Halloween, the time where you dress as a werewolf, well I do anyway, girls dress in extremely small outfits, and you get enough candy to last till December. Ironic enough my favorite night of the year was my last night of the year. I was walking down a street and I heard screaming coming from an alley, I dropped my candy and ran toward it. I saw a man with a knife attacking a girl about my age in a gothic angel costume, black dress with bat wings and a red halo with thorns, I ran at him and kicked him between the legs and in the face as he went down. I picked up the girls bag and as I handed it to her I felt something.

The man had stabbed me in the chest. "Trick or treat you little brat, I'm gonna carve a Jack o' Lantern in your heart!" he sneered. The woman attacked him, but he stabbed her too. I was barely alive at the time but I saw her go down. I was unable to speak but if I was I would have begged her to forgive me. The last thing I heard were sirens, the last thing I saw was her life leave her eyes, then I just stopped clinging to mine.

"Hey… hey… wake up!" I heard a girl's voice say. I slowly opened my eyes and saw a full moon over woodland's branches. I should be dead. I should be in the city. The moon should be crescent. But all of these are not what they should. I sat up and touched my chest to feel the wound, but it wasn't there, along another thing, my heartbeat. I was dead, but was this punishment, or a reward? "No hi?" the girl's voice rang again.

I turned around and saw the girl I tried to save, her dress now torn at the bottom, her halo now glowing red and floating, and her wings now moving. "We're dead." I told her.

"I know… but where are we?" she asked, helping me off the ground. I heard something faint in the distance.

"Do you hear that?" I asked.

"Hear what? There hasn't been a sound since I woke you up." She said to me.

"No, I hear something… music!" I told her. "Music means civilization!"

"You should get your ears checked, there isn't anything." She said, glaring at me.

"I'm gonna find it." I said, starting to walk towards the almost silent sound.

"Fine. I'm staying right here. If there is something or somebody come back to get me." She said, sitting down.

"There's two things wrong with that, one my sense of direction sucks, it would be impossible for me to find you. Two, this forest is almost undisturbed. Meaning more animals because of less human activity, and most forest animals that play at night are carnivorous." I said, counting reasons on my fingers. "And if the other two weren't around, your attitude would keep me from coming back."

"What's that supposed to mean, I don't have an attitude, you're just crazy." She yelled.

"Crazy or not, I'm your only chance of getting you out of here. I hear something meaning either I'm crazy or have better hearing. I'm also your only line of defense, if you could fight neither of us would be in this mess. I dressed as a werewolf not a superhero, I acted like one outta my own free will lady." I yelled at her.

"I'll just wait till dawn, find out which way is north, and find my way that way." She spat.

"North ain't gonna do anything unless you have a map or know where we are, unless you got a map along with that bug up your ass you're screwed." I told her, leaning against a tree and grinning.

"How dare you! My father is one of the most wealthy and respected business men on the west coast, wait till he hears about this!" She yelled.

"I think we already established that we were dead, unless your old man hangs himself I don't give a damn about whatever lecture he'll give me. You aren't your dad, and don't think his money scares me. If I knew you were this stuck up I would have let you to rot. If you wanna have any shot of help you either stick with me or go out into the forest, having no idea what you're doing. We don't exactly have our candy either so you won't last long even if there's nothing out here." I said.

"You got me killed!" She spat.

"You don't go downtown much. That guy was wearing gang colors, if you need me to translate to rich-kid-esse, he would have robbed you, then if you were extremely unlucky raped you, then killed you. As you lived your happy life with daddy's money I lived out in the city, where happy Halloween was one of the few happys you get." I told her.

"So my options are follow you and die or stay here and die." She said, tears in her eyes.

"Not really, it's follow me and have a shot to have safety, or stay here and think about how you screwed yourself." I told her.

"Fine. If you get me killed I'm gonna be a total bitch to you in the after-afterlife." She said, gritting her teeth.

"As far as I'm concerned you're a total bitch now." I said, smiling.

"Says the street trash who got us both killed." The girl muttered.

"I only got myself killed lady. He would've killed you either way." I told her.

"Don't call me lady, I have a name." She yelled.

"Well you didn't bother to tell me, so I think I'll keep my pace in this conversation." I said, digging through my pockets.

"It's Alex. And you are?" Alex asked.

"Will." I answered, digging through one of my shirt pockets, pulling out a box of cigarettes.

"You smoke?" she asked.

"Don't tell my mom." I joked.

"Mind if I bum one off ya?" Alex asked. I gave her one and my lighter. The music was getting slightly louder with each step.

"We've been walking for hours!" Alex complained.

"It's been ten minutes. We've gone about two miles so we're making good time." I told her.

"Your costume didn't change much. Mine got ripped up and parts became real. Yours just got ripped up and OH MY GOD IS THAT A TAIL?" she yelled. I looked back, and there was a white furred tail, wagging happily.

"KICK ASS!" I yelled. I looked at my arms. "I hope that's the only physical change though, I wanna keep me at least part human." I smirked. I looked at my hands, to further clarify my human-ness. My fingernails were pointed and I was wearing three of those cloth fingerbands that cover a full segment of a finger; one on my index with a skull, one on my middle with a jack o' lantern, and one on my ring finger with a smiley face. (Roxas from KH2 has some when in civilian clothing.)

"Don't expect me to throw you a bone." Alex said, blowing out a puff of smoke.

"If I'm hungry I'll chew on your bat wings." I smirked.

"Screw you, these are cute!" she yelled.

"They look like sticks came out of your back and are connected by sheets of leather." I smiled.

"You're an ass." She frowned.

"I'm also right, do you hear the music yet?" I asked, going quiet.

"Yeah, I do!" Alex said, smiling.

"You have fangs." I pointed out.

"WHAT?" she yelled, pulling out one of those little makeup mirrors. "HOY GOD I DO! And I just got my braces off!" she complained.

"A vampire angel and a halfway werewolf. We are gonna be the freak show of whatever town we end up in." I smiled.

"You mean that town?" Alex asked, pointing at a gothic looking town behind the last row of trees. We started to hear the lyrics to whatever song was being sung. I picked up the tune quickly and started humming it. Just as they finished up we got a good look at the locals… their costumes weren't costumes at all! Alex screamed at the top of her lungs, but my hand covered her mouth so we weren't noticed.

"Didn't you listen, this place is called Halloween Town, and there's a Skeleton Jack guy in charge. Lets get some answers." I told her. She nodded and tried not to scream. We found a group of vampires and decided to ask them. They seemed to take a liking to Alex, maybe because she was a vampire-angel, me on the other hand… they didn't. We went to a big furry werewolf and the situation was reversed, we hit it off but the opposite with him and Alex. So after looking around we found a mutual ground, a mummy with one big eye.

"Excuse me?" Alex asked, getting his attention.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"D'you know where to find that Skeleton Jack guy?" I asked.

"Yeah, at town hall. I haven't seen you around here so go to the fountain and go in the direction his head is, he should be talking to a guy with a tall hat." The mummy said.

"Thanks. Happy Halloween." I said, taking Alex by the wrist. We found that Jack guy, he was the only skeleton there. Really tall guy, and really wrapped up in whatever conversation he was having.

"Hello, sir? Could we get a moment of your time please? Sir?" Alex started.

"HEY, TALL GUY!" I yelled.

"GRAWL!" he yelled, turning to me and making a creepy face. "I really am losing my touch." He said in a now happy voice.

"Yeah, whatever. Mind telling me and my friend where we are and why?" I said, facepalming.

"You're in Halloween Town, I could tell you how you got here, what town are you from? Graveston? Skullsport?" He asked.

"Portland." I answered.

"Portland… why that's a mortal city! How did you get here?" the Jack guy asked.

"Well when a mommy and a daddy love eachother very much they decide to-" I started.

"We died and woke up in the woods a few miles from here, Fido heard music and I followed him." Alex explained.

"You won't let me have any fun, will you Alex?" I asked.

"No, you don't deserve it." Alex said, sticking out her tounge.

"Perhaps I should take you to the professor, he'd be able to explain much better than I." Jack said, still smiling.