{Chapter 2}

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Minnie was with the hellspawn, Spawn. She was holding the flowers that her brother got for her with a happy smile, while screams of terror and agony were heard in the distance, with hints of mad laughter, but she didn't mind them

"Your brother is... interesting?" Spawn said, slightly irked at the occasional screams of agony

Minnie turned at the demon with a raised brow, "How thee find mine brother interesting?"

"He knew where I was and he didn't even hesitate to fight Violator." Spawn said while staring at the distance, and still hearing the screams

Minnie looked down with a frown, "Mine brother was never like the one now. He was once a boy with innocents, but he had something dark buried inside him. But he was never been able to release such dark desires, not until three moons ago"

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A family of four was walking into the woods. The father was The Grim Reaper, or known as Grim to all. He was a skeleton with black robes covering his body with a scythe in hand

The mother was The Evil Incarnate known as Mandy Grim. She was wearing a revealing red dress with feather decorating it

The other two was Junior and Minnie, but Junior didn't have any eyes while Minnie had both of her eyes

"Mom, why are we here again?" Junior asked while stretching his arms out, getting a few satisfying pops

"Junior, do you know where holidays come from, right?" Mandy responded to her son

Junior nodded, "Yeah, someone makes them. Like Santa and Christmas, correct?" Mandy gave her son a nod

Junior was a strange child, because she felt something deep inside him, something dark and powerful

Something more evil then herself

But even though with those dark desires lingering inside his body. He never once did something evil, hell, he couldn't even hurt a fly, but he did show signs of high intellect and impressive bravery, even the most terrifying beings didn't scare him

A portal then opened infront of them and the family stepped through it. Music and monsters ranging to witches to vampires started to sing. Junior was awestruck from the display and unconsciously walked around the singing monsters, with Minnie following right behind him

Suddenly a tall skeleton popped out of the ground and tried to scare the kids, but it only succeed in making them more awestruck

"Evening there." The skeleton gave the kids a scary smile, but Junior's grin on widened exponentially

"I see that you finally met Uncle Jack." Mandy said while Junior was looking around the place. Junior always loved to discover something new

"Junior, you've grown so much since we last met. I still remember since you were just a little tot." Jack said, with a nostalgic smile, "oh, and you must be Minimandy."

"It is an honor to meet thou, King of Pumpkins. Thee holiday bringeth a most pleasant dark to an otherwise to all-to-bright season." Minnie said poetically

"Charmed."

"Grim, its a pleasure for you to come." Jack bowed to him, "And your wife honors us all with her presence." He smiled to all of them

"Now as mayor of this town. It is a pleasure to welcome Mister and Misses Grim to our night to celebrate this year's Halloween!" A triangular monster that looked like a mayor

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A party was celebrated in the ballroom for this year's Halloween

Grim and Mandy were talking to the local monsters while Minnie and Jack danced together in the middle of the ballroom. Their dance was beautiful and gracefull, but Junior was only sitting on a chair while drinking punch with a smile for his sister

He was always proud for her, but for some reason he felt something inside him, something wrong, something that was shouting at him to do something. But he always buried those feeling deep inside him and felt forgotten

Junior was just silently drinking punch with a smile. Being alone always made Junior satisfied for some reason, maybe he was loner at heart

Junior release a silent chuckle for that joke

"Junior, you seem very quiet... would you like to dance with me?"

Junior turned his head to meet a woman with orange hair and noticeable stitches covering her body. She was their aunt, Sally

"O-oh... Um... Sure thing, Aunt Sally." Junior said with a smile

Sally and Junior were dancing, while Sally was teaching Junior how to dance

"One... Two... Three... You're pretty good at this." Sally smiled at him, "ok, just keep following my lead."

"You mean like..." Junior felt something suddenly change inside him. He pulled his aunt a bit closer and started dancing, with a different posture, "...This!"

They were doing the tango

Everyone was staring at them with confused looks, but Minnie was awestruck at his brother for finally showing off his dancing skills. He was always timid for showing his talents and skills

"What is he doing to lady Sally?"

"What kind of dance is that?"

"Don't know, but that dance is pretty cool!"

Junior was too distracted with his dancing until he tripped on something, making him trip and fall on a dunking barrel

Junior's head was rolling around the ballroom with an apple in his mouth while his body tried to find the head. Everyone was laughing at him, but Minnie quickly walked up to him to help him. She grabbed him head and reattached it on her brother's body

Junior was silent and his hair was shadowing his eyes. Minnie was afraid that her brother was possible angry at her, until he started to chuckle until it turn into full-blown laughter

"Hahaha! I should've focused where I was going, huh Minnie." Junior gave his sister a genuine smile while munching on the apple in his mouth

Minnie felt something warm inside her stomach and she felt blood rising in her cheeks from her brother's smile. She giggled at him, but only to hide the blush on her cheeks

Everyone was laughing until they all suddenly turned silent, except for Junior who was still laughing. After a moment he finally noticed the silent

"What happened? You guys look like you... saw... a-" Junior went silent aswell when he felt something warm and wet falling on the side of his skull. He slowly and fearfully touched his head. He felt something sticky and warm

When he looked at his hand, he almost fainted on the spot

On his hand was a crimson red liquid

It was blood

"I-I think I-I need some fresh a-air." Junior stuttered out his shaking mouth and ran outside while everyone was still silent, except for Minnie because she tried to follow him

"Minnie! Leave him be." Mandy said with a stern look

Minnie tried to protest but her mother's glare quickly silenced her. Without another word she silently nodded

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'Of all days for me to get hurt! Why now!' Junior mentally shouted while pacing around outside. He was still bleeding, but thankfully he carried around a pack of bandages everywhere he went

But the problem was that, he was bleeding!

The undead don't bleed, and he was the freaking Son of Death, someone who is very much deader then anyone in the whole freaking universe

He discovered this when he was just five. When he accidentally tripped and hit his head on the stairs. He was actually scared of this new thing. When his parents discovered this, his mother was passive but his father was practically shivering to the bone, figuratively and literally

They discovered that he was alive but at the same time he was dead, but thankfully he can only bleed on his skull. So they hid this from anyone who was outside from their family

Not until now

"Why me?" Junior sighned and slumped over a dead tree, thinking a way to get out of this mess, "What... Am I?"

Junior heard a dog barking and saw a ghost dog with a glowing nose looking at him, it was whimpering at him. He shook his head and gave his attention to the ghost dog, Zero

"I'm alright boy... Thanks for asking... Do wanna play fetch?" Junior said while picking a bone from his ribcage. The dog was now jumping and barking in excitement with Junior smiling at the dog

Junior was about to throw the bone when suddenly he was nabbed by a bunch of kids wearing costumes with a potato sack

"Hey! Who is this!? Let me out!" Junior's muffled shouts fell to deaf ears

The kids carried the heir back to their hideout while Zero tried to catch them, but instead the dog ran back to find help

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"Do you hear me!? I said let me go!" Junior was still shouting while struggling in the sack

"Man, he's kinda whiny." A boy in a red demon costume said to his other accomplices

They then dumped the contents of the sack on a coach. Junior hit head first on the hard couch

"Ouch! What the heck was that for?!" Junior shouted at the trio, that made them flinch for some reason

"Sorry about that. Old habits die hard." The demon extended his hand to the skeleton, "The name's Lock."

"Mine's Shock." A witch girl said to him

"I'm Barrel. Want some cookies." A boy with green hair wearing a skeleton costume said, "... Careful, they bite back." He offered Junior a plate of cookies that had rows of sharp teeth

"N-No thanks, I'm good." Junior kindly declined, "wait, why did you guys put me in a sack?"

"We were wondering if you want to join our club?" Lock said with a mischievous grin, waiting for a desperate yes, but they were more surprise on his response

"No thank you. I like being alone, but thanks for the offer."

Their jaws immediately dropped on the ground. He didn't even hesitated to answer, hell, his answer felt a bit more automatic, like he already did this before and felt like a force of habit

"A-Are you sure?" Shock tried to persuade him, but he only shook his head

"I appreciate the... Special invitation, but I like doing things my way, but thanks anyway." He stood up from the couch and headed for the door, "Now if you excuse me, I need to get back before anyone or my sister worries about me, so goodbye!"

He was about to turn the knob when he was suddenly hit on the head by a baseball bat, knocking him out cold

"That was too close for comfort." A moving sack filled with bugs said, while looming over the unconscious body of Junior with a bat in hand, "Now. Put the kid in the game room!" The sack commanded the trick-o-treaters while rubbing his hands together like an old school villain

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Minimandy, the daughter of Death and the Incarnation of Evil itself, was standing on a tombstone, staring on the beautiful full moon with a smile. She always loved a time for her own, but she especially loved being with her older brother

"So, sir moon, tonight I can join you in your grand eternal dance." She said while gazing to the white moon. She was glad that one was here, alive or dead

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, "Today, I shall reveal my true self to you, sir moon."

A sharp tail sprouted from her rear end with green flesh and eyes peering out, and then sprouted a pair of green bat-like wings with eyes aswell. When she opened her eyes, they were glowing green

She started to move her body with grace, as if she was doing a tuneless dance, with the moon as her lone spectator. Her body was of grace but carried power with each movement

While dancing, her mind wandered to other matter, mostly about her brother. She felt like scum for accidentally tripping her brother and indirectly revealing a dark secret to a room full of strangers

She cared for her older brother deeply, her love for him transcended sibling bonds. And she was afraid of what her brother might think of her feelings for him

She was afraid if he would accept them or be disgusted at her

She started to have these feelings for him when he showed so much bravery and wisdom to the people around him, even with his condition, yet he stood tall and proud, unlike her, she was envies of these traits but she loved him for those traits

She always wanted to stand by his side, and maybe, just maybe become something more then siblings

She almost stumbled from the idea but glady she quickly corrected herself and continued to dance, while trying to control the warmness of her cheeks and the butterflies in her stomach

She shouldn't even have these feelings but for some reason it felt right but at the same time if felt incredible wrong. But she couldn't let these feelings slide away not before discovering what they really were. But a certain diva made it difficult for her, because of her more then subtle advances at her brother

But thankfully her brother was gifted to be dense around women, yes he was intelligent but he was denser then diamonds when it came to romance

Her musing was interrupted when she heard barking and whimpering below her. She looked down and saw a ghost dog with a bone in his mouth

Zero dropped the bone on Minnie's hand, and when she closely examined it, she felt her eyes go wide and a cold sweat run down her forehead

"By father's scythe! This is my brother's!" She exclaimed, "oh phantom canine with a nose that shines like the scarler moon. Please lead me to mine brother."

The dog gave an affirmative bark and led her to where her brother was, and hopefully make the people pay for what they did to her brother

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Junior liked sleeping, because it gave him a reason to think and be left alone, but he did always made time for family and friends. But he always hated being forcibly woken up

"Gah!" Junior looked around to see a giant sack filled with bugs looming ominously above him with the Trick-o-Treaters beside the sack guy. He tried to move but found out he was restrained on a table with metal cuffs around his limbs

"I see your finally awake." The sack said with a creepy stitched up smile, but Junior saw things scarier then this potato sack

"Why am I here?" He asked with raised brow while plotting a plan to escape of things go down hill

The sack responded by chuckling at his question, "Isn't it obvious? You're here because of your father."

"So, why does this concern me?" He asked, he felt the cuffs were a little loose and saw a bobby pin only a few inches away from him

"But first let me introduce myself. The name's Oogie Boogie. And to answer your question, your father chickened out from our business!" Oogie snarled at the boy, "And he even had to call my gambling business sick! Hah! What was I supposed to do? Play limbo or do cards!"

"Maybe?"

"No! I take pleasure in taking arrogant and idiotic fools and reaping their hard earned prizes for myself!" Oogie said with a smile, while Junior sneaked his hand on the nearby bobby pin, "But as a gambling man. I don't play with something like money or objects, oh, no. I gamble with something more precious that is taken for granted... I gamble with Lives!"

"So, what? You're taking me hostage, so that you can get my dad to help you again?" Junior said while picking the locks while the potato sack was busy doing his villainous monologue

"Oh no, my boy..." Oogie said ominously. The Trick-o-Treaters rolled a cart with a bunch of dangerous and sharp tools on it, "I always wanted to know how a reaper ticked." The sack was now smiling at the struggling Junior, but in truth he was just picking the locks

Oogie grabbed a buzz saw and tried to grab Junior's skull

"Sorry, but..." Junior's restraints suddely opened, "my skull's off limits, bud!" He jumped off the table and used Oogie's face as a stepping stone

"Gah!"

Junior landed behind them with a victorious smile while Oogie tried to wipe the shoe print on his face, without any success

"Grrr! Get him!" The sack commanded the Trick-o-Treaters

Barrel tried to pounce on Junior, but he sidestepped the skeleton wearing monkey with ease. Good thing his mother taught him to dodge and the dance lessons really helped too

Junior ducked under Lock's trident thrust and backflipped away from the demon. He only needed to escape and run. He wasn't made to fight, actually he never fought once except for the constant spars of his sister or friend

Junior tried to make a run for the door, but the door was suddenly sealed shut. He was now trapped with the Trick-o-Treaters surrounding him and the potato sack aiming a gun at him

"There is no escape, boy!" Oogie laughed with a menacing smile

Junior saw a the pipe, large enough for him to crawl to, but it seems Oogie Boogie was blocking it with his potato sack filled maggot body. But even if he finds a way to get to the pipe, he won't be able to outrun them in a place they know like a back of their hands, or in Oogie's case, his sack

'Looks like theres only one way out. I just hope this works or else I'm going to regret this decision for the rest of my life.' Junior thought to himself, his plan had a fifty-fifty chance of working

"This is the end, boy. Any last words?" Oogie said while cocking his gun and the Trick-o-Treaters preparing to dog pile him without a moment's notice

"Yes, I have..." Junior said calmly, even if he was just a footstep away from his father's doorstep, "Your a gambling man, right? How about a deal from the Son of Death himself?"

"I'm listening." Oogie lowered his gun but he still had his guard up

"If you let me go. I'll make sure your business doesn't go under." Junior said, "'cause if you let me go, I'll help you with your business. Think about it. The Son of Death, the heir to Death's throne. And you Oogie Boogie, will have me as a business partner not unlike my father, I won't betray you. So how about it?"

Oogie thought about it for a few minutes, until he had his answer to the skeleton. Indeed he was a gambling man and he loved taking risks, but he wasn't a fool when it came to traps

"Sorry boy, but I have to politely decline your offer." Oogie aimed his gun at the skeleton, intent to unlock the secrets of the Grim Reaper

Junior took a step back and mentally kicked himself to even trying to negotiate with this potato sack, and he was going to pay the price

Oogie was about to fire his gun, but an arrow pierced his hand, making his bugs leak out from the hole and hiss in pain

"Stay from mine brother, you dirty cretin!"

Everyone turned their heads. Junior almost wanted to punch lady luck right now

"M-Minnie! Why are you here?!"

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