Prologue

"When the moon is full and trees are bare, walk through the cemetery if you dare.

Where Skeletons rot and corpses fester, locate the tomb with the skull of the jester.

Feed him the token all shiny and new, It is then that CarnEvil will return for YOU."

-Local Legend

Greely Valley, Iowa

It was dark and cold outside. An old, battered tractor, dragging a large wagon behind it with the words "Spooky Sam's Ghost Tour" painted on its side, creaked its way through a cemetery.

"Come on, come on...I know you're here."

"Uh... Remind me why you all bring me here?"

Here on the tour, we find Hamtaro Haruna, the local Ham-Ham Boy and the Leader of Team SuperStars, along with his teammates and best pals, Pikachu, Kirby, and Squirtle of Team Go Getters Hamtaro glanced at Pikachu who feels uncomfortable for this sudden Halloween night. "The tomb of Ludwig Von Tökkentäkker, the main reason why I dragged you guys here to this dingy hellhole of a town." He said as Hamtaro immediately went back to scanning the area.

Then Pikachu replied, "But it's only a legend, Hamtaro."

Squirtle sighed. "I doubt we'll find it here."

"I heard ya." Pikachu muttered.

"Hey, we're here!" Said Kirby.

"About time..." Pikachu muttered.

"...And on your left is the restin' place of Ludwig Von Tökkentäkker where the legend..." said the tour guide, Spooky Sam.

Hamtaro and the rest of his team jumped off of the wagon, unbeknownst to the other passengers and crept away. A full moon glared down at the three friends as they approached a certain gravestone.

Hamtaro stopped as he found the large tombstone which read Ludwig von Tökkentäkker 1898; atop the tombstone stood what indeed looked like the disembodied skull of a jester with the typical jester hat and collar but, unusually, the jester's mouth was wide open revealing rows of razor-sharp teeth and it still seemed to have eyes although they were closed. Another feature of note was that the jester's mouth seemed to have a slot fit for a large coin.

"Here it is, the grave of Tökkentäkker..." said Hamtaro.

"I don't know Hamtaro, do you really think this is a good idea? I mean what if the legend is true?" Squirtle asked to his Leader, sounded alittle scared.

"We won't know if we find out." Hamtaro answered. "Hmm... let's see..." As Hamtaro examins the tombstone, he found a large golden token inside a small, half-cup slot jutting out from the tombstone just beneath the inscription. "What's this?"

Pikachu blinked. "A Token?"

"What's a token doing here?" Squirtle asked.

The coin showed an image of what looked like a smiling demon with its mouth wide open, on top of the coin was inscribed the word CarnEvil, on the center and split by the demonic image was the year 1898, and on the bottom it read Admit One.

"Hmm..." Hamtaro looks at it and looks at the jester skull. "I wonder..."

"Er..." Said Squirtle, shuffling nervously from side to side. "If the legend ISN'T true, then we're just wasting our time here..."

"Ooh... are you scared Squirtle?" Pikachu asked, grinning evilly.

"No, I am not!" Squirtle snapped back.

"Well, I hope the legend is true, because it sure beats standing here." Kirby said.

Hamtaro nodded as he insert the token in the jesters mouth and almost instantly, its eyes lit up with an unearthly glow, its mouth snapped shut and it flew off of the tombstone. Our heroes jumped back in surprise.

"Weeeeee, hahahahahahaha" laughed the jester head as it flew off the grave and around the cemetery. Everywhere it flew a part of the legendary CarnEvil popped out of the ground. The ground then began to shake, and great cracks ripped through it. Out of the ground appeared a Haunted House, a roller coaster (the Slay Ride from Rickety Town) and a Freak Show, as well as a shooting gallery. The 4 friends looked up and saw a monstrous, winged zeppelin hovering high them. On top of the shooting gallery, a tall man appeared.

"Welcome to…CarnEvil!" he announced in a German accent before laughing maniacally.