****Author's Note****

Takaaki & Miyako: *intense stare*

Me: What?

Shizuko: Please don't mind them, Len-kun. They are still mad at you for turning Takaaki back into a werewolf.

Danielle: How did that happen the first time?

Me: Well, let me show you using our brand-new flashback technology!

*flashback mode start*

Takaaki: I'm stuck in this wheelchair. I just want to get out of here! *black light falls*

*end flashback mode*

Daniel: That's what happened?

Me: Well it didn't happen like this:

*cutaway mode start*

Takaaki: Die you werewolf! *shoots silver bullets**gets bitten*

*cutaway mode end*

Shizuko: That was pretty random.

Me: You know it. I'll be using this new technology for the rest of the series. Anyways, I don't own Powerpuff Girls Z. All I own is the plot and OC's of this fanfic. Enjoy part II of our Halloween chapter and please

Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubbles Part 2

"Oh, come on!" Takaaki yelled as he realized that he turned back into the werewolf the black light originally turned him into.

"Taka-chan! Are you okay?" Miyako said.

"Do I look like I'm okay? I've turned back into a monster!"

"Wait a minute. 'Back'!" the twins called. Blossom whispered something in their ears before they realized the situation.

"Maybe we should follow the zombies. If that's what turned you into that thing, maybe it can turn back to normal." Bullet said. After Miyako transformed, they followed the zombies to a graveyard, they spotted the zombies returning to their graves.

"Happy Halloween, Powerpuff Girls Z. I am the Game Master." said a figure standing on top of a mausoleum. It was wearing a black butler outfit, a cape, a pair of red gloves, and a top hat.

"Ahem!" Bomber called.

"Powerpuff Girls and one Boy Z"

"That's better!"

"Anyways, I would like to congratulate you for solving the first puzzle. As you can see, I have transformed your friend. That is part of the game."

"A game! We're not playing a game with you! Just change him back to normal!" Bubbles yelled.

"I'm afraid I can't do that. You can only change him back if you win the game."

"Fine, we'll play." Miyako said as she and Takaaki glared at the figure.

"Excellent! Before I explain the rules, I'll tell you the stakes: if you win, your friend will be changed back to normal. If I win, he will stay that way forever."

"What are the rules?"

"They are simple. Complete twenty tasks by sunrise. Each task consists of a puzzle you must solve in order to complete it. When you complete a task, you have to come back to me get a clue for the next one, so no splitting up."

"That's just bogus!" Buttercup said.

"One more outburst like that and I'm adding more."

Buttercup sneezed

"Twenty-one!"

"That was just a sneeze!"

"Twenty-two!"

"I'm sorry!"

"Twenty-three!"

"You a*****e"

"Okay, twenty-two tasks. Your next task is here at the graveyard. Place all of the items in the cauldron in the right order. Your clue is 'Macbeth'. Game start!" The puffs flew to the cauldron in front of the Game Master.

"What kind of clue is 'Macbeth'?" Blossom asked, poking the cauldron.

"I-I think I know what it means. I read about it before. I think I know what order it is." Bunny said.

"Lead the way, Bunny." Bubbles said.

A few lines of Shakespeare later...

"Congratulations, you completed the second task." the Game Master said as he aimed his hand at the cemetery gate. In a flash of red light, a figure appeared. "For your next task, you have to beat this vampire without using your weapons or powers. Game start!"

"I swear to God, if that thing starts sparkling, I'm gonna rip off its m*****f***ing head!" Buttercup yelled.

VAMPIRE used SPARKLE! But nothing happened!

BUTTERCUP used RAGE! A critical hit! It's super effective!

The whole time Buttercup and the vampire were fighting, Blossom and Bullet had their eyes covered. Bomber was staring at the fight with a scared look on his face. Bunny was cowering behind Bomber with a scared look as well. Takaaki had his paws covering both his and Bubbles' eyes. After the fight was over, if I had to describe what happened, this fanfic would be rated M, so let's just say Buttercup used a shovel to carve out a wooden stake from a large branch to impale the vampire. She actually did something completely different, but it's much too gruesome to tell.

"Wow...that was...quick." the Game Master said as he pointed a hand toward the ground in front of the Puffs. A large table appeared in front of them. "Welcome to Memory lane! Select one person to play. Choose wisely. Should you fail, then you have to try again in an hour."

"I'll do it." Blossom said

"Are you sure about that?" Buttercup asked. "What about the time you forgot what that Chinese man said about feeding that mogwai after midnight?"

*flashback mode start*

"Momoko, I don't think it's a good idea to feed that mogwai after midnight." Kaoru said as she watched Momoko try to give the creature a piece of cake.

"What's the worst that could happen?" the red Puff said as she shoved the cake into its mouth. The creature started to morph into a beast of pure evil.

"What is that thing!" Miyako yelled, pointing at the beast.

"It's Barney the Dinosaur!" Kaoru yelled

"Oh my God! Kill it! Kill it!" Momoko shouted as she grabbed a table and began repeatedly striking the beast over the head while Kaoru was striking it with a baseball bat and Miyako was hitting it with a golf club.

*end flashback mode*

"That was last year. I'm sure I can do this." Blossom said

"Okay, we have our player. Now, I need you to memorize this series of symbols in three seconds." The Game Master showed some symbols on the mausoleum. "Now, I need you to recreate this series using the symbols on the tiles on this table. You have five minutes. Game start!"

Five minutes later...

"Congratulations. Now for the next task."

"This whole thing is rigged!" Takaaki snarled "There's no way we can complete these tasks before midnight!"

"Sleep!" Takaaki fell asleep as soon as the Game Master said that. "Now, for your next task, you have one of Herculean proportions. If you succeed, you only would have 6 tasks left. Should you fail, you're back up to 22 tasks. Only here you all can split up. Game start!"

"Wait a minute," Bomber said," What about our clue?"

"I gave you one. You need to listen carefully, though."

20 minutes later, at 2000 hours...

"Come on, give us another clue!" Buttercup yelled.

"Hold on, Buttercup. He said that we had to complete 22 tasks before midnight, right?" Bullet asked

"Yes. What about it?"

"He also said we would have 6 tasks left after we finish this one, right?"

"Yeah, what of it?"

"I think I get where you're going with this, Bullet." Bunny said. "We already completed four tasks. If we finish this, then we would have 6 tasks left. That means this task is twelve in one."

"Still, I don't get what we have to do." Bubbles said as she stood by the still sleeping Takaaki.

"Okay, so this one task is actually twelve tasks of Herculean proportions. I really don't know what to do here." Blossom said.

"Blossom! You've got it!" Bomber said. A question mark appeared above the heads of all the girls except Bullet. "Just follow our lead."

Twelve tasks later, at 2200 hours...

"Tell me why I was the one who had to clean the oxen stables?" Bomber asked as the six returned to the graveyard. He was covered head to toe in ox manure holding a belt.

"We all drew straws for the tasks we had to do. I mean, I had to fight and kill the lion and the hydra. How do you think I feel?" Bubbles said to Bomber. She was dragging the Nemean Lion behind her.

"At least those labors are less stressful than getting the belt from the Queen of the Amazons."

"Who was that?" Buttercup asked. She was dragging the Cerberus from the Underworld and the Cretan Bull.

"Was it Himeko?" Bunny asked. She was carrying several of the Stymphalian Birds and ten golden apples from the Garden of the Hesperides.

"Yep."

"I feel sorry for you." Blossom said. She was dragging the golden Hind of Artemis and the cattle of Geryon.

"You have every right to be." Bullet said as she struggled to control the Mares of Diomedes and the Erymanthian Boar.

"Congratulations. You finished Hercules' Twelve Labors. The next five tasks are only for that boy Takaaki's girlfriend." The Game Master said as he made the various beasts and objects the Puffs were holding disappear, including the manure Bomber was covered in.

"What do I have to do?" Bubbles asked.

"It's very simple. For each one of the five tasks you have to do, you have to defeat one of your fellow comrades and take their compact."

"What! I can't do that!" Bubbles yelled. Blossom put her hand on Bubbles' shoulder.

"Don't worry about us. Just do it for Takaaki." Blossom told her friend.

"But...but..."

"But nothing!" Buttercup yelled "If it's for Takaaki, then go ahead! Shoot us with your best shot!"

"Wow, this is the most boring fight I've ever seen." The Game Master said with a mouth full of popcorn. He was sitting on a lawn chair on top of the mausoleum with popcorn in one hand and an extra large soda in the other.

"Miya-chan!" Takaaki yelled as he woke up.

"Taka-chan?" Bubbles asked as she noticed her childhood friend snap awake.

"Don't do it! Don't sacrifice your own friends for my sake!"

"But..."

"We'll find another way! Just don't do it!"

"Wow, maybe I should of thought of this before making something so cliched." The Game Master said as he sipped some of his soda.

"Bubbles, I don't want you to lose your friend. My brother and I already lost someone we really cared about. We don't want the same thing to happen to you." Bullet said, putting a hand on her shoulder. "My brother and I have come to an agreement. Please accept this as a token of our surrender." Bullet handed over the yellow compact on her belt and Bomber's watch.

"Same here!" the rest of the Puffs cried as they handed over their compacts.

"Didn't see that coming, but still, that's pretty fair. On to your next task!" the Game Master yelled as he swallowed his popcorn and put down his drink.

"You turned my Taka-chan into a monster as a part of your game for your own amusement and tried to force me to fight my friends while you enjoyed the show. I'll never forgive you!" Bubbles shouted. As she and the rest of the Puffs charged at the Game master, a maroon flash hit him.

"You will pay for what you did to me and the Puffs! Especially Miya-chan!" When the Puffs looked in the direction of the voice, they saw Takaaki on top of the Game Master, bearing his fangs. His claws pinned his hands to the ground of the graveyard. His jaws were snapping at the Game Master's face as the claws started to dig in.

"Heh. At my command, you shall destroy the Powerpuffs!" the Game Master yelled as he pointed his fingers at Takaaki. "For your final task, Takaaki's girlfriend and her friends must defeat her boyfriend!"

"Yep, this is clichéd all right." Buttercup said as she took back her compact.

Hold, on, hold on, Game Master. Turning Takaaki against the Puffs wasn't in the script. What was supposed to happen was that you fight the Puffs yourself, but you surrender after Takaaki almost bites your head off.

"Change of plans, Len. Takaaki, take him out!"

Oh jeez! Takaaki, get off me! Puffs, I need your help here! Takaaki looks like he's gonna eat me!

"Sorry, Len. Only his girlfriend can help you now."

"Wait a minute, game Master! Each task has a puzzle to complete it, right? If this is one of the tasks, then where is the clue!" Blossom yelled as the rest of the Puffs were trying to pry the author away from Takaaki, but to no avail.

"My dear, this time your clue is what you see."

"THAT'S BULLS***!"

"Deal with it." The Game Master said as he disappeared.

Blossom, a little less swearing, a little more HELP ME OUT DAMMIT!

"Fine, fine."

Licorice Whip!

Blossom wrapped her yo-yo around Takaaki's torso. As that happened, Buttercup knocked him to the side with her hammer, taking Blossom with him.

"Bubbles, why don't you do what you did last time?"

"I've got it! When he said the clue is what you see, that means this happened before!"

Shabon Freedom!

In a few seconds after being trapped in a large bubble, Takaaki was freed after it burst. Instead of the werewolf, there stood a familiar young blonde boy.

"Well," Blossom said. "Now that that's over with, let's go trick-or-treating and get us some candy!"

"Actually, it's past eight already." Bomber said.

"What does that mean?" Buttercup asked.

"Trick-or-treating in America ends at eight. After that, no one gives out candy. Besides, I doubt that people here in Japan celebrate it." Bullet said.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"

Miyako & Takaaki: *stares at author*

Me: What? I turned you back to normal like I said I would.

Takaaki: Just make sure you don't do it again.

Me: Fine, I won't. To make it up to you, how about I make you a regular on the show?

Miyako: Really?

Me: Yeah. You should be happy too. You'll be dating him for the rest of the series.

Miyako:*squeals in excitement and hugs Takaaki*

Me: Well, I hope I have time to write more. Just so you folks know, I will be introducing a new Puff every five or so chapters until all seven extra positions are filled. Next time, Shizuko and Daniel go on a date, but the Gangreen Gangs show up to ruin it and they can't transform. Stay tuned and please review.