Chapter 4 Never trust a Lying Dwarf

"I know what you are searching for, and I have the answer right here." a pesky looking dwarf said taking her arm to hold her there.

"Let go of me," she said trying to shake that ugly arm away from her. Kohaku saw it and with a dangerous colour in his eyes he walked to the dwarf and stared him in the eye. The dwarf hesitated and released her as if she had just burnt her. The dwarf looked away, there was something dangerous in the way Kohaku looked at it.

"As I was saying" the dwarf continued" before this young water spirit interrupted, was that I know what you are searching for, and I have the answer right here."

He bent closer to her, and said.

"I know how you may find the forbidden birds, I know where they are."

Chihiro couldn't believe her ears, she looked at Kohaku, who gave her a sort of puzzled expression back. The phoenixes where supposed to have disappeared, or so all spirits would have believed if not what happened had happened.

"There's a valley not to far from here, I'll take you two there."

"But..."

"Now, the phoenixes have set out to leave so we must hurry."

He grabbed them both before they managed to say something. He took out a small blue stone, which shone bright. The light spread until all three of them shone in the same light. The light grew stronger. When it had faded the three of them had disappeared.

Lin went down back again, looking for them, but when she came back she managed to see the light.

"Oh, by the river spirit's beard" she said running back to get Deko and Xing.

Chihiro had closed her eyes to not get blinded by the strong light. When she soon was sure the light was gone she opened her eyes. She and Kohaku were standing in what didn't look like a deep ravine. Or you could also say hole because there were no escapes.

"It's a trap." Kohaku said somehow calmly. "That pesky dwarf tricked us. He never knew where the phoenixes are hidden, he just said that to take us here."

He looked up and as he predicted he could see a head looking at them. 'Dwarves have really no humour' he thought.

And then Chihiro came closer to him. He wished his heart didn't have to beat as fast as it began whenever she approached him. She seated down beside him, head resting on his shoulder. Comforting he put his arm around her shoulder.

"Don't worry, everything will turn out to be fine" he said comforting. Chihiro sighed and said...

"I hope so."

Far away, in a mountain no one could climb, in a cave no one could enter, in a chamber no one outside had stepped into ten shimmering spirits were having a huge discussion. They had seen them, a water spirit and a mortal human who tried to find them. It was almost laughable.

"Oh, let them try, there have been thousand who have tried before." The Phoenix of Fire said, her long red hair dancing like flames.

The cold phoenix of ice laughed.

"I really think this is nothing to laugh about" the Phoenix of Peace said worried. "What if they find us?"

"If that's so we'll throw that river dragon back to his lost river and that human to the world beyond." The Phoenix of Wind said.

Yet the all-seeing Phoenix of Destiny sighed. He knew, like always what future had hidden from the normal eyes.

"Kohaku, you don't think you'd be able to fly us out do you?" Chihiro asked. She hated this hole, and especially that dwarf who still sat on the edge watching them.

Kohaku sighed. "I don't know. Last time I tried to fly anywhere I managed to fly up, but I never landed. I fell back down. Yubaba has too much of my powers now, it's a miracle I'm still alive at all.

Chihiro looked worried at him. She wished there was something she could do for him.

Kohaku noticed this. "Don't worry, nothing will happen. I promise"

Yet he couldn't hide it from himself, anything could happen and he wouldn't be there one day to help her. He wished it wasn't so, but that was the truth after all.

In the meantime Lin, Deko and Xing had managed to find an odd looking dwarf sitting by the deepest of holes in the Kamikakushi. He behaved strange too, he kept staring into the hole talking to something down there. Lin made a sign for the other two spirits to follow her. The dwarf was about to drop something into the hole, when the three of them turned up. Lin shot a clear death glare when she realised that Chihiro and Kohaku were the things this dwarf was playing with and Xing had to restrain her from running over to beat this annoying thing up. Deko assumed his spirit form of the salamander and hurried down to fetch the two prisoners. Chihiro was very glad to stand on something else then the bottom of that hole.

Kohaku looked at her, some sort of longing and sorrow in his eyes. She didn't notice this, yet Lin did and started wondering. When she came to a conclusion she was struck with something else, 'No way, he can't...'

She was interrupted by the dwarfs moaning and begging as Xing stood over him, his long stick in a firm hold. Deko, still a fire salamander looked at her one time before picking up the dwarf and placing him at the bottom.

"Next time," she said strictly... "Never trust dwarves, understand. I especially believed you already knew that rule, Haku."

Kohaku tried to open his mouth, but no sound came. He understood how irresponsible he had been.

"Now, you two will follow me and no more talking with strangers."

"Lin, you do sound like my mother" Chihiro complained yet followed back. Heads down, like young children who just had been reprimanded by their mother, they walked back to Lanzii.

To reviewers:

JessicaKittyDemon: I'm sorry this update took a while, yet I had a temporary writers block. I hope you liked this chapter, even if it was short and please forgive my awful spelling. I'm trying to improve anyway.

Micrll: Yay, you reviewed again, thank you. I hope you liked this chapter, despite its shortness, I'll try to write a longer one, until next time.

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