( Hello there! I thought it well before I start this fan fiction and I decided that I will go with it. I love this movie, I love the characters - especially Howl-, and I wanted to make a fan fiction. There are lots of unexpecting things going on in this story and I thought that maybe it would be good if we took a look on Howl's past. We all know the original story, how Sophie found Howl and then how they found each other and then lived happily ever after. But sometimes stories can be tricky. I wanted to make this fan fiction story and see lots of different version of Howl, Sophie, Calcifer, Markl and many other characters. I also have put in this story my own characters that they never appeared in the first movie and they are all coming from my head. Okay enough with the blubbing. I hope you enjoy the story and please PLEASEEE leave me some reviews and tell me what do you think of it. Thank you and have fun ;) )

I DO NOT OWN HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE

Howl's Moving Castle: A Cursed Heart

Fan fiction

By

Magical Creator!

Chapter 1: The Wake Up Call

" Anna! Anna are you in there? I'm coming in!" her friend, Kate, said a moment before she opened the door and got in the room. It was so dark in this room, tho outside the sun was lighting up the whole town. Kate sighed when she saw her best friend being still under the blankets on the bed. She moved quickly towards the windows and without even asking, pulled the curtains away. The day light filled the room and a smile got formed on Kate's face.

" Come on sleepy girl! Wake up!" Kate shook her best friend but in respond she got an annoying murmur.

" Anna, get up! This is important!" Kate cried as she uncovered her best friends head.

" Damn you Kate! What is it?" Anna cried with a sleepy voice.

" They saw it Anna!" Kate said with an exciting tone on her voice.

" Who saw what?" Anna asked, obviously not really caring about the subject.

" Everyone! Everyone in town saw it!" Kate said as she sat next to her.

" What thing?" she was starting to become impatient.

" Howl's Moving Castle! Well, flying castle fits better now." Anna's eyes opened wide the moment she heard that name.

" What? That's – that's impossible" she frowned.

" Nothing it's impossible and you know it! Anna, he's back. Maybe, this is it, this could be your chance to be free." Kate reached out her hand to touch her friend's, but Anna pulled away.

" What do you mean?" she asked all curious.

" Haven't you got tired of being like that?" Kate asked.

" Of course!"

" Then maybe this is your chance to get help, to get healed." Kate said grabbing her hand softly. Anna looked shocked by her friend's words.

" Are you telling me to ask help from... Him?" Anna said phrasing the last word.

" Maybe he can -"

" How can you say that?" Anna said and got up from her bed furious with her friend. " Kate... He did this to me! He made me like that! And you're telling me that I should ask for his help?" her eyes were ready to water.

" Maybe he changed." Kate answered cowardly, having her head looking on the ground.

" Monsters don't change." Anna said cruelly and with hatred.

" Yeah but- Anna... You want to change." Kate said and looked her friend straight in the eyes.

" Are you calling me a monster?" Anna said wounded. A single tear rolled down on her cheek.

" Anna" Kate got up and moved at her friend. She took Anna's hands in hers and looked at her. " I know you. I know who you really are. But I also know what you have been doing all those past eight years. And even tho this is not your fault, you still are the one that is doing this. Whatever he did to you, it created a monster and either you like it or not honey, that monster is a part of you." Her words may hurt her but they were true. She didn't want to be like that, she never asked for something like this. The only thing that she did wrong was that she fell in love with someone that she shouldn't. And now she's paying the price. The tears were falling unstoppably from her face and Kate's heart was breaking seeing her friend like that. She wiped away her best friend tears and made her look at her.

" Sometimes, when the light can't help you anymore, it's okay to turn to darkness. Give him a chance..."

Anna took a minute to think. Maybe Kate was right, maybe she had to turn to darkness this time. Howl did this to her. He did this, so he could also take it back.

" So, where we will find him?" Anna said and her friend smiled holding her tight in her hug.

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How strange it can be when things change and they aren't going in the way you had planned before. Just like Sophie. She thought she would stay alone forever but she got herself into a world with wizards and witches, into terrible curses and above all these, she found true love. And all because she got into that castle. Howl's Moving Castle back then 'cause right now, people knew it as Howl's Flying Castle.

She met him, she understood him, she fell in love with him. She didn't left him in hard times, she stucked with him. She helped him to get his heart back, freed him from the demon and the magical powers and learned him how to truly love.

The perfect story if you ask me. Magic worlds, magic powers, wizards, witches, lots of danger, lots of suspense and love. Sophie lived a perfect adventure and now she's living her fairytale. But this was not just a story in a book. That was real life and as we all know, real life has secrets. And Howl had his. Even tho Sophie met him and found out who he really was, she still hadn't found a part of him. Howl kept that part hidden very carefully and he wanted to make sure that Sophie would never found out. He loved her, he loved her more than himself. She was his whole life. He couldn't breath without her. He never felt that way before. Never but once. But it wasn't meant to be. Howl had given his heart to love, to her, but she had picked someone else. She couldn't help it, she loved that guy. But that guy unfortunately wasn't Howl. He couldn't stand that. He couldn't accept that the girl that loved more than his life, didn't love him back. That's why he hated love, until Sophie came.

He changed, he knew that for sure. But the mistakes that he'd done on the past still hunted him. And he was too afraid to tell her, 'cause he couldn't risk of losing her. No! He wouldn't let Sophie find out, what a kind of person he once was.

And the days were passing. Their love started to become even more powerful and Sophie had never felt so happy before. Letting the wind messing her hair, breathing the fresh air as they were moving through the clouds, made her feel free. Standing on the balcony she wondered, how her life would have been if she hadn't been cursed. She would never had met Howl, never had fallen in love with him. She thanked the witch that cursed her, every day that passed. But even tho she was happy, she knew that something was bothering Howl's mind. He had been very skeptical those last few days. He was always talking to Calcifer about something but none of them would tell. She was feeling really sad to watch him like this, so she took the chance that morning to ask him.

" Howl?" she asked quietly as she stepped into the flying castle. Howl was sitting on a chair in front of the table they had, looking a mark on it.

" Howl -" Sophie said a few seconds before her touch on his shoulder made him snap and scare her. Howl looked at her with wide eyes and realized he had scared her. He swallowed and then gave her a very sweet and warm smile. Sophie smiled back at him and rested her hand on his shoulder before she took a sit next to him. Howl avoided the eye contact with her so that Sophie couldn't realize that something was bothering him. Of course, this is Sophie we were talking about, she would have realized that with blinded eyes.

" Howl" she started saying. She put her hand on Howl's cheek and turned his face to make him look at her. His big eyes looked into her beautiful ones and his heart felt fluttered when she smiled at him. " What's going on? You're not yourself these last few days. Talk to me. What is bothering you?". Howl closed his eyes and let himself feel the warmth of her touch. He touched her hand with his and gave a soft kiss on it. He turned to look Sophie's frowned face.

" It's nothing" he said and Sophie struggled to hear it.

" Don't lie to me. I know you! Something's wrong. What is it, maybe I can help?" That moment Howl's eyes became wide and he stood up from his sit, leaving a shocked Sophie behind him.

" No, no! It's nothing... I just- We just need to make a stop!" he said a little bit nervous.

" A stop? It's been months since the last time we stopped somewhere" Sophie said surprised. Indeed that was true. It's been months since the last time they stopped and that was only to buy some woods for Calcifer. Why he wants to stop now? She thought.

" I know, I know! But I thought that maybe it's time to get some rest from flying, you know? Maybe, Calcifer will get some rest, you and Markl can go out buy something? Just get some rest for a few days." Howl said still having that nervous tone on his voice.

" Howl are you sure? I mean, I know how much you love flying instead of staying somewhere" Sophie said, standing up from her sit.

" You're right, I love flying, but – It's not only me in this house and besides, I know how much you would love to hang out outside from the castle, even for a little bit." he smiled at her.

" You would do that for me?" Sophie asked fluttered.

" Anything for you" he whispered at her while he put a hair behind of her ear. Sophie's eyes sparkled to his words and a huge smile formed on her face right before she hugged him and whispered " I love you" to his ear.

Howl caressed her hair while he was having her in his arms, but his mind was traveling somewhere else. He knew that this stop had to be done, even tho he didn't want to. He had to see how she was, what was she doing, how the town was after... After the incident. But he was worried for Sophie. In about one week was the Blue Moon. He had to make sure to leave town by then.

" So where are we gonna stop?" Sophie said smiley the moment she got away from his hold. Howl looked at her.

" The next town" he said and faked a smile. Sophie smiled wide and wrapped her hands around his neck. The smile on Howl's face faded away the moment Sophie couldn't watch and he took a deep breath, while old memories were coming through his mind.