As Chihiro was walking home from school,she stared absentmindedly at the sky. She held onto her blue notebook and was unaware of her friend's voice calling her.
"Chi-hi-ro!" nudged her friend Tomoyo. "You're doing it again."
"Hmm?" Chihiro slowly turned to face her. "Doing what?"
She rolled her eyes, "You know; getting lost in that spirit world that you used to always dream about."
Chihiro sighed, "I don't dream about them Tomoyo."
Tomoyo raised a brow, "Really? Do you have any idea how much you draw…THESE STRANGE CREATURES?!" She took the note book from her hands and face planted Chihiro into a page filled with drawings.
"Moeh Tomoyo that hurt," Chihiro grabbed the notebook back. As she rubbed her nose Tomoyo looked at her drawings again.
"You know Chihiro," She said. "I bet you could win a creativity contest for these. They seem…very real to you."
Chihiro nodded, "Sometimes I feel like they're real." Then she shook her head, "No, I believe they were real."
Tomoyo lightly knocked on her head, "I love you Chihiro, but sometimes I think there's a lot of air in your head."
She turned to Tomoyo narrowing her eyes, "Says the girl who threw a fit about butterflies really being fairies."
Tomoyo crossed her arms, "Hey I was only 10 that time, what else would you expect? They had those wings—"
Suddenly Chihiro stopped, interrupting Tomoyo, "Ne, Tomoyo where are we?"
She then stopped in her tracks, "I have no clue."
They had unknowingly stepped into a forest, and everything was quiet but the gentle trickle of a steam nearby and the echoes of a single bird call. Tomoyo then decided it was time to freak out.
"Oh goodness, Chihiro this is why I never go on hiking trips"
Chihiro then sighed and tapped her shoulder, "Calm down Tomoyo. I have a good solution."
"Like what?" Tomoyo said sarsastically. "Are the creatures from your notebook going to pop out and save us?"
"That would be cool," Chihiro replied. "But no. My best solution is to just find the main river so we can follow out of this place…"