Chapter 6: Happy End?
When they entered Kaito's house, everyone noticed right away the strong smell of something sweet. It smelled like chocolate but not exactly. All four followed the sweet smell and checked every room along the way. The first floor had nothing but a rather nice living room with a fireplace on one of the walls, a kitchen with some dirty dishes lying around, and a bathroom. Normal house stuff. But the one thing that was a bit odd was a door, which Len guessed led to the basement, or was just a closet. When he tried to open it the door was locked.
"Oliver, could you check whats behind that door?"
"No way, It's way to creepy looking"
"But you're a ghost. You can't get hurt"
"Doesn't mean I can't get scared"
Miku and Rin came over and when did they noticed the smell was stronger near the door.
"Well maybe there's a key around somewhere?"
"We checked everywhere Miku, so where would it be?"
"We didn't check upstairs"
"Then if there is a key it must be somewhere upstairs" Rin paused before continuing. "But if we're going to look for it, we have to be quick. We're almost out of time"
She was right again. Len looked at a nearby clock and saw that it was 11:30. When they went upstairs they split into two groups. Miku and Len went one way and Rin and Oliver went another.
"Nothing here but photos and socks. You'd think his parents would have the key in their room"
"Maybe they do, but we're not looking in the right place"
"Alright Ghost boy, where would the right place be then?"
Oliver floated through a wall and into a closet in the hall. When the blonde opened the door the ghost was sitting there with a boot on his head.
"Not the right place"
"How is that boot stuck on your head, I thought things passed right through you?"
"I don't make ghost physics" Then the boot fell through him.
"Whatever, lets keep looking. I wonder if Len and Miku are having better luck?"
Meanwhile on the other side of the hall, Miku and Len where looking in Kaito's room.
"Find anything?" A blonde shouted across the room to his friend
"Nope, just a pile of empty ice cream dishes behind the dresser"
"Seriously? Let me see!"
Len rushed over to the other side of the room and looked behind the dresser. there was a garbage bag full of empty ice cream dishes in every flavor imaginable.
"Guy has a serious addiction"
"Well, at least it's not drugs or something"
"Yeah, but why keep the empty dishes?"
"Dunno" Miku said getting as she got up, the tealette accidentally hit the bag with her foot. A metallic rattle was heard from somewhere in one of the dishes. Miku and Len looked at each other
"What was that?"
"Maybe it was the key?"
"It wouldn't be in such an obvious place, but we're running out of time so we might as well search. Go get Rin and Oliver, they can help too"
"Roger!" Miku said before running out of the room. Len pulled the bag out from behind the dresser but it got caught and ripped. As the ice cream dishes fell out Len saw how many there actually were. Too many to count but at least enough for a small ice cream section at a grocery store. Miku walked back in followed by the two other blondes.
"That's a lot of ice cream"
"They're all empty"
"Talk about a hoarder" The blonde ghost muttered
"We think the key's in one of them"
"Really? I thought it would've been hidden better" Rin said picking up a dish
"Well we don't know which one it's in... or if it's even here. But we should still search" Miku explained
"Right, I guess the best hiding place is in plain sight"
The four kids started searching through the ice cream dishes. Oliver just stuck his hand through them and felt around for the key, while the other had to open them and look. They where halfway through the dishes and still didn't have a key. Rin looked at her phone and saw it was 11:45.
Just then Miku jumped. "Found it!"
"Really?"
"Yeah, look" Miku held up a gold key with what looked like a skull on top of it. She pulled it out of a bloody oranges flavor dish.
"Just in time too, look" Rin showed her phone to the rest of them.
"Damn, well let's go see if this key unlocks that door downstairs"
Everyone rushed downstairs. They couldn't waste any time. Less then fifteen minutes was all they had, less then fifteen minutes to decide if Oliver lives again or remains a ghost. They got to the door slightly out of breath. Len walked up to the door, put the key in, and unlocked the door. When he opened it, there was a staircase leading down into a reddish light.
"Well, it's now or never"
"Yeah, time to put a stop to Trick once and for all" Rin said and gave Len a little push "So stop standing around"
All four continued down the stairs towards the light. When they got to the bottom they found what they where searching for, but not how they expected to find it. The room at the bottom of the stairs had an even stronger sweet smell then the rest of the house, but it smelled different somehow. The room looked like the basement, there was a washer and dryer in one corner, and a couch and T.V. in another. What was odd though, was the giant pot on one side of the room with a dark green liquid in it, and the person wearing a pumpkin mask, and top hat sitting in a large armchair in the center of the room. Standing beside the chair was Kaito.
"What the Hell's going on?" Len shouted
"Wait... so Kaito's not Trick? He was so suspicious too" Miku said a bit shocked
"Odd, I thought I told you kids to get out of here? Oh well, you're here now so I might as well answer your previous questions. No Miku, I am not Trick. Not at all, I am but an assistant. And what the hell is going on Len? What the hell indeed" Kaito said answering their questions
"Trick, it's over. Now tell us why, why do you kill someone every year? Why on halloween? Why do you take their candy? Why do you have to mess up their face? And who are you?" Rin began questioning Trick
"Oh, Hello Rinny! Long time, haven't seen you in about a year I'd say. Though I'm impressed you've come farther then you did last year, you came farther to figuring out who I am then anyone has"
"Enough small talk Trick, we all know what's gonna happen in a few minutes. So before we unmask you I want my questions answered"
"Your right, what's going to happen is inevitable and you do deserve a reward for your efforts, so here goes. Why do I kill someone on halloween every year, take their candy, and 'mess up' their face? the answer's quite simple... Because I have to in order to stay alive. You see Rinny, your little 'theories' about me being a spirit was correct. I was murdered on halloween I don't know how many years ago, and I figured out If I took a soul to replace my own I could keep using my body. Because I was killed on halloween I'm weaker at this time so Kaito gets the soul for me. I take one of the busiest and most crowded night of the year to my advantage and take the soul of a young trick or treater, it's pretty easy to kill a kid in a costume. But just killing them won't do it, in order to get their soul, I need to take something from their face as a sort of glue. The part I take and the candy get mixed together in that pot over there become the glue" Trick explained everything
"Wow, Well that still doesn't answer my last question. Who are you Trick?"
"If you really want to know, why don't you come up here and see"
As if those words ordered him forward, Len started walking up to Trick. He stopped when he felt a sharp pain on his foot and jumped back.
"OUCH! What the hell!"
"Are you that stupid Len? Do you think you can just walk up like it's nothing? Look around" Kaito Pointed to the floor
Around Tricks chair was a circle drawn out of the same stuff in the pot.
"No mere mortal can pass through that, only spirits and those cursed by spirits can"
Oliver thought for a moment. Only those cursed by spirits, huh? "Len, from this moment on, I curse you" And pointed at his friend.
"What the heck man- oh wait, yeah!" Len said and walked through the circle without a problem
"Trick or Treat?" Len said and pulled Trick's off.
Under the mask was a woman about 20. She had short brown hair, and red eyes. Len recognized her as Meiko, one of her moms coworkers.
"Wait... You? You're trick?"
"That's right boy. And I guess my times up" Meiko said and started fading away.
"Wait, Mieko! Don't go! What about my end of the deal?" Kaito cried out to the ghost
"She'll come back soon" The brown haired ghost said and diapered completely, leaving behind the mask in Len's hand.
"Well that's over, and now no one else should die next year!" Miku exclaimed
"Yeah, and Oliver should come back to life too!" Len said and looked at his friends, and noticed Rin was frowning.
"Guys it's 12:01, Oliver's not coming back"
"What? but we unmasked Trick"
"We unmasked Trick after midnight, he can't be resurrected after midnight"
"Oh well guys. To be honest, I kinda thought this would happen. And I don't mind. I died, and you don't get to cheat life" Oliver said and started to fade
"So long then, Oliver" Len said and looked down. Suddenly something landed on his head. When he looked up he saw he was wearing Oliver hat.
"Take care of that for me" and the blond ghost completely faded.
When the three kids were outside Len and Miku started walking back home. Rin stayed behind. She stayed because she seen something white run behind the house and decided to check it out. When she caught up the what she'd seen, she saw the ghost of her friend Piko who died the year before.
"Hey Rin" The ghost said
"Hey..."
"You did good. I just wanted to say goodbye, and that it's time to move on" Piko told his friend
"Yeah.. wait what?" Rin said surprised.
"I know why you actually helped Len and Miku. It's because if you did you thought you could bring be back, and if not get revenge, right?"
"I can't get anything past you, can I?"
"Nope. Oh and I meant to give you this, you know, before I died" Piko placed an orange bracelet in Rin's hand and diapered.
Rin slipped the bracelet on and went to join her brother and friend.
THE END
I'm soo sorry this took forever to get up. I got kinda lazy. Lazy as in "finishing a halloween story in time for christmas" lazy. Thanks for reading and leave a review if you want
