Beginning note: I don't own Spirited Away, I'm not making any money off it, and this is all for the funzys.

Ablution - A ceremonial act of washing parts of the body or sacred containers

Prestidigitation

They crashed into the ground some distance away. Truthfully she wasn't sure of how far they'd gone; twisting through corners and past shadows so quickly her eyes could barely keep up.

All she knew was when she had finally managed to calm her shifting vision; she found her dragon curled in upon himself, ripping viciously at some dark form that rested on his tail; thick claws tearing at his scales as he tried to rid himself of it.

Chihiro watched in horror as he sank bloody fangs into his own flesh, ripping into what was now just a bloody mess to her, before shaking his head and sending the dark mass sailing down the hallway.

When she could finally control her body again, she wrapped arms around him, moving to inspect the damage. But like prestidigitation or some other such supernatural talent, he was no longer there; having wrapped himself around her in coils, bloody tail sweeping the ground in agitation and smearing trails of coppery blood against the floor as he snarled at the lump of black matter. The black lump that was moving.

Whatever it was, it wasn't moving long, as Kohaku shot a ball of power towards it, incinerating it into nothing before shaking his mane, a shiver running down the entire length of his body and drawing her eyes to the wound on his tail.

The wound was a bright blackish red and smoking faintly. If her eyes focused on it too hard, it even appeared that the raw flesh was writhing like maggots on a corpse.

She pressed a hand over her mouth in shock. "Oh Kohaku, what… what's happening to you?"

His only reply was a comforting rumble and the nuzzling of his muzzle into her hair.

Note: I've wrote 6 more drabbles for this already tonight; taking the count up to 73, and i'm actually not near as far in the plot as I thought I would be. so you might actually get a little bit more than 100 drabbles for this. I'm going to try to wrap it up at not too much more than that though. -.- And on another note, you all should listen too 'Neverending White Lights' album 'Act 1: Goodbye Friends of the Heavenly Bodies' as that's what I'm listening too writing for this.