Prince of Halloween

It was starting to get dark and Kairi was starting to regret her words. What would her dad say if he knew she was walking alone in the forest with a potentially dangerous arachnidan in a box past six? Not something good. The animal had stayed still inside the box after a few minutes of being carried. Kairi was grateful of that because the spider wasn't exactly light.

The big trees were old and a little darkened, not the usual things Kairi was used to. No lights, no laughs, just silence occasionally disturbed by the wind. Kairi decided that it was enough of walking; after all, she was already in the forest, so the spider could find its way to home. Slowly and carefully she placed the box down and untied it opening slightly. A few seconds later, the spider started to come out making sure it was safe.

"Well… your free now, go home" Kairi said "Oh, and please don't go back to Christmas town… they might hurt you if you do"

Kairi turned around and started to walk but then she stopped. The spider was blocking her way.

"Um… could you please move?" she said. When the spider didn't react she decided to go around it, but as soon as she tried the spider blocked her way again "um…" Kairi was starting to get nervous "Your already free… you should go home"

Kairi tried many times, but every time she moved the spider did too and blocked her way.

"What do you want!?" she yelled in frustration "don't you want to go home?!"

The spider started to move his body up and down, Kairi swore it was nodding.

"You…you understand me?" the spider nod again to Kairi's shock.

"Ok…. This is not normal…" 'Geez Kairi what an understatement' she thought to herself "well… is there something you want?" the spider nod again "what?"

Then the creature moved a little in one direction and then turned around to Kairi before bouncing a little.

"You… want me to fallow you?" she asked, her voice curious and afraid at the same time.

The spider just turned around and moved more in the direction before turning around again.

"I'll take that as a yes" and the girl started to fallow it.

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After walking for almost half an hour Kairi arrived to a clearing in the forest. She had never seen such place before, there were many strange trees in a circle and all of them had a strange drawing that appeared to be some kind of door.

The spider went to one door and bounced again to call Kairi's attention. Kairi looked at the door, it was some kind of pumpkin picture but it had a rather menacing face carved. The spider climbed the tree and using one of its furry eight legs signalized to the doors handle.

"You want me to open it?" all the spider's eyes looked at Kairi with some pleading behind them "Ok…"

Kairi took the handle and after a few seconds of pondering with herself she opened the door.

Behind it there was only a big black hole, she looked inside it, but there was nothing but endless darkness… she wasn't expecting nothing great but definitely she expected something more.

The spider looked at her with a little of glee on its eyes and then without warning it jumped into the black Vortex.

"Wait…." Kairi tried to reach for it worried that it may kill itself if it fell but she couldn't keep her own balance and end up falling too "Ahhhh!"

Kairi closed her eyes waiting to feel the impact against the floor, but no pain came so she decided to open her eyes. What she saw was surely more than she had expected. She was in the ground of a rather scary clearing on a really more than spooky forest. Al the trees were dead and curvy looking. There wasn't snow anywhere just dirt, it was cold but didn't gave her that sensation of happiness she use to feel when in home.

The young girl sited up and started to look everywhere for the spider, it wasn't there anymore… neither were there the doors, meaning one thing, she was lost and alone.

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Many times they taught her that when you're lost you should stay in one place so someone can find you, but something just told her that no one will come for her if she jus stayed still. So she walked and walked till she finally could see the moonlight at the forest end. "Have I been out all this time? Oh, no, dad and mom will get worried" she thought but suddenly something distracted her from her worries.

Boys and girls of every age

Won't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see

This our town of Halloween

Kairi searched with her eyes for the source of the voice and noticed a big and old graveyard … and the voices seemed to come from underground.

This is Halloween; this is Halloween
Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

Suddenly rotten hands started to come out of the floor. Kairi bit her tongue trying hard not to scream. There where dead people… dead people coming out of their graves… skeletons, rotten bodies, ghosts, everyone singing as they started to walk towards an old big building… and the most unbelievable part? Everyone knew the same song…

This is Halloween, everybody make a scene
Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright
It's our town, everybody scream
in this town of Halloween

In any occasion Kairi would have run away by now if it weren't for the fact that she was dying of both fright and curiosity. And in the fight between his rational fear and her child curiosity, the child broke any rationality left, so she ended up fallowing this bizarre group from a save distance.

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!
In this town we call home
everyone hail to the pumpkin song

(a.n: Quite obviously)

When Kairi neared the building she could se a man with a ratter strange face and a suit with an insignia that read mayor.

"Everyone, hurry up! Our king of Halloween has big and terrific news!"

Halloween? What was Halloween? Kairi was feeling a dull sensation in the bottom of her stomach and the adrenalin rushing thru her veins kind of turned off her common sense. The young woman entered the building when everybody was already inside and hid behind a pillar.

"My fellow nightmares, please, May I have your attention" The room went silent as a spotlight fell over one creature standing on a podium. It was a skeleton in a black white striped tuxedo. Kairi didn't understand why but she felt pure terror and also a warm sensation at its appearance, that was all that kept her from screaming.

"As we all know, I've always taken over the job of organizing our great festivities and making sure everyone will scream and cry of fright!" the whole room cheered and whistle to this skeleton man "And while there's Halloween there's got to be a pumpkin king"

"Hale to the pumpkin king!" yelled a man that looked like a wolf and everyone followed him.

The skeleton's mouth spread on a wide grin.

"Please, please, calm down" he said making them keep silence "The reason I called you all is to communicate you of one of my biggest decisions" everyone started to murmur "I Jack Skellington have decided to give up the title of Pumpkin King!"

Everyone in the room gasped. Kairi looked up and saw the 'mayor' losing his balance making the spotlight to move.

"Wha-What?!" yelled the mayor "You can't do that! How I am suppose to prepare Halloween without your help? I'm just an elected official I can't do this by myself!"

The whole room started to make a fuss over the proclamation.

"Please… calm down… please…" the skeleton tried but it didn't seem to work. A frown appeared on his skull and he took the microphone. Kairi just felt some kind of familiarity and decided to cover her ears just in time, for after she did it, the skeleton let out a horrific moan paralyzing everyone in the spot "That's more like it"

"Wow he acts like the elder" she thought.

"Please, you didn't let me finish my explanation. For you'll see, I will stop being the pumpkin king, but I won't leave Halloween to its own, I would pass down the title to someone worth of it" everyone looked at their 'king' "its part of an idea that came to me some time ago. I've been the king for centuries, with someone new as the king, fresh and more frightening ideas will be born and Halloween will be even greater!" This time the whole room clapped in admiration "So after looking for many years between all the nightmares born in Halloween town I finally succeeded in finding the one mind sharp enough to be my successor, a creature that really knows the meaning of fear, the one you'll one day referred to as the Pumpkin king!"

Suddenly Kairi felt as if the room had become as cold as ice, the candles in the walls where blew out. Out of nowhere a black mist started to enter, everyone in the room turned to look at it. And it started.

Several shadows emerged from the mist, looking like black living clothes even ghosts; they wrapped themselves on many of the creatures showing yellow bright eyes. Many in the room started to scream as some of the shadows turned into claws that grasped the feet of the monsters. One of the shadows went up to Kairi, but just looked at her and turned back to the others in the room. Then all the shadows gathered in a corner of the ceiling and a figure emerged from it. Kairi looked biting hard on her lip to stop from screaming. It was a boy, around her age she guessed, he had dark brown hair, dead pale skin that blackened around his dark blue aggressive eyes. He had a snarl on his face making him look more threatening while showing his pointy pair of fangs. His clothes were really strange, black baggy (clown looking) pants, pointy shoes, a black vest with white bat wings patterns, and two black bat wings sprouted from his back. The boy looked at all the creatures in the room as if reading their souls before letting a loud and scaring growl. Everyone shivered before clapping and cheering at the demonstration, everyone except from Kairi who was covering her ears trying to stop herself from crying, she had to get away now.

"Undead and nightmares, my future replacement, Sora Skellington!" was the last she heard before running away.

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Wow, I did finish the second chapter!

Hope you like it so far, I'll try to hurry and post, I usually will be posting this after updating my other fanfic, so please be patient, and review.

See ya later!

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