A shadowy figure looks over a town desolated and gray from his home. The night covered the land with empty darkness with only the moon providing light.

His appearance makes him look human with dark hair and blood red eyes wearing a skull mask. His attire consist a black, slick jacket with a hoodie over his head that covered to his knee level, black pants and short-heeled black shoes.

It has already been about a year since Jack took over the position as leader of the realm from his father. As powerful as he is, Jack has yet to master his true form. His powers carries the risk of going out of control. Moreover, his true form consumes an enormous amounts of energy, which inadvertently absorb the energy of nearby victims. Thus he takes on this abridged form.

His house was a large mansion located at the outskirts of the town, surrounded by a field that bared pumpkins with faces (they are not carved, this is how they are).

It has been three weeks after the town have just finished celebrating their most important holiday, Halloween.

Reasons for commemorating Halloween include honoring the tradition that began many egos ago as well as energizing up the residents of the town.

But, one of most important goals involves collecting fear, a form an energy used by the inhabitants in this realm. The main source of fear comes from humans, whom they can extract from by scaring them.

Every year in Halloween, they would journey to the human world to gather enough fear to last an entire year and more so.

The residents harness fear to be used as fuel for their technologies and nourishment for the land.

Fear can also be converted to power by certain individuals in order to perform distinct techniques.

In other words, fear is the source of their power and livelihoods.

It is for these reasons that the responsibility for ensuring the flow of energy falls on him and expectations for him to be a competent leader are high.

While humans still carry fear of the unknown, recently scaring humans is becoming more of a challenge as their preferences have changed from what they were in the past.

As he glances over the town, there doesn't seem to be interesting going on other than the usual rowdiness at this dark hour. Jack decides to turn in for the night, making his way to the house and into his room.

Hopefully, I can think of more ideas in the morning.

As many thoughts clouds his mind, Jack removed his jacket and shoes and lays on the bed and slowly begins to drift into sleep.

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KKKYYYYYYYAAAAAHHHH!

Jack was awoken by bloodcurdling screams from a distance.

I wonder if there is someone at the door. (His doorbell makes a scream when rung)

He sluggishly gets up and walks to the entrance.

When he opens the door, he saw that it was morning and the skies are colored with a murky gray devoid of sunlight.

From what he can tell after looking at his surroundings, there seems to be a commotion happening in the town, where the sound he heard originated.

Big news, Jack. Big news!

Suddenly he heard a voice, and saw a person running towards his house.

It was a young werewolf, who was also his childhood friend.

Bell, what is with all this noise so early in the morning?

There shouldn't be event going on today, not that I know of.

There are humans among us! said the wolf with excitement in his voice and eyes.

…..What