The second chapter of my Spirited Away crossover is now underway! What will happen as Tea's father takes the forest path? Read on, and find out!
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The car moved against the dirt road, occasionally creating bumps. Tea tossed in the back seat, while her father continued to move faster and faster. They passed a statue that had a face on it. It looked like a frog face.
"Slow down, you're going to kill us!" her mother cried out. Suddenly, a tunnel grew in front of them, the same statue watching it. The car stopped just before hitting the rock formation. It was a building, made like the old feudal days of Japan. Her father got out of the car to inspect the building while her mother kept protesting.
"Honey, get back in the car. We're going to be late." Tea hopped out of the car, holding her flowers. "Tea!" The girl placed the flowers into the car, approaching her father.
"This building's not old. It's fake. It's made out of plaster."
"The mover's will get there before us," the mother sighed. The wind blew at their feet, seeming to pull them in.
"The wind's pulling us in," Tea whispered.
"They've got the keys. They can start without us." The father moved closer to the tunnel. "Come on, let's go in. I want to see what's on the other side." He began to walk into the tunnel, the mother following. Tea stayed beside the statue.
"I'm not going!" she shouted. "It gives me the creeps. Let's get out of here!" The mother and father went farther into the building, Tea's heart filling with fright. "Wait for me!"
"Watch your step," the father warned.
"Tea, don't cling like that," the mother whispered. "You'll make me trip." On the other side of the tunnel was a bare building with benches, light pouring in radiant colors from stain glass windows.
"What is this place?" Tea asked, the mother's ears perking. A rumbling filled the air, a train.
"We must be near a train station," the mother replied.
"Come on, let's go check it out." When they exited the building, a rolling green meadow surrounded the blue sky, more of the strange statues lining the area, along with broken down buildings.
"I knew it," the father exclaimed. "It's an abandoned theme park, see? They built a lot of them in the early '90s. Then the economy went bad, and they all went bankrupt. This must be one of them." As the parents went ahead, Chihiro begged to turn back. The wind picked up, creating a moan from the building. She ran up to her mother.
"Did you hear that building? It was moaning."
"It's just the wind," the mother replied. "Oh, what a beautiful place. We should have brought our lunch, then we could've had a picnic." A old river was in front of them, rocks building it up.
"Look, they were planning to put a river here," the father remarked, suddenly stopping. He sniffed the air. "Hey, you smell that? Something smells delicious."
"Yeah, and I'm starving."
"Maybe this theme park's still in business. Let's go."
"Tea, hurry it up," the mother called out. The girl was having trouble getting across two rocks.
"Wait a minute!" she cried, catching up. The father sniffed the air like a bloodhound, leading them to the place of the delightful scent of food. The strange thing was that no one was there. The mother and father began to scarf down the food like pigs, the father often snorting. Tea kept telling them to stop, but they wouldn't listen. She noticed a large building across a bridge, a large sign looming over her.
"That's weird," she whispered, noticing a waterfall in front of the building. "It's a bathhouse." As she crossed the bridge, she saw the train below the bridge on a set of tracks. "There's the train!" She looked over the side until she noticed a boy in front of her. He had spiky, tri-colored hair, triangular indigo eyes, and wore a blue and white shirt with blue pants. He gasped at the sight of Tea, and his eyes narrowed.
"You shouldn't be here," he said urgently. "Get out of here, now!" Tea was startled. "It's almost night. Leave, before it gets dark!" Lights came on from the bathhouse. The boy looked back.
"They're lighting the lamps. Get across the river. Go, I'll distract them!" He blew tiny ice crystals into the air as Tea made her way down the steps. She rubbed her eyes.
"What's up with him?" she wondered.
What will happen to Tea as spirits begin to arise around her? Find out in chapter three, I Wasn't Dreaming.
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