Chapter 2: Time Travel!

Still…. All characters belong not to me but to Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Oh, and some quotes I use….

OH and, a character from another of Hayao Miyazaki's movies is in this! Anyone who can guess gets a ….. aa……uh…. A COOKIE! . YAY

"I'm back into the spirit world!" Chihiro cried, half in excitement and half in dismay. She turned to the green-eyed boy, who froze in the middle of pushing her away. "HAKU!" She opened her arms to embrace him, but he cried out and dodged her, causing her to fall flat on the bridge.

"What the heck was that for, Haku?"

Again he seemed startled when he heard his name. Quickly recovering, he said in a stern tone, "You have to get across the river. They're already lighting the lamps! Quick, I'll distract them." He turned and blew on his fingers, causing a majestic flutter of white scales to stir the air. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw Chihiro still standing there and paused in his pose, "Go!"

Cocking her head, she asked, "You know, I don't really know what that does to distract them…" She pictured a person running after her, and coming to Haku's 'spell,' swatting the scales away like flies muttering something like, 'stupid bugs!' and running after her again. "Wait—congradulations, Haku!" She said in a fake voice, "That could hold them off for like…three seconds!"

"You have to get across the river!"

Finally his words began to register. "You mean…I'm…back—AW, SHOOT! That crazy bathroom took me back in time! That means you don't really know me and my parents are pigs!" O.o

"Please, you have to—"

"We're havin' PORK CHOPS tonight! ." Chihiro belted out, then was silenced by Haku who shook her shoulders.

"You-have-to-get-a-cross-the-river!"

"Oh, geez, sorry, I got a little caught up there." Chihiro whirled and ran down the steps and through the streets to her parents, which were most likely turned into pigs. She approached them and said in a dull voice. "Oh no…my parents have been turned into pigs…ahhh…." She ran away, screaming, "Mommy! Daddy!" and sounded desperate for effect.

Meanwhile, Yubaba's bird was searching the skies for Chihiro and ran into a bunch of white, shimmering scales. It swatted them away. "Stupid bugs!" and kept flying.

Haku was running, also looking for Chihiro. Something told him that she didn't follow his directions—or rather just didn't make it in time. He had searched the entire bank and stood, puzzled. If she did not cross, she should have been around here… Then suddenly he heard a small, impatient cry. He looked around, but saw nothing.

Chihiro walked right up to him, "Heeellooo?" She waved her hand in front of his face. "You're late!"

Haku finally found a slight disturbance in the air. It was the shape of a person. Dimly, he realized it was Chihiro. "Oh! Sorry. Here…" He pulled out a berry but could not see her face; she was too translucent. Chihiro made a grab for it, but her hand went right through his.

However, it seemed Haku was able to touch her, so he attempted blindly to push the berry into her mouth.

"Ow! That was NOT my mouth!" Haku muttered an apology and next he poked her eye. Eventually, Chihiro swallowed the berry and became 'solid' again. Then suddenly the bird-thing came by and Haku shielded her. The bird dived lower, and Haku found it was not Yubaba's bird at all. It was much larger, and it still had the head of a human, but it had luscious, long blonde hair and the face of a blue-eyed man.

"Who is that? ." Chihiro stared at the bird. "His dark feathers go so well with his beautiful hair—" SLAP! Chihiro's eyes widened and she looked at Haku in blind shock.

Haku looked rather hurt, and a strange fiery glare invaded his eyes. He had not slapped her hard enough to hurt, for he would never actually hurt her, but it caught her attention.

"Don't even look at it. Don't ask about it ever again, okay?"

"…Okay."

Haku let out a sigh of relief and began to get up. "Follow me." He was about to say something else, but the bird flew back and to Chihiro, his human face was exceedingly dashing. Haku noticed her emotion and suddenly the anger was present again. "Come on!" He was so upset that he didn't hear Chihiro crying out when her legs were frozen. Haku ran swiftly, unknowingly dragging Chihiro behind him, still in the frog position on the ground.

"Ow! OW!" The grass was giving her burns. "Oh no…" She saw stairs ahead. "AaAaAaAaAH!"

Finally Haku stopped dragging her when they came to a gate. And finally he noticed that her legs were frozen. Swiftly, he muttered a short spell and lifted her to her feet. "Now you must hold your breath when you walk across the bridge," He informed her, not opening the gate, "Even the tiniest breath will break the spell, and then everyone will see you."

Chihiro took a deep breath when Haku told her to, and prepared herself for the frog at the end of the bridge. She was doing pretty well, actually, and when the frog jumped up and yelled, "Master Haku! Where're ya been?" She didn't even gasp. Then, to her surprise and dread, Haku began conversing with the frog, nearly forgetting she stood there, practically suffocating.

"Mmmbblammnnmm." She couldn't hold her breath for much longer. Haku gasped, remembering her. He quickly said a farewell to the frog and ushered Chihiro off the bridge.

However, before Chihiro's last step left it, her foot caught on a dip in the wood, and she tripped, falling flat on her face, the second time that night. And on the same bridge!

The frog yelled and hopped around her, "A human! A HUMAN!" It specifically hopped around her head, screaming straight into her ear with its nasily voice. Severely annoyed, Chihiro reached her hand out and wrapped it around the amphibian's neck, starting to strangle it.

Haku gaped in horror, at both Chihiro's anger and everyone else who was staring at her. Shoot! I should have carried her! He thought regretfully. He smacked his head furiously at his own stupidity, and in another pang of insanity, he knocked himself out. With a loud bong, he landed next to Chihiro, out like a light.

"Wow, this sucks," Chihiro muttered, scrambling to her feet and dragging Haku on the ground. Somehow, the ladies did not see Chihiro running, and only saw Haku seemingly 'fly' or in other words 'dragged so fast he was coming off the ground,' and since he was skimming just beneath their thighs, they thought that he was attempting to sneak a glimpse of their undergarments and thick, hideous legs when their dresses fluttered up in the wind chihiro created by running. She then saw a little door and shoved Haku through, soon following him.