Hazel's Final Fan-ficiton

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Title: When a dream come true.

Chihiro's family had decided to move house and settle themselves in a little town far away from the current city. Chihiro hated the idea. She sulked, ate little and fought her parents' idea in silence. She was not supposed to be a little girl forever. I know that. So when she acted like she knew everything, I understood the reason and said little. As her angel it was my job to guide her, to follow her, not to judge her.


“I love Chihiro.” I thought to myself quietly.

However, she began to grow and change since last year. She somehow realized that she is different from the others: she could recall all the special dreams of hers where I existed. She never told anyone about me, but that little twinkle of thinking herself more special than the others started to build up in her heart and has turned slowly into pride.

In her dream, I could greet her in different forms. Last night I questioned Chihiro: "Why don't you just agree with your parents? You are acting like a child." Chihiro compressed her lips in a thin line, said nothing, and I realized she was still that ten years old girl.

"So even if I moved house, can I still have dreams like this?" Chihiro asked softly. "I don't want things to change."

"Some changes can be good." my heart nearly sank as I avoided her first question. How much longer will I still be able to stay with Chihiro like this?

I knew I love Chihiro. I loved her since I first met her. This feeling swelled with time and eventually burst with despair. I had to leave her. It was said that angels were forbidden to have feelings toward humans. 

Chihiro woke up and started packing, leaving me to stare at the blue sky alone. Outside her window, summer arose. Summer breeze tranquilly entered her room, I asked: "When an angel falls for a human, what would happen to that angel?"

Summer breeze didn't answer me; they went right through my body, skipped along the way. Summer breeze had only one destination: the spirit world. Ride on the summer breeze, disappear the world of wonder.

Ah. I've heard of it. Witch Yubaba's bathhouse, once you get in, you never get out unless you manage to keep your real name. If I leave Chihiro, she would also forget about me, right? She doesn't even know of my existence. I was but a dream.

With the last breeze of hope, I left without a trace.


(3 months later)

Someone once told me "There is always someone in your life who does things out of your expectations".

That is mostly true.

I haven’t seen Chihiro for three months yet there she was, standing on the red bridge, right in front of my eyes. 

"You shouldn't be here! Get out of here! NOW!"

Humans who got spirited away only face death in the spirit world...if Yubaba caught her, Chihiro will never return to the world where we both came from. My mind went fuzzy as billions of thoughts rushed to my head all at once."GET OUT OF HERE!" I almost yelled.

Chihiro sprinted with panic and minutes later I found her shivering in the darkness, helplessly distraught and extremely anxious after seeing her parents' haunted form and her own partially transparent-looking skin. Pigs were one of the better forms for human to turn into because if they turned into fish they would have been killed right on the spot.
Could this be fate? Why did we meet again?


We ran hand in hand. Once, those hands were beyond my reach, I was only a dream to Chihiro. But as her angel I fell in love with her.



Angels were forbidden to fall in love with their masters. I did what I had to do when I accepted my emotions. It was certainly painful when I had to seal my power away in order to start my new job as an apprentice of Witch Yubaba in her bathhouse. No one knew who I was, but everyone called me Master Haku since Yubaba introduced me as so. She thought she took away my "real" name, which was only an illusion I made up in the first place. An Angel’s power was more than a match for a mere witch, hence deceiving her was one of the tricks I could easily perform.

However, there was one condition: I could not inform anyone of my real identity.

"Master Haku!"

"Do you smell that? There is a human here!"

Of course I smelled her; it was the smell I grew up with.  I was once hers, after all. I had been with Ogino Chihiro since her birth. If there is an Ogino Chihiro quiz, I will probably get full mark with my eyes closed. I was her guardian angel until the day I eliminated my presence from her life. But now she is in trouble, and I've got to help her.

"Don't forget, Chihiro. I am on your side. I've known you since you were very small..." I saw gleams of hope came into her eyes as they widened with curiosity.

You will be fine, Chihiro.

I gave Chihiro her real name back for her to return home with her true heart.  I still find myself fond of her, but what can happen between us? Chihiro grew stronger day by day, it won't be long until her return to the human world, and I could smell the sparkle of departure in the air.

But it seemed like it was I who had to fall into darkness first. Yubaba forced me to steal a seal from another witch and that seal nagged into my flesh, killing me from within. Paper dolls followed me constantly and jabbed me like a thousand burning needles all at the same time. Feeling detached from my own self, I could see my own dragon form body collapsing in the air, twisting and dropping itself in the sea water before the mind-boggling pain urged it to shoot up into the skies once more. 

...yet here I rest, in the boiler's room and felt my heart in warmth and peace.



Kamaji snored tiredly, Chihiro was nowhere in sight. How long was I asleep?

"In the darkness, I heard Chihiro's voice calling out my name, I followed her voice, and the next thing I know, I was lying in your place, feeling better than ever." words flew from my mouth more fluent than ever. Chihiro saved me, I knew that for sure. "Pure love. It broke the witch's spell" Kamaji concluded. Love?

If for any chances she could love me back, will my fate change a little? Angels had to leave the human they love, but what if the human could love them back? I arrived in my dragon form. I could smell her courage and power from miles away, Chihiro's eyes shined with delight as soon as she saw me. She was no longer that wilful little girl I knew. We flew, and I knew her days in the spirit world would end very soon.

If I told you who I really am, what will become of me?

"Listen, Haku." Chihiro's voice ran across my heart

"I've always had weird dreams since I was little. Where I met and talked to a certain creature...like a cat or dog, a boy my age, and there was a dragon. I rode on him and we flew all the way to somewhere far away, just like now. But that dream stopped three months ago" night wind drove down my scales, sharp pangs of iciness getting to me, but I could manage.

"And then I realized...all those creatures, they were all connected. They could just be one thing...you know what I mean? Like, all of them were actually just one person." She buried her face in my green mane. "It was you, wasn’t it? We met a long time ago and you always appear in my dreams, right?"

Chihiro knew me. She knew I was there! My heart pounded nervously with guilt. I tried so hard trying to hide myself away from her, away from the spirits, away from everyone and everything. Together with my flesh there was my heart. Why did I run away? All I thought about was myself; I was scared if there would be any punishment for me to love Chihiro so I ran away from her. But, what if she could accept me and love me back?

No more hiding.

"I was there." I said. "I was your angel, Chihiro."

"Was?" Chihiro queried with a small hint of disappointment.

"I am still your angel." I smiled. "I will not leave you, I will not let you go. This time for sure".

"Mona." Chihiro giggled "That was your real name, right? You told me in my dream."

In distance, sun rose with delight. The pale yellow light gradually grew into blinding white and my whole body felt numbing with happiness. No more scales, no more mane. As soon as my name was called out by my loved one, the real me appeared. Wind carefully brushed my long dark hair and my pale skin almost glowed in the sunshine. My wings reached in the blue sky with joy and we flew hand in hand, knowing we belonged together from the very beginning. This is a dazzling dream coming true for both of us.

I am forever and always your angel, Chihiro.

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