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Bonus Chapter! - A peek into the future

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[Halloween Night, 2007]

"... and then The Pumpkin King turned to his town full of monsters and announced, "We only have 311 more Days until next Halloween, let's make it the most frightening yet!" With that the entire town square was fill with gleeful shouts. Surely, it would be." Demoonica closed the book gently, looking down at the sleeping form of her three year old daughter Damia. "The End." She added softly.

Demoonica got up off the bed, there was unopened trick-or-treat candy strewn all over it but it would be okay for one night, she tucked the cover up over Damia's shoulder, then moved to the crib where Dana was sleeping. The pink haired child was sound asleep still sucking her thumb. Zandra was asleep in the second crib. Assured that all three little girls were tucked up safely asleep for the night Demoonica flipped out the overhead light as she left the room glancing back once to make sure and leaving the nursery door open a bit, just in case Damia woke in the middle of the night.

Outside the house later that night when all the lights had been off for some time a pair of bright glowing eyes watched unblinking, soon joined by another identical pair. The cloud blocking the moon moved and the silvery light lit up the yard and woods. A pair of black cats sat on the garden wall, both looking at the house. There was a giggle.

Another cloud blocked the moon and when the light once again fell on the world two small children were now sitting on the stone wall. They were nearly identical, though one was a girl and the other a boy, with blond hair and sky blue eyes. Both were dressed in black and orange, a black hoodie with cat eats and a tail sewn to the edge, orange skirt/shorts, black and gray striped stockings, black shoes, an orange bow around their necks, the girl had a black bow in her hair. She giggled again.

She spoke. "Look at all the pretty pumpkins here!"

"Sis, were gonna get in trouble." The boy argued.

"Meh, mommy and daddy never let us have any fun! It's Hal-lowe-en night!" She jumped into the air, doing a flip and turned into a cat. She jumped onto one of the large pumpkins in the garden. "Meow!"

The boy sighed and in a blink of an eye he too was a cat. His sister bounded off the pumpkin and with ease scaled the lattice on the side of the house, until she was sitting on the roof of the porch. "Meow! Meow!" She called encouragingly. He made it to the roof with a little less ease.

Ears twitching they explored, looking in windows as they went. One window was open just enough to squeeze through, and the sister toppled head over heals into the room. She sat up blinking, some people were asleep in a big bed and the bedroom door was wide open. Her brother hopped down beside her.

She ran from the room, she would have been giggling if she could in her cat form. Her brother chased after her. The next room over provided to be more fun. Candy! Toys! The sister quickly transformed back into her human form and began to pocket the candy on the floor. Her brother transformed too.

"Rin!" He hissed, trying to keep his voice low. It was too late though, as his sister, Rin, had moved on to trying to take candy from the child sized bed.

The child, who had been asleep until then, blinked awake. "Hey, who are you?" She asked sleepily. She wasn't frightened, just curious who these two slightly older children were and why they were in her bedroom. "Hey! That's my candy!"

"I'm Rin! This is Hal-lowe-en! Give it to me please?" Rin giggled holding out her hands to the girl on the bed.

If anything Damia had been taught to share, but just who were these kids?

"We'll show you magic!" The boy added, grinning. "You can come play with us!"

Damia thought about it for a moment. "Okay. It's a deal."

The boy searched his pocket and pulled out something, holding it up to Damia. "This cinnamon stick is magic."

"Have one!" Rin added the next part quietly to her brother, "That makes her fall asleep, right Len?"

He said nothing as Damia sorted a hand full of candy out and traded it to Len. She sucked on the cinnamon stick. "Now show me the magic!" The twins smiled, then they were gone. Damia jumped and looked over the side of the bed.

"Meow!"

"Meow!"

"Ahhhh!" Damia's eyes widened and her mouth opened comically, the cinnamon stick fell to the floor.

The two cats dashed about, disappearing into the room. With a creak, the door opened. "Looking for me?" Rin asked, looking into the room.

"It's still night out there. It's time to play!" Len said, he was sitting on the window sill. "If we open the window, we can jump off it."

Damia hopped off the bed and looked out her window to the roof of the porch. "I can't jump off that."

Rin huffed. "Okay. Let's go down stairs." The three of them slipped into the hall and headed down the stairs. "I want pumpkin pie, candies, and a whole cake- munph!"

Len had covered her mouth as she started to get loud. "Shhhh! Some one will hear us!"

The children made it to the kitchen and Damia pulled out the left over Halloween deserts. Rin pouted, there wasn't much left. Len unlocked the kitchen door, the one that led out to the garden behind the house. "If you don't have treats-"

"We might just have to trick you." Rin continued, sounding a little unhappy. "You lied, there are no treats."

"Let's go back to playing, Rin."

"Me too!" Damia called. "I'm sorry there isn't many treats."

The twins paused at the door. Rin grinned. "We might snatch you away."

Len tilted his head to the side playfully. "We are black cats."

With laughter both transformed into cats and dashed out the door and into the family's pumpkin patch. Damia chased after them, the door swinging closed behind her. The twins transformed back and forth between cat and child as they ran, calling out when they could.

"This way!"

"Come this way!"

After a few moments Damia lost sight of them as they headed out of the pumpkin patch and into the woods. Then a soft singing made its way to her. "Deeper and deeper into the forest you will come."

She saw Rin and Len as they danced between the trees at the edge of the woods. Clouds covered the moon, making it dark and she saw the glow of cats eyes as they moved from tree to tree. When the light returned they became human again and sang out to her, "Quickly, quickly move as fast as your legs can run." Without thought Damia took off after them as they moved further into the woods.

Damia felt sleepy as she followed the twins. "Come on, come on - let's play a game in the dark."

"Come on, come on - it'll be fun - on your mark!"

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The next morning when Demoonica entered the nursery she found all three of her daughters sound asleep as they had been. Damia especially looked happy hugging a pair of black kitten plushies Demoonica couldn't remember seeing before.

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Note: Len was created together with Rin for the voice synthesizer product "VOCALOID2 Kagamine Rin & Len", first released on December 27th, 2007. Please ignore the small time inconsistency!

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