A day had passed after Jie returned to normal, and today was Slugween! The people of Marinatopia were now celebrating Slugween. The children were now in their spooky costumes and they were trick-or-treating. In Khai's castle, everyone were all in their costumes and our slugs were all dressed up as Ghoul Slugs. Thanks to the Magical Scepters, we could easily prepare the costumes and makeups. Ha-Chan and the Shane Gang's siblings were so excited about Slugween today.
"I want your brains..." Eli, who was dressed up as a zombie, said in a creepy tone behind Pronto, who was an Evil Clown.
"Ah! Don't eat my brains!" Pronto screamed in fear.
Kord laughed. "What brains? I don't know if I have one," he blurted out since he was Frankenstein.
"Remember that time we faced two zombie events by Mister Saturday?" Eli asked them after he chuckled.
"We almost had a zombie apocalypse because of the Emperor. So... make that three," Roza added.
"And remember that time we thought we really saw ghosts in Deadweed Cavern?" Trixie questioned, who was dressed up as a ghost.
"Though... we have seen too many supernatural events that now Pronto hopes that none of the ghosts want to eat my brains!" Pronto exclaimed.
"Yeah... now I believe in ghosts," Eli added.
"And... this costume makes me... very uncomfortable," Pronto blurted out. Stinky and his five siblings laughed at him due to his ridiculous costume. Pronto glared at them angrily.
"Uncomfortable, huh? My costume is perhaps the most uncomfortable one..." Junjie stated since he was dressing up as the Dark Slinger, which he had been for 20 years. His costume startled them for a while.
"I don't know why..." he murmured.
"It's okay, Junjie," Eli comforted him. "It is just Slugween. Everyone will think it's just a costume."
Jia noticed someone was missing: her twin brother. "Ja Jung, where is Jie?" Jia asked.
"He is in Eastern Caverns, resting, after the whole night yesterday and we changed him back to normal," Ja Jung responded. Jia was upset that her twin brother would miss the fun of Slugween.
Samantha placed her hand on Jia's head and said, "It's okay. Maybe Jie will join Slugween next year."
Tad was in his Darth Vader costume. He was making breathing sounds like the character used to and he was wielding a red lightsaber.
"Argh! Stop that breathing sound, princess! It is annoying!" John, who was the Dead Pirate, told Tad.
All of the sudden, something poked Tad's rear, which surprised him! He turned around to see Nate, who was in her Jedi costume. She was the one who poked him in the rear using her blue lightsaber. She laughed at Tad's reactions and he playfully glared at her. Tad and Nate began to fight with their lightsabers like the movie Star Wars. We watched them fighting, feeling amused.
"Yo! Leave some fun for me!" Brick showed up in her Sabine Wren costume. Her costume impressed everyone, including Jacob.
"Heh. Just in time, girl," Dana Por blurted out and she was wearing her Spidergirl costume.
Out of sight, someone sneaked up on Junjie from behind. Junjie seemly sensed it and turned around. He shrieked in terror when he saw me as the Black Lady. As a Black Lady, I wore a black and red dress, there were vines on the dress' long skirt, my eyes were red, and my short black hair became a waist-length white hair. My action really scared him half to death! Everyone laughed at his reaction since Junjie never got extremely scared before.
"Hey, why you shrieked all of the sudden?" I questioned him.
"Your costume is... very scary... Scarier than mine... and everyone's costumes," Junjie answered as he stammered, still frightened by my sneak on him.
"Alright, everyone! We are going to the Corn Maze!" Khai announced.
"What is that?" Trixie asked. We were curious about it since this was our first time.
"The Corn Maze, as the name suggests, is a maze," Elke said.
"We need to find an exit to get out of the Corn Maze," Haru explained.
"We might encounter scary stuffs there once we enter the maze," Ilys added. Her statement made Pronto to shiver in fright.
"Don't worry. We will stick together and make sure not to be separated while we are in the Corn Maze," Khai told us.
"Okay... where is it?" Trixie questioned.
"It's in Apple Jack's farm," Xia replied.
"A.J. and her family make the Corn Maze using their corn field," Yamu stated.
"And it's gonna be fun and scary!" Zak exclaimed. Eli was as excited as Zak to go to the Corn Maze.
Night came fast as we all headed to the Corn Maze. We arrived at the Corn Maze, which was a corn field owned by A.J. and her family. When we reached the entrance of the Corn Maze, we met up with Apple Jack, who was in her lion costume, along with her younger sister Apple Bloom, who was in her mouse costume.
"Hello, A.J.," Khai greeted her.
"Hello, Khai," she greeted back. "Welcome to the Corn Maze. The maze is filled with spooky stuffs."
"Yeah, I am not afraid. So do we," Eli laughed. Though, Pronto was scared, along with Yuuki, Annie, Ha-Chan and the Shane Gang's siblings.
We entered the maze and we stuck together. We could hear sound effects within the maze which scared Pronto, Yuuki, Annie, Ha-Chan and the Shane Gang's siblings. However, we were not afraid.
As we walked through a pathway of the Corn Maze, we suddenly heard snapping sounds below our feet. We looked down to see... bones all over the ground! Pronto, Yuuki, Annie, Ha-Chan and the Shane Gang's siblings shrieked.
"Woah, calm down, guys... The bones were just sticks painted in white," Elke explained and snapped a fake bone, revealing it to be a stick.
We continued through the Corn Maze. We came across a tunnel. As we went through it, it became dark. We used our Phosphoro, Flaringo and Infurnus slugs to light up the tunnel. We saw eyeballs that were hanging from the ceiling around us! Pronto and Kord screamed in terror and they ran out the tunnel. They were followed by Yuuki, Annie, Ha-Chan and the Shane Gang's siblings. Khai and her teammates, Team JSMN, the Shane Gang and I ran out from the tunnel too, laughing.
All of the sudden, a shadowy figure speedily passed by Ilys and that startled her. She turned around but found no one.
Elke came up to her and asked "What's the matter, Ilys?"
"...Nothing," Ilys replied and shrugged.
As we continued walking through the maze, we came across a path filled with wobbly mirrors. Eli and John looked at themselves in a zigzag mirror. Their reflections were also zigzag too, which made them laugh.
Reiki, Khai's Mega Morphed Boon Doc, was in her Goon Doc costume. She looked at herself in a big mirror that made her reflection looked gigantic. She giggled at her reflection.
Sapphire and Ren looked at a mirror that looked normal. There was nothing interesting of their reflections when suddenly... a shadowy figure of a Cave Troll with glowing red eyes appeared behind them! Sapphire thought it was Kord or Elke. When Ren turned his head... there was nobody behind him and Sapphire. Ren looked back at the mirror but the shadowy Cave Troll with glowing red eyes was still there!
"The mirror is scaring me now, Sapphire! And there's nobody behind us!" Ren told Sapphire. She also felt really scared now like Ren. So, they ran off and screamed! Eli and Trixie heard their screams. Sapphire and Ren hugged their older siblings.
"What's wrong?" Eli asked his younger sister.
"The mirror!" Sapphire replied.
"We saw a shadowy figure of a Cave Troll with red eyes on the mirror!" Ren added.
However, Eli and Trixie were skeptical about it. "You two must be imagining things again," they told off their younger siblings.
We were still continuing through the Corn Maze to find the exit as fast as possible. Suddenly, the same shadowy figure speedily passed by us and startled us.
"What was that?!" Kord exclaimed. Elke just shrugged.
Remy went to the right path of the maze on her own. All of the sudden, she saw a demonic-like tiger in front of her! The demonic tiger roared at Remy and she screamed in fear and ran away! Hearing her scream, Kord and his three siblings got worried. We saw Remy running ahead without us! We chased after her.
"Remy! Wait up!" Kord called her but she did not hear him as she continued to run. Remy did not notice a big hole was on the ground. She fell in! Kord quickly stopped at the edge of the hole. However, Mason, Patrice and Orleans accidentally pushed Kord because they did not stop running. They all fell in!
We reached to the hole and looked down into the hole. We saw Kord and his four siblings laying on the dirty ground.
"Kord! You guys okay?" Eli called out to them.
"We're fine, Eli!" Kord replied to him.
Eli jumped down into the hole and we followed. It turned out that the hole led us to an underground tunnel. All of the sudden, the hole closed up! The tunnel became dark. We used our Phosphoro, Flaringo and Infurnus slugs to light up the place. We looked around and wondered where the tunnel led to. Suddenly, Louis heard someone crying.
"Hey…I heard someone crying," Louis said.
We looked around and saw a woman in white dress siting on a rock.
"What is she doing down here?" Trixie questioned.
Eli went over to the woman and tried to comfort her. As he got close, she suddenly looked up and stared him with... a zombie face that was covered with blood all over it! Eli screamed and ran off! We speedily followed him and Trixie yelled Eli's name. Eli stopped running and panted to catch some air. We managed to catch up to him.
"What happened, Eli?" Trixie asked him.
"The woman is a zombie!" Eli answered. Before anyone could say a word, we heard a maniacal laughter of a woman echoing throughout the tunnel we were in. Now we were scared and we were wondering where the laughter was coming from. Then, out of nowhere... a Demonic Woman appeared!
She had red eyes, long white hair with hime cut bangs, off-white skin and she had red tattoos on her forehead, neck, wrists, legs and feet. She also had neon blue bracelets on both of her wrists with a matching ripped bead necklace on her neck. She wore a pair of neon blue and white spiked gem barefooted sandals. The gems were attached on her knees, wrists and ankles. The interior of her dress was red. She wore a long white Japanese kimono dress which was tattered at the edge of her long sleeves and at the hem of her dress. She also had a white obi on her kimono dress which was tied in red ribbons to her waist and had a gray butterfly shaped design at the back of her white obi. She had red horns and her devil wings were flaming wings.
We were so terrified when we saw her! Our faces immediately turned white. "I'll grind your bones to dust!" The Demonic Woman yelled and with that, she let out a maniacal laughter! We all screamed and ran away from her!
While running, Kord asked, "What's going on?!"
Elke screamed at him, saying "I don't know!"
"I never knew A.J. could plan this as part of the Corn Maze!" Khai shouted.
We saw a light up ahead. "I think that is a way out of the tunnel!" Tad said.
We raced toward it. When we finally made an exit out of the tunnel, however, it led us to an edge! Now we could not escape because the edge was a dead end!
"We're doom! That Demonic Woman will catch us soon!" Pronto shrieked.
Suddenly, we heard a boy's maniacal laughter somewhere. We looked around to find the source of the maniacal laughter. It was coming from a dead tree that was above the exit that we went through it. We saw a humanoid bat hanging upside down.
The humanoid bat opened its wings wide and flew toward us! We quickly ducked and the humanoid bat stopped in midair, making hisses at us! It then flew toward us again! We all dodged it but it grabbed Tad's helmet using its mouth! It then tossed Tad's helmet away and stared at us.
"If only Xian Wen, Anna and their friends were here..." I muttered. I took out my slingshot that was hidden beneath my dress. Glace called out Huohuo to help me. I grabbed my Flaringo and secured him on the elastic band. I tried to pull the band backwards while aiming at the humanoid bat, but my hands were trembling and it was difficult to do so.
We were all so scared of it and thought it would attack us again and tried to suck our bloods. Though, upon seeing our fears, the humanoid bat said "Oh dear…"
It flew down and touched the ground. "I am so, so sorry! Can you ever forgive me?" the humanoid bat begged and revealed its face. It was actually Jie!
We were so shocked and speechless that Jie was behind all of the scares!
"Jie?" Jia said in a surprise tone.
"It was you the whole time?" Junjie asked his younger twin brother.
"I have to admit... I am amazed by all of these," Eli admitted.
"But how did you set up all of these?" Trixie questioned.
"I have some help," Jie answered. Then, Master Lian, who was wearing her Dai-Fu costume, appeared along with Master Minami and Hamengku. Megumi, who was in her Demonic Woman costume, also came out along with Swick and Team Phoenix. Xian Wen and her friends appeared along with a demonic tiger. We were surprised to see them all.
Jie began to explain, "Master Lian was the shadowy figure that she passed by you guys. The mirror that Sapphire and Ren looked at it was actually a digital screen and the shadowy figure of a Cave Troll with glowing red eyes that was within it was actually Hamengku. The demonic tiger that Remy encountered was actually a normal tiger that I befriended with it."
Jie then added, "Rong Chun was the Crying Woman with the zombie face. My mother, Megumi was the Demonic Woman." We were impressed by Jie's plan.
"I thought you were a vampire again," Kurt said.
"Oh, it is just my costume," Jie replied.
"But your wings look real," Ren pointed out his wings.
Jie moved his Dracula cape up and a bat flew out. It then landed on Jie's left shoulder. "I befriended with this bat and it acted for my wings," he explained. We were amazed by it.
"But then... how did you grabbed Tad's helmet with your mouth?" I questioned.
"Jia and I were taught to be fighters too. Lee and Lars taught us since last year," Jie told me.
"Jie told me and the others about his plans," Master Lian said and chuckled.
Hamengku let out a booming laughter and shouted, "I have never seen you all so scared before! Especially Junjie!" His statement embarrassed us due to our fearful reactions.
"I think I will never watch any horror movies for now... I feel a bit traumatized from all these scares," Tad claimed.
Though, in the end, we all burst into laughter, knowing that Slugween was the best scary night ever.