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Chapter 36
Searching
Katsu's POV
I sat right in front of the guy as he seemed to sleep.
"Hey you! Wake up!" He didn't so much as move.
"How can you just sleep like that? I mean your girlfriend, who's supposed to be human, but is like the little freaky nut light, is about to die, and what do you do? You sleep! Typical. And you're supposed to be the hero." I laid on my side and watched as a few green lights flickered and disappeared. My tail thumped the floor in agitation.
"Not that I'm worried or nothing. She's just a spirit wanna be, but you on the other hand is just actin like you're at a freaking party drinking little cups of sake. I mean, seriously. If she was my girl I would at least do something. Ahrima's probably sent somethin nasty after her. Who knows what. That witch is capable of almost anything. I've hardly been here and I've seen more spirits dead in three suns that I have in a year." The more I rambled, the more my hair prickled, and the more I just wanted to tear at someone. My preferable method would be usin this guy as a scratchin post.
"Tell…me…" My ears suddenly twitched and I sat up and looked at him.
"You, you actually talked?" I looked at his lip had new blood droplets forming.
"Tell…" He whispered so lightly, that if I hadn't had as gooda hearing as I do, I wouldn't a never heard a word.
"Well then. Its starts out with us, by us I mean Aikia and I, leavin on an order that Ahrima sent us on…"
Chihiro's POV
"Where…" I felt my breath come loosely, but seem to get stuck. My sight became clearer, but I still laid in the same spot the same way I had.
I couldn't have been out longer than a few moments…wait…where's Aikia…and that cat boy…
"It's…an Illusion…the Creppler …and the jungle" I spat up a liquid as I coughed. I saw a bronze light shine. I closed my eyes and opened them. The Fox knealt down felt my forehead.
"Come one Dove. Snap out of it. It was just an Illusion." He looked ready to cry, and it was unnerving.
"Tears…don't suit you…" He touched my mouth and I saw his finger tips dripped in red paint.
Paint…but where did he get it…I don't see any paint…"You were never hurt! It was just an Illusion! Don't you get it!" He yelled at me.
Get what…understand…what am I supposed to understand…"Beast." I smiled. He opened his mouth and made a loud sound that sent my mind crashing over itself.
Oh no…what's happening…I felt as if I was tumbling over and over in the air.
Aikia's POV
"Katsu, we have business to finish." I looked at the cat sprawled out on the floor. What he had been saying to the lifeless spirit, only he knows, and only someone childish cares.
"Which business, Master Aikia?"
"What do you think?" He looked blankly at me.
"The stupid spirit is dyeing. Unfortunately we have the task of saving him for Ahrima."
"Oh. So we're going back to his past."
"Only as far as his river was placed. Than we move to his present."
"His present? But he's here." I felt like hitting him in my irritable mood. Fortunate for him, I am well mastered in controlling my actions and not letting my feelings get in the way.
"The present location of his river. The worst case meaning I would have to removed it from its current location and place it to another in the human realm."
"Does that take a lot of power." I didn't bother answering. In truth, it would take more power than I can afford to expend.
The magic symbols waved in my mind and I locked them into place as we traveled yet once again to the filthy spirits past.
Chihiro's POV
"Where am I?" I looked at the place I fell. It was a vast desert with nothing. Clouds rolled by at an impossibly fast rate and all of the light was dull. A small box appeared and images flicked on it.
"A T.V.? I haven't seen one of them in ages. But how did it get here?" I sat down and watched the blurry shapes form.
"It's me! And Fox, Aikia, and that cat boy. But how?" I looked on.
I wonder where the volume is…Curious, I pushed a button, and suddenly the TV seemed to enlarge and fly into me, transporting me to the movie it had been showing.
"What are you doing?" I stood by the cat boy. I heard his words. I looked over at me and Fox.
"How am I…seeing this?" I went to touch the cat boy, but my hand fell through him.
"Am I dead? But I can't be, can I?" I looked up sharply as I heard a strong laugh echo. It had been me laughing. I looked insane.
"I hardly call this a laughing matter."
"Why not?" I watched my self laugh with an even stronger force.
"Will you shut up?" Then the most curious thing began to happen. Both I and the Fox froze.
This is so weird…it's like I'm watching everything happen…only I'm not really here…well I am…but I'm not…but…oh…hey…what's happening…
"They're in an illusion."
"They look stupid."
"They are stupid."
The cat boy fell and sat down on his rump as he watched like a spectator.
I looked at Fox who had turned into a bright bronze light then taken the shape of a nine tailed fox.
"Woah!" I heard the cat boy cry out.
"That would be the fox boy turning into his true form."
"His true form…would that be like Haku turning into a dragon? Or would his true form be a river?" I shook my head, not expecting an answer.
"Why is the girl running? Did he scare her?"
"A crippler is chasing her."
"But I don't see…oh."
"Oh, what is oh?" I asked, but of course I received no reply.
Stupid …stupid …stupid…they can't see you…let alone hear you…I watched as my body was flung into nothing, and landed onto the back of Fox, but I slid off with all of the jostling.
"But how did that…I mean…" I watched amazed.
"But how did she?" I looked gratefully at the cat boy.
"An illusion is a materialized image that can trick the mind into thinking it is real. However, if the spirit, or human thinks he or she is dieing because of something caused by an illusion, than they will."
"How?"
"The mind is a powerful thing. No matter what creature, the mind can project amazing results."
"I still ain't gettin it."
"I still don't understand it." I looked at Aikia strangly as he corrected the young boy.
"If you wish, I will have you begin your magical studies, starting with illusions. They are difficult to learn, but once understood, easy to conjure. Depending on the level of Illusion that you invoke."
So this boy…is his apprentice…but…I thought…I suppose there have been odder set ups…but this seems a little out of the box…but it does explain a lot…
"That sounds cool."
"Impossible." I looked over at Aikia and then followed his gaze to mine. I looked right at Aikia and the cat Boy.
"Can she really see us?" I looked at my body tremble and red drip out of my mouth.
"I'm…I was bleeding…"
"It seems I have underestimated the force within her. I don't know how she has changed, but I intend to find out. In the meant time, come. We have outstayed our welcome." A black fog seemed to wrapp around them and I stood back.
"What in Barba's name is that ?" Was the last thing I heard before they disappeared completely. A dark shadow covered the sun and I looked up to see what had caused it.
"Beast?" I gazed at the tremendous sized dragon, with huge eyes and long wings.
"Wow, you sure have been eating your vegetables." A glistening off the sun caught my eye and I looked up. Shards rained down. Long and deadly.
It's like…a mirror broke and its raining parts of that broken mirror…it so odd…A large bellowing echoed through me, and to my horror I saw my worst nightmare come true.
Katsu's POV
"Woah. This is amazim" I looked across the vast city expanse of earth yet once again.
"Not really, though the humans have progressed in their technology."
"Teko-wata-gy?"
"Science. Its like magic, in similar ways, but not really."
"Huh?" I felt stupid as I asked all of the questions, and with Maters Aikia in a bad mood, it probably wasn't the best thing to be asking so much.
"Science. The discovery of what make life function. The study of cause and effect." I shook my head in wonder.
For stupid creatures…they're very complicated…Aikia traced the river that was Haku.
I like his river…I think its neat…though I would never want to go swimming in it…I hate gettin' wet…I especially hate gettin' water in my ears…
We watched time fast forward. The river was forced into a small area and a bridge was built over it, but the color dulled slowly and it became like a mucky lake. Time stopped moving so fast and I felt like upchukin.
"Back lash. It happens in time travel."
"So where…uh…when are we now?"
"We are at his present state."
"This? This is…gross!"
It's so thick and muddy…you can't even see five feet in it…they may be good with tekogy and science…but they ruin everythin'…what is wrong with these humans…
"So now what?"
"I have to move it."
"But…"
"The water will grow completely stale. As it is, there are hardly any plants growing in there, and all water creatures are dieing, which is sending more spirits to a premature visit into Kamikakushi. This could cause a larger scaled imbalance than we need at the moment."
"So your sayin, he dies, so do a couple thousand others?" He nodded lightly.
"So where ya movin it to?"
"To the human place called Iceland."
"Iceland? Is it covered in ice or something?"
"Watch." I felt my skin prickle at the large concentration of gathered powers that Aikia was drawing in.
There's something wrong…he has to use the power from other stuff…but…why…he's strong enough to do it if he wanted to on his own…
I watched as beads of water rolled down his forhead. He stood stiffly and raised his hands, chanting some crazy nonsense. Humans in the nearby area began to weaken and fall to the ground. Lights blacked out, and clouds covered the sky. Tree colors began to change rapidly and the wind died down completely.
Everythin looks like it's diein…all…just to save this dude…I watched as Master Aikia seemed to change his spell intirely. The water instantly cleared like it was before and I blacked out.