Happy Halloween everyone!! Sorry for the long wait, but after tallying up the votes, you have all voted for me to write a 'Yu-Gi-Oh!' version of the Japanese classic 'Spirited Away'! Believe me, it was no easy task to write this! I had to go to YouTube to find the movie, but I could only find the Japanese version!! Thank Ra it had English subtitles! Seriously, is it THAT HARD to download the English version?!! But enough ranting.

This story is dedicated to author Game Master Blake who unfortunately will be retiring from the site as of midnight tonight. For those of you who have read his story 'Yu-Gi-Oh!: Heart of the Duelist'; you understand of great he was at writing and how much we'll miss him. Good luck out in the real world Blake!!!

I'd also like to dedicate this to my Nanay (Filipino for nanny). She recently had a heart attack and is now in the hospital where she might need surgery. I'm praying that she doesn't. So please pray for my Nanay. Hopefully nothing bad happens to her. DEAR RA, PLEASE LET HER BE OKAY!!! Sorry. I just needed to get that off of my chest.I really do hope she's okay.

Now that that's taken care of, here's 'Spirited Away (Yu-Gi-Oh! Style).

Disclaimer: I don't own either Yu-Gi-Oh! Or Spirited Away. *grumbles* Should be obvious. I hate this.

Spirited Away (Yu-Gi-Oh! Style)

Chapter One: Moving Day

Our story begins with a 13-year-old girl named Tea Gardner. She was currently seated in the back of her parents blue car driving along a highway in rural Japan. Her father had recently gotten transferred to a small town. That meant that the whole family had to move away from their home in Domino City where they had lived for many years.

Tea had been against this from the start. She didn't want to move from her hometown, away from her friends, but in the end, her parents had more say in the matter then her. So before she knew it, Tea's family had packed up the house and hit the road.

Tea was wearing a periwinkle-blue T-Shirt along with Capri-pants and green sneakers. She had chocolate-brown hair that reached her shoulders, reached a height of about 4' 5", and a pair of the purest ocean-blue eyes you had ever seen that sparkled even in the darkest night.

Right now her eyes were looking at a card among a beautiful bouquet of roses. It said:

Good luck Tea.

No matter where you are, we'll always be friends.

We'll meet again, someday.

Your best friend, Yugi.

The roses had been a good-bye present from her best friend Yugi Muto. They had been friends for as long as they could remember. Practically since they were in diapers. They had done everything together. Now…

"Tea? Tea, we're almost there," Mr. Gardner said to his daughter.

Tea lowered her roses and stared at her sneakers. She couldn't care less if they were almost to their so-called 'new home'. She tightened her grip on her flowers, as if they were her last lifeline. In a way, they were. They were the last life line to her life in Domino City.

"This really is in the middle of nowhere," Tea heard her mother say. "I'll have to go all the way to the next town to shop."

"Well, we'll just have to adjust. It'll be great once we get used to it," her father replied.

Tea took a side-glance at her parents. Mr. Gardner had short, black hair and blue eyes while her mother had elbow-length brown hair and light-green eyes.

Tea's father looked over to the other side of the road. "Look Tea. There's your new school! Looks great, doesn't it?"

While Tea got up slowly from her seat, Mrs. Gardner looked at the school as well. "It doesn't look too bad," trying to encourage her daughter.

Tea looked out the window. True, it didn't look bad. In fact it looked pretty nice. But Tea was still pretty upset about moving away so she didn't really agree with her parents. After sticking out her tongue in disgust at the school, she laid back down her spot and said "It's gonna stink. I liked my old school better." She then went back to smothering her roses.

Mrs. Gardner sighed in disappointment at Tea's response. Ever since they had left Domino City, Tea had been excessively stubborn about the fact that they were moving. She was making it very clear that she wanted to go home.

Tea then noticed how much she was crushing her roses. Her eyes widened and she gasped in horror. She was destroying her last present from Yugi!! Tea sat up and leaned towards her mother's seat. Tea showed Mrs. Gardner her flowers.

"Mom! My flowers are dying!!" Tea shouted to her mother.

"I did tell you not to smother them like that," Mrs. Gardner calmly scolded. "Don't worry Tea. We'll put them in water when we get to our new home and they'll perk right up."

Tea just pouted and sank back into her seat. "I finally get a whole bouquet of flowers and they end up being a good-bye present," Tea lamented. "How depressing is that?"

"There was that rose your father got you for your birthday. Don't you remember?" Mrs. Gardner said, trying to cheer her daughter up. Which didn't work.

"Yeah, just one. A single rose isn't a bouquet," Tea retorted.

"Here sweetie. You dropped your card." She handed Tea back Yugi's card.

"Make sure you hold on to it. I'm opening the window. And do try to cheer up. It's fun moving to new places. Think of it as an adventure."

Tea just sat quietly as she felt the breeze blow through her hair as thy continue down the highway. It wasn't long before the car turned right up onto a hill leading to rows of houses.

The highway then gave way to a dirt road next to a gnarled oak tree with what seemed to be stone blocks at the base of its trunk. Mr. Gardner then stopped the car. He seemed to be confused.

He poked his head out of the window. "Hey wait a minute. Did I make the wrong turn? This can't be right."

The dirt road was leading into a grove of trees. Mrs. Gardner and Tea rolled their eyes. Mr. Gardner had gotten them lost…again. Mrs. Gardner looked around to see if she could any landmarks to get them back on the right track. She then pointed up the hill towards the houses.

"Look up there! I think I see our house." Tea and Mr. Gardner looked up.

"Isn't it that blue one down near the end?" asked Tea. They had been there once before to check out what their new house was like.

"You're right Tea, that's it. Nice job! I guess I just missed the turn-off back there." Mr. Gardner then looked ahead to the dirt road. "This path should get us there."

"Honey don't take another shortcut. This is how you always get us lost," Mrs. Gardner groaned. Tea agreed. She had lost count of how many times her father had done this.

"Mom's right Dad. It would be better if you just turned around and took the turn. Or better yet, just turn back and let's go back home to Domino City," said Tea.

Both Mr. and Mrs. Gardner chuckled at Tea's cute attempt to get them to go home.

"Nice try Tea. Now don't worry ladies! I'll make sure we don't get lost again. It's just a little farther," said Mr. Gardner.

Tea then saw the stones at the base of the tree. Looking more closely, she noticed that they resembled little houses covered in moss and weeds.

"Hey Mom, what are those stones for? They look like little houses," she asked her mother.

"They're shrines. Some people believe little spirits live in them."

At that moment, Mr. Gardner started up the car again and continued down the dirt road into the trees. Birds chirped around the grove. The forest seemed… old. Most of the sunlight was blocked by the branches above them. The road seemed to be smooth enough. Tea was getting a bad feeling. Some thing didn't seem right.

"Dad, are we lost again?" asked Tea.

"Don't worry sweetheart. We've got a 4-wheel drive!", Mr. Gardner replied.

All of a sudden, the road got bumpy.

"Sit down Tea. You don't want to get hurt," warned her mother. Then the road got rougher. The car started shaking. Poor Tea got knocked back into her seat. The car started to pick up speed. She was getting a little freaked out. Her father usually never went this fast. The road kept getting rougher when Tea looked out her window. They were passing a small statue. It was rounded and it had what looked like a frog's face on its front.

Tea turned in her seat to get a better look at the statue. But all of a sudden, the car ran over a small stream and Tea was tossed around in the back. The car kept picking up speed. The road seemed to get steeper. The car started tearing through branches, still her father kept driving at high speeds.

"Honey slow down!!" Mrs. Gardner cried out. "We're going to fast!!"

"Dad, you're going to kill us if you don't slow down!!"

Before Mr. Gardner could reply, he saw a red building coming up in front of them with a tunnel and another frog-faced statue… coming up pretty fast!!!

"A tunnel?!"

Mr. Gardner then slammed the brakes, just in time for the car to stop in front of the statue… barely. Mr. and Mrs. Gardner poked their heads out of their windows to take a look at the building. It resembled buildings like those from Japan's feudal era, and Tea did not like the looks of it at all.

Author's Note: Alright, that doesn't seem to bad for a beginning right? Just what will Tea and her family find in that building? Why is Tea getting a bad vibe from it? You'll just have to wait and see!

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Hope you enjoy your Halloween everyone!! Ja ne!!