Chapter 4 Halloween and Christmas Town
(Kate POV)
Right when we landed I saw Rayna going back to the room, when she came back, the hair tie was removed yet though she still had her ponytail , but her locket remained.
"I just didn't want to lose a gift," she said, "that's all."
"I understand," I said.
Just as we left the ship, our appearances changed drastically for us. Oswald was…half skeleton I suppose, I mean some of his bones were showing after all.
Rayna now had cat ears, paws and a tail that were black and her face was slightly altered, giving the fact that she now had a more feline appearance because of her new cat-like nose. Her locket was replaced with a collar-like choker with a gilded bell and her clothes now had rips that were repaired and patches.
Looking at myself, I wasn't any different, I had wings with black feathers, and most of my clothes were now a darker shade of the color they were normally in. I felt my teeth with my tongue, I had fangs too.
"Can we go yet?" Rayna asked, her new tail wrapped around her legs, was she scared?
"Not yet," Oswald said, "we need to meet up with Jack Skellington."
"Do we have to?" Rayna asked.
"We do, he can't be lost from this world or else who knows what will be lost," Oswald said.
"Oh…okay," Rayna said.
We left for his house where we saw him busy overlooking some sort of blueprint.
"I know something's missing, but what?" Jack asked to himself.
"Hiya Jack, haven't seen you in a while," Oswald said.
"Hi Oswald, and you two, it's a pleasure to meet you two," Jack sad.
"I'm Kate," I said.
"I'm…I'm Rayna," she said.
"It's a delight to meet you both," Jack said.
"I'm scared," Rayna whispered, it was so faint, I could have barely heard it.
"I know, how about you three help us with our performance," Jack suggested.
"I…I'm sorry, I can't…I might mess up and ruin everything," Rayna said, her tail wrapped once again around her legs.
"Oh I see, how about you come to watch the celebration then?" Jack asked.
"Sure, I'd be okay with that," Rayna said.
"And how about you Kate?" Jack asked.
"Actually, I would rather just stick with Rayna, to make sure she's okay," I said.
"Oh well then," Jack said, hope to see you around then," Jack said.
"How about a walk then Rayna?" I suggested which she nodded to agreement.
(Rayna POV)
I hope that the walk would be okay, Oswald was staying behind just to help around, but we left for our walks which lead us through the woods. Slowly as we saw more light, I unwrapped my tail from my leg.
"Are you okay? You've been wrapping your tail around your leg a lot since we got here," Kate said.
"I'm just a little scared, that's all," I said.
"Well, let's see where this trail leads," Kate said, "it doesn't look like it has been used in a long time."
"O-okay then," I said.
I am honestly scared; Halloween is not my favorite holiday. As we were walking we noticed trees with doors on them. The doors were interesting, yet though they were all intriguing.
"Hey Rayna, let's go through that one," Kate said pointing to the one shaped like a Christmas tree.
"Okay," I said as she led me inside as we both fell and snowflakes completely surround us.
When I opened my eyes, I saw that I was in possibly normal clothes. I was wearing coal black boots that went to almost my knees and was lined with fur to keep my feet warm, slightly-thick black tights as well, a bright red skirt also lined but with white wool at the hem that went past my knees. I had on a red sweatshirt, the hood lined with fur and the edges lined with white wool and it slightly passed my waist, barely reaching my knees with a black belt around to keep it secure. When I felt my neck I still felt a collared choker, except, it had a ribbon-like pattern and where the bell once was, was now smaller bells that were equally apart.
Looking at Kate, she was no different, wearing an almost identical outfit except green and the skirt and sweatshirt being a bit shorter and lined with grey fur. She didn't have the choker collar around her neck like I do; but then again, she was wearing a small red Christmas hat that was probably having a strap to keep it on.
"Christmas Town," I muttered to myself.
"You've seen it from your dreams?" Kate asked.
"No, but it is beautiful, there's snow, lights, it seems, peaceful," I said, "but with heartless around, there is no idea what could happen."
"Come on, how about we look around then?" Kate asked, "then we'll have to go back to Halloween Town to get back to Skylight Era, now do we?"
"Yeah, let's make the time worth it," I said.
"Yeah, sure, let's go," I said, "Who knows how much time we have."
Walking around, I was at least having some ease with this visit, and ended up right in front of Santa.
"Well, Miss Rayna Kagami, I'm sorry about your home, however we were able to salvage some belongings of your home world's residents," he said, "please come with me."
Giving each other questioning looks, we in the end, followed him. We were led to his workshop; I was amazed by how it was. How organized it was, and unlike the movie I saw months ago, it was elves, not abominable snowmen building the toys.
"I believe this belonged to you once Rayna," Santa said handing me a somewhat thin rectangular object that was wrapped, "I would have delivered it to you on the appropriate day, but however, I wouldn't know where to find you since you are no longer in your home world."
"What is it?" I asked.
"Open it, don't worry I wouldn't mind," Santa said.
Carefully I undid the careful work they must have put into wrapping it for me, when I finally saw what it was I was surprised.
(Kate POV)
"My…my sketchbook, it's all here, my drawings, my dreams," Rayna said flipping through, "but how? Was this even my work?"
"It's all you," Santa said.
"But how?" Rayna asked, "How is this even possible? I thought I lost it for good."
"Maybe but some things always seem to come back to who it belong to," Santa said, "It found its way back to you."
"Thank you so much," Rayna said, "now if only we knew of a way to get back to Oswald."
"There is a way, through the Holiday Trees, I have a small car that could take you back if you want to," Santa said.
"Thanks but we don't know how to drive," I said.
"It's okay," Rayna said, "we could just walk back."
Walking somewhere, looking for this holiday domain's Holiday Trees, eventually finding a forest, all the trees already decorated. Okay, not that questionable seeing how Halloween Town's forest was practically dead. Walking deep into the forest, stepping on icy crystals of snow, we soon came upon the Holiday Trees; they circled the only patch of ground here not covered by snow.
Finding the Door that lead to Halloween Town, we went through, going back in our Halloween guise, finding ourselves back at the Holiday Trees at Halloween Town. And there, it was Jack Skellington there as well.
"Oh you two, there you are, what were you doing here?" Jack asked.
"Just looking around, why?" Rayna asked.
"What was beyond this door then?" Jack asked.
"Another holiday, different from here," Rayna said, "that holiday being different makes these two holidays special."
"Oh really," Jack said, "I want to see it for myself, Zero guide these two back to their friend."
Just like that Jack opened Christmas' door and went towards it while Zero guided us back to town and went back to Jack, a faithful dog-like ghost.
"Oh hey guys, everything is taken care of, we could leave now if you two would like," Oswald said, "Sora can open the gate when he comes."
"Open the gate?" I asked.
"I'll tell you later," Oswald said, "we should get back to Skylight Era first."
(Rayna POV)
When we got back to Skylight Era, I quickly had excused myself to go to the bathroom to take a quick bath and sing my melody to myself, when I finished I found them at the cockpit playing a card game.
"I'm sorry for taking too long," I said.
"Don't worry about it, you didn't miss much," Oswald said, "now then earlier when I said gate, it meant that Yen Sid had found hidden pathways between worlds that can be opened. We can even take these pathways to unexplored worlds also."
"So then who's Sora?" Kate asked.
"Oh another Keyblade wielder same as you two, except he has been wielding the keyblade for at least a year longer than you two," Oswald said, "He's funny most of the times, but he is experienced and if anyone messes with one of his friends in another world, he gets very serious."
"That's good to know," I said, "so where are we going next?"
"Well Yen Sid gave me a list of unexplored worlds, we could try one of them," Oswald said, "but there are so many."
"Pick a random one and surprise us," Kate said, "it can't be that hard, can it?"