Well, at this particular point in the story, there's really not much that I
can say without giving away too much of the basic plot line, but here goes.
Keetra, who happens to be one of my reviewers, has kidnapped Chihiro.
Meanwhile, as she heads back to whatever strange land she came from, the
others have for the most part recovered from whatever wounds they had. No
one died except for some of the unnamed spirits who were attending the
wedding. Anyways, that's where I'm at right now, so keep on reading, and
the only other thing that I can think of to say is please review!
This chapter goes out to an entirely new reviewer that I got, and the first reviewer for this particular story, fanficmaniac.
Thanks so much, and here's your next update.
Unfortunately, this particular chapter will not be very long at all, but the rest of the chapters should get much longer with time. Just bear with me until them.
I wrote this particular chapter in the lodge at Cannonsburg Ski area. The riddle at the end is mine, so if you're going to use it, all that I ask is that YOU ask.
You can use pretty much any of the characters in my fic, but once again I'd like for you to leave a review asking so that I can check out your fic and do some reviewing of my own.
Disclaimer- I do not own any of the original characters from Spirited Away. By now, you should know which characters belong to me.
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Chapter One- Riddles, Part one.
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"If you're going to find Chihiro, then you'll need to get some help," Jumari stated as she pulled down maps and documents at random from off the shelves of the massive library that they were all in.
"How on earth am I supposed to find help when I don't even know who took her?" Haku asked, fury still dominant in his eyes. "When I find out, I swear that I'll slaughter the monster!"
"No need to worry about that," Yubaba said, looking up from the desk where she sat, searching for something known only to her. Walking from her room all the way to the library had drained a lot of her energy, for she had not yet recovered from the wounds that she had received courtesy of the last energy blast that Keetra had sent into the tower. Her face was drawn and pale. "You may not remember all of the missions that I sent you on, but I do. Her name is Keetra, and she used to come from a very powerful and dominant family in the Spirit World. They were becoming a significant threat to my business, so I sent you after them to eliminate that threat."
Haku stared at her, disbelief etched across his face. "And. . . And I did?" he stammered, horror running like molten metal through his veins. It couldn't be true. It simply couldn't!"
"I didn't give you much of a choice. You pretty much had to kill them or be killed yourself. You chose the former. Unfortunately, Keetra apparently had been on a business trip when you completed the job, so she was saved from a certain death. Since I'm not completely evil, I erased all memory of the incident from your mind and allowed you to continue on with your life oblivious to the pain that you must have caused her."
"So what you're saying is that there is some insane psycho girl out there who wants me dead so that she can avenge the family that I killed, even though I don't remember anything of the incident." Haku held his head as though it was about to explode. He simply couldn't, no, wouldn't believe that he had slaughtered a family whose only crime had been to tick Yubaba off.
"Ah, here it is," Jumari exclaimed as she pulled down an old and tattered parchment. "It's been said that the only way to find the land of Kanrika is to complete a quest. Supposedly, the quest leads you all over the Spirit World, forcing you to solve riddles that will lead you to the next clue. The quest itself is said to be one of the most difficult ones in existence, one that cannot be completed without much suffering and tragic loss." She sat down at the desk next to Yubaba and handed her the parchment. "There are multiple clues that must be found, and each one leads you to the location of the next, and the last one to the gateway to the land of Kanrika. I've had this, the first clue, in my possession for quite some time now." Yubaba looked the scroll over, and then handed it to a very eager Haku, who snatched it from her hand and perused the contents.
"What does it mean?"
"I don't know. In all of history, you're the only person that has found all of the clues and succeeded in completing the quest. You never told anyone where they could find the clues, or even what each clue meant, and once Yubaba erased your memory, there was no way of getting that information from you."
Haku looked back down at the clue, then shook his head.
"It doesn't make any sense."
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RIDDLE 1
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Go to the place where no light shines
Look up to the heavens
And among the mighty pillars
You'll find me there
*~*
All right, there's the first chapter. Now, read and review!
This chapter goes out to an entirely new reviewer that I got, and the first reviewer for this particular story, fanficmaniac.
Thanks so much, and here's your next update.
Unfortunately, this particular chapter will not be very long at all, but the rest of the chapters should get much longer with time. Just bear with me until them.
I wrote this particular chapter in the lodge at Cannonsburg Ski area. The riddle at the end is mine, so if you're going to use it, all that I ask is that YOU ask.
You can use pretty much any of the characters in my fic, but once again I'd like for you to leave a review asking so that I can check out your fic and do some reviewing of my own.
Disclaimer- I do not own any of the original characters from Spirited Away. By now, you should know which characters belong to me.
*~*
Chapter One- Riddles, Part one.
*~*
"If you're going to find Chihiro, then you'll need to get some help," Jumari stated as she pulled down maps and documents at random from off the shelves of the massive library that they were all in.
"How on earth am I supposed to find help when I don't even know who took her?" Haku asked, fury still dominant in his eyes. "When I find out, I swear that I'll slaughter the monster!"
"No need to worry about that," Yubaba said, looking up from the desk where she sat, searching for something known only to her. Walking from her room all the way to the library had drained a lot of her energy, for she had not yet recovered from the wounds that she had received courtesy of the last energy blast that Keetra had sent into the tower. Her face was drawn and pale. "You may not remember all of the missions that I sent you on, but I do. Her name is Keetra, and she used to come from a very powerful and dominant family in the Spirit World. They were becoming a significant threat to my business, so I sent you after them to eliminate that threat."
Haku stared at her, disbelief etched across his face. "And. . . And I did?" he stammered, horror running like molten metal through his veins. It couldn't be true. It simply couldn't!"
"I didn't give you much of a choice. You pretty much had to kill them or be killed yourself. You chose the former. Unfortunately, Keetra apparently had been on a business trip when you completed the job, so she was saved from a certain death. Since I'm not completely evil, I erased all memory of the incident from your mind and allowed you to continue on with your life oblivious to the pain that you must have caused her."
"So what you're saying is that there is some insane psycho girl out there who wants me dead so that she can avenge the family that I killed, even though I don't remember anything of the incident." Haku held his head as though it was about to explode. He simply couldn't, no, wouldn't believe that he had slaughtered a family whose only crime had been to tick Yubaba off.
"Ah, here it is," Jumari exclaimed as she pulled down an old and tattered parchment. "It's been said that the only way to find the land of Kanrika is to complete a quest. Supposedly, the quest leads you all over the Spirit World, forcing you to solve riddles that will lead you to the next clue. The quest itself is said to be one of the most difficult ones in existence, one that cannot be completed without much suffering and tragic loss." She sat down at the desk next to Yubaba and handed her the parchment. "There are multiple clues that must be found, and each one leads you to the location of the next, and the last one to the gateway to the land of Kanrika. I've had this, the first clue, in my possession for quite some time now." Yubaba looked the scroll over, and then handed it to a very eager Haku, who snatched it from her hand and perused the contents.
"What does it mean?"
"I don't know. In all of history, you're the only person that has found all of the clues and succeeded in completing the quest. You never told anyone where they could find the clues, or even what each clue meant, and once Yubaba erased your memory, there was no way of getting that information from you."
Haku looked back down at the clue, then shook his head.
"It doesn't make any sense."
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RIDDLE 1
*~*
Go to the place where no light shines
Look up to the heavens
And among the mighty pillars
You'll find me there
*~*
All right, there's the first chapter. Now, read and review!