Hey everyone! I went to see Howl's Moving Castle, and I got this idea stuck in my head, so I decided to make a fanfic out of my idea. I hope you all enjoy it, and if you can go see this movie, it's a good one! Sorry if I make any errors I've just seen it once so please go easy on me. Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters from Howl's Moving Castle, but I do own my own made up characters…

Howl's Wandering Child

Chapter one: Separation

Sixteen years have passed since the curses on Howl and Sophie have been broken. It took them no time at all to reveal what they felt for each other, and so they got married, and had a daughter that they named Artia, and a son named Lucius. Life was looking up for Howl, and Sophie and their two children, till one day changed their lives forever.

It was like any other day in the small quant village that Howl and Sophie decided to live in. It was far away from the reaches of the war, and from Madam Suliman. They've decided to try to live like normal people do instead of living in his moving castle, and try to let their children live a normal life as well. Their son was taught how to do magic, while their daughter was taught everything her mother knew. This made Artia upset who knew that she'd be just as a good sorceress as her brother is a wizard, but they disagreed to that all the time and she self-taught herself how to do some spells with the help of her little brother of course.

Artia was walking back from going to school when she thought that she saw something far of in the distance that resembled a battle ship. "Why did they come out this far from the capital?" "Artia!" She turned to see her brother running up to her. "What's going on sis? I thought that the war was over?" "So did I Lucius. But let's not wander around, we need to get home." The two of them ran with all haste home. They both ran in and slammed the door behind them. "What's the matter you two?"

They look up to see their mother looking down at them with concern. "Goodness, you both act as though you've seen a ghost." Artia snapped out of her stupor, and just shook her head. "Mother, what we saw was some ships coming from the capital." Sophie just frowned, yet was worried. "I thought that we were too far for them to reach us." "It seems that we were mistaken." They all see Howl coming down the stairs. "Father! What do we do?" Howl looked down at Lucius. "Don't panic, we can get away from them. We just need to use the door that can take us to my castle out in the waste." He looked over at all of them. 'I don't want any of us to get involved in this war.'

They all follow him down into the basement of their house, and get to the door. Howl changes the color to blue, and opens the door. Sophie and Howl walk through it then Artia starts to when an explosion rocked the house. "Sis, what's going on with the door!" Artia looked to see the door fading and fast. She knew what was going on and looked at Lucius. "Lucius, look after mom and dad for me, okay?" "Sis, what do you-" She pushed him through the door. After he went through it she looked around to see that the only way out is going out a little tunnel that they dug that would take her to the outskirts of the city. 'I'll found you guys again sometime soon. Be safe little bro…'

Lucius walked through to see that he was not inside their basement anymore. "Sis…sis where are you!" He tried to turn the door knob back to the blue one but instead of getting their basement, he saw that it led to The Waste. "Oh no…Artia…" He stepped back inside and shut the door. 'Please be safe sis.'