Great Pumpkin

Copyrights: I don't own anything here! Well, nothing except my two OCs Troy and Julianne. Peanuts belongs exclusively to the estate of Charles Schultz.

Chapter 2: Of Footballs, Pumpkins, and Blockheads

October 19, 1975

Linus and Lucy are venturing off to their homegrown pumpkin path, to get a pumpkin for Halloween. After finding one, Lucy, never one to get her hands dirty, demands for Linus to puch it back to the house. Though it was heavy, he pushed with all his might to get it over to the house and inside. After setting some newspaper down, Linus drops down the pumpkin, and Lucy gets ready to carve it. Slicing the top open, she emptied it of the seeds and guts, much to Linus' dismay.

"You didn't tell me you were gonna kill it!" he wailed.


Later that day, Charlie Brown and Linus were both walking home from elementary school, talking about their plans for Halloween.

"I won't be doing much this year, like always." Charlie Brown said in a sad tone of voice. "I hate to be left out, but that seems to be all that happens to me. What about you?"

With a smile, Linus responds "I think you know what I'm gonna do. I'm waiting for the Great Pumpkin!" Clearly Linus was very estatic.

"Oh no," Charlie Brown groaned. "Don't tell me you're still missing out again for some stupid pumpkin!"

With an angry look on his face, Linus then retorted "The Great Pumpkin is NOT stupid! He'll rise out of the pumpkin patch he deems to be the most sincere, and fly around delivering presents to all the good boys and girls! He'll make it this year, I'm absolutely sure of it!" At that moment, Lucy walked up, after having just finished her day at Daisy Hill Mennonite School. "Hey, big sister!" Linus said. "Do you want to wait for the Great Pumpkin with me this year?"

"Oh, Jesus, why do you keep going on with this year after year?" Lucy said, very aggrevated. ""Do you know what my friends at school say to me when they talk about you? They ridicule me because you worship some gourd that may or may not be real! I'm the laughingstock of the whole neighborhood!" At this point, her anger began to evaporate as she grabbed a foorball for the one thing she loved to do with Charlie Brown. "Are you ready for this, kid? I'll hold the ball and you'll come running up and kick it."

Charlie Brown, realizing what she was leading him into, paused for a moment before turning her offer down. "You must really think I'm that dumb? I'll just come running up, and you'll pull it away, and I'll break my back, just like last year."

"And the year before that, and the year before that..." Linus added.

"Stay out of this, you blockhead!" Lucy yelled out. "Besides, Charlie Brown, have I ever steered you wrong?"

"No, I can't say you haven't." he replied.

"There! You have full reason to trust me! And anyways, I have a document with me that proves I won't pull it away from you." she said, as she pulled out what looked like a completely legally binding document.

Looking it over, Charlie Brown said to himself, "Wow! It really is legal! If she had a document with her that says she won't pull it, then it must be true. I'm really gonna get it this time!" Full with an invigorated determination, he runs up to Lucy, ready to kick it, when she pulls it away (which, if you ask me, is no surprise). "AUUUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHHH! NOT AGAIN!" he cried as he flew airbourne before crashing back down, with a snapping of a clavicle.

"Y'know, there's a funny thing about this document: it was never notorized!" Lucy said in awe. "But you broke the height record this time. You really flew."

"Thanks for noticing that, Lucy." Charlie Brown groaned as he layed there in minor pain.


Aaaaaaaaah, some things never do change, do they? Anyway, enjoy the rest of Halloween and I'll update sometime soon!