A/N: Rewrite and new plan for my sequel story.


It was nearly a day of celebration for most when the Kanker sisters were moving away and going to a town known as Oakhaven. Somehow, their mom actually managed to get a job, but mostly as Mayor Corey's secretary. Hey, at least it was a stable enough job to actually afford them somewhere nice to live instead of a rusty old trailer.

"Are you sure you wanna live in that mansion, Mrs. Kanker?" Mayor Corey asked the crooked single mother of three daughters. "That was Ben Ravencroft's very own home before he destroyed himself."

"Hey, it'll be fine and as long as I can feed my children something other than frozen food to heat up in the microwave," Mrs. Kanker snorted as she popped another cigarette in her mouth. "Now hand over the keys so we can get settled in, the girls have been cranky all day since I woke 'em up at the crack of dawn just to get here by suppertime."

"Well, okay," Mayor Corey smiled. "If you need anything, let me know."

"Will do... See ya in a couple of days for my first day," Mrs. Kanker took the keys and went to her nearly broken down car and lugged her daughters out to show them to their new home. "Welcome home, girls!"

The Kanker sisters all yawned and looked around, this place wasn't half bad.

"Hey... Check out this digs, girls..." Lee told her younger sisters.

"Wow, this looks a lot better than our home bathroom!" May said as she looked to the bathroom.

"Ma, you really think movin' in a dead guy's house is a good idea?" Marie asked. "I mean, I've seen movies like this..."

"Marie, nothing bad is gonna happen now quit your worryin'." Mrs. Kanker slightly scolded.

"Yeah, ya baby!" Lee spat at her.

May giggled. "Good one, Lee!"

"Shut up, May!" Lee then hit her.

"It's the good life for us now, girls..." Mrs. Kanker smiled once she saw exotic foods on display. "Who knows? Maybe you'll actually make friends..."

Marie scoffed, she then decided to explore, she saw the portrait of Sarah Ravencroft and rolled her eyes. "What a lie..." she grumbled, having heard of the others in their adventure against the witch's ghost of Oakhaven.

"I miss my big Ed!" May wailed.

"Ah, you'll get over it..." Lee scoffed.

May cried, putting her hands to her eyes as she bawled.

"Quit your cryin'," Mrs. Kanker sounded uncaring this time. "Why don't we have rich meatloaf for dinner instead of that old microwave macaroni and cheese, huh?"

May sniffled, she was going to miss Ed, but maybe she would get over it.

"Whateva..." Marie walked away from her family, she didn't miss Double D, she just hated that she was stuck with her horrible family again.

"What's yer problem, Marie!?" Lee yelled to her.

"NUNYA!" Marie hissed back.

Lee was a little shocked. "Don't you dare talk back to me like that!" she then scolded her.

This made the Kanker sisters get into an argument with each other while Mrs. Kanker tried to tune them out by making an actually nice dinner for the family for a change.


"I hate moving and I hate bein' here!" Marie snarled as she went to find her own bedroom since the girls didn't have to share one room together anymore. She slammed the door once she got into one. Hopefully her new school would be better. "God, I hate this, I hate it here, I wanna go back!"

"Hey..." There was a girl with silky black hair with golden eyes, wearing a blue long-sleeved shirt with a red dress jumper with lighter blue tights and black dress shoes. "You look like you could use a friend..."

Marie looked surprised at the girl, then scoffed. "What's it to you? What're you doing here anyway? Who are you?"

"My, my, so many questions for someone your age," the girl smirked, climbing through the window and coming closer to her. "I'll tell you what, I'll be your friend."

Normally Marie would've shrugged that off or drop the girl like a bad habit, but since she was becoming more friendly with people despite Lee and May being related to her, her expression softened to a pleasant smile. "Whoa, really?" she then asked, thrilled, surprised, and excited, all at once.

"Yeah... You going to the school?" the girl asked.

"Yeah, I think we start the day after tomorrow." Marie shrugged.

"Well, I'll be your friend," the girl smiled, friendly enough. "What's your name?"

Marie gave her name to this stranger.

"Nice name... I'm Lucinda, but you can call me Luci." the girl gave her name.

"Um, okay, Luci..." Marie nodded. "But wait, how did you get here?" she then asked suspicously.

"Let's just say I have my ways..." Luci seemed to be hiding something as her eyes flashed a little, but not affecting Marie in any way. "So, you wanna be friends?"

Marie actually looked excited, someone wanted to be her friend and Lee or May didn't even ruin it. "Yes, I really would!"

"MARIE, GET YOUR BUTT DOWN HERE!" Mrs. Kanker screeched from downstairs.

"Well... I better be on my way..." Luci patted Marie's blue head. "See you around, Marie... I really hope to see more of you." she then giggled and climbed out from the window and got herself home.

Marie smiled, she was in a much better mood and she went down to eat dinner with her so-called family.


"Marie, what's with you?" May glanced to her. "You're smiling... You never usually do that!"

"Shut up, May." Marie narrowed her eyes to her younger sister.

Mrs. Kanker dropped a plate of food in front of them.

"Wow Mom, that looks great!" Lee was impressed.

"Yeah... There was a cook book in one of the cupboards." Mrs. Kanker chuckled, sliding off her oven mitts.

May tasted her food and smiled. "Wow Mom, this is really great!" she cheered in appreciation. "You're the best!"

Mrs. Kanker chuckled. "Enjoy it while you still have your sense of taste and smell, girls..."

Marie was hoping to see Luci again soon as she ate her dinner which was actually good tasting and didn't come from a wild animal.

"So girls, what do you think of our new house?" Mrs. Kanker prompted.

"It ain't half bad," Lee smiled. "Is it true that the guy who grew up in this mansion is dead now?"

Mrs. Kanker put her current cigarette against the table to burn it out and finish it until after her meal to get a new one to intoxicate her lungs. "Yeah..."

"Are we gonna get haunted?" May got worried.

"Ghosts ain't real, stupid." Lee scoffed.

"She's right, if ghosts was real, your granny would still be hauntin' me." Mrs. Kanker grumbled.


Then the doorbell rang and Mrs. Kanker answered the door and it was Mayor Corey and his daughter, Taylor Corey.

"Hello and good evening, Mrs. Kanker." Mayor Corey greeted the new woman.

"Oh, hello..." Mrs. Kanker wiped her mouth. "Uhh... Who's this?"

"This is my daughter, Taylor." Mayor Corey introduced.

Taylor hid flinches from Mrs. Kanker's foul smokey breath, but did her best to smile. "Pleased to meet you, ma'am." she forced herself to say.

"Yeah, yeah... What can I do you for?" Mrs. Kanker asked the mayor.

"We were just checking to see how you were doing," Mayor Corey smiled, then smelled something which quickly got his attention. "What's that delicious smell?"

"I just made meatloaf for me and my daughters." Mrs. Kanker replied, still looking a little dull, due to how she was.

"It smells amazing," Mayor Corey smiled. "Could we have a taste? We haven't had dinner yet." he then chuckled.

"Eh... Why not?" Mrs. Kanker shrugged, allowing them to take some of the dinner as their own.

Taylor looked at the Kanker sisters. "Umm... Hello, I'm Taylor Corey." she introduced herself, trying to be polite.

May and Lee looked to her, not really saying anything and went back to eating, their mother didn't even scold them for being rude.

Marie looked to Taylor however. "Um... Hi... You're the mayor's daughter, huh?" she then asked. "What's it like?"

"It's okay, I guess," Taylor shrugged. "But I knew two people I met... One of them is related to one of the Hex Girls."

"Oh, that's cool." Marie shrugged, but did smile.

May and Lee were annoyed with Taylor despite that and tried to ignore her.

"Where are you guys from?" Taylor asked then.

"A bunch of miles back there," Marie gestured backward with a slight scoff. "We used to live in a trailer park."

"I guess that didn't work out for you, huh?"

"Well, it wasn't easy most of the time..." Marie felt like she was on a roll, she made two new friends in under an hour. "We were kinda poor..."

"Poor?" Taylor asked, genuinely concerned.

"Well, you know, it was just us and Mom," Marie explained. "She didn't really have a job and just did whatever she could to earn money ... We were often home alone with each other most of the time, we didn't have a lot of room in our old home either! I mean, there was one bedroom, but I had to share a bed with 'TweedleDum and TweedleDumber'." she then whispered the last part, hoping her sisters wouldn't hear that.

"Oh, wow, I'm sorry to hear that," Taylor pouted. "I guess your friends are missing you back home?"

Lee and May were distracted by their new TV.

"I guess..." Marie shrugged. "Hey, Taylor... Do you know about the guy who used to live here but died in a freak accident?"

"Oh, yes, his name was Ben Ravencroft, the famous horror writer," Taylor informed, remembering that night very well. "Have you heard of him?"

Marie tried to think. "I think I probably have... I'm not sure... Name sounds familiar..."

"Well, he lived here before... I thought he was a nice guy, until..."

Marie was a little nervous, she bit her lip. "Until what?"

Taylor bit her lip slightly as well. "Could we talk about this in private?"

"Sure... Let's go to my new room." Marie invited, taking her up the stairs.


Taylor followed the girl as Lee and May were lost in the world of television as they sat on the couch, they could actually have cable this time.

Marie opened the door, letting Taylor in and once the girl was inside, she shut the door. "Okay, what's up?"

"Okay, Ben told us, and by us, I mean me, the Mystery Inc, my best friend, Ashlyn, Cindy, Dawn, Trent, Duncan and Abby, that he was looking for his ancestor Sarah Ravencroft's journal, but really it was a spell book and Ben was a warlock, so he summoned the ghost of Sarah Ravencroft," Taylor explained the story of last year's autumn fest. "And, luckily Thorn and Dawn trapped both Sarah and Ben in the book because Thorn was 1/16 wiccan from her mother's side and Dawn was a moonchild. They needed both Wiccan and moonchild to trap them."

"Whoa..." Marie was blown away. "That's quite a story... Did that all really happen?"

"Yeah, you can ask my dad or Thorn's dad the pharmacist, they were all there..." Taylor's eyes went wide. "Luckily though, the book was burnt by a tree branch that was on fire and now Ben and Sarah are gone for good."

"Yikes... Well, that's a relief... Too bad we can't send Lee or May back in it though." Marie smirked.

"Marie..." Taylor glanced at her.

Marie chuckled a little.


After about half an hour, Mayor Corey decided to take Taylor home as it was getting late and they decided to have the family settle in. Marie was just hoping she would see her new friends again very soon after she went to bed that night.