Halloween was here at Reginald Dwight Academy. Vice Principal Cherry was supervising the junior Halloween party. Principal Cherry, on the other hand, was busy giving out candy to trick her trickers at another part of the school. Candy, Kiki, and Daniel were heading off to the gymnasium for the party. Candy was dressed as a butterfly, Daniel was dressed as a bee, and Kiki was dressed as a ladybug. In the middle, they saw Alice dressed as a queen. "What are you suppose to be," asked Kiki, "queen of the bragging?"

"No," Alice replied. "I'm Queen Alice, ruler of the Junior Costume Contest. I'm going to win this year's competition as Most Adorable like I did last year."

"If I remember anything competitions," Daniel recalled, "it's that winning is not important."

"Yes, it is!" Alice snapped. "You guys will literally stop bugging me as I plan to win."

Davina came in to check on Candy and her friends. She was all decked out in a beautiful angel costume. "We went trick or treating before we came to the party," Candy said to one of her adoptive mothers. "Did you check for any unwrapped candy?"

"We did," Daniel answered. "Not a single one, except for one peanut brittle, but we gave it to some stray cats."

"It may not be healthy for them," Aunt Davina replied, "but it's Halloween."

XxoxX

After she left to check on a few children, three strange kids in metallic-blue clothing came up and stared at them. "Greetings, humans," greeted one of the strange children. "We are the Crowrockians of Crowrocker."

"Those are some great costumes you have on," Kiki commented. "They look really real."

"We don't know what a 'costume' is," replied another, "but we heard of your traditional Halloween and want to learn it ourselves."

Candy, Kiki, and Daniel decided to go to the buffet to avoid the other kids' strange behavior. When they got there, they saw that a bunch of students dressed as vampires was raiding all the peanut candy for themselves.

"I want to suck your peanuts!" shouted a vampire.

"Peanut butter kind of looks like earwax," Daniel said as Kiki covered her mouth.

"Dan," she whispered, "we don't want to get in trouble with Vice Principal Cherry for sickening the guests."

Onstage, Mr. Otto came up dressed as a Native American. "Time for the comedy styling of Davina Cherry," he announced. "I remembered her in her comedy classes."

Vice Principal Cherry came up with her Halloween joke book, which she wrote when she was in high school. "What kind of eyes can spot a scarecrow?" she asked. "A pumpkeen."

Everyone but the Crowrockian laughed at the joke. "A pumpkeen," Candy laughed. "That's a classic"

"What kind of corn does a farmer grow on Halloween?" continued VP Cherry. "Candied corn."

"I remember that joke when she was a student," recalled Mr. Otto.

"What is the best app candy store owners could get?" asked VP Cherry. "Caramel apps."

"We don't get the joke, Cherry Angel," called the Crowrockian.

"You don't get my joke?" asked Davina. "They're suppose to be funny and less scary."

"Enough!" Principal Cherry shouted as she came in wearing a devil costume. "These soldiers want scary stories, not your Halloween jokes. They want scary stories."

"These are kids," VP Cherry replied. "Just don't scare any of them; last year we had to deal with a complaint for five hours."

"Quiet," Principal Cherry replied back. "It's Halloween. Time to get things spooky."

"Gee, Reg," VP Cherry replied to her wife. "I once wrote you have such childish words for you, but that's okay."

"I'm going to tell you all the tale of 'The Mummys of RDA'," Principal Cherry said on the intercom.

"Not 'The Mummies of RDA'," groaned VP Cherry. "That's the same story that caused our five-hour complaint."

"The year was 1910," Principal Cherry said on the microphone, "one year after my grandfather founded The Charles Cherry Academy. An Egyptologist was arriving home to display the Pharaohess Jardenevagow. A bunch of students thought that she would come to life from a little poem they wrote for creative writing. Later that night, they snuck into the school in order to make the visiting mummy come to life. Unfortunately, the poem they wrote went haywire, causing the mummy to attack and kill every last one of them. So be warned: on a deep dark night when the stars are gone, the mummy will come up, looking for her next victim."

The only one who got scared of the story was Daniel. He ran outside of the Halloween party. Candy and Kiki decided to get him.

In the hallways, Daniel was crawled up in a ball, traumatized by Principal Cherry's story. "Is this a good time to do your imagination problem?" asked Daniel.

"Perhaps it is," Candy replied.

Before they could do it, they helped Daniel up. "Let's imagine a graveyard," Candy said as the place turns into a cemetery, "and in the middle of the graveyard, a haunted house."

XxoxX

They arrived at the haunted house, but they wore the same Halloween costumes. "We're on a field no longer sown by anyone," Candy said.

"I used to know this old scarecrow," Daniel replied. "He was my joy and sorrow. Frankly, it was an old Halloween decor my mom had that got old."

On the ground, Kiki noticed something strange. "Look at these funny-looking footprints," said Kiki. "Do you think that a werewolf might be here?"

"Who knows?" Candy replied. "Let's follow them to see if they're werewolf footprints."

"What if the werewolf has fleas?" Daniel asked. "One of my neighbors has a dog who always has fleas."

"Daniel," replied Candy, "it's okay to be scared. Just don't let it get to you."

With one deep breath, Daniel was ready to go into the haunted house.

Inside, they saw some werewolves who were tearing up a couch. Daniel warned them, but they didn't listen. Instead, they planned to eat our heroes for dinner.

"Speaking of dinner," Candy said, "do you smell something?"

Candy, Kiki, and Daniel followed the smell to the dining took, where they found mummies getting ready for dinner. One of the mummies cut a cake but ate everything but the slice.

Candy, Kiki, and Daniel decided to share the slice of cake with each other. After they ate it, someone shouted, "Halt!"

A beautiful mummy with a turquoise dress, gold jewelry, and a lioness crown came down. "I'm Queen Jardenevagow," greeted the mummy queen, "the Bloom of Menhit."

"Menhit?" asked Daniel. "The Egyptian lion goddess?"

"Who dares eat the cake?" Queen Jardenevagow asked. "The law of my kingdom states that whenever someone serves cake at a party, I get the first slice."

Candy knew that it was a tradition that the guest of honor guests the first slice, but this was too far. "I think we should split up," she whispered to her friends. "That way the mummies won't find us."

"Just be careful," Daniel said.

XxoxX

Candy was going around the place when she saw a witch that looked like Ms. Nordland working on a Halloween brew. Candy asked to see if she had any potions that would help her and her friends escape Queen Jardenevagow. "A buggy brew that we will make," Witchy Nordland explained. "It will equal the power you take. With the power of the potion, you'll escape the horror and beware of the beasts that roarer."

Candy didn't know what Witchy Norldland meant but was determined to find her friends.

XxoxX

Kiki, on the other hand, was going around the kitchen, because she had a feeling that she that the mummies would want another cake. She found a spellbook that would make a new cake faster. She found a cake recipe spell that will give the mummies what they want, and to avoid being punished by Queen Jardenevagow.

Create a mummified Halloween cake, with scarab sprinkles and chocolate flakes.

Bake it with a little skeleton sprinkle, and a chocolate werewolf fudge winkle.

Cylclops sweetness blob of a frosting, make the cake less exhausting.

In three seconds, five-layer cake chocolate pupped up. The cake had turquoise frosting and large sprinkles that looked like scarabs, "Now that's a cake."

XxoxX

While Daniel was going around a music wing, someone played a scary chord on the organ, much to Daniel's horror, "Who's playing" asked Daniel, "I know the Flight Of The Bumblebee on the violin"

In the middle, he could see Bennie dressed as The Phantom of The Opera while playing Beethoven's Fifth. "Welcome young soul." Phantom Bennie greeted, "Please recite a poem, without being scared.

Everywhere Daniel looked, he could see spiders, rats, ghosts, and monsters all around. He didn't have a choice. Daniel decided to recite a poem he did for his creative writing homework.

When summer burned the earth again,

Beneath these branches in the domain.

Rise in the night with the clear dark blue,

Rise why won't you.

Candy and Kiki could hear him from miles, without being scared. They rushed up to the music room and found him, "Daniel" Kiki said, "We were so worried about you."

"Me too" Daniel replied, "I thought I would be trapped here forever."

"And you are" Queen Jardenevagow shouted, "Phantom of The Cherry, I told you not to free them with a poetry recital."

"Your highness" Phantom Bennie said, "You always imprison slaves, you got to let them slide. It's going to bug them."

Just then, Candy remembered something. *A buggy brew that we will make*, she thought to herself. *It will equal to the power you take. With the power of the potion, you'll escape the horror and beware of the beasts that roarer*. With a toss of the potions, she turned the mummies into bugs. She, Kiki, and Daniel finally escaped.

"So much for the spare cake I made for her," Kiki said.

"Don't worry," Candy replied. "I'm sure that the vermin would like it."

XxoxX

Back in the real world, they saw that a student was being rewarded for the Most Unique. "Just look at that," Vice Principal Cherry said. "Malcolm Neil for his pirate costume with a sequin vest costume. I love the way they sparkle in the night."

Malcolm was a boy with freckles, purple eyes, and a pirate costume. VP Cherry gave him his ribbon for Most Unique costume. "Thank you, Vice Principal Cherry," Malcolm replied. "This is the best night of my life."

"Thank heavens we're back in the real world," Daniel sighed with relief. "Otherwise, we would forfeit the costume contest."

"What have you three been doing now?" asked Aunt Regina as she helped them up.

"We've been in a haunted house with werewolves and mummies," Candy explained. "There's treasure us children always seek to find."

"And the winner of this year's Most Adorable Costume is..." VP Cherry shouted as she opened the envelope. "...Candy Cherry, Kiki Gauer, and Daniel Kinji for their bug costumes."

Candy, Kiki, and Daniel were surprised by this. "Looks like the importance of bugs helped out," Candy said.

All three rushed up to VP Cherry and they each took a ribbon. While everyone was rooting for their achievement, Alice just glared in jealousy.

"I haven't asked," said Kiki, "what happened to those weird Crowrockians?"

"Last I saw they went outside," explained Paisley, who was dressed as a lifeguard, "saying that they need to go back to their home planet."

Outside, Candy, Kiki, and Daniel saw the Crowrockians contacting a spaceship, which looked like a giant pumpkin. In their hands, they started eating dandelions. Candy declared, "They're actual aliens."

"And the just cultivate the freshest flower," Kiki replied.

"That said the time had come," the Crowrockian said. "We must go back to Crowrocker and report what we know about Earth's Halloween."

"It's a good thing they didn't abduct us," Daniel sighed with relief. "I can't miss out on dinner tomorrow night."

Thanks to Candy, Daniel was no longer scared of Halloween. They went back inside to celebrate.

The end.