Woah, it's updating so fast. The reason why i'm updating it really fast is because i'm done with the other chapters, but i'm currently finishing chapter 6. So, expect 2 more chapters to be published after this one, and be glad that you won't have a cliffhanger until the 5th chapter. So I tried to make this chapter as long as possible, so I think I did, even if its between short and long, but it was worth it. Anyways, enjoy!

Nikki could barely see where she was falling, but she knew it as soon as she felt herself dragged down, with the sky scrolling up above her, she was falling. She was no longer in her bedroom.

She was falling though the sky, falling farther and farther, faster and faster, feeling scared and dizzy. She kept screaming but she barely heard her voice. Is she gonna die? Is she gonna keep falling forever? She wondered if she could see her family again.

She heard multiple screaming from above, and looked up to see Miki, Nana, Satomi, Naomi and Yuka fall above her, looking frightened as she was.

Due to their panicking and scared state, they didn't see the view below them. They just kept falling rapidly, not knowing where they are falling to.

Just when they thought that they will keep falling forever, Nikki landed on a soft but bushy and itchy leaves from a tree. She bounced and fell to another one below. Nana and Naomi landed on each other on another bush from the tree and bounced in different directions, falling through trees.

Miki and Satomi landed on another one by one, followed by Yuka, screaming. "Ow!" they yelled in pain as the leaves and branches itched and injured them, minority.

Nikki landed on a bush on her butt. "Ow, that hurt!" She said. Her impact was hard bough to hurt but not hard to seriously injure her. Had it not been a bush, she could have broken a bone or two.

She quickly got to her feet. She placed her hand on her heart and was relieved to feel and hear her heart still beating from the fall, grateful she survived...but where exactly did she fall to?

She looked up in a different direction, up in the sky, but all she could see was the sight of the blue background and white skies, no sign of a tear in it.

She raised her head from above and looked around her. Dark trees surrounded her, tall with green moss covering most of their trunks. The rays of the sun shined through them and reflected it. She heard a tiny stream in the distance. There were marshes surrounded by the grass fields and trees around.

About to hyperventilate, she took deep breaths and tried to stay calm, although the new surroundings were the ones she wasn't used to back in the real world.

"Where...am I..?" she asked herself.

"YAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" she heard her friends screaming from above.

As if they appeared out of thin air, they landed on other bushes, and some of them bounced on each other, landing on the ground with their backs. Some of the girls' limbs were stretched out in all directions.

"Where are we?!" Miki panicked.

"Are we dead?" Satomi asked.

"Are we still alive?" Yuka asked.

"Are we in heaven?" Nana asked.

"Are we dying?" Naomi asked.

Almost all of them looked pale. "Get off me," Naomi grunted, with Nana on her back. She got up and got to her feet, same with the others. They looked around rapidly, not used to this kind of surrounding like Nikki.

"You guys are alive, and definitely not dead," Nikki told them.

"Thank heavens," Nana said, brushing dust off her. "But where are we?"

Miki tried to study the surrounding. "Seems we landed in an odd looking forest," she concluded.

Unlike forests in their world, the ones in here looked extremely old. The colors were vivid and the air was so crisp, as if they landed in a place, a place they seemed familiar with, but they couldn't put it around their finger.

Naomi began jumping up as high as she could. "What on earth are you doing?" Nana asked.

"I'm. Trying. To. Reach. Where. We. Fell. From," she said, but realizing that her jumping is pointless, she just tired herself out and rested on a fallen tree trunk.

"What if we landed in America?" Yuka said, trying to calm herself down. "I mean, these trees look like the ones we saw in pictures of America."

Nikki sighed. "I don't think we are in America," she corrected. "The trees there look bright and modern compared to this one."

"Now that you mentioned it," Satomi looked around. "Somehow we must have landed in an old state of Tokyo or something."

Nana's forehead became wrinkled just thinking of the current situation they were in now. "Maybe this is just a bad dream," she assured herself.

Suddenly, Yuka pinched her. "Ow!" Yuka yelled in pain, and turned harshly to Yuka, glaring at her. "Hey! Why did you pinch me?"

Yuka shrugged. "I just wanted to prove if it's what you said," she quietly said.

"Then pinch yourself!" Nana shouted at her.

"You guys, let's not fight!" Nikki butted in. "We need to know where we are right now."

Miki sighed in stress. "For some reason, this place looked oddly familiar," she said, looking around while figuring out what it is. "I just couldn't wrap my finger around it."

"Your right," Satomi said. "But where?"

Just then, they heard wolf sounds. They looked around in fear and hugged each other. They thought they landed in somewhere safe, but forgot about what is coming to them.

"I-I-Is that a w-w-wolf?!" Yuka gritted her teeth in fear so fast, she could bite her own tongue and bleed out.

"I think so..!" Nana shivered.

Just then, wolves jumped from the trees and the girls screamed. They looked cloth white but red eyes, ferocious. They slowly and threateningly approached them, growling and hungry for their fresh blood.

"What do we do?" Miki panicked.

Nikki grabbed Miki's arm. "Run!" she shouted, and they all sprinted away from the wolves, running for their lives. They heard the wolves shift and run towards them.

"Why out of all beginnings of adventures does ours have to be started by being chased by wolves?!" Naomi cried out.

"Less talking, more running!" Nikki shouted.

Nikki's sentence filled the girls with adrenaline. They ran faster than ever. They knew that it would be a matter of seconds before the wolves would be right behind them, just inches away.

Miki turned back, and in a distance behind them she could see several wolves running toward them at full speed. A moment later, the girls saw the wolves slightly running ahead of them to both to their right and left, gaining ground and preparing to attack.

"Faster!" Nikki warned, which filled them with more energy to get away from the wolves.

"Seriously! These wolves were not part of my to see list!" Miki complained, running faster. The wolves' howl made them run even faster. They didn't care about where they were going; they were running to whatever place that is that's for safety.

"I think I know where we are!" Yuka panted, running non stop, although she was physically low in Physical Education.

"Oh yeah?" Naomi replied, not looking back. "Where?!"

Yuka jumped over a ledge. "The wolves- they are the wolves from Princess Mononoke!" she explained, barely dodging the obstacles. "It means that we are in the forest of the spirits and gods!"

"Princess Mononoke?!" Nikki exclaimed. "Does that mean we are in the Ghibli world as well?!"

Nikki didn't have any answer to her question, because the answer was already revealed in front of her. They heard the wolves' really close, indicating they are getting closer.

"Yikes! They're gaining on us!" Satomi shouted.

It felt hours getting away from the wolves. They barely stopped, and they had to run nonstop so there could live on with their lives.

"These wolves just won't quit at all!" Miki complained, realizing that they've been running nonstop and the wolves keep catching up to them.

Naomi stopped and went to a nearby bush. She kicked it hard enough for the bush to block the wolves. The bush was tall, so it would distract the wolves.

"What are you doing?!" Nikki asked.

"Trying to slow the wolves down!" Naomi panted.

Nikki grabbed her arm. "Then get moving!" she said.

They ran ahead and it didn't take them long to hear the bush being destroyed, indicating the wolves somehow ate it and continued chasing them.

"I think the only option is to lure them away somehow!" Nikki said.

"Oh yeah, and how?!" Nana panicked. "By asking permission to leave us alone like good little baits? Yeah right!"

"That was not what I had in mind!" Nikki said, realizing that the wolves wouldn't be fooled into being lured away. "Forget that!"

They ran and ran so fast, the trees were a zooming blur to them. They reached a corner covered by trees and ducked there in time to see the wolves turn and run without realizing they where behind a tree.

As if they've been running forever, they panted heavily, and their hearts were beating at a rapid pace. They could barely stand, because their legs were tired and wobbled from all the running.

"Okay guys," Nikki said. "We have to think fast, and it would only be a matter of seconds before they could track us down and chase us again."

Miki leaned against a tree trunk. "So, what do we do?" she asked.

Nana put her hands on her hips. "Sooo, if the wolves are here..," she tried to conclude. "Does that mean that San is nearby?"

Naomi snapped her fingers. "Bingo!" she exclaimed. "Maybe we could ask San for the wolves to leave us alive!"

"I don't think it's gonna work," Nana said.

"Why?" Naomi asked.

"Did you forget?" Nana reminded. "San hates humans, excluding Ashitaka. Do you expect San to give us mercy when we say to her 'Hey San, can you please spare us from the wolves?' Give me a break!"

Naomi shot her a dirty look. "I don't see you coming up with ideas," she said.

Nana glared at her. "You come up with dumb ideas!"

Nikki went in between them. "Hey," she interrupted. "We won't be safe if we just keep fighting."

"Nikki's right," Miki agreed. "We need to focus on how to get away from the wolves without them-"

Suddenly, they heard wolf growling. They turned to the front to see them approaching. They were growling, eyes red with rage. The girls hugged each other, certain that this is their final moment.

"Before I die, let me tell you this," Satomi said. "I love you guys!"

"Me too!" Nikki replied.

The wolves were inches away from their feet, and just when they were about to leap at them, a voice called out to them. "Stop!"

The wolves turned to the voice. The girls let go of each other. A wolf larger than the others approached them, and sitting on top of it was none other than San herself.

Nikki grabbed Miki's arm. "Miki! It's San! It's San!" she whispered.

"I know," Miki said.

San went of the wolf and carefully approached them. She grabbed her dagger and pointed it at them. "Who are you?" she asked. "And why have you come here?"

Miki nudged Nikki to say something. "We...We are humans," Nikki answered nervously.

San glared at them. "That wasn't the answer I was looking for," she grunted, and slowly forwarded her dagger towards them.

Nikki shivered. "We mean you no harm...," she pleaded. "San!"

San suddenly froze and dropped her dagger. "How do you know me?" she asked, dropping the question she asked.

Nikki slowly approached her. "We come from another world which knows your name and story," she explained. "Listen, we just fell through a book, and believe us if you do!"

San thought for a moment. UThen, she turned to the wolves. "Leave us," she ordered, and the wolves nodded and walked away to give San and the girls company.

"I think I know what your saying," San said, aware of their appearance and behavior. "You come from the real world."

Excluding Nikki, the others were star struck. They were talking to San! And she was in front of them!

"I sense your behavior and the way you girls are dressed," San continued, eyeing them closely. "The Ghibli World knows of it."

Nikki blinked rapidly. "The Ghibli World?!" she said. "As in...you know the other characters?"

San looked at her as if she was called a hypocrite. "Do you think I don't?" she said in a threatening tone.

Nikki shook her head. "No, I didn't mean that," she said. "We just want to go somewhere safer, that's all we ask of you."

San thought for a moment, and seconds later, she whistled the wolves to come. The wolves approached her and surrounded the girls. "Get on them," San ordered.

"Wait- Your helping us?" Naomi asked. "I thought you hate humans!"

"I'll explain later," San forced them. "Now ride on them before I change my mind."

The girls hesitated and got on the wolves, by pair. San got on the biggest one and pointed her spear to where she ordered the wolves to go. They followed her and went straight ahead.

Meanwhile, at the back, Miki was basically freaking out. "I can't believe you actually talked to San!" she shook Nikki. "I've never been so shocked in my life!"

Nikki smiled shyly. "I felt shocked too," she said.

San turned to them. "You haven't introduced yourselves yet, humans," she said.

Nikki turned to San. "Oh," she said, and stared gesturing to herself and the others while saying their names. "I'm Nikki, and this here is Miki, and that one is Satomi, and behind her is Nana, Naomi and Yuka over there."

"Uh huh," San mumbled, nodding.

"We...we just need to get to somewhere safer," Nikki explained.

"I see," San muttered, and pulled a crumpled map out of her shirt. She handed it to Nikki and when Nikki opened it, it was the map of the Ghibli World.

In the center of the map was the forest and the village from Princess Mononoke, which where they were in right now. The north east of it was the village from Kiki's Delivery Service. To its west lies none other than Howl's Moving Castle itself. The southwest was the land of dragons and humans from Tales from Earthsea. Next to it, the east laid the famous bathhouse and the spirit world from Spirited Away.

The south was covered in jungles and ships, indicating that this was Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. The southeast was another forest, which looks like My Neighbor Totoro The northeast was covered with water, with a house on it, making it Ponyo. And the last one, which was the north, was none of the Ghibli landmarks, but it was a castle, indicating that the ruler somehow lived there.

"Woah...," Nikki mumbled, shocked to see the places of Ghibli right in front of her in the map.

"No way..," Miki mumbled. "So all of you guys reside here?"

"That's correct," San explained. "Since Nauiscaa was a success, Miyazaki and his friends decided to make more movies. But Miyazaki had a secret; he kept a book which was filled with each of Ghibli's movies translated to fairy tales."

"Whenever a new movie is released, Miyazaki writes it in the book, but what he doesn't know is that our stories were powerful enough to create our dimension," San continued.

"So, we get the whole power dimension thingy," Naomi said. "But how does this world work?"

"When the new story is written, the characters appear here and so are the settings of each movie," San explained. "All of us are created from our creator's imagination, except for the ruler of our world, Kenna."

"Kenna was created from the essence of this book," she continued on. "We elected her to become the ruler because she was the reincarnation of Miyazaki, but female. Ever since she was elected, the happenings in this world affect the real world as well."

"Wait," Nikki asked. "If the happenings in this world affect ours, then what may be the reason of the studio's hiatus?"

San's face grew worried, upon hearing it. "Hiatus?" San asked. "As in...they won't make films again?"

"Yeah, why?" Miki asked, unaware.

San looked away. "Now that you said it, there is something very bad going on," she regretfully said.

Nikki looked panicked. "Tell us!" she demanded.

"Yesterday, Sophie was attacked by a witch during the night," San explained. "Howl reported it to Kenna, and soon it spread. Then this morning we found several villages destroyed."

"What happened?!" Yuka asked.

San hesitated. "Kenna said that an evil named Kalura was risen," she said.

Naomi raised an eyebrow. "Kalura?" she asked, confused. "Who the heck is that?"

"Kenna explained a brief history of her," San said. "During the development of Spirited Away, an animator created her, which was supposed to be the original villain before Yubaba. Miyazaki rejected the idea and in a fit of rage, the animator quit and threw away his idea."

"But how the heck did she awaken?" Naomi asked. "Did she get an elixir of life or somethin'?"

"Things from the past may be gone," San said. "But there's always a way to come back to the present. Kalura appeared in this world when she was created, when Miyazaki at first accepted the idea. But when he rejected it, he erased her from the book. But the rage of the animator was powerful enough for her to come back after seventeen years. And now, this is the perfect moment to strike, which was the reason why there's a hiatus in the real world."

"Oh sweet mullets," Naomi said. "We have to stop her!"

"But how?" Satomi hesitated. "We are just normal girls with no powers. It's next to impossible if there's any chance that Kalura would grow strong any minute now!"

Nikki crossed her arms. "Naomi's right," she agreed. "Kalura is going to look like a loser compared to us when we reach victory! And we are not going down without a fight!"

Nikki and Naomi were the only ones determined. They were relived that there is a way out of the nightmare of Ghibli's sudden quitting. The others seemed hesitant to join in, but deep down they were determined to save Ghibli if they had to.

"I'm in," Miki raised her hand.

"Same," Satomi joined in.

"I'll join," Yuka said.

"I'm not letting Ghibli quit," Nana said.

"Then, we are all in this together!" Nikki said, putting her hand in the center, with the others putting theirs and raising their hands.

"We are near," San said.

"Near what?" Nikki asked.

San tapped on the wolf's side, and stopped. The wolves, seeing their leader stop, they stopped too. "What's going on?" Miki asked.

San turned to them. "Howl's castle is nearby," she explained. "He might have something for you to use to defeat Kalura, and I like your bravery."

Naomi gushed. "Oh, it was our pleasure," she boasted, earning groans from her friends.

Nikki went off the wolf, and the others followed. The others went ahead, but Miki suddenly stopped. She faced San. "I forgot to ask," she said. "Why did you help us?"

San thought for a moment. "I only help humans who are against the enemies of nature," she said. "But I see you and Ashitaka as an exception. But,why do you ask what someone's motives are when they help you?"

This question took Nikki off guard. "Well, we heard that you hate humans, with the exception of Ashitaka," she said. "But you helped us because you think we are bad but deep down, depending on our motives, your heart told you to do the right thing. Everyone's heart chooses the right thing because it's for the greater good."

Nikki bowed. San nodded. "I like your smartness, human," she said.

Naomi put her hands on her hips. "Well, Kalura ain't gonna stop herself, we have to move," she encouraged. "And thank you San for helping us, even though you hate humans."

San nodded in approval. "Stay safe, humans," she greeted, and she patted on the wolf, which made them run back inside the forest, with the other wolves following.

"I wouldn't forget that moment," Miki said, pushing the leaves out of the way.

"Same with us," Nikki said.

They pushed the leaves aside and they saw a clear land before them, no trees, just grass. They had reached the end of the forest. They looked back one last time, and they proceeded forward, beginning their mission to save the Ghibli World and most importantly, save the company.

To be honest, I enjoyed writing this chapter. Because I had the whole wolf chasing scene when I was brainstorming the point of the plot. I loved writing chase scenes because you get to write funny lines, as mentioned above. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Flip the page!