Prologue of Chapter 29 (Halloween Preparations)

It was five days until Halloween, and Primp Town was excited. Silvana and Amitie, in particular, were chatty about it at recess.

"Hell yeah, I'm gonna enjoy Halloween!" Sil could barely contain her excitement.

"I'm gonna get sooo much candy!" Amitie said all the way from dreamland. "What are you going as, Sil?"

"Oooh. I haven't thought about it."

"I have a funny idea! Just go as Pierrot, tell everyone you're the real one, and no one will believe you. Hee hee~"

"Good one. And it sure is tempting, Ammy… But I wanna be unique. I've seen tons of kids wearing my suit already… I think I can probably trick my stupid brain that it's okay to be someone else besides…" She shifted her eyes. "My "real" name." She's not lying.

"Really? I'm so happy for you." Amitie's cheered.

"Happy for what?" Sig walked up.

"That I can spend my first Halloween without my issues." Sil replied with cheer.

"Your first?"
"Halloween's soon?"

"Yep. I won't have to spend it in hiding this time. And I'm gonna make it super special!"

"Cool. I'm going as a ladybug." Sig smiled. Sil and Amitie giggled with Sig.

Amitie did have a fun ruining realization, as indicated by her gasp. "Wait! Doesn't Halloween fall on a circus day? Can I have that day off, Sil?" Amitie begged.

"Didn't Hohow tell you, Am?"
"Tell me what?"
"That I hired out the circus to someone else until Halloween's over."
"To who?"

*A day or two ago…*

Sil was up late in her pajamas, maskless, hair down. Searching her bookcase for Halloween themed acts. "This means I'm not out there, not having fun on Halloween again! I want to do it while I still look young enough. But I can't just neglect work."

Sil leaned back in her personal library's sofa. (Arms, wearing a monocle, was sitting in his own personal sofa. He has fine tastes… A colouring book.)

"Think Sil, think. Do I know a spell that lets me do both? Maybe I can invent it. Youth spells aren't a thing, I wouldn't know where to begin. An illusion spell could work if I wanna do more trick-or-treating in future. But my attitude betrays my supposed age…"

"Ugh, let's focus on the now. Can I split myself up? Nononono! Bad idea. I could just close the circus, but people will expect something… Ammy definitely wouldn't fill in for me… I could ask Vento to read out ghost stories and that's the whole schedule. But that might be seen as a rip-off. Who would come for ghost stories?"

"YU RANG!?"

"Ah! Woahoahoahaaaaaaah!… Ouch…" Sil flipped out at the surprise of the three ghost siblings. She flipped out so much, that she tumbled over the heavy sofa with her in it. Sil quickly pulled out a mask from her jammies.

"Yu!" She shook her fist at the de facto leader of the bunch.

She posed.

"Hi, Rei." She said indifferently.

He gave a small wave back.

"Silvana…" She glared at shoe sole stealing ghost, shivering behind Rei.

"I-I go buh-by "Suh-Suh-Silly" now."

"As long as you don't cause trouble like that ever again, then I don't care." Sil told Silly coldly. Childhood doppelgänger and namesake be damned.

Silly hid behind Rei, who comforted her.

"Why are yu here?" She grumbled.

"We silly spooks came to ask if we can use your tent to make it into a spooktacular haunted house ending in a..."

"S-Silly."
"YU!"
"SS-Silly."
"Rei…"
"A-And Silly's!"
"SPÜKPRISE QUIZ SHOW!"

Silly, Yu yelled the last bit.

"Ooooo, Convenient." Sil smirked.

*Present, where Sil left out the surprise bit*

"You let them run the Circus?!" Amitie yelled with a pinch of an instinctive fear that Sil just shrugged off.

"They pay me, and you well. And more importantly: free time for candy and costumes! I'm gonna have so much fun! Haunted House is already open, by the way. Prof's gonna take us to it before we can loot."

"Whaaa?"

"Sorry, Ammy. Prof's choice, not mine… Should've kept my mouth shut when Popoi asked "why I was happy for a change"…" She folded her arms.

"Might as well go, I guess…" Sig said.

"For what it's worth, I oversaw it and it's awesome. They're open every night if you wanna have a taste."

"I'll pass." Amitie said, noticing another friend eating a sandwich at a table while playing with a yo-yo. "Hey, Liddy!" Amitie yelled at her. "Are you sitting Halloween out again?"

Lidelle calmly nodded back, clearly afraid.

"Okido, just checking."

"Has she ever gone to trick-or-treat?" Sil asked.

"Not since her shadow came to life that one time and beat poor Liddy up over her flaws."

"Just when I thought I was adjusted to life in Primp." Silvana shook her head.

"Could you not hypnotize her to like it again?" Sig questioned.

"You could make Liddy very happy with this~" Amitie chirped with a hint of an ulterior motive.

"How many times do I have to tell you? I'm not gonna hypnotize you, and it's not some cure!"

"Are you planning to make me daddy's girl and a doormat again?!" Raffine waltzed in. Offended at what she heard.

Frustrated Sil yelled. "No hypnosis for any of you!"

"Aaaaaw…"
"Bummer…"
"…You better keep your word, Pierrot."

"Besides…" Sil grinned. Raffine clenched her fists in preparation. They know how this goes at this point. They won't stop provoking each other. "You're a daddy's girl regardless, fufufu~"

"Why you!" Raffine restrained herself. Regrettably on her part.

Amitie giggled with Sil. "Well, you are a daddy's girl, Raffie."

'Said the momma's girl.' Sil silently snarked.

"I never seen your dad without you asking for something…" Sig butted in, to Sil's pleasant surprise.

Raffine, justifiably miffed, decided to change the subject. "So how are you going spend Halloween?" She spoke haughtily. "You're always dressed for the part after all. You could give everyone a good scare with your mask off! Oooohoho!" She's pleased with herself.

"Sil's face is perfectly normal." Amitie casually replied.

"Thanks, Am. But can tell my own private details myself thank you."

"Eh eh. Sorry."

"But my face is normal. Or is it?"

"Pah." Raffine scoffed. "I have seen what you can do. No normal person can be so talented."

"Aaw. Is that compliment, 'Feenie?" Sil had a genuine smile on her. "But I guess I'm not normal…" She faked fake sadness, with real sadness. 'Why can't I be?…' "I mean, I'm rich, I train every day and I might have freckles… I can't be normal." Sil successfully got under her skin. 33-27 for Silvana.

"Hmph… Normality is subjective anyways. I'm off." Raffine went back to the training dummy.

"Be careful, Sil." Sig raised concern for his friend. "Prof's gonna notice."

"I'll be fine, Sig. Thanks, but save your worries."

"Sig's got a point, Sil. Try to be friends with her. You got along with Klug."
"Pity's the word, Ammy…"
"But you're not at his throat anymore."
"Because I pity him… At least Raffine gave me a great idea for a costume~"

"She did?" The blue haired bug lover questioned.

"Oooo. Tell me." Amitie asked. And Sig looked curious as well.

"I'm not gonna tell~. After school I'm dashing to Oshare's and you guys just have to hope to recognize me at the haunted tent!" 'This is gonna be amaaaaaziiing!'

*Flashback, cont.*

"Can we use that spooky urn?" Yu floated towards said ancient porcelain pot, holding it in her arms. "I know where to place it!"

Sil stared. "That ugly old thing? Sure, but don't bother opening it. One, try shaking it. There's nothing. Two, it's glued shut."

"Don't break it, Yu…" Rei spoke with caution.

"Don't make her angry at us, big sis!" Silly feared Sil's wrath.

"I won't miss that thing, what will make me angry is breaking into my house and invading my privacy! Especially during my no mask time!"

"Waaaaaah?!"
"…We promise…"
"Save me, big bro!"


Unbeknownst to anyone but a select few residing in Puyo Hell. Inside the urn was an energetic, bored, cranky entity wasting his time away in his soundproofed prison.

"_ will get him… _ _'ll get you, Pierrot! And your little doggy too. Nyeahahahahaaaa! One "PEEK-A-BOO and you're mine! Nyeaaah!"

Author's Notes:

Made on my tablet… NEVER AGAIN! My laptop's in the shop. Then wait a little until the conclusion.

To be continued…