Yay! It took me fast enough to do this chapter, and I will be busy the past few days, which will exlpain why I'm taking long to update the story, but anyways, enjoy the chapter while it lasts!
"Let me get this straight," Miki carefully said. "You guys are telling me that the Ghibli book is glowing?"
"Yes it is!" Nikki said, determined to make them believe. "It was actually glowing, like some sort of magic!"
"Nikki's right," Nana joined her. "I saw the whole thing too!"
Miki looked at both of them as if their pet was a rock. "Listen here," she said. "We've been through a lot today and i think our sadness of Ghibli must have affected you or something, which may think that it's a hallucination."
"It's not a hallucination," Nana protested.
"We are telling the truth!" Nikki said.
Naomi sighed and rubbed her forehead. "Look guys," she said. "We've been through a lot awhile ago, and Grandma Saki made us happy by giving us the book, it's okay to feel overwhelmed or-"
Nikki rolled her yes. "Oh, and this just keeps going!" she interjected.
"What?" Satomi asked.
Nikki raised her arms. "Just like in the movies! Always! Always!" she yelled, trying to get their sense into them. "The person experiences something weird and reports it, but that other person speculates it's just a hallucination or she's joking!"
"Ah...," Yuka said quietly. "I think you two should go to the nurse-"
"You must think we are insane!" Nana told them. "Anyone will come to the conclusion when they see it for themselves, you've got to believe us!"
"Your not insane," Miki lied, starting to think they've gone insane.
"You know what, guys," Naomi butted in. "I think let's just forget about it and just spend some time together. You have any board games, Nikki?"
They all turned to her, and Nikki stood there, dumbfounded and giving up to make them believe. "Yeah...," was all she could say, even though she had Nana to support her.
"Bam! Your on my property," Satomi cheered, upon seeing Miki's figure on her property in a board game. "You've gotta pay 200 yen!"
Miki sighed. "Whatever," she muttered, pulling out fake yen from the toy bank completely oblivious.
"Well, let's see if I pay since I'm near Nikki's rich property," Nana bragged, grabbing the dice and rolling it. She threw it, and it counted 3. She landed her figure on 3 boxes, and when she reached the third one, she realized she ended up in jail.
"Oh come on!" Nana complained, crossing her arms and giving a smug look. "Why am I always the one in jail?"
"Maybe you have to roll the dice carefully and rapidly," Naomi teased. "Therefore you wouldn't end up in jail."
Nana glared at her. "Maybe you should do it since you always end up with losing your fake money," she said,
Nikki came in between them. "Before you guys fight, I'll just say that it's just a board game, so get over it," she said.
"Nikki's right," Yuka said, grabbing the dice and about to roll it when Grandma Saki opened the door.
"Dinner's ready, girls," Saki announced.
The girls stood up, and Nikki and Miki were the last ones to leave when Nikki heard the humming sound again, and glanced quickly to see the book glowing again. She it Miki by the arm and turned her to see it, only for the book to turn normal.
"What?" Miki said, brushing Nikki's hands of her arm.
"I-It was glowing!" Nikki pointed to it, determined to make her see it. "Why didn't you turn sooner?"
Miki out her hands on her hips. "Here we go with this again," she mumbled, and walked downstairs. Nikki, completely oblivious, ignored it and followed her downstairs.
For the past few days, Nikki and Nana have been acting strange. The others noticed, because they weren't their selves. They stayed quiet, in a deep state of confusion.
They grew worried, because they've never been like this. Plus, it was supposed to be a fun five day sleepover, but due to the story of the glowing book, it wasn't going very well.
They first noticed in on the second day, when Nikki and Nana locked themselves in Nikki's room, with Miki and Naomi putting their ears on the door. They heard a humming sound, but didn't bother to ask what was it.
One night, they approached their friends. "Do you have a pen?" A wide eye and awake Nikki asked Miki.
"S-Sure," Miki said, pulling one out of her pocket, since she occupied herself with pens when going everywhere.
Nikki, with Nana sleeping, she brought the book and the pen outside her room where they were sleeping, and gently closed it. She kneeled down, tapped the pen on the book and suddenly glowed.
Today in the afternoon was supposed to be their parents picking them up, and to make up for the hours they missed, they approached Nikki and Nana carrying the book.
"You guys have been acting really weird the past few days," Miki pointed out. "You've got to stop this."
"You just won't believe us," Nikki said.
Naomi crossed her arms. "I don't usually jump to conclusions," she said. "But I think it's because of that ridiculous story of that book glowing."
"It's not ridiculous!" Nana cried out. "It's true!"
All Satomi could do is shake her head. "Okay, this is getting old," she said. "But there's no in reality that the book would just-"
As if her answer was heard, they heard the humming sound. Their eyes fell on the book, and to Nikki and Nana's relief and their friends' shock; it was glowing right in front of them.
"A-Ah!" Yuka cried out in shock, jumping in fear.
"N-No way!" Naomi said in disbelief.
"It glows! It glows!" Miki and Satomi cried on unison.
"We told you!" Nana said. "Now you believe us?"
Nikki carefully grabbed the book and held it in the center of their circle formation. With one finger, she carefully flipped a page, and to their surprise; the images and the pages were glowing, as if they were about to come to life.
"Woah!" Satomi cried out.
Just then, they heard footsteps, and not wanting to freak Nikki's grandma out, they carefully hid it behind a pillow in the nearby sofa. Saki came out of the kitchen.
"All of your parents called," she said. "They'll be coming at 1:00 pm."
"Oh, okay," Miki said,
Saki grabbed her coat. "I'm going to the studio to work," she said, not suspecting anything suspicious judging from the looks of their faces. "See you girls, and see you later Nikki."
"See you later too!" Nana greeted back in a fake cheerful tone. As the door closed behind them, Nikki grabbed the book and they all went to her bedroom and locked the door behind them.
Nikki placed it on her bed, and flipped the pages again. This time, it was glowing brighter and within seconds, the illustrations of each page began moving.
"Oh my god!" Naomi cried out, covering her mouth.
"This is not happening," Yuka said,
Miki grabbed Nikki's arm. "It's moving and glowing!" she said in a freak state. "I can't believe it!"
Satomi approached the book and turned to the page of Nausicaa. In place of the still illustration of the princess flying on her glider, as if she was frozen, the picture was moving across the page, making the glider sound effects.
"Holy Lincoln mullets!" Nana cried out dramatically. "It's moving!"
Nikki flipped a random page and instead of the frozen picture of Howl's castle, it was moving like they saw in the movie. Nikki flipped a random page again and saw Kiki riding above the town in the illustration, moving around, as if the page was really her town.
Nikki turned the page back to the start and it seemed to grow brighter than usual, almost getting blind from the light. Suddenly, they heard bird sounds and to their shock, a bird flew out of the page, and into the bedroom. Yuka opened the window and set the bird free. She closed it again.
"You guys didn't say things coming out of it!" Miki yelled.
"This is the first time it happened!" Nana said.
Yuka hid behind Naomi. "Is it radioactive?"
Nikki shrugged. "I doubt it," was the answer they could give.
Miki and the others' heads were spinning rapidly from all the confusion. They didn't want to believe in the phenomena that they witnessed. They felt their minds slipping too.
"Do you think there's a portal in there?" Satomi pointed to the book.
"There's only one way to find out," Nikki figured that would be the best answer. She approached the book and raised her hand towards the glowing page.
"Don't touch it!" Miki warned in a panic state.
"Relax," Nikki assured. "I think I know what to do."
Slowly and carefully, she moved her hand towards the glowing page and placed her hand on it. As it made contact with it, her hand sank into the page, feeling air and warmth inside it.
"Holy macaronis!" Satomi cried out.
Suddenly, the book glowed even brighter and this time, a strong wind accompanied it. It came from the page and started filling the room with it. Without knowing or aware of it, it dragged Nikki into the world beneath the page.
"NIKKIIIIII!" They all screamed and Miki grabbed her leg, and the wind began to drag her inside to. Nana and the others grabbed each other's legs and tried to hold on for their life. But unfortunately, the wind grew violent and pushed them inside the book. They tried to grab on to the front of her bed, but it was too late. They have fallen into the Ghibli World.
Sorry it's so short :( But I promise that I'll try to make a chapter longer, because I'm not good in writing how long each chapter should be, so forgive me. I'm a horrible writer.
Anyways, AWinx out for now!