.:Chapter Four:.

With so many questions still racing through his mind he tried to ignore them and enjoy the nice Autumn day. Walking through a pair of rusty old gates he saw a few "creatures" roaming around the central part of town. Some still hid in the shadow from the early morning sun. Three children with mask on their faces came running up to him.

"Jack!" the three of them yelled. Once they reached him though, they gasped at the unknown figure.

"You're not Jack.." said the only girl in the trio.

"But you have his cloak" said one of the boys.

"Oo.." the other one said excited.

"Did you kill him?"

"Is he finally gone?"

"Is this the end of Halloween Town?"

'Too many questions' Sam thought. He couldn't take them scrambling all around him. Stepping back he explained to them who he was.

"No Jack is not dead, he let me barrow his cloak. And I'm a friend on his. My name is Sam."

"Lock,"

"Shock,"

"and Barrel." each of them said pulling of their mask and kneeling at his feet.

"We are boogie's boy's" said Barrel. Shock then hit him upside the head with her mask.

"And girl" she added.

Sam stood there in amazement as they rambled an about Halloween coming up. 'What is Halloween' he thought. As Lock started arguing with Barrel about something, they got into a fight. Shock tried to stop them before anything more happened but ended up punching Barrel, which started a whole new argument. Sam laughed and picked up the boys by their collar. They reached and grabbed at each other.

"Are you three always like this?" he asked looking down at Shock. She was a little witch with a purple pointed hat. A narrow face, quite pale. Blue lips and wiry, black frizzy hair.

"Yes" she said sitting down.

Lock had short read hair and devil like horns on his head. Blue lips too. Yellow eyes. A red shirt that fell over his knees and a tail attached to it. Barrel was the oddest looking of them all with a pig nose and a gigantic grin. Blue lips and brown hair. Short with big monster feet. Bulging eyes with black circles surrounding them. And was dressed in a skeleton outfit. As the boys clamed down, Sam released them and they scurried off after spotting the Vampires.

At this point, Sam was ready for anything. The Vampires hid in the dark shadows of the wall and kept an umbrella over their heads to cover themselves from the blazing sun rays. They wore all black and were as pale as a ghost. They smiled to greet Sam as they passed along in their shelter. The smile displayed huge white, sparkling teeth. Sam nervously grinned back and walked to the fountain that he first came upon when entering the timeworn town.

As he sat on the edge he watched the green water, peacefully pouring from the open mouth of the gray stoned gargoyle. The wind picked up and three witches on broom sticks flew down and landed perfectly on the brick pavement.

"Nice landing, Marci."

"Why thanks you Kiki."

Sam studied them closely. All three of them had green skin and long noses with beady eyes. Wearing black long dress's. Kiki was shorter then Sophie who was shorter then Marci. Marci had black, long tangled hair. Sophie had dirty blonde hair and was right above her shoulder, and Kiki had gray hair with an ugly figure. In fact they were all ugly. Sam was too busy watching them that he didn't even notice that they were speaking to him.

"Young man, isn't that Jacks cloak?" said Sophie.

"Did you not hear her correctly, she just asked you a question." Kiki walked up to him as he stood up and slapped the back of his head.

"Ouch, why'd you do that for?" said Sam while rubbing the back of his head.

"My dear boy, Sophie just asked you a question."

Marci walked over to him and so did Sophie.

"Isn't that Jacks cloak?" Sophie asked once again.

"Yes it is" he said watching Kiki extra carefully now.

"I see..." said Sophie. "Are you a friend of his?" Sam noticed Marci and Sophie were eyeballing him repeatedly.

"Uh...yes I am." He backed up a little forgetting the fountain behind him and tumbled into the water. It was much deeper then it had appeared from the outside. Sam swam up and reached the surface to find all three witches snickering. Marci walked over to the fountain and helped Sam from it.

"How about you come over to our place to dry off and have some warm tea?"

Before Sam could answer they pulled him along to their home. Upon arriving he noticed it was in a particularly dark area. The house almost looked cozy enough to fix it all up again. He laughed to himself. Entering the home was no surprise, he'd expected what was ahead of him. Marci sat him down while Sophie pronounced a spell to dry him up. Kiki went into the kitchen to prepare some tea and some snacks.

"O you're all back."

Sam heard the unfamiliar voice and looked up to see another witch, except this wasn't an ugly old witch. She looked quite young and very beautiful unlike the others. His heart pounded and his eyes melted at the sight. He thought she was the most prettiest women he'd ever seen.

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