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Chapter 15: Snow Spirit
Kohaku landed on the ground and Chihiro slid to the ground, "You almost killed me back there!" Chihiro exclaimed.
Kohaku who had just finished changing into a boy, rushed over to Chihiro and said, "I know, I know are you alright? I didn't mean to Chihiro do you forgive me?"
"Of course I forgive you," Chihiro said slapping his arm, "Now if I died then no, no I don't think I would have forgiven you." Kohaku laughed. Chihiro was half laughing, because she was distracted by the bitter cold.
"Your lips are blue Chihiro," exclaimed Kohaku, "I thought it was to cold here."
"Bravo....Bravo....You found me, and since he wont kill you, can I?" said a voice from the darkness. Chihiro and Kohaku turned to see an old pale white lady step from the shadows, she was shrouded in black. Coldness seemed to radiate from the lady not just the temperature but the coldness from her heart as well.
Kohaku stepped closer to the lady and said, "Sen is sorry, really she is but before she was dying and literally could not hear she was deaf for a whole month. So please leave Sen and this island alone."
"It's too late for apologizes boy I'll kill her, Yu-Baaba and you!" laughed the Snow spirit as she stepped closer to Kohaku. Kohaku didn't move he just stared at the Snow spirit. "Retreat boy, take your Girlfriend with you and warn Yu-Baaba."
Kohaku just stood there like a statue, which was really beginning to irritate the spirit. The Snow spirit screamed in rage in an attempted to budge Kohaku. Kohaku didn't move. It's began to snow, the snow fell fast and thick. Chihiro was having a problem seeing the Snow spirit and Kohaku. Chihiro took a step towards where she thought Kohaku had stood. Chihiro reached a hand out and touched Kohaku's arm. She didn't want to lose him in the snow so she held on to his arm.
"Fine then! I'll kill you first!" the Snow spirit yelled as she drew a sword and pointed it at Kohaku, "Retreat!" the spirit repeated. Chihiro could see the sword rest against Kohaku's neck. Chihiro pulled Kohaku away from the blade. The Snow spirit seeing this attempt by Chihiro swung the blade. Kohaku ducked and quickly muttered something, the black shroud that the Snow spirit wore burst into flames. The shocked spirit tried to move finding that her feet were frozen to the ground. It had been what Kohaku had been doing from the beginning making sure she wouldn't be able to leave that spot.
"Come, let's go!" said Chihiro pulling on Kohaku's shirt. Kohaku grabbed Chihiro's hand and yanked her as he quickly ran back to the bath house.
"You said you were going to fix it, not make it worse!" yelled Yu- Baaba at Kohaku and Chihiro as they rushed into the bath house.
"We are fixing it, the Snow spirit want to kill you, me, and Sen. We need weapons now!" screamed Kohaku at Yu-Baaba, "she'll be coming any minute!"
"No she'll surprise us, you said a few minutes so she come in an hour letting us sweat, check behind our backs every two minutes, scare us." Calmly said Chihiro.
Kohaku thought about this for a second and then said, "Yes your probably right, but we need to be ready in a few minutes. I wish I had more time to teach you to fight." One of the Aogaeru came running in with two swords, and handed them to Kohaku.
"Thank you," said Kohaku as he handed one to Chihiro, "It doesn't matter so much that you can't fight at least have something to block her sword blows with." Chihiro nodded, as she took the sword. Kohaku was surprised to see that as soon as Chihiro took the sword she assumed the proper stance and that she took a few properly executed swipes at the air blocking and returning blows to an invisible foe.
"Now where did she/I learn this?" asked Kohaku and Chihiro at the same time, they both laughed.
clap...clap...clap Kohaku and Chihiro turned to see the Snow spirit standing there. She mocked. "You gave your girlfriend a sword boy, like it will save either of you."
Ignoring the spirit Chihiro said to Kohaku, "I was right. You said a few minutes, I said an hour. She came in 45 minutes."
Kohaku following Chihiro's lead replied, "Ok...ok you win what do I owe you?"
"Oh I don't know a Ski trip maybe... but I can't ski... so any little thing you want to give me will be fine," answered Chihiro.
Kohaku said, "Ok a ski trip it is, just without the skiing." Chihiro laughed in agreement the conversation ended there. Even though the second the Snow spirit walked into Aburaya both Chihiro and Kohaku didn't take their eyes off her. No one moved all three the Snow spirit, Kohaku, and Chihiro stood ready to block or attack. Chihiro could see the Snow spirit's sword clearly now it was made of ice, Why would anyone have an ice sword wouldn't it melt? thought Chihiro.
It was Yu-Baaba who broke the silence. She was impatient and since her life was also threatened, and if this spirit killed her what would ever happen to Bou? So Yu-Baaba formed a fire stream and aimed it at the Snow spirit.
The Snow spirit looked up at Yu-Baaba just in time to see that a stream of fire was aimed at her heart. The Snow spirit ducked just in time so only her already scorched haired lost a centimeter in length. The smell of burnt hair was quickly removed with the fresh snow smell, from the snowy energy blast that just barely hit Yu-Baaba as Yu-Baaba tried to dodge the blast. The blast only hit Yu-Baaba's shoulder, but her shoulder became ice and the ice started to cover her whole body.
Chihiro took her eyes off the Snow spirit, because of Yu-Baaba's ear splitting screams. Chihiro could only imagine the pain it must be like frost bite to the extreme. Chihiro turned back to the Snow spirit who was right over her. Chihiro raised her sword above her head blocking the blow from the Snow spirit. Chihiro held the pose and in one swift movement she crouched and drove the sword towards the Snow spirits stomach. Chihiro wasn't fast enough because the Snow spirit took a step back, and quickly blocking Chihiro's blow and returning at a sweep at Chihiro's legs. Chihiro jumped up but, she landed wrong and fell to the ground. Chihiro's sword slid on the floor towards the Snow spirit. The Snow spirit stopped the sword with her foot and laughed she touched her own sword to Chihiro's. Chihiro watched her sword turn to ice and break into a thousand pieces under the Snow spirit's foot.
Chihiro couldn't stand up she, just scooted backwards as the Snow spirit walked toward Chihiro. The Snow spirit raised her sword and brought it down on Chihiro. Chihiro closed her eyes she heard a loud clang! followed by clang, clang, clang... swoosh, clang! Chihiro surprised to still be alive slowly opened her eyes to see a blur of Kohaku and the Snow spirit in a desperate battle. Chihiro stood up and watched helplessly at the whole battle.
Both fighters stopped, their swords locked, it was like time stood still. The Snow spirit held her free hand over the ice shards from Chihiro's sword. The longest piece flew into her hand. Trying to force Kohaku to back away she plunged the ice shard at him.
"No!" screamed Chihiro, as she ran in between Kohaku and the Snow spirit. Chihiro wrapped her arms around Kohaku's neck. Kohaku's arms went quickly around Chihiro's neck laying the sword across Chihiro's back. The ice shard hit the sword and shattered. The Snow spirit angrily swung the sword down at Chihiro, it also hit Kohaku's sword and shattered. The Snow spirit was shocked that her sword was braking but she still followed through with her blow, lodging a piece of the ice sword in Chihiro's back.
Chihiro screamed in pain and lost her balance, she fell on top of Kohaku. The Snow spirit laughed as Kohaku pulled out the ice shard. Kohaku held Chihiro close to him, and stared at the Snow spirit in pure hatred.
"Rin....Rin, run down to the boiler room and retrieve my backpack from the Susuwatari, Hurry!" said Chihiro. Rin looked confused but she ran out of the room before anyone could stop her. A minute later Rin returned, and handed the backpack to Chihiro. Chihiro quickly opened the backpack and rifled through it, she grabbed four pictures out and hold one up to the Snow spirit.
"This, this is my grandmother, she died when I was two years old, her car crashed in a snow storm." Said Chihiro as she dropped the picture and held up another, "This is me when I was two years old, only a few weeks after my grandmother died, I'm happily playing in the snow." The Snow spirit stopped laughing and stared at the picture, Chihiro dropped it. "here is another of me and my parents playing in the snow." The pictured fell to the floor, "My old neighbor was drowned in the ocean. And this, this is a friend of mine who fell out of a tree and broke her arm she was sent to the hospital. They are just Natural disasters, they happen for every element, not just snow. Sometimes you can save the people, like Haku saved me and sometimes you can't. I still play in the snow, swim in the ocean, and climb trees. I don't blame you for my grandmothers death."
The Snow spirit dropped to her knees, she began to cry. Her hot tears seemed to be melting her. Till all that was left was a small pale white 5 year old boy sitting in a puddle. The Boy looked dazed, he didn't know where he was.
"Saki! Saki!" a little girl ran in to the room to the boy, she hugged him. "Oh your back Saki, back to normal."
The girl walked over to Chihiro and said, "I'm Raki the Rain spirit, I'm Saki's sister. I'm sorry for any pain that he has caused you. See snow can be two ways as beautiful and mischievous as a 5 year old boy or as wicked and dangerous as an old hag. Same with the rain you know, it can be as beautiful and playful as a six year old girl or as scary and cold as a bitter old man. So Thank you for changing him back, if we can..." Chihiro fell limp in Kohaku's arms, Kohaku began to cry and Rin ran over to her side.
Raki looked around at everyone's mournful faces. "Oh," she said, Raki walked to Saki and grabbed his hand, "come Saki, you must fix what you have destroyed." Raki and Saki walked over to Chihiro.
"She's still alive," said Saki as he laid his hand on Chihiro's wound. Chihiro's wound healed under his touch, Chihiro slowly sat up. Kohaku hugged her, Raki looked at Saki, who said, "sorry."
"It's ok Saki, really no problem I'm breathing," replied Chihiro with a smile, Saki smiled back at Chihiro.
"And..." said Raki firmly. Saki sighed and walked over to Yu-Baaba who by now was completely ice.
"But she was never nice, do I have to?" asked Saki
"Yes, she might not be nice, but that doesn't mean she deserves to be ice. She has a son who needs his mother, and you never know maybe being frozen and thawed with thaw her heart as well." Chihiro said softly.
Saki nodded and put a hand on Yu-Baaba. The ice began to melt when it was all melted Yu-Baaba looked around the room. She was very confused to see the two small children standing in front of her, but she couldn't think to say anything.
"My brother is very sorry he froze you Ms. Yu-Baaba," Raki elbowed Saki, and they both bowed Raki laid a bag of gold on the floor.
"Very sorry, and about almost killing her as well," apologized Saki as he glanced at Chihiro.
"We hope that this will be enough to pay for the damages done to Aburaya. Come Saki lets go home," Said Raki. Saki nodded and they both turned and left Aburaya.
Chapter 15: Snow Spirit
Kohaku landed on the ground and Chihiro slid to the ground, "You almost killed me back there!" Chihiro exclaimed.
Kohaku who had just finished changing into a boy, rushed over to Chihiro and said, "I know, I know are you alright? I didn't mean to Chihiro do you forgive me?"
"Of course I forgive you," Chihiro said slapping his arm, "Now if I died then no, no I don't think I would have forgiven you." Kohaku laughed. Chihiro was half laughing, because she was distracted by the bitter cold.
"Your lips are blue Chihiro," exclaimed Kohaku, "I thought it was to cold here."
"Bravo....Bravo....You found me, and since he wont kill you, can I?" said a voice from the darkness. Chihiro and Kohaku turned to see an old pale white lady step from the shadows, she was shrouded in black. Coldness seemed to radiate from the lady not just the temperature but the coldness from her heart as well.
Kohaku stepped closer to the lady and said, "Sen is sorry, really she is but before she was dying and literally could not hear she was deaf for a whole month. So please leave Sen and this island alone."
"It's too late for apologizes boy I'll kill her, Yu-Baaba and you!" laughed the Snow spirit as she stepped closer to Kohaku. Kohaku didn't move he just stared at the Snow spirit. "Retreat boy, take your Girlfriend with you and warn Yu-Baaba."
Kohaku just stood there like a statue, which was really beginning to irritate the spirit. The Snow spirit screamed in rage in an attempted to budge Kohaku. Kohaku didn't move. It's began to snow, the snow fell fast and thick. Chihiro was having a problem seeing the Snow spirit and Kohaku. Chihiro took a step towards where she thought Kohaku had stood. Chihiro reached a hand out and touched Kohaku's arm. She didn't want to lose him in the snow so she held on to his arm.
"Fine then! I'll kill you first!" the Snow spirit yelled as she drew a sword and pointed it at Kohaku, "Retreat!" the spirit repeated. Chihiro could see the sword rest against Kohaku's neck. Chihiro pulled Kohaku away from the blade. The Snow spirit seeing this attempt by Chihiro swung the blade. Kohaku ducked and quickly muttered something, the black shroud that the Snow spirit wore burst into flames. The shocked spirit tried to move finding that her feet were frozen to the ground. It had been what Kohaku had been doing from the beginning making sure she wouldn't be able to leave that spot.
"Come, let's go!" said Chihiro pulling on Kohaku's shirt. Kohaku grabbed Chihiro's hand and yanked her as he quickly ran back to the bath house.
"You said you were going to fix it, not make it worse!" yelled Yu- Baaba at Kohaku and Chihiro as they rushed into the bath house.
"We are fixing it, the Snow spirit want to kill you, me, and Sen. We need weapons now!" screamed Kohaku at Yu-Baaba, "she'll be coming any minute!"
"No she'll surprise us, you said a few minutes so she come in an hour letting us sweat, check behind our backs every two minutes, scare us." Calmly said Chihiro.
Kohaku thought about this for a second and then said, "Yes your probably right, but we need to be ready in a few minutes. I wish I had more time to teach you to fight." One of the Aogaeru came running in with two swords, and handed them to Kohaku.
"Thank you," said Kohaku as he handed one to Chihiro, "It doesn't matter so much that you can't fight at least have something to block her sword blows with." Chihiro nodded, as she took the sword. Kohaku was surprised to see that as soon as Chihiro took the sword she assumed the proper stance and that she took a few properly executed swipes at the air blocking and returning blows to an invisible foe.
"Now where did she/I learn this?" asked Kohaku and Chihiro at the same time, they both laughed.
clap...clap...clap Kohaku and Chihiro turned to see the Snow spirit standing there. She mocked. "You gave your girlfriend a sword boy, like it will save either of you."
Ignoring the spirit Chihiro said to Kohaku, "I was right. You said a few minutes, I said an hour. She came in 45 minutes."
Kohaku following Chihiro's lead replied, "Ok...ok you win what do I owe you?"
"Oh I don't know a Ski trip maybe... but I can't ski... so any little thing you want to give me will be fine," answered Chihiro.
Kohaku said, "Ok a ski trip it is, just without the skiing." Chihiro laughed in agreement the conversation ended there. Even though the second the Snow spirit walked into Aburaya both Chihiro and Kohaku didn't take their eyes off her. No one moved all three the Snow spirit, Kohaku, and Chihiro stood ready to block or attack. Chihiro could see the Snow spirit's sword clearly now it was made of ice, Why would anyone have an ice sword wouldn't it melt? thought Chihiro.
It was Yu-Baaba who broke the silence. She was impatient and since her life was also threatened, and if this spirit killed her what would ever happen to Bou? So Yu-Baaba formed a fire stream and aimed it at the Snow spirit.
The Snow spirit looked up at Yu-Baaba just in time to see that a stream of fire was aimed at her heart. The Snow spirit ducked just in time so only her already scorched haired lost a centimeter in length. The smell of burnt hair was quickly removed with the fresh snow smell, from the snowy energy blast that just barely hit Yu-Baaba as Yu-Baaba tried to dodge the blast. The blast only hit Yu-Baaba's shoulder, but her shoulder became ice and the ice started to cover her whole body.
Chihiro took her eyes off the Snow spirit, because of Yu-Baaba's ear splitting screams. Chihiro could only imagine the pain it must be like frost bite to the extreme. Chihiro turned back to the Snow spirit who was right over her. Chihiro raised her sword above her head blocking the blow from the Snow spirit. Chihiro held the pose and in one swift movement she crouched and drove the sword towards the Snow spirits stomach. Chihiro wasn't fast enough because the Snow spirit took a step back, and quickly blocking Chihiro's blow and returning at a sweep at Chihiro's legs. Chihiro jumped up but, she landed wrong and fell to the ground. Chihiro's sword slid on the floor towards the Snow spirit. The Snow spirit stopped the sword with her foot and laughed she touched her own sword to Chihiro's. Chihiro watched her sword turn to ice and break into a thousand pieces under the Snow spirit's foot.
Chihiro couldn't stand up she, just scooted backwards as the Snow spirit walked toward Chihiro. The Snow spirit raised her sword and brought it down on Chihiro. Chihiro closed her eyes she heard a loud clang! followed by clang, clang, clang... swoosh, clang! Chihiro surprised to still be alive slowly opened her eyes to see a blur of Kohaku and the Snow spirit in a desperate battle. Chihiro stood up and watched helplessly at the whole battle.
Both fighters stopped, their swords locked, it was like time stood still. The Snow spirit held her free hand over the ice shards from Chihiro's sword. The longest piece flew into her hand. Trying to force Kohaku to back away she plunged the ice shard at him.
"No!" screamed Chihiro, as she ran in between Kohaku and the Snow spirit. Chihiro wrapped her arms around Kohaku's neck. Kohaku's arms went quickly around Chihiro's neck laying the sword across Chihiro's back. The ice shard hit the sword and shattered. The Snow spirit angrily swung the sword down at Chihiro, it also hit Kohaku's sword and shattered. The Snow spirit was shocked that her sword was braking but she still followed through with her blow, lodging a piece of the ice sword in Chihiro's back.
Chihiro screamed in pain and lost her balance, she fell on top of Kohaku. The Snow spirit laughed as Kohaku pulled out the ice shard. Kohaku held Chihiro close to him, and stared at the Snow spirit in pure hatred.
"Rin....Rin, run down to the boiler room and retrieve my backpack from the Susuwatari, Hurry!" said Chihiro. Rin looked confused but she ran out of the room before anyone could stop her. A minute later Rin returned, and handed the backpack to Chihiro. Chihiro quickly opened the backpack and rifled through it, she grabbed four pictures out and hold one up to the Snow spirit.
"This, this is my grandmother, she died when I was two years old, her car crashed in a snow storm." Said Chihiro as she dropped the picture and held up another, "This is me when I was two years old, only a few weeks after my grandmother died, I'm happily playing in the snow." The Snow spirit stopped laughing and stared at the picture, Chihiro dropped it. "here is another of me and my parents playing in the snow." The pictured fell to the floor, "My old neighbor was drowned in the ocean. And this, this is a friend of mine who fell out of a tree and broke her arm she was sent to the hospital. They are just Natural disasters, they happen for every element, not just snow. Sometimes you can save the people, like Haku saved me and sometimes you can't. I still play in the snow, swim in the ocean, and climb trees. I don't blame you for my grandmothers death."
The Snow spirit dropped to her knees, she began to cry. Her hot tears seemed to be melting her. Till all that was left was a small pale white 5 year old boy sitting in a puddle. The Boy looked dazed, he didn't know where he was.
"Saki! Saki!" a little girl ran in to the room to the boy, she hugged him. "Oh your back Saki, back to normal."
The girl walked over to Chihiro and said, "I'm Raki the Rain spirit, I'm Saki's sister. I'm sorry for any pain that he has caused you. See snow can be two ways as beautiful and mischievous as a 5 year old boy or as wicked and dangerous as an old hag. Same with the rain you know, it can be as beautiful and playful as a six year old girl or as scary and cold as a bitter old man. So Thank you for changing him back, if we can..." Chihiro fell limp in Kohaku's arms, Kohaku began to cry and Rin ran over to her side.
Raki looked around at everyone's mournful faces. "Oh," she said, Raki walked to Saki and grabbed his hand, "come Saki, you must fix what you have destroyed." Raki and Saki walked over to Chihiro.
"She's still alive," said Saki as he laid his hand on Chihiro's wound. Chihiro's wound healed under his touch, Chihiro slowly sat up. Kohaku hugged her, Raki looked at Saki, who said, "sorry."
"It's ok Saki, really no problem I'm breathing," replied Chihiro with a smile, Saki smiled back at Chihiro.
"And..." said Raki firmly. Saki sighed and walked over to Yu-Baaba who by now was completely ice.
"But she was never nice, do I have to?" asked Saki
"Yes, she might not be nice, but that doesn't mean she deserves to be ice. She has a son who needs his mother, and you never know maybe being frozen and thawed with thaw her heart as well." Chihiro said softly.
Saki nodded and put a hand on Yu-Baaba. The ice began to melt when it was all melted Yu-Baaba looked around the room. She was very confused to see the two small children standing in front of her, but she couldn't think to say anything.
"My brother is very sorry he froze you Ms. Yu-Baaba," Raki elbowed Saki, and they both bowed Raki laid a bag of gold on the floor.
"Very sorry, and about almost killing her as well," apologized Saki as he glanced at Chihiro.
"We hope that this will be enough to pay for the damages done to Aburaya. Come Saki lets go home," Said Raki. Saki nodded and they both turned and left Aburaya.
