Chapter 8
Hazel smirked at the gathering of every creature that goes bump in the night. She had managed to gather Wendigos, Vampires, Shapeshifters, Wolfmen, Wraiths and Poltergeists. She had also gathered a few Women in White and Black Dogs and a few deformed monsters. Wicthes had also been gathered in the clearing. She was glad that she had managed to gather all these creatures and even more glad that they were not at each others throats. She was even relieved that there was no Hunters close to their meeting zone.
Hazel looked over her shoulder. Standing behind her with a wicked grin was none other than Oggie Boogie. The bag full of bugs grinned with a large grin on its face as it stared out at all the gathered creatures that she had managed to gather up near Blithe Hallow in the past few months. Standing beside Oggie Boogie was none other than the most famous vampires in all time. She was hosting to none other than Count Dracula. In all her life she would never have thought that she would be hosting to none other than Dracula. The very vampire who had been against Hunters for centuries and was even one of the enemies of the Avengers. Her dreams where coming true. Smiling herself she took a step forward.
Raising her arms above her head she attracted the attention of every creature that she had gained an alliance with. An alliance she had feared that that Werewolf was due to upset with his sudden appearance in town. Every creature that had gathered in the clearing in the forest close to the old cemetery of Blithe Hallow looked up at. Their dark eyes were filled with hope that they would no longer need to hide in the shadows when they began to upset the balance that the Pumpkin King had set up with the aid of Nightshade.
"Sisters! Brothers! I am glad that you managed to come to this meeting at such short notice!" she shouted at all the gathered creatures before her. All their eyes locked onto her as she waited for the right moment to speak again. "Now you will be wondering why I have called you here to their clearing so close to a human settlement!" she said as she pointed towards the small down just in view. The town that had become a hotspot for Hunters in hopes of finding something to kill for the fun of it, it had also became a main point of interest to the government group that that Werewolf worked for after that eventful night the witches curse had come true bringing back a group of zombies from the grave. Hazel had watched the whole thing from the side lines. She was afraid that her cover as a secret agent for the Night Crawlers would be ruined and she would be hunted by Hunters who would no doubt flock to the town. She was glad that no Hunters came at all to the town after the whole event as the humans and the creatures that wanted to live beside them set about rebuilding their destroyed town. She could only scoff as those creatures lived alongside the humans. How dare they forget where they had come from. How dare they not put the humans where they belonged: at their feet.
"Please now that after so many years of being forced to live in the shadows when we had lost the Night Wars thanks to the coward that is the Pumpkin King!" she shouted at the top of her voice. Every creature was staring at her. Many of them knew where this was going and already they were staring at her with great hope that she would be able to win the Second Night Wars that was raging even before the Second World War when Seth had made his first appearance after so many centuries of being nothing more than a wondering spirit after he was defeated by High Priest Imhotep. "But we are going to change that! We are going to end the reign of terror that the humans have brought down upon us! It is time that we retake our homes! It is our time to step out into the light and make the Hunters pay for all the brothers and sisters that they have taken away from us!" she shouted at all the gathered creatures that were now cheering and shouting at her.
A smile graced her face as Oggie Boogie came to her side. The sack full of bugs began to chuckle at the sight before him. "You have done well, Hazel! I did not think an Anubid would be able to pull this off!" Oggie Boogie chuckled at the gathering of monsters and creatures.
"I'm having problems with the Wendigos, it seems that Nightshade has strong allies there!" Hazel admited to Oggie Boogie.
Oggie scoffed at her. "We don't need those cannibals to help us! We just need to cause friction between monsters and the Hunters to have Nightshade focus on them rather than what Seth is planning!" Oggie Boogie told her. "All we need to get is Norman Babcock and Halloween Town would be mine!"
"It will be easy to keep the Werewolf busy for some time!" Hazel smiled as she looked over at a group of witches. "You know what to do!" she told them. With chanting the witches blocked Blithe Hallow from the rest of the world.