After defeating all of the skeletons, Chihiro was feeling over confident. She had two swords and marched her way up the stairs.

"I'll getcha, I'll get all of yah!"

--Chihiro? Are you ok?--

-I am fine! I must continue until the end! Wow... I really watch too many cartoons. Ah... what I wouldn't give to watch Azumanga Daioh right about now.-

--Azumanga Daioh?—

-Ewe-yuck! What the hell is this?-

--What? What do you see?—

-Uh... nasty goo... It's all slimy... and it just dripped... like from the ceiling or something... gods that's nasty.-

--You have more problems than that, continue on.—

Chihiro continued to march up the stairs, a new feeling of unease coming over her, but when in times of sorrow, fright and death... what do you do? Smile... smile and be as sarcastic as ever because that is the best way to go!

-Hakuyouknowthatgoo thatiwasbeeingsouneasy aboutandgettingallgrossed outandall thatgoodstuff? - (a/n: translation... Haku you know that goo that I was being so uneasy about, getting all grossed out and all that good stuff?)

--Yeah...?—

-Well also you know those more important matters... the problems I must press on to?-

--Yes?—

-Well the funny thing sheepish chuckle is that there is this like 500 pound spider lurking above me... drooling gallons and it is just starin at me... what would you do in a situation like this?-

--Stay calm, and don't move until you know its intentions.—

-Ok, I am calm... I know its intentions are to eat me... and my soul, and my instinct is telling me to do exactly what I am about to do...-

--Chihiro no! Don't do anything stu- --

Outside there goes that horrible high pitched scream, its kinda funny how the birds are always in a tree and almost always find a way to shit pellets before flying away desperately clinging to their lives...

--pid...--

"GET AWAY FROM ME!!!!! MOM DAD! I COULD REALLY USE A CAR RIGHT ABOUT NOW... hell I wonder if pant they would've given me a pant car if I was in this situation pant back at home!" Chihiro said running up the rest of the stairs and through the floor. The knives in the sheaths she stole from the skeletons were getting in her way so she took off the sheath from her belt and held the sheaths with the swords instead.

The spider was running after her and mercilessly pounding holes into the floor on his way. Chihiro ran blindly into a web and couldn't get out. "Hey this is reminding me of lord of the rings... damn, where is Sam when you need him? Okay time to get serious! I really don't want to die... so I will act with my sane side, and think before I act. How in seven hells did Frodo do this again?!"

Chihiro kicked and tired to cut the web with her sword. One got stuck above her head and the other one flew off somewhere when she accidentally let it slip... her hands were sweaty could you blame her? "Oh so that's how he did it."

Chihiro tried her best to turn around; when she did she saw the spider's many eyes not even a foot away from her. "Damn you are u-gul-y."

He inched his was closer and she could see his mini pincers snapping. "Please don't eat me, please don't eat me." Chihiro grabbed the sword from the hilt above her and stuck the spider in the mouth. She threw the hilt at the window, allowing more light to shine through, down below the sheath hit Haku on the head.

--Chihiro are you ok?—

-Why dontcha come see for yourself?-

The new sunlight irritated the black spider. He jumped back and Chihiro could see a red marking on his belly. "Ok so you are a black widow... ah you're a girl... I knew those damn videos where for something!" Haku flew up and looked through the window and saw the spider molting. It came out from its black shell into a white one.

Chihiro looked disgusted at the horrible looking creature and threw up. "What are you? Michael Jackson?! Please don't eat me please don't eat me!" The spider came back at her; a tongue licked her neck as she was getting ready to bite.

Chihiro got her arm untangled and reached for the sword. She stabbed the spider in its head and heard a shrill scream as it tried to kill her. Chihiro chopped off the offending arm and saw the spider fall backwards and twitch. She threw up again. "Michael Jackson aright! Although I really don't think he raped those kids..."

"Chihiro... I can't help you escape... but get your arms and legs free first, then swing yourself forward to get out."

"Like yoga?" Chihiro said struggling.

"Yes, like yoga."

"Yoga is evil and almost broke my back!" She then began to sign the song from shrek when they introduced Fiona.

Chihiro got free and walked over to Haku. "I'll be out soon. I would kiss you right now... but I just threw up like two times... so see ya later."

Haku smiled and thought of where all of her maturity went. Ever since they got to this place she seemed childish, sarcastic, klutzy and innocent.

Chihiro got the two swords and walked around the huge spider web. "Had I seen this before, I sure as hell wouldn't have gotten stuck in that fun string crap."

Chihiro ran to the stairs and made it safely. She ran up it and looked around; the coast was clear so she made it to the third floor stairs with out any disturbance. The same happened for the fourth floor, it was all quiet.

"Hmmm... this seems to be the quiet before the storm. I wonder what's going on... I couldn't have killed them all already."

Chihiro got to the fifth floor and realized the tile was different. "What's with the tile, its all weird. Who would mix brown tiles with blue? I certainly won't, but the ground seems weird... as if this is a trap... like Indiana Jones..."

Chihiro found a shield and threw in on the brown tile, nothing happened. She threw a heavier object on the tile and still nothing happened, so she tried the blue one. When the mallet hit the blue tile, darts shot from all around the room to the mallet, soon it was covered in darts. That was what happened with the light blue, she threw another mallet onto the dark blue and she could see black darts hitting the mallet. From the darts a purple substance flowed, as if it were poison.

Chihiro walked onto the brown tile testing it. When nothing happened she continued onto the floor. Soon she was in the middle of the room. From the shadows on the other side, she could see moving forms, swords and a bird flying over head.

Chihiro stood her ground and picked up five black darts. She didn't aim at anything in particular but every time she hit a skeleton right on a bone, when it contacted the bone, the skeleton would turn purple and turn to ash. "Told ya you would turn to ash one day! Ha-ha!" She laughed evilly as she continued to throw darts. When she ran out of darts she unsheathed her sword and stood her ground. They came after her in a furry and all she did was stand still. When they came close enough for contact with her sword she yelled, "You're going to pay for breaking my nail! Suffer the wrath of the wind! YAAAH!!!" Within moments they were all perished and she was still finishing her battle cry.

"Aaa...hhh." From some where deep in her mind a voice rang out "Talim wins!" a male narrator announced. "You did your best... I respect that." A female voice said.

"Hahaha... why am I thinking about soul caliber right now? Oh oh I get to be Talim now! Wahoo this is getting some where."

--Chihiro are you ok?—

-I'm fine why do you ask?-

--Your personality seemed to change ever since you came here... it's as if you are like thirteen or something.—

-Hey what do you have against thirteen year olds? Being thirteen rocked! I had lots of friends, but I was a complete kid, and I was scared of the smallest things.-

Haku looked up to the sky; it was getting late, so he sat down by the root of the tree.

--What floor are you on?—

-Don't know, I lost count. I'll stick my head out of the window and you tell me what floor I'm on kay?-

Chihiro looked down and saw Haku at the foot of a tree. Haku counted the floors only to see she was now on the fifth. He also saw that when he looked at Chihiro, he sensed a disruption in her soul. He saw a faint hint of it, but it was as if the longer she stood in there the younger her spirit became, although her appearance stood the same.

Chihiro danced off to the sixth floor. She ran up the stairs and saw Haku. She danced off to him and hugged him.

"What are you doing here?"

Haku didn't answer; instead he calmly raised his hand in the air and smacked her across the face.

-You bastard! - She repeated her thought out loud. "Whaddya do that for huh? Huh? Hey wait... you can't be Haku! Haku doesn't own a sword! And sorry, but I've only seen Haku a few moments ago; no way could he make it up here that fast! And-"

"What are you talking about Chihiro?"

"Hmm... you have his voice."

"Of course I do, now let's get going, we should continue on if we are to get out of here."

"Uh... but why did you slap me? I won't forgive you that easily you... you... you thing you! How disrespectful. You hit like a bitch anyway... whoa... you're definitely not Haku!"

"Chihiro we don't have enough time. Let's go." Haku grabbed her hand and raced up the stairs. Chihiro gave a skeptical look but continued on any way.

"Finally! I am strong, powerful, well same thing, and... I have endurance! How about that!" Chihiro said smiling happily to herself.

"Haku, I'm going to look outside to see what time it is, be right back!" She ran to the window and looked down. –Ok, lets see if this mystery guy is really Haku, and if it is, I swear what makes him think he's so special... hitting me like that, I'll show him!- Chihiro looked down and saw Haku in Dragon form on the tree right out of the window.

-Aha I see...- "YOU DUMB BASTARD!! Do ya really think I would let you off with hitting me like that so easily? Especially when Haku is right over there? Dumb dumb clone."

'Haku' ran over to her with light speed and knocked her onto the floor. She lost her weapon when she fell and saw it flying down towards her face. With a reflex she never knew she had she rolled from underneath it and caught it before it got stuck into the floor. "You hit me twice... that's the death penalty loser!"

He then ran over to her again, but punched her in the stomach and kicked her in her back. She fell to the floor on all fours. "Is... is that all you've got? Heh... I have to admit though... my grandma doesn't hit that hard..." She sat up and stood up straight. He came at her again and this time she waited patiently and timed his attack. When he was close enough she jumped up and threw the sword into his back. She then threw the sheath at his head and gradually fell down.

Chihiro gasped and looked at what she did to 'Haku'. There was blood all over him, and for once during this battle she wondered if it was the right Haku she killed. She kneeled next to him and saw his face, grimacing in pain as he slowly bled to death. Before he died he took out a small dagger and stuck her in the leg with it. Chihiro cried out in pain and scattered back. "Ha... Haku... NO! You aren't Haku! I knew it! You despicable... you're not worth my breath!" Chihiro limped over to him and pulled the sword that was logged into his back towards her, after hearing a sickening crack and a painful cry she wiped her nose with her bloody left hand and flung the excess blood off with a flick of her wrist. She knew he was dead and was glad of it, she didn't like replicas much... although, he wasn't good enough to be any ones.

The blood from her hand bled freely as she limped over to the stairs. She completely ignored the fact that the dagger was still logged into her skin, in too much pain to inflict even more upon herself with the removal.

Chihiro felt awfully strange through out the battle with 'Haku'. It was as if all of her teenage life shown through her eyes and suddenly made her into an adult. She finally understood, and it was time she left.

She slowly made it up the stairs to the last floor. Hoping not much lay for her there she pressed on and gripped the railing when ever she felt the dagger move in a wrong way. It would scrape her bone every now and then, making her cry out in pain and agony, but she came too far to quit now, she would NOT risk the chance of finally having happiness after all those years of darkness. With a new strength the practically hopped up the stairs into the dimly lit room. It seemed to brighten up more with each step she took. To the middle of the room was an altar, and on that altar was (Freddy cougar ha-ha... no) the golden amulet. She walked over to it and studied its appearance. Well for starters it was gold; also it was pretty thick and very small. Around the edges where symbols Chihiro couldn't translate, and in the center of the amulet was a green stone. She held the amulet in between her pointer finger and thumb careful not to move it from the place it rested. She only did this for measurements. It was about an inch thick and fit in the crook of her thumb and forefinger; it was also as long as her pointer. The back was completely plain, no markings of any kind rested on it.

When she found no signs of threat, she carefully and slowly lifted the amulet from its base. Nothing happened for a few seconds. She walked off without anything happening and looked down out of the window. Haku was still at the base of the tree and it was sundown. She opened the window and called out, "Haku I got it!"

"Good come down!" Chihiro smiled and turned around smiling to herself at her accomplishment. When she turned around however she saw three ghosts, two spiders and around twenty skeletons. Her smile faded as she saw the ghost coming after her.

For the third time that day, Haku heard Chihiro's scream and this time he was frightened. Everything seemed fine until now. He tried to move but couldn't. He tried to force his legs from the spot, but they wouldn't allow him to, it was as if they didn't belong to him. "YU-BABA!!! LET ME GO!"

Chihiro looked on in horror as the ghost came at her. She backed up and screamed again and began to cry. She fell to the floor and cried harder, holding the amulet to her chest. The ghost was cold; it was floating and had dark holes for eyes. It's skin on its ghostly pale face deteriorated, and full of holes. The skeleton ran a bony finger on her chin as a spider's leg ran up her arm. She was crying uncontrollably and had so many shivers up her spine she thought she'd freeze to death.

"Why? What am- I doing...? I-I'm just si-sitting here. When I should've escaped long before... but I can't move. I'm too scared... these are my fears and they'll scare me until I have no more will to live. I must live! I can't die because of some teenage fear! I don't want to... but the truth is... I just might die because of this... why did I accept this mission? Oh yeah, so that I could play hero... and now, I have my fears touching me, showing their presence enough to haunt millions of children and make my every day a living night mare, a living hell... I'VE HAD TOO MUCH OF THAT! GO AWAY!"

Chihiro jumped up and pushed the armored yet unarmed skeletons aside. She stopped by the window and saw Haku; she then looked behind her and saw the many enemies swiftly advancing. Chihiro had no choice. She called out for Haku and jumped from the window.

The air rushed around her and she felt her stomach give that uncomfortable feeling of falling. (Like the first drop on a roller coaster... think nitro.) It seemed to last forever until she blacked out. She felt nothing, saw nothing, and breathed nothing. She was still deciding on whether or not she was breathing at all.

It seemed so comforting yet so forbidding at the same time. She chose the light over the dark anytime though, so she headed towards it. In a desperate attempt to find it she got up and swallowed the fear that pinned her heart. She opened her eyes and saw nothing but the darkness. She turned around and saw the light, it was like yin-yang and she went towards the light. She ran, knowing the light was far away, she continued never giving up.

"Chihiro, Chihiro! Wake up!" Haku had caught her before she hit the ground, but from the blood loss, to the shock of the fall and not to mention, the lack of food made her unconscious. Just how deeply unconscious he wasn't sure.

Haku went to take out the dagger from her calve. When his hesitant hand made contact with the dagger a shock went through his whole body, painfully making everything inside him shiver and everything outside burn. When he recovered he took a tentative pointer and gently touched her face. When nothing happened, he touched a little more firmly only to get the same shock as before, so there was no way he could move her with out killing himself. "Oh great... Chihiro, I need you to wake up! I know this'll hurt but..." Haku pressed his lips against hers in a 2 second kiss. When he broke free he wasn't in a lot of pain... oh no... he was in a shit load of pain.

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You don't think I'll ever dare to hurt either of them that much do you? Haku is too damn hot to die, and I'll make Chihiro too damn strong to stay unconscious... but that depends...

So here comes the reviewer's choice time!!

Do you want...

Chihiro stay in an unconscious state while Haku tries to figure out a way to get them both back to the bath house safely?

Chihiro wake up and find Haku already healed but no longer able to help her, as he was derived of his own powers?

Chihiro wake up to find a note from Yu-Baba saying that Haku was transported back to the bath house and that Chihiro'll be on her own when it comes to transportation back.

Chihiro gets mysterious powers and she is able to get back to the bath house?

Or last but not least... your too lazy to review your thought so I pick 'e' myself which just happens to be a random

Or second last but not least... you review and decide random

Please review and tell me what you think. I hope to have at least one new reviewer and if not, I'll continue to write this story just for the hell of it... but If I get real lazy... there might not be a happy ending with this story if I don't get any new reviews... such as mysterious mystery of the long gone story or I just post and say bye bye...

(nani sings )

I hate you, you hate me...

Who the hell cares, lets kill barney,

With a great big gun

Called wanahacaloo

You'd better say Barney is a gay fag too!

And for nutcase with her liking of the song Chyo-chan sang here is my version...

Cooking is so dumb, cooking is so dumb

Now its time to order take-out, with some egg-fu-yung,

Yay! Door delivery

Hopefully you'll review... please do....

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