Author's Note: I was torn of either creating another Halloween Story set after "Sailor Moon's Royal Quest" and before "Sailor Moon the Halls" or finishing up this one and re-doing it. Might do both before the 29th.
Let's begin with the first chapter.
CH2: The First Ghost Story.
Fifteen Minutes later...
Serena, Shrek, Ash, Dawn, Pikachu, Piplup, Lita, Donkey, Puss, Crash, Eddie, Brock, Rini, Max, and the Fairytale Gang gathered in the unused basement of the Castle where a fireplace is. The room also had windows and old furniture that haven't been used in nearly two years. Shrek sat in a large chair, while everyone else gathered on rolled up rugs or on the floor formed in a circle.
"Well, then." Shrek chuckled with a smirk. "This oughta be fun."
Donkey rolled his eyes while scoffing in response, "Fun. Yeah, right."
"I find myself agreeing with Boss." Puss stated. "This seems to be a very entertaining evening." in which Donkey looked at him annoyed, and replied, "You know what? I just figured out what you're costume is...You can as a KISS UP!"
"Hey, no fighting you two." Serena interrupted the heating argument, looking at two of her friend in annoyance. "Good grief, a year since we've all been together and you two guys still fight over everything?"
"Speak for yourself." Max scoffed.
Rini noded in agreement and added, "Yeah, Serena. You and Raye keep on arguing over everything since three years ago." Serena glareed at the two of the kids and snapped, "Can it, twerps!"
"Alright, alright." Shrek said, stopping the arguement. Everyone looked at him as he continued, "Buckle up everybody. The sooner I scare the wits out of you lot, the sooner I can home, cozy in my bed." before adding, offering, "Unless, anyone else, has got what it takes."
Pinoccio then raised his hand and perked up excitedly, "Oh oh! Pick me! Pick me! I have a scary story!"
Wolf sighed and asked in exasperation, "This isn't the one about you getting trapped in a petting Zoo again, is it? 'Cause that's not scary."
"Actually, if you look it from MY Presevtive-"
"Hey, guess what Pinoccio? No one cares!" Gingy interrupted in annoyance, much to his puppet friend's disappointment. The Gingerbread man then took up the offer and told the Ogre ominously, "Get ready to send these jokers home, Shrek. 'Cause I've got a doozy, and it's all true."
After clearing his throat, Gingy began to tell his ghost story, "It was a dark and stormy night..."
BRIDE OF GINGY
At some point before the events of "Sailor Moon and Shrek"-One year earlier...
The door of the Bakers at Darly Lane was knocked. It sounded soft as far as the Muffin Man was concerned, but he answered it none the less. At first when he opened the door at the dark and stormy night, no one was there, until he looked down and saw a familiar tiny figure.
"Gingy?" He asked in surprise.
Gingy, all soaked and wet, and looking miserable, moanfully answered the Muffin Man's unasked question of what he was doing here, "My girlfriend kicked me out."
A few minutes later...
After getting warmed up and having a small blanket wrapped around him, Gingy explained to the Muffin Man of what really happened, saying, "Oh, you know, something about me getting too into myself. Blah, blah, blah, yak, yak, yak."
"You?" Muffin Man asked, before pointing out, "But you are so adorable."
"I know! That's what I keep tellin' her!" Gingy cried out in agreement, before muttering mournfully once more, softer this time, "I need a good woman, Muffin Man."
Seeing how upset and heartbroken Gingy was, Muffin Man decided to help his 'son' and told him this, much to the Ginger-Bread Man's confusion.
Which was why, another few minutes later, they went through the perfect good woman that would be Gingy's new girlfriend for life. They went through the list of female shaped cookie cutters; from a fancy model to the one that was shaped like the Goddess Venus, to a beach relaxing one, to one that looked like the Statue of Liberty and each time Gingy denied them.
Finally, deciding to go for something simple, Muffin Man brought out the one that was shaped like a female version of Gingy with curly hair, which was perfect for him. The girl of Gingy's dreams and he told his friend of what the said girl of his dreams looked like.
Next, was the making and baking part. Muffin Man cracked one egg, poured one cup of ginger, and one cup of sugar in the bowl. But as he was putting the Sugar down, Gingy stoped him, sayying, "Wait. More sugar."
"But, uh, that is not the recipe." Muffin Man pointed out.
But Gingy poured more suger in, saying almost dreamily, "Trust me, Muffin Man. This girl's gonna be real sweet. I want somebody who will love me forever."
"I must warn you, Gingy." Muffin Man said, beginning to sound ominously, "No one has ever made cookies with this much sugar. You are tampering with forces far beyond your comprehension!" and to add to the spookiness, thunder roared and lightning flashed blue.
Gingy just looked at him skeptically. Tampering with forces far beyond his comprehension? What a load of Lemon Drops! What's the worst that could happen if there was more love anyway? "Just put her in the oven."
Despite the warning, Muffin Man did so. but unlike any old oven, it was like a mad scienctist creating Frankenstaine, except in a cookie version. Once the dough was shaped, it is rised on a flat surface to the ceiling of the oven, as the lighting hits the antennre. Muffin Man, who was wearing goggles like a mad scientest, pulled the lever as green electricity formed, before he began laughing manically.
Gingy joined him, but his right arm is briefly shocked by the electricity, and he yelped softly, "Ow!" then rejoined Muffin Man with the laughter.
Soon they stopped as Gingy requested, "Hey. I get a little privacy?"
"Huh?" Muffin Man asked.
"Take a hike."
Suddenly getting the picture that it was going to be a romantic moment, the Muffin Man nodded, muttering, "Oh, oui." and left the room, closing the door behind him, leaving Gingy alone with the birth of his new girlfriend.
Gingy in the meantime turned to face the oven, and smiles when the timer dings, and the doors open upward, and the flat tray is risin down and towards the outside to cool down. It was a female cookie girl with chocolate hair, green icing eyes, a yellow icing dress, and white icing necklace with a matching icing bracelet that formed as pearls.
Suddenly feeling the familiar warm feeling inside him, Gingy approached his counterpart, saying happily as the new Ginger-Suger-Bread girl was the most beautiful cookie he'd ever seen in his entire life. "Oh, my gosh, I'm in love! You're like a cookie angel."
But as he went to caress her hair, he yanked his hand back as the Ginger-Lady was still steaming hot, having just come out of the oven. "Wow! And you're hot too." Gingy added.
He didn't get a response, though, so he tried muttering. "Hello?" but no reponse.
"Hello?" Still no response.
Sighing in sadness and disappointment, Gingy turned away sorrowfully and walked away, muttering, "I guess it didn't work."
But what he didn't see was the girl finally and suddenly sat up, and opened her eyes. She looked around, and saw the sad Gingy walking away. She then shrieked in excitement, grabbing the now happy Gingy's attention as he turned and saw that his new love finally awoken. The girl then rushed over and embraced Gingy, in love at first sight.
"Gingy, is it you? The one I was made for?" The girl, whom Gingy decided to call Sugar, asked excitely before sighing heavenly, "Oh, we'll be together forever."
"Sweet!" Gingy said, happily.
And so, during this time, Gingy and Suger run happily in the field, play in the playground, sharing a milkshake at a bar, move into the GingerBread house in the bakery, Suger feeding Gingy with delicious sweets, and while Gingy wasn't looking, placing photos of herself over pictures of many of Gingy's friends(Wait, what?) shaving any signs of hair from Gingy's non-existant beard.
Finally, the happy new couple relaxed on the couch, with Gingy content of the new happy life.
"Are you happy, Gingy?" Sugar asked.
"You bet! The time since I met you has been the best..." Gingy pauses as he looked at his watch, finishing, "Seven 'nd half minutes of my life." after he realised that that everything he and Sugar have done was done in such a short time.
"Good! Because this is only the beginning!" Sugar said, moving closer to Gingy who suddenly flinched slightly as she grabbed him and hugged him tightly, continuing as though he was suddenly her newborn baby, "I'm going to love, and hold you, and feed you, and dress you..."
During this time, Gingy suddenly became rapidly uncomfortable by this effection. Okay, granted, he wanted someone to love him forever, but this was just a little bit too much. He began to feel like a doll which was starting to freak him out. Maybe a few minutes break might do him a world of good from Sugar.
"...And and cling to you, and hang onto you and smother you with my love! Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever..." Sugar continued happily.
Gingy then managed to wriggle himself free before saying nervously to Sugar as he walked towards the door, "You know, it's kinda it's gettin' a little stuffy in here...Uh, you know, I'm might go get some air."
But he found that the door was stuck, and flinched when Sugar approached and at first Gingy thought she was holding a knife, but relaxed a little when it was just an umbrella as she told him to take it with him.
Gingy continued to try and open the door, and grumbled softly, "Come on!" glaring at the door knob.
"Here, let me get that." Sugar offered, opening the door knob.
But as Gingy began to walk away while thankful that the door was open, and beginning to think that maybe the Muffin Man was right; too much sugar made things a little too sweet, even for his own taste and affection, to his dismay, Sugar called out while opening the umbrella, hovering over Gingy, "Wait for me!"
"Sugar." Gingy began, carefully, "Could you do me one small, little teensy favor?"
"Anything." Sugar replied.
"Could you leave me alone for like 30 seconds!?" Gingy requested, getting frustrated and hopeful.
"Anything but that." Sugar corrected herself, happily, which meant that in her case, there's no such thing as being alone for privcy.
Gingy whimpered, before another idea came into mind. While she wasn't looking, he quickly removed his Gumdrop bottons and hid them behind his back, lying, "You know, I forgot my GumDrop Buttons. Yeah! Could you uh, run over there and get them for me, please?"
"Sure I can. I'll be right back." Sugar said, buying the lie and threw the Umbrella away before skipping back into the house.
Once she was out of sight, Gingy quickly made a run for it while placing his Gumdrop Buttons, as far away from the house as possible as he now knew that the Muffin Man had been right all along; He should've listened and was now suffering the nightmare.
"Run, run, run, as fast as you can! If you wanna remain a GingerBread Man!" Gingy told himself as he ran.
He managed to climb up to the side part where the lever was. As he made it to the top, he leaned slightly to the corner bit, panting as he placed a hand on his chest, thinking that he made his escape. That was close...
"Oh, Gingy."
"Whaa!?" Gingy flinched in fright, his eyes wide as Sugar somehow managed to catch up to him and was right in front of him, coming from the corner, looking heart-broken and angry. Uh oh.
"I don't understand. I thought you were happy!" Sugar demanded as she approached him.
"Oh, well..." Gingy began, trying to explain while backing up. How was he going to get out of this mess?
Sugar lowered her head, before saying sorrowfully, "It's all my fault. I should've tried harder!"
Gingy started to panic as he realized that he was backing up to the lever, and knew if he didn't convince Sugar quickly, not only he end up turning the oven on again, but he'll end up falling into the dough pot, soaked, squashed, and sliced up to his death.
It didn't help that Sugar said she should've tried harder, so he quickly tried to reason with her, "No, no, no! Don't try harder!"
If anything, he wanted her to try to be softer for her affections. This is starting to become like out of a horror movie.
But Sugar didn't listen and instead continued to convince herself and try to convince Gingy, "Maybe I'm not pretty enough. I can be pretty," she then puts icing on over her eye brows and her lips in attempt to make herself more beautiful, and continued, "Really pretty! The girl of your dreams!" only to end up looking like a zombie.
"Aaaah!" Gingy screamed, terrified.
"Remember?" Sugar asked, as she clinged onto Gingy who suddenly found himself pushed backwards and accidently the lever down before he began to fall with Sugar as he yelled out, "Leave me alooooone!"
Both would've died if Gingy didn't grab onto the Lever while Sugar screamed out his name as she clinged onto his leg. The mixer turning the dough, as Gingy struggled to hold on, not wanting to die.
To make things worse, Sugar was now driven insane as she commanded him, "Let go, Gingy! Fall with me! So we can be together FOREVER!" and as she said 'forever' her voice briefly turned monsterous with a dark, low, male voice echoing her own.
"Here's a thought; You let go!" Gingy responded before at last kicking Sugar off him where she fell into the dough, repeating 'together...together fore-' before she was cut off as she sank and vanished into the dough as the mixer sliced her up to be mixed with the dough that created her.
Gingy stared for a few moments at the thought he just inadvertedly killed one of his own in a single nearly half an hour since she was born. But then again, the relief of finally being free overcame the nauesea of what he just did.
Five minutes later, he returned home to the Gingerbread House, closing the chocolate bar door behind him, sighing in relief, "Oh, boy. I'm so glad that is over with."
Calming down and having decided that romance was old school, Gingy shrugged it off, "Oh well, nothing lasts forever." and with that, turned the TV on and relaxed in the comfy chair to watch the Sports Channel.
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Little did Gingy know, he forgot to turn the oven off. Because more doughs were made into cookies since the oven was still on. More lighting struck the antennre. Within the oven, a figure wipes the window from the inside...
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The TV later that night went to static and lost it's signal, the lights were off, and Gingy was fast asleep in his chair, mumbling and snoring. Suddenly, a huge pound made the entire house shake, awakening Gingy from his slumber. Wondering what was going on, as well as getting quickly nervous, he rushed to the door, and slightly opened it...and from the pitch darkness, the icing dripping, Zombie like Sugar stood there, saying in a Zombie manner, "Together Forever..."
"AAHHHHHH!" Gingy screamed, horrified that Sugar was ressurrected as a Zombie! He quickly slammed the door shut. But the Sugar-Zombie pounded, attempting to opening the door while repeatingly chanting, 'Together Forever...' only to hear the same voices like it was like a million saying the same thing. Gingy looked out of his window, and when the lightning flashed, out on the table, millions of Sugar-Zombies were approaching his house. He was surrounded by the undead.
"What a nice surprise!" Gingy whimpered. He then rushed to grab a cream cookie and sticks benches onto the windows which were smashed by the Sugar-Zombies. But the cream cookies at pushed off, and Gingy shrieked in fear. He then turned to the floor, and to his horror, the Sugar-Zombies were jumping out from the floor; the breaking in through the house everywhere! From the windows, to the door, to the floor, and the ceiling.
"Hey. So what's up..?" Gingy says nervously, as he backed up to his fireplace. He grabbed a cream-gun-thingy, holding it out to the Zombies as he tried to reason, "I think we've both said something I might regret." attempting to calm the Zombies down.
He then tried again, as realization was slowly dawning him that this was going to be the end of him; literally.
"Gosh, your eye is pretty." Gingy chuckled nervously, before reasoning, "Look, I know you're upset so-AH!" he suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder and yelped, and saw that the Zombies were coming down from the chiminey! So he tried to finish as he screamed while the Zombies finally engulfed him, "Why don't we just sit down, and DISCUSS THIIIIIISSS!"
Back in the Present Day...or in the real world.
"...Then, they ate me!" Gingy concluded his story to his friends.
The reaction he got for his story were scaring the wits out of the three pigs as they squealed, "Wee wee wee wee weee wee wee!" and they ran away, while the others watched them run for their lives.
"They're gonna do that all the way home." Wolfy commented.
"They get scared by anything that involves of getting eaten." Ash pointed out, quite annoyed, and Pikachu echoed this statement.
Wolfy sighed, before apologetically saying to the others, dully as usual, "I-I gotta go. They were my ride." and took his leave, bailing out of the contest due to this, not due to fear.
Crash, a little spooked by the story himself, suddenly realised something and pointed out to Gingy, with a skeptical smirk, "Wait. If they ate you, how is it that you're still here?" while crossing his arms, waiting for an explanination despite that he and soon the others began to realise the flaw in this.
Gingy was surprised by Crash's question, and as he gazed at everyone else, they all held the same questioning stare.
"Didn't you say that it was a true story?" Brock asked.
"Um..." Gingy found himself unable to answer. In reality, he realised that he'd been caught and forgot to remind himself to change the ending since it had been nothing more than a nightmare he had a year ago.
This dawned to everyone else who all smirked at their friend, with Serena declaring, "Ha! Totally busted!"
"You made it up, didn't you?" Crash said, knowingly with a smug look.
Gingy began to panic as he tried to explain, before deciding to go ahead and disqualify himself, pointing to the side and lied, "Hey, look! Lord Farquaad's ghost! Ah!"
With that, Gingy ran out, muttering, "Doody heads!" and left the basement for home, while everyone else watched him leave, not saying anything at first.
Finally, Ash formed a sweatdrop while saying in disinterest, "It wasn't even scary to begin with." folding his arms to his chest.
"Pika." Pikachu muttered.
"It was just silly." Dawn agreed.
"Piplup." Piplup added.
"The ending was creepy enough, but since it wasn't even real, it doesn't even count as a true story at all." Lita nodded.
Everyone came to an agreement that Gingy attempted to make it sound real to scare them, but it was an epic fail.
A/N: The hardest part in the coming chapters will be making up my own scary stories that will be told by Serena, Lita, Ash, and possibly the others before Donkey, Puss and Shrek, since I also suck in telling scary stories. Hopefully I'll get this done before Halloween so I can work on the mind-developing Sailor Moon/Xover Halloween story which will be a prequel to this.