Me: Hey, guys. Here's the second chapter. And uh oh! Now the wolf man and the Mayor are both dead!
Jack: At this rate, all the adults in Halloween Town will be murdered.
Sally: I hope all goes well in the end.
Me: Me, too. I'll go through the whole thing until the story is done because I have a new idea for this trilogy. Anyway, here's the story.
Clawdeen came home to see the wolf man dead! She told everyone what she saw.
"That's what I thought," Zachary said. "This spell does go on at night. At this rate, Halloween Town will cease to exist!"
"Let's go on a stakeout tonight," Jack said. "Sally, Josephine, Janessa, Samantha, Jessie and I will check the pumpkin patch."
"Zachary, Clawdeen, Hailey and I will check the mausoleum beside Spiral Hill," the devil's daughter, Deana, said.
"I'll look around my house with Max," Janet said.
"If we pull this off, we'll find out who is doing this," Max, the Melting Man's son, said. So the citizens went through their daily duties until night came. Then the citizens saw Stan floating from the graveyard. His brown eyes were now red and a weird bird-like demon followed him. Jack recognized that creature. Deana, Clawdeen, Zachary and Hailey went to follow Stan and the demon. Janet and Max saw Stan heading into the Harlequin Demon and Hailey's house. Hailey went into her house and saw Stan in the Harlequin Demon's room and stabbed him.
"My dad was murdered!" Hailey screamed.
"Oh no! What are we going to do, dad?" Nick, the second vampire's son, asked.
"We must stay away before any one get hurt," the second vampire said.
"Let's wait until tomorrow for any information," Michael, Nick's little brother, said. Everyone had the same idea and went home.
The next day, everyone asked Jack if he knew that bird demon. So Jack and the Pumpkin Princesses called a town meeting to talk about the demon.
"This demon used to be an enemy to my parents, Jean Jaylyn and Joe Jack Skellington," Jack said.
"His name was Markus," Josephine said. "Grandpa Joe and Grandma Jean destroyed Markus when Joe used his Pumpkin Fire."
"But we don't know how Markus has been revived," Janessa said. "And because Joe and Jean have been dead since dad was fifteen, we don't know the demon's weakness."
"However, with all the information we got, we know one person who can help," Samantha said. "He has a daughter who is the opposite of Markus. Her name is Mina. And she was tortured by Markus himself."
"Mina is held prisoner in the graveyard sewers," Jessie said. So the citizens went with Skellington family to find Mina. Jessie saw the entrance to the sewers thanks to Zero's glowing nose. The Skellington kids saw Mina, sadly laying down in the bed of her prison cell.
"Huh? Who are you, good sir," Mina asked.
"I'm the Pumpkin King, Jack Skellington," Jack said.
"My name is Samantha and these are my sisters, Josephine and Janessa, and brother, Jessie," Samantha said.
"My name is Mina, Markus' daughter," Mina said. "I know my dad's secret but you'll have to set me free."
"Don't worry. I know how to pick a lock with my ribs," Josephine said. So she took out one of her rib bones and picked the lock on the cage. It worked and Mina was free. She said Markus' weakness was fire, which was why Jack's father defeated him with his Pumpkin fire.
"We could help. We all control fire like dad," Samantha said.
"Good idea. You all look like you're tough enough to beat dad," Mina said. "Let's fight him tonight while Stan is under the spell. That should give us time before Stan murders anyone else."
"I hope this works," Sally said. So the family and all the remaining citizens went back to the town square to wait for nighttime.