I have woken up to find the world drained of color. My mom was on the couch breaking down. The green of the summer trees drained to a dull, horrible, blank shade of grey, the blue of the pond gone, pink of my nose gone, purple, gold, silver, red, gone, gone, gone, And GONE! But something else I saw made me have hope. The hope that burned within me to fix this nightmare. My mind wheeled around in circles making me dizzy. Was it true? Could it really be THAT? It was only a movie right? Was my otaku mind playing trick on me?

Now the hard part… I had to get there. IT was moving so fast. We couldn't walk there, it was moving too fast. Also my mom was in no state of mind to drive a car. She was staring out the window with a blank, pitiful, hopeless face that didn't even look up as I called her name.

"Mom we need to get into the car…"

"Why should I? It's hopeless… its judgment day and we have been left behind by god."

"Well mom because we're going to fix it and I don't think god left us…. Also I'm driving."

I, a 16 year old girl was driving up a mountain. I've never even touched a steering wheel before. So my mom knew what was coming… We bounced and clattered up the mountain. My mom looking scared to death. Finally we got were we were going. We were at IT. I was sure now of what IT was. IT was true, IT was real! IT was Howls moving castle!

"Mom, we need to run onto that platform and go into that door."

"I don't think I can or want to."

"Mom I'm going with or without you."

"Fine…"

She ran easily up to the platform and jumped on and went into the castle. In my head I thought long and hard about this could be real. It really couldn't be real… It was just a movie right? Just a anime on a screen? I punched myself in the gut just to make sure this wasn't a dream.

"Owwww well I guess it's my turn."

I ran and almost landed perfectly but at the last second the door swung open and I was hanging by the ledge. I saw inside and I knew it wasn't a dream. Inside were a cozy fireplace and a table full of glass bottles. In all my excitement I forgot I was hanging onto the ledge. Without thinking I cried out

"CALCIFER STOPPPPPPP!"

BANG I hit the wall inside like a brick.

"owwwwwwwwwwww I may have seemed to hurt myself so much in one… dog? No… cat?"

Was the last thing out of my mouth. But the last thing I saw was much more interesting, A dark-haired-blue-eyed man.

"Christa… Christa wake up! CHRISTA THEY HAVE COLOR HERE!"

I awoke fully when I heard my mom laughing.

"What happened?"

My head hurt as my mom' cheery voice came through.

"WE FOUND IT! WE FOUND COLOR! ITS HERE!"

"Who are you?" a new voice questioned

"My named is Christa Ero"

"What are you doing here?"

"The color in the world is gone. We came to get help from the wizard howl!"

"Well It seems like we all want to ask the same questions… It's too dangerous here for you two. You should go back home now…. Damn its night. Well Christa you got yourself into this and now you're going to help me fight these damn demons. Go grab that sword over there and fight these things! Markl take Calcifer and Christa's mom up to the safety point."

That was when I thought everything would be normal in 5 seconds... just talk to howl and it would all be over once he said some magical spell and I could go home to my normal life…. I was wrong in SO many ways…