Hey all! So So SoooOOOO sorry i've been gone so long, school work, can't get rid of it. I mad you guys an extra long chapter to make up for it. I love you all! Review please or send me feedback I love to hear from you guys!
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She woke up the next morning with not a clue of anything, she had only remembered seeing Haku leave and nothing else. She assumed that she had been too tired to remember that she had walked back to the bath house and into her bed. She did wake up in bed and she woke up with not a care in the world, she was happy and that's all that mattered to her. That's all she ever wanted to be was happy, it just always seemed as if she was never happy like everything to her was like the same thing, there was nothing let alone no one who ever stood out besides her. Being the different one that no one understands is hard, it was very hard. No one would ever understand you. It was like you were speaking in a language no one knew.
Sen walked out side to the balcony hall way and leaned over the edge seeing the water shimmering in the sun light. It was about 8:30 in the morning, she was one of the first people up from her room since it was most of their days off. She let out a sigh and began to walk down the hall way still fixated on the water like, like she just wanted to dive right in. The water was as flat as glass, it was a pure blue you were able to see right through it when you looked. You could also in the distance see the train tracks which were now about a foot covered in the beautiful water.
As she looked she couldn't help but hear rustling in the wind, almost like buzzing but... Paper. She turned looking into the sky sheilding her eyes from the sun's rays. She couldn't see anything but blue and a few clouds. She turned her head over to look across from where she was looking to see Haku. He seemed to be twirling around in the air surrounded by white. She smiled at the sight, 'It's Haku...' she thought just watching.
She saw him plunge down towards the water with the white following him. The white was too far away for her to see what they really were. Haku came flying as fast as he could across the water getting closer and closer to her. He glided across the water beneath her the up the side of the wall. She ran over to watch him finding that what ever was following him was... Paper? He was bleeding, there were cuts all over his body. the blood kept dripping down from him and falling on to the balcony and on her. She stood not knowing what to do. She was in a panic, Haku was in-trouble, she had to do something.
"Haku!" she shouted running over to her doors opening them widely, "Haku! Over here!" She shouted waving her arms at the dragon as he came bursting with speed over to her and through the doors. HE had hit the back wall and laid there for a moment while she tried closing the doors. Hundreds of what now looked to be paper birds pelted her in the face and through out her body. She ripped them all off as soon as they stopped coming and she ran to Haku, "Haku.. Are you okay?" she asked reaching out to place a hand on his snout. He growled showing his teeth to her as he got up weakly and flew away. fast breaking the doors. She ran out following him and leaning over backwards on the balcony seeing which way he went, "He went up to the top window..." she said to herself still staring at it making sure he didn't come back out of it. She tied a white ribbon around her back and took off down hall to find her friend.
She kept looking up at the window where she reached a steep ladder. She looked up again and took a deep breath running up them on her hands and feet. With every step she took she anticipated her next moments to see her friend,to make sure that he was safe with her. She had finally reached the top where she was on yet another floor. In a panic she looked directly at the window. She had memorized the placement of it already just from continuously looking up at it.
She knew he was hurt and that he was hurt badly. Sen had never seen him fly so quirky before. He had even hit the wall before reaching the window. From what she would see he as always straight on and flying right. She ran and kept running thinking of her just getting there in time to see him take his final breath. That wasn't going to cut it. No.
Sen found the closest window with a roof below it and stumbled down it. She lost her footing as she landed slipping down the side of it but hanging on. She wasn't in the mood to give up, she gave it all she had and more. Continuous energy spread through her, her adrenaline reached it's peak. She climbed to the top of the roof and slowly glided down it.
She swallowed hard as she took a deep breath finding that the only way across was a thin, unstable water pipe. Sen put that fact behind her eyes focused on making it to the end. She backed up tow steps and sprinted for her life. Behind her she could feel the heat escaping from the pipe line that was tearing of the side of the building. She wasn't going to make it she kept telling herself. She looked up from the pipe to see about twenty feet away from her was a ladder. It didn't go up exactly to the window but it would have to do.
She ran to the point where the falling pipe was right beneath her. She leaped forward grabbing onto the side of the ladder then soon clinging to it with her feet. She didn't release her grip on it until she knew it was safe. She looked up . She could see yet another window above her but it was a while to go so she started off quickly. At moments she would find herself not even holding onto the ladder at al; but still climbing. She had finally gotten there and tried gently placing her hand on the window and pushing. She began to push harder and harder. Sen knew it was locked, but she kept trying until suddenly it flung open. Like someone had been heard her trying to get in and helped. Though; there as no one there to thank.
Sen looked around She was on the floor right below where Haku had gone. She ran again finally finding herself out of breath but that didn't mean she stopped, she kept going, and going until she reached stairs. She hated that, she knew she would get there quicker but she was so tired. She pushed herself, as her face turned red from exhaust. She felt the back of her calves now burning with every step she had taken. She tripped up falling to her hands and pushing herself up. She had to rest she was getting so dizzy it was hard for her to see anything. She held her head still and kept running with the dizzyness increasing.
She reached the next floor. It was Yubaaba's office, seems only right, Haku was her 'Aprentice'. She hated that someone as sweet and kind as him could ever work for someone like her. She found it so...So off putting. But Nevertheless she still cared and nothing could change that.
She walked down the seemingly frinilliar hallway and reached the carved door and door way. She pushed the door open soon getting confused. This wasn't Yubaaba's room. It looked like a baby's room. Giant teddy bears and furnature. Curtains hanging over the bed and a design of the stary night and ckoudy day sky abover her.
Sen made her way across the room and to the oposing doors leaning her head against them trying to rest.
"Just get Haku out of here, he's going to die anyway."
She could hear Yubaaba say. "I'm not to late. I can't be. He's still okay, I know it." she kept telling herself not wanting to believe that he was near death. She heard footsteps coming towards the door and Yubaaba's voice getting closer. She paniced and lookedaround for a place to hide. What shwe decided was to hide in the pile of giant baby toys.
"Where's my precious Boh? Sweetheart where are you?" The voice she used absolutly disgusted Sen. Yubaaba began tearing through the toy pile. Sen's heart pounded but she made no movement. She held her hands close to her heart feeling sonething drying upon her right. She lifted it carefully and saw dried blood. It had to be Haku's. Who else could it have been?
She heard Yubaaba's foot steps get closer and the light seaking it's way through the cracks and creaveses were takes by hershadow as she could feel her digging through the toys. She clentched her hand tightly and the digging stopped.
"There you are my sweetheart, are you playing in the toys again?" she asked in a voice that disgusted her, the baby began to cry, "Aw did I wake you, please, go back to sleep." she whispered giving it a kiss and placing some of the toys back.
Sen waited until she heard the doorclose behind her to move out. Her feet found their way out of the compacted; hot toy mount. She was about to pull out her torso and run to Haku when something grabbed her arm and pulled her deep into the toys.
She gasped forgetting to breath in the panic. Thinking it was Yubaaba she closed her eyes ready for Yubaab to kill her. She felt soft skin and imediantly knew it wasn't hers. She opened her eyes to see a baby twice the size of her sitting there staring at her.
"Y-You're Boh? You're a big baby..." she murmured.
The baby was holdingonto her arm, "Play with me now." it demanded.
"I can't right now but I promise I will later, someone very close to me is hurt and I need to help them." she explained talking to the seemingly young child.
"No. Play with me now or i'll break your arm." he snapped squeezing her fore arm.
She flintched but spoke with no signs of pain, "I listen I have to leave-"
"You can't leave there's germs out there and you'll get sick. Besides if you don't play with me I'll cry and momma will hear then she will come up here and kill you." Boh threatned.
"Staying in this room is what will make you sick!" She protested. She thought to herselfclentching her oposing fist and shoving it in Boh's face, "Look I have germs!" She yelled showing him the blood covered hand. The baby screamed thrashing about in the toys. She was able to slip through his grip and out of the room. She stood at the back of the room and saw the three heads pushing Haku's weak body into a pit of somesort. She gasped as Yu-Bird turned to her.
"Hey! Haku! Stop!" Sheran forward getting clawed by the bird. She grabbed the bird;s tallons flinging it roughly across the room and kicking the heads out of the way falling to Haku's side holding his head, "Haku! Haku please tell me you're okay!" she shouted.
She could hear paper again. She looked behind her and saw a paper bird from before glide down her back and to the ground beginning to grow. Her eyes glued to the site, she realized that the figure it ad turned into was a spitting image of Yubaaba. 'She found out she's going to kill me..' she kept repeating over and over in her head. The more seconds the woman stood there the more she got scared and grasped Haku's head tightly but only tight enough to the point where she wasn't hurting him.
"Thank you dear for leading me to this little thief. I'll take back what is mine now." She said calmly unlike Yubaaba.
"What are you talking about? Haku would never steal anything from anyone he's good. I know he is!" she argued standing up for her friend.
"Why exactly do you think he became Yubaaba's henchmen? To steal her magic and now he's coming to steal mine." She persisted.
Several loud thuds came from the back room where Sen had left Boh in a rampage. He came out of the room tangled in curtains forcing his way out, "Play with me now." he continued.
The woman tisked and shook her head, "You've got such a pea-brain." she said.
"Momma?" Boh asked innocently.
"You twit, you can't even tell me apart from your own mother?" She snapped her fingers and Boh began to glow. IT started again he began shrinking and as soon as she knew it Boh the giant baby was a small mouse. He quickly scurried to her and behind her, "Now what else can we mess with?" she asked herself. She snapped her fingers once more and the three heads piled on top of each other turning into Boh. What kind of sick joke was this. Again she snapped them. Yu-bird became smaller and much smaller. Her head no longer looking like Yubaaba's she flew with a fly like buzzing sound to Boh. The woman held her index finger to hr lips,"Shh, don't tell anyone." she looked around, "Now give Zeniiba the evil dragon and I will be off, hm?" she asked politely, "He is already dying from my curse." she added.
She wasn't getting Haku, she wasn't getting her dragon. Haku began to slide back she could feel the last of his energy trailing back to his tail where she saw it fly up into the air and smack the paper bird below Zeniiba. She yelped as the four fell. Haku was un-conscious. She held tightly onto Haku's horns and the Boh ad Yu-bird keeping them safe.
"Haku! HAKU! We're falling!" she yelled. She stopped realizing that he couldn't hear her. The first time she got to ride on a dragon's back would be the last time she ever did anything. She closed her eyes and a strong feeling came over her. She felt almost as if she was gliding in water. Like the liquid surrounded her but yet she was able to control it. She felt safe and leaned down towards his ear and whispered, "Haku.. Please.."
His eys shot open a supernatural white as he stopped himself from falling and glided upwards still squirming like before. He wasn't as graceful as other times. He found himself a small tunnel and shot into it hitting his sides on the edges of it. Through the other end of it he could see a fan going at a slow pace he knew where he was. But considering how fast the fan was going for a human Sen would never make it. He went head first through the fan sprawling he got into the boiler room. Sen fell off his back and grabbed his face as the rest of his body fidgeted around sending blood across the entire room.
"Haku!Calm down it's okay!" She yelled holding on for dear life. The soot escaped back into their holes frightened and Kamaji jumped nearly out of his seat.
"What the hell!?" he yelled turning to the nearly dead dragon and watching the girl do what she thought was good for it.
"Here, Haku eat this.." She pulled out the ball that the river spirit had given her and held it up to him, "Here, I was going to be for my parents but you need it more.." she tried prying the dragons jaw open but it was no use. She held the ball up to her mouth, "It's okay, see it's safe." she said taking a bite of it. It was still disgusting but she had to to make him well again. She tried again at prying the dragons mouth open and finally got it. She slid it to a place where he could swallow on his own, took her hand out of his mouth and held onto him.
He began to get restless and squirm around, "Sen let go there's something in his throat!" Kamaji yelled. She released almost instantaneously on command. He coughed up black ooze. It started to disappear into the floor boards leaving behind a seal and a small black lazy looking slug.
"Sen! The Slug! Kill it!" Kamaji yelled. Sen took off smacking her foot against the floor where the slug moved until she heard and unpleasant squishing sound. She gasped lifting up her shoe, "Hurry now hurry put your thumb and fore finger together and come here!" She did so hopping on one foot to him, "Evil be gone!" He yelled slicing his hand through the arcs she had made with her fingers.
She looked over at Haku and he turned back into a human. She ran to his side and lifted him up while Kamaji got out a small bed for him to lay one. soon after laying him down Kamaji asked Lin to bring him soup and she did so. As she came into the door she looked around. With out hesitation Sen got up and took the soup; returning to Haku's side feeding it to him. He seemed to lifeless so helpless.
"What's going on?" Lin asked watching the two.
"Again, Lin, It's something you wouldn't understand it's called love." Kamaji replied.
Sen had picked up the seal and looked at it 'Was this what Zeniiba wanted back? Maybe if I return it, she will forgive Haku and make him better..." "Kamaji? Do you know where I could fins Zeniiba, YUbaaba's twin sister?" She asked.
"Ah yes here you are." He said reaching into his pocket and pulling out four train tickets handing them to Sen.
"Where did you get those?" Lin asked.
"A costumer a while ago, I've been saving it for something special and right now Sen needs them." he replied, "Now the stop that you want is called Swamp Bottom. The only problem is, is that the trains used to go both ways but now it only goes one so you'll need to find another way back."
She took them gently putting them in her pocket, "It's okay, I could just follow the tracks back." She replied looking down at Haku whispering into his ear, "I'll be back I promise..." she whispered leaning over him and laying a small soft kiss on his lips then laying her head in his shoulder soon getting up ready to go to Swamp Bottom to revive her friend. To revive her Dragon.