A Memory Not Forgotten

By: Merayna

Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN THEM!! OKAY?!! GOD, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!!

A/N: I just changed this chapter. Oh, yerss, I did jist thet. Anyway, I like this much better, even though I still think the chapters are horrifyingly short, I don't think I should all of a sudden make them longer.

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Haku stared in horror at Chihiro, his emerald eyes glittering.Chihiro turned pulsing neon green eyes toward him, pupils lost in the expanse of glowing green. Staring at him, her face suddenly split in a feral grin. Her mouth moved and no voice spoke, but words were clearly heard.

A static thread of energy spelt out the one word, the one name, "Sorezu."

The ice-blue phoenix stared at her, fiery eyes gleaming and challenging. Blue flame surrounded him and his beak seemed to be curled in a grin.

Chihiro turned pulsating eyes upon him, words of an unspoken challenge ringing throughout the air. Her hair flew around her face, power glittering in strands of sparking embers. Her hands glowed with the power, illuminating her whole body. She lifted it above her head and smiled.

A racking blast spread over the sky, blowing Haku away in its force and enormity. A blazing green filled the sky until all that was seen was the throbbing green power that was Chihiro's.

A harsh cry filled the air as a flash of blue was swept from the sky, its form becoming a blur as it was blown away in the power.

And throughout it all, a laugh rang out throughout the sky.

Haku turned fearful eyes toward Chihiro and saw the most horrifying sight he had ever witnessed. Chihiro...was laughing. She had accepted the power. Turning his head in denial, a single tear squeezed out of his eye and glittered in the sunlight that had cleared away the power. Tiny flecks of lime color floated in the sky as Sorezu made his way back up, feathers smoking and eyes blazing in fury.

Chihiro smirked as he flapped toward her, bright green coming towards both hands this time. They were translucent and pulsing with her heart and flowed in tiny wisps as if they were fire. Seeming to twirl them around her finger, she brought them to her lips and blew. They flew out of her hands in two twirling beams, spiraling toward Sorezu, who only dodged at the last moment, opening his beak.

Emitting a harsh shriek, billowing blue flames erupted from his mouth, straight at Chihiro. Haku's breath caught in his throat, but was too weak to get up.

At the last moment, Chihiro still smirking, a green sphere formed around her and the flame bounced off harmlessly.

Getting desperate, Sorezu rushed at her, talons reaching for her face..almost reaching, before getting sliced through with a thin, glimmering green blade that had somehow appeared in her hand. Lips curling in a sadistic smile, she said in her energy voice, "Time to say good bye," before bringing it down upon the defenseless and wounded phoenix. A second later, a silver blur thrust itself in front of the blade, as it stopped half a millimeter from his skin.

Haku bared his teeth and his eyes narrowed into glowing emerald slits as a rumbling growl grew in his throat. "Don't, y-you thing. You aren't Chihiro, and whatever you are, get out of her," he spat.

Chihiro looked at him, face expressionless before lifting the blade once again, a smile beginning in the corners of her mouth. As she brought it down, Haku stared defiantly, prepared to go down in honor, before Chihiro began to struggle with herself.

"NO!!" she screamed before cinnamon replaced green and the blade disappeared from her hand. She looked at Haku fearfully before eyes rolled to the back of her head and she began to fall.

Sorezu flew away, casting pained and hate filled glances their way. That- that girl would pay for humiliating him. His eyes burned with malevolence as he threw back his head and cackled. Oh, yes, he knew exactly what to do.

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Chihiro wouldn't stop falling. She just wouldn't. Her body blurred as she fell even faster, hair coming out of its bun completely and flying all over the place.

Haku looked in desperation, breath catching in his throat as she sped to the ground. 'Not again, not again." He thought. He remembered the last time, but now there was no miraculous power to save her.

He only had one thought as he tried with all his might to get to her.

'Don't Die.'

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Chihiro's POV

I don't know what happened to me. I just don't know.

I-I lost control.

What happened to me?

What..what happened to me?

I became a monster.

I don't deserve to live.

I don't deserve to have Haku.

I don't deserve this life.

What happened to me?

What?

A/N: I like this chapter. It is good. ^_^ Yep, good. Heh. Well, what do you think? I didn't like that other chapter very much. Nope, I sure didn't. Heh. ^_^