A man in a black cloak rose to his feet, tossing his white chalk to the side. He just drew a pentagram on the floor with Latin words on each line. He gave small chuckle as he looked to the cat puppet on his hands rubbing his hands together.
"Yes Belzeneff," he spoke softly, "Tonight is the perfect night to finally summon it. A full moon on Halloween night, it's as if the stars aligned themselves to aid me." He chuckled evilly and lifted his hand, "I shall not waste this opportunity."
Just as he was about to recite there was a soft tapping on his door. The tanned cat puppet on his hand dropped his head down as if sighing.
"Patience my friend," he said softly to the puppet as he walked toward the door, "Who is it?"
"It me big brother," said a female voice sweetly.
"K-Kirimi!" he said a bit shocked and excited. For as long as he had known his little sister, she never braved to knock on his door. Slowly he cracked open the door so she could only see him and not the dark room the he knew she would be frightened of. "It's a pleasure and a surprise to see you. How can I help you?"
Her blue eyes looked up at him with nervousness, as she suckled lightly on the tip of her finger, "well it's just that…tonight is Halloween and mom and dad are busy…I knew since you like the dark you can protect me soo…so…"
"You wish for me to come with you to go trick or treating?" he asked.
"Y-yeah! Can you do it?"
"Anything for my dear little sister," He gave her a pat on the head, causing a series of giggles.
"Thank you big brother," she bounced around on her toes, "I just need to get ready."
"As do I. I will come to your room and get you. I have a …friend… I wish to invite."
"Ok!" she grinned as she ran down the hall. He didn't close his door until she was well out of sight.
"Now let's continue where we left off."
He stood before the pentagram on the floor and lifted his hands, "Sacred deities and creatures of the night. It is your faithful servant Umehito Nekozawa thank you for the blessing of my sister and allowing her to slowly accept the darkness. However I have a wish. Bring a creature that enjoys the dark arts as well as I bring me a creature of darkness!" he chuckled as he pulled a skull from his cloak and placed in the middle of the floor, "Please accept this skull as a sacrifice that I may meet this creature if only for a night. Hear my plea and let it come to fruition!"
For a moment it was silent in his room. Nekozawa was starting to think that his plea was being ignored until the moonlight from the window shined brightly on the floor. At first a small spark of electricity, then another, until the pentagram was engulfed.
"Oh?" he looked down raised an eyebrow, "What do we have here?"
Slowly a dark shadow engulfed the pentagram and the skull slowly sank and disappeared into the ground. He tilted his head back and laughed menacingly thinking of what horror would be blessed to him.
Meanwhile on the other end of Japan in a gigantic white mansion a girl was locked in the confines of her room. The shelves were full of her favorite internal organs in jars, a box full of banned horror movies, a floor cluttered with sweets, and black curtains blocking out all sunlight. In fact, any illumination was coming from the TV.
A girl with long black hair and purple eyes giggles as she watched the girl on TV running from a skeleton.
"Oh I love this movie," she giggled, "What I love best is when Skeleton rips out her organs and throws them on the wall."
When she reached for her chocolate pocky she looked at the time on her skull alarm clock. 7:28 pm.
"Oh no…" she pouted, "Soon I will have to leave my room and join the creatures of light." She rose to her feet and walked over to her human anatomy manikin Hiroshi. His boy was half normal skin, while the other half display the structures of the muscles of a normal human male…well minus organ. Even so he was her best friend. "Oh Hiroshi…" she sighed and grabbed his stiff hands, "I don't want to go down there. I want to stay here, in the dark with you. You are the only one who understands me..."
Her head jolted up when she heard a cynical laughter coming from her room.
"I…don't remember that laugh in the movie," she quickly paused the movie but the laughter continued. "W-what's making that noise?"
She lost track of thought when with harsh kick her door flew open and light filler her room causing her to let out a shriek of pain, "AAAAAHH! It's too bright!"
"Nakahara!" yelled the man in yellow hair, "I want your fried shrimp tonight!"
She used her arm to cover her eyes and attempted to glare at him, "Why on earth would I make my shrimp when you wouldn't even decorate the house for Halloween!"
"We did that last year!" he yelled at the top of his lungs, "Besides your room is creepy 24/7!"
Finally able to semi tolerate the light she gave him a healthy kick to the chest causing him to hit the wall behind him.
"Ow! What the hell was that for?"
"You idiotic creature of light! You know I love Halloween more than any other holiday. I love it more than even my own birthday." She put a hand over her heart and grinned, "It would be wonderful if I could celebrate it every day."
"Kyohei!" Yelled a man with black hair, "What are you doing in Sunako's room?"
"I wanted food!" he whined as he kicked his feet like an infant. "I'm frikken hungry!"
"Hungry or not," Said another gorgeous man with red hair, "A true gentleman would allow a young lady a little privacy. It's simply barbaric to invade a young maiden's room." He shuddered and took a step back from Sunako's bed room door, "No matter how creepy it may be."
A young man with short yellow hair and big eyes followed up and hid behind him, "Ranmaru's right…her room is a bit…scary. I tried to get used to it," his large eyes filled with tears and his his face in hands, "but I still can't!"
Sunako looked from face to face to face…then screamed as blood rushed from her nose into Kyohei's face.
"Gross!" he used his sleeve to wipe off the blood and growled when she tried to disappear into her room, "Come out and cook damn it!"
"I will later!" she yelled and slammed the door closed. While the yelled continued on the other side of the door she looked down at the ground, gasping for air as the last bit of blood from her nose dripped onto the ground.
"I can't stand these creatures of light," she gasped, "Why can't I be with a creature of darkness!" she wailed then her voice went as soft as a whisper, "Even…even if only for a night."
She looked up when she heard the menacing laughter.
"Huh? Who's there?" she asked to darkness.
Suddenly in the middle of her a huge circular shadowed appeared, looking more like a black vortex.
"Am…am I supposed to walk through there?" She didn't know who she was asking, the words seemed to have simply slipped from her lips.
However her decision was final when a skeleton slowly rose from the ground.
Pink hearts appeared over her eyes and she screamed in delight, "SKULL!" she ran and grabbed the skeleton, but as soon as her fingers touched it she started to sink back in the ground, "AAAH Someone help me!"
Her door busted open again and Kyohei, Ranmaru, Takenaga, and Yuki stood in the door way, all eyes wide in confusion, "What the hell is going on?"
"So radiant!" she screamed.
"We don't have time for this!" Kyohei yelled in exasperation. In a panic he reached for Hiroshi. Holding the manikin by the legs he pointed the head toward Sunako, "Grab hold!"
Sunako used her free hand to grab the manikin's only to hear a definite pop when the head detached from the body. With a loud yell she sank completely into the shadow and out of sight.
"No..." he gasped looking at the ground.
Ranmaru put a hand on his shoulder, "You going to be ok?"
"Who's gonna make me dinner?" he said in a sad voice.
"You idiot! Think of how pissed off aunty will be when she finds out Sunako isn't here!"
The whole room went completely silent, all of their faces pale white, thinking of the punishment she could ensue.
"We're screwed..aren't we?" Yuki said in a shrieking scared voice.
"Yeah," the other three said in unison, "We are totally screwed."
Nekozawa paced back and forth in his dark room, the only light coming from the moon. He almost felt as though he had a wish taken from him. Feeling depressed and disappointed he squatted down and rubbed his finger onto the carpet floor.
Belzeneff tapped him on the shoulder to grab his attention.
"What is it?" he said in a sappy tone, "Don't tell me that you are going to gloat in the fact that I am nothing. That even though I am the President of the Dark Arts Club…I am a complete failure at it?"
Ignoring his woes the puppet continued to point his cloth arm at something behind him. Slowly Nekozawa turned to see something emerging from the ground. Slowly he walked toward it. As the figured emerged it was a tall woman….an exceptionally tall woman. Her bang were cut so her purple eyes could be seen, her ebony hair flowed long all the way to her lower back. She was wearing a white sweatshirt, sweatpants, and slippers. Her left hand was carrying the skull and her right hand holding tightly to a manikin with half of its face revealing the structure of muscle and blood veins.
"Where am I?" she asked him, "And who are you?"
He gave a grin and bowed from the waist down, "My name is Umehito Nekozawa and I summoned you here with the power of the dark arts." He then pointed to the cat puppet on his hand, " Oh, and this is my loyal friend Belzeneff."
"D-dark …Ar…" Sunako lost her attention to him and glanced back in the background to see an alter with skulls and candles, "SKULLS!" She yelled loudly and ran over to pet the skulls on her head, "Y-you actually like this too?"
"But of course. How can one cast a spell without a skeleton?" he said with a grin, "However, back to the subject at hand. Would you be so kind as to join my sister and I on this Halloween night?"
Sunako wiped the tears from her eyes, "F-finally a creature of darkness like me. I have been living with creatures of light for so long!"
Shocked at her tears he quickly ran to his closet and pulled out one, of the many, black cloaks that clung to a metal hanger. He brought it over to her and grinned. "If you are going out with us then you will need an appropriate costume. How about the grim reaper?"
She jumped with a squeal of delight and tried to reach for it but her hands were full.
"Well maybe you should put those down first." He suggested, "I will be hard to carry a scythe and a bag of candy if your hands are already full."
"B-but Hiroshi," Sunako mumbled, "It's bad enough that I couldn't bring Hiroshi's body, but all I have left is his head…and I don't want him to get stolen again."
"I understand the feeling," Nekozawa picked up a skull from his alter and lifted it high, "I don't know what I would do if someone stole one of these from me." He quickly brought the skull down and Belzeneff began to rub its little cloth paws on it while Nekozawa voice got surprisingly raspy and dark, "Probably put a curse on their eternal soul, so that for the rest of their life all they would know is suffering and misery!" He burst out in a deviant laughter but looked at Sunako and quickly recovered by clearing his throat, "there is no need to worry. I promise you." He snapped his fingers and a tall, tanned, bald butler walked in with a scar over his right eye.
"Yes master?" He gave a deep bow as his deep voice vibrated though the room, "How may I serve you?"
"I have a guest who will be coming with us to go trick or treating tonight. I need you to watch that Manikin head. There is to be no harm what so ever to come to it."
"As you wish sir. I will lay down my life for it."
Sunako was surprised. Never dreamed of a place like this. Creepy butler, dark rooms with skulls. She couldn't wait to see the rest of the building.
The man extended his hand, "If the mistress would be so kind as to hand me the manikin and skull."
She was hesitant at first but eventually she put both objects in his hand. "Thank you for your cooperation. I promise I won't disappoint you."
Nekozawa opened the door and slowly light filtered into the room.
"So bright!" she squealed as though she was in pain.
"My sincerest apologies," he walked over to her and helped her in the cloak, "I wear these all the time to protect me from the sunlight, it should work on you as well."
"You don't like the sunlight either?" she asked in astonishment.
He gave an obvious shiver, "I can't stand the sunlight. Whenever I'm in its rays of lights I feel as though I'm melting."
She starred spinning around in happiness, 'Finally someone who can understand me. I feel the same way too. Especially with the creatures of light I live with," Small black hearts floated around her as she stared and Nekozawa.
Under the black cloak he found himself blushing and rushing toward the door, "F-follow me. The scything is hanging in the hallway. We can grab it on our way to get my sister Kirimi."
Sunako quickly followed behind, she let out sigh of happiness to feel the effectiveness of the cloak. As they started to walk down the hall her thoughts swam of what the sister might look like. From what she could see, it looked like Nekozawa had black hair. Maybe it's heredity. Maybe his sister had a room filled with jarred organs, severed heads, and maybe some splatter films.
"Sunako?" he asked.
"h-huh?" she looked up and was greeted with a scythe handle in her face.
"Are you ok? I called you name 4 times and you were yet to respond."
"No, merely thinking about what a wonderful Halloween t his is going to be." She grabbed the scythe and rubbed her cheek against the polished wooden handle. "so lovely."
Nekozawa could only smile as the continued to walk down the massive hallway.
"Ah here we are," They both stood in front of a large white door. "This is my sister Kirimi's room."
Sunako opened the door and gasped at what she saw. "This isn't what I expected at all," her tone tone disappointed.
The sister of the creature of darkness was a creature of light. Here room was dark but she was wearing a pink dress and a crown to make her have the appearance of a princess.
"Is this your friend big brother?" she skipped happily over to Sunako and noticed her shivering, "Wow you remind of big brother a lot."
"So it's just that… you are a radiant creature of light. If it weren't for t his cloak I wouldn't be able to gaze down at you."
"Oh you must be afraid of the light too!" she smiled innocently. "Then you can protect me from the darkness too!"
Sunako tilted her head to the side in confusion.
"Yes," Nekozawa interrupted, "She is going to be joining use and keeping anything dark and creepy away from you."
"Yay!" Kirimi ran past them toward the door, giggling happily.
He waited until she was further down the hall before he started talking, "You look surprised and you have a right to be. You see, even though I like the darkness Kirmi likes the light and for a long time we weren't able to talk. She was…scared of me. However, thanks to some friends of mine she's not afraid of me anymore. Well…not as much."
"It must have been hard," Sunako spoke softly as she walked beside him, "To have your own sister afraid of you. I've never had one so I can't even imagine."
"Well that was a long time ago." He gave a soft chuckle, "However we have to hurry." He looked down at his watch. "In less than 3 hours I have to return you home."
"At midnight?"
"Yes. Sort of like a Cinderella story I suppose. Halloween night is when the spirits are most active, however at midnight, they give one last burst of energy before going back to rest. So it would be wise to get you back home by then."
"Oh well that shouldn't be too hard." Sunako said with a simple shrug.
"Big brother!" Kirmi called as she stood at the doors, "Come on let's go!"
"But of course Kirimi." Nekozawa opened the door and the three of them slowly walked out to enjoy the cool Halloween night.
Meanwhile, a maid ran around frantically looking for her master only to bump into the butler with a scar over his eye.
"Ow!" she slowly rose to her feet and wiping the dirt from her outfit,
"Are you alright?" his voice was monotone, for a moment she didn't know if he cared or not.
"I'm fine, but have you seen the Master I completely forgot to fix his watch."
"He, the mistress, and their friend have already left to go trick or treating." He said.
"Oh well," she said cheerfully, "Well it is only off by 15 minutes or so. I'm sure it's no big deal."