Hey guys I swear, I have wrote and re-wrote this story so many times; I can never get it right! I hope this one will be the one I'm the most happy with.
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Disclaimer: All the characters belong to Miyazaki, as does my respect and inspiration.
- Prologue-
"We made it" Dad says exasperated. He glances at the car, a troubled expression drips down this face, as he takes in the sight of it ; covered head to toe in decaying leaves and reeds that fell from the gnarled tree above.
"Hey, What happened?" his faces shifts to puzzlement and curiosity, as he stomps over to the car.
"What is it?" Mother's face perks up. Mothers always been one to worry about everything, the tiniest detail never escapes her. She let go of my hand and gracefully trots over to Dads side, examining the buried car. I stand staring at them from afar, not leaving the entrance to the "abandoned theme park". I lean against its cracked remains and silently watch the scene play out in front of me.
Dad opens the car door, while Mother fusses around the bonnet.
"Look at that. It's all dusty inside, too" Mother almost sprints to her side of the car, yanking the door open.
"Is this someone's idea of a joke?" she jumps into the seat and starts furiously dusting with the cloth she keeps in a compartment, in the front of the car.
"Looks like it" Dad retorts in his usual calm demeanor.
I giggle at this. Then it hit me. I was the only one who knew what happened, the one person on this entire earth that knows what comes after death. The only one to be honoured as a hero by some of the most powerful beings known to our worlds. My head rose in realisation; this whole experience hadn't been a dream, had it? It sounded completely mad when I put it into words. Also the fact, no one had ever found this place before me and my family was baffling, it had to be a dream right? I must of fell asleep in the fields or something. Trying to convince myself of this however, didn't change the feeling I had in my stomach and heart. It was real. I knew it.
"I told you we shouldn't have stopped" Mother called out to my Dad, huffing, frustrated at the dirty car.
Still stuck in my bewilderment, I had failed to notice my Dad had started the car up. Mother's voice snapped me out of my inner dilemma.
"Come on, Chihiro. Let's get to our new home" she beckoned me with the hand from the rolled down window. I reluctantly pushed myself off the aged wall, turning. I gave it one last check, rubbing its bumpy surface. Bits of paint work came off into my hand, gleaming in the sun, like sparkling rubies, I gripped onto them, and forced myself to jog to the car.
As I got in, I began to shake. The new world I have discovered and fallen in love with, was about to disappear, and I could do nothing but sit and watch it. I went cold, and my heart began to ache.
"You're not scared are you?" Dad asked me, noticing I was shaking in the rear view mirror.
"Don't be afraid honey, everything's going to be okay" Mother reach around the her seat and touch my quivering knee, her warm comforting gesture was provoking the tears I held in my eyes to fall.
I refused to let them. I wasn't an ordinary 12-year-old anymore. I wasn't the girl who would cry and sob her dainty little heart out. I was a fighter. I am the only person in the entire human realm to have fought off a power so great, they can't comprehend it. I was the only human to have changed so many spirits lives in mere days. I was the only human, to have a dragon on my side. I was Sen.
"A new home and a new school. It is a bit scary" Dad tried reassuring me. I straightened my back, held my head high and breathed deeply. "You wouldn't know what scary was dad" I thought.
I gave a knowing smile at him in the mirror.
"I think I can handle it."
I know it isn't much. I am in the process of writing the first chapter, which will progress the story. Thank you for your time. I would really appreciated a review and a favourite, and if you want to talk, you can message me on here or my tumblr, which is
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