Hello everyone, I hope all of you are doing alright today!

I hope you're ready for autumn because the leaves are turning color and the apples and pumpkins are ready for October.

Chapter 4

[The Dragon Boy]

The boy gasped in surprise to see Chihiro, as if he recognized her. But she didn't seem to know the boy.

Blinking away his shock, the boy marches up to Chihiro.

Boy: You shouldn't be here. Get out of there, now!

J.P. "Man, that kid's been on-screen for a few seconds, and he sounds like Kouji when he's angry."

Kouji "I do not!"

Takuya "You're kind of proving the point there."

Chihiro: What?

Chihiro gets off of the wooden rail.

Boy: It's almost night. Leave before it gets dark!

2 out of the 5 humans were getting scared, while the others a following closely behind.

Zoe "What happens when it gets dark?"

Tommy "Something terrible."

As the sun began to set fast, dark shadows filled in as the lamps of the bathhouse came to life, causing the boy to be more on edge and wary of what was coming.

Boy: They're lighting the lamps….

He then hurriedly pushed Chihiro to run as he told her.

Boy: Get out here! You need to get across the river, go! I'll distract them

As Chihiro ran, the boy then blew on his hands, releasing flower petals.

Tommy "Did he just do magic?"

J.P. "I got to learn that trick."

Neemon "You do magic?"

While everyone else was talking to J.P. doing magic, Kouji and Takuya were having a conversation of their own.

Kouji "You heard it too, didn't you?"

Takuya "Yeah, it sounded like shells clashing against each other."

As Chihiro runs with the lamplight following her trail, she stops for a moment to rub her eyes and looks back at the boy who told her to run. And wonders…

Chihiro: What's up with him?

Before she continues running back to retrieve her parents.

As the restaurants' lamps and lights begin to light up, strange black, shadowy creatures begin to appear all around. From the ground, in the buildings, and out on the streets.

Kouji "What the heck!?"

Takuya "What are those things?"

Zoe "Gross!"

Tommy "Ghost!?"

J.P. "Both are nasty!"

Chihiro was scared, but she was solely focused on finding her parents.

Chihiro: Mom! Dad!

Sitting at the booths were her parents, but their bodies seemed a bit larger than they were moments ago. Chihiro runs to her father's side and shakes him to get his attention.

Chihiro: Come on, quit eating! Let's get out of here!

Cut to first-person point of view. Chihiro's father turns to face her, but instead of her dad, it is a huge pig eating away the food in its mouth dressed in her father's clothes. Chihiro let out a gasp of shock and flinched away from what could be her dad.

As did the Legendary Warriors and digimons.

Bokomon "Oh my!"

Neemon "Did they digi-volved?"

Takuya "No, they got turned into pigs!"

Zoe "But how!?"

J.P. "Suddenly I'm not so hungry anymore."

Kouji "This is so weird!"

Tommy "No…"

As if he didn't recognize Chihiro, Akio continues to eat the food like the pig he is, knocking the dishes, foods, and soy sauce over onto the ground. Chihiro was creeped out of the mess until she heard a sharp slapping sound. Looking up, Chihiro sees the pig in her dad's clothes trying to get more food, only to be repeatedly swatted harshly by a fly swatter.

After a couple of swats, the pig let out a squeal before falling over to his side into the mounds of food scraps. Chihiro streams as she's backed into a wooden pillar before running out of there, as the pig lets out a loud squeal as saliva spills from its lips.

Jane "Now imagine your family there, taking Akio and Yūko's place."

They didn't want to imagine it, but they did. The thought of their moms and dads eating the food and turning into pigs scares them.

However, the youngest of the group was shaking and was on the verge of crying.

As Chihiro ran away and panicked, she shouted out for her parents.

Chihiro: Mom! Dad! Where are you!?

As more spirits started to appear and fill the empty streets and the stalls of the restaurant, Chihiro seeing them was even more scared.

The children were feeling scared and were scared for Chihiro.

They got on a trailmon and entered the Digital World with no way back home. The feeling of being lost, scared, and separated from their parents is terrifying.

Now seeing this made them realize that they miss their families.

Takuya "Mom. Dad. Shinya."

Zoe "Mama. Papa."

Tommy "Momma!"

J.P. "Mom. Dad."

Kouji "Dad. Mom."

Chihiro: Mommy!

She shouted and as a spirit passed by her, she yelped and ran back the way she and her parents came from, dodging the shadowy creatures along the way.

Once Chihiro reaches the stone steps to the river, she hurries down the stone step that leads back to the train station, but when she gets to the last step…

Splash!

The water came up to her waist.

Chihiro: Water!?

Everyone "Water!?"

Kouji "How can there be water?! There wasn't much before!"

Takuya "Did the water rise that fast?!"

Chihiro crawls out of the dark water, to see that the fields have been turned into a large river.

[Procession of the Spirits]

As Chihiro looked on she saw that the station clocks had come to life and lamps lighting the ounce lonesome emptiness of the streets and the river that have magically appeared there was a boat.

Chihiro: What?

She shuts her eyes and pounds on her head repeatedly.

Chihiro: I'm dreaming! I'm dreaming!

Chihiro paused to look up to see if the water had disappeared, but it didn't.

Chihiro: Come on! Wake up! Wake up!

Tommy sobs, "T-This just like how we entered the Digital World."

J.P. "Yeah, the feeling is familiar."

Chihiro desperately tries to shake herself to wake from what seems to be a nightmare, she slumps down, burying herself in her legs as she tries to comfort herself.

Chihiro: It's just a dream. Just a dream. Go away, go away. Disappear.

Takuya "What's happening to her?!"

Zoe "She looks like she's fading."

As she was rocking herself for comfort, Chihiro begins to notice something off about herself. She saw her hands were looking fainter and lighter. Cut to the first point of view, the screen shows Chihiro's hands are now transparent and the lights of the ferry can be seen through them.

Kouji "She IS fading!"

Chihiro: I'm See-through!

Chihiro rubs her hands and arms, she looks at herself, and soon she realizes that she is becoming more translucent.

Chihiro: It's just a bad dream!

But as she tried to reason what was happening she saw the Ferry docking and doors opening, revealing a line of flouting paper masks before red robes nobility hats appeared on them. These creatures were Kasuga-Samas.

Kouji "Those are Kasuga-Samas. REAL kasuga-Samas!"

Tommy "Tand -Th-That means…"

Takuya "Spirits from our world are real!"

Bokomon "What?! Don't you children even consider spirits to be real at all!?"

J.P. "Spirits and Demons are stories when grown-ups tell kids like us to behave or be wary."

As the kasuga-Samas passed, soon a line of more supernatural spirits followed. Chihiro slowly backed away, but when she looked down at the waters, more fog-like spirits rose from the depths of the river.

Chihiro: AH!

She yelled in panic at the presence of these creatures. She ran up the grassy hill, and slips, but got back up and away from the spirits.

Neemon "Now what?"

No one knows what to say to the pants-wearing digimon, Because they are in the same boat as him.

The dried-up river is now flooded with water and the entrance is farther away.

What can Chihiro do now?

That's it for Chapter 4.

The Next chapter might be up on Thursday or over the weekends, so please don't be angry with me not updating quickly.

Until then, see ya later.