Chapter 2 One Summer's Day
This chapter didn't take as long as many, including myself, thought it would, but it's done. So here is the opening scene to Spirited Away.
And a little heads up, not a lot of the Spy x Family cast won't be talking as much in this chapter, but some of the questions on the report assignment will be for Anya and her classmates will show up occasionally.
I got the movie report assignment idea from another fanfic I was going to do or to suggest to anyone who wants to do it, about a person from our world who knows everything about Spy x Family so far is somehow in that said anime/manga world and has gained powers to bring anything her, or she can imagine to life from god or whatever. And to be closer to the family, he or she plays the older niece or nephew of Loid Forger and works as a part-time assistant teacher for Anya's class.
Pretty cool, right?
Anyway, I kept you waiting long enough. Enjoy the show.
The first image on the screen was a blue background with the words "Studio Ghibli" on the bottom right. And some kind of rabbit-like creature with a smaller one on top of its head.
Anya's eyes sparkle with wonder as she saw the giant rabbit-like creature's ears, looking almost exactly like her short hair buns that's underneath her horn caps.
(One Summer's Day)
The scene opens with a bouquet of pink flowers and a card with a drawing of a smiling girl, accompanied by a gentle and elegant pounding of piano keys.
?: "I'll miss you, Chihiro. Your best friend. Rumi."
?: Chihiro? Chihiro, we're almost there.
The screen then shows said girl Chihiro, holding the pink flowers' bouquet with a blank and bored expression, lying down with her feet up on a box in a moving car.
?: This really is in the middle of nowhere. I have to go to the next town to shop.
?: We'll just have to learn to like it.
Chihiro turns her head to her parents in the front seats, Akio and Yūko Ogino, her father points out.
Akio: Look Chihiro, there's your new school. Looks great, doesn't it?
The camera switches back to Chihiro slowly getting up to look out the window to see what the school looks like. While her mother comments.
Yūko: It doesn't look so bad.
As they are passing it, Chihiro sticks out her tongue in a taunt and disgusted manner, before slumping back down.
Chihiro: It's gonna stink. I liked my old school.
Anya took a look at her questions and the first one was an easy circle a, b, or c answer. She quickly circled 'b' because moving is the correct answer and she and her papa had moved into a different house too.
As Chihiro buried herself back down, she looked at her bouquet in worry and realized they were wilting.
Chihiro: Mom, my flowers are dying!
Yūko: I told you not to smother them like that.
Yūko said scolding her daughter as Chihiro made a bland and disappointing expression.
Yūko: We'll put them in water when we get to our new home.
Chihiro: I finally get a bouquet and it's a goodbye present. That's depressing.
Chihiro sits back down in her seat.
Yūko: Daddy bought you a rose for your birthday, don't you remember?
Chihiro: Yeah one. One rose isn't a bouquet.
Yūko (Off-screen): Hold on to your card and quit whining. It's fun to move to a new place, it's an adventure.
The next two question is a written one, but Anya and Becky think it's best to answer them back at home. The first question was what type of flower bouquet did Chihiro has? And the second, while listening to the music opening, express in your own words of what the melody speaks to you.
As Yūko gave Chihiro her card and opened her car window, the scene switched to the outside of the car and the camera pans on top, revealing the urban neighborhood and highway as the title of the film appeared.
SPIRITED AWAY
While listening to the melody, it gives a sense of peace and whimsical adventure feel. Loid and Yor were mostly curious to the name of the movie.
Loud '"Spirited Away?" This sounds suspicious and a little too close to home.'
Giving how they are all trapped in the auditorium, it's mostly a hostage/kidnapping situation.
Loid 'I don't even need to point out the irony of it.'
Yor 'This movie, is it about spirits? Did someone die?! No, there's no way Christine won't ever show something like that to young children, right?'
Anya 'pretty cartoon.'
We then see the family's car drive to a road leading to a forest
Akio: Wait. Did I take a wrong turn?
Akio pokes his head out of the window. The scene cuts to the dirt trail road into the forest.
Akio: This can't be right.
Yūko: Look, there's our house.
Akio: Huh?
The family looks up the hill to see their new home right next to the forest.
Yūko (Off-Screen): It's that blue one on the end.
Akio (On and Off-Screen): Oh yeah, you're right. I must've missed the turn-off. This road should lead us there.
Yūko (Off-Screen): Honey, don't take a shortcut. You always get us lost.
Akio (Off-Screen): Trust me, it's gonna work.
As the parents argue, Chihiro looks out of her windows to see small stone houses under the tree with a Torii.
Chihiro: What are those stones? They look like little houses.
Yūko: They're shrines. Some people think little spirits live there.
Anya circled another answer question, it was a little confusing at first, but by matching up the words from what she heard to the spelling.
Anya 'I think I got it.'
As the family drives down the gravel road, the forest expands farther and farther than it looked. Hesitating no longer, Chihiro told her father.
Chihiro: Dad, I think we're lost.
But her father wasn't worried, if not, he was more confident in himself.
Akio: We're fine. I got four-wheel drive.
The car ride became bumpy, which surprised Chihiro to let out a startled yelp.
Yūko: Sit down, please, sweetie.
The car sped through the dirt and stone trail and reached a cobblestone path, making the ride more bumpy as Chihiro bounced around because of it.
Chihiro was flung back into her seat, then for a breath moment, she looked out of her window to see an odd smiling stone statue.
As if it's turning its head as the car sped away from it.
None of the children bother to write out the next question, because they were scared, and a bit amazed as Chihiro when she saw that strange statue.
Becky "That's a bit creepy."
Anya "Yeah."
The car then hit a puddle, scraping the metal, causing Chihiro to cry out in fear.
(Off-Screen) Yūko: Honey! Honey! Honey-AH!
Yūko tries to call out to her husband, who runs their car into a couple of tree branches. Yūko holds onto the safety handle on the passenger's side.
Yūko: Slow down, you're gonna kill us!
Out of reflex and terror, All the children cling onto their parents or onto each other. In fright of the father's speeding car hitting a couple of tree branches.
Akio looked out of the windshield to see the same smiling statue his daughter saw, and it was in front of a gate entrance.
Akio: What's that!?
He exclaimed as he hit down the brakes, stopping the car, and nearly striking the statue. The camera pans upwards to fully view the old gate entrance.
Everyone let out a breath of air, they didn't realize that they were holding in.
The Forgers were also relieved that the fictional family didn't crash, but were more curious of the strange building is doing out in the middle of the forest?
That's the end of the first scene of Spirited Away, the next one will be up in the next couple of days if I'm not too busy with something else.
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