Sen gasped, straightening herself up. She observed one cackling black creature. It looked somewhat like a cat, but on two feet. And it didn't have fur. It's eyes were blood red, and it had talons, which were very long for it's size. She would say that they were about three feet tall, probably a few inches less.

'Thought so.' Haku thought to himself, jumping on the rail of the bridge that he'd been observing the scene on. He leapt off, stopping in mid-fall and floating. He looked around, quickly making a guess of how many there were. Must be over a hundred...

All of the workers were scattering around, most screaming, some cowering in fear. Sen backed towards the door. One shadow noticed her, lifting itself from the ground in a float, and seemed to vanish. It snickered silently to itself, appearing again behind Sen.

Sen felt it's presence, swirling around only to look up, seeing something that caught her eye. It was Haku. He was shooting black spells at the shadow demons (A/N: Like he did to the little green frog on the bridge...in the movie ^^') that froze them for a few minutes. But he wasn't aware of one particularly large shadow demon floating behind him, looking ready to attack.

By instint, Sen shouted, "Haku, behind y- ahh!" She slapped her hand to her cheek, to find that it was bloody. The shadow demon that was in front of her cackled insanely, blood on it's once clean claws, and swirled up in a circle above her.

Haku heard someone calling his name, then saying, or trying to say, 'behind you.' He quickly spun around, putting his arm up to block a hit from a shadow demon, and took a chance to hit it with a spell.

Sen fell back as the shadow demon swooped right past her. It hovered a while in front of her, about ten feet away, the dove at her. She backed against the wall, and lowered as it got close, grabbing it by the wrist. The shadow demon, taken by surprise, growled at Sen, and wrapped it's own hand around her wrist, digging it's claws into her arm.

Sen let out a small whimper, giving out some sort of growl, and swinging her arm towards the wall. She slammed the shadow demons head, causing it to lose it's grip and fall to the ground. Sen panted, hastily getting up and grabbing her arm. She looked around. Rin was backed into a wall, with a shadow demon babbling nonsence in front of her, a smirk on it's face. 'It must be mimicing Rin.' Sen laughed to herself, then noticed that...Rin was in trouble.

She rushed towards the shadow demon, without thinking. Haku glanced down, seeing Sen running at one of the shadows, and blinked. What was she thinking? He watched, ready to jump down there at any moment. He had to admit that he was surprised when she grabbed it by the wrist and slammed it into a wall.

Sen grinned and looked at the dazed shadow demon, leaning on the wall tiredly next to Rin. "How ya doin'?" Sen said in a mocking tone.

"Nice move," Rin muttered with a smile. Sen nodded slightly and smiled back. Haku, who was floating in the air, smiled to himself, and continued pausing the shadow demons in their tracks.

Rin gave a thumbs up and and rushed off to help the others. Sen turning, and her expression immediatly changed to surprise as she found the same shadow demon she had first slammed into a wall snarling fiercly in front of her, like it was insane. It shot some sort of red spell at her, and when it hit, Sen felt herself fall abckwards with force. She backed against the wall, ready for nearly anything he would do.

But she wasn't expecting what he actually did do. He jumped forward at her, stopped, and reached his hand out quickly. Sen felt cold hands wrap around her neck, squeezing it until she couldn't breath. She bit her lower lip and shut her eyes tight, kicking the shadow demon in the leg. But the shadow didn't even flinch. He smirked, only tightening his grip on her neck. She choked out a cough, her vision forming black spots.

Haku glanced in Sen's direction, then found himself staring. He immediatly dropped to the ground, running over and shoving the shadow demon. "Chihiro! Chihiro, are you OK?"

'Chihiro?' Sen thought in puzzlement, hearing Haku's voice, but it sounded like an echo. 'Oh...yea that's my name...' she slapped herself mentally for almost fogetting. She heard her name again. She loved the sound of Haku's voice. As much as she wanted to say something, she couldn't. She felt herself slip into unconciousness.

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A/N: How positively EVIL of me to torture you all so...XD! Mwahahahaha!!! Anyways, done writing for tonight. People like me gotta sleep too X.x...nighty! I'll have the next chappie soon! -wavewave- -falls asleep-

Buena Sera! (Good Evening. Italian. I have a habit. Silenzo!)

-Zaekora- -snooooore-