Chapter 2: Identity

Jack felt an uncomfortable smooshing feeling rub up on his cheek as a bell rang in his ears quietly, smooth and different. His eyes opened slowly to see a deep brown leather boot, or at least just the toe part. His eyes slowly rolled upwards, Trick. His messy golden hair covering his right eye and small top hat on the right side of his head. Jack slid his body back into a sitting position to get a full view of him and his sister Treat. The first thing that Jack noticed was that she was balanced on his shoulder using one hand, he looked completely unfazed by this fact and was actually holding her up quite well.

The two were dressed similarly as well. Messy golden hair and the small top hats, and their eyes were both golden almost to the point of glowing. Trick was wearing a golden yellow suit with a bowtie with black and orange stripes. Other than that his appearance was pretty bland with black dress pants and the brown boots that he had smooshed in Jack's face. His face was looked dull and almost like he didn't want to be here but at the same time you would know you take him seriously.

His sister Treat seamed to be on the opposite side of the spectrum, her face had a smile plastered on it and eyes open source wide that it looked slightly intimidating to Jack, he took her seriously because she looked like she was going to kill him. Her outfit was much similar to her brother's with a white dress shirt covered by a shiny golden yellow vest, her legs were covered with black tights, dress shoes, and a fluffy orange black and yellow skirt that kept it's form despite being upside down. Her bowtie was deep green and purple striped instead of black and orange.

"Need I remind you that you are a spirit, you don't need to sleep. If you want to at least look respectable." Trick's tone sounded both annoyed and serious at the same time.

"So why the hell were ya sleeping anyways!" Treat questioned a little too cheerfully. Jack gave her an odd look, her head turned as a grim smile crept on her face.

"Hey you think I like sleeping on the ground-"

"I don't know, I'm not you." Treat gave a new smile showing off her pointed teeth. Jack must've given a very visible reaction of disgust because Treat immediately continued talking again. "I don't use these ones for eating candy, if you think I did then you're kinda stupid." Jack watched as her teeth seamed to go back to normal human teeth as she talked.

"Trick, please pay attention. This isn't what we're looking for, now please concentrate if you will. Is the demon close by?" Jack gave a very confused look at the two. "What?"

"So let me get this straight, you're Treat and she's Trick?" He pointed to each one of the pair. Well he had been gravely mistaken the entire time, but he had to admit it was a good Trick.

"Yes yes, you're just like everyone else getting us mixed up. North probably told you about us, didn't he. No special snowflake to be seen here. Now please excuse us, we have work to complete. Trick do you sense the demon?" Treat sighed turned his head towards his sister. Trick pushed off his shoulder as she flung her body acrobatically into the air preforming flips before her and Treat both extended an arm as she grabbed his arm while landing on her feet perfectly. "Showoff." He had finally cracked a small smile on his face.

"No stunt or trick is too great to not be completed by me!" Trick put a hand on her chest proudly Trick now came back to frown very annoyed by his sister's procrastination.

"Would you mind staying on task for once in a while! Now locate the our target immediately! We can't have those heathens running amongst the humans on Halloween, they'll be impossible to find and they might hurt the trick or treaters." his shouts seamed sort of hushed compared to the shouts of any other spirits that Jack had met.

"So is this whole demon sense a thing all demons have, or is it just your sister?" Jack smiled thinking about the anger Treat would express from even more interruptions.

Treat let go of Trick's arm as she fell to the ground with a loud thud as she spit out some dirt. Treat looked daggers in Jacks' eyes, his hand went to his side as pure rage building up inside of him. "Demons, demons, sister did you hear what you called me? Of all the thing you could've done, you even thought to compare me to one of those disgusting creatures. He compared me to a demon? You identify me as one of them! I am a proud to be spirit just like you Jackson, not some mere demon! After all these centuries of us assisting with population balance, and you call me a demon!" at this point Treat was stamping his feet and yelling at Jack. As he continued to shout Trick sprang up straight to her feet from the ground and kissed her brother on the lips passionately. Treat blushed hard as his sister tightened her grip with her lips.

Jack was too shocked to even think of a joke or sarcastic quip. He felt surprise, slight disgust, very uncomfortable and embarrassed to be witnessing the sight. Trick pulled away as Treat shoved her off of this body. She gave a smile as she gave a leap and Jack immediately felt his face now too was now locked In a kiss on the lips from Trick. The first sentence sense of taste of sweetness, not just any flavor of sweetness either. The taste of sweetness was particular, nothing tasted quite like it in the best way possible. Honestly Jack didn't know what to make of it but he knew that he didn't want to stop tasting it, it was just that good of a flavor.

Slowly Trick pulled her lips away as the flavor lingered on in his mouth with a flirtatious look gleaming in her eyes.

""What was that for!?"" both Jack and Treat shocked and confused shouted at Trick who was pulling the pose of a small guilty five year old. It was her greatest trick, a treat.

"There's only faint traces of demon in the area brobro, probably just some old blood from another hunt. We're searching in the wrong place for it, we should move on." Trick turned back to her brother, he seamed jump immediately back into his much more serious state.

Quickly he cleared his throat and started to speak again. " Very well then, Trick back on top. Uhm Jackson, despite my sister's strange behavior-"

"Strange, I barely noticed anything strange about her." He said rolling his eyes with a sarcastic tone of voice putting emphasis on the word strange.

"As I was saying, if you happen to see a demon anytime soon restrain it and be sure to notify us. We'll take care of the scum. Now good day to you and goodbye." Treat said darting his eyes around probably still feeling awkward about the kiss. To be honest Jack still felt confused about the whole thing.

Trick waved her hand with a large smile plastered on her face as though she had completely forgotten about it. "Left a little something for you in your pocket Frosty. Bye!" her voice sounded chipper as ever. Jack didn't know how she kept it like that despite what she had just done.

The two then began to walk away from him as they disappeared into a non existing fog just as the twins had come as Treat started ranting about North and how undereducated he was clearly still upset about getting called a demon. Jack took a brief moment to decide whether or not to try and fallow them. But he ultimately decided not to due to their weird behavior. But he had to wonder why they seamed to hate demons so much.

Actually he didn't understand why there was so much hate around them. Did they really want to hurt children, were they all really that bad? Jack's head spun a little thinking about it. Then he decided to see what Trick had left in his pocket and reached in, it felt like a soft and squishy plastic. He pulled out of his pocket, it was a bright blue taffy like candy wrapped in a white translucent wrapper. He gave it a little sniff, it smelled exactly like the flavor of the kiss Trick had given him. It didn't matter, he needed to help whoever that angel was, wherever die was.

That'd be the hard part wouldn't it. But she couldn't have gotten too far he argued to himself, she was injured. Unfortunately for him that may just have put a ticking clock on finding her.

Trick looked down at her brother concerned. He hadn't been the same since Halloween came around. It had been all work and all seriousness since the time had come around, all that had come out of his mouth was demons and more demons. Her brother was fun he wasn't anything like this.

"Sorry about kissing you back there bro. It was stupid to do in front of Jack like that." Trick turned her head away from her brother in shame.

"I'm over it Trick. But I still have to wonder why then and there?" He sighed, obviously still slightly disgusted at her, turning his head away.

"Because you've been so busy with work and you're not fun anymore. Your my fun bro Treat." Trick explained as her brother listened feeling a little amount of guilty."I just wanted to remind you of that, with something sweet. You know, just like you." She smiled.

"Look, you just can't do it in public though. But I guess I have been ignorant of the spirit of the season, fun. The delights, the scares and thrills cheap or not, the bright colors, the costumes, the smell of vegetables, the scent that stains the air, the partying, people trying to outprank one another each year, I guess I have been ignorant of those things. But we must make it safe, those costumes are our undoing!" Treat ranted on then coming to his main point. "But I guess I need to relax a bit more, take a day-" Treat was interrupted by his sister falling of his shoulder with a sudden thud to the cold ground.

"Trick are you alright!?" He rushed over to her side and looked at her. She didn't look well at all.

"Something's here, but it's not a demon! I'm getting mixed signals, it feels like I'm sensing everything at once!" she groaned clutching her head in pain. Treat looked up around him. The trees had become a pale blue purple with a black, thick glassy webbing between them. It definitely wasn't natural. This was way too complex to be demon's work, this was something much more powerful. Who was it and what did they want?

"I presume you're impressed." Treat knew that voice. Dread ran down his spine in a chill. "You claim to be a demon hunter, and yet I've left you in cold sweat so soon." The mockery echoed through his enclosed space.

"I'm not afraid of you!" He shouted holding tighter onto his sister's body. Suddenly he felt body forced from his sister as he felt pinned onto a colorfully contorted tree. It was then he saw who was behind the sudden madness, his eyes widened as his guess was confirmed as correct. "Don't get any closer to her!"

"I will get as close as I want. Now you wouldn't let anything happen to your precious sister would you Treat?" his voice was cold, too cold. Treat only stared at the mask covering his face in horror, he had heard rumors about this one but was barely willing to believe in was in front of him.

"H-how do you know my name?" He feared out loud watching as a pale, dead, porcelain hand wrapped around his sister's neck as he raised her up looking at her as though she was a rag doll.

"I would prefer you not to ask such useless questions anymore Treat. Now we have a few things to discuss referring to an offer I know you'll love to accept.." his voice was cold in Treats' ears. Too cold to be even remotely human.

Treat looked up at his sister, she looked as though a dark spell had come over her causing a grave illness. He quivered thinking about the monster who held her probably a thread away from death. At a single second it became Treat realized that he had held off his answer for far too long.

"Time's up!"

Bleeding was all I could feel, my arm gushed blood and it was making me feel light headed. Now I wish I hadn't punched him because I didn't know if I had enough strength to go on. I didn't even know where I was anymore. There was only one thing I sure of, I needed to find him. I needed him.

My head felt light again, definitely not a good sign. Why can't I just be more rational? I acted stupid around that kid, it was Jack wasn't it. Why did I punch him in the face back there?

My foot tripped again. I don't know if I should keep trying to stumble around anymore. I lower myself down to the cold, wet grass. It feels so much better with my arm hurting again. Grabbing my shoulder I try and lift my armor off it my arm, unfortunately it only makes it hurt a lot worse. I clench my teeth as I try pulling it back away from my shoulder. There's some relief to the pain but not much, especially after I moved it the wrong way the first time. I hope that isn't going to make loose more blood. I couldn't feel any running down my arm anymore though. Probably not a good sign.

I scruff my fingers through my hair rubbing my eye. It feels weird with the path on top. Truth is I don't need it anymore, my eye's probably fine by now. But I don't think I can risk it. There's probably one of them lurking about waiting, spirit or demons I don't care, it'd be just as dangerous. I just have to find a way back to Shadow. Not have, need to.

I guess that's why I was so worried about Jack, he's a spirit and Shadow's a demon. He looks so young though, does he even know about us. No, someone probably already told him about them. I can't trust anyone until I know what they believe. But I maybe I should try talking to him if I see him again.

My head strikes me again, I feel so woozy. I just need a some time to breathe, even just a second would make it hurt less. Things just happened so fast before and now I don't have a clue about where I am anymore. Like I did before I got here, it's been so long. The last time I was in this realm was when I was still human.

I feel my eye throbbing again, I just need to find someone who can help me out. I'm so scared that if I were to run into the wrong spirit I could get myself into a bigger mess. Maybe I should just take the eyepatch off. "No." I interrupt myself pressing my hand against eyepatch only making it hurt even more. I fall to my knees in pain as I grab my other wrist. "Remember; I can't lose you, we've already lost so much, please promise me you won't let anyone take that off your eye ever." I can't stop thinking about him. I need to find him as soon as I can, I can barely stand being like this. It's so frustrating!

My head spun a bit more. Oh no its happening again, please just let it be a headache. It wasn't, it was my arm telling me that I needed help. In a few seconds afterwards everything went black.

A.N. hey, finally got this done. I'm so happy and tired, I think it's made a grammar mistake or a few thousand. Well too late for me to fix it so I hope you enjoy! Don't forget to R&R and bye for now!