Sorry y'all, my first story. Tell me if it's good! And it'll take me awhile before I get to the 2nd chapter! This story is dedicated to one of my dearest friends. This is rated PG-13 for Scarlet's past… o.O Whoops I shouldn't have told you that… O.o
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A girl limps into Halloween Town. She has her hood up. She looks like she has got beaten up by some punks or has just gotten run over by a truck. Either way, she had bruises, scars, scratches, and all of that good stuff. But the best part to this was that she only had her left arm. She keeps her head down, and her dog looks the same way, too. Her black cane keeps her from falling, but when she gets to the middle of the town, she faints.
Everybody gasps.
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When she wakes up, she's in some sort of castle. Since her hood was down now, you could tell that she had silvery-brown hair and her eyes were hazel. She smells something rotten and looks around, almost running into the Doctor. She almost started laughing, because he was bald, looks like a mutant duck, and is in a wheelchair.
"Well, good thing you're awake. You gave us all a good scare, and that doesn't come very easily with what happens in out town."
The girl looked at both of her arms.
"Your arm was literally about ready to fall off. Thank god I had some… experience. I sewed it right back up. I even gave you another arm. I sewed that up, too."
"Sewed?"
"Sewed. You get some rest now. You need it a lot."
Before lying down, she looks at her new right arm. She even wiggled her fingers.
She lay back down and began to think about what had happened before the accident, but she didn't go back to sleep because she was in pure shock….
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She woke up very early the next day and got out of bed. She was a lot better and found her black cane under the bed. She had to finish… business.
"You can walk?"
A rag doll said. She was 5 ft. tall, had red hair waist length, and a dress with different patterns on it.
"I'll go get-"
"No! Please don't. The more nobody notices me, the better."
"Why?"
"No reason."
"You're just like me. Isn't noticed and doesn't want to. I bet we'll get along just fine." The rag doll smiled.
"What did you say your name was again?"
"I didn't say. It's Scarlet. What's yours?" She smiled back.
"Sally. By the way…" The rag doll replied. "Dead or alive?"
"What?"
"Dead or alive?"
"Alive, of course!" Scarlet said suspiciously. "Oh, of course. But when I saw your arms and wrist… never mind."
"Where are we, anyway?"
"Halloween Town."
"Oh, I see now! It's Halloween, right?"
"You got it! If you feel well, and you want to, you can come with me to the party. My husband's hosting the party."
"Awesome! I wouldn't miss it for the world!"
"Great! It'll be at 9:30 sharp by the well. See you there!" Sally said, walking out of Scarlet's room.
"Hmm… Halloween… It may not be a costume, but it's the best I can do."
She picked up her black backpack and took out black eye shadow, black lipstick, black headband, chainsaw gloves, a black cape with a silver inside, jeans, and silver shoes.
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That night, about 10 minutes until the party, Scarlet arrives at the well. A lot of people are there. And most people are smiling at her. She didn't know that she would be that popular. Of course, she was the hero of many murder mysteries, but she wasn't that popular, and she liked it that way. She's suffered a lot of grief with friends, and so she just stuck to herself. Before she had about seven friends, but now she only has one… herself. Why she's famous is because of her friends. A lot of people have died because of what she had done to her friends. It was a dream to her… she considered that Halloween Town would be the best to start over, because everybody would be dead. So, that's how she ended up here… or is it?
(Look, people, I'm just the announcer! I don't know everything!
Kassi: Shootsannouncer How dare you not know! You're the one who's telling the story for god's sake!)
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She jumped at when somebody touched her shoulder.
"I heard you were new in the town, but I never got to meet you. I'm the Mayor." He said in his happy, cheerful, voice.
Scarlet spun around.
"Oh. Nice to meet you." She said.
"Nice to meet you, too, Scarlet."
He stuck out his hand and Scarlet shook it.
"So how long are you staying here for?"
"As long as I can!"
"Good." The Mayor then walked away.
Wait a minute. How'd he know my name? Scarlet thought. Oh well… I bet Sally told him.
She sat down and looked around. There was a scarecrow that was sitting still on the well next to Sally, the jolly Mayor who was up on stage, being conductor to the music that just started, some people smiling and talking about how scary it would be, some more people were staring at her, then they would run over to tell one of their friends something, and point at her. Scarlet jumped again when Sally appeared next to the Mayor on stage and said,
"3 minutes till the show! Get ready to be horrified!"
There were some cheers and Scarlet overheard a werewolf saying,
"It's going to be the most horrible yet!"
She smiled and then noticed that Sally was walking this way and sat next to her and said, "This is the year when there's real fear. It's going to be the talk of the town for the next 3 years!" Sally paused. "Could you do a tiny favor for me?"
This got Scarlet's attention.
"What is it?"
"Can you show me… the knife that Elle tried to kill you with, but saved your life?"
That definitely brought back memories to Scarlet…
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She was back in her hotel. Watching the news.
"There is a deadly killer on the loose in this area. She will shoot or slut anyone in sight. She's already killed 4 policemen, 2 boys, and two girls… that are all of her killings we know of her right now. Lock your doors and hide in the closet, bomb shelter is best, tho-"
Scarlet turned off the TV and stood up.
"I won't need a weapon for this job. But why, Elle, why did I have to do this to you; to make you so miserable and alone; you were always so happy!"
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She was in a different room now and watching a blonde-haired woman lunge at a man.
"I warned you, bastard!"
The man started running in the other direction. Scarlet dived for the knife and stopped it with her hands. Her hand started bleeding, and when she let go of it, the woman flung it back and cut her entire left wrist off. Scarlet let out a blood-curdling scream and then the man ran out the door to get the police. Scarlet lay there on the floor, holding her arm, and then she curled up into a ball, sobbing. The woman smiled devilishly and pointed the knife at her neck.
"This is where you die… and I have my tenth killing!"
Scarlet then stopped sobbing and looked up at her the looked like she was carrying the grief of the world on her shoulders.
"Do you even remember me, Elle?"
Scarlet asked. Elle looked away and thought about it. While she was thinking, Scarlet kicked the knife out of her hand and caught it. Scarlet then stood up, but it took her a while, ya know, with only one hand and all…
"You don't remember? That's cold."
Elle stood her ground.
"Who are you, then?"
"Scarlet Tail… now do you remember?"
"Oh, God… what have I done to you?"
Elle slunk to the floor, sobbing. Scarlet was fine though, she felt physical pain, but she ignored it. Now she was feeling mental pain. She advanced until she was halfway where she started.
"But you deserted me. All of you did!" Elle stuck her gun in the air. "All you left me was grief! I hate you now!"
That remark stung Scarlet like a needle straight in the heart. Scarlet threw the knife at the wall and it cut the top half of the gun off, just by a centimeter missing Elle's finger.
"You cut us off like a broken toy! Just to get that boy you wanted… do you know what he did to us? He gave me this."
Elle cringes and looks away.
"Oh please. It's not that bad."
Scarlet shows Elle her arm. It had a knife scar all the way from her shoulder down to her hand.
She then looked up at me and then she was just about ready to say something, but the police arrived along with an ambulance. The police arrested her and then as she passed me, she said in just a whisper,
"Tell everybody I'm sorry. I understand now."
Scarlet nodded and followed the police where she was escorted to the ambulance. But when she was driving off, she thought she saw one police officer, 5 women, and 3 men…
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She went back later to the building that she had a duel with her friend, well, of course, when her arm healed over. People were trying to get the knife unstuck through the wall.
Scarlet takes her left arm and pulls downward. Then upward. Then straight at herself. It budges a minute, but Scarlet then repeats the pattern. Downward, upward, straight, and this time, it moved another inch. Scarlet pulls harder, and it flies out. Scarlet grins.
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"Can I?"
Sally made Scarlet snap out of her dream and back to reality.
"I don't have it with me… it's back at the Doctor's."
"Well, when we come back can I see it?"
Scarlet paused. "I…guess."
Scarlet looked at the scarecrow. He hadn't moved.
Must be fake. She thought. But it was talking to Sally…
The music then stopped and the Mayor said, "Ladies and Gentlemen… Let the show begin!"
He looks exactly like that police officer… she thought.
Scarlet kept her eyes on the mayor as he joined again where the band was and started watching. Since Scarlet was watching the Mayor, she didn't see the scarecrow grab a torch from someone and light a string that led to her feet. The flame seemed to go faster than usual. Scarlet then took her attention off of the Mayor and back to the show. Sally tapped her on the shoulder and said,
"You're part of the show, so move!"
"Wha…?"
