I walked closer to the bush, I then heard sobbing. I went over to the bush and looked behind and I found one of the children I met yesterday.

"Shock?" I asked. Shock looked up at me, her eyes were red and her cheeks were streaked with tears, she looked rather pathetic.

"What?" Shocked snapped, she wiped her nose.

"Well, what's the matter?" I asked.

Shocked turned away from me and said. "Lock doesn't want to play Hangman with me, he just wants to play with Barrel because Barrel is a boy and they decided that girls can't play Hangman anymore!"

Shock continued to whine for two minutes, I wasn't listening my mind was elsewhere (as usual) I got little bits and pieces like, Bear-trap and must kill Lock.

"What do you want me to do about it?" I asked after Shock was finished.

"I want you to help me kill them!" Shock screamed.

"I ain't doing that for you."

Shock fell backwards into the bush "I'm bored"

This was one strange and whacked-out child.

"How about I get you a cookie?" I asked.

"Make it two and you've got a deal."

And that was how I bought Shock two, humongous cookies. She rambled on about how boys are stupid and that they have sick cooties and how girls are far superior, basic nine-year-old drivel. I just sat there, nodding my head occasionally and adding an "Mmmhmm" every once in a while.

"I'm gonna go play with Barrel now." Shock announced suddenly.

This little exclamation startled me, "Oh! Ok then… see you." Shock pranced an evil prance and left.

I heard a cat yowling the second the sun set. Howl ran into the shop and came up to me.

"C'mon Kiki! The fun's starting!" He exclaimed.

Howl grabbed my arm and we ran to the fountain. Everybody was yelling and cheering "Halloween! Halloween!" I turned around, Clown came rushing by me and made me jump.

"Scared you!" Clown laughed.

I giggled; this had to be the most fun thing that has ever happened to me. I made it to the edge of the fountain where I found Sally.

"Sally! Where's Jack?" I asked.

"I don't know it's supposed to be a surprise!"

I started jumping up and down (I do that when I'm really excited.) All of a sudden, lightning flashed through the sky. I nearly screamed. The next time, the lightning was in the shape of a monster in the sky. That time I did scream, but it wasn't a omigosh-I'm-really-terrified scream, it was more of a I'm-enjoying-being-scared-senseless scream. There was a third lightning, in an orb shape. Then all of a sudden, Jack jumped out of the lightning! Everyone shouted, Jack did a flippy trick and landed upon the top of the fountain and announced "Happy Halloween!"

The crowd thinned as everyone went to do their jobs. Jack came up to me "Do you have a story ready?" Jack asked.

"Sure do! Where do I need to go?"

Jack pointed to a campfire, people were already gathering around it. I ran over to it and sat on a log and I began my story.

"Long ago, before the town of Lafayette was even a town, there were the mines."

I looked around, they looked interested enough.

"The Lafayette mines were overflowing with coal, and something else. The mine was originally a Indian burial site; with a curse. A man with long raven colored hair and wearing a long leather shawl, announced 'Whatever man disturbs the final resting place of these people shall face a peril worse then death.'" A few more people gathered around and some became wide-eyed. "The miners did not heed the Indian's warning, and they began to dig. One night just before midnight the Miners stayed late and joked about the curse. 'You shall face a peril worse then death!' One miner said, mimicking the Indian. The miners drank and danced and laughed, until the clocked struck midnight."

Mummy-kid gasped.

"The mineshaft began to crumble. The miners ran for their lives, but it was too late. The mine caved in on top of them and killed them all, until the curse took place. The coyotes that roamed the area were possessed by the spirit of the miners and were condemned to lives of suffering."

I paused dramatically.

"When the coyotes finally died, the miners were still trapped. The curse kept them from leaving and going on to the afterlife, they were forced to live as the pack and haunt the field for all of eternity. They say you can still hear the coyote's how…" We heard two terrifying howls. Then something grabbed me from behind and lifted me into the air, I screamed as loud as I knew how. Everybody else screamed and scattered about. Whatever grabbed me spun me in the air and laughed; I looked down, it was Howl!

"Holy Cheezits Howl, you scared me!" I shouted, still being spun around. Jack was standing there too, laughing his skull off.

"You… should have seen… your face!" Jack laughed.

Howl put me down, they both were laughing hysterically. I had to admit, everybody screaming and running away was pretty funny; and I probably looked hilarious too!

We walked around for a little bit, I was tapped on the back; I looked behind me. Lock, Shock and Barrel held out bags "Trick or Treat!" all three exclaimed.

"Err… Sorry, I don't have any." I replied

"Cheapskate!" Barrel waved a fist at me, and they ran off to pester someone else.

"That was odd." I stated.

"You got lucky; they usually harm anyone that doesn't fork over the goods." Howl replied.

"I gave Shock a cookie earlier."

"That's probably it." Said Jack, glancing at the clock "Oh, look at the time, I've got to run!" Jack ran off somewhere.

"Alright, The show's gonna start!" Howl exclaimed "Lets get to the fountain area before the song starts."

"Song? What song?" I asked, but Howl didn't hear me. He was too busy running. I chased after him to the Fountain, and then I heard that familiar tune.