Chapter 3 : The Real World- Manipulation of Magic

4 Years later...

"Chihiro, come on!!!"

Gavin shouted at Chihiro's window. No answer. He bent down in his baggie pants, picked up a pebble in front of Chihiro's lawn, and whipped it at her window. Next thing you know...

"Ah!!!!"

A scream shot from Chihiro's room as she jumped out of her bed after seeing the window right beside her bed with a large crack from a little rock...not a pebble... right under the window sill. Before she got to the window, she tripped over her own feet, and landed flat on her belly with a groan.

Gavin cringed and scratched the back of his neck as he heard the shriek. Then, hearing her hit the floor; he winced, and lipped the word, "ouch" while running his fingers through his spiky hair. Chihiro got on her feet smoothly and peered through the crack of the closed window looked down for Gavin with a sigh.

"If you're not getting ready, I'm heading off to the school without ya..."

Gavin teased, tossing his thin black jacket over his left shoulder and trotting off. He closed his eyes as he turned, smirking and knowing what would happen... She was going to stop him, he knew her too well.

"Wait up!!!"

Chihiro had shouted back from her bedroom. She ran down the stairs in her Chococat pajamas, and opened the door for him.

"You always have to be like this..." She said while holding a brush in one hand and a toothbrush in the other.

"Maybe if you always didn't wake up late..." He said in a witty way. Gavin turned around and looked at her from head to toe then right back up.

"And you still wear Chococat Jammies? Pfft."

He snickered under his breath as Chihiro ignored him. Chihiro ran back up stairs and into her bathroom. She brushed her hair straight down, and then brushed her teeth as she changed into her school outfit. She wore a knee level skirt, and a blue t-shirt. Her hair was tied up as usual; a small ponytail on the back, and bangs by the sides of her face. Everyday, she ties up her hair for school, but lets it down afterwards. Chihiro had changed a lot through the past four years. She was 5'2'' exactly, and she wore a choker around her neck that Gavin had given to her on her 13th birthday. Her rose red cheeks seem to have faded, but her beauty was extraordinary. She had grown into a very beautiful and wise young lady, and a great student. Chihiro didn't look too different than from 4 years ago, except for her height and a bit of a hair change; just a little bit that it was barely noticeable. When Chihiro walked out from the bathroom, she tossed her comb on top of her drawer in her room and knelt down.

"Gum... gum...."

She mumbled, opening every single drawer of clothes and looking under it. The first one had pieces of gum wrappers, the next had broken headphones and the others were the same almost, some with jewelry until the 5th drawer out of the six. When she opened it, there was nothing in it but a scrunchie that lay there slightly covered with thick pieces of dust. Chihiro swallowed hard and slowly drew her hands in and lifted it out. She brought it close to her lips and blew the dust off and immediately, the scrunchie looked as good at new. She rubbed the soft gentle fabric of the scrunchie between her fingers then sighed and wore it over her boney wrist.

"Good memories... too bad he lied to me."

She mumbled and slammed the drawer shut with her bangs covering her eyes as she recalled her time in the Spirit World, with Haku, the one she loved.

Downstairs


Gavin had stepped in, glanced around, and he took a seat on the black leather sofa. He sat with his body slouching then closed his eyes. His hands overlapped each other over his stomach and rested there.

Hurry up it up Chihiro... Naoki, Tiffany, Akinori, Damian, Johnny and Masahiro are all waiting in the schoolyard with the party planned for your Birthday today...Man, I don't believe you still think there's school... It's SUMMER! You're always such a goody two shoes...

"Meow."

A little peep came out from Misuira, Chihiro's house cat. She stared at Gavin with her beady dark brown eyes as Gavin stared back at her. It was a pure breed of a caffre type cat; soft, brown, dark fur with bits of black strips. It meowed, and then jumped on the sofa next to Gavin. Purring, it moved closer to him, and then sat on his lap. Gavin ran his pale skinned hand against the cat's head slowly, then down its back as it purred.

"Hey there, Misuira..."

Gavin slipped one hand into his pocket, pulling out a small piece of yarn that was torn off of the sweater his stepmother had gotten him two days ago. He held it over Misuira's head. The cat rolled onto its back and clawed it. Trying to reach it, it jumped higher, but as did, Gavin moved it upward, just out of its grasp.

"Aren't you a cutie just like Chihiro."

Gavin had said playfully, then let go of the yarn. He laughed and hugged the cat tightly. Misuira moved her paw into his pocket, and pulled out a rectangle shaped metal. It started to claw it, but then Gavin reacted quickly and pulled it away.

"Hey, hey!! That is not something you can play with. Misuira, why won't you go get Chihiro already...okay? "

"And stop annoying me because this is something you should never touch!"

Gavin pulled it away from Misuira's prying claws, and stuffed it back into his pocket. Getting up to grab his cd player from his school bag stapped to his, Misuira jumped off his lap and ran, heading straight to the stairs like a scared mouse that just jets off.

Upstairs

Misuira sniffed around the second floor and slowly made it's way towards the white door. Meowing loudly, she slipped into Chihiro's room through the crevic eand jumped on her bed with one great leap. For a while, Misuira sat there staring at Chirhiro searching through her closest of clothes and other things, looking for a perfect accessory to match her outfit. Then, it started to hiss at her.

"Misuira?"

Chihiro asked questioningly when she walked out from the closet and stared at her. Her eyes lighted up as she approached her feline friend for a little hug until it hissed against with the loud shriek of a cat.

"What's the matter with you?"

Misuira continued to hiss at her. Its claws had been dug deeply into the blanket on Chihiro's bed. A few seconds, it went deeper, deep enough that its nails went through the blanket. Leaping to the ground quickly, it leapt again about 5 feet off the pink carpet and right past Chihiro; the cat's keen nails running across her cheek.

Chihiro backed away immediately and caught her hand over her cheek. She squealed, and fell to her knees. Her hands brushed over the scratch, and she cringed with a shudder. What the hell was happening?

"Misuira! Stop please!!!" She pleaded.

Misuira seemed to ignore her command, and dashed at Chihiro. Jaws wide open, the cat targeted her ankle, and bit in deeply; blood started to trickle from the edges of its mouth. It snarled as Chihiro screamed and kicked her legs out. One kick slammed against Misuira's cheek, but the grip did not loosen. Its fangs started to grow large as if it were a Saber. Misuira's growth continued till it looked as if it were a bobcat, but with a longer length and a tail. It threw itself over Chihiro's body as it forced down its weight. It started to grow even larger, now, an image of a white tiger. Its humungous claws then ran past her arm repeatedly and then over her chest. It pushed right down on her torso area, almost stopping her heartbeat.

"Ahhhh!! Get off of me, Misuira!!! What's gotten into you!?"

The little battle between them began as Chihiro ran here and there, trying to dodge Misuira's quick movements instead of fighting back. Finally, Misuira jumped up at her face first and landed on her shoulder. Misuira started to move around, clawing anywhere it could and eventually, cuts were made on her neck. Chihiro shrieked in utter cries for help as she grabbed her cat by the fur and tried to pull her away for it kept coming at her.

Due to the heavy music plugged into Gavin's ears, he couldn't really hear a thing, but the vibrations from furniture crashing upstairs caused a lamp to fall right over his CD player, knocking it off the table, and crushing into it as sparks flicked on and off.

"Oh wow, this is really messed up..."

He grumbled, and then rubbed his ears from the screeching noise that he heard from the CD player as it went nuts on him right before it crashed onto the floor. He then heard the screams from Chihiro. Gavin gave an irked sigh and took his time heading upstairs.

'She probably saw a roach again..."

He went up stairs calmly, and being the laggard that he was at times, took his time. While he was slowly taking his time up the stairs, Chihiro barged through the doorway, falling right on top of him. With her body pressing against his, all he could say was,

"Wow that must be some big roach in your room, eh?"

"M-M-M-Misuira!!!"

She stammered, and then rolled to the side onto her bum next to Gavin. "What?" He questioned, and then noticed the marks on her cheeks. He told her to stay calm. Maybe it wasn't a roach problem after all...Gavin looked super confident when he was telling her this. He turned around after he finished telling Chihiro to head downstairs, and saw a white tiger before him. "Um...hi?" He squeaked out barely above a whisper, being frozen in fear.

"Slowly... move.... away..."

He slowly scooted backwards, and when Misuira hissed, he jumped up and ran down the stairs...which turned to jumping down the stairs. "Misuira!! Stop it now!!" He shouted when he tripped down the last 2 steps of the stairs, and got pinned down by Misuira.

Misuira's ears twitched then the pressure from its paw let up on his chest. It backed away while shaking its head. It looked at Gavin with its dark brown eyes, and backed away from him.

"Wait, wait!! Stop. Stay. Whatever!!!"

Gavin shouted nervously as Misuira stepped away. It raced back up the stairs and under the bed, then came back out as it once was; a small, cute, house cat. She dashed out the door, out of the room. Gavin stared into the space like he'd seen a ghost or something, and turned back at Chihiro.

What was that all about...something's not right...

Meanwhile, Chihiro's rapid heartbeat had clamed as she deeply breathed in and out.

"Ow..."

She mumbled under her breath as her blood stained the carpet. She blacked out on the carpet and stayed that way. Gavin ran to Chihiro and placed his right arm under her head. His eyes held a worried look as he grabbed a towel and wrapped it around the wounded areas...