UZUMAKI: SPIRAL INTO HORROR

Freya glanced around her suspiciously. She wouldn't be fooled this time. Now she knew she would probably have to fight in this world, so all of her wits were about her. Suddenly she realized she'd left her dress in…what was it…Hinamizaka, or SOMETHING. Didn't matter. She'd liked that stupid dress. Crap. Tap, tap.

"Huh?" Freya turned to face a young woman, older looking than herself, with short blond hair. This girl was standing next to a slightly older looking man with messy black hair and glasses.

"Who are you?" the girl said softly.

"My name's Freya. Who are you?" Freya spoke softly back.

"I am Kirie. This is Shuichi and- where did Chie go?" the two glanced around.

"Right here!" an older looking woman walked up. Why was no one running and everyone was speaking so softly?

"Wow. Who's this? And what's with the ears?" Chie asked.

"I'm not human. I'm a Chobit, sort of a robot that can feel." Freya was getting tired of explaining this to everyone she met.

"Why is no one running or speaking loudly?"

"Oh." Said Kirie. "Um. Cool about the robot thing I guess…" She and Shuichi exchanged a look that Freya couldn't figure out.

"No one's doing anything loud or fast because if you do, a whirl wind starts.

"Ahhh…" Freya trailed off. Then tested their theory by trying to fly, the one power she still had, and discovered if she flew too fast, a whirl wind did form behind her. Interesting. She supposed that was what the pink haired girl had meant. Freya lightly landed on the ground. The group in front of her looked flabbergasted.

"Wow." Breathed Shuichi.

"How did you fly without the spiral power?" Freya gave him a look.

"Uhh… No idea what you're talking about, but I can just fly. I'm a Chobit, remember?" Why was this so concept so hard to grasp? Freya shook her head, slightly annoyed. "Yeah. We caught that." Snapped the boy.

"It's just kind've hard to get my mind around it, okay?" He glared at her. Well, there's one less ally… though Freya. Great.

"So why's this town so messed up?" she questioned, and the small group began to walk. " Curse of the spiral. Hard to explain." Kirie replied. Ooookayyy. Freya gave them a weird look than set too questioning Shuichi some more.

"What are these broken down houses?"

"Row houses. They're the only safe place."

"Why?" "We don't know."

"How come you don't just leave?"

"We can't."

"Why?"

"It's complicated."

"Okayyy… That's a weird lighthouse. What's up with it?"

Shuichi looked exasperatingly at her.

"We don't have time to answer thirty million questions." He growled. Freya shrugged, and all was quiet. Freya got rather bored and started to talk, but was quickly silenced by Shuichi's angry glare. Geez. Though Freya apprehensively. Freya sighed, and they walked slowly…Ever so slowly… Freya began to see spirals in the air, then shook her head to snap herself out of it.

"Ummm… You okay, Freya?" Kirie put a kind hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm, uh, fine…"

"EEEEKKKK!!!!" Freya turned as she heard a shrill scream behind her. Then she shrieked as well when she saw what was happening: a young man with a horrid looking growth on his back which resembled a shell. Several confused people were gathered around him.

"Oh… another shell person." Chie said matter of factly, as if this was the sort of thing that happened often. The grouped walked on until Kirie suddenly burst out with a cry. "Oh God! Some people are going-to…to… eat him… God…?" she sobbed into Shuichi's arms.

"Ehhh…" AKWARD. Freya edged away when she was picked up by a tornado. "WOW!!!" she was delighted until she noticed the creepy guy spinning with her. "Ummmm…" she nervously stuttered as he evilly grinned at her.

"Heh. Can't escape now, pretty one."

Pedophile much? Freya glared at him, then smirked as she broke free of the tornado easily, floating on her own.

"What the hell?" the guy yelled as she flew gracefully down to the ground. "Freak!" he sped away.

"Okay. Seriously. What is going on? Because I do not like this place. It has too many spirals and-" Freya suddenly remembered something she had read long ago, a town cursed by spirals, disappearing eventually…Oh no. I'm here. That's why they-she…he…it(?) sent me here. To die of the curse.

"NO!!!" Freya yelled. Everyone turned and stared as she leapt up and decided to leave this stupid town, portal or nay. She flew rapidly to the edge, and was immediately bumped back.

"Eh." She tried several times to no avail.

"Oh-oh no… No… This cannot be happening…" Freya sobbed as she hit the ground and splayed there. "No… I can't be… This can't be true…I must be dreaming… I'll die here… Die…And Chii will have no protector, no caregiver, I'll-I'll-"

Freya blubbered quietly, clutching her head as she cried softly. Everyone there backed away from the hysterical robot. Freya never showed this much emotion, and she was rather embarrassed about doing it in public. She quivered but got up, slowly but surely, promising herself everything would be okay. Kirie came over and hugged her gently. "Everyone goes through it when they first get here." She murmured reassuringly. Freya smiled gratefully, straightened herself up, and outfitted her face with its usual cold stare. "Okay. I think-I think I'm good. I will go on!" she yelled…Sort of… "I need to get back to my little sister." She added. Suddenly, something completely unexpected happened: Freya fell over, and was knocked out.

"Hunh?" Freya stood up. "Where-where is everyone? Shuichi! Kirie! Chie!" Freya called. But all was still; no speaking, no movement, and the row houses looked… different. However, before Freya could pull herself off the dusty ground, a figure suddenly loomed above her.

"Hello Freya. We meet." Freya blinked. Chie?

"Hi…Chie… where is everyone?" But Chie only slapped her with the back of her hand. Then smiled as Freya tenderly massaged the spot and simultaneously scooted away from the woman. "Chie, Chie, what's going on?" What the hell?

"I'm not Chie, as you may have guessed." The Chie impersonator smirked at Freya evilly. Freya jumped up and then flew as fast as she could. Then she heard a swooshing noise and paused mid-escape to see just what was happening.

"Oh. Damn." Freya was greeted with the not so happy sight of a tornado with Chie rushing after her. Freya quickened, but apperantly Chie-shaped thing had a Plan B. "See you in the next world!" Oh my- Is she going to kill me? Freya mentally prepared herself for non-existence, when she realized that wasn't what the woman-thing meant. "GAHHHHH!!!" Freya yelled as she was cast into a new portal, into the next world. Which as you can imagine, she was slightly worried about.