Shitza: Okay, I know this is not planned, but I have promised to post the next chapter before Easter and my holiday now is over. Plus, Jean will probably hunt me down and kill me if I don't hold that so… Oh well, besides… my fingers started to itch a bit for continuing this, and I so In hope you enjoy.
Shitza
Ps: There will be a LOT of strangeness into this chapter, but those things will be explained once we come to the end of the story. Now, unfortunately I feel like I've somehow tricked you all saying we are only half way. Just now I noticed how far we went, I can count on 10-15 chapters at the most.
Now, still there is no point trusting me. It can become five as well, that depends on what will happen and how the story continues to turn out.
Chapter 31 Reunion
"Chip what is happening?" Chihiro asked.
Chip beamed at her. "I thought that evil phoenix had trapped you there forever!" he said giving her a rib-cracking hug.
Chihiro sighed and hugged him to. Nothing had been a dream, and she was happy for it.
"Where's Kohaku, Lin, Xing, Deko? She asked as she slowly noticed the lack of presence. After all, as she had been taken back home, she had been with her friends.
"That phoenix took them. Deko, Xing and Lin are down in a dungeon, trapped. Kohaku, he is with that phoenix, she has taken him to her. You don't want to know what she is doing with her."
"What do you mean?" Chihiro asked bewildered.
"One Phoenix of love and Kohaku locked up in a room all day. Does that tell you anything?" he asked.
Chihiro stopped dead in her tracks. Was he saying what she feared he was?
In a split second her face turned from worries to pure disgust. Chip had to hurry as she sprinted up the way towards the caves above where the phoenix had her chambers. Most she was still worried, but she couldn't help feeling disgusted.
Chip soon finally managed to catch up with her, as they came to a place where the caves led them to two different ways.
"Which one?" she asked him.
Chip ran over to the two of them, peeked inside and sniffed in the air. He then ran back to her, as quickly as her short legs could carry him.
"The left one!" he said quietly. "The other one smells of those demons!"
Chihiro nodded. She and Chip hurried up towards the phoenix chamber. Chihiro barely noticed where she was walking; she followed Chip's orders and pinpoints. Now and then they stopped to make sure they were heading for the right direction. In either way they just kept running.
Chip finally led her too a pink ivory door. She nodded at him, as it was still locked. The clever little fox, put his hand on the lock, mixed a lot with it until it clicked open.
The phoenix of love was in the middle of one of her little games, when all of sudden the doors to her room opened. At first she thought it was one of her demons that wanted to tell her something. But then it showed up to be a fox, closely followed by young woman. She stared at the woman. Talk about disgusting, it was the same mortal girl she had sent back. How she had managed to escape back she had no idea of.
From the bed her prey called up probably one of the most awful names of all. "Chihiro!" he said.
The phoenix just felt like sealing him up with some kind of spell, but his defences were still too strong.
All she did was to stare at that impostor and hoping she somehow would be able to send it back yet again!
Chihiro felt her blood boil as that… thing… did all of those horrible stuffs with her boyfriend. Chip stood in front of her, he too was on fire. Or electric fire!
Chihiro spit on the ground. "Dare touch him again and you will pay for it!" she said angrily.
The phoenix though laughed. "You, a mere human is challenging me? Fine, as you wish, but don't cry once you are thrown down by my powers."
Chihiro growled. Chip suddenly tugged on her shirt and handed her a small knife he had stolen during the week. Chihiro gave him a thankful smile.
"Chip, when I say now take Kohaku out of here. I hate to say it, but I do wonder if I can win this battle!" she whispered into his ear. Chip nodded and tried to hide his tears. Chihiro took the knife in one hand and slowly walked towards that bird, or snake that would have fit better.
"Die!" The phoenix said holding a magical sword in her hands. She had taken the sword from the walls, were dozens of weird objects hung. Chihiro stared at the sword in fright.
The phoenix ran towards her, smoke almost coming from her ears. She didn't look so beautiful and charming now in her rage. Chihiro dodged her attack by a quick jump to the side.
The phoenix attacked once more, and this time Chihiro could do nothing except to pair the attack. But a normal knife against the magical sword of a phoenix was nothing. The over powerful sword slowly sank into the blade, cutting it in half. Chihiro managed to duck right before it would have beheaded her. She dropped the half-cut knife and ran over to the other side of the room, where the phoenix had a lot of jewellery and huge vases.
Chihiro knocked one of them down, and it rolled over right onto the phoenix, who didn't move away in time. "Chip, NOW!" she yelled over the room.
The small fox nodded and dragged the still weak Kohaku from the room. The phoenix screamed of anger and tried to follow, but before that Chip managed to lock the doors again. He hated doing that, but if that thing would get Him then Chihiro would never ever be able to forgive him.
Sighing he continued taking the exhausted form of the dragon to a safer cave he knew. Then… fate and destiny only could tell.
Inside the chamber the phoenix was screaming of some unwritten madness. Chihiro even could feel a bit sorry for her, she seemed so lost. Yet as the phoenix turned to her those feelings slipped off. The look upon the bird's eyes was horrible.
"You will pay for this!" the bird said. Chihiro gasped as a pink light surrounded her. To her horror she couldn't breath any longer and her heart seemed to loose it's strength. She knew, this would be the end of her life, but as long as Kohaku would be free from that thing, she didn't really care.
The sensation was still a relief, but then something happened no one had counted on, except for Destiny who knew. A white light erupted from somewhere in her soul, and it swallowed the pink one deleting it completely. The phoenix gasped and stumbled backwards, falling over her own dress.
For it was not a normal light that shone. It was the light of a pure spirit, something rarely seen these days.
The light slowly died, and Chihiro fell to the ground. But the memory of this would always stay in the phoenix mind.
Slowly, the Phoenix of Love walked over to her, and with some unknown strength compared to how physical weak she looked, she picked her up and walked out with her. Through the light the door had opened and she slowly walked towards the girl's friends.
'Maybe I am wrong' she thought. 'But perhaps I have just witnessed the birth of a spirit. I better take her back; it's my duty to my brothers and sisters after all. No power, not even my own lust will let me betray this sight.'
But what the phoenix really had witnessed will still yet not be revealed.
To Reviewers: Happy Easter! Hope you enjoyed!
LadyRainStarDragon: Yeah, a teaser, but I hope you liked it though. And what did you mean with the last; retreat back into the shadows?
Jean: I hope you got my message, you haven't replied so. Anyway, here's the chapter I promised. All though calm down a bit, all those reviews will soon be enough to awaken the dead. Don't try to scare me off writing here!
Storm- Maker: No, she wasn't suicidal, just insure. But anyway, I hope this chapter was good and that you have many questions. Only joking about the questions, but I guess you have some now. All I can say though is that everything will be explained, and that there was a reason for Chihiro to land up in Kamikakushi in the first place.
Winter –iel –o burzum: Yeah, I'm feeling much better now, thanks for your consideration.
End Notes: If the update will go slow from now, on, blame all of the exams and stuff that is on its way! Here it goes again, guess how it feels having at least one exam a week all year round. To tell you, it's not funny!
Happy Easter everyone!
Shitza