And so, Jack did his explaining, and we did ours. Vira didn't seem to believe it for a second. Of course, it's not exactly like I expected her to, either.

But, nonetheless, she heard all three of us out, looking rather amused the whole time.

"And so, now we're here," Callie finished dramatically. Vira yawned.
"Hmmmm.... Well, it's not exactly like I believe you, but that was one heck of a story. I like the part where the avalanche of chickens came."
"Yeah?" Callie beamed.
A clumsy knock at the door interrupted me from saying "But none of that actually HAPPENED!" Jack stood up and opened the door.
"Hey, Jack," a familiar voice said from the doorway.
Yeah, familiar, but TOTALLY out of place.
Of course, it didn't surprise me. NOTHING could surprise me today.
"What's this I'm hearing about you having humans with you?" Ultros the octopus asked.
Jack immediately whipped around, giving both of us a look that said I am so gonna kill you both right now and don't even try to run away. I laughed and took out my phone, pulling up the picture I had taken of Callie standing in the street holding a sign that read in huge letters: We're humans! We're with Jack!
"I'll get mad about that later..." Jack grumbled.
"Nevermind." Ultros pushed his way past Jack and into the house, pausing for a second when he saw me.
"Hey! I remember YOU!" He said, pointing at me. "Didja beat the game yet?"
"Huh?"
"You know, FF6. You're the one who was always writing my lines down, right?"
"Oh," I said, embarassed. Who knew they could see through the game. "Yeah. I like your lines."
"Hahaha. Nice to meet a fan face-to-face. Of course, I WANTED to talk to you through the game, but NO, I had to stick to the script." He grinned that unmistakable sharp-toothed octopus grin. "I really like it when I have fans. Most people just think I'm annoying."
"You're not annoying!" I blurted loudly. "You're just... uh... very repetitive."
"HAHAHA! YOU GOT THAT RIGHT!" He laughed loudly, slapping me on the back with one of his tentacles. I grinned. Callie shook her head.
"AHEM, so, anyway," Jack said in an annoyed tone, "How are we gonna get you two home?"
Callie an I looked at eachother. We hadn't even given any thought to going home yet. We were enjoying ourselves too much.
"Why go home?" Callie said with a shrug. "I like it here."
"Yeah, and I don't have to put up with being asked to clean the kitchen every five minutes," I said thoughtfully. Right now, going home was the last thing I wanted to do.
Jack growled as someone knocked on his door AGAIN. He sure was popular today.
"WHAT?!?!" He yelled, flinging the door open. "Oh, hi Mayor."
"Um, Jack, can I talk to you for a minute?" the mayor asked. He sounded upset.
Vira stood up and walked over to the door after they had gone outside to try and hear what they were saying. When the doorknob turned she scrambled back over to the couch and Jack came in looking annoyed, to say the least. And he even added a sideways deathglare at me and Callie, but I just giggled.
"No thanks to THEM," he finally said, pointing at us, "I have to go make a speech to the town and tell them what the heck is going on. I guess you guys'll have to come, because it's pointless to try and tell them you don't exist."
Callie looked at me and we both grinned. Well, that cat was out of that bag.

The town hall was extremely noisy, I could barely hear myself think over the confused blabbering of the townspeople. For a town that's job was to scare everyone else, they sure went into panic mode quickly.
Callie, Jack and I all walked up onto the stage and the blabbering only got louder when everyone saw us sit down next to the podium. The mayor had a look of complete disbelief on his face.
"I didn't think the rumors were actually TRUE!" He hissed at Jack. "If I had known there were actually HUMANS here--"
"Be quiet," Jack growled. "I'm making a speech."
"EVERYONE BE QUIET!!!" The mayor screamed. "THE PUMPKIN KING IS MAKING A SPEECH!!!"
The hall was quiet almost instantly.
"Okay, so, before we go into mass hysteria and assume it's the apocalypse," Jack began, "YES. These ARE humans. But--"
The crowd all started yelling inaudible things at eachother and panicking, and I had to supress a laugh because the whole thing was starting to seem like a bad, unorganized circus act.
"QUIET!!!" Jack yelled, banging his fist on the podium. "I'M STILL TALKING!!!"
Although it wasn't like anyone could HEAR him over their own indignant squealing and panicked yells.
"EVERBODY SHUT UP!" I yelled at the top of my lungs (which is REALLY loud), standing up so fast my chair fell over.
They were quiet immediately.
A few seconds of awkward silence passed.
"Um..Thanks, I guess," Jack said, startled by my sudden outburst. "So, ANYWAY... As I was saying, yes, these are humans. But it's NOT the end of the world and it's NO BIG DEAL, okaaaay?"
The townspeople were starting to second-guess him.
"Okay?!" Jack said again, more forcefully this time.
"Oh, uh, right," Some people in the crowd said, nervously laughing.
"Great! With that said," announced the mayor, "Who wants cookies?"