Hi everyone, I'm back.

Back with another chapter! Now let's see where this will lead the heroes, shall we?

Chapter 3


[The Empty Restaurants]

As Chihiro caught up to her parents on the trail and began running up the stone steps where there was a frog statue, the camera cuts to what seemed like rundown buildings and rusted signs of advertisement, Akio then took another sniff and pointed.

Akio: Over there.

He then leads his family through the street and takes another whiff of the air.

Akio: This way.

He said as he pointed at the way and his family followed.

As Chihiro and her mother walked together, Yūko took notice of the surrounding buildings.

Yūko: How strange they're all restaurants.

Chihiro: Where is everybody?

J.P. "A Theme park that's all restaurants?! Send me that location!"

Takuya "Okay, this is getting a little freaky."

Zoe "If this wasn't abandoned, how come there's food being cook when there's no one around?"

Tommy "Maybe they took a break?"

Akio: There it is.

Akio took off running towards the camera before the camera captures him running away from it and to the steamed aroma coming out of the restaurant.

Akio: Hey! I found it!

He walked inside the booth.

Inside were mountains of different assortment of food; soup drop dumplings, fried rice, assorted amounts of different kinds of meat. Heck, one of the dishes had a huge fish head!

J.P. "somebody pinch me, I must be in heaven."

*Pinch*

J.P. "Yow! Who pinched me!?"

Neemon "You did ask to be pinched."

Bokomon "Get back to your seat!"

Bokomon got out of his seat, grabbed Neemon by his pants, and dragged him back to his seat. Snapping his pants in the process.

Akio pokes his head out from the banner.

Akio: Here, you gotta see this.

As Yūko followed her husband through the stands.

Yūko: ah, look at this.

She says, in awe of the tempting display of delicious food.

Akio: Hello in there, is somebody working here?

Yūko: C'mon Chihiro, it looks delicious.

Chihiro: Mhm mmm.

She responded clearly, denying her mother's invitation.

Akio: Anybody?!

The camera pans across the kitchen behind the booth to see utensils and scattered ingredients in the back. The fire was burning, but there wasn't a single soul in the kitchen.

Tommy "This is starting to get a bit scary."

Takuya "Yeah."

Zoe "And irresponsible. Who would leave a fire going in the kitchen? Not to mention how long those dishes have been sitting out there?"

Yūko: Don't worry, honey. We can pay the bill when they get back.

Akio: Good plan.

He then notices more food down the line.

Akio: Hey, that looks great.

As her husband walks away, Yūko then grabs a small chicken-like roast.

Yūko: I wonder what this is called?

J.P. "I know this is weird and all, but all of that food looks so tasty."

Neemon "Why can't we have some of that?"

She then took a bite and turned her head to face Chihiro.

Yūko: Ah, it's delicious! Chihiro, you gotta taste this!

Chihiro shakes her head, 'no'.

Chihiro: I don't want to any. We're gonna get in trouble. Let's get out of here.

Akio, who was holding two plates, was picking two of everything on the platters.

Akio: Don't worry, you got daddy here. He's got credit cards and cash!

Kouji "First the haunted building, then the abandoned theme park, now this? Don't these adults know anything?!"

Takuya "I know. Parents always tells us that stealing is wrong, and now look at them."

Yūko: Chihiro you have to taste this, it's so tender.

Chihiro is still shaking her head 'no' and doesn't want to eat. Akio then placed down his plates and sat next to his wife.

Akio: Mustard?

He said as he passed said condiment to his wife.

Yūko: Thank you.

We then see Chihiro's parents gorging themselves with all the food near them, snorting like pigs while doing so. Akio slurps up an entire dumpling in his mouth as her mother, Yūko, rapidly stuffs her face with seafood.

Zoe "Ugh, you'd think they would have some table manners."

J.P. "Is it me, or are they making pig noises when they eat?"

Tommy "No, I hear them too."

Soon Chihiro, tired of her parents stuffing their faces, shouts.

Chihiro: C'mon you guys, you can't!

But her parents were lost in the delicious food, her father even grabbed one of the small chickens and took a huge tear-bite out of it.

Chihiro then gave up and left the restaurant to explore more of the strange location. She then walked up a set of stone stairs coming to a fork in the road, she turned to the right and saw something that was amazingly huge and very unexpected.

A giant ruby red and emerald green colored bath house with a funnel letting out black smoke.

"Whoa…"

Everyone was taken aback at the sheer size of the red building.

J.P. "A factory?"

Kouji "It doesn't look like one."

Chihiro: That's weird…

Chihiro took a few steps forward to the bridge, where the big building was on the other side.

The camera shows areas of the building, the banner being blown by the wind, the sound of the windows shaking and the running hot water from an outside hot spring.

(Off-screen) Chihiro: It's a bathhouse.

Takuya "That's a bathhouse?"

Zoe "What's a bathhouse doing in a place like this?"

Kouji "Well, it would make sense with all of those restaurants around."

Chihiro stares at the bathhouse for a moment before walking to the wooden bridge and poking her head out from the wooden railing to see a small train coming out of the tunnel.

Chihiro: There's the train.

Neemon "Ooh! A trailmon!"

Tommy "No, that's a real train from our world."

She then sprinted to the other side and hopped on to another railing and as she was turning her said he spotted a boy a with dark green hair cut in a bob and wearing a white obe that closely resembles a Kariginu along with a lavender sash around his waist, a short traditional indigo dyed Sashinuki (a type of kuribakama) underneath, and beige sandals. A darker blue Hitoe can be seen from the sides and shoulders of the robes.

Bokomon "Oh my word, where did he come from?"

Neemon "The Digital World?"

Bokomon "Not likely."

Kouji "He most likely came out from that bathhouse."

Zoe "Do you think he works there?"

Takuya "If so, then who is he?"


Chapter 3 is finished, and I guess that you might have cached that the story I'm breaking into parts is connected to the music scores of the movie.

I like to think of the scenes from movies are related to the music titles for the scenes. Plus, it's fun to have the song titled as part of the opening chapter summary.

See ya later.