Alone in the Dark Chapter Four

Wow! Chapter four already! That's gone by fast. Truth is, I'm so lazy, I'm doing as much as I can in one night so I don't forget to update later like all my other stories. It's kind of sad… Oh well. I don't own any characters from Spirited Away, except the ones I make up. Almost getting to the point where they… oh never mind. I can't tell… yet…

Haku stood in front of the board like a general, going through the plans. "We will start in the boiler room. Then we will go through the sliding door and through the main room in there. From there we will go up through all the elevators in the right order and come out in Yubaba's office. You understand?"

"I think so." Chihiro nodded.

"Alright then," Haku started to get up, "Let's get into our positions."

Chihiro nodded. She got up and started toward the boiler room. She stopped when she noticed Haku wasn't moving. His face was pale. He looked afraid. "Haku? Is everything alright?"

His face regained its color and was back to normal. He glanced at Chihiro. "Fine, everything's fine." He lied. 'No it's not,' he thought. 'Something is definitely wrong.' He started out the room anyway, hoping things would be alright…

(Author's note: I would have stopped there, but then the chapter would have been way too short. I'll go on. Just pretend that there was a break there or something.)

"All right then, on your marks, get set…" he had a dramatic pause… "GO!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. They both started off at the starting line. Haku was going easy on Chihiro, and she knew it, but they both were having fun anyway. They zipped around everything was going pretty smoothly until they made it almost to the top. They were about to cross the long bridge that spanned the top of the bathhouse. They began to cross it, and with Haku in the lead. He managed to make it across, and then turned around to see how far behind Chihiro was. To his awe, he saw her running across the bridge, when the top gave in and she fell off the top. She managed to grab the edge of the bridge. Haku flew to the top of the bridge as fast as he could. Right when he was just within reaching range, she couldn't hold on any more to the rigid edge, and she began to fall to her doom. Her scream echoed throughout the large bathhouse. "Chihiro!" Haku yelled. Everything seemed to move in slow motion to her as she fell.

'Well, this is the end I guess,' she thought. 'I just hope when I hit the ground it's not too painful.' She braced herself for the fall. But it never came. A flying object came straight into her, pushing her with it across the gap into the nearest wall. It was somewhat painful, but not as painful as falling extremely fast into the top of a screen or a solid bathtub wall or floor. When she realized someone just saved her she panicked. Who could have done it? She was relieved when she saw that it was Haku.

"Haku, what's going on?" she asked. She was becoming to be more afraid than she had been the whole night.

She was hoping he knew, but disappointed when he said, "I'm not sure. I won't go into everything I know, I don't want to scare you."

"It's okay. I want to know."

" Well, Haku went on, "I can feel a presence. It is extremely strong, and up to no good. In fact, if you really want to know, I feel several."

"What can we do?" Chihiro asked. She tried to act as normal as possible, but it was almost impossible to conceal the fact that she was in shock, genuine shock.

"I'm not sure…" Haku's face hardened, "But whoever it is, they're in for a lot of hurt. I'm not going to let anything happen to you Chihiro. Ever."

Chihiro was still unsure, but knowing Haku was with her helped her to stay calmer than she would have been alone.

They continued to walk back to Yubaba's chambers. As they were almost there, Haku's senses were jolted. Something was close to them. He began to look around for any danger. The lights flickered, then went out. Haku drew a dagger he had concealed. He heard Chihiro scream a bloodcurdling scream. He was hit in the head with something big and heavy. He senses were immediately jolted with an amazing amount of pain. He recovered from the blow quickly. He stood up, still unable to see much around him. The lights flickered again, and then turned back on. Haku couldn't see much, the concussion to his head made him dizzy. He looked around for a moment. Chihiro was no where to be seen. His head throbbed constantly. "Chihiro!" he yelled out. He couldn't take the pain any longer. He collapsed from pain onto the floor.

Now I'm getting to the dramatic part. Sorry to leave everyone hanging, but I'm going to relax a little. Please review. I'm still not going to post any extra names at the top, not for a little bit. This story is going to be quite long for something I write…

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