Another busy day in Sweet Pop as Poppy and her team are serving a lot of customers coming in and out of the cafe. Rose came in, driving a blue car. She got off, locked the doors, and enters the cafe with a smile. The Snack Pack are making decoration for the Halloween party.
"Morning!" Rose greeted.
"Morning, Rose." Poppy greeted back. "Excited for Halloween?"
"Yeah, Im going to choose among my lolita outfits to wear as a costume." She said. "What theme did we pick?"
"It's gonna be a haunted house." Poppy said.
"I will dress as a wizard." Biggie suggested.
"I already know what I'll wear." Branch smirked.
"Can't wait to get mysterious." DJ Suki giggled.
"Me too." Violet added. "I'll wear my old witch costume for the party."
Suddenly, a sprite arrived to ask something to Poppy.
"Hi, Ms. Poppy." The customer greeted. "I'm Mags Gumdrop."
"Hello, ma'am." She greeted back. "Excited for Halloween?."
"Yes, I'll be having a haunted maze built here in the park." Mags said. "And I suggest you would make illusions for the maze to scare everybody with."
"Will it be happening this night?" Rose shivered.
"Yes, and it will be quite an experience in the maze." Poppy added. "Are gonna come and go to the maze and join in it!?"
Rose felt so scared of experiencing the maze because her old friends back in the Philippines always want the same theme but she never agree with them. One of her friends try to make the party more fun by letting loose a pack of feral ghosts in the party, which roam around, shouting people's doom and saying horrible puns like "What's a ghost's favorite pie? Boo-berry!". The teachers called the Magic Task Force in the Philippines exorcise them back to the spirit world, but the incident also caused a rift between her and her old friends that she started turning away from them. Her friends from Japan also know about her trauma that they would visit a shrine every Halloween to help her overcome the trauma.
"Oh, yeah." Rose agreed with a pretend smile. "Fun"
"For the food in our Halloween party, let's set up a buffet." Poppy piped up.
"Can you add meat slices, pumpkin soup, corned beef sandwiches, buttered corn, shepherds' pie, fish and chips, and the great feast." Biggie suggested. "I would want it based on the list of food mentioned in the book I read."
"That's gonna be cool for the party." Poppy said. "The food for the great feast can be a buffet."
"You forgot the beverages." Rose said.
"We could have butterbeer, a limeade based on the transmogrification potion, pumpkin juice, and strawberry juice." Smidge suggested.
"That's a great idea, how about desserts?" Poppy asked again.
"We can make sorting cupcakes, a cauldron cake, some chocolate cauldrons, jelly snakes, jelly newts, licorice spiders, lemon sherbet, treacle tarts, butterbeer fudge, potted mandrake cupcakes, pretzel wands, and your mom's famous pumpkin pie." Branch suggested.
"I can help ya cook the food." Biggie offered. "I know these food back in U.K."
"Thanks, Biggie." Poppy thanked him. "We can write down the recipes in our notebook."
"I got it!" Branch said as he took out the notebook of recipes.
They started preparing the ingredients and make the food for their party. Biggie helped them by instructing them how to cook British dishes. Branch took on the beverages while Poppy did the desserts. After they finished, they went inside the restrooms to change to their costumes after Rose took their costumes from her car and brought them to the cafe.
Meanwhile, Brandy was looking from the windows of their newly refurbished restaurant as they spied on Sweet Pop.
"Halloween, the worst time of the year." Brandy groaned.
"Why?" Champagne asked her.
"Everybody gets candy and they always avoid us because of our reputation." She groaned.
"If scary things is what Halloween is about, we'll scare everybody ourselves and the candy is ours!" Cider grinned.
"That's a great idea, let's dress as ghosts." Brandy cackled.
"Wasn't that a bad idea?" Tequila asked.
"Zip it, Tequila, we're going to scare children!" She sneered as they sneakily went out of their restaurant.
That night, the Snack Pack are ready for Halloween. They are dressed in different costumes. Poppy is dressed as a witch, Branch is wearing a skull mask with a mariachi costume, Satin and Chenille are wearing antennae to look like butterflies with matching butterfly winged outfits, DJ Suki is dressed as a gorgon with a snake wig and contact lenses, Biggie is wearing a wizard costume with Mr. Dinkles in an owl suit, Guy Diamond is wearing a peacock costume, Cooper is wearing a detective costume, Violet is dressed as a witch, and Rose is wearing a gothic lolita dress with red lipstick, fake fangs, black boots, smoky eyeshadow, and a black tiara with rubies, making her a vampire queen. Everybody is excited but Rose feels scared.
"What's wrong, Rose, are you really excited for Halloween?" She asked the elf.
"I'm sorry, I was just having a trauma about ghosts." Rose sighed.
"But you faced the spirits of Bobo and Cygnia." Branch said.
"The ghosts that caused trauma on me are a pack of feral ones." She said. "They fly around in circles, predicting people's deaths and shouting out horrible puns. That's why I had tremendous hatred towards ghosts."
"You hate ghosts?" Cooper asked. "They're only just sheets with holes on them."
"They're just costumes but real ghosts make me riled up." Rose confessed.
They looked at the window and heard all the children running to the cafe. Poppy opened the door and lead them in.
"What's wrong?" Poppy asked them.
"Keith, who scared you?" Guy asked.
"There are ghosts scaring us!" Keith, who is dressed as a ghost cried.
"And they took our candy!" Another sprite in a bee costume wailed.
"Don't worry, we'll get your candy back." Poppy said with a determined smile.
"Real ghosts, in the park?" Rose asked. "We'll see about that."
"You mean we'll hunt ghosts?" Branch asked her.
"Let's solve this mystery." Poppy answered. "We would need three more of our friends to join us."
"I'll join." Cooper volunteered. "I have been playing as Mr. Glittercakes once and I can do his detective work again."
"We can join too." Violet added.
"But it might trigger my trauma of ghosts." Rose shivered.
"Rose, you faced basilisks, the spirits of the dirtbag parents, cursed people, and the Party Crashers but ghosts, you can't handle them." Violet asked her.
"Well, my trauma only makes me violent." She responded.
"Okay, that makes five of us so let's get going." Poppy said as they went out of the cafe to investigate.
Branch, Poppy, Rose, Violet, and Cooper looked around. They went around the park, looking for clues until Rose saw a trunk of clothes.
"Jeepers!" Rose cried. "They're Victorian clothes!"
"What's this gown doing here?" Branch asked.
"I dunno." Violet added.
"Guys, I found something else." Poppy called out when she showed them glowing trail of footprints.
"Footprints!" Rose gasped.
"That's not all, it's leading us to the riding trail and disappearing into the forest." Cooper said.
"Let's follow it." Branch ordered.
They followed it through the riding trail, right into the forest. Poppy, Rose, Branch, and Violet used their powers to make light to help them see through the dark. They looked for the trail until they came to an oak tree. Violet looked through the bush beside it, revealing a can of glow in the dark paint.
"Paint eh?" Violet sighed.
"Clothes, glowing paint?" Rose said. "This could mean someone is scaring people and take their candy."
Suddenly, five ghosts started running towards them. The two sprites and an elf fly upward while Violet and Cooper ran for their lives.
"How could a ghost own real clothes and glow in the dark paint." Cooper panted.
"Ya think?" Branch asked.
"I can see glowing trails of paint that they are leaving on the streets." Poppy added.
"Guys, I got an idea." Rose said as they lead the "ghosts" to haunted maze. When they entered the maze, the five hid in the bushes, evading their pursuers.
"It worked!" Branch cried. "We got them in here."
"Guys, lets do some magic to scare them." Violet whispered.
The "ghosts" are lost in the maze as they walked around in the dark.
"It's really dark here, Brandy!" One of them cried.
"Brandy?! I know that they're not ghosts." Rose whispered.
Suddenly, a basilisk appeared behind them. They screamed as the basilisk started chasing them. Then, a headless horseman appeared before them. Little did they know that Poppy, Branch, Rose, and Violet are casting illusions with their magic. As the "ghosts" are spooked out by their illusions in the maze, Poppy and the others are able to get out of the maze, waiting in front of the cafe. The "ghosts" came out of the maze, fainting into a pile of candies, bursting from their pockets. The paint was smeared off, revealing to be Brandy and her friends.
"Aha!" Rose growled as she confiscated all of the candies. "I knew you're up to no good, scaring children to get their candy for yourselves."
"Foiled again!" Brandy cried.
"I told you pretending to be ghosts is a bad idea." Tequila scoffed.
"I got a trick right up my sleeve." Poppy smirked as she used her wand to make illusions of ghosts that is just like the feral ghosts that triggered Rose's trauma but this time, Rose is no longer traumatized. The illusions look so realistic that the red tavern girls screamed in fright so loud that they ran all the way home. The Snack Pack laughed at the sight of it.
"Wow, this is the best Halloween ever." Rose squealed. "And the best part is that it cured me of my trauma."
"Not only that, look!" Branch cried as a crowd rush to the cafe to celebrate Halloween.
Everybody had a good time in the cafe as the Halloween party finally started with all the guests in costumes trying out the buffet and playing Halloween games. Rose had a great time in a pumpkin carving activity with the kids while Branch and the others tried apple bobbing in the wooden tub. When they notice Creek from behind, Branch sneaked in and whispered something to Rose, who giggled. They sneaked behind Creek with a paper and taped it on his back. The two sneaked away and Creek turned around, revealing that everybody was laughing at the paper taped behind his wings, revealing a paper with a face of a troll drawn on it. Branch and Rose snickered as they had their fill. This Halloween is special to Rose because it not only cured her of her trauma, her friends showed her that it is fun being scared, even though it's not real.