A lone spirit wandered across the grassy plains, it's feet trudging, dragging itself along through the grass. It let out a low growl, which rumbled through the grounds it walked on. Its body was filled with contaminants, garbage, or basically anything that was covered in filth. All it wanted was to rid itself of these "sins", but it has a ways to walk to the bathhouse still. He heard from a fellow spirit thy could help him, so he had decided to make the journey, and also joining him was another spirit. It was taller in stature, but with this one, it was different. Every step it took it killed the life forms surrounding.

The taller one had bubbles of poison leaking out of it, and letting fums into the air. It growled and groaned as it limped behind the other spirit in front of it. It's eyes could be barely seen considering two rods went through it's head. The poor spirit had so much trash stuck in it, it was disgusting. The billowing poison surrounding it in a cloud a death basically. If you got within a few feet of it you would probably gag, throw up, or even pass out.

"Are we there yet?" groaned the taller one.

"We...We'll be there soon enough," said the shorter one. "They'll help us...They'll cleanse us of our impurities."


Chihiro ran down the stairs to the ground floor where the baths were. Her hair flowing behind her as she wrapped around the last corner on the stairs and leaped on the floor and ran to where Lin had said to meet her. The little ten year old had grown over the past two weeks. She had grown stronger, yet there was a part of her that still contained that small whiny side. The way she ran showed she had confidence, and wasn't going to let anything get in her way.

Her feet slid across the wet floor, but she quickly caught herself before she face planted into the floor. Chihiro regained her balance and continued to run. She said hi to various spirits as she passed them, and she finally reached the large tub where Lin was.

"You're finally here you dope," said Lin with a smirk.

"Thanks to the wet floor I almost fell."

"That's why you're a dope."

Chihiro rolled her eyes and stuck out her tongue. "Do we seriously have to clean this tub again? I thought we did this yesterday," muttered Chihiro.

"Witch ordered us to do it. The old hag has nothing better to do anyway."

"Lin watch what you say," whispered Chihiro.

"Oh yeah forgot...Whatever." Lin let off a shrug and ushered Chihiro to come over to the side of the tub. Lin began to explain what they had to clean and such, she also explained the daily routine to Chihiro. Yesterday had been eventful, but in a bad way. Everything that had happened was still fresh in Chihiro's mind; however, she was oing her best to forget it all. The ten year old didn't need anymore things on her mind. Chihiro just wanted to make the best of what she had at the moment. Even if he parents were still pigs, she was somehow supposed to die, even though she was probably never going to leave, she told herself she was going to make the best of the current situation.

"You dope," yelled Lin. "You paying attention to me at all?"

Chihiro snapped out of her trance and rubbed her eyes.

"Yeah, of course."

Lin rolled her eyes and put her hands on her him.

"What did I just say then?"

"Ummm...Uhhh..."

"See you weren't paying attention."

"Fine, I wasn't." Chihiro listened to Lin this time as she explained everything once more. Chihiro did drift off a bit, but she tried to keep her mind put. After a few minutes Chihiro nodded and grabbed a sponge from the bucket on the other side of the the room. As she ran over to the tub they were supposed to be cleaning, a foul stench caught her nose.

'What is that?' she thought.

As Chihiro forced herself to climb the side of the tube, with a sponge in hand, the smell got worse. She sucked a ton of air in and tried not to breath. As she slung her arm over the side of the tub, she could feel the grim along the inside of it. She knew this was nasty, but she continued to pull herself up. She was finally able to poke her head over the top of the tub, but it was not exactly a good thing.

The tub was covered in dirt, garbage, waste, and such. It almost made Chihiro hurl on the spot, but she held it back, knowing she couldn't throw up.

'Why?' she thought. 'Why do I always get the stupid dirty, disgusting tubs?'


Hi! Sorry for the short chapter, once again. Next one should be about 2,000 words or more. I just wanted to get this out before I start typing the next chapter for Winds of the Lost. Thank you to everyone that reviewed, and hope you guys continue to enjoy the story. Well off to fix the Christmas tree my little sister just happened to fall into :/ Lol ttyl and REVIEW! :D