Spirited Away 2: The Goddess of Light
Dark-Angelic-Goddess
Omg.. Wow.. I finally updated this story. Lol. I'm really sorry for the wait. Really, I am! I'm being honest... (Notices glares from readers) Ehehehe... (Anime sweat drop) I said I was sorry! What more do you want from me? ...Oh... Well, yeah. I guess I could get you the next chapter, now couldn't I? Well, I suppose I'll make this one longer, but first, did I tell you how sorry I was? Nevermind that. Let's just get on with the next chapter, shall we? Hehe. Promise I'll make this one longer then most of them. And it'll have more action. (Weird theme in background) Dun, dun, dunnn... .
Disclaimer: No Idea why I wrote that, but anyways. I won't be doing this at all, except for right now anyways. I don't own the Spirited Away cast, though I own everything else. Yay! Go me. Lol. Anyways. On with the chapter.
Chihiro gulped as she took a single stepped back from the man looking towards her. She really hadn't a single clue as to why she just did that. Wasn't she the one with all the problems? And now she was taking on some big guy that might beat the living crap out of her? What was she thinking? No, that's right. She wasn't thinking at all.
Sighing, Chihiro folded her arms across her chest, turning her head to the side, her brown hair falling over her right shoulder as she did, her eyes glancing towards the man that slowly began to advance on her, ignoring the younger child behind him. Wait... Where was that kid anyway? Tilting her head to the side, Chihiro slowly glanced around the area looking for the child that was once there... She was gone? Why that little runt! Leaving her here with this overgrown pig? How dare she?
Being to wrapped up in her thoughts of how the younger child left her alone, she failed to notice that the man was only a few feet away from her before it was to late and she was thrown roughly to the ground. She groaned and rubbed her head lightly, sitting up slowly before looking towards the man that was throwing a fist her way. Chihiro yelped and rolled out of the way to the right of the man's fist before he could land a hit on her, watching as he instead made a large hole in the ground that could've been her... Taking a shaky breath, Chihiro stood up to her feet, stumbling to the side as she stared at the man who didn't seem to be fazed in the least by his bleeding knuckles. The flesh having been scraped off of them from his fist hitting the concrete so hard. It was now in an odd angle, seemingly broken from the impact. Shaking her head, Chihiro took a step from the man before turning quickly and running off as fast as she could, the man running after her. How could he not be fazed by that? And how in the world could someone be strong enough to break through concrete? All these thoughts ran through Chihiro's mind as she ran from the alleyway and out into the deserted street, her feet taking her down the sidewalk. No cars passed by so she really had no-one to call out for help too. Not like they really could unless they took a gun the guy's head. Man he was fast.
The man was only a few feet behind her running as fast as he could to keep up with her. Chihiro was starting to run out of breath. Man she needed to start working out more. It's not like she was fat. She was actually very slim, seeing as how she kept having to pull up her pants before they fell from her hips. The girl groaned as she continued to run from the man, the only sound was the fast beat of her heart as it pounded within her chest and her footsteps running along the sidewalk, along with the man's behind her. Oh yeah. She forgot about him. She turned her head to the side only to almost get smacked in the face. The thing that saved her from having her nose indented into her face was that she stripped over a crack in the side-walk.
"Oof," the sound escaped Chihiro's lips as she landed hard on the ground, leaving her a bit dazed. The man was laying not to far from her and slowly getting back to her feet. She heaved a sigh. Was he ever going to just give up? The man stood up fully and brushed his body off before lunging towards Chihiro once again. Obviously not.
Chihiro quickly jumped to her feet and blindly swung her right arm through the air, her hand landing a smack straight on the left side of the guy's face, sending his head snapping to the side, a bit of saliva falling from the corner of his mouth in which he whiped off, now glaring towards Chihiro... Who was now to busy holding her stinging hand and jumping around muttering, "Ow," a bunch of times.
The man stood in front of her, watching her with a hint of annoyance, "Stupid child... Next time keep to your own business!" With that he kicked out with his left leg to send his foot flying into Chihiro's stomach causing her to keel over it and stumble backwards. Eyes wide and watering as she clutched her stomach, coughing up bits of blood that dripped from the side of her mouth, spitting it to the ground. Hair covering her face. 'Ow... That really hurt...' she thought to herself, to busy concentrating on the pain now in her stomach to bother with the man smirking and standing above her. She groaned and moved to stand up only to stumble backwards from having stood up to quickly. She rubbed her head, finding herself to be slightly dizzy. "Woman.." The man grumbled under his breath as he moved towards Chihiro once more.
At the moment, Chihiro was to shocked to do much of anything, but angry at the same time. How dare he do that! She growled a bit to herself before snapping her gaze up to look at the man approaching her, "Fuck running..." She said to herself, her arms folding across her chest as her steady glare continued to rest upon the man. Brown locks of hair falling into her face as it blew around within the breeze that passed by her form. She was going to end this now... Well, try to anyways.
Quickly she turned to the right side of the man with speed unknown to even herself, working more with her instincts now. She brought her right arm backwards first before she curled her hand into a fist, slamming her fist forwards and into the man's throat, knocking him straight to the ground, gasping and choking for the air that was seemingly blocked from his lungs. He clutched his throat as he slowly stood up once again, glaring back towards Chihiro who merely stared at him. Suddenly, the man started laughing. He was laughing? At her? What the fuck was up with this guy? She punched him, and he laughs? Who does that now a days? Like, seriously.
Chihiro clentched her fists tightly together at her sides, her eyes narrowing towards the man laughing in front of her, "And what, exactly, is so funny?"
The man stopped laughing only to grin towards her, not one of those nice grins, but an evil sort of grin. It was kind of freaking Chihiro out. "This... Is what's so funny..." His grin dropped from his face as his body seemed to slowly disentegrate into nothing. Chihiro blinked furiously, staring at the crumpled flesh and bones that once made up the man... She slowly, carefully, walked up to the man's used to be body, her eyes wandering down to gaze at it. A ticking sound was heard and she tilted her head to the side, not realizing what it was... Frowning she bent her knees to lower herself down to look at it more carefully. There wasn't any blood so it wasn't like it was disgusting to touch.. She carefully flicked a bone, watching it turn into sand. She flinched back as her eyes widened.
"What the..." She looked back down towards the bones once again, watching each and every one of them turn into pure golden colored sand, followed by the flesh that turned into the same. A small black ball was left in the center. Curiousity took hold of her as she picked the ball up into her hand, holding it between her middle and index finger slowly scanning it. It looked like a small marble, nothing else. She tilted her head once again to the side, her brown hair falling into her face, covering half of it. A weird feeling came over her as the ball in her hand began to pulse. She dropped it and made to stand up but instead fell backwards onto her bottom, staring at the thing with a strange, yet scared look. She hadn't a clue what it was... But it seemed to be alive or something...
"Chihiro!" A voice called. It was a girl. Chihiro turned her head to the side, watching as her friend Carissa ran straight up to her, gasping for air as she tried to catch her breath before speaking, "The... The... Foster house..." She continued to gasp, trying to catch her breath before falling to her knees, taking a moment and closing her eyes.
Chihiro turned her gaze to the ball that was sitting innocently in the pile of sand before standing up and moving over to Carissa, placing a single hand on her shoulder, "It's okay.. Just, catch your breath. Don't rush into things..."
Carissa shook her head quickly and snapped back up to her feet, staring at Chihiro. "The foster house.. It's..It's...GONE!" She yelled the last part, causing Chihiro to wince. Her voice seeming to ring in her ears before she cracked open an eye, looking at Carissa.
"What do you mean, it's 'gone'?" Chihiro asked quietly, her voice the same as it always was. Though a hint of coldness seemed to enter her voice as she spoke.
Carissa frowned as she shook her head, moving to hug Chihiro tightly, whimpering and crying into her right shoulder, "I was out..And it was just..Gone.. I can't find it anywhere. The place where the house was is covered with forest. Half of the town is now.." She softly began to cry into Chihiro's shoulder, while Chihiro merely stood there...
After a while of letting Carissa cry on her shoulder, they both got up and left to find out what was going on. Chihiro having totally forgotten about the black marble sitting in the center of the pile of sand...
They reached the middle of the small town. Carissa was right when she said half of the town was now covered with forest. All of the houses were covered with vines, windows broken from tree branches sticking through. The roofs off some of the houses. There were tree's everywhere... This was weird. She shook her head and dragged Carissa along with her further into the now forested area. She walked down along different paths, stepping over broken shards of glass from the windows, tree branches and vines that got in their way. Carissa merely followed along silently, taking in her surroundings.. "This is weird... How.. How could the town suddenly be covered with forest?" She said softly towards Chihiro.
"I don't know..." Chihiro mumbled. Honestly she hadn't a clue what was going on. Man was this night getting overly weird. First that strange man, then that black marble... Wait... She forgot it... Chihiro glanced around quickly before actually noticing that her and Carissa were now lost in the pitch dark of the forest. She groaned and shook her head, making her way through the trees further, not knowing exactly where she was going. But for some reason, instinct was driving her to go this way. Things seemed to be getting stranger by the second...
There, in front of them, was a large red tunnel. Chihiro's eyes widened in rememberance before she quickly shook her head back and forth, taking a step backwards... The gate to the spirit world... It was as if it wanted her to go inside... She wasn't sure if she could do that again, face the pain of seeing him again. Though, she supposed she wouldn't be able to stay out here all night. Maybe he wasn't there? Besides, she needed to find out what was going on in her world. Maybe it had something to do with the spirit world. It could be a possibility, but she wasn't so sure going back to the spirit world with Carissa was a good idea. Carissa herself was as confused as she. Glancing around and staring at the tunnel with a weird look.
"Where does this lead?" She asked Chihiro who had been staring at the red tunnel for a while. The area seemed to darken around them causing Chihiro to glance up. The trees overhead covered the area, not allowing the moons rays to shine through. Nor any other light to shine through and uncover the darkness that surrounded them.
"Um... You'll see," Chihiro said this softly as she took a hold of Carissa's hand, carefully dragging her after herself, and into the tunnel in which she, so many years ago, took a vow never to go into again... She was breaking a promise to herself. But she didn't have any other choice...
-- In The Bathhouse --
People, spirits actually, rushed around quickly almost in a chaos. Something was wrong, they'd just found out that the goddess that ruled over the spirit world, and kept it the way it was, was killed. No one knew how, but they new exactly who by. Deruku Moonu, the ruler of the night. The controller of shadows... In plain words, he was bad news. And he was now taking control of the spirit world. Instead of the normal cloudless blue sky that was usually seen in the spirit world, it was filled with grey clouds, almost the color of black they were so dark. They hadn't seen a speck of light at all today. Things were beginning to get weird...
An old woman sat at her desk, tapping her long red nails on the desk impatiently. Glaring at the hard oak wood desk she leaned against, her large pointed nose sticking out. Her hair tied into it's usual bun. It seemed to be getting greyer each and everyday. Too much stress, is how she put it anyway. Things were really beginning to look down for the business she was running here at the bathhouse. Because of all of the storm clouds and such today, other spirits have wanted to go back to their homes, and the business was just going down hill. She sighed and shook her head. This would have never happened if that kid was still around. Sen... Yes, she missed her. No matter how angry she got with the child, she could never forget how much money the girl made, and how much she raised the spirits of the workers here. Haku had come back looking rather angered with her. Sen had told him his real name, Kohaku. She no longer had control over him. Yet, since his river was destroyed, he had decided to stay. Rather odd thing was, was that he met another girl. This one wasn't human but a water spirit like himself... Her river was apparently washed away as well. Her name was Alexia... But in her opinion, the girl could never take Sen's place in Haku's heart, no matter what...
"You called?" A deep voice said from the other end of the room. She glanced up from glaring at her desk to look at the young looking man in front of her. His shoulder length black hair falling over either of his shoulders, deep emerald green eyes staring towards her. She chuckled. Yes, she had called Haku. She needed him to go check something out for her.
"Yes, yes Haku... I do need something... I want you, and only you, to search around... I scenced a human earlier and I want you to see who it is." Yubaba said in her usual strong tone, her blue eyes staying locked onto Haku's own. 'Hopefully it's that little brat,' she thought to herself silently.
Haku seemed to think the same thing, his eyes widening slightly. Not to long after he bowed and turned from her, walking from her pressence before running down along the hall, taking a left and running out the three golden doors before taking the elevator down to near the entrance of the bathhouse. He ran from the doors, and immediately turned into his pure white dragon form, swishing through the air. His aqua green mane flying through the air as he made his way towards the entrance in which she entered before, all the while thinking to himself.. 'Could it really be her...?'
Chihiro sighed as she glanced around. It didn't seem normal. The spirit world. Usually the skies weren't so grey, or clouded and something just...Seemed wrong. Carissa seemed completely confused and really just hadn't a clue as to where she was. Chihiro glanced back at her confused friend before sighing and shaking her head looking back around the spirit world. Only problem now was, how were they supposed to get past the river?
A small sweat drop fell down the side of her head. One thing she hadn't thought of. Then again, who would of when your world has turned completely upside down? She groaned and made her way to the edge of the black shaded lake, placing a single finger in the water before pulling back quickly almost as if she was bitten... The water was stuck to her fingers. But, it was strange. The water wasn't water. It sounded weird, yes, but it was literally stuck to Chihiro's fingers. She stared at it, it was sort of like sludge. She shook her head, a grossed out look crossing her features before she wipped the sludge like stuff off on a wall.
Hearing a scream, Chihiro's gaze quickly turned to look at Carissa. She was staring at herself in fear, her eyes wide. Though, Chihiro knew exactly why. She was starting to go see through. Sighing she walked slowly over to Carissa, not realizing that the same thing wasn't happening to herself. She bent down as Carissa crumpled to her knees, silently crying. "Hey... Don't worry. You're going to be..-" She was cut off by a loud whistle. She turned her gaze to the sky, frowning as she watched a figure move towards them. What was that? It looked sort of like... Chihiro shook her head quickly.. No.. It couldn't be... It was...
"Kohaku..." The word slipped from Chihiro's lips before she sighed and glanced down towards Carissa.. She didn't want to leave her here, but had no other choice... She ran, away from Carissa, knowing that Kohaku would take care of her. She then hide behind a large boulder, watching as the dragon form of Kokaku turned into it's human like form.
Kohaku stared at the quivering girl in front of him before he sighed. It wasn't Chihiro. Then, again, he might as well help this girl out too. Something that Chihiro had taught him, to be nice to people. It was strange, yes, but the girl was going almost completely invisable. He pulled a small red berry from a pouch in his kimono before moving towards her, "Hey... Eat this... It'll help." The girl seemed confused as she stared towards Kohaku but took the berry and chewed on it. Before swallowing. Her body slowly moving to solidify itself once again.
He sighed before glancing around slowly, almost hoping to catch sight of Chihiro somewhere. Clearly that wasn't going to happen though. He glanced back at the girl as she slowly stood up, staring at Kohaku with a strange expression. She then spoke, her voice soft, "Um... Thank you..."
Kohaku merely nodded before glancing around slowly and then turned back into his dragon form, motioning for her to get onto his back. She did, but seemed to continually glance around for something. Ignoring it he flew up into the air and slowly disappeared from sight, moving back to the bathhouse...
Chihiro let out a small sigh before she slowly stood back up. He was still the same as he was all those years ago... Her hand moved to clutch her shirt, just above her chest where her heart was pounding. It hurt to see him again, all the while knowing that he was with that other girl. She still hadn't a clue who that girl was, but was bound and determined to find out. She glanced around slowly, releasing her shirt before frowning, "Now... How exactly am I going to get to the bathhouse?" She mumbled to herself.
A sound caused her head to snap to the side, watching as a small figure emerged from the bushes. She readied herself, her eyes narrowing upon the small form before realization hit her... It was that little brat! Wait...What was she doing here?
The girl slowly, yet carefully walked over to her, before stopping in front of Chihiro, glancing up at her with small crystal blue eyes, "Thank you for earlier." Her voice seemed much more matured than what she looked like.
"Uh..." Chihiro was speechless to say the least. Who was this kid? And why did she sound like she was in her thirties or older. "Who are you?" Yeah, that's right Chihiro. Be right out and blunt about things. She could've smacked her head.
The girl only smiled as she tilted her head to the side, black hair falling into her face uncovering a small star on her forehead, "My name's Alyssa. Alyssa Ayuki." She bowed before giggling softly, spinning in circles before stopping. She seemed more like a child every minute more that Chihiro spent with her. "I'm here to help you, Chihiro. You need to get to the bathhouse, do you not?" The child, now known as Alyssa inquired of her.
Chihiro blinked a few times before shaking her head and nodding. "Yeah... I do... You wouldn't be able to..-" Yet again, it had to be the fifth time, she was cut off. The girl glowed a purple shade before her form slowly morphed into what seemed like a large tiger. Her fur was as white as snow, with large black stripes adorning it. Her ears were white as well, though, tipped with black. The same crystal eyes seemed to bore into Chihiro's brown ones. This was it. She was going insane. She had to be.
Alyssa moved towards Chihiro, she was rather large. About double the size of an actual tiger. Her head nuzzled against Chihiro's stomach and she winced, only just remembering the large bruise she'd gotten from that man. He'd kicked her pretty hard. The bruise took up almost her whole stomach. Alyssa gave Chihiro a growl, sounding more like a purr, motioning with her large head for Chihiro to get on her back. Chihiro shrugged, and hopped up onto Alyssa's back, not expecting the take off that she gave, shooting into the air and soaring across the deep lake. That was really just a bunch of sludge. That reminded her... What was going on around here? She needed to find out, and quickly...
Yes, yes. I know. Yell at me allll you want for ending it there. Then again, think about it this way. I got the next chapter up and made it longer! Anyways. I better get going. I'll try to update next chapter as soon as I can, instead of waiting for about 3 months. Hehe. Read and review pleaseeee!