GW: Here's when Allen arrives back home with some Christmas surprises for his town. Let's see if the town-members are as excited about Christmas as Allen was. Enjoy and Happy Halloween! (I'm a hippie for Halloween, just to let you know)

Town-Meeting

Meanwhile, back at Halloween Town, all of its citizens were frantically searching for the Exorcist King. "This has never happened before!" Po the Cat shouted, clutching his head.

"It's suspicious!" Tomo exclaimed melodramatically.

"It's peculiar," Kagura whispered sadly.

"It's creepy!" Osaka cried terribly until Tomo smacked her on the head.

"Stand aside!" Mung shouted, shoving Her and Eduardo out of the way as he moved through the crowd; his mustache turned downward. "Coming through!"

"Watch it, old man!" Her snarled.

Mung ignored the lobster girl, climbing on top of his mayoral car and shouted nervously, "We have to find Allen! There's only 365 days until next Halloween!"

"364 days!" Ginta corrected.

"Is there anywhere we've forgotten to check?" Mung asked.

"We looked in every mausoleum," Erol reported as Anya, the Maaka clan, and Duckula nodded in agreement.

"We opened the sarcophagi," the Witch Bakaheads chorused in unison.

"I tromped through the ocean, the World That Never Was, and Kingdom Hearts," a sponge dresses as a pirate captain named Spongebob reported, his right leg having a Nobody Dusk biting on to it.

"I peeked behind the one of the Cyclops' eye!" Stitch cried out.

"You did?!" Mei and Nina asked, totally amazed.

Mung groaned, smacking his forehead. "It's time to sound the alarms, people!" Grim Jr. saluted, turning to a cat-looking alarm. He started turning its tail and it let out a screeching sound.

In Eggman's castle/laboratory's kitchen, Lenalee and her friends gazed from out the window and looked a bit worried. "I hope the boys are alright," Misaki asked, worried about Naruto. "Us too," Cream and Georgie said in worry, concerned about Bug and Chowder.

Lenalee turned away from the window, went to the cupboard, and pulled out the jar of herbs she collected earlier in the graveyard. "Lenalee, don't do something that will make Eggman angry at you again," Komui warned his sister.

"Relax, brother Komui." Lenalee picked up the jar and brought it over to a soup in a cauldron they she was making for her creator. The robot girl dumped a bit into the soup and jumped back from the bad smell it emitted. "Gross," Georgie gagged as Cheese made disgusted noises. "Rat's Breath will overpower any odor," Lenalee declared, pulling out another jar and opened it, pouring the contents into the soup.

But the smell was too strong and she started coughing. "This smells like brother's laboratory," Lenalee coughed, turning the cupboard again. "I resent that!" Komui said indignantly.

"Worm-spit," Lenalee whispered to herself. "Where's that worm-spit?"

"Hey, is that soup ready yet?" Eggman's voiced echoed from another part of the castle.

"Coming, Mr. Eggman!" Komui shouted as Lenalee dumping the jar of worm-spit into the cauldron and sighed with relief as the smell settled. "Good, now let's hurry so we can leave," Georgie said.

Meanwhile, Eggman was looking over some of his projects at work. He lifted a bit of his head to reveal a brain, which he scratched a bit.

"Lunch!" Lenalee called, as her friends watched from behind the door, as she set the plate of soup in front of Eggman, who closed his head.

The scientist looked at it hungrily and gave it a sniff. "Hey, what's that? Hmm…worm-spit, alright! And…Rat's Breath?"

Lenalee gulped. "What's wrong? I thought you liked Rat's Breath."

"Nothing's more suspicious than Rat's Breath!" Eggman said fiercely. "Until you taste it!" He slid the bowl in front of Lenalee and held up a spoonful of soup. "I won't swallow a spoonful until you do!" Misaki, Georgie, Cream, and Cheese gasped as Komui groaned, "We're doomed."

"I'm not hungry," Lenalee said nonchalantly, "accidentally" knocking the spoon out of Eggman's hand. "Oops!"

"You want me to starve…" Eggman said in disgust. "A guy like me who hardly has strength as it is! I, to whom you owe your very life to!"

Lenalee was bending down, sliding the first spoon out of sight and pulled out a trick spoon with holes in it from her boot. "Oh, don't be silly." Lenalee placed the trick spoon in the soup, making sure that the soup has gone through its holes. She then took a sip from the empty utensil. "Mmmm, see? Delicious!"

Eggman had to accept that. He gave his word that'd if she took a spoonful he'll eat. "Hmm, guess its just paranoia," Eggman shrugged, picking up the bowl and drinking the soup. "Yes," Misaki, Cream, Georgie, and Komui whispered in success as Lenalee waited anxiously for her sleep potion to take affect.

Everyone sat around the green fountain of Halloween Town, totally exhausted from their search for Allen and his group. "Did anyone think to explore the cemetery?" Mung asked dully, resting on top of his car. "We checked it five times," Babbo groaned.

Suddenly, everyone heard a distant sound. "You guys hear that?" Kagura asked.

A sound that sounded like…"It's Naruto, Chowder, Bug, and Timcanpy!" Minia exclaimed.

Mung's mustache turned up as he saw Timcanpy leading Allen, Naruto, Chowder, and Bug, who were riding in a strange red and green snowmobile with a large sack, through the town gate. "Allen's back!" Minia, Junior, Mei, and Nina exclaimed joyously.

"Where have you been?" Mung asked as the boys pulled the snowmobile up to the mayor's car.

"Call a town meeting and I'll tell everyone all about it!" Allen grinned excitedly.

Mung looked nervous again as he asked, "When?"

"Immediately!" the boys declared loudly as Chowder stuffed his face with a pie.

A large bell above the Halloween Town Hall started ringing thunderously. Mung rode this snail-car through the town, shouting, "Town meeting, town meeting, town meeting tonight, town meeting tonight!" Back at Eggman's castle, Lenalee carefully laid a blanket over the snoring Eggman and patted his head nicely. "Come on, let's go, Miss Lenalee," Cream said in excitement.

Later, Lenalee, her brother, and friends wandered into the town hall and took a seat at the far back, since nearly all the residents of Halloween Town had taken the front. Just then Allen had walked onto the stage and stood behind a podium as Naruto, Chowder, and Bug watched from behind the curtain. "Oh, boy, look at all these people!" Naruto whispered in excitement as Chowder bounced up and down until Bug stopped him

"Listen, everyone!" Allen said into the microphone. "I want to tell you all about…Christmas Town."

The lights in the hall dimmed, and Mung stood by a light projector, pointing the spotlight at Allen who began to sing (I never knew Allen could sing in the first place).

Allen: There are objects so peculiar.
They were not to be believed!
All around, things to tantalize my brain!

It's a world unlike anything I've seen,
And as hard as I try,
I can't seem to describe,
Like a most improbable dream…

But you must believe when I tell you this,
It's as real as my Akuma weapon and it does exist!
Here, let me show you…

The exorcist pulled on the curtains' rope. The curtains slid aside and revealed things that have never before been seen by the eyes of the citizens of Halloween Town. A Christmas tree, multiple presents and other Christmas-related objects. Everyone gasped and gazed in wonder and awe. What were they in for? Bug waved nervously a she hissed to his two buddies, "Play it cool, everyone."

Allen sang as he held up a present, "This is a thing called a present. The whole thing starts with a box…"

"A box? Is it steel?" Ren Maaka asked.

"Are there locks?" Karin added.

"Is it filled with the pox?" Anju inquired.

"A pox?" Anju's doll, Boogie, repeated. "How delightful, a pox!"

"If you please," Allen said, rolling his eyes. "Just a box with bright-colored paper and the whole thing's topped with a bow…"

"A bow?" Tomo asked as she and her fellow idiots flew up to Allen.

"But why?" Osaka demanded.

"How girly," Kagura declared.

"What's in it?" the threesome said together. "What's in it?"

"That's the point of the thing, not to know," Allen explained, but then Po took the present out of Allen's hands.

"It's a bat?" Po asked hopefully, shaking the box and listening to it.

"Will it bend?" Grim asked curiously.

"It's a rat?" Po said.

"Will it break?" Mandy said coldly.

"Perhaps it s the head that I found in the lake," Numbuh 3 suggested.

Allen snatched the present back and sighed, "Listen now, you don't understand. That's not the point of Christmas land…" The teenager set the present down before he held up a large sock. "Now, pay attention: We pick up an oversized sock, and hang it like this on the wall…"

"Oh, yes! Does it still have a foot?" Spongebob asked.

"Let me see, let me look," a mini-Spongebob asked, popping up on Spongebob's head. "Is it rotted and covered with gook?"

"Um, let me explain," Allen said with sweat-dropped look. "There's no foot inside, but there's candy, or sometimes it's filled with small toys!"

"Small toys?" Nina, Mei, Minia, and Junior repeated.

"Do they bite?" Minia asked.

"Do they snap?" Mei asked as her panda Xiao Mei snapped her little jaws.

"Or explode in a sack?" Junior said in excitement.

"Or perhaps they just spring out, and scare girls and boys!" Nina declared.

"What a splendid idea!" Mung declared. "This Christmas sounds fun, I fully endorse it! Let's try it at once!"

"Everyone, please now, not so fast!" Allen shouted, holding up his hands. "There's something here that you don't quite grasp…" Everyone in the crowd then started muttering unsurely to themselves. Allen sighed, "Well, I may as well give them what they want, you guys…"

"Sure, let 'em have it," Bug said dully as Naruto and Chowder nodded excitedly.

Allen started to grin creepily and said in a dark voice (hard to picture, huh?), "And the best, I must confess, I have saved for the last!"
Allen: For the ruler of this Christmas land,
Is a fearsome king with a deep mighty voice,
Least that's what I've come to understand…

And I've also heard it told,
That he's something to behold,
With a fierce guard dog and all dressed in blue

As he sets out to slay with his rain gear on,
Carting bulging sacks with his great, strong arms!
That is, so we've heard it said…

And on a dark, cold night,
Under full moonlight,
He flies into a fog,
Like a black-bottomed eagle in the sky!

Everyone was at the edge of their seats, clinging to their armrests as Allen was about to give his big, great end…

"And they call him…Wakey…Claws…" Allen finished with a dark, sinister grin, his fingers extended like claws and dark red light surrounded him as he chuckled creepily. "Guys, Allen's going freaky on us," Chowder gulped as Bug sighed to his pal, "Don't worry, Chowder; it's just a charade."

Everyone enthusiastically started clapping and whistling for their total approval. As the curtains closed in front of him, Allen, with his pals next to him, sighed as he picked up a snow globe, shook it, and placed it on a table. "Well, at least they're excited, but they don't understand…That special kind of feeling in Christmas land…oh, well…" Allen shrugged as his friends shrugged in reply.

Allen: I didn't know I could sing, or be creepy like that!

GW: Yeah, I bet some of us didn't know either, Allen. Anyways, yes, Wake Elementia is going to be Santa, because he's just a jolly kind of guy in a way. So, read, review, and suggest 'til next time. Happy Halloween!