Gaz Is Spirited Away
Written by: Cartman's Girl

Notes: Wow. What was I smoking when I thought this up? Spirited Away, Invader Zim style? Oh boy. I need therapy. I'm not sure how long I'll take this, but it's fun for now. So, enjoy.

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The sun was shining on the city, shining with all its might. I hope you notice there's no 'E' in that sentence. Just like 'It was a dark and story night'. I'm smart. Anyway! Back to our story. The sun was shining, dainty little clouds dotted the sky; basking the road with light. Gaz was glaring out the window, arms folded. Dib was sat to the front of the car, reading a magazine.

"This is going to be SO stupid." Gaz grumbled.

"Now, now daughter. Let's not be such a gloomy Gaz." Her father, Professor Membrane said as he continued to steer along the clean gravel road. "Don't make moving house such a bad experience. Its fun, AND a good experience to get adjusted to your new surroundings."

"It's going to SUCK." Gaz scolded. Dib rolled his eyes and leant around so he could see behind his car seat; kind of. At this point, Membrane turned down onto a dirt road.

"Gaz, just because YOU'RE not into moving doesn't mean you have to sour the whole thing for everyone." He said, before turning back to his magazine. Gaz glared at the back of the seat, and gave it a good kick. Sending Dib's generously proportioned head into the dash board.

"ARGH!" he cried out.

"Now watch out son, these roads are bumpy!" Membrane declared. Dib scowled Gaz's name to himself as he rubbed his vast forehead. Gaz sniggered, until glancing out the window. More trees had suddenly taken up the view from the car window. She sat up straighter to have a look.

"This can't be right…" Membrane had stopped the car.

"Dad, the movers will be at our new place before we do!" Dib declared, "And I can't let any of em touch my stuff! There are valuable things in my boxes!"

"Like what, CLEAN boxers?" Gaz smirked.

"NO." Dib chided. "And I don't wear boxers."

"Oh wait. There's our house." Membrane pointed out side his side of the car window. Gaz turned, and her eyes widened. They had somehow ended up on a hill. Down below was their new town, and with Membrane's specialized goggles/glasses, he could see for miles. Dib and Gaz on the other hand, just saw the city. "If we continue down this road we might come to a junction. Hold on everybodyyyyy!" Membrane floored it.

The car went hurtling through the trees, Dib clinging to his seat in panic as he saw the trees almost leap out of the way of the oncoming car. Gaz just sat neatly in her car seat, twiddling her thumbs. But Membrane suddenly put on the breaks, once again sending Dib's cumbersome head into the dash board again. Even Gaz was almost thrown off of the back seat.

Ahead of them was a statue. It looked like a dog buried into the ground at the waist. There was silver on the statue too, which was mostly covered in green moss; giving the statue a green look. The silver was down the front of the dog's chest; almost like a zipper.

"What the?" Membrane got out of the car, for behind the dog statue was a deep pink building. It had badly shaped windows and doors in the wrong places. There was one proper door, a big one that actually extended into a tunnel. Dib leapt out of the car and hurried up to the building, knocking on the walls.

"It's fake!" he said. Membrane stroked his chin (well, where his chin would be) as he observed it.

"Hey! Get back in the car!" Gaz called from the back seat.

"Hold on now daughter." Membrane walked in through the tunnel a bit, "Let's have a look first. This could be many years old, and we could be the first ones to set eye on it!" Dib rolled his eyes, then glanced over his shoulder at Gaz. No way was he staying with her, so he hurried off after his Dad.

"Ugh." Gaz kicked the car door open and stormed out, after her Father and brother. The tunnel was long, to say the least. Eventually they came out into what looked like a waiting area. Stools, benches, boxes… all kinds of seats were scattered around.

"What IS this place?" Dib asked as he stared at an oddly shaped basin. The sounds of a distant train filled the room.

"We must be near a train station! I haven't seen one of those in years." Membrane declared, before walking through to the other side of the room. Dib followed after him, as did Gaz after staring at the stain glass on the walls. They were incorrectly shaped too, and placed.

Outside, there was grass; fields and fields of it. Statues, very similar to the one they had almost crashed into, were scattered everywhere. All with the same silly face. Dib stared at everything with a blank look on his face. Gaz opened an eye.

"Okay, we've seen it. Can we GO now?" she asked. She was interrupted by a sudden gust of wind seemingly moaned out from the waiting area. It blew her hair into her face, and she swatted at her hair to push it back into place. "Stupid hair!" she scolded.

She looked up, and seen that Membrane and Dib had walked on farther. She snarled to herself and followed after them, hopping over rocks that were in between two small hills of grass.

"I know what this is!" Membrane declared, "It's an old Amusement Park! It must have gone bankrupt when the economy went bad!" Dib suddenly stopped walking and sniffed the air.

"Hey, do you smell that?" he asked. Membrane sniffed too, as did Gaz.

"Hrm, maybe this one is still in business." He wondered aloud. Gaz blinked and looked up. Beyond the rocks were stairs, and at the very top of the stairs it had another statue. This one was of a round face, and just a face. Its mouth was open and seaweed was hanging out of it. Its eyes were staring in different directions too. Membrane and Dib passed it, and Gaz lingered to stare at its vacant expression.

"Stupid." She muttered before following after the two boys. Around them were restaurants. Every single building was a restaurant, but all were closed. Until they saw the smoke coming from one of the buildings. It was set up like a tent, but the material only went half way down the poles that kept it up.

There, laid out before the trio was food. Piles of food, food of every taste and flavour imaginable. Dib blinked a couple of times.

"Whoa." He murmured. Membrane stepped into the tent, observing the food.

"Hello? Anybody working here?" he called out. Dib, finding how hungry he was; hurried up and sat down at a table.

"Hey Dad, when they get back we can probably pay the bill for what we eat…" he said, eyeing what looked like small roasted chickens.

"Good idea son! We haven't eaten all day!" Membrane sat down, and gathered a plate. He quickly filled it, as did Dib to his own. Thus, they began to eat. Well what did you expect? You fill your plate with food, you eat it. Unless of course, you are bulimic. Or something similar.

"What is this, pig out day?" Gaz scolded, as she leant against a pole.

"Mmm! Come on in Gaz, the food's great!" Dib munched out between bites. Gaz rolled her eyes.

"Please. I wouldn't eat that stuff if it was the last food on earth." She replied.

"Your loss!" Dib grinned as he scarfed down onto a corn cob. Gaz found herself feeling rather sick, seeing her brother and Father scarf down food like they were pigs. She glanced around at the restaurants. Well, if she wasn't going to eat she might as well take a look around.

"See you guys later." She said before turning and walking off. She walked along the roads, finding more restaurants. All written in a bizarre language she'd never seen before. Then she stopped. There was a big red bridge, and across from the bridge was a giant bath house. She could tell it was a bath house because of the sign that was actually written in English.

"Welcome to the Bath House!"

She tilted her head to the side.

"Why would there be a bath house in the middle of a food place?" she wondered aloud; before walking onto the bridge and looking down over the railing. Way down below, was a tunnel. A train, which to her at the time looked like it belonged in a Miniatures display, whizzed past.

"Ah. There's the train." She said. Suddenly she felt the presence of someone else, turning she saw someone stood on the bridge with her. Staring was all she could do. He was green, for one. His eyes were a deep red colour, and his clothing was loose and baggy on him. He had antennae, which was stood on end. "What the-?" she stared.

"YOU!" he suddenly screamed, startling her. "What are YOU doing here?!" he sounded enraged, yet worried at the same time.

"What's it to you pal?" she asked, eyes narrowed. He hurried up to her and grabbed her arm.

"You shouldn't BE here you stupid human!" he screeched, and even though Gaz tried to pull her arm out of his grasp; she found that she couldn't.

"Hey let me go!" she snarled.

"It's getting late! Don't you SEE? You have to get out of here, NOW!" she was finding he was pushing her, the same urgency in his voice. But the sun was vanishing behind a hill, and darkness was growing quicker. "They'll be starting their jobs soon, you must move, NOW!"

She then saw why. Some restaurants near by suddenly blinked on. Inside were food, and maintaining that food was… ghosts. Pure black ones, of different sizes. Their pure white eyes pierced the darkness. This would be a good time to run, Gaz decided. So she did.

"Hurry!" the creature screamed after her, "I'll distract them!" he spun around, and the noise of metal filled the air. Gaz would have looked back, but she had to find her Father and even Dib. Sure they got on her nerves, but where would she go, or be, without them? Probably an orphanage somewhere.

"DAD! DIB?! Where ARE you?!" she screamed. Finally she saw the shadowy figures of the two at the same restaurant, and boy was it a mess. "THERE you are!" she grabbed at Membrane's lab coat, "Come on! We have to go now!" the face that turned to greet her, was not what she expected. It was a pig. A big male, pale pig. He had the same goggles/glasses as Membrane wore, and had black hair shooting from its head. The lab coat, she now realised, was stained and pulled tight to the pig; and ripping in a few places.

"SQUUEEALLL!!" it declared, before pulling a whole plate down onto the ground. Gaz then saw what was sat besides the big boar. A smaller pig, not exactly a piglet yet not fully grown. On its back was a tightly fitting jacket with matching pants. The boots lay discarded on the floor, and it too had black hair. It squealed and began nibbling at the table cloth.

CRACK.

Gaz pulled back as one of the ghost figures had suddenly appeared. It was holding a fly swatter (used, EW!) and was whipping it against the larger boar's face. With a few good hits, the boar let out a cry and fell to the floor. This is when Gaz took off running. This had got to be some kind of sick, bizarre joke. That couldn't have been her Father and brother back there.

For the first time in her life, Gaz was afraid.

The ghosts were now everywhere. Looming up in the streets, exiting their restaurants and dragging their feet behind them. She found herself screaming out for Dib and Membrane, but no answer could be heard. Finally she found herself at the same round statue with the dripping mouth. She had to get back through the waiting room, use Dad's mobile and call for help or something!

Hurrying down the stairs, she found herself suddenly waist deep in-

"Water!?" Gaz was indeed, in water. She climbed back up besides the face and stared blankly. The hills were gone. Now there was a vast great river. Like the place where she was, was now an island. In the distance, was the building they had come through. Now it was lighted with life and colour, even sounds. More buildings had appeared besides it.

Gaz glanced around, before sitting down besides the face.

"…this is TOTALLY messed up…"

[To be… CONTINUED! Huzzah!]