Chapter Five
Time passed, and Haku did not return, Chihiro began to forget what she had suddenly remembered one day. However, it seemed to her more and more often that she was not living her own life. Returning to class, she looked less and less often at the place where her friend Haku was sitting. Meanwhile, Malvina, as if waking up from hypnotic captivity, began to behave even more terribly. Malvina's gang grew to 30 people. One day, an adult girl from high school volunteered to talk to Malvina. The result of the conversation was that the gang of old The schoolchildren recognized Malvina's right to rule in the junior school. However, nothing happens without a reason, the role that Malvina's parents imposed on her as a child gradually drove the schoolgirl crazy. In the morning, getting ready for school, Malvina increasingly began to discover wounds on her arms and legs, and sometimes on her body. The psychologist to whom Malvina's parents took her said that the girl was inflicting wounds on herself with a wooden pencil, but Malvina knew that this was not the truth. The truth was that the damned wooden boy was trying to kiss her and inflicting wounds on her during the kiss. On such days, Malvina behaved even more brazenly with her classmates and with the junior schoolchildren. We know that Malvina did not need anything, her parents-professors were rich people, but having gathered a gang, the girl, in order to remain the chieftain, had to act. And she acted, she extorted money, she beat up her peers, she disrupted classes. And she did all this only to drown out the terrible vision in which Buratino stretches his lips to her, and his long nose pierces her through. For some time, Malvina did not touch Chihiro, but Haku did not return, and the memories of his confidence and strength eventually faded. Soon no one remembered the boy with green eyes, the object of passion disappeared, but the hatred for the girl who dared to stand between Malvina and Haku did not go away. In addition, the legend that Chihiro was the heroine of the anime "Spirited Away" continued to excite the minds of the city's schoolchildren, and Malvina was furious that Chihiro was becoming popular. And then one day something terrible happened. But I will tell you everything in order. That day, Chihiro was late after physical education. When she took a shower and went to get her things from her locker, it turned out that someone had tried to open the locker, and now the key would not turn in the lock. With great difficulty, the girl still managed to open the locker. While she was getting dressed, drying her hair with a hairdryer and applying cream to her face and hands, someone turned off the lights in the gym and in the locker room. And then shadows began to dart about in the darkness. Suddenly, music and a loudspeaker turned on. It was the kind of music that stirs up a crowd to senseless actions, and then a calm female voice said: "Do you like pork? Let's roast this pig! Her parents are pigs, so she is a pig too! Let's roast a pig! Let's roast a pig!" The doors to the locker room were wooden, someone propped them up from the outside and set them on fire. Chihiro was hitting the door with her whole body, trying to open it, and the voice continued to say: "Is one pig enough for us? One small roast pig for the whole company is very little. I think we need to go and smoke two more big pigs! Am I right? " - the voice addressed the invisible fans. And immediately the speaker received support. Many voices began to shout words of approval. "Well then," the voice concluded, "let's leave this pig, let it smoke well, and it's time for us to go. We need to thoroughly pour gasoline on the pen for the two big pigs and set it on fire." "I understand what they mean," Chihiro thought to herself, continuing to beat on the door, "it's not enough for them to have me, they also want to set my house on fire so that my parents burn. Haku, where are you, Mr. Haku? You said that the terrible story that happened to my parents was over, but it turns out nothing has ended. And again I need to look for a way out myself to save my parents. What should I do? I need to go back to the pool! There is an emergency door from the pool, but to reach it, I will have to swim across the entire space of the pool, because the smoke has already penetrated there, into the pool, and it is completely impossible to breathe. I will not be able to reach the emergency door on foot. " Almost crawling, Chihiro moved towards the desired goal. Luckily, the door between the changing room and the pool was open. But the smoke had already penetrated there too. Chihiro was dragging herself with the last of her strength, it seemed to her that her body was becoming transparent again, but Haku, who was supposed to give her a magic pill against transparency, was not nearby. Gathering her last strength, Chihiro crossed the space separating the changing room from the pool and threw herself into the water. As soon as she did this, she felt a little better. However, suddenly the waters of the pool shot up, as if something heavy had fallen into the pool. Chihiro began to drown, but someone immediately came to the girl's aid. The sound of breaking glass was heard, and Chihiro felt fresh air. She could breathe! The city that never became her home floated beneath her in the light of the evening lights of the houses. Lying on the back of the dragon Haku, Chihiro said:
- You know, Haku, I don't remember myself, my mother told me. Once I fell into the river, tried to get a shoe and fell, but someone saved me. Was it you, Haku? It was you. Haku, are you carrying me to my parents' house? My parents are in trouble again, and you came to my aid again. Water dragon Haku, do you remember your name? You bear the name of a river that is no longer on the map. This river was paved over, and now there are houses in this place. But, fortunately, I remember your name and will say it now.
Dragon X At that moment, aku and the girl were flying past the house where Chihiro's parents were caught in flames. The girl and the dragon were almost level with the house when Chihiro said: - Dragon Haku, the river where you saved me was called Kuakugawa. You are a water dragon. As soon as Chihiro said this, streams of water began to erupt onto the house that was burning. Dragon Haku turned into a boy Haku. Holding hands, Haku and Chihiro ran to the house. Malvina and her gang tried to keep the boys away from the house, but Haku threw them aside, stretching out his arms. And Chihiro at that time was removing the locks with which Malvina and her gang had closed the door from the outside. Fortunately, Chihiro's parents were not seriously injured, the fire had just started. Soon the firefighters and the police arrived. Malvina was taken to the police station, and then, at the urgent request of her parents, she was transferred to a psychiatric hospital. Several members of the gang were also tried to be brought to criminal responsibility, but since the girls were still minors, they were punished in a different way, they were transferred to a labor school. After that, the gang dispersed. As Haku said, the story of the parents who turned into pigs in the magic park ended, but the story of Haku himself and the magic park was just beginning.