Feathers of Love
Chapitre Twenty-one: The Leaving
Haku looked up from what he was doing and stopped what he was doing. "What are you saying?"
Sen, who was still looking at the floor, answered in a quiet voice, "You shouldn't give the seal to Yubaba. It is wrong. What if you are labeled as a thief just so that you can learn a few spells? Is it worth it? If you have stolen something very important from people to give to Yubaba, what would they feel if the things you have stolen were their greatest treasure?"
Yubaba looked positively outraged at Sen's quiet argument. This mere human girl who had begged her for a job in the bathhouse now wanted Haku, her assistant, to return the seal to his sister! Absolutely absurd! She would have none of this!
"Give me that seal or else…" Yubaba shouted, forgetting about her baby for a moment.
"Or else what? Kill me? You have been threatening me with this since I came here to work under you. All your threatening no longer scares me anymore." Haku retorted.
Sen looked in confusion. She was tired and wanted to sleep, hence not knowing what was happening between Haku and Yubaba. She only heard the cries of the baby, who was awakened by Yubaba's shout, and so she set about getting the harp and singing another song. However, as Yubaba went into the room where her baby was, Haku turned around and looked at Sen, who was bending to take the harp.
"No time for that. We should leave now while Yubaba is busy with her baby." Haku said.
"But…but what about the baby?"
"Forget about him for a moment. Do you want to leave this place?"
Sen nodded her head. "Yes, I really want to leave this place. Should I take the harp too?" Haku did not answer but grabbed Sen's arm and pulled her out of the room towards the rooftop. In the last minute, Sen grabbed the harp with her free hand and ran with Haku to the top of the bathhouse. As they were running, they heard Yubaba's angry shout, but the ignored it. As for Haku, he was transforming into a dragon, but it was a very slow process. When they had reached the rooftop, he was still halfway from being a dragon.
"Sing for me, Sen! Sing that dragon song! Please, be quick about it!" Sen, who knew what was going to happen, started to sing the song, with a few notes from the harp to accompany it,
Haku rapidly transformed into the white dragon. It was slightly slower than last time, when Sen was singing at Debonair's palace. However, when Haku finished transforming into a dragon, Yubaba just reached the top of the roof, sides heaving. Apparently, she had calmed her baby down before running to catch them for there were no cries of the baby anymore.
Haku gestured at Sen with his head and pointed it to his back. Then, Haku turned to face the sky, all the while trying to sense whether Yubaba was preparing to attack behind their backs. Yubaba was preparing a spell, one that was quite powerful. Sen clambered up the dragon's back and almost immediately, Yubaba released the spell, exactly at the spot where both dragon and human would have been if the dragon had not flown into the air a second earlier. If they were not in the air, well, they would become fried dragon and human already.
Yubaba howled. As the duo sped towards Zeniba's house, Yubaba changed into her bird form and chased after them. For the whole day, they flew. Sometimes the other eluded one's sight but they would appear moments later. Haku chose to hide among the thick clouds and therefore able to elude Yubaba for some time. But whenever the clouds moved, they would be visible again.
Finally, Sen had enough of it. She strummed the harp with her hands while she tried to balance herself with her legs on the dragon. She sang another song, one of a bird wanting to roost and therefore going to a tree to sleep. It worked on Yubaba, for she was in a bird form. This was an enchanted sleep and Yubaba would only awake when the day ended. This song had no words, but it seemed to have word of its own…
Through this way, they had at least gained some time before Yubaba would chase them again. Haku slowed down his speed. He was tired and wanted to rest, but then, they were nearing Zeniba's house. He hurried on, hoping that Sen would not fall asleep. However, he thought about something as he flew, the incident when he woke Sen to sing the song to calm Yubaba's baby to sleep. He had called Sen awake with his mind and a tiny bit of his magical powers. It was then that he remembered something Yubaba had told him before he went to steal the seal.
"Only twins and soul mates are able to do that. However, there are definitely very few people who can do that by using spells to look into their minds, but the spells are lost and even if people do know that, they are only able to do that once, and only once, since it takes too much of one's magical powers and when they do it the second time, they will die from over usage of their magical powers."
It struck him. He was shocked. Were they soul mates or were they twins?
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How is it? Yes, Haku and Sen were leaving the bathhouse for good! However, it may not be the last time you see Yubaba! Read…and of course, review!
By the way, I wanted to add in the line breaks but it does not seem to work when I am editing this chapitre, so I used this. :)
