He whipped around to see EVE hovering behind him. His eyes widened.

"GAH! Ev-ah!"

Her eyes scanned him, there ice blue burning into him like a blue sun. She remained silent.

"H-h-hachet?" he stuttered. He watched as her bandaged fingers tightened around the handle of the large cleaver. She said nothing.

"What... it for? WHAT. IT. FOR?!?!?!?!" he shouted.

She began laughing hysterically, her head bobbing slightly making her look less and less sane. Finally her insane laughter ceased and she narrowed her cat-like eyes at him.

"Tell me, is there something bugging you?"

His eyes narrowed but he didn't move.

"Have you ever had someone appologize to you? Over and over... nonstop?"

His mind darted back to the previous night when he jammed her hands in the door and she stood outside in the rain appologizing over and over.

"You know... when BURN-E was still here I knew something was bugging him... but I never got to ask what it was that made him so afraid, I really regret that."

She let out a long chilling sigh.

"But, I worry about you when you act his way..." she hovered up to him.

"... all you need is to trust me..." she leaned forward.

"... because I'll save you..." her face was barely touching his, but his eyes were fixated on the cleaver in her bandaged hand.

Panicking, he shoved her against a tree and sped away towrds his truck. He could hear the insaine laughter of EVE ehco throughout the forest. But he didn't stop, afraid she had bounced back and was now hot on his trail.

Suddenly a man in a gray jump suit appeared before him, he was relieved to see someone that could help him. But he was wrong. The man lunged at him and cracked him over the head with a shovel.

Everything went black.

He awoke in the club, on a sleeping bag.

"So... feel better?"

He looked around, EVE was at his right side, ROSE was at the end of the sleeping bag.

"Wah... what... you... do... with... me?" he stuttered.

They remained silent. It was EVE who broke the tense silence with her insane laughter, then ROSE joined in.

"... what?!" he continued.

It was ROSE who spoke, "... you seem okay but, you didn't answer the question... who made the medicine..."

He tensed up his robotic muscles preparing for her answer.

"... so you must pay... the punishment." her smile was as evil as hell.

She opened her bio-status chamber and took out a long syringe.

"Hope you feel... better... WALL-E" smirked EVE.

"No..."he choked.

EVE got behind him and grabbed his arms and twisted them behind his back.

"... no..."

They both began to giggle.

"... no..."

She took off the cap off the needle and came towards him.

"... NO!!!"

He pulled his arm free and grabbed the bat that lay beside the sleeping bag and began to swing it around, and smashed ROSE in the face and cracking her screen, EVE in shock, loosened her grip on him and he sprang forward and began to beat ROSE until she stopped moving.

"W... WALL-E!!!"

He turned around, his eyes flaming with intensity in narrowed eyes full of pain and paranoia and anger charged at EVE and smashed the side of her head in. EVE, lying on the ground her demonic eyes wide in fear through the cracks in her face. He stood over her and let the bat smash into her white metal until it was mangled and covered in oil.

He turned around to finnish off ROSE. When he turned back towrds EVE. She was sitting up trying to grab him by the neck, but he was too fast and cracked the bat over her head that knocked her over onto the floor once again.

He swung the bat over his head, breaking the light over head him and put one last final dent in their broken bodies.

Panting, he ran the bat over their dead bodies then let it fall to his side.

"AAAAAAAUUUGHHHHHHHH!!!!!" he screamed in dismay. "EV-AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!"

He stared at the body of his best friend, then at his beloved mate. He had killed them.

Shaking, he suddenly did something he never thought he would in a million years, through his tears, he began to laugh.

Even though he was heart broken, he was a murderer, his best friend is dead, and so was his girlfriend, and all he could do was laugh.

He turned to leave the room, but left one last glance at EVE.

"I... really... loved you..." he whispered. Letting out a long painful sigh he sobbed, "... what? What... all this... for? Why... this... happen?"

He felt his neck, it was itchy... really itchy. He began to scratch. He felt a presence looming over him. He heard a shuffling behind him, he turned around. No one was there. He continued to scratch.

"... who's... there..."

Silence.

"... are you..."

His eyes narrowed to tiny black dots.

"... Oya... shi...ro?"

His fingers still scratching his neck.

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He unsteadily ran for his home, opening the door and grabbed the 'Hello, Dolly!' video and swiped the note off it.

... I have just been attacked by my two beloved friends, they were trying to kill me. Here is a sample of the drug they tried to put into my system. Oyashiro is coming to get me... by now, I am most likely dead. On my death, I just ask one thing, find out the truth about my death, find out the truth about Oyashiro- WALL-E

He felt the presence around him again.

Quickly (and some-what sloppily) he taped the syringe on the back of the tape as well.

He ran outside, trying to escape the looming black figure, still scratching his neck, GOD it itched.

There was a telephone booth.

He grabbed the phone and dialled the number to Mc. Crea's home.

5... 2... oh god it itches... 9...9... ow it's starting to hurt... 8

He waited and listened to the dial tone. Scratching his neck, he looked down at his fingers, they were covered in oil.

"*yawns*... H...hello?"

"C... captain!" his voice was cracked and shaky.

"WALL-E? WALL-E, do you have any idea what time it is?" he yawned sleepily.

"Capt..."

"Hey... WALL-E... what's wrong?"

"O..."

"WALL-E are you ok?!"

"...ya..."

"Where are you?"

"...shi..."

"I'm coming to get you, stay there!"

"...ro..."

He fell limply to the ground... pressed his hand on the glass and let it slide down in a stream of oil.

The phone dangled from the chord and Mc. Crea's voice echoed in the closet sized phone booth.

"WALL-E? are you there? WALL-E... WALLE?!"

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(Mc. Crea's POV)

August, 2, 2826

"What a mess..." he sighed. He looked out the window, the rain dripping in the windows of his office.

He looked over the accident.

At approximately, 7:08pm June, 30, 2826, the beaten bodies of EVE PROBE:1 (EVE) and EVE PROBE:2 (ROSE) were found at the small

cabin known to the public as the 'ROBOTZ CLUB', it looked alot like manslaughter, but from the angle the dents were implanted it

can be assumed that it may have been self defence. An hour later, the body of the WASTE ALLOCATION LOAD LIFTER EARTH-CLASS

(WALL-E) was found in the telephone booth with his neck wires scratched out with his own fingers. It can be assumed that he was

put under some sort of drug, but when he was in diagnosis, nothing turned up. We searched the victims' home and found a note

attached to the back of a video tape. The note was torn in three pieces so it seems that there is a part of the note someone didn't want to

be read. From what we can piece together, the note read:

"My name is WALL-E, if you are reading this, I am dead. I don't know why but someone is trying to kill me, (*note cuts off*)

I have just been attacked by my two beloved friends, they were trying to kill me. (*notes cuts off*)

Oyashiro is coming to get me... by now, I am most likely dead. On my death, I just ask one thing, find out the truth about my death,

find out the truth about Oyashiro- WALL-E"

From the amount of tape, it seems that there might have been something else taped to the back of the video. We confronted the close

friends of the victims [Mary Goodwin, EVE PROBE:4 (SAM),and the Microbe-Obliterator (M-O)], and questioned them. Nothing came

up that would be any use in solving the case. The investigation is not going to be released to the public.

He sighed, and looked out the door to his office, in the waiting room M-O had his scrubber brush removed and was embracing SAM with his short arms what had four fingers that were attached to his hand unlike SAM. SAM was sobbing and crying.

"WALL-E... ROSE... EVE... WHY?!?"

M-O saddly patted her head and Mary sat there with tears brimming in her eyes.

Mc. Crea turned away and went back to his desk, his eyes stinging. He wiped his eyes with his sleeve.

"I should have helped more..."he thought aloud.

I just hope... you three are at peace now, with the world and each other."

END

(A/N: Hiya! Thanks for reading the 'Spirited Away by the Demon Chapter'! I know, I know, WALL-E was TOTALLY out of character in some parts, but it'll all make sense soon enough. Oh yeah! Keep a look out for 'The Reliance Chapter', It's from EVE and ROSE's POV on what just happened. Also, even though it says END right up there, it's just beginning! Your friend, the great and insane, ChihiroSazumia.)