Amphibia: Secrets of Newtopia

by Autonomous Ultra Instinct

Anne, Sasha, their siblings, Grime, and the Plantars and toads are heading out on a quest to unlock the mysteries of the Calamity Box as they leave the cozy confines of Wartwood for the distant city of Newtopia. On their journey, they will visit exotic new locations, uncover hidden secrets, and experience unexpected reunions as they continue to search for a way to get them home.

12. Chapter 12

A/N: Happy Halloween, everyone! This month was full of surprises outside my line of work. Like the recent "Dragon Ball Super: SUPER HERO" Son Gohan (Beast) Release Celebration Campaign in "Dragon Ball Legends". That was really cool, especially considering I got LEGENDS LIMITED Beast Gohan 12 days ago first before Power Awakening Piccolo and then Pan (both of which are from the new movie). And that's not all! Just 10 days ago, I pre-ordered "Sonic Frontiers" for the Xbox One! Just 8 days shy of release... I just can't wait! I'm giddy! And since October is ending tonight at midnight, I thought I'd celebrate Halloween by waiting until today to post this Halloween Special. I think you'll like it. :)

Amphibia: Secrets of Newtopia

Chapter 12: The Shut-In

Act I: "Phone Mo"

One day in Wartwood, an autumn leaf blew out from a branch, carried by the winds as everyone was gathering around for supplies.

"Happy Shut‐In!", the frog spoke before closing the door.

"Thank you.", a child, wearing a knight's helmet, thanked as he left with said supplies as Anne, Sasha, and Marcy, accompanied by Polly, Sprig, Ivy, Rose, Pat, Alexis, and their triplets, were at someone's doorstep when Anne knocked on the door.

"Stay inside, hide your eyes, give us practical supplies!", the gang spoke.

"Oh, you're just in time. I've got one last box of nails. And they're rusty.", Felicia said as she handed some nails to the gang as they held out bags.

"Ooh.", Anne spoke.

"The good stuff!", Sprig added.

"Thank you.", the gang thanked.

"Happy Shut‐In, kids.", Felicia waved.

"You too, Felicia.", Anne said.

"Happy Shut‐In!", Polly said.

"Right back at ya!", Sprig said.

"Happy Shut-In!", everyone else waved.

"Ooh. Man, this is a workout.", Anne said.

"Not for me. But explain this holiday to me again.", Sasha said.

"It's not a holiday, Sash. It's the annual Blue Moon Shut‐In.", Sprig said.

"Wait, Blue Moon? As in Blue Moon berries?", Marcy asked.

"Don't know how that's related, but yes.", Ivy responded.

"We need the supplies to survive through the night.", Polly added.

"Huh. Well, you know, we have a similar thing in our world called Halloween.", Anne added.

"We say 'Trick or treat,' and people give you free candy.", Marcy added.

"Free candy! What's the catch?", Polly asked.

Play Descendants Music: "Keep Your Head on Halloween"

"If they don't give it to you, you get to play a trick on them.", Sasha added before laughing maniacally.

As the song proceeded, while Anne sang, a chilling wind with leaves around it blew past her. Then, Marcy noticed a spider on her hair before Sasha flicked it off of her with Marcy noticing her shadow in someone's house through the window, much to the frog's puzzlement, if not worry.

Anne: Is someone there or just a chill in the air?

Do you hear that whisper when the wind blows?

Marcy: Feels like there's spiders crawling all in your hair,

In the dark, there's a shadow in the window.

Sasha: You can be afraid or you can be a fright

But you can't run from the fun tonight...

All: Oh, take me to the tomb

Where we dance like the banshee,

Howl at the moon scream

Ah, a nightmare or a dream

Don't be scared of the dead,

Keep your head on Halloween.

Anne: What's that I thought I heard?

Something wicked, not from this world.

Sasha: Zombies marching, dragging their feet,

Look out! Vampires crossing the street,

Marcy: Spirits rise in the night, out goes your flashlight.

You can't unsee what you've seen,

Keep your head on Halloween.

Anne: Oh, take me to the tomb

Where we dance like the banshee,

Marcy: Howl at the moon scream

Ah, a nightmare or a dream

Sasha: Don't be scared of the dead,

Keep your head on Halloween.

All: Oh, take me to the tomb

Where we dance like the banshee,

Howl at the moon scream. (Howl at the moon!)

Ah, a nightmare or a dream

Don't be scared of the dead

Keep your head on Halloween,

Keep your head on Halloween.

End Descendants Music: "Keep Your Head on Halloween"

"That is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard.", Polly gasped in awe.

"What thing? The song about our holiday? Or Halloween in general?", Marcy asked.

"YES!", Polly said ecstatically.

Then, Hop Pop arrived, accompanied by Sylvia.

"Hey, kids. What'd y'all get for tonight's Shut‐In? Show me the goods.", Hop Pop grinned.

"I got a hatchet.", Polly spoke, getting it out.

"I got a first‐aid kit.", Sprig added, getting it out.

"I got this weirdly knitted mask!", Ivy spoke, holding out said mask.

"I got a mace!", Sasha added.

"I got this crossbow!", Marcy added.

"I got a flamethrower!", Anne added, getting out and using said weapon before, surprised and jealous, Polly tossed her hatchet on the ground and pouted.

Meanwhile, everyone was getting ready to board themselves in, although one villager accidentally banged his hand with a hammer, earning his scream.

"Ooh. Been there.", Stumpy responded.

Even Chuck was making a big jack-o-lantern from the inside before he stepped out, covered in pumpkin seeds.

"I need a bath.", Chuck said.

"You guys sure this isn't a holiday? You even have jack‐o'‐lanterns.", Sasha asked.

"Those are fear gourds, Sasha, and, yes, I'm sure.", Sylvia said.

"What do you mean?", Anne asked.

"The Shut‐In is dangerous, for tonight the moon turns blue, and anyone who gazes upon it becomes a hideous beast!", Hop Pop explained.

"What?!", Sasha and Marcy shouted in unison.

"And is this true or just a legend? 'Cause sometimes it's hard to get a handle on what's real around here.", Anne puzzled.

"No one knows, Anne.", Sprig said.

"And no one wants to find out!", Hop Pop responded.

"Ever.", Polly added, popping up from inside Anne's hair.

"You guys are really close to my face right now.", Anne said.

Then, everyone arrives back home just as Jackie, Allison, and Max finished boarding everything up from the inside while Yunan, however, was training inside the house and broke some things no doubt.

"Dang it, Yunan! What did I tell you about training indoors?!", Hop Pop exclaimed as he got off and went inside.

"That's GENERAL Yunan to you!", Yunan retorted.

"Hey, guys!", Jackie greeted, her voice muffled through the planks as her eye peeped from one of its holes.

"We just finished getting everything ready!", Allison added.

"And they're all in place!", Grime added.

"Whoa. So when you say 'shut‐in,' you really mean it, huh?", Marcy asked.

"It's actually kinda nice. We sit by the fire‐‐", Sprig began as he places sleeping goggles on Bessie's eyestalks.

"And tell spooky stories.", Polly added.

"And Bessie hides in her shell till morning.", Sprig added as Bessie hid in her shell while he placed a door in front of the hole and switched the sign from "Open for business" to "Do not disturb".

"Cool! Let's get this holiday started.", Anne spoke eagerly.

"It's not a holiday, Anne.", the Plantars and Sundews scolded together.

"Fine. Okay.", Anne said.

"Would you grab the rest of the decorations from the cart?", Hop Pop asked.

"It's totally a holiday.", Anne scoffed.

"I heard that!", Hop Pop retorted.

Meanwhile, in Newtopia, in the lab, Andrias spoke with Melkor.

"Are you sure any of this is necessary? I mean, I can understand targeting Anne, Sasha, and Marcy, but the peasants at Wartwood? We'd crush them easily.", Andrias stated.

"I am not so certain. Not with the moon turning blue this time of year…", Melkor spoke.

"What do you mean? Don't they usually hide indoors?", Andrias asked.

"Perhaps… But that is why we need to know for certain... Azog! Prepare your orcs for departure and invade Wartwood! Then, we'll see how much of a threat they pose…", Melkor commanded.

"It will be done, my lord.", Azog nodded with a bow before leaving.

"But what will you do?", Andrias asked.

"I will keep watch and monitor his progress. But first, perhaps a touch of fear is in order...", Melkor spoke, crafting 3 trails of black mist, which took off one at a time.

Inside, Jackie was quite worried over what is planned inside the house.

"Hop Pop, are you sure that stories are necessary with them around? How can they handle them if they can't even handle their own nightmares?", Jackie asked worriedly.

"Then, just be sure to cover their ears. Remember, the stories have to have actually happened and be scary enough to remind us‐‐Not to go outside!", Hop Pop warned in a deep, scary voice.

"ABSOLUTELY NOT! There will be no scary stories, NOT TONIGHT!", Jackie shouted, shocking everyone except Pat and Alexis.

"But why? How else would they learn not to go outside?", Hop Pop asked.

"Sorry, Hop Pop. It's just... I haven't told you about the movie night incident.", Jackie explained.

"There was an incident?", Hop Pop asked.

"Yeah. 'The Fly' Incident.", Jackie explained.

"And I think you need to know.", Pat said before it flashed back to one night at Marcy's house.

"From what Marcy said, it all started on movie night back at her house.", Pat began as she was shown setting up a movie for the kids.

"Okay, kids. Who's ready to watch a movie?", Marcy asked, getting said movie out.

"We are!", the Wu triplets spoke excitedly.

Then, after the movie was started up, it seemed to go well, a first, but about half an hour later, the triplets were squealing and wailing in horror, prompting Marcy to rush over and see them terrified before going to the present.

"But when they're halfway done, they were scared senseless. And they were traumatized. Ever since, they've always been scared of little flies.", Pat explained just as a fly entered, freaking out the triplets as they screamed and hopped away, hiding behind the couch.

"Oh, yeah. I forgot about that! You know, if they were going to have a scary movie, they should have the art match it.", Marcy stated.

"The point is, we made a vow never to do anything scary with them around since. They've been through enough as is.", Jackie responded.

"So, how about we put it this way? We'll try and tell stories to the triplets that we don't think is scary. And if they do end up scared, they have to go to bed.", Sasha suggested.

"A challenge, huh? I like it. I'm in.", Yunan grinned.

"I have to stress, Yunan, that it is NOT a challenge.", Jackie stated.

"It is to me.", Yunan spoke eagerly, only making Jackie groan.

"Okay, kids, who wants to go first?", Sylvia asked.

"Ooh, ooh! I do! This is the first year I have one that's really scary.", Polly said, making the triplets whimper.

"Polly!", Jackie glared.

"Oh. Well, at least one that isn't too scary because they were here and it actually happened.", Polly explained.

"Mm-hmm.", Jackie nodded suspiciously.

"Really?", Rose asked.

"Yep. I'm telling the story of... 'A Night at the Inn!' I was traveling with my family on a stormy night. Little did I know, I would soon come face to face with cannibals and soul-robbing orcs!", Polly exclaimed as it showed the inn at the storm before then showing the Plantars and Boonchuys out in said storm.

"Uh, Polly? We were all there for that.", Anne said.

"We all wewe.", the triplets agreed in unison.

"We weren't.", Marcy, Sasha, their siblings, Grime, Bombina, Yunan, Braddock, and Percy said in unison.

"Feel free to tell us this sometime.", Grime added.

"Oh, right. Hmm. Gimme a minute. I'll come up with another one. Someone else go!", Polly urged.

"Ooh, I got one.", Anne spoke.

"You kidding? Me, too!", Sasha shouted.

"Same here! Wait a minute. What if we all tell our story?", Marcy added.

"But how do we know if we all have the same story?", Anne asked.

"Girls? Group huddle.", Sasha said before she, Anne, and Sasha huddled together and all whispered.

After a few moments, they broke up the huddle.

"Okay. We all have the same story to tell.", Marcy spoke.

"Now, this didn't happen to us, but it did happen to our phones.", Anne added.

"That's right. So, get ready for the tale of...", Sasha began before she, Anne, and Marcy all spoke in unison.

"'Phone Mo!'", the trio finished.

"Phone what?", Sprig puzzled.

"Well, 'Phone Mo.' Like FOMO‐‐ fear of missing out‐‐ but with your phone!", Marcy explained.

"I still don't get it.", Sprig responded.

"Me neither.", Polly concurred.

"I think you need to run it by me when this is over.", Bombina said.

"I literally did not understand a word of the phrase you just said.", Yunan added.

"Try to make sense, girls.", Hop Pop agreed.

"Just let us tell our story, Hop Pop!", Sasha snapped.

"Anyway, it took place at our school, Saint James, just 2 weeks before Anne's 13th birthday.", Marcy said as it then showed Anne looking at her phone when Sasha and Marcy turned up.

"What's up, Anna Banana?", Marcy greeted as she and Sasha walked up to her.

"'Sup, Sash and Mar-Mar? Check this out, guys.", Anne said, showing her two friends a skateboarding video.

"I'm totally skateboarding‐‐", the skater chuckled.

Unfortunately, he skated right into a cage at the back of a truck with numerous raccoons in it.

"Aw, shucks.", the skater spoke before screaming as they attacked him, earning the trio's laughter.

"Classic.", Sasha grinned.

"Hilarious.", Marcy added.

"Comedy has truly peaked.", Anne chuckled.

Just then, Jackie, Allison, and Max approached.

"I don't see anything funny about this, especially not his misfortune.", Jackie spoke.

"Yeah, girls. Have a heart.", Allison added.

"How would you feel if you were in his position?", Max added.

"Oh. Well, if I'm being honest, terrified by those raccoons?", Anne asked.

"Exactly. And worst-case scenario? You'd end up bed-ridden in a hospital due to multiple lacerations on the first degree from your legs to your face! In other words, bad scratches.", Max stated, earning Sasha and Marcy's sharp inhales.

"Wow. Cuttin' deep, man.", Anne responded.

At that moment, Margot and Vince appeared.

"'Sup, Sasha, Marcy, Boobchuys.", Margot greeted, making Anne growl slightly.

"What do you want?", Jackie sneered.

"Have you guys seen the latest trending cute animal video?", Margot asked.

"Wait, what?", Jackie puzzled.

"Cute animal?!", Marcy shouted.

"No!", Anne added.

"I need this!", Sasha exclaimed.

"Show 'em, Vince.", Margot smirked.

"Wait! Wait. Is there some kind of catch?", Max asked.

"Uh..., yes. You got me. Word is, people say this video is cursed and everyone who watched it has...", Vince began before playing an ominous guitar solo.

"...mysteriously disappeared.", Vince finished in a fittingly tense mood.

"So, ready to watch it?", Margot asked.

"I..., I don't know, guys. Is it really worth the risk? What if the curse is real?", Jackie asked.

"If it's a curse, usually, nothing good comes from that.", Allison added.

"You may be right, girls.", Anne sighed.

"Yeah, or... you may be wrong! Show us the video!", Sasha said before Vince played said video with children laughing on video and Marcy squealing.

"Maybe we could watch just a little?", Anne asked.

"No, Anne. Be strong.", Jackie refused.

"Yeah. It's called a cursed video for a reason.", Allison agreed.

"Aw, that's so cute!", Marcy beamed.

"See?", Margot smirked.

"But look how happy they are.", Anne whined.

"But I said, BE STRONG!", Jackie snapped as she and Allison dragged Anne away.

Later, the group was now in the hallway.

"Thanks, Jackie. I, for one, am glad we didn't watch that video.", Anne thanked.

"Right? Just because everyone else is doing things doesn't mean I have to. Unless it comes to important things like class and schoolwork.", Jackie said.

"Yeah. Trust me. It pays to have some autonomy for a change.", Allison responded before the bell rang.

"Oop! Time for class. Gotta go.", Allison said as she and Jackie left.

After a moment, though, Anne slowly snuck closer to the vending machine and squeezed herself between it and the lockers, her sneakers squeaking.

"Autonomy, shunonomy. It's video time, baby!", Anne beamed before she started up the video and saw it with an animal being shown in it as he played around with children laughing and a fly buzzing around.

"Oh! Man, what even is this little gremlin? Cutest... video... ever. So worth it.", Anne beamed as she gave a like comment before noticing something peculiar.

"Wow. Not a single dislike or negative comment. Looks like this is the one video on the Internet that everyone loves. Weird.", Anne spoke before getting out. surprising a student who happened to be near the lockers.

"Very weird.", Anne said, continuing forward.

Meanwhile, Jackie was starting to be at odds herself in a different hallway.

"Okay, Jackie. Pro? It's just a cute animal video. Con? It might be a cursed cute animal video. But pro? It's just so darn cute!", Jackie squealed before then watching it herself.

"Aww...! It really IS cute!", Jackie beamed before typing in a positive comment and posting it.

But upon doing so, she noticed the same oddity of multiple likes and no dislikes.

"Huh? That's odd. It doesn't have any dislikes at all. But why? All videos have dislikes. Of course, the number varies, but still. Something's just not right here.", Jackie pondered to herself.

Back at the Boonchuy household, Mr. Boonchuy was at home looking around on the computer when he noticed something: a video said to be the cutest animal video ever.

"Well, that's odd.", Mr. Boonchuy puzzled.

Then, he heard a voice.

"เฮ้! Are you going to help out with making dinner?", Mrs. Boonchuy asked.

"In a moment, honey! Look at this. 'Cutest video ever!'. And it doesn't have any dislikes or bad comments.", Mr. Boonchuy spoke.

"You're not gonna click on this video, are you?", Mrs. Boonchuy asked.

"Absolutely not. I do not trust videos that have no dislikes.", Mr. Boonchuy said as he got off his chair and walked away from the computer.

"Good call.", Mrs. Boonchuy grinned.

"So, what are we making for dinner tonight?", Mr. Boonchuy puzzled, neither of the two parents knowing that the triplets were sneaking in toward the computer and saw the Cutest Video ever display.

"Aw. Cute aminal.", the triplets spoke in unison before checking the video out.

It seemed harmless enough, but eventually, when the creature hopped closer and closer, it sent out a zap toward the 3 triplets, practically pushing them off the chair. The sound attracted the two parents' attention.

"What was that?", Mrs. Boonchuy puzzled.

"We'd better check it out.", Mr. Boonchuy suggested.

Little did they know that when the triplets were forced off, they started groaning as if have a headache. A moment afterward, they went through the most awful changes: first, their ears changed, then they grew tails with rings on them. Then, their normal eyes morphed into a play icon for one eye and a pause icon for the other before glowing red with their bodies then poofing all the way into long-eared, furry monsters just as Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy rushed back in in time to see the three monsters that were born, much to their horror as they gasped before the little monsters snickered mischievously as they slowly turned to them with crazy eyes and then lunged right at them.

Back at Saint James School, Cotton was watching Anne, Sasha, and Marcy curiously from above where no one could see her.

"Mrewe?", Cotton puzzled, tilting her head to her right.

"Gonna eat my sandwich into a square. 'Cause if I spit along the edges, then I don't have to share. And they say I'm not talented.", Anne sang to herself.

"Not a bad beat, Boonchuy.", Sasha grinned.

"Look, all I'm saying is that since it's a cursed video, nothing good ever happens with videos like this. What if they trap you inside the video forever? For all we know, it could actually be a monster that turns you into another one like it.", Jackie said in worry.

Then, Margot arrived, looking worried.

"Whoa. Margot, is everything okay?", Sasha asked.

"Vince's gone missing. One second he was with me, the next, only his phone was there. You don't think the curse...", Margot began.

"Is real? Pfft. Nah. He's probably just playing a prank on you.", Anne interrupted.

"Right, right. It's just a prank.", Margot said nervously.

But just then, the light started going off and on.

"Rew!", Cotton squeaked, vanishing quickly before anyone could see her with Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, Allison, and Max looking up to see the light going off and on.

Just then, both Anne and Jackie's phones showed a brief glimpse of the monster before disappearing, going back to the video with the cute animal, but this time, it showed Vince and another man in there with him.

"Ah! What the...", Anne exclaimed with Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, Allison, Max, and just as surprised as she dropped her phone onto the table with her phone showing said video before then switching to a black screen with everyone laughing a bit nervously.

"I'm sure it's nothing.", Anne said.

"I'm not so sure...", Jackie worried.

"You know what...? Me neither.", Allison agreed.

"Let us know if you find Vince. This could be big.", Max said before he and the others left, not knowing that Cotton reappeared.

"Rewe?", Cotton squeaked puzzledly.

Just then, Margot's phone rang and when she picked it up, she wound up seeing a video that left her worried.

"No! No! AAAH!", Margot shrieked as the three triplet monsters leapt out and dragged her inside the video.

"Me-we!", Cotton squeaked in panic before fleeing from the school and vanishing.

Later, Anne was at home with Sasha and Marcy watching a movie.

"Your puny resistance stands no chance against my undead horde!", the lich king in the movie discouraged.

"I know what you're thinking. The resistance stands no chance against the Lich King's undead horde.", Marcy spoke.

"Totally.", Anne responded, pretending.

"But little do they know, the whole battle is just a distraction so that our heroes can sneak into the castle and and destroy the Crystal Crown of Tantamore.", Marcy added, brandishing a straightening iron.

"Whoa! Spoiler alert!", Sasha said, holding her phone.

"Sorry. Sorry. It's such a good movie and I get carried away.", Marcy apologized.

"Mar-Mar. I'm joking. I don't actually care.", Sasha responded bluntly before Marcy only paused.

"Phew! At least I didn't ruin the second twist where it turns out-", Marcy began before she got slammed by a pillow.

"Pillow fight!", Anne and Sasha shouted before the trio laughed and giggled as they had said pillow fight before then collapsing into the floor with giggles just as Marcy noticed something and then went right near the TV.

"Ooh, guys, here comes my favorite part!", Marcy beamed before she only heard snoring.

"Guys?", Marcy asked before she saw Anne and Sasha sleeping.

"Oh. You guys fell asleep again.", Marcy chuckled a bit, removing the blanket form around her neck and placing it onto the two girls before turning back to the TV.

"You'll never defeat us, Lich King.", the movie hero began before Marcy continued.

"Not when we have the power of friendship.", Marcy and the Movie Hero spoke in unison.

Then, all of a sudden, Jackie, Allison, and Max burst in, waking Anne and Sasha up.

"GIRLS, WAKE UP!", Jackie shouted, catching the trio by surprise.

"Wha?!", Anne and Sasha exclaimed.

"Jackie? What's wrong?", Marcy asked.

"Listen. Vince, Margot, and the triplets have all gone missing!", Jackie exclaimed.

"The video.", Anne realized before Sasha gasped.

"That means the curse is real.", Sasha realized.

"Sure looks that way. Good thing neither of us watched it, right?", Allison asked before Anne and Jackie groaned.

"No...! No, you didn't!", Max exclaimed.

"We're weak, okay?!", Anne exclaimed.

"Okay, look. Panicking isn't getting us anywhere. Nothing bad will happen as long as we don't use our phones and...", Jackie began before they suddenly heard familiar laughter.

"Wait... Is that the triplets?", Anne puzzled.

Then, the gang all ventured out and then took a look to notice a lone phone inside 4 more creatures than there should be originally with Vince and Margot laughing almost as if forced to with Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy on the same boat with another man inside with a long beard.

"Wait a second. Is that...?", Anne began.

"Mom...?! Dad...!", Jackie gasped.

"Margot. Vince.", Sasha added.

"They weren't missing... They got sucked in!", Marcy gasped.

"And those laughters coming from those things... they're our triplets!", Jackie realized in horror.

"Hey, help me! I've been trapped in here for 35 years!", the man pleaded, making the gang scream in horror as Anne's phone was dropped before it started to levitate and give off electrifying sparks before going to the cursed video.

"I do not like where this is going.", Anne spoke, afraid, before the 4 creatures leapt over to the phone screen and then crossed through to Anne's reality as she, Sasha, Marcy, and Jackie screamed before the main creature and the four triplets turned monsters arrived.

"Ah! Stay away from me, you adorable beast!", Anne shouted.

"And give us our triplets back while you're at it!", Jackie shouted as she and Anne assaulted them with plush toys and a magazine.

"Take that! And that! And that!", Anne shouted as said items were tossed.

But that proved to be another mistake. The 4 monsters suddenly grew bigger and scarier.

"What the...?!", Sasha spoke in shock as everyone else gasped before the four enlarged and enraged monsters turned and roared loudly, their eyes now glowing red with one each right eye being a play button icon and each left eye being a pause icon, much to the horror of all four.

Act II: "Dead End"/"Party 'till You Drop"

The four monsters roared at the four children.

"Oh, my gosh.", Marcy spoke in shock.

Then, Anne looked to her right and then picked up her plush guila monster toy.

"I'll save you, my love.", Anne spoke before tossing it at the monster, which only served to anger them as while the main monster captured Anne and prepared to drag her into its mouth, the other 3 did the same for Jackie, Sasha, and Marcy.

"You know, now that I've gotten a closer look at you, you are not cute at all!", Anne shouted.

"What do you expect from a filthy, lowly monster who took our triplets away from us by turning them into monsters like it! It's pure evil! And I HATE PURE EVIL!", Jackie shouted.

This unexpectedly caused the main monster to whimper only to shake its head for recomposure and roar again. But as for the other 3, once they whimpered, they started turning back, but only a little bit as their tails shrunk.

"Wait... Did you girls just see that?", Sasha asked.

"See what? That horrific, monstrous face?", Anne asked before it whimpered again as did the other 3 before their bodies went back to normal, though not quite the same yet, but are getting there.

"Wait. That... actually hurt its feelings?", Anne asked.

"Huh...?", Lily moaned.

"What happened?", Danny puzzled as Andy moaned.

"Of course! That's why it had no dislikes! Any negative comment or dislike is basically its weakness!", Jackie realized.

"And somehow, it's causing the triplets to turn back to normal.", Marcy added.

"Can't take criticism, huh? Well, in that case...", Sasha smirked before she rolled over to her phone and picked it up.

"Dis... like!", Sasha shouted, sending a dislike to the creature by means of sending an electric current through its tongue, shocking it.

"Everyone! Get out your phones and start hating!", Jackie shouted before she, Anne, and Marcy got out their phones and sent dislikes one at a time.

"Dislike!", Jackie shouted, shocking the creature.

"Dislike!", Anne shouted, also shocking the creature.

"And... Dislike!", Marcy shouted, shocking the creature, too.

As they went disliking the triplets wound up turning more and more back to normal as their fur got shed off, their ears shrank, and their eyes went back to normal.

"And now, for the final touch, a nasty comment.", Anne spoke before typing said comment into the message box just as the creature recovered.

"Worst video ever!", Anne typed.

"It's getting back up, Anne!", Marcy spoke in worry.

"No, you don't!", Jackie shouted before she leapt onto the monster and held it back as the triplets recovered and saw her fighting the monster.

"Big sister...?", Lily asked.

"Anne! Take the shot!", Jackie shouted as the monster growled, trying nearly successfully to break free.

"Into the trash it goes!", Anne shouted, sending the message straight toward the monster, who lurched out its tongue at her only for the nasty comment to hit it, causing it to puff up and blow up, not only knocking Jackie back, but also freeing Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy, Margot, and Vince in the process.

"Well, consider me traumatized.", Mr. Boonchuy spoke.

"What the heck is this stuff?", Mrs. Boonchuy puzzled.

"I do not know, and I'm pretty sure I don't want to.", Jackie responded.

"Guys, you're okay.", Jackie spoke in relief.

"Jacqueline? Anne? What happened here?!", Mrs. Boonchuy asked.

"A lot of crazy stuff, that's what, Mom. But one thing's for sure: that's the last time I succumb to any kind of peer pressure.", Anne assured as she hugged her parents

Evidently, the man who was trapped inside for 35 years was also here.

"Well, I should probably go reconnect with my family.", the man spoke.

"Yeah, maybe you should.", Mr. Boonchuy agreed before the stranger then fell out the window and landed on the ground, making a cat screech while everyone else inhaled sharply with a wince.

"Ooh, but not like that!", Mr. Boonchuy added before Margot got a notification on her phone.

"Guys! Check it out: this crazy new burger place just opened on the haunted side of town. Everyone's doing it. Come on, let's go!", Margot spoke.

"No! Evil!", Anne and Jackie snapped in a panic, surprising everyone before Margot only scoffed a bit.

"Suit yourself, Boobchuy. Come on, Vince. We're out of here.", Margot spoke as she and Vince left.

"What do you know? This IS the last time she's falling for peer pressure.", Mr. Boonchuy beamed.

"Well, one can hope.", Mrs. Boonchuy sighed.

Then, Anne sighed.

"Well, guess it's time to clean up this mess...", Anne groaned.

"Not alone you're not. We're gonna help you.", Sasha assured.

"What?", Anne and Jackie puzzled.

"You'd both do that for her?", Mr. Boonchuy asked.

"Even after being such a bad influence on Anne?", Mrs. Boonchuy added.

"Hey, don't push it. Still, we practically made our mess. The least we can do is clean up.", Sasha assured, surprising Anne and Jackie.

"Besides, I'm sure it shouldn't be too hard what with it only being splatters and big dark eggs or life-sized boba everywhere...", Marcy added.

"Just get to it before we change our minds.", Mrs. Boonchuy interrupted seriously before she and her husband went out the room and went downstairs.

"Okay. Starting now.", Marcy agreed before she and Sasha got started as did Anne and Jackie.

"Thanks, girls. I really appreciate it.", Anne thanked.

"Well, that's what friends are for, Anne.", Marcy grinned.

"Wow... If only Sasha is actually that caring more often.", Jackie said in surprise as she followed the others.

However, as soon as they left, the triplets seemingly started turning into monsters again with their ears poofing back into long furry ears again and gave cute giggles before opening their eyes, which turned into play and pause icons again, glowing red in the dark.

"The end.", Anne finished.

"Not bad.", Hop Pop spoke.

"Scary.", Polly agreed as Sprig clapped.

"I'll say.", Ivy agreed.

"Yeah. No kidding.", Jackie agreed, gesturing to the scared and frightened Boonchuy triplets (this time only half as frightened compared to earlier).

"Come on. Let's get you to bed now.", Jackie said, picking up Lily.

"Rose, can you help pick up Andy and Danny?", Jackie asked as she left.

"Okay.", Rose replied, picking up Andy and Danny before following her.

"I have to say. I'm really impressed with this story.", Grime stated.

"Me, too. But it looks like you lost this one, Anne.", Yunan sneered before the phone beeped, making everyone gasp in shock before Anne checked her phone and saw a sort of Birthday cake emoji with Wally's name below.

"Oh! Just a calendar alert reminding me it's Wally's birthday.", Anne spoke.

Meanwhile, Wally was sad and alone with only a cake small enough to be eaten in 3-4 slices as he played his accordion.

"Do you think he'll be okay?", Marcy asked.

"I'm sure he's fine. All right, Polly. Back to you.", Anne spoke.

"All right, all right. Here we go. Once upon a time, an entire town got taken over by zombie mushrooms in a story I like to call... 'Children of the Spore.'", Polly spoke.

"We wewe thewe fow this, too.", Danny said.

"Yeah, that story's no good either.", Hop Pop agreed.

"We were there.", Anne said.

"Been there, done that.", Sprig added.

"That was actually my fault.", Hop Pop added.

"All right, all right. Someone else go.", Polly sighed.

"Okay, I've got one. And it's the scariest one yet.", Hop Pop spoke, making the triplets gasp in fear.

"Or probably not.", Hop Pop assured, making them sigh in relief.

"It's called... 'Dead End.'", Hop Pop said in a scary voice as it showed the words on a tombstone before it then showed Hop Pop wandering the road on Bessie, and with long, wavy, blonde hair to boot in the shape of Elvis' hair.

"Long ago, when I was just a young frog, I got my first job as a wagoner. But never mind that. I had the most beautiful thicket of hair that Wartwood had ever seen. It had bounce. It had shine. It was so thick, when I ran my fingers through it, my hand would get stuck‐‐", Hop Pop narrated as he ran his fingers through it.

"Enough about the hair! Just tell the story!", Sasha shouted.

"All right, all right. Geez. So, one day, I picked up a very strange customer...", Hop Pop began.

"Whoa there.", Hop Pop spoke as he slowed down with Bessie slowing down upon her owner noticing someone on the road.

"Little did I know that THIS customer turned out to be...", Hop Pop began.

"Mr. Littlepot, I presume?", Young Hop Pop asked as Mr. Littlepot was seen holding his trademark golden pocket watch.

"You presume correctly.", Mr. Littlepot sneered,, closing his pocket watch.

Then, Young Hop Pop, or Hopediah, hopped off his wagon.

"Welcome aboard.", Hopediah offered.

"Mighty obliged.", Mr. Littlepot responded, tipping his hat.

"We'll stop at each of these addresses in order, if you please. And when I ask you to drive on, you do so. Understood?"

Mr. Littlepot climbed up to the wagon and set the tip of his staff on the ground.

"Can do.", Hopediah assured as he hopped back on and then started driving Bessie again.

"Now, for the matter of payment...", the customer began, taking out his money.

"Oh, nonsense. You can pay at the end. If you're satisfied with your service.", Hopediah assured.

"My, oh, my. An honest businessman? You are a rare sort, indeed.", the customer admired.

"So, what kinda business are you in?"

"Oh, let's just say I'm in the frog business.", Littlepot responded before giving a maniacal laugh.

This made Hopediah especially nervous.

"The frog business? Uh, ain't we all."

From there, Bessie arrived at the first stop and slowed down.

"Okay, stop number one.", the old frog said, getting out his list.

"Oh, hey. This is Old Man Hopkins' house. Poor guy's been laid up with red leg for weeks now."

"Oh, I'm sure it won't ail him for much longer.", the stranger grinched, sneering at his pocket watch before closing it upon the watch reaching the 45-second mark.

Then, he got off his seat and went inside.

"Huh. Probably woulda knocked first, but that's just me."

But then, all of a sudden, there was a loud crashing sound. After that, Littlepot left the house and closed the door, swirling his staff before hopping back on.

"Well, that was fast."

"Always is.", the stranger replied.

"Onto the next one."

"Okay."

But once the wagon started taking off, Hopediah heard a voice from behind, coming from inside the house.

"Mr. Hopkins? Mr. Hopkins, wake up!", the frog woman said in worry.

Hearing the concern in her voice scared him out of worry.

"Oh, uh, should we check on him?", Hopediah asked.

"I'm sorry, Hopediah, but it's very important we stay on schedule."

Sure enough, at the 2nd stop, there was an old frog woman washing the dish.

"Mama's little tadpole Loves shortbread Shortbread.", the woman sang.

The customer then checked his pocketwatch and then closed it again. Meanwhile, Hopediah noticed a 3-eyed snake with a scorpion's tail, not to mention a littler snake for a tongue, which then crawled its way inside.

"Is that a slaughter snake?!", Hopediah gasped.

"One bite from that thing could take out a frog in seconds. We gotta warn that lady!"

But when he turned, he saw that Littlepot wasn't here, but instead, walking inside the house.

"Huh? Okay, good idea. You warn her, and I'll watch the wagon."

But a second later, the frog woman screamed, unnerving the frog.

"Ma'am!", Hopediah shouted.

But right then, Littlepot tapped his staff on the seat, prompting Hopediah to turn to see Littlepot in shock.

"Time's a‐wasting, Hopediah.", the stranger sneered.

"But you‐‐ I heard a scream."

"Next stop, if you please."

"But that farmer lady...!"

"I am asking you to drive on. Are you trying to go against our agreement, Hopediah?", Littlepot spoke angrily.

Now, Hopediah at this point was conflicted. True, he did make an agreement earlier, but right now? He wasn't so sure it was a good idea for it now. Nevertheless, he continued onward, a haunting thought creeping up into his head.

"Boy, uh, we sure are running into a lot of bad luck today, huh? Why, it almost seems like Death is following us wherever we go."

Littlepot only placed his fingers on his staff one at a time.

"Following? Or riding in the back seat."

The moment Littlepot sneered with a lightning flash, it finally hit him: he was no ordinary customer. He was... the Frog Reaper himself! HE was the sole reason for what may be the untimely deaths of frogs from the last two stops!

"Aaah! You! I‐‐ But‐‐ No! Stay away from me, Frog Reaper!", Hopediash shouted in vehement fear as he stopped Bessie.

"Hopediah, please don't make a fuss.", Littlepot pleaded.

"I didn't do anything to those frogs. I'm like you, just taking them where they need to go.", Littlepot assured.

But Hopediah wasn't buying into this, still suspicious.

"Now... there's only one stop left, then this money is yours.", Littlepot offered.

In a deal like this, Hopediah doesn't like it, but he had to finish up. After all, he has a daily quota to finish. He got out his list and checked over it.

"Okay. Let's see here. Uh... Next stop is..."

But the moment he saw the final location, he was aghast with horror, for his final stop turned out to be... HIS HOUSE!

"No! My house?", shrieked Hopediah.

He then tried to plead to Littlepot to spare him.

"Don't take me! Please!"

"I'm sorry, Hopediah. Time's up.", Littlepot only refused before he got out his staff, which turned out to be a scythe in disguise as the sickle blade emerged from the raven's beak of the staff.

He laughed maniacally as lightning struck and he prepared to close in for the kill before... he DID! But there was a strange thing. Hopediah was still alive and well.

"I'm... alive? But then... Wait."

Then, he looked up and saw that he now has a bald spot where his head used to be. It wasn't his life that Littlepot was going to take. It was his hair!

"No. NO! MY HAIR!", Hopediah shouted, his voice echoing.

Littlepot laughed maniacally as he went over to the hairdo and picked up. Then, he took off his cap, revealing that he was bald this whole time. He even put the hairdo on his head.

"You've still got it, Littlepot."

The Frog reaper then clicked his tongue and then took off, his staff in hand.

"You've still got it."

With that, the story ends with a fog rolling in before it went back to the present.

"And that, children, is how I lost my hair.", Hop Pop stated.

"Hop Pop, that story was messed up.", Anne commented.

"Meh, I wasn't that scared.", Sprig said.

"Oh, you will be.", Hop Pop warned, making Sprig widen his eyes.

"No, I don't think we will. And a good thing, too.", Jackie said as she and Rose walked in and gestured to the Waybright and Wu triplets giggling.

"That's a funny story.", Abby giggled.

"All the same, I think the ending for that story is just WEAK! I mean, seriously? THAT'S how you first met Mr. Littlepot?! I know we last met back on Newtopia, but come on.", Grime said.

Well, it's a good thing I know just the story to shake off the boredom. I call it... 'Party 'till You Drop'!", Sasha said.

"It better not be scary, Sasha!", Jackie warned.

"Don't worry, it's a funny one. It all started we were getting ready to go to a Halloween movie.", Sasha began before it then faded to show her, Anne, Marcy, Jackie, Rose, Allison, Pat, Max, and Alexis were getting ready to leave.

"Aw yeah-a! Halloween movie time.", Anne spoke up excitedly.

But just then, Mr. and Mrs. Boonchuy walked out.

"Ah, ah. Where do you think you're going?", Mrs. Boonchuy asked.

"Uh, going to the movies.", Anne responded.

"That's all well and good, but you and your friends better at least bring your triplets with you. You are watching them, after all.", Mr. Boonchuy reminded.

"Just wanted to be sure you remember that.", Mrs. Boonchuy added.

"Oh. Yeah.", Anne realized as the triplets walked out and accompanied Anne, Jackie, Rose, and their friends.

"Just try not to get into trouble. I MEAN it.", Mrs. Boonchuy urged with a glare.

"We have already called a bus for you guys. It should be on its way here right now. So, just be careful on your way there.", Mr. Boonchuy added.

"And good luck.", Mrs. Boonchuy added before she and her husband went back inside and closed the door.

"Okay, Dad.", Anne waved.

"But how long do we have to wait for the bus? It's gonna be a long time before it...", Sasha began before suddenly, a bus showed up.

"Oh. That was fast.", Sasha said in surprise.

"Need a ride?", the bus driver asked.

"Uh, could you take us to the movie theater downtown?", Jackie asked.

"We'll take you wherever you need to go. Climb aboard the party bus, and join the party.", the bus driver assured.

"Cool!", Rose and Pat beamed.

"I don't know. Something doesn't feel right.", Max said.

"Yeah, I'm calling a red flag on this one.", Allison added.

"That makes two of us.", Jackie agreed.

"Come on, guys. This could be our one and only chance to party on the go!", Sasha urged.

"Besides, he did say that he'll take us to where we need to go. Which happens to be the movies in this case.", Anne added.

"Plus, we'll watch the triplets while we're there.", Marcy assured as said triplets giggled.

"Well..., okay. But he just better keep his word.", Jackie agreed as everyone got on board, some of which were hesitant to do so.

Unfortunately, the remaining passengers failed to see a sign on the bus that says "The Party's Killer". With that, the bus drove out of the neighborhood just in time for an actual bus to pull up. At that moment, the two parents rushed outside.

"Wait! You for got your phones.", Mr. Boonchuy spoke before noticing the normal bus that they were supposed to take, not to mention the other bus that just left.

"Wait a minute. What was that bus doing here?", Mrs. Boonchuy puzzled.

"Oh. So, that would explain where those children went. Too bad for them.", the bus driver said.

"What do you mean by that?", Mr. Boonchuy asked.

"It's the cursed party bus. From what I heard, once people get on it, they never make it off.", the bus driver said.

This not only made the couple concerned and worried, but determined as Mrs. Boonchuy got out her phone and dialed up both the Wu parents and the Waybright parents.

"Everyone, no time to explain, but we've got a party bus to catch.", Mrs. Boonchuy spoke determinedly.

Meanwhile, as a stormy weather was setting in outside, with everyone got on-board, they saw other people on the bus partying.

"Hoompa de boompa.", Jackie said in surprise.

"Welcome, fellow citizens, to the party bus!", the first party guy greeted.

"Party bus!", the rest of the party people shouted.

"Oh, yeah!", Anne shouted.

"Now that's a party!", Sasha grinned.

"Sweet!", Marcy added excitedly.

"But guys, this is crazy!", Jackie shouted.

"I know, right?", Anne grinned.

"Come on! There's some great costumes in here!", Rose added.

"Come to think of it, there must have been some kind of sale on white wigs. Like George Washington.", Alexis stated.

"Soda?", Sasha asked, handing a cup of it to Anne.

"Thanks.", Anne said, taking the soda cup.

But all of a sudden, she started to grow taller, much to her surprise.

"Whoa. Is it just me? Or did I suddenly grow a couple of inches?", Anne puzzled before she suddenly grew a few feet higher.

"Okay. Make that a few feet...!", Anne said.

Then, suddenly, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, Allison, and Max went through the same thing, earning their gasps.

"Uh, I don't think you're the only one, Boonchuy.", Sasha said in worry.

"I think that's the least of our problems, guys. Look!", Marcy said, pointing to a couple of people getting older.

"Are they all right?", Marcy asked.

"Oh, yeah, they're cool. Just partied a little too hard, I guess.", the first party guy assured before leaving.

But of course, Sasha was starting to be unsure herself.

"No, I've seen people who partied too hard, and that's not it.", Sasha said.

Then, Jackie noticed something surprising.

"Aah! Rose? And Pat and Alexis, too?", Jackie asked.

"What's happening to us?", Rose asked, starting to be afraid.

"Okay, guys. Don't freak out, but I think one of two things is happening. Either we're growing into giants or we're getting older.", Anne said.

"How are any of those two good, Anne?!", Max asked, almost in panic.

"I said, don't freak out, Max!", Anne retorted.

Meanwhile, the 6 parents were tailing after the Party Bus, driving after it.

"I can't believe our kids are trapped in this cursed Party Bus!", Mr. Waybright exclaimed.

"And whose fault was that?!", Mrs. Waybright glared.

"How was I supposed to know that they'd get on this party bus?!", Mr. Waybright exclaimed.

"Stop arguing! None of us knew that it was the party bus that they'd get on.", Mr. Wu snapped.

"He's right. All that matters now is that we have to get our children back.", Mrs. Wu agreed.

"But how? The party bus just isn't going to stop.", Mr. Boonchuy puzzled.

"Then, we'll just have to make it stop.", Mrs. Boonchuy glared in determination before speeding up with the other cars zooming in as well.

Meanwhile, inside the party bus, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, Allison, and Max groaned as they grew taller with the first 5 getting slightly bigger chests and butts.

"How much longer until we can get to the theaters?", Allison asked in worry.

Then, Jackie peeped out through the window.

"Oh. Not much longer.", Jackie grinned.

But then, she noticed that that they passed the movie theater.

"Wait a minute! He's passing the movie theater. Driver, stop the bus! Let us off!", Jackie shouted.

However, the bus driver just ignored her and turned up the music, much to her disgust before she went to the others.

"Guys, the bus isn't stopping!", Jackie shouted.

"How are we gonna get to the movies now?", Lily asked before Jackie turned and saw that she, Andy, Danny, Rebecca, Abby, Sarah, Alex, Jamie, and Adam have all grown into their 10's, much to her shock and the others'.

"How did you grow up to be 10 already?!", Marcy shouted in surprise.

"I don't know...!", Danny said in worry.

"You can't stop now, the party's just getting started.", the first party guy said, looking old and frail as he leaned on Anne.

"You don't look so good, man.", Sasha said in worry.

"Yeah, how long have you been here?", Marcy asked.

"Fifteen...minutes.", the first party guy only replied before he then disintegrated into a skeleton and then into ash, prompting the gang to scream in shock.

"Okay, I'm really starting to think the getting older theory is more solid.", Anne said in worry.

"She's right! Those weren't white wigs! Everybody's getting older!", Rose shouted before Danny gasped as she pointed to Anne.

"Anne, your face!", Danny said in worry.

"What? Huh?", Anne said, noticing that she's all wrinkled up.

"You're getting older!", Marcy said in an elderly voice.

"So are you!", Anne retorted.

Sasha was now wrinkled up, too. As a matter of fact, Marcy was getting wrinkled up as were Jackie, Allison, and Max while the triplets started to grow into teenagers.

"We need to get off this bus now! Stop the bus, stop the bus!", Anne shouted.

"You can't stop the party bus once it's started. Right, everybody?", the bus driver asked.

But when the gang looked behind them, all they saw was dust where the citizens used to be, making them gasp in horror with some squeals of fear.

"What's that saying again? Party till you drop!", the skeleton spoke before his wrappings around him blow off, revealing that he's a skeleton, while he laughed evilly, freaking everyone out.

But, with a feral roar, Sasha furiously pounced on the bus driver and tossed him out the window, sending him crashing on top of the Waybrights' car, thankfully by the roof and not the windshield, all the more fortunate since he broke into pieces, still laughing, prompting the Waybright couple to scream, attracting Sasha's attention.

"Mom...?! Dad?!", Sasha shouted while turning and peeping out the window to see her parents.

"And there's our parents, too!", Marcy shouted.

"They're helping us!", Anne realized.

"Sasha! Jump off the window, now! it's your only chance!", Mr. Waybright shouted.

Unfortunately, the bus window closed by itself, trapping her inside and the others with her.

"No!", Sasha exclaimed, trying to force the window open.

"How's the door?", Sasha asked with everyone else near it only to discover the same problem.

"It won't open!", Marcy shouted.

"Agh! Guess I have to do this myself!", Sasha groaned before she sat in the driver's seat and stomped on the breaks.

But the breaks don't work.

"No! The brakes aren't working!", Sasha shouted.

"Try the emergency break!", Max shouted.

Then, Sasha pulled the emergency break only for it to break off, earning her shocked look.

As they grew taller, the triplets noticed the emergency hatch up above, giving them reason to hope as they gasped. From there, they tried to open the emergency hatch as, desperately searching around for another way with little to no time left to spare, she shifted the stick into reverse. When she did, the bus abruptly stopped just as the hatch was finally opened, which resulted with the dust from all the citizens on the bus landing on the rest of the gang with Allison coughing from said dust. As a result, the parents noticed that they overshot the bus and then suddenly stopped, screeching to a stop.

"That's odd.", Mrs. Waybright commented.

"Why did the bus just stop?", Mr. Waybright puzzled.

"Well, at least we still-.", Anne began before suddenly, the bus started going again, but this time, in reverse.

"Oh, no! We're not coming back without our kids!", Mrs. Boonchuy shouted before she vehemently sped up toward the backwards riding party bus.

"Come on, everyone! Let's show some road rage!", Mr. Waybright shouted before they drove off after her amidst the pounding rain.

"Why did you put it in reverse?", Jackie asked.

"It was the only thing I could think of!", Sasha shouted.

Then, Marcy looked at her hands, returning the gang to their real ages.

"Guys, look!", Marcy said in relief.

"We're getting younger!", Allison said in relief.

But unfortunately, the de-aging doesn't stop, since the bus is still in motion. Before anyone knew it, the gang started shrinking, turning them younger until they're kids again. Of course, the triplets were de-aging slowly.

"We gotta get off this bus!", Anne shouted.

"We can try the emergency hatch!", Rebecca assured, pointing to the hatch on the roof.

"Come on, everybody up!", Marcy shouted before Sasha helped lift everyone on top of the bus.

But when Marcy finally got out, she noticed almost all of them have turned into babies while the triplets were back in their teens again.

"Now what?", the gang asked.

"We gotta jump!", Lily shouted before she, Andy, Danny, Rebecca, Abby, Sarah, Adam, Alex, and Jamie each grabbed Anne, Sasha, Marcy, Jackie, Allison, Max, Rose, Pat, and Alexis before jumping off the bus and landing on the ground.

By that point, they have already arrived at the forest, never mind an edge of it.

"Owie...", Lily groaned before the Party Bus came apart, its driver's maniacal laughter heard.

"Phew...", the triplets sighed before the parents arrived and got off the cars.

But when they did, they widened their eyes and gasped upon seeing the triplets.

"Hi, Mom...", the triplets said altogether before, while the father's covered their mouths, the mother's fell to their knees in tears.

Of course, the triplets, feeling bad for them, went over to their parents.

"Don't cry, Mama. It's okay.", Lily assured.

Sure enough, the grieving Mrs. Boonchuy saw Anne in her arms, making her gasp upon noticing this.

For them, it turns out that everyone else was just as lucky, albeit turned into babies. And the sight of this, relieved the parents, the mothers more so as they gave tears of joy.

"Thank you for saving them.", Mrs. Boonchuy thanked.

"I've heard how no one escaped the party bus, but this is definitely the first time.", Mr. Wu commented.

"So, what do we do now?", Rebecca asked.

"We might need to make some adjustments when we all get home.", Mrs. Boonchuy said.

"I know how we can start. Why don't we do a family movie night?", Mr. Boonchuy grinned.

Then, everyone nodded in agreement and then left to go back home. Of course, Mr. and Mrs. Waybright turned to each other.

"You know? Since we know that Sasha's okay and all, but as a little baby, I got to thinking. Maybe we need to raise her again.", Mrs. Waybright suggested.

After a moment, the husband widened his eyes in realization, too.

"You're right. This could be our second chance. Not just for our marriage, but... for Sasha, too.", Mr. Waybright agreed with Mrs. Waybright nodding.

Then, it went to the Plantar's house with Sasha in tears.

"The end.", Sasha said, trying not to sob.

"Uh, was that supposed to be funny?", Allison asked before Sasha sniffed and calmed down a bit.

"Uh, yeah. 'The party's killer'. Get it?", Sasha asked.

"I don't think any of this is funny, Sasha. And for good reason.", Jackie responded, gesturing to Sasha's triplets whimpering as they trembled.

"Yeah, we'll go help tuck them in.", Pat offered as he picked up Abby while Allison picked up Rebecca and Sarah before going to a different room.

"That story was quite phenomenal, Sasha.", Grime grinned.

"Aw. Thanks, Grimesy.", Sasha grinned.

"Okay, Polly. You got your scary story?", Anne asked.

"No! No more scary stories!", Jackie exclaimed.

"There was a time when frogs lived in fear of a monster that lurked in the woods.", Polly began.

"Oh, here we go!", Jackie groaned.

"They once had giant heads...", Polly began.

"I feel like we've been here before. Have we been here before?", Jackie asked.

"...spindly legs and hideous face bumps! Ooh! Ooh!", Polly spoke with ghostly wails, showing her drawing before Anne realized what Polly meant.

"US?! Your scary story is US?!", Anne exclaimed in anger.

"Ugh! Way to spoil the ending, Anne.", Polly groaned.

Act III: "The Cursed Patch"/"Skin Deep"

"You're telling me we're the monsters in your story? Also, your drawing is insulting.", Anne said.

"Wah! You people are impossible to please.", Polly groaned.

"Oh, oh! Me next!", Marcy spoke.

"It better not be scary.", Jackie glared.

"Okay. now, gather around. And let me tell you the tale of, 'The Cursed Patch'!", Marcy spoke.

At the start of the story, Anne, Sasha, Marcy, and Margot were finished smashing pumpkins.

"Man, disposing of all of these pumpkins is the best part about Halloween.", Anne grinned, smashing a pumpkin.

"I know. Isn't this fun?", Sasha asked before smashing her pumpkin.

"Oh, man. Last one.", Marcy said, pointing to a huge pumpkin sitting right next to them.

"How do we even... I mean, what do we even...", Anne began.

"I know what to do.", Margot smirked.

Just then, Jackie walked out and widened her eyes in shock upon seeing the others smashing the pumpkins before rushing out and shouting.

"Out! Out! Get out! No more pumpkin smashing!", Jackie shouted.

"Why don't you just cool it, Boobchuy. We're just smashing pumpkins.", Margot sneered.

"That's exactly the problem! And you should know why. You see those two scarecrows over there?", Jackie asked.

"Uh-huh. Why?", Anne asked.

"Because they represent one of the farm's previous owners. You see, from what I've been told, there were only two things that the previous owner loved: his farm and his wife. They took great care of the farm together. But one day, his wife got sick and wasn't able to recover. So, in his grief, he set up 2 scarecrows together as a symbol of his lost love. After that, he took his own life. Now, his spirit and his wife's spirit are now eternally together connected to the land. And from then on, any foolish children who misbehave pay the price, which is why I'm telling you guys now: actions have consequences. So, please. Leave and you won't be hurt.", Jackie warned.

"Whoa. Okay. Sorry, Jackie.", Anne said, feeling remorseful.

"We had no idea. I promise we'll leave.", Marcy added.

"Really? Well, I say this is a bunch of baloney.", Sasha responded.

"Yeah. Let's get back to smashing.", Margot added.

"You want to smash pumpkins still? Fine by me. But don't say I didn't warn you.", Jackie said before leaving.

"You know? I think it's time we leave, too.", Marcy suggested before leaving.

"Hey, you said it, not me.", Anne agreed as she left with Marcy.

Then, Sasha gave a grinching grin as she got an idea; an awful idea; a wonderful, awful idea.

Later, it became known one night as Anne and Marcy were looking up cute posts of kittens.

"Oh, so cute!", Anne and Marcy beamed.

But then, all of a sudden, they noticed a social update post notification.

"Wait. Is that Sasha?", Anne asked.

"Let's see what that's about.", Marcy suggested.

But when she and Anne looked, they became horrified.

"Oh, no! She and Margot're gonna smash the scarecrow lady!", Marcy shouted.

"We have to get to that farm and stop them!", Anne urged.

And that's just what they set out to do. At the farm, Sasha and Margot were already in the field.

"Whoa. I don't know how, but... with this fog, it looks like some kind of... abandoned pumpkin patch?", Margot commented.

"Yeah, you're right. Weird. Important thing, though, we hit the jackpot! This party just got a whole lot pumpkiny-er!", Sasha beamed, pointing to the two pumpkin scarecrows dressed like pilgrims on two poles from earlier.

Then, the two knocked the female pumpkin scarecrow down with rocks, laughing.

"Ooh, I can't wait to see the look on Jackie's face when she sees this get pinned on her.", Margot snickered.

"All right, I got this one.", Sasha spoke before she jumped on the female scarecrow and smashed her with Anne and Marcy arriving too late as they shouted, "NOOOOOOO!", all of which was shown in slow motion. This causes debris to splatter all over the male scarecrow.

"NOOO! You fool! Do you realize what you've done?! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!", the present Sasha shouted dramatically before noticing that everyone was glancing at her and then clearing her throat with a blush.

"Oh. Sorry. Got too caught up with the drama here. Please continue.", Sasha apologized.

"Right. Anyway...", Marcy began before it went back to the story.

"You fool! Do you realize what you've done?!", Anne shouted.

"What have you done?!", Marcy added.

"Uh, smashed the pumpkin? I thought it was clear.", Sasha responded.

"Nope! You've done something far worse than that, Sasha! All this just because of some petty need to get back at her for telling you off?!", Anne exclaimed.

"You basically robbed this poor scarecrow of his own wife!", Marcy added.

"Well, if that's how you feel, then maybe we can smash this one, too. Maybe then he won't be so lonely.", Margot only smirked, about to smash him by grabbing his head. But before she could, he suddenly came to life and grabbed Margot's arms.

"YOU!", the scarecrow shouted, making Margot scream in terror as Fire was now coming out of his mouth and eyes before it then faded out after a moment, revealing his glowing red eyes and his mouth.

"You smashed my hot wife! Now you will reap what you've sown!", the scarecrow glared.

In no time, the scarecrow then turned the fear-paralyzed Margot into a pumpkin.

"You girls want to smash some pumpkins? Let's smash some pumpkins!", the scarecrow shouted before he then smashed Margot and collected the seeds, making them scream as the scarecrow laughed evilly.

"Scatter!", Sasha shouted before the gang ran away into a cornfield in separate paths, making the scarecrow follow one of them.

"Serpentine. Serpentine!", Sasha shouted as she ran.

The scarecrow then continued to follow one of them, which happened to be Anne. She was running and eventually decided to hide behind a mini tractor. The cursed scarecrow can tell somebody was nearby, but before he can make sure of it, he heard Marcy scream.

"ANNA BANANA! WHERE ARE YOU?!", Marcy shouted.

The scarecrow began to follow the sound and took off. Anne tried to escape, but she inadvertently rammed into the scarecrow, who was standing right behind her.

"What the...?! But you were...! How did you...?!", Anne exclaimed.

Before she could even find the words, the scarecrow roared as Anne screamed and was about to get away, but the scarecrow grabbed her ankle and started turning her into a pumpkin.

"No, no, no, no, no!", Anne shouted before she wound up turned into a pumpkin.

"I hope you like, SQUASH!", the scarecrow shouted before he stomped on pumpkin Anne, squashing her, and collected the seeds.

Meanwhile, Marcy ran into a barn and slid the door closed.

"There's no way he can get me in here!", Marcy said before, right after she said this, the scarecrow punched a hole through the door.

"Dumb!", Marcy scolded to herself.

"Gotcha!", the scarecrow spoke before she climbed up a ladder and ran for an open window. The scarecrow tried to catch her, but fails. Marcy looked down and saw that she was very high up.

"Whoa...!", Marcy spoke in surprise.

"Sorry, my dear. But you and your friend were just in the wrong place... at the wrong time.", the scarecrow sneered as he continued to crawl after Marcy.

"Remember to roll.", Marcy shouted before jumping out the window with a shout.

But the scarecrow managed to grab her by the back of her shirt.

"Come on!", Marcy spoke in frustration before she was then turned into a pumpkin.

"Got a ripe one here! Just in time for, FALL!", the Scarecrow sneered before he dropped pumpkin Marcy, causing her to splatter on the ground below, got down, and then collected the seeds.

Sasha was shown running into some reeds, but she tripped on a branch.

"Seriously?!", Sasha exclaimed.

The reeds were still rustling, causing Sasha to get up and run away until she's in a circle in the middle of the cornfield and panted as the reeds continued to rustle.

"Show yourself!", Sasha shouted before she heard the scarecrow laugh when the reeds started rustling again, quickly making her lose her nerves.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry I smashed your wife! Is that what you wanted to hear from me?!", Sasha shouted before the scarecrow appeared right behind Sasha, making her scream.

"NO! Not really...", the scarecrow growled.

"No... Please, let me go. I didn't know that sign was actually serious.", Sasha pleaded in fear.

"Of course it was! She was my soul mate.", the scare crow responded.

"Look, I'm sure you'll find someone else who's just as good for you.", Sasha fearfully assured.

"You think it's that easy to meet someone else!? Don't get me started on dating!", the scarecrow retorted before he grabbed Sasha and turned him into a solid pumpkin as he laughed.

"Now, it's time to join your pump kin!", the scarecrow shouted.

Then, there was a short pause.

"Wait, does that even make sense?", the scarecrow puzzled before he roared vehemently and and threw Sasha onto the ground, squashing her.

Then, he bent down to collect the seeds like numerous times before, walked away with the seeds, and tossed them all up in the air and into the ground.

"That'll teach 'em.", the scarecrow sneered evilly as he returned to his pole.

The next day, Jackie was now cleaning up the mess.

"I can't believe they did this! Ugh...", Jackie said in disgust, picking up the mess of seeds before heading up to the male scarecrow.

"Don't worry, big guy. I'll talk to the farmer. We'll get you a new girl.", Jackie assured to the scarecrow before heading for the trash and dumping the rest of the mess she picked up into a trash can.

"But I wonder where those four went. They can't have just disappeared into thin air.", Jackie pondered to herself, looking around as the scarecrow laughed evilly in the background.

"The end.", Marcy finished.

"Okay, now THAT was messed up, Marcy.", Sprig commented.

"Confusing is more like it.", Jackie puzzled.

"It made no sense whatsoever. But it was a good attempt.", Grime added, clapping before Marcy noticed Sasha looking terrible.

"Sash, are you okay?", Marcy asked.

"I can't believe I was THAT horrible before I came here. No wonder Jackie hated my guts before now...", Sasha sighed sadly.

"Hey, don't sweat it. We made up back at Quarreler's pass, didn't we?", Jackie assured.

"Yeah...", Sasha responded before Marcy noticed her triplets whimpering.

"Oh, no. Did I scare you three?", Marcy asked before they nodded with whimpers.

"I am so sorry.", Marcy apologized, picking up Alex.

"We'll go help you put them to sleep.", Max assured as he picked up Adam while Alexis helped walk Jamie to the bedroom.

"Come on. It's okay. Nothing is going to get you.", Alexis assured.

"Well, so much for no scary stories. Well, might as well get this over with now that the triplets are scared half to death.", Jackie glared.

"Uh... okay. So, anyway, a few days ago, Ivy and I were playing bugball on the old court in the woods‐‐", Sprig began.

"Wait. What's your story called?", Rose asked.

"Huh? Oh, actually I don't kn‐‐", Sprig began.

"I do. And since Sprig and I are telling this one, I'm calling it...", Ivy began before she then finished in a scary voice.

"'Skin Deep.'", Ivy finished.

One night, Sprig and Ivy were having fun and laughing, playing in the bugball court from when Jackie played for the team.

"From downtown Bog Bottom.", Sprig spoke before tossing his bugball upwards and then pushing it with his tongue as Ivy leapt up.

"Rejected!", Ivy shouted before she then whacked it aside only to notice her hat falling off, revealing her hair, much to her shock before the ball zoomed away past the trees while Ivy landed on the ground.

"Don't look, don't look.", Ivy panicked before Sprig looked away with Ivy putting her hat back on.

"Sorry, sorry. Just I really hate my hair.", Ivy apologized.

"Well, I like your hair.", Sprig assured.

"Thanks, but all the same, I'd rather just cover it up. Now come on, let's go get our bugball.", Ivy responded as she zoomed out with Sprig looking to her with a grin.

Later, Sprig and Ivy came through the forest where there were signs that warn of imminent danger.

"Man, that thing went far. We gotta be careful. We're getting pretty close to the home of... the Seamstress!", Ivy finished in a deep voice.

"The Seamstress?", Sprig asked.

"Yep! Legend says that she's a horrible creature who sucks the life out of any frog that trespasses on her property, then steals their skin to wear as clothes.", Ivy explained.

"What?! Why?!", Sprig puzzled.

"Nobody knows. Ah, but that's just an old fly's tale.", Ivy dismissed with a chuckle as she walked away, making Sprig chuckle nervously.

"Yeah.", Sprig said nervously.

Then, Sprig and Ivy arrived at a home.

"Whoa. Look at that.", Ivy spoke, pointing to a house whose window was quite broken.

"Oops. Broke a window. Better hope whoever lives here isn't the Seamstress!", Ivy spoke, freaking Sprig out with a chuckle.

"Kidding. Come on, let's check it out.", Ivy suggested, dragging the whimpering Sprig with her.

When they got to the entrance, an owl hooted.

"Well, no one's home. We should probably just leave.", Sprig suggested, about to leave when Ivy stopped him.

"Come on, this place looks deserted. Let's just run in and get the ball. No one'll even know we were here.", Ivy assured before she bust the door down, proving otherwise.

"I think someone's gonna know.", Sprig said in worry.

"Ah, I'll fix it. Just find the ball.", Ivy said before she went in first with Sprig following her, albeit from a distance.

"Spooky! Nice.", Ivy admired.

"Uh‐huh.", Sprig agreed nervously.

"Now where could it be?", Ivy puzzled.

But when Sprig looked around, he noticed some balls of yarn and needles, not to mention a pair of rusty scissors.

"Ivy, look!", Sprig shouted out of fright.

"Sprig.", Ivy glared with one eyebrow raised.

"Yes, you're right. These are very common. I'll keep looking!", Sprig responded as he walked away sideways.

Unfortunately, there was a shadow from someone who was watching him. Fortunately, when that shadow left, Sprig turned and saw the ball.

"Found it.", Sprig spoke before hopping on to get it only to lose his balance on the barrel and then land on Ivy.

"Glad that's over wi‐‐", Sprig began only to find something very distubring.

"Oh, my gosh! Frog skins!", Sprig shouted before the two tried to run off only to be halted by someone who was stepping inside, holding a lantern.

"Sorry. We're so sorry. We're leaving.", Sprig shouted.

"Ah! Hello. Sorry.", Ivy exclaimed.

But when the light from the lantern shined brightly, it showed the creature revealed to be covered entirely with Frog Skins.

"Fresh... skins.", the seamstress spoke in a deep voice before the two shouted.

"The Seamstress!", Sprig and Ivy shouted before backing away as the seamstress stepped closer to them.

"Sprig. We can't get away. We're gonna have to fight it. Come on!", Ivy urged as she ran toward the Seamstress.

"But it's gross, and I don't wanna!", Sprig shouted in fear before Ivy leapt up and attacked twice only to get grabbed by the leg and tossed to the ground.

"Ivy!", Sprig shouted before he, too, attacked, only to fare no better.

Though, he did manage to grab onto the skin and rip it off as he was being tossed aside.

When he recovered, Sprig noticed that the frog skin he held was basically a clothing for the seamstress, whose cloth fell out, revealing that he has a very translucent body, his inner skeleton and muscles shown.

"Don't look at me!", the Seamstress shouted before covering herself.

"She's a glass frog. I've heard of this species. They're born with translucent bodies.", Sprig realized with a gasp before Ivy gasped while realizing something else.

"Sprig! I know why she steals other frogs' skins.", Ivy stated.

"What? Why? I don't follow.", Sprig puzzled.

"Because she's not comfortable in her own skin.", Ivy realized.

"Huh?", the seamstress puzzled before looking to see Ivy's face with sparkles in her eyes.

"Aw.", the seamstress spoke softly, having a similar look.

Surprisingly, that was but a ruse!

"Sprig, now!", Ivy shouted before she took off her hat and then put her hat on the seamstress' head and kicked her away from behind.

"Let's burn this baby to the ground!", Sprig shouted, smashing a lantern all over the cabin before he and Ivy left only for the seamstress to grab her by the leg and then bite her by the foot, making Ivy scream before she kicked the seamstress in the face, forcing her to let go with both frogs taking off as the seamstress roared in anguish.

Of course, despite the situation, the two frogs were laughing.

"You look good without the hat. I mean it.", Sprig assured.

"Aw, shut up, you.", Ivy said before giggling as Sprig laughed with her.

"And we never saw her again.", Ivy stated as it went back to the present.

"The end.", Sprig finished.

"What?!", Anne exclaimed.

"Are you kidding me?!", Sasha added.

"That's the end?!", Jackie shouted.

"I have so many questions! Didn't Ivy get bitten?!", Marcy exclaimed.

"Wouldn't you turn into a glass frog?!", Allison shouted.

"Is that thing still in the woods?!", Polly added.

"Did the seamstress actually survive, but didn't want us to know?!", Yunan exclaimed.

"How long as she been collecting Frog Skins?!", Bombina shouted.

"And were the victims who lost their skins already dead?!", Braddock shouted.

"WHAT KIND OF FOOD DOES SHE EAT?!", Percy shouted.

"Did any of those frog skins look like my friend Gabe? I haven't seen him in a while.", Hop Pop puzzled.

"Guys, seriously, everything's fine.", Ivy assured.

Alas, everything was NOT fine! The triplets suddenly screamed in terror.

"Oh, no! The triplets!", Anne shouted before she and the gang burst in and saw the Boonchuy triplets squirming in fear, the first trail of black mist already entering the Boonchuy's heads.

It turns out they were in their nightmares as the Boonchuy triplets dreamt that they were playing with their toys inside, peek-a-boo, hide 'n seek, and the like, giggling with Anne, Jackie, and Rose. But very soon, their joy turned to fear when their mother, looking very disapproving, stepped in, making them gasp, especially when they noticed that everyone else except the triplets had disappeared.

"Mama...? Whewe is evewyone?", Lily asked worriedly.

But Mrs. Boonchuy only put on the heat in her glare as she talked down on them while picking them up, taking them outside, and placing them on the grass on the front porch.

"You are all such disappointments! Worthless! Pathetic! You three are no longer part of this family!", Mrs. Boonchuy disowned as she picked them up, took them outside, and dropped them off at the grass while turning into a sort of multi eyed, multi armed, giant, sharp-toothed monster, her voice being distorted.

The triplets were so heart-broken about it that they squealed out, even doing so in real life.

"Come on! Wake up!", Jackie shouted urgently, shaking them, but to no avail.

"It's no use! They're not waking up!", Jackie said in worry.

"And I don't think they're the only ones...", Sasha said in worry.

"It's like they're trapped in their own nightmares with no way to wake up!", Marcy said in worry.

Then, it showed the Waybright triplets' nightmare with them looking around nervously before going to the kitchen. Once there, they took some sips of water and then turned around to walk away. But then, they noticed a large fly scuttling across the floor in front of them; they gasped and backed into a corner. The sound of more pests—many more—caused her to look up in alarm toward the source: a swarm of flies burst through the windows. Screaming in terror, Rebecca, Abby, and Sarah rushed to the closed bathroom door and pushed it open after a brief struggle with the knob.

However, they found themselves in a creepy world of squares and random objects. In the middle of this was a door, which opened outward to reveal that they were in a nightmare. As a giant fly crept up behind them, they nearly tumbled over the threshold into the maelstrom before turning to see it and then crying out and leaping into the chaos only to fall down like rocks. They screamed as they fell toward a Fly-Gargantuar, whose knob-like mouth moved up, ready to catch them. But they also flapped their arms furiously, trying to pull a Wile E. Coyote, and managed to catch the edge of a platform just short of the mouth. Pulling themselves up and out of their reach, they ran for it an instant before one of the legs slammed down on the platform and the creature gave chase. They only barely jumped a gap to reach another platform and raced along for a while before tripping and landing flat on their faces. When the trio stood up, they gasped upon seeing a giant horsefly, whose closeup look terrified the triplets most of all as they screamed before it showed them screaming in real life as well, the black mist leaking out from the back of their heads.

As for the Wu triplets, in their nightmare, they found themselves in a party bus from Sasha's story and in human form. This time, there was no one inside.

"Hewwo? Anyone hewe?", Alex puzzled before he, Adam, and Jamie went over to the driver's seat and saw the driver, who turned to them.

"Hello, kids! Miss me?", the driver asked, earning their screams before they ran off.

"Ah, ah, ah. No running on the party bus. And please, keep your seatbelts on through the drive at all times.", the bus driver spoke as suddenly, seatbelts emerged from the seats and then grabbed the triplets, trapping them after dragging them into the seats.

"Why don't you relax and stay a while? Stay... forever!", the bus driver spoke before the wrappings came off, showing the skeleton from before, earning their screams before it went to the real world with said screams also present there as the black mist was seen trailing from the back of the Wu triplets' heads as well.

"What...?", Anne puzzled.

"Guys, look! There's some weird black mists trailing from those poor triplets!", Anne said, pointing to said black mists, one of which was also trailing from the Boonchuy triplets' heads as well.

"And they're all leading out through this window!", Yunan spoke, pointing to the window before the black mists started to converge with one another, forming a big silhouette with orange eyes with slit pupils glowing in the dark.

And sure enough, once the convergence is finished, a massive, dragon-like creature with a vaguely draconic shape and a skeletal appearance largely dark violet with red highlights with its main body and tail long, thin, and resembling a tall, spinal column with 9 large, thin limbs ending in claws formed from spindly appendages attached at right angles, a torso formed from a cage of appendages resembling ribs, and a triangular head with a pair of orange eyes with slit pupils with several sharp teeth with spikes lining the top of its head and a translucent red film held between five long spikes extending toward its body's rear over its head rose in its place.

"Uh, guys? What do we call that thing?", Polly asked.

"Two words, Polly!", Hop Pop shouted before the large creature roared.

"GIANT MONSTER!", Hop Pop shouted.

"So, whatever's trapping our poor triplets in their worst nightmares was making that giant monster?", Anne realized.

"Apparently.", Marcy spoke.

Meanwhile, the giant monster then sneered as it then noticed Azog and his army advancing and approaching Wartwood.

"Oh, no! The orcs are coming...! The orcs are coming!", Hop Pop shouted.

"Oh, great. As if the crisis isn't bad enough already.", Grime groaned.

Then, while the monster quickly started laying waste to the crops, the orcs began to attack the villagers, forcing them out of their homes.

"Hey! Let me go!", Mrs. Croaker shouted.

"I don't think so, little frog.", Zog sneered.

"Oh, this is terrible!", Hop Pop exclaimed.

"We have to do something!", Sylvia exclaimed.

"But how?! The triplets can't even wake up!", Sasha asked in fear.

"There may be a way to wake them up.", Alexis assured.

"There is?", everyone puzzled.

Then, everyone was back in the room with Alexis getting out an incense stick and some chamomile tea.

"I learned a technique that can link subconscious minds together a while ago.", Alexis said.

"That's all well and good, but what about those orcs and that giant monster?", Hop Pop asked, pointing to a window that showed them from outside.

"Here's the thing. We need at least three people going to save the triplets, one per family.", Alexis said.

"So, we'll need to decide who helps them while the rest holds off the orcs and that giant monster?", Max asked.

"That's the gist of it.", Alexis responded.

"Then, I'll stay behind and help those poor triplets.", Anne said.

"What? But why?", Jackie asked.

"If it wasn't for my stupid scary story, they wouldn't be in this mess.", Anne responded.

"OUR stupid scary stories, you mean.", Sasha spoke.

"The least we can do is fix our mistakes.", Marcy added.

"Mm-hmm. Me, too.", Rose grinned.

"Okay. I'll stay behind and help fight those orcs and that monster.", Jackie spoke.

"Us, too.", Sasha and Marcy responded in unison.

"We owe the triplets that much.", Max responded.

"All right, guys. Put yourselves in circles with the triplets.

Then, Anne, Rose, Allison, Pat, Max, and Alexis each sat in a circle, holding the triplets close.

"Now take some tea. It's a good place to start as any.", Alexis spoke before Anne drank the tea.

Then, everyone else drank the tea, passing it along.

"And next, we meditate. The tea makes it easier.", Alexis says before everyone enters their meditation poses.

"How do we know if it's gonna...", Pat began before yawning.

"...work?", Pat yawned.

"Maybe we could try like a, like a noise machine...", Max yawned.

"What was that, guys? You'll have to speak up.", Alexis spoke before the sisters were now asleep.

"Yep. They're asleep.", Jackie spoke.

"That's what I thought.", Alexis spoke before going to sleep, too.

"And now, to get down to business.", Felicia spoke before they all left and went downstairs.

Just in time, too, because Zog, Norok, and the orcs broke in, surrounding Jackie, Sasha, Marcy, and the amphibians.

"You're surrounded, frogling. You cannot hope to defeat us.", Norok mocked.

"Maybe. Maybe not. Either way, we're not going down with out a fight.", Jackie responded as she cracked her knuckles.

Then, she and the others yelled out as they bravely fought the orcs. It was a tough close call, but in the end, thanks to the frogs' past experiences, especially with the toads' assistance with Percy whacking an orc back with a rubber chicken fly at one point, the orcs were defeated as they were forced outside the house.

"Actually, the truth is, you can't hope to defeat us.", Bombina discouraged.

"Then it's a good thing we brought a challenger.", Norok sneered.

Just then, the monstrous creature burst its head into the house, wrecking it, hissing as it loomed over the triplets.

"My house! Guys! The monster broke into the house!", Hop Pop shouted.

"Oh, no! The triplets!", Jackie shouted.

"Everyone, fall back and retreat! We have to stop that monster from getting to those poor triplets!", Sasha shouted before she and everyone rushed back inside as Norok chuckled.

"Should we pursue them?", Zog asked.

"No. The nine-dra will take care of this. We'll handle the rest.", Norok responded.

Meanwhile, as soon as everyone rushed back inside, the gang forced the Nine-dra back before it could chow down on the triplets, went outside, and started to fight the Nine-dra, with Grime coaching from inside.

"That's it. Dance around! Dance around! Watch the teeth. Watch the teeth. Keep going. Come on. Come on. Lead with your left!", Grime shouted as the Nine-dra repeatedly tried to bite down on them, but missed as Sasha slashed with her sword, only managing a small scrape, before the Nine-dra reared its head and roared, lunging its head right at the gang, who managed to disperse in time before the nine-dra wound up embedding its fangs into the ground.

"No ... your other left!", Grime shouted.

Then, once everyone slid on the ground, both Jackie and Sasha noticed that their individual swords were misplaced on the ground and tried to reach for them. But then, the Nine-dra recovered, scraping its fangs against the ground before roaring. Bombina then managed to throw a rock at the nine-dra, but it just clasped onto it with its fangs and bit the rock in half, giving a mocking laughter.

"Aw, come on!", Bombina shouted before the Nine-dra attacked again, only for Sasha to hold it back by the fangs.

"Sasha?", Jackie asked.

"Hurry and grab 'em! I can't hold it for long!", Sasha shouted before Jackie nodded and rushed over to the swords, and picked them up, allowing Sasha to toss the Nine-dra's head aside just as Toadstool was leaving the mansion.

"Now, what in tarnation is going on here?", Toadstool puzzled before he saw the creature and gasped.

"It's the hideous beast of the Blue moon! Run for it!", Toadstool shouted as he ran.

Unfortunately, however, the Nine-dra managed to catch Toadstool around the ankle with its long tongue. Then, it tossed him up and chomped down when Mayor Toadstool entered its mouth with a scream, allowing it to swallow him.

"Mayor Toadstool!", Sprig, Ivy, Hop Pop, Jackie, Sasha, and Marcy shouted as Yunan, Grime, Bombina, Percy, and Braddock gasped before the Nine-dra then burped and smacked its mouth only to hear a loud, girlish scream from Wally, who was apparently watching from the window before he stopped.

"Uh... That scream wasn't from me, Mr. horrible beast of the blue moon!", Wally spoke.

Regardless, the Nine-dra turned its attention to him and roared a bit with a snarl only to suddenly stop when it felt something in the bottom of its neck. It turned out that Toadstool was still alive as he managed to cut off its head with his sword from the inside, causing it to shriek as it then disintegrated into black mist, which cleared away, showing the blue moon in view.

Meanwhile, as Zog and Norok finished rounding up the remaining villagers, save for Wally, they had already witnessed the creature's demise.

"No...! The Nine-dra has been slain!", Zog shouted.

"Should we attack them now?", Norok asked.

"No... the beast will not be ceased... only delayed.", Azog responded.

Meanwhile, in the Boonchuy triplets' nightmare, Anne and Rose found themselves back at home.

"Wait... Are we home?", Anne asked.

"Uh-uh. Look!", Rose shouted, pointing to the little triplets, who were crying as their so-called mother, who looked more monster than mother, ridiculed them.

"You three have been nothing but disappointments from the beginning! No children of mine would be pollywogs!", the monster ridiculed, making them sob even more.

"That's just cruel! Awful!", Rose shouted.

"I know! Sure. she may be shocked, but not THAT mad! That doesn't even look like Mom.", Anne agreed before yelling with a leap and attacking the monster.

"Anne?", Lily, Andy, and Danny puzzled.

"You do not talk down on my little siblings like that, Mom! That is, if that even is you!", Anne scolded before the monster tossed Anne aside and scolded her with a snarl.

"You do not talk back to your own mother like that!", the monster snarled.

"As far as I'm concerned, you're not our Mom!", Anne glared angrily.

"Yeah! You're just a mean bully of a monster pretending to be her!", Rose shouted as the triplets looked on in hope, still scared out of their minds by the fake mother's harsh words.

Meanwhile, Allison and Pat woke up while apparently in free fall, becoming shocked upon seeing the gaping maw of the enormous fly beast that menaced their triplets. From this height, we can still see the gang of flies that chased her, including a big horsefly; they have cornered the trio at one end of a platform, not far from the big one. As they moved in for the kill, Allison and Pat went into a screaming dive. With the gang still advancing on them, Rebecca, Sarah, and Abby took one step too many backward and plunged off the platform—only to be caught by the two with no time or space to spare. This caused the giant fly's teeth on its long tongue to snap on a mouthful of air, and the four girls and one touched down on an unoccupied platform.

"Ally? Pat? What going on?", Rebecca asked in fear.

"I don't think we have enough time to explain yet.", Allison responded.

"Yeah. Those creepy flies are moving fast. Let's go!", Pat shouted before he, Allison, and the three triplets hopped away from one platform to the next, with the flies hot on their tail, but stopped when they reach an edge beyond which no other footholds are visible.

A large wheel with an eye at its hub rotated slowly in midair at a short distance. The triplets screamed as Allison and Pat eyed this.

"Aaahh! Ally, Pat, pwease tell us what's going on!", the triplets shouted.

"No time!", Allison shouted as the flies were closing in.

"Quick, help me with this.", Pat spoke as a long rope has appeared at the group's feet.

They grabbed hold and pulled against each other, finally breaking it. In no time flat, Allison and Pat have knotted her end into a lariat and began to twirl it.

"When I say jump, jump, okay?", Allison asked.

"Okay...", the triplets spoke wearily.

The flies continued their buzzing advance as Allison twirls her lariat.

"NOW!", Allison shouted before, as they hurled off into space, Allison and Pat sent the lariat after them and jumped as well.

Then, the Waybrights landed on one of the wheel's spokes, and the rope caught on next to them, pulled tight as the wheel continued to rotate—the other end was anchored to the platform, one end of which is promptly pulled up due to the tension. All the flies slide down and fell off the low end into the big one's mouth before they could fly away.

"That was awesome, Ally. You weally are smartest.", Rebecca beamed.

"Aw, it was nothing. I was just being resourceful.", Allison assured.

"Whatever. we kick butt.", Pat smirked before suddenly, a tremor shook them out of their celebration; cut to their perspective of its source—the giant fly, which is now roaring in fury.

As for the Wu's, they found themselves in the party bus with the triplets trapped in their seatbelts as the bus driver laughed evilly.

"That's the party bus nightmare!", Max exclaimed.

"We have to help them!", Alexis urged.

Back at the real world, Sasha and the others were quite impressed with Toadstool's bravery.

"Wow! Way to hack and slash, Mayor!", Sasha said in relief.

"And that's why I never leave home without protection. Though, usually, I'd just bonk 'em unconscious with the flat end.", Toadstool stated.

"Eh. Works for me. Now, let's send those orcs packing.", Jackie urged, looking out wistfully toward the blue moon before widening her eyes as she realized something too little, too late.

"Oh, crud.", Jackie spoke flatly.

Just then, everyone heard a rumbling coming from the Nine-dra.

"That doesn't sound good.", Yunan commented.

Shockingly, the Nine-dra stood up and grew three new heads, the three heads being surprised with one another before turning with a smirk.

"Definitely not good!", Hop Pop shouted.

Then, all of a sudden, Jackie started to croak uncontrollably, making her gasp and cover her mouth.

"Oh, no...! I think... I think I'm about to...!", Jackie began before she suddenly groaned as she then started to grow taller before croaking uncontrollably again, this time, making her chest puff up more than usual, making Sasha and Marcy shocked as the former exclaimed.

"What is this now?!", Marcy shouted.

"Huh? Well, that wasn't familiar...", Jackie puzzled before she gave out another croak, causing her belly to bulge out.

"Okay... Maybe a little.", Jackie said before she gave off another croak, causing her butt to enlarge at the same rate as well, reaching a point of gaining weight to a point that her clothes would be half torn as she was forced to crouch like a frog.

"Whoa...! To think I was scared of changing like this the first time... Now? I think I'm starting to like this.", Jackie beamed as she started growing up to 20 feet slowly.

Suddenly, Polly grunted and groaned as she got a tingly feeling just before her body started puffing up like a blowfish, also getting bigger in size.

"Huh?", Polly puzzled.

"Polly?! You looked at the blue moon, too?! When?", Jackie asked, still undergoing the thralls of her metamorphosis.

"Uh...", Polly began before it then showed her seeing the blue moon as Toadstool severed the Nine-dra's head and then back to the present.

"No idea.", Polly responded.

At this point, the Nine-dra was chasing after Wally.

"Please, don't eat me!", Wally shouted as the Nine-dra chomped on Wally, but missed.

"Hang on, Wally!", Percy shouted before whistling for Stumpy, who rode off to her like a horse with Rose hopping on, as do Braddock, Hop Pop, Sasha, Marcy, Grime, and Bombina.

"Sorry. Jackie! We'll figure something out for this later!", Marcy shouted as they rode off.

"No worry, here! Take your time!", Jackie assured as her growth continued at a steady pace.

When they do, they brought the creature to an overpass with which Grime slashed at the Nine-dra, chopping off its heads. Unfortunately, like before three new heads grew in its place. This happens 6 more times before now, the nine-dra's heads now numbered up to 15 as the creature snarled menacingly.

"Oh, dear. That's not good.", Grime spoke, his eyes widened.

"Will you forget the head-slicing thing?!", Sasha shouted.

Meanwhile, Jackie's change was now finishing up as her growth finally tore off all her now more frog-like body.

"Ah... This feels so good...!", Jackie groaned, her vision started to blur, making her feel dizzy, never mind hazy before refocusing with much better clarity.

"Can't help myself...! Have to...! Want to...! Must... rrrrrrrrrrrrrrRRRIIIIBIIIT!", Jackie exclaimed as she croaked one more time, becoming a frog all the way, similar to a frog at home, but bigger, but this time, her eyes don't appear nearly as blank as from last time.

As for Polly, she grunted and groaned as she grew bigger and bigger until she grew to the same size as Jackie now with a small (but still booming) croak.

"What the...?", Polly puzzled, checking herself out.

"Hm. Works for me.", Polly grinned.

"Whew...! That... actually felt amazing.", the humongous frog giant sighed before she, too, checked herself out.

"So, THAT'S the hideous beast I turn into by looking into the blue moon? That's anticlimactic. But I don't feel nearly as out of control and/or brainwashed like last time. Well... so far, so good.", Jackie said to herself before then hopping her way back into the battle.

Meanwhile, Stumpy rode on and leapt up with the Nine-dra's heads heading for it only to crash into each other, breaking each other's teeth when they missed Stumpy. But the luck could not last long. Marcy was knocked off Stumpy and slid among the Nine-dra's several heads and necks.

"I don't think even my time at Newtopia covered for this!", Marcy shouted.

As she slid down, a hydra head was about to chow down when another jumped the gun and launched her off in trying to eat her. From there, she managed to escape. But it wasn't for very far. The Nine-dra had pinned her and Wally to the ground with one of its enormous paws.

"MARCY!", Sasha shouted.

Back in the triplets' nightmares, for the Boonchuys, Anne turned to them.

"Come on, guys. Are you really gonna let those nightmares scare you just like that?", Anne asked.

"But... they're too scawy...!", Lily whimpered.

"Yes. But so were Zog and his orcs. But that didn't stop you from saving us, did it?", Anne asked.

This surprised Lily, Andy, and Danny.

"No...", Danny replied.

"You could've run and left us to have our souls robbed. But did you?", Rose asked.

"No...", Andy replied, starting to sound less scared.

"That's right. You three stayed behind to save us. And now, we're returning the favor. I mean come on! Those bad nightmares are clearly there to mock you for the stuff you did for us! We know our Mom. She'd never throw you guys out just because you're tadpoles! Look at you three! You're so cute! So, are you really gonna let those bad nightmares get away with this?!", Anne exclaimed, making Lily angry, if not determined as Andy and Danny glared and growled, too.

"No!", Lily responded.

This suddenly caused the monster to appear less scary and more worried.

"There. You see? Now, let's go show them who's boss.", Anne sneered.

"Yeah!", Lily nodded before then squinting at the nightmare creature, who wound up being turned into a much cuter version of their mother, but as a sort of giant Mama Frog with no clothes on (which makes sense, given the more frog-like appearance, though she still had her hair, eyes, and face) whilst the nightmarish atmosphere had reverted back to a safe, if not more fun atmosphere.

"Whaaaaaaaaaat?", Anne and Rose spoke in surprise.

"Mama.", Lily, Andy, and Danny grinned before hugging her.

"Oh, it's nice to see you, my little children.", the dream version of Mrs. Boonchuy grinned as she hugged them.

"Aw.", Anne and Rose said at the same time.

"I did not know I needed to see this until tonight...!", Anne said in awe.

"What was that?", Rose asked.

"Nothing.", Anne responded.

Just then, a beastly roar sounded with the Waybright triplets screaming.

"It's Sasha's triplets. They're in trouble!", Anne shouted.

"We need to find them and get to them, fast!", Rose shouted.

"Leave that to Mama Frog.", Mama Frog smirked.

Meanwhile, the Waybrights were faced with a giant fly monster.

"Whoa! What is that thing?", Sarah asked.

"Don't you see? It's what you're afraid of.", Allison said.

"We'we not afwaid of anything.", Rebecca, Sarah, and Abby retorted.

"Girls, it's okay to be afraid. You just have to control this dream.", Allison assured.

"Yeah. And fight your fears, too.", Pat added.

"We can't.", Rebecca spoke sadly, shedding tears.

"It's too scawy...", Sarah whimpered.

"We'we doomed...!", Abby sobbed.

Allison felt bad for her triplets before she suddenly came up with an idea.

"Wait... So, you three can't fight a little bug?", Allison egged.

"Wittle? They'we huge!", Rebecca shouted.

Even pat was puzzled before he realized where she was getting as she winked.

"Oh... What's the matter? You three scared?", Pat asked with a smirk.

"No! We'we not scared. It's just that—", Sarah began.

"Sure look scared.", Pat interrupted.

"Awe not!", Abby retorted.

"I bet you three are!", Allison spoke.

"Awe not!", Rebecca exclaimed.

"I know you're scared.", Allison retorted.

"You want us... to fight?", Sarah asked.

"Yeah!", Allison responded.

"Yeah? You'we gonna eat youw words.", Abby retorted.

"Oh, yeah?", Pat sneered.

"Yeah!", the 3 triplets retorted.

"Oh, yeah?", Pat asked.

"YEAH!", the triplets shouted before they took off, a battle cry sounding from their mouths and hands extended to slap on the first enemy they meet, turning said enemy into a cute fly with big, sparkling eyes. One fly after another got it in spades; the assault ends with them riding on a newly turned horsefly, which now looked just as cute as the newly turned flies and also whinnies and gallops like a horse as they yelled again.

"Yah! WE NOT SCAWED!", the triplets shouted.

"Woof! Now that's more like it!", Allison grinned.

As for the fly monster, that's where Anne and the Boonchuys came in with Mama Frog in tow.

"Whoa. So, that freaky thing freaked them out, huh?", Anne guessed.

"Maybe.", Rose responded.

"Maybe? Just look at that thing.", Anne stated, pointing to the creature.

"Don't worry, children. Mama Frog has this covered.", Mama Frog assured before ribbiting and then eating the fly monster in one gulp.

After that, she burped him out, revealing that the fly monster didn't look as monstrous at all, at least not anymore. In fact, now, he looks just as cute as the other turned flies, if not hip while the atmosphere that was once black and dark red has turned safe and fun

"Hi, there, sugarplum. How are you doing?", the once monstrous fly creature asked.

"Oh. Just fine. Thank you for asking.", Mama Frog blushed.

"Okay. When we came in the dreamscape to save our triplets, I did not expect this.", Allison commented.

"Like we said, we ain't afwaid of nothing!", Rebecca smirked.

"Well, you definitely showed us.", Pat grinned.

"HELP!", the Wu triplets shouted.

"It's the Wu triplets! They need help!", Rose realized.

"Luckily for them, the calvary's comin'.", Anne smirked.

Meanwhile, in the party bus in the dream, the triplets were starting to grow, much like in Sasha's story, as the driver laughed. And what's worse, there were other denizens inside, but not normal passengers. As a matter of fact, they were all scary and monstrous as one of them even had them in its coils like seatbelts. It was right then that Anne, Rose, Lily, Andy, Danny, Allison, Pat, Rebecca, Sarah, and Abby arrived alongside Max and Alexis, the two of which were quite surprised by the additional company.

"Anne?! Ally?!", Max shouted.

"Rose?! Pat?! Where did they come from?!", Alexis shouted.

"Let's just think about it for a moment. We're in a dreamscape. Anything can happen.", Anne responded.

"Anything except being able to save them if we don't hurry.", Max responded.

"Wait, what?", Anne puzzled.

"If we don't hurry and save them from this nightmare, they'll die!", Alexis responded.

"What?!", Anne and the others exclaimed.

Despite the shock, though, they remembered that they managed to save the triplets.

"Well, we managed to save our triplets. So, if we can do that, we can do the same for them. So, let's start by crashing this party.", Allison said determinedly.

Meanwhile, the party monsters were making some plans.

"First, we're gonna bust some moves in the dance floor.", one of the denizens spoke.

"Huzzah!", the party monsters shouted before the Wu triplets noticed Max and Alexis along with some company.

"Max! Wexy! Help!", the triplets shouted before they grew again.

"Then, we will set up an everlasting disco ball to keep the party going.", the denizen spoke.

"Huzzah!", the party monsters agreed.

"Then, we will deliver a bowl of endless killer fruit punch for all.", the party monster spoke.

"Huzzah!", the Party monsters shouted.

"Then, we will—", the party monster began before getting cut off by a crash from the emergency hatch up above.

"Then, we're gonna crash this party!", Anne shouted before making good on her threat against the party monsters by dispatching them, leaving them unconscious, before they then pulled the triplets out of the seatbelts.

"Guys!", Adam, Alex, and Jamie said in relief.

"No!", the bus driver shouted in frustration before speeding up, increasing the rate in which they age more and more, though this doesn't affect Anne and the others so much as the Wu triplets.

"Okay. I don't think we can stop the bus. But you three can change the dream.", Allison assured.

"How?!", Adam shouted.

"We'we too scared!", Alex added.

"What can we even do...?!", Jamie asked.

"Well...", Anne began before she suddenly realized something with a gasp.

"That's it! Remember when I said that I had two theories about what's going on in the story?", Anne asked.

"Huh?'", everyone puzzled.

"Well, it's simple. One of the two was that we're getting older. But if we change some things up in this dream, it could be the 2nd thing. Which is to...", Anne said as she suddenly started to grow like them.

But this isn't like the usual aging. This time, she's growing. This helped the Wu triplets realize the second theory that Anne came up with in the story.

"Giants!", the Wu Triplets spoke before they continued growing bigger and bigger, especially Allison, Max, Rose, Pat, and the other triplets, much to the driver's shock.

"What?! No! That's not how it's supposed to work!", the driver exclaimed.

Before he knew it, the party bus wound up destroyed by the roof as they continued growing until they all stood tall at 50 feet (their clothes half torn due to the size of growth), towering above the skeletal driver with Anne giving a big chuckle.

"Looks like we give big trouble a new meaning, mister.", Anne smirked.

"Yeah. You'we wittle.", Alex smirked as he bent over toward him.

"Frog darn it...", the skeletal driver sighed before getting flicked away, sending him screaming as he zoomed away like a comet, disintegrating in the process, before blinking out like a star.

"We did it!", everyone shouted before cheering.

Even Anne was starting to sob in joy before hugging her triplets.

"We did it! We saved all you cute, lovable, adorable triplets!", Anne sobbed, her tears of joy streaming down before Alexis noticed it.

"Ooh! Tears of joy!", Alexis squealed before getting out a vial bottle, opening it, and allowing the tears of joy to stream down toward the bottle, filling it, before Alexis put the cork back in.

"There. That should do it.", Alexis grinned.

"Uh, why do you need my tears of joy for?", Anne asked.

"It's a surprise.", Alexis replied.

"Wow! That was intense!", Max said.

"Yeah, great!", Allison said, catching her breath.

"So, does that mean we can wake up now?", Rose asked.

"Yeah!", Pat added.

"Well, by now, we should. I mean, I hope we do.", Anne responded before then coming up with a fun idea.

"But until then..., wanna have some fun as 50 ft. giants?", Anne asked.

"Do we ever!", everyone else grinned.

Back in the real world, the Nine-dra raised all 15 heads, preparing to close in for the kill, making Marcy and Wally gasp in horror.

"Oh, I can't watch!", Sasha exclaimed, covering her eyes.

"Nightmares are real!", Hop Pop shouted.

"Somebody's gotta do somethin' about this!", Toadstool shouted, holding his sword.

"Not a holiday! Definitely not a holiday!", Marcy exclaimed in panic.

Then, the Nine-dra roared as they lurched to strike with the final blow. But before they could, they were suddenly grabbed by a big frog tongue, which wrapped around all 15 heads.

"Oh, no, you don't!", a familiar voice called out before the Nine-dra was suddenly lurched away from Marcy and Wally before it wound up hitting the mountain, causing it to crack nearly all the way to the top.

"What in tarnation...?", Hop Pop spoke in amazement before the Nine-dra recovered.

But when it did, it became very shocked to discover a giant frog towering over it as it widened its eyes in a puzzled shock.

"Heeeeere's Jackie!", the giant frog smirked before some loud stomping was heard with the creature looking up to see a giant primal pollywog stomping on the top of the mountain.

"Don't forget about me, too!", Polly shouted before she finally started a landslide.

As a result, a land-based avalanche started, resulting in the Nine-dra getting buried under the rocks before it went limp and then disintegrated into black mist, which then flew away in the wind.

"No way...!", Ivy spoke in surprise.

"Okay. I'm just gonna say this out loud. What the heck is going on?!", Yunan shouted before Jackie and Polly caught up.

"Hey, guys, guess what. The legend's true.", Polly grinned.

"Say whaaaaaaat?!", Hop Pop exclaimed.

Meanwhile, at the same time, Anne, Rose, Allison, Pat, Max, Alexis, and their triplets all woke up before noticing Jackie and Polly in their current conditions.

"What the...! Jackie?!", Anne shouted.

"And Polly, too?!", Max exclaimed.

"What happened?", Allison puzzled.

"And how did Jackie turn into a giant frog monster again?", Rose asked.

"I don't know. I just hope we didn't lose her.", Anne spoke before she and the others caught up.

"Hey! Jackie! Do you remember me?!", Anne shouted.

"And me?!", Rose added.

Then, Jackie turned around to see Anne and Rose.

"Huh? Oh, yeah. Of course, I remember you guys. But what about the triplets?", the big frog girl asked.

"Oh, them? We managed to help beat those nightmares.", Anne grinned.

"Yeah.", the 9 triplets agreed.

"That's good...", Jackie grinned.

"I just wish I have a really good scary story to tell this year.", Polly responded.

"Trust me, Polly. That giant creature that popped up from those black mists was way scarier than any of our stories tonight.", Anne responded.

"Really?", Polly asked.

"I had chills, dude.", Anne responded.

"A monster like that would definitely give US a nightmare!", Sprig added.

"Yeah. Even I wasn't ready for that.", Ivy agreed.

"My hair turned white. Oh, wait.", Hop Pop responded.

"Aw, thanks, you guys.", Polly responded.

"But how'd you get turned into a giant frog monster again?", Rose asked.

"Well, I accidentally looked at the Blue Moon and then this happened. Wasn't as scary as the last time, though.", Jackie responded.

"Really? Huh. I thought that thing was the hideous beast you turn into with the blue moon.", Toadstool responded.

"Well, that was anticlimactic.", Wally said.

"Right?", Jackie agreed.

"And you don't feel the slightest urge to go out of control on a rampage?", Anne asked.

"Nope.", Jackie responded.

"Huh. Well, if that's the kind of beast you turn into with a blue moon, then, maybe I can give this a try?", Anne asked.

"Oh! And maybe turn this annual thing into a holiday, too?", Sasha asked.

"Sure.", Jackie grinned.

"Eh! First, we still have to take care of those orcs.", Grime reminded.

"Oh, yeah. That's right.", Anne realized.

"But now that that creature is smashed up, we can smash some orcs.", Polly grinned.

"Then, what are we waiting for? You could actually change to help do that, anyway.", Jackie smirked.

"Yeah, you're right.", Anne grinned.

Meanwhile, the rest of the villagers were laid before Azog by Zog and Norok while the rest surrounded the remaining villagers that were caught and trapped.

"This is all the villagers we could find and capture, Commander.", Norok spoke.

"You both have done well.", Azog spoke to the two orcs.

"'Twas never a matter of 'if'. Only when.", Zog smirked.

"Oh, yeah?! What are you gonna do when a surprise ambush hits you?!", Anne shouted, attracting everyone's attention before they all turned to see Anne, Rose, Sasha, Allison, Pat, Marcy, Max, Alexis, Mayor Toadstool, the 9 triplets, Hop Pop, Sylvia, Felicia, Ivy, Yunan, Grime, Bombina, Percy, and Braddock riding on top of Jackie as she and Polly soared through the air from their hops.

"Yee-haw!", Felicia shouted.

While the villagers were quite surprised, the orcs were even more so. Then, Jackie landed on the ground with a mighty thud just in front of the three main orcs in charge.

"Hey. Did Jackie get turned into a giant frog monster again?", one of the villager asked.

"Hey, Azog! Your army is said to comprise of 500 soldiers, right?", Jackie smirked.

"And what if it does?!", Azog asked.

"The way I am now, I bet I could take on twice as much at this size! I could even breeze by you measly, little orcs with just a few blows. Or better still, fling all of you out with one swing of my tongue.", Jackie smirked.

"Well, then. Why don't you come and prove it, then?", Zog sneered.

"No, Zog! Do not goad the enemy!", Norok discouraged.

"I don't care how big she is. She's still just a frog!", Zog retorted.

"That's right. I am a frog. So, maybe you guys'd like to see how really frog-like I can be!", Jackie responded before suddenly getting an idea.

"Actually, I got a better idea. Since I realized I can turn into this by looking at the blue moon as per its legend, Why don't we leave it to those villagers you captured to do this to you?", Jackie smirked, puzzling the villagers as they murmured while the orcs grew testy as they growled.

Then, Anne slid down and spoke up.

"Guys! The big frog speaks the truth! So, would you all please direct your attention to the Blue Moon and help us drive away those nasty orcs!", Anne urged before the villagers, in their puzzlement and/or uncertainty about this, turned their gaze to the blue moon.

Even Anne, Sasha, Marcy, and their siblings turned and looked at it. The only ones who did not look were Hop Pop and Sylvia.

"I think we'd much rather see for ourselves without looking.", Hop Pop spoke.

Just then, Anne's eyes suddenly grew bigger as did everyone else's who looked.

"Ohohohohoh, Mama!", Anne croaked with joy before she got out her phone and quickly played a Halloween song on it.

Play The Nightmare Before Christmas Music: "This is Halloween"

Right after that, Anne started to grow up to 20 ft tall while gaining just enough weight to the point that her clothes tear off as her vision gets blurry and then refocuses for better clarity before Anne happily croaked loudly with a boom as do Sasha and all the other frogs and toads, save for the newts, who wound up becoming dinosaur-like with slight roars, much to the chagrin of the orcs. As for Sprig and Ivy, while they were the last to change, only Ivy wound up turning translucent like a glass frog in the process of changing, which made her bashful, though Sprig didn't really mind as he only grinned bashfully with Ivy returning the gesture. The first thing they did as they sang after the change was see how far they can jump high. As they hopped and landed, they did so in tune with the song, even shaking up some of the orcs before they all scattered and fled. But at this point, there was not much point for them to hide. As they hopped after the orcs, some pumpkins were launched up by the quaking and then landed, though not without landing through some spikes on some fences. After some running, the orcs turned back around, not willing to be cowards to giant frogs. Of course, as they looked around, they were eventually caught off-guard by said giant frogs, freaking them out enough to give shouts before they got trampled by said giant frogs. As for Zog, he looked around to find some giant frogs in order to drain its soul. Unfortunately for him, he was led into a trap with which he wound up in the darkest part of the forest from which sharp teeth and glowing, red eyes were seen as their owner sang before dragging him away while Norok was suddenly trapped by a frog who had some spiders in his hair while Jackie lurched out her big tongue at Azog and grabbed him from behind before later scooping the rest of the orcs up and then flinging them out of the village as the orcs shouted.

Soon after, even Mayor Toadstool was just as big as the other giant frogs as he joyfully sang. And as they next went, the villagers had fun prowling the town as much as they want, all going crazy in their own way while some old folks, Hop Pop and Sylvia included, rode on some of the giant frogs like snails. Even Mrs. Croaker was having fun riding on one of the giant frogs across town like some kind of race. Even Mr. Flour sang along jubilantly before it showed a somewhat smaller giant frog singing before puffing up his chin, giving a deep voiced impression. After that, it then showed Sprig and Ivy at the burnt cabin where the seamstress used to live with the latter looking through her own hand with blue moonlight shining through before then showing Stumpy as a giant frog creeping up enough for his shadow to be seen in Ichabod's home, which troubled the mad scientist-turned-pollywog.

After that, it then showed the giant frogs hopping out of Wartwood and into the path of a new forest originally thought to be dangerous for normal frogs, in which case, it might've been if they were normal frogs. But not tonight. As they trekked across the forest, a few giant frog children poked through some bushes and then caught up with their parents. Mayor Toadstool sang again as he then gestured to the town of Wartwood from far away. Then, it showed everyone looking around and picking some blue moon berries with Sprig getting scared by Ivy before the two laughed. Then, when Anne, Sasha, and Marcy ate some, their bodies started glowing a bright blue translucent light before giving some to their siblings, who began to glow bright like they do as well. Soon, they continued up across the forest before approaching a hill with Jackie, Rose, Anne, Sasha, Allison, Pat, Marcy, Max, Alexis, their triplets, Sprig, Ivy, and Polly approaching the very top of the hill with Hop Pop and Sylvia riding on Jackie before they stopped and looked around at each other and then looked up and saw Mayor Toadstool and the other giant frog villagers, all of which were glowing translucent blue, catching up as Mrs. Croaker and Archie rode on Wally. Once everyone was now present at the hill, they all looked up at the blue moon and croaked as loud and proud as can be.

Boys and girls of every age

Wouldn't you like to see something strange?

Come with us and you will see

This, our town of Halloween

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Pumpkins scream in the dead of night

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

I am the one hiding under your bed

Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red

I am the one hiding under yours stairs

Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home

Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

In this town, don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can

Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll...

Scream! This is Halloween

Red 'n' black, slimy green

Aren't you scared?

Well, that's just fine

Say it once, say it twice

Take a chance and roll the dice

Ride with the moon in the dead of night

Everybody scream, everbody scream

In our town of Halloween!

I am the clown with the tear-away face

Here in a flash and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who's there?"

I am the wind blowing through your hair

I am the shadow on the moon at night

Filling your dreams to the brim with fright

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

Halloween! Halloween!

Tender lumplings everywhere

Life's no fun without a good scare

That's our job, but we're not mean

In our town of Halloween

In this town

Don't we love it now?

Everybody's waiting for the next surprise

Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back

And scream like a banshee

Make you jump out of your skin

This is Halloween, everybody scream

Wont' ya please make way for a very special guy

Our man jack is King of the Pumpkin patch

Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King now!

This is Halloween, this is Halloween

Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!

In this town we call home

Everyone hail to the pumpkin song

La la la la-la (Halloween, Halloween) X3

La La-la-la Whee!

End The Nightmare Before Christmas Music: "This is Halloween"

Meanwhile, Azog, Norok, and Zog were kneeling as Andrias was at a loss.

"So, hold on a minute. Let me know if I'm getting this right. You three... were this close to invading Wartwood with some assistance from the Nine-dra... But then it wound up destroyed after two frogs figured out how to use the blue moon?", Andrias asked as they growled softly.

"Not just two frogs. It was the ones called Jackie and Polly.", Zog reported.

"Jackie? Polly?", Andrias asked before he then burst into laughter.

"Wait..., wait, wait, let me guess. The villagers decided to follow HER example and transform into giant frog monsters to get the jump on you all and force you out?!", Andrias shouted before laughing again, only earning the orcs' unsteady growls before Andrias sighed.

"Wait... That's serious, isn't it?", Andrias asked.

"Of course, it is! Because of them, we failed!", Norok exclaimed.

"No... You haven't failed at all.", Melkor assured.

"Uh, excusa-what now?", Andrias puzzled.

"So... This was a test, then?", Zog asked.

"Indeed. And you all pass. I needed to know what kind of threat stands in our way of multiversal dominance. And now, thanks to you three, I know.", Melkor responded.

"So, that means... we're one step closer to Multiversal dominance, right?", Andrias asked.

"Yes... And this time, no one will stand in our way...! None!", Melkor spoke as he stood up from his throne just before flames appeared behind him before the screen went dark, showing only the flames and his glowing eyes before they faded.

Back at the forest, it showed Anne, Sasha, Marcy, and their siblings looking up at the blue moon as Hop Pop and Sylvia read their books. Of course, while looking up, the gang each held their triplet close as they slept.

A/N: Happy Halloween! Pretty cool, Halloween Chapter, huh? And the best part is..., well, you'll just have to wait and see when the next chapter comes out for this story. :)