Third Gen Tales

by Gamewizard2008

It's a fresh new start for the Third Generation of Kids Next Door. Learning the value of friendship, fighting dangerous villains, and having fun adventures, they train to better their selves as they continue their parents' legacy! Almost every chapter or arc focuses on a new crossover and a KND sector interacting with them.

31. Vampire Party

So, this chapter was initially made as the 2021 Halloween special, as well as the first lengthy, mission-based chapter of Third Gen I wrote, so it was sort of a trial run in terms of what kind of pacing I wanted for serious Third Gen fics. To be blunt, it's almost the same premise as the Mamodo Arc, except more chaotic and rather unfocused. Plus, it's not really as exciting as that arc. We're basically gonna get a dump of a bunch of different vampire crossovers, along with other Halloween-type characters, and I don't expect people to keep track or look up everyone here. There are a few noteworthy scenes, but I'm just leaving this warning before you decide to read it.

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Vampire Party

A clean, crimson wine filled the glass, soon to meet a pair of pale lips and flow through the fangs beyond it. When he lowered the glass, Count Dracula was returned to the view of his gala. The notes of Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" resounded… before transitioning to a more upbeat, techno version. The pitch-black and ghoulish white of the ballroom captured the colors of the vampiric noblemen. Jin Kariya of the Bount Coven (from Bleach) was mixing his own cocktail and using airbending to stir it together. Muscular in build, Jin had white hair with red eyes, a brown trench coat with matching pants, and a red tie over a white shirt.

Meier Link (from Vampire D) possessed black clothing with gold edgings and a long cape with red lining. His hair and face were the same ghostly white, with sharp red eyes to cut through them. He sat by his lonesome reading a book, but grew annoyed when Blodwyn Bludd strolled by, singing an operatic song. Bludd (from Harry Potter) was baldheaded and portly, with a red shirt under a brown vest. To silence his song, Meier used psychic to grab Bludd's white neckerchief and stuff it into the singer's throat.

Marcus (from Twilight), a vampire in a heavy black robe and hood, long brown hair underneath, surveyed the guests. He could see waves of energy linking Jin to his Bounts, though the bonds were rather weak on his end. He could almost say the same between Dracula and his own wife. His newest wife possessed black and gray clothes with bone decorations and even bone fingers. Her hair flowed with white and black highlights, her dark eyes soulless on her gray face.

Dracula tapped a nail to his glass, garnering the attention of the party-goers. "Vell, my brethren, I think ve've had enough of an appetizer. The hunt vill begin in 10 minutes! The Kids Next Door vill not be expecting us!"

"Yes, a crisis wouldn't possibly happen on Halloween." Marcus said. "Not since, well… the last one, and a few before that."

"The more alert they are," Jin said, "the more fun the hunt. I say let them."

"Then ve shall return, along with the newest Dracula heir!" Blodwyn sang.

"SIX ex-wives! Ah! Ah! Ah!" laughed Count von Count, flipping through Dracula's logbook. He was a purple vampire with an ovular face and a wide mouth. "SEVEN ex-wives! Ah! Ah! Ah!"

"And it should be quite interesting vonce my grandson joins us, vould you not agree, my sweet?" Dracula asked his wife flirtingly.

"I just want a decent meal." Sylistys replied, sipping a cup of ghostly substance. "When I agreed to marry you, I expected more quality souls than this fast-food stuff. Loptr better bring back some good benders if he knows what's good for him."

"Patience, my dear. My brethren here will collect plenty of food for all of us. They vill convert the KND into vampires and make them serve us. Then their elemental chi is yours to dine on as you please."

Sylistys smacked him. "By that time, their chi will be tainted. You can change them afterward, but the taste of vampire will ruin their quality."

"Oh, my Sy! Wherefore art thou so cruel? Or is it that the taste of vampire will make them TOO irresistible?" Dracula leaned closer to her. "You vill end up devouring the whole plate, but then, we vill have no minions~"

In a split second, she grabbed his collar, slammed him to the floor, and stamped his head beneath her heel. "As soon as the plates are clear, I'd sooner smash them than let them take up space."

"Ho ho ho! So cruel you are~"

"Can I just go out and hunt already?" asked Necrolai impatiently (from Power Rangers). She wore dark armor and had a black bat-like face with white hair, bat wings on her head, and a skirt designed like said wings. "Your banter is making me nauseous."

"By all means!" Dracula declared from his place on the floor. "The hunt begins now! Go forth and spread darkness to the vorld!"

The vampires whooshed out of the gala in blurs of darkness. Meier was the slowest to react, calmly putting his book away first before joining his brethren. "No point in trusting them to get the job done." Sylistys stepped off Dracula and marched down the stairs. "Besides, there's a certain lightbender who's sure to be a pain for them. I'll have to suck him dry first~"

Iceland

"Trick-or-treat! See my teeth! Give Santa some cookies to eat!" Juki Crystal was beaming as she raised her reindeer bucket to the owner of the house. Dressed like a little Santa, she had black hair with ice-blue eyes and a white gradient.

"Ho ho! I knew you'd be visiting us, Juki." The old lady chortled. "Here: gingerbread elves!" She placed said cookies into the bucket.

"Yaaaay!" Juki did a little twirl and danced out beside her cousin.

"What're you gonna do when you run out of Christmas costumes?" asked Hiyuki. An albino with long brown hair covering her forehead and sunset eyes, she was dressed in a purple reaper's robe with a scythe.

"Oh, that's not gonna happen, silly! Christmas has so many wonderful things, haha!" She generated a bit of snow from her twirl.

"It'll add more variety to the party, at least." Ruford Stork smiled. He dressed like a karate master with a long white wig over his brown hair, a thin beard, sandaled socks, and a blue robe with a clock on the sash. "We're doing good, team! And we still got 30 minutes before we report to Moonbase! Let's keep up the pace and we'll place in the contest for sure!"

"Pace, place! Pace, place!" Juki jumped.

"Yo, Ruford!" A bat flew onto a roof and poofed into a girl's shape. She had pale skin with sandy-brown hair, dark-blue eyes, and a blue and yellow jester's uniform. She ordinarily followed the vampire tradition of wearing goth clothes, so dressing all bright and cheery like this was considered "scary" for her. "I think I know where Loki is. Saw some other trick-or-treaters freaking out over something."

"He isn't taking their candy, are they?"

"Probably. I'll go get him." Lucina turned back into a bat and flew off.

"AAAAH!" A girl was in panic as a squirrel had jumped into her pumpkin basket. "HEY! STOP!" The squirrel jumped out of the basket, tucking the candy under its gliders and scampering away.

"The heck is that thing's problem?!" her friend asked.

The flying squirrel retreated to a path between fences. It morphed into a 13-year-old boy: his silver hair was wrapped into corn rows, ice-blue eyes on his tan face. He wore a yellow sleeveless hoodie with baggy orange pants and teal shoes with laces. "Ah, not a bad load if I say so myself." The boy observed the candy in satisfaction.

"You're taking other kids' candy?!" He flinched, whipping up to find a sandy-blonde bat flapping above him. "That's not cool, Loki."

"Hey, you've got to take shortcuts if you hope to win this race." Loki's tone was a mix of punkish and charming. "How do you expect to beat Sector V? Or the sectors with giants in them? …Including Sector V?"

"It ain't like our lives are on the line! This is just a fun contest, but stealing from others is just low, Loki."

"Hey, win or not, I'm having fun either way." Loki stashed the candy into magic cards. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to acquire more. I'll see you in… 30 minutes, I believe? 29, 28? Be seeing you, love!" He became a squirrel and rushed off again.

"Hey!" Lucina pursued.

The next few minutes became a game of "bat and squirrel," the latest version of "cat and mouse." Loki attacked any group of costumed kids in sight, and in her attempts to stop him, those kids mistook the bat as another pest and worked to swat Lucina away just the same. Loki would take crafty routes through bushes and yards to lose sight of her, but Lucina's keen hearing gave him away by the time kids started screaming again.

Loki cut through some trees and ran across a field in the outskirts of town. "So far, so good! Now, where to…?" He saw a lone figure crossing the field. Their height looked the same as Loki's normal self, with a similar hoodie, albeit blue, and whitish-blue baggy pants with yellow line designs and purple shoes. "Hm…someone's decided to dress as me, by the look of it. Well, I am pretty scary~. Still, I wonder if they got any candy on them."

"LOKI!" He flinched and ducked. Lucina flapped directly overhead, her sights set on the stranger. "How did you get all the way out there so quickly?!"

"Or I could watch a hilarious misunderstanding." Loki whispered to himself.

"Look, dude, I'm gonna make you give all that candy back. I don't wanna win the contest like…?"

Five giant, boney tentacles emerged from the boy's spine. He lashed them at Lucina and whipped her out of the air. "WHAT IN BLAZES?!" Loki screamed.

"OW!" Lucina crashed and morphed back into her human form. "UH!" The hooded boy pinned her against the wings.

"You were looking for my half-nephew, weren't you?" Lucina twisted her head back. The boy's cold stare glimmered in the shade of his hood. "Maybe he'll come out if I rip those shabby things off."

"Y…You're not… Lok-"

"EYUH!" The real Loki landed a firm, flying kick to the stranger's head. He bounced several meters away, but landed in a squat position before straightening up. He helped Lucina up as they glared at their foe. "Who are you?!"

"That's no way to greet your family." The stranger raised his arms. The ground seemed to swell as huge fossils emerged. "You may call me Loptr."

"Loptr? 'Kind of weird name is that?"

"Do some research and you'd know." The dinosaur fossils gnashed at them, but Loki whipped out a magic wand, black with an orange pyramid tip. He used a Protego to block the bones, then conjured magic chains to hold one of the dinosaurs down. Loptr swung around and whipped Loki with a spine, but the impostor was swat away by Lucina's Spank Hands. She landed before him and thrusted forceful spanks that Loptr, who maneuvered his skele-tentacles (skelecles) in defense. Loki became a squirrel, rushed behind, and morphed back as he shot a spell to explode the base of the skelecles. Loptr was quick to counter by throwing his fist up and bending a triceratops skull out to send Loki flying. Lucina flew to slam him to the ground, but Loptr bent a dino's tail to whip her away.

The operatives received calls on their wristwatches. "Loki, Lucina, we need you! The town's under attack by…"

…

"Booeheheheheheh!" A certain, slender vampire with big bare hands and a gray suit laughed gleefully. "Sector IC! You shall be Count Spankulot's gift to Count Dracula and seal his membership in the Noble Vampire Alliance!"

"Noble Vampire Alliance?!" Ruford repeated, dumbstruck by the development. It wasn't unexpected for Spankulot, of all villains, to show up with a horde of Hands of Justice minions on Halloween… but the sudden mention of Dracula set them on edge.

"Go bother someone else!" Juki rode up on an Ice Road and tried to freeze Spankulot directly, but the vampire already took flight. He swiftly flew to spank all the trick-or-treaters, converting them into Spank-Happy Minions. Juki surfed after the vampire while the timebenders fought the Hands of Justice. Hiyuki sliced their hand-heads off with her scythe ("Yes it's real, why wouldn't it be?"), and when the victims swarmed them, Ruford used several Paradox Clones to combat them.

Spankulot was swift in evading Juki's waves of ice. "OW!" A Spank-Happy dog was able to get the jump and bite her hip, Juki freezing it off. But Spankulot then whooshed behind Juki and spanked her in the rear. "AAAAAH!"

"Booeheheheh! Excellent!" laughed Spankulot as the icebender grew fangs and bat wings. "You'll fit in vith the family quite well~"

Cleveland, Virginia

"Okay, team!" Laruta announced with a vigorous spring into the air. The impish Grayson girl wore a purple tracksuit with gray aardvark headwear, complete with a long nose over her uncovered mouth. "Let's split to our designated routes and get all the candy we can!"

"The heck are you supposed to be again?" Christina asked, dressed like Terry Bogard.

"I'm Mr. Fit! He's a famous Mobian gymnast!"

"I ain't ever heard of him." Jason replied, dressed like Luffy.

"Well, the nose suits her." Chris said. "Now she'll be more snotty than Silica."

"Hooooooh!" Laruta fumed.

"Mmmrr…" Silica grumbled, eyes glued to her game. She was dressed like a turtle.

The Sector V members split into pairs of two. Mali, dressed like the Good Dinosaur, followed after Laruta, the tiny girl jogging jovially. Jason went with Isabelle, who dressed as a sky fox. Shimmy dressed like Sir Topham Hatt and Ralph like Thomas the Train, having to haul a paper mâché train car with her on top (he lost a game and had to do this role). Christina went with Silica, but they had Trella with them also since there was no one else to pair with.

Christina had a particular, blunt style called trick-or-beating: "Cough up the candy or I'll conk ya!" The adults weren't sure if she meant it, but they weren't about to find out. And Jason, being the pirate he was, straight-up took the candy without even waiting, and gave nothing back. Overall, it was a fun and free time for the friends of the famous sector.

"AAAH!" Mali screamed, the big dino hiding behind a street pole (referencing a children's book). "Laru! Bone dinos!"

It seemed a small bone dinosaur, about Mali's size, was stomping toward them. "Another giant? Or an animatronic?" Laruta approached the skeleton curiously—the dinosaur chomped down, but Laruta ducked.

"LARU!"

"AAAAH!" The dinosaur had snagged Laruta's ponytail and began to flail her around. Laruta went flying, but Mali jumped to catch her friend. Mali opened her hands and was met with Laruta's gracious smile, the gymnast feeling safe in her friend's hands. But when the dino charged her, Mali blasted it with strong Gas Bombs. However, screaming was heard around them as hordes of skele-raptors swarmed the streets, chasing innocent treaters. "Mali, divide and conquer!" Laruta flipped off the hands and dashed to attack a group of raptors.

"Right!" Mali branched off and stampeded over other raptors. She snatched a few kids up and tossed them on her costume's back. "This is the best Halloween ever!" a girl cheered ecstatically.

A loud booming sound startled the group, and the skull of a larger dino came flying over some houses. "WOOOOOW!"

That skull had been sent flying by Jason, his fists primed for action. "Where did these even come from?!" Isabelle wondered.

"It's time, it's time!" Blodwyn sang upon the head of a brontosaur. "The Age of Vampires has come! All mortals, join us in gothic beauty!"

"A vampire?"

"Let's find out! Bella, song me!" At Jason's order, Isabelle strummed her harp and let him fly up on a Song Road. Jason spun his Light Fist and socked Blodwyn in the skull, the vampire singing in pain as he went flying up the street. "GAH!" A large, boney hand grabbed Jason out of the air.

"There's the boy I was looking for." Sylistys said up at him coldly.

"Another one? YUH!" Jason pushed free of the bone and punched down, Sylistys dodging and pinning Jason afterward. She was about to bite his neck, but took a Song Beam to the face. Jason reached up toward the overhead streetlight and tugged down, making the light shoot a beam at her head and escape. Sylistys whipped a bone to slash the streetlight down, commanding her dinos to tear down other ones.

"You'll have a tough time without more light sources." Sylistys bent off a few dino skulls to thrust at Jason like fists, the boy dealing rapid-punches to hold them back. His Light Fists were indeed weakened in the darker environment, his knuckles bruising from the onslaught.

"I guess they did their research." Isabelle cast Music Notes against her. "But what's your aim?!"

"Our aim is the feast of a LIFETIIIIIIME!" Blodwyn grabbed Isabelle's notes in his own musicbending and returned them against her. Jason used lightspeed to zip up to Sylistys and punched her in the jaw, but his fist had no burning effect on her. As he began to suspect whether she was a vampire, Sylistys sent him flying with a kick. Blodwyn seized the chance to rush Isabelle, using Haki with her graceful mobility to evade his arms. She tried to strum Music Notes, but Blodwyn's singing took hold of some of her music. He swirled the notes around Isabelle and eventually mesmerized her with his song.

Sylistys seized Jason's legs in bones and lunged to bite him. Jason threw a punch, but Sy took it straight to the teeth and grabbed his arm to keep it in. Jason pummeled her with his other fist, horrified as light coursed from his flesh and through her teeth. Eventually, the light in his other fist faded. "Hey… my bending!"

Sylistys then punched him in the face for a dizzying sensation. "You can have the rest." She threw him to Blodwyn. "Huh?" The vampire had bitten Isabelle's neck, turning her fox costume black and her Nimbi wings batlike. "Imbecile! You didn't let me suck her, first."

"This maiden's music will compliment splendidly with my own! I shall not let you have it, Madame! We shall be the life of the party!"

Marcus, the head of the Volturi coven, directly confronted Christina and Silica, matching the former's strength in direct combat and tolerating her fire. He could sense a strong friendship link between the girls, and the same applied to the other pairs. But Chris and Silica's Soul Bond gave the shadowbender away in her attempts to use sneak attacks. Marcus was jumped by Rainbow Monkey spirits, pinning him down as Silica applied Shadow Possession. Christina ignited a large fire behind Silica to enhance her shadow.

"Chris! Silica!" They saw Ralph rushing over, still dragging the mâché train. However, the train had been recolored black, as was his hair.

"Ralph, check in with the others!" Christina ordered. "We haven't been able to—HEY!" Ralph tackled her.

"Sorry, Chris. But I got a big hankering for some blood!"

As Trella horrifically sensed the interaction, she felt something climb onto her roof. It was Shimmy, her big mouth sporting big fangs. Trella danced away from the vampire, applying the evasion techniques Isabelle taught her. She jumped off the roof, but sadly, another vampire ambushed her: a handsome young, orange-haired man named Demetri. Trella sang for more monkey spirits to restrain them both, but Demetri's keen Haki helped him evade their grasps and crack their necks. "That's a lovely voice you have, though I can only faintly hear it." Demetri smiled. "What spirits could you sing for with us?" Demetri tried to grab her, but even as Trella dodged, Shimmy was able to tackle her. The big-toothed vampire bit her neck.

Silica shoved Ralph off her, but Marcus broke free and lunged to bite her—but Silica's turtle shell was harder than expected, having to seriously crunch through it. Silica Veiled out of the shell and reemerged, but Vampire Monkeys grabbed the gamer. Trella rushed up and bit her in the neck. "SILICA!"

"A shadowbender will be most helpful to us." Marcus said. "But leave that one as she is. Her Fire Chi will make a nice meal for Sylistys."

Mali's riders cheered for her as she shoved down more dinosaurs, crushing their bones into dust. "Oh? Isabelle! Jason!" She was joyous as the two friends raced to her aid. "Did you change costumes? …"

Laruta extended twin Snot Ropes from her nose, grabbing a raptor to slam into others. "Larutaaaa…"

"You okay, Mali? Oh?" Mali had grown a huge pair of fangs, her dino suit vampirized. Jason and Isabelle were at her sides, and Mali's riders looked around the giant, hissing through their fangs. "M-M-M-Mali… what hap-"

"DOWN HERE!" A rope of green goop grabbed Laruta from behind and pulled her into an open sewer. Mali charged after, but a pumpkin was shot at her from a cannon. Mali looked up at a beefy Frankenstein boy, black-haired with a dark-blue "!" shirt. The boy, Hank N. Stein fired more explosive pumpkins from a cannon, holding the vampires back. Isabelle rushed forward, dodging his shots and sending Bad Notes to bite his undead skin. Hank pulled off his head and chucked it, slamming Isabelle's head and knocking her down. Jason charged Hank's body, both pairs of hands meeting and wrestling each other.

Christina kept her body alight as the enemies surrounded her. "Hey, vampires! Hungry for stake?!" A chubby mummy in a red hat unveiled turrets from his bandages, shooting them to scratch the vampires.

"Who are you?" Chris asked.

"Name's Pedro! We're with the Transylvania KND!"

"Never heard of you!" Chris shot a charged fireball at Marcus. "But don't hurt the kids, they're my friends!"

"We gotta hold 'em down somehow!" Pedro barfed garlic spray, prompting the vampires to leaping away.

"The Spirit Ops are here." Marcus observed. "It may be time to take our leave. We've collected enough."

"Not as far as I'm concerned." Sylistys stepped up from behind. "Grab the girl. I'll rip this tissue to shreds." She lashed bones at the mummy, but Chris deflected them with her own fire and strength.

Laruta was dragged a fair distance over the sewer walkway, the ceiling above crumbling from the combat. "Grrrr! Let me go! LET ME!" Laruta finally tore free of the blob dragging her.

"I'm sorry!" The blob shaped into a three-layer form, with small arms, freckles on blushed "cheeks," glasses over her big-pupiled eyes, and pink hair in a ponytail. "I was just trying to help…" Her voice was somewhat hoarse with a lisp.

Laruta lit up once she had a moment to really observe her. The blob girl was about half of Laruta's 3'6" height. "Uh…I didn't mean to yell. But… I…" Laruta had too many questions going through her. First the skele-dinos, then her friends becoming vampires, and now… "What are you?"

"I'm Wendy…Wendy Blob." She smiled meekly. "As you can see… Are you a Mobian?"

"Huh? No, I'm a human."

"But you look like an elephant-rabbit."

"I'm an aardvark! I mean, it's a mask. See?" Laruta pulled it up by the nose, revealing her real nose.

"Ohhhh! Now I see!" Wendy stretched an arm and tapped Laru's nose. "Tiny nose. That's more like it."

"Tehe! Tiny nose, big glasses!"

"Hehehehehehe!" A Soul Bond seemed to snap between them, and the label INSTANT FRIENDS flashed. They gasped when the tunnel rumbled. "Wendy, do you know anything about this?"

"W-We only just the alert, we came as fast as we could. We also sent some to help the other sectors, too."

"The other sectors?"

Ashland, West Virginia

The treaters of Ashland were drawn into the park when a concert seemed to be taking place. It appeared to be the cereal mascot, Count Chocula, singing Tay Zonday's, "Chocolate rain! Some stay dry and others feel the pain, chocolate rain! A baby born will die before the sin…"

The clouds were quite literally raining chocolate rain. "Yo, check this out!" Spike exclaimed, running into the park with his mouth open to the chocolate droplets. The sandbender was dressed like a Spiny from Mushroom World.

"You sure it's not poo, right?" asked Jolene Kemuri, dressed like a slug.

Lily, dressed like a green beetle, stood on the nose of Robi's long Banjo mask, his costume complete with yellow shorts and blue backpack. "Ah!" She was smooshed under a chocolate droplet. "Well, it tastes chocolate to me!"

Robi caught one on his finger and ate it. "Yummy!"

Several kids gathered around Chocula's stage. Count von Count was playing the piano and projecting his own illusory bats. He subtly sang along with Chocula, "Seven baaats! Five and six, but now there's eleven bats, ah ah aaaaahh!" Said numbers of bats would appear with each verse. After some time, the treaters couldn't help but gaze at the bats. They were compelled to count them as well. "Six bats, five bats, three bats, four bats, two bats, eight bats…" Jolene mumbled.

"Ugh, there she goes again." Kent Taylor sighed, dressed like Adam Taurus. Jolene was a frequent watcher of Sesame Street and would always be hooked during the Count's counting sessions. "Why'd it have to be Count of all people?"

"Three bats, five bats, eight bats…" Robi mumbled.

"Seven, nine, ten bats…" Lily followed.

"Hey, not you guys, too!" Kent shouted. "Seriously, what's so fun about this baby…" He took a moment to study the bats on his own. "18 bats… 13 bats… three-six-nine…"

Spike wasn't paying any mind to the show, merely relishing the taste of the Chocolate Rain on his tongue. But little did he know the rest of the audience had fallen captivated by the Number Hypnosis. Chocula stopped singing and observed the kids with satisfaction. "Hmm…seems ve have missed one." Chocula noticed Spike. "I'll deal vith him. You keep the others still."

"One missed kid, ah, ah, ah!"

Chocula flew over the crowd and landed behind Spike. "Huh?" Spike felt him land and turned.

"You seem to like my chocolate, little boy."

"Hyeah, it's sweet stuff, bro."

"You look rather sweet yourself!" Chocula bent some of the chocolate to wrap Spike up, hardening it.

"Huh?! The frick's your deal?!"

"UAH!" Chocula was punched by a fist made of clay. Jolene was responsible, having morphed the clay composing her slug costume into two large fists. She defended herself when Chocula slashed chocolate, and Spike was able to convert the ground beneath him into sand, bending it up to split open his chocolate prison. Vampire minions swarmed in to fight the duo. "TWO missed kids! Ah, ah, ah!" Count von Count flapped down and bit Kent first before focusing on the other kids. Against his better judgment, Kent left the audience and splashed lavabending at Spike and Jolene. Spike used Blue Sand to counter and cool his lava. Jolene encased herself in a clay shield and plowed through the minions to grab Robi and Lily. But Chocula yanked Robi away with a chocolate whip and bit the boy's neck. Lily flung off, Jolene quick to catch her, but horrified as Robi morphed into a chocolate vampire.

"Let's go!" Spike grabbed Jolene and pulled her into a run, the girl wrapping fingers around Lily. "We need to hide somewhere and think of a plan! Tell the folks, too!"

"O-okay…"

"Also, remember when I asked if there was ever a Sesame Street where the Count kills a guy and sucks his blood for sustenance?"

"You said that was a joke, right? 'Cause Sesame Street is a kids' show and they don't go into adult-"

"Well, it AIN'T A JOKE NOW!"

"They're getting away!" Count Count yelled as the ops turned a street corner. "10 yards, 20 yards, 25—YOW!"

A bat rammed the Count, sending him flying. It morphed into a vampire girl with soft purple skin and gorgeous yellow eyes. "Fangtastic to meet you." She clutched the ends of her curtain of purple hair and gave a curtsy. "Or I vould like to say… if you vere not ruining everyone's Halloween."

"Vhat's this? A vampire traitor?!" Chocula exclaimed.

"Vait! I recognize you." Count Count said. "From Dracula's logbook! You're vone of his daughters, Sibella!"

"I'm honored that you know me. But I'll be taking those kids if you don't mind." She swooped to kick Count, but Chocula defended him with a chocolate shield.

"Ve do not have time for this! Ve have 360 seconds, 359 seconds, 358 seconds…"

"Do not vorry, Count! My Cereal Monstes vill find them!"

…

"Lily? Hey, Lily?" Jolene gently tapped her little friend. "I like counting, too, but if you keep doing it, you're gonna get headaches."

"Yawn…huh?" Waking from her trance, Lily was met with the blue-eyed, pudgy face of her friend. "Jolene? What was I…"

"You awake?" Spike asked. "Good, 'cause we got another problem on our hands."

A band of monsters approached them from four directions, two of which they knew as cereal mascots. "Mmmmm! Kids look berry good!" groaned Franken Berry, a smiling pink Frankenstein with hunched up hands.

"If you come with us, we'll treat you to a little surpriiiise~" Boo Berry tempted, a huge blue ghost.

"My Yummy Mummy make your tummy go yummy!" proclaimed a huge-mouthed mummy in purple and yellow bandages. "So, don't be dummy and go runny!" With a tug of his bandages, he seemed to crack his own neck.

"BUY MY CEREAL OR BE MY CEREAL!" snarled Fruit Brute, a red werewolf.

"The discontinued Monster Cereal mascots?" Jolene gasped. "So, they weren't just an urban legend!"

Spike turned the surrounding road into sand and swirled up a cyclone. Boo Berry phased through and grabbed Jolene, carrying her and Lily up the shopping district. "GIRLS!" Spike was unable to give chase before

Fruit Brute ripped through the cyclone and tackled him. Spike bent sand to push him off, but Franken Berry dealt a firm punch to send him against a street pole. Spike's costume saved him from any broken skulls, the boy bracing himself before the approaching monsters.

A large rock hit the back of Berry's head. "Back off, Strawberry!" Behind him was a pale-skinned Frankenstein girl, her green dress ragged and her black hair updo with white streaks.

"Bah! Me eat you, too!" Franken Berry charged, unafraid as the girl reeled and thrusted her fist, but it packed enough strength to bend his stomach in. "Oack! Another… Frankenstein?!"

"That's Frankenteen to you!" The Nightmare grabbed Berry's ankle and hoisted him down.

"Hey, you! Human!" Spike had no time to question this before a voice prompted him to turn around. "AAH!" The orange-haired werewolf girl threw him for a scare. She was smaller and admittedly cuter than the Fruit Brute behind him, but the threat was all the same in his eyes, so Spike kicked a mound of sand at her face.

"HEY! Do that again and you're toast!" The werewolf, Winnie, pounced onto and off Spike's shell, tackling and biting into Fruit Brute.

"Are you two on our side?" Spike asked, binding the larger werewolf in sand.

"We Sector GHOUL." Frankenteen answered, tanking a punch from Berry before grabbing and twisting his wrist. (These new operatives are from Scooby-Doo.) "Here to help. Town being invaded by Nightmares!"

"I can see that! What about the girls?"

Boo Berry carried his captives over a shopping district. Jolene's struggle to escape was fruitless, "HAHAHA!" until a blue blur whooshed and RAMMED Berry from below. Jolene crash-landed on a restaurant's roof. "HEY!"

"AH!" A skinny blue ghost girl with heeled boots and white hair with a blue streak shot into Jolene's face.

"I'm Phantasma! Sorry about that, at least you didn't break your skull. Then I would have a new buddy, hahahahaha!"

"You'll pay for that, you monster!" Boo Berry grabbed and tried to squeeze the ghost's ectoplasm out. Jolene bent some clay to shove him off.

"Hey, nice clay! Can ya make me somethin' nice, hahaha?"

Jolene constructed a large monster that was Berry's size. Phantasma possessed the clay and fought the enemy ghost with equal strength. "Wait! Lily!" Jolene gasped, checking her hands, the bottoms of her shoes, and the surrounding roof upon knowing her friend was gone.

Lily had gone flying from the crash and fell down the restaurant's gutter. She splashed into a small puddle and climbed out gasping for breath. "Cough, cough…?" Lily walked into a softish object. It appeared to be a foot wrapped in mummy bandages. "?!" Towering above her was a mummy, one much shorter than Yummy Mummy, but nonetheless a threat to the inch-high girl. "Wow! Cute bug!" she proclaimed in a childish voice, reaching for Lily with innocent eyes.

"AH!" Untrusting of the monster, Lily ran between her feet. The mummy turned and chased with her torso leaned forward. Lily's natural speed kept a good distance from her pursuer, until the Kateenian felt and saw the thundering steps of Yummy Mummy. "YOU MAKE GOOD YUMMY FOR MY CEREAL! Maybe put brand back on shelf!"

With no plants nearby, Lily struggled to consider her next move. "Don't eat the cute buggy!" The smaller mummy spun and drilled against the mascot's stomach. She stretched and wrapped bandages around Yummy's limbs, leapt over him, and tugged to bend the limbs behind him. Agape at her sudden assistance and surprising skill, Lily glanced up and saw a crow. She used Animal Telepathy to have the crow swoop down and gouge at Yummy's eyes. The smaller mummy, whom Lily realized had a red bow on her head, grabbed the ends of Yummy's bandages and did a dance as she unraveled him. "Tehehe!" She danced to a halt beside Lily, cutely sucking her thumb afterward. "You're safe, little buggy!"

"I'm not a buggy! I'm a Lily!"

"Wow! You can talk?"

"I'm more amazed that you can talk!"

"Hehehehehe!" With the tense air gone between them, Lily allowed herself to be picked up by her new friend, Tanis."

Karakura Town

Sector JP were robbed of their own trick-or-treating spree by the arrival of the Bount Coven. "Vampires, huh?" Joto sneered, tapping her bat to her back. She remodeled her Tiny Devil to look like Chernabog. "Well, Ichigo, this might call for your 'special gift.'"

"Yeah." The half-Spanish giant narrowed his eyes with conviction. "The rest of you be careful." Ichigo sat on the ground and used Spirit Shift: his soul was clad in heavy sports gear, afloat on a flying skateboard with flaming wheels. Joto tossed some balls around Ichigo's body to form a protective barrier around him.

One of the Bounts, the elderly Sawatari, conjured a huge wooden whale to ram the group head-on. Ichigo sped forth and rammed that whale with his skateboard, sending it a far distance back. The whale could phase into the earth in its ploy to attempt sneak attacks, but Ichigo phased down after it. Ichigo wielded a giant soccerball attached to a chain, tossing it at the whale Zanpakutō, but the beast slurped it into its vortex mouth. Ichigo clung the end of the chain to keep it from going all the way in, flying circles around the whale to try and strangle it with the chain.

Yoshi was a dark-teal-haired vampire. Her weapon, Nieder, was a jian linked to a fan via a chain. The fan defended from Koda's fireworks before shooting spikes, ripping Koda's Crossette costume. Mazu battled Yoshino Sōma, a pretty brown-haired woman who used firebending to create fiery golems. As Mazu fought back with his own bending, he remarked that her surname reminded him of a friend's dad.

Two young Bount twins, Hō and Ban, were terrorizing treaters with their waterbending. Both wore brown sweaters, one had a white knitted cap and the other a red baseball hat. They suddenly took hits to the jaws and nuts from an unseen force. "You boys are having fun!" Joto teased. The vampires could just make out the tiny fly buzzing around them. "Mind if I CUT IN?" A wooden stake stuck from her bat. She would resize whenever possible and jab the twins with the stake before shrinking and evading them.

The bouts with the Bounts lasted half an hour before victories were decided. Koda shot Yoshi's fan-shield with Greaseworks that prevented her from keeping a hold on it, and that was only on top of the Garlicworks he started shooting at her. Yoshi hurdled her sword and successfully stabbed him in the leg, halting his movement. She lunged at the pyrotechnic directly and aimed for the neck, but her teeth only sank into a small balloon-like attachment. It popped garlic directly into her mouth, causing Yoshi to choke. "Didn't think we'd be prepared for vampires, huh?!" And he stabbed her in the throat with a wooden arrow. Yoshi turned to ash.

Hō and Ban had swatted Joto out of the air, knocking her to normal size as she lay exhausted. Hō jumped to pin her down, ready to bite her neck—Joto smirked and clicked a different button, blowing her to giant size as her foot kicked Ban away. "You didn't think I could get big, DID YA?!" She grabbed Hō in her left hand and squeezed him tight. The vampire was able to struggle and barely push her hand apart, but Joto grabbed her still-normal size bat in her other fingers. She brought the stake end down on Hō and pierced him into ash. "BRO!" Ban screamed.

"Foolish boy." A muscular, tanned Bount with headphones and an orange tuft on his dark-red hair jumped Joto's giant neck and bit. She struggled to pull Koga off, but it only hurt more, and by then it was too late. She shrunk back to normal as her features vampirized. "It seems we underestimated this bunch. Almost…"

Sawatari's Baura had slurped Ichigo's soccer chain, along with his skateboard, into its void, knocking the spirit back up to the surface. "They were merely insufficient." Jin Kariya said as he stabbed Ichigo with a Lightning Blade. The giant shot a glare at the white-haired vampire. Ichigo flew skyward and shot Spirit Flames down, but using airbending, Jin stirred the flames away. He spun a powerful tornado to slurp Ichigo in like a vacuum, but amidst his resistance, Joto gigantified and swatted her friend down. "AH! Joto…" The vampirized giant stomped the smaller Ichigo.

The barrier protecting his body was disabled, allowing Jin to bite into it. He forcibly returned Ichigo to his body, allowing him to embrace the vampirification. "And that makes… three." Jin smiled with satisfaction as Sawatari had gotten the jump on Koda, biting his neck. "And speaking of insufficient…"

Yoshino was on all fours after Mazu's flames overwhelmed her own. Mazu had channeled the heat from his own portable cooking pot. "It's amazing how many things you can do with garlic! Even if some don't involve edibility."

"Is this really the best you can manage, Yoshino?" Jin asked, approaching disdainfully. "You've truly grown past your prime. Perhaps it's time to search for a new wife."

"W-Wife?" Mazu repeated.

"Jin! What're you…"

"But don't worry." Jin's hand became that of a pata sword hilt. "I may have one more use for you."

Mazu splashed the steaming garlic directly at Jin and cast a wave of fire, the vampire leaping back. "That's pretty rude of you, buddy!"

"…!" Yoshino was awed by his act of kindness. The vampires were ready to jump the boy together, but with a burst of flame, Yoshino grabbed Mazu and raced off with him. "WHOOOOOAAA! HEY! Where are we goiiiiiing…"

"Should we go after them?" Koga asked.

"Wait." Jin alerted them to an incoming group of Spirit Operatives. "We've done enough for now. Let's retreat."

Sawatari slurped the vampires into his Baura and flew underground. "You guys go after them!" yelled Yachiru, a little pink-haired girl in a black robe. "I'll look for those two!"

Onett

"So much candy, so much candy~" Charmy Pappitson merrily chucked several tiny handfuls of sweets down her gullet. She dressed as a wolf.

"We're gonna lose the contest, gonna lose the contest if you keep on eating~" Karma sang along, dressed like an Imuchakk.

"This is why I said we should split up!" Veronica argued, dressed like a pig. "LUCAS."

"I-it's scary out here." Lucas stuttered. "I feel safer traveling as a group."

"Relax, Luke." Aria smiled. "Only scary thing out here is-"

"Hey, losers!" A pudgy boy with a squished up nose and blonde hair covering his eyes jogged up to them. He was dressed like a gray alien.

"Is Porky~" Ness finished the sentence.

"Man, I didn't think you could get any freakier, but Halloween does wonders!" Porky sneered. (He, Ness, and Lucas are from Mother.) "Haha, and you're a pig!" he laughed at Veronica. "Maybe they'll start calling YOU Porky!"

"Any other clever remarks before I squash you like a balloon?" Karma asked.

"Uh, right, well…I kinda need your help with something. My brother got captured by vampires."

"You serious?" the Fanalis sighed.

"It's true! There we were taking candies from babies, when suddenly, these dudes showed up! Picky offered to be a human shield when he was bit in the neck. He became a vampire! You losers gotta use your magic to-"

"Well, you didn't take long to find." A voice said from above. Necrolai drew a magic wand and cast a spell, but the kids jumped apart. "The Magic Sector. Or at least the most relevant one."

"And that purple one…" A trio of green-skinned vampires with carrot-red hair and black gangster suits stepped out. "She's the Dragon Style user, right?"

"They're here for Aria?" Karma wondered.

"We're Strigoi." One of them said (from Jake Long). "And we ain't your run-of-the-mill vampire. Our mama's thirsty… but you might be a decent snack for her."

"We'll capture her in her base form," Necrolai swooped down, "but I'll be converting the rest!" She cast a spell at Lucas and Ness, the latter deflecting it. Aria used a Sky Dragon Roar to blow her away, her wind appearing red with heat. Karma's quick footwork kicked the Strigoi away while Charmy tried to envelope them in Sheep Cotton. Necrolai used a magic portal to summon undead monsters called Hidiacs. Ness and Lucas cast spells every which way to fell the minions, but when Porky tried to sneak away from the conflict, one of the Hidiacs grabbed and dashed off with him.

"AAAAH! NESS, SAVE ME!"

"Porky!" Lucas ran after him, shooting thunder magic at the zombie.

"I said Ness, not you!"

Necrolai Apparated before the boy. "You're mine now." She cast the spell.

"LUCAS!" Ness pushed him aside and was zapped. Lucas was horror-struck as his best friend turned petrified. Aria cast Lumos Solem at the vampire, but it only burned her slightly before Necrolai cast Expelliarmus and knocked her wand away. Necrolai lunged, but Karma tackled her first and stomped her in the stomach.

The Strigoi chomped up Charmy's cotton and began to zip around the half-dwarf. She hid herself in a mountain of cotton, leaving them with no choice but to dig through. They searched unsuccessfully for the mage, unaware that she already climbed out of the cotton. Another quick spell sat the cotton on fire. The Strigoi scrambled out of the fluff, rolling off the flames. "Ow!" Veronica bashed Charmy in the head with her staff. "Veronica!"

"Charmy!" She swung her staff more. "Something's controlling me!"

"HEY!" Karma screamed, being forced to throw powerful kicks at Aria. "Something's got me, too! What…"

A young vampire was situated between a few houses partway down. His white robe bore black spider-web designs, standing barefoot on a couple strings as he gazed at his prey with a pale-blue right eye. His pale lilac hair was shaped into spider leg bangs, covering his left eye. "Took a while to secure a hold on that one." said Rui (from Demon Slayer). "Now this should be a bit easier."

Aria used Protego to block Karma's kicking flurry, but Necrolai seized the chance to grab Karma, fly away, and bite his neck. "KARMA!" Aria dashed after them, but was tackled by the Strigoi. "Grrr! Get off!" Aria blasted some wind to push them off, but Karma leapt to pin her beneath his feet. When you combine the natural strength of a Fanalis's legs with that of a vampire, it isn't healthy for the belly. Aria's stomach was smooshed in, hacking blood, and her mind needed time to process the sensation. But she wasn't granted that time before Karma kicked her in the jaw and KO'ed her.

"LUCAS!" Veronica screamed, helpless as Necrolai bombarded Charmy with magic. She turned Charmy's sheep into bugs before eventually petrifying the dwarf. "DO SOMETH-" Necrolai then bit Veronica's neck and transformed her.

All Lucas could do was run. Helpless to defeat this many foes, the timid boy ran for his life, desperately shooting spells back at the pursuing Strigoi. But when they were on the verge of grabbing him, something seemed to fly out from the right and KICK the lead Strigoi with enough force to send him flying. The remaining two and Lucas faced the interloper in shock. She seemed to be a 12-year-old girl with sweet pink eyes, her black hair in several long dreads that were orange near the ends. She wore a light-pink kimono under a brown haori, along with pink-strapped sandals with thick black leggings. Most notable was the bamboo muzzle over her mouth.

Karma ran to engage the girl in combat, their strong legs contesting each other. In the end, Karma's prevailed as the girl went flying back. Lucas chased after her, only to be grabbed by the Strigoi. "AAAH!" Lucas cried as the girl came charging back, coated in pink flames. She forced the vampires right off and proceeded to stomp both their heads in. Her flames combined with her strength killed both Strigoi. Karma was hesitant in approaching her like this, but the girl swiftly tossed a pill down his throat. Afterward, she grabbed Lucas, who went unaffected by the flames, and raced off with super speed.

"A traitor, I see." Necrolai said. "We'll just have to cut our losses. These five should satisfy Dracula."

The girl carried Lucas to the distant outskirts of town. "Th…thank you for saving me. Who are you?"

"Nnn…nn…Nnn…nnn…"

"Huh? Can you take that… thing out of your mouth?"

"…" The girl nervously gripped the bamboo in her long-nailed hands and pulled it out. "Haaaah!"

"AAAH!" Lucas scrambled back at the sight of her vampire fangs. "YOU JUST WANT ME FOR YOURSELF!"

She put the bamboo back, "Mmmmm!" and shook her head in denial. She was taller than Lucas at 5 feet, but to further express she meant no harm, she shrank to a few inches below Lucas's 4-foot height. Appearing as a sweet child, she pranced up to Lucas playfully. "Uh…" Seeing no evil in her adoring peach eyes, he patted her. "Heheh…okay. You're a good vampire."

She nodded. The child pulled the bamboo out again, and Lucas gave her time to properly enunciate. "Ne…zu…ko…"

"Nezuko?" She nodded. "Okay… I'm Lucas. It's nice to meet you. …!" Screams echoed from Onett and across the valley. "This is terrible! They're gonna infect the whole city! W-We gotta get to my treehouse, it's a few districts over…oh, please tell me you have a way to help!"

Nezuko grew taller and pulled out her Soul Phone, sending a text to her teammates. She also pulled out a box with some pills. "You tossed one of those to Karma. What do they do?"

Roxas, Philippines

"WAAAAAH!" The chalk boy, Snap ran against a strong gust of wind. Baron von Ghoulish, a green vampire with a pale pompadour, was sucking him into a small hand vacuum. "HELP! He's tryin' to make a spring cleaning job outta me!"

"A boy made of chalk dust?" Ghoulish glared. "I can't imagine all the floors you've traipsed over!"

"I'll give you chalk dust!" Rudy declared, drawing a chalk fire extinguisher on his small board and pulling it into reality. He got behind Ghoulish and blasted smokey chalk. "Ah, ah, ACHOO!" Ghoulish flicked the exhale button and blew Snap away. He faced Rudy to suck up his extinguisher, taking his chalk along with it. Ghoulish became a bat and flapped after Snap. The chalk boy threw a rock to knock Ghoulish out of the air, smirking at himself. Still, Ghoulish swiftly changed back and slurped Snap completely into his vacuum.

Gabriel battled a vampire named Caroline, her hair a flowing golden-green with gold eyes. She had merged herself with the mudded ground and stretched spikes from the mud in his direction. Gabriel opened a portal for one of the spikes and tricked Caroline into stabbing the back of her head. Gabriel pelted her with Starbursts before evading her next onslaught.

Mikaela Gilligan and Meier Link wrestled their psychicbending against each other. Mika teleported behind, and when Meier turned, she flashed her camera to stun him. When he came to, Mika sent a psychic-made train, but a swift kick sent the train off course. "I can see why Dracula was weary of you Kids Next Door. Your combat experience shows despite your age."

"We had great parents to teach us!" Mika waved her hands and performed a mind-trick on Meier, sending him the memory of one of her photos: a great canyon of waterfalls, extending as high as Meier could see. The sun glinting on top made Meier all the more entranced by its beauty, but it left him open to a large Psy-Sphere. He was crushed into the ground, forming a barrier before Mika could land the next attack.

"You've seen many wonderful things… but unless Dracula falls, this world may not see sunlight again."

"Then we'd better make sure that happens!" Mika ripped open his barrier and stabbed a psychic Cross against him.

Los Angeles

"Nora said she would meet us around here…" Erin said as she and Mack cut through a forested park road.

"We can't keep waiting for her. Come on, let's just get started. If anything, she got lost-"

"HEY, GUYS!"

"AAAH!" Erin jumped into Mack's arms in fright. Fittingly, she was dressed like Scooby-Doo and Mack was Albert Einstein. "Nora?! You did that on purpose!"

"Aw, sorry, Erin!" Her pale-skinned bestie shot her face into Erin's. Nora sported fangs, black hair, and a darkened Harley Quinn costume. "I was just up at this super rad place and I wanted to ask… Can I suck your blood?"

"WHAT?!"

"Decided to change your costume?" Mack asked, setting Erin down.

"Yeah, and I really wanna suck your blood, Erin! I bet your blood is the tastiest darn thing around! Like a super sweet jelly that makes your heart burst with fluff! Well, if I still had a heart!"

"Hehe, you're really into your role…" Erin backed up nervously, only for Nora to approach ravenously. "But… you're really…uh…"

"My, you are very indiscrete." The kids looked up, even more horrified as a giant bat with a head of a grey-furred squirrel eclipsed the sky. "You vere supposed to lure zem to my lair, so that I may drink their blood. I vill not let you have it to yourself."

"Hey, bug off, Batula! No one tastes Erin's blood but me!"

"Erin?" Mack asked.

"Yeah?"

"I'm starting to think this isn't an elaborate act."

"Me, too…"

"Grab them!" Count Batula ordered (from Conker's Fur Day).

Nora grabbed Erin and pinned her down, but Mack bent the metal from the nearby bench to push her off. "Did you do this to her?!" Mack shouted up at Batula. "I guess we'll find out if I kill ya!" He willed the metal legs to rip the wooden bench in half, thrusting the splintered edges at Batula. He blocked and endured with his thick bat wings and divebombed the duo. Mack blocked him with a shield of malleable metal, then tried to bend that metal over Batula's head. Nora bent some water out of the grass and sliced the metal, freeing Batula. Erin slapped Nora with her own water, but Nora easily took hold of it with her own bending and froze Erin's legs to the ground. She couldn't bend the water off in time before Nora grabbed and went for the bite—Mack bent some metal over her mouth and wrapped it around, afterwards shoving her away. Batula landed and swiped his wings at them, but Mack bent up some metal from his Infi-Cube to construct his own wings, swiping back.

Erin hid behind a bush to study the situation and attempt to strategize. "Are you alright?"

"EEK-" Erin was prompted to scream out again, but the stranger clamped her mouth. She was a white-skinned girl with lush red hair, big dark eyes, a black dress, and orange- and red-striped stockings.

"Shhh. My name's Ruby Gloom. We're here to help you."

"'We'?"

"Well, my friends are taking care of the vampires in town… but I've got there!" She pulled out a stack of bloody sandwiches.

"What're those gonna do?!"

"Just watch. Excuse me! Mr. Batula?" Ruby walked out.

"Huh?" Batula looked over, his wings in a stalemate with Mack's. "Who are you?"

"Um, I'm a big fan. I made these bloodwiches just for you." She winked at Erin. Mack looked to his friend, who just shrugged.

"Pah. I require more eloquent food than-" Ruby threw the first sandwich at his mouth. The bat nibbled it up. "Mmmm…" He reached to take another one. "This is quite good." He took two more. "Mmm, yes… delicious…oh…mmm…ah…"

The operatives were mortified as the count stuffed himself with the sandwiches. Ruby still had plenty of stacks full to feed him, fattening the Mobian squirrel-bat wider and wider. "Ahhhh…I…I think I ate… too much…" He trudged about slowly from his hefty weight, now too fat to fly.

Mack tied Nora down with the bench legs before construction a metal ball of scrap and spikes. "Not exactly wooden spikes, but eh, we'll be fine so long as we cut off the head." Mack spin the spikeball and drilled it into Batula's head. The spikes were whittled down, but the head was eventually sawed right off. Batula's body dissolved into dust.

"Splendid!" Ruby clapped. "Now your friend should be-"

Nora tore off her restraints and tackled Erin, dashing off with her. "HEEEELP!" Once far enough, she ripped off her metal mouth brace and tried to bite her, but Mack stretched a chain to grab and tug Nora off.

"Huh?! Was Batula not the vampire that…"

A shorter vampire squirrel landed on Mack and bit his neck. Within moments, Mack transformed. "Rotten kids. No wonder I never had 'em." He was about as old and grey as Batula despite his 4-foot size. "Well, good riddance to that old man of mine."

Former king of an Avalaran country, great-great-great-great-great grandson of Batula

CONKER THE SQUIRREL

"Erin!" Ruby mounted a bike with a huge front wheel, pulling Erin onto it. "Let's escape for now! We have to try and group with more operatives!"

"W-W-We'll be able to save them, right?"

"We will! Positive!"

Iceland

Loptr stretched another giant bone fist, but Loki tossed a card underneath and toward his foe. The card released a bag of M.A.R.B.L.E.s that exploded against Loptr, flinging him back. Lucina leapt and SLAMMED both hands on his face. "Mrrhh…you mustn't be very strong… if you need your girlfriend to help."

"Don't start shipping us when we've only just met." Loki conjured a barrier to bind his torso area. "Now, why do you…" He reached to pull his hood down. Loptr even had the same silver hair in corn rows, except some rows were black. "…look like me?!"

"Ain't it obvious, friend? I'm your Negative."

"Kind of figured that." Lucina replied. "Is this all because you missed the Mismatch War?"

"To think I was feeling all left out." Loki shrugged and smiled. "You could've left Spankulot out of it though."

"Let's knock him out so we can get to helping the others!"

"But the party's only gotten started!"

"AAH!" Loki was forced back by dark icicles. Lucina whipped back to find Vampire Juki. "Juki?!" yelled Lucina. Loptr broke free of his restraints and clasped Lucina in bone hands.

"Booeheheheheh!" Count Spankulot flew overhead and launched Spank Hands at Loki, the boy struggling to counter them along with Juki's ice. "You can come to the party, too, my great-granddaughter! This vill be the Vampire Party of a lifetime!"

"Nnngh!" Loki's wand hand was frozen. "AGH!" A forceful snowball nearly bent his jaw in, and one last swipe of a skelecle knocked him out.

Ruford and Hiyuki, meanwhile, were left to fending off giant Hollows that had emerged after the Hands of Justice were finished. The timebending cousins managed to take out about a dozen, but just as the numbers were beginning to overwhelm them, it seemed the Hollows were sliced across the skulls, disappearing. "Never a dull moment on my favorite holiday."

A tall, spectacled woman with black hair in large pigtails, white gloves, and a black dress with purple and gold ornaments landed before the kids. "Loki's mom!" Ruford beamed.

"I know it's Halloween, but you almost never visit." Hiyuki said in masked surprise.

"Today's a special occasion, kiddos." The woman twirled a gun and shot other Hollows. "And you can call me Bayonetta."

Vampire Gala

The brethren returned to the party in higher spirits, clacking glasses of blood together and drinking jovially! The captured operatives were now acting as servants, refilling their glasses or sweeping messes. "Ah ha ha ha! Vonderful, my friends! The first phase of this hunt has gone splendidly! Ve have captured nearly all of the KND's top sectors! Pity the spirit operatives have interfered, but ve have already created too many Children of the Night! They vill spread the curse to neighboring towns, and vithin 24 hours, these Kids Next Door vill remain our servants for all time!"

"You were SUPPOSED to convert them only AFTER I had sapped their chi!" Sylistys hissed. "You've gone and tainted them, you imbeciles!"

"Madame, this vas the wisest option to make." Chocula reasoned. "Converting them vould have made it easier to capture the others."

"Then why haven't you caught them all? Ugh. I can't believe I have to deal with…" She was about to put her teeth against Mali's dino leg.

"Pardon me, but taking their chi now may not be wise." Jin said. "It's only a matter of time before the KND confront us, spirit or otherwise. The ones we've captured will be invaluable in fighting them, but they'll be useless without bending."

"That isn't my problem." With that, Sy bit Mali's leg and sapped the Poison Chi from the giant.

"Owie! That hurts! Stop it!"

"Oh, quit vhining, Mali!" Shimmy yelled.

"Yes, if Lady Sy vants to stink, let her stink!" Ralph joked.

"FATHER!" The vampires faced the entrance to the room. Loptr marched in, pulling back his hood. "I've brought him."

A pair of skeletons, under his control, dragged Loki and Lucina in by the arms. "AND I HELPED!" Count Spankulot flew up to Dracula. "And I brought my great-granddaughter, too! So, can I join the Vampire Nobles, huh can I, pleeeaaase!"

"Silence! Did you even capture the rest of their sector?"

"Vell, the timebenders got away, but I got the icebender! That's good, right?"

"Ve shall see about your 'membership' in due time. But at least the guest of honor has finally arrived."

"Nnugh…where are we?" Lucina groaned, she and Loki awakening. "Ugh…hey! Loki, that's Dracula!"

"Dracula? Heh…ain't this a lovely surprise? Can't say I expected to meet my gramps today."

"So, Alucard chose not to keep you in the dark." Dracula smirked. "I am touched. How did your meeting go, Loptr?"

"It was more fun than I expected, Father."

"FATHER?!" Loki gaped.

"Ha ha ha ha!" Dracula laughed. "Loki, my grandson… meet my newest son! Your Negative, and your half-uncle: Loptr!"

"W-W-WHAT?!" Lucina exclaimed. "Th-That…that's impossible! How can you… Who…"

"This is my lovely vife, Sylistys." The lord waved a hand at the monochrome woman. "She is from the Negaverse, though even she doesn't remember her own past. I love a woman of mystery~ Still, imagine my surprise vhen I learned Alucard had a son around the exact same time. Heh heh heh…I feel honored to be involved in such bizarre circumstances."

"Yeah, dude… I never thought I'd see anything like this. I mean, your Negative is your half-uncle? Wow…"

"Sorry if I'm a little too distracted to appreciate this," Loki said, "but those guys look an awful lot like the other operatives!"

"Hey! You guys turned into vampires, too!" Juki beamed.

"Hi, Juki!" Mali waved. "Yeah! Jason and Isabelle bit me in the neck. Hehe, it kind of tickled!"

"It's sure going to hurt if I bite my tongue!" Veronica shouted. "Honestly, how am I supposed to chew my food?"

"Pipe down, crabby. Nnnhh…" Karma touched his head.

"Is something wrong, Karma?"

"Uhn…I dunno…"

"Mama…" The remaining Strigoi approached his mother, Liliana, an elderly Strigoi in a purple dress and wheelchair. "This is the girl who practices Dragon Style airbending." He presented Aria in his arms.

Liliana sniffed her. "Mmmm…it's not quite strong enough. But, she may still be of use. I'm more interested in her mother. Perhaps she will be villing to swap places vith her daughter."

"A full grown Dragon Bender does sound more appetizing… but no reason ve can't have both."

"Must say, this is quite the party you've set up." Loki said. "It'd be a shame if someone TRASHED IT!" Pushing the skeletons off him, Loki rushed to punch Loptr, but Jin and Marcus grabbed and shoved him down.

"Now, now, ve should save the excitement until all your friends have arrived. We'll let you have a front row seat as ve convert them!"

Sector TV's Pumpkin Carrier

"So, who's the giant talking booger?" Christina asked rudely, kicked back on her seat.

"You mean… me? M-My name's Wendy." The blob replied.

"Yeah, and she's not a booger!" Laruta stated.

"N-No no, it's fine!" Wendy smiled. "I, uh…I'm flattered to be called a booger. They're so adorable."

"Ain't they?" Pedro picked a booger out of his "nose." The sentient booger made a squeaky bark and rubbed his finger.

"Yep, this group fits you to a 'T,' Laruta. Seriously, where're we going? There's still a ton of vampires back there! They're gonna curse the whole city and then some if we don't do nothin'!"

"Your only hope is to target the vampires who invaded town." Hank Stein replied. "Once we hook up with the other sectors, we can organize a plan."

"How many of the other sectors survived?" Laruta asked.

"We aren't sure, yet. But it sounds like the vampires only targeted the major ones. Heh, bet those losers feel lucky, huh?"

The carrier drove to a haunted house on a mountain. Other carriers appeared to join them, Ruby Gloom driving one pulled by her bike. She passed a wave to Hank before they stopped to park.

"Hey, is that Christina?" Spike questioned, jumping out of a carriage. Jolene carried Lily and climbed out. "Where the heck is Jason?!"

"He got bit, ya dip." Chris flicked him in the forehead. "So, it's just me to deal with."

"Man, he sucks!"

"Hello, Misery!" Wendy wobbled over to greet a bluish-purple banshee girl, her huge black eyes in endless tears. She climbed with Erin out of Ruby's carriage, belonging to Sector GLOOM. "How was LA?"

"I knew it would be a disaster as soon as we showed up." Misery wept. "There were vampires everywhere and we couldn't save any of Erin's friends."

"That wasn't your fault, Misery." Ruby patted her in comfort. "It was my fault for not being more decisive. But it's not too late to save them! Now that we're all together, we can win!"

"Nora and Mack were captured?" Laruta asked.

"Uh-huh." Erin nodded. "But Mack was able to kill one of the vampires."

"At least he's good for something." Laruta curved her eyes in anger.

"Hey, I have an excuse to beat him up." Chris smirked. "If he's gonna be all vampirey."

"Come on, guys…" Erin sighed. They passively glanced over at Lucas, smiling as he gave the little Nezuko a piggyback ride.

"We have to find them first." Hank reminded. "Our sector leader's inside. He can help."

Inside the dark house, they were greeted by a rather tall figure in a faded black long coat and a wide-brimmed traveler's hat. He cast an air of mystery over the room, and though his eyes were shadowed, his frown was stoic and stern. "I'm a dhampir. Vampire Hunter. Call me D."

He was straightforward, but the youths were in awe. His few words carried much assuredness. A man who was strong and skilled at his job. A man whose abilities and knowledge would be invaluable in saving their friends. "Come on, Dennis, knock it off with the cosplay." Wendy teased.

"What? It's Halloween!" His voice turning more boyish, he threw off the cloak and hat and jumped off the stilts. With frizzy orange hair, he was a short boy of 8 years old, innocent blue eyes and a yellow shirt with an "8."

"HUH?" Laruta gawked.

"Haha! He does that a lot." Hank thumbed at him. "Meet our leader, Dennis!"

"So, what's the word, D-Man?" Pedro asked.

"The word is 'Forest of Darkness'!"

"Uh, that's three words."

"No, my mom told me. Every Halloween, the Vampire Nobles travel to the Forest of Darkness and have a party. When I called her about the attack, she told me the vampires are probably based there."

"You think our friends were all brought there, too?" Laruta asked.

"For now, it's the best we have to go on. Based on our info, the Vampire Nobles and their covens were responsible for cursing everyone. We have to destroy them in 24 hours, or they could be vampires forever!"

"So, we're gonna hit 'em hard and hit 'em now?" Christina fist-palmed. "Then let's get goin'!"

"We should wait for more operatives, at least!" Erin shouted.

"Some of the Spirit Ops haven't shown up, yet." Dennis said. "But I can send word for them to meet us at the forest, anyway. Otherwise, she's got the right idea. If we wait too long, the vampires will go out and hunt again."

"Um, excuse me?" Lucas raised a hand. "Nezuko fed one of these pills to one of my friends. I asked what they did, but… I'm still not really sure." The sweet-eyed vampire looked away with a blush.

"That's a special medicine that can weaken the hypnotic effects of vampirization. It doesn't work immediately, but if we feed it to your friends, they can help us fight."

"I managed to shoot some in your friends' throats, too~" Pedro said. "Feel free to thank me."

"Whatever gives us a better chance at beating them." Christina figured. "Still though… I'd hate to start this without my favorite cousin."

KND Moonbase

Perry Uno gazed from the office window with a solemn expression. He was dressed as a platypus, but he couldn't quite get in the Halloween spirit. "Numbuh 3-362." A pair of twins walked in. The boy, Frasmine, had blue hair with the front brushed upward and freckles, and the girl, Jasmine, had fiery orange hair hung down in bangs. The twins dressed as Koume and Kotake respectively. "We've been getting distress calls from a few sectors."

"It seems they're experiencing vampire problems."

"Had a feeling something was up. I mean, it's not every night we have a second moon."

The twins joined their cousin. They were stunned to see another moon in the distance, its dark aura blocking the sun. "?!" The view couldn't be appreciated as alarms started blaring. The trio rushed down to the source of the disturbance in the hangar. Guards were shooting weapons and elements at the intruder, but he swiftly zipped at their backs and pierced them with his fingers. He had a dark-green trenchcoat exposing his hairy abs, matching pants with knives on his belt, sleek black hair, and a goatee circling his fangs.

"A vampire?!" Frasmine exclaimed.

Perry drew his Gilded Sword, very sharp with three gold diamond designs. "Who are you?!"

"Supreme Leader Perry?" the vampire scoffed. "You're more unimpressive than I'd been told."

"I ASKED YOUR NAME!"

"I am Vamp. My employer sent me to retrieve you. Those two should suffice, too."

"Seriously? A vampire named Vamp? Haha! Whoever named you was uncreative!" (Music: "Yell Dead Cell" from Metal Gear!)

Not wanting to hear another remark out of the 9-year-old, the assassin began slashing knives. His Hylian Shield armed in his right hand, Perry blocked his attacks and thrusted the Gilded Sword whenever he could. The sharp blade left cuts in the vampire, but when Jasmine cast fire over him, the vampire began to zip about in evasion. Vamp zipped to Jasmine and tried to finger-jab her, the girl ducking and trying a flame kick, but Vamp leapt back and slashed an airwave with his kick, nearly grazing her. "His techniques…" Perry recognized the Shave, Finger Pistol, and Tempest Kick. Frasmine cast an Ice Wave at Vamp, the vampire using Paper Art to evade. He flowed backwards when Jasmine shot fire from the other direction. When he was about to deactivate the art, Perry ran to pierce his back from behind. Vampire did a flip and kicked Perry in the back, blasting him forward. After lashing Tempest Kicks at the twins, they watched as Vamp stretched his limbs and rapidly healed his injuries.

Frasmine froze Vamp just as he finished healing, but the vampire shook and broke free. Perry shot a wooden arrow at his forehead, and though it went through, Vamp Shaved away from Jasmine's follow-up attack and ripped the arrow out. Perry shot another one, but Vamp used Iron Body to repel it. He fast-healed the arrow wound and Shaved up to Perry, throwing a couple quick knives to wound his left leg. Jas and Fras linked up for a combined Ice-Fire Drill, to which Vamp drifted up with Paper Art—the twins expected this and quickly ceased, spinning up a twister of the combined elements to contain the paper man. Perry shot arrows and pierced him with two before Vamp Shaved through the twister and took the brief damage. Perry kicked over on his good leg, blocked Vamp's Finger Pistol, and stabbed the vamp in the leg as recompense.

"Is you using Rokushiki just a coincidence, or are you a part of THAT group?" Perry wondered.

"You're educated, I see."

"You know, you're pretty weird for a vampire, too." Frasmine said, blasting a storm of icicles in which only some hit. "Why haven't you bitten anyone?"

"But not educated enough." Vamp began forcefully clenching his teeth, shooting aerial Fang Pistols at Jasmine. The firebender evaded most, but Vamp predicted one of her directions and landed a direct bite to the stomach.

"And you're healing your wounds with Life Return." Perry noticed. "Man… I didn't expect to have to deal with one of you this early in my career."

"You ain't scared, are you, Cous?" Jasmine asked, clenching her wound with one hand and slashing a flame sword with the other.

"Not much." After Frasmine had Vamp frozen again, Perry lunged at him with a Hurricane Spin, landing a clean slash, but ready to stop and dodge Vamp's downward stab.

A GKND flagship was en route to Moonbase. "Star, we've gotten a distress call from the base." Marty Gilligan reported. "Perry and his cousins are fighting a vampire intruder. They arrived on their own ship and even evaded the outer fleet."

"But more importantly, what's that freaky moon over there?" asked Tiffi, the pink-haired Lunarian drawing her star-spectacled gaze to the Dark Moon.

"I wouldn't call it more important than our friends being in danger!" Marty argued.

"Tiffi, you and I may need to do something about that moon." Star suggested. "But let's check the Moonbase first."

Karakura

Mazu and Yoshino hid somewhere in the forest. "Hm, hm hm, hmmmm~" Mazu's tongue hung through his closed smile, innocent as he baked a pie with his portable equipment. "There you go! A Bloody Cherry Pie! Made with bear blood!"

"…" Yoshino didn't get this boy. "Do you know no other feelings?"

"Hm?" He showed another feeling in the form of quizzical.

"My covenmates have taken yours, and your foe has strangely chosen to save you. And yet, you are happy?"

"Well, that guy tried to kill you. I figured you were pretty upset, so I had to make you something! And food always tastes better when it's made by a positive cook! Not to say Negative cooking isn't great~"

"Vhat a… strange boy you are." His soul was pure. Yoshino could taste it in the first piece of pie. "…Jin vas my husband before he was turned by Dracula. Jin bit me, and ve vould make the other Bounts vhat ve are. Darkrai II established a law that vampires were only allowed to drink animal blood. We could not convert them into vampires, and of course, we couldn't attack humans or like races. And for a vhile, our coven lived by those rules. But they had always felt the bloodlust. So, vhen Dracula organized this year's Vampire Party, the Bounts vere eager to take part. But I never shared their spirits. I think the only reason I'm here… is because I vas struggling to hold onto love for him. But he's already made his decision."

"Oh…sorry." Mazu didn't know the best way to weigh in on her dilemma. "But… you said they might take my friends to the Forest of Darkness, right?"

"Yes. Along with any other operatives the vampires attacked. They vere meant to be our main targets, and our prizes."

"Miss, do you think you could bring me there? And help me save them?"

"You aren't planning to go by YOURSELF, are you?"

"YAH!" Mazu flailed his arms in fright. A pink-haired girl had appeared, bearing an adorably serious expression. "Yachiru!"

"So, the vampires are gathering there, huh? Sector TV probably figured that out, too. If we go now, we can catch up with the other sectors."

"Other sectors are getting involved, too? Sweet! What about it, Yoshino-san? Wanna help us?"

"You want me to… betray the Bounts?"

"Er…unless you're uncomfortable with that."

"Well, we can't just let you run around here." Yachiru said. "You're still involved in this, so we'd have to detain you. But that'll waste time, so why don't you come with us?"

"I never said that I wouldn't. But… I should warn you of Jin's Zanpakutō."

Vampire Gala

Loki and Lucina were suspended up like piñatas, a fun pastime for the Mexican vampires (including Isabelle). "Ah, Meier. There you are!" Dracula smiled as the psychic vampire entered, Von Ghoulish behind him. "Did ve experience complications?"

"They were troublesome, but I converted the Filipino operatives. I left them to convert other victims."

"Pity ve could not have a full house, but 'tis not a grave loss."

"Hand her to me." Sylistis demanded the Strigoi.

"Sorry, Lady Drac," replied Liliana's son, "but we ain't lettin' you have this one's chi." Aria Conbolt was trapped in a barrier conjured by Necrolai. "It'll totally botch her flavor!"

"Your goal is to lure her mother here, right? You can keep her alive to do that, but let me have the chi. Otherwise, you just risk her escaping."

"Ugh…what do you think, Mum?"

"Hm…perhaps I can allow it. But first, allow my son to have a taste of her."

"Suh-wee-heet! Necrolai, drop this barrier!"

As soon as Necrolai dispelled it, the Strigoi was quick to grab the struggling mage, closing her mouth. He moved his teeth to the neck—and a foot caved his jaw in, blasting the Strigoi through the wall. "Now, I don't wanna kink-shame, but that's a little bit much, don't ya think?" Karma asked, assuming a combat pose.

"You!" Necrolai hissed. "You're not supposed to attain free will until after the effects are permanent!"

"I'm not a good waiter!" Karma kicked her in the stomach, causing Aria's wand to fly into the air. She jumped to grab it, standing back against Karma and blowing a cyclone at Sylistys. Sy grabbed them in bones, but Jason leapt to SOCK her in the skull.

"Whaaaaat~?!" Blodwyn sang as Isabelle threw a swift kick up at his jaw. She was hesitant in kicking him in her base form, but her vampire self was strong enough to keep from getting stubbed toes. She strummed her nightmarish harp and hit other vampires with Music Notes. "Hey!" Isabelle gasped when the shrunken Joto began to cut by her legs. "Joto, are you still cursed?!"

"AH!" Ichigo clamped Jason in his giant hands. Jason pushed free and kicked him in the face. Koga tried to grab him, but the muscle man was pinned down by a pile of Vampire Monkeys, summoned by Trella's silent song.

"So, their willpower has persevered, eh?" Dracula glared. "But not all of them. Seize them all! AGH!" An axe was thrown at his stomach.

"I hate to bring bad tidings, Father… but the party's over."

"That voice… Alucard?!"

"I can't BELIEVE you didn't send us invitations!" Bayonetta danced first into the ballroom, her husband, Hiyuki, and Ruford behind her. "I'm outright offended. This must be how Maleficent felt! So, I should deliver you a curse all the same~"

"Mom!" Loki exclaimed.

"Now, Loki, you're too young to be getting a hangover." She leapt to slice their chains, but Loptr punched her down with a skelecle. "Oof! …Well, someone decided to dress like you."

"Mom, that's Loptr! He's my Negative! And he's Dracula and that 'Stylistis' woman's son!"

"Our son's Negative is… WHAT?!" Alucard gaped.

Dracula snapped a picture of him. "Haha! I vas hoping to see the look on your face vhen…" but when the photo printed, there was nothing. "Oh, right."

"And who's… Stylistis?" The name sounded familiar to Bayonetta. She had only heard of her, but it was her first time seeing the monochrome woman in person. "You're… Wait… YOU'RE Dracula's new wife?"

"I don't know what I was thinking." Sy thrusted a barrage of large skull fists, which Bayonetta countered with giant Dark Fists.

"Oi, Bayo-lady!" Jason said as he bashed Sy in the head. "This lady sucked up some of our chi!"

"Then I'd better squeeze it out of her~"

The ballroom quickly became too cramped for the combat, so the various opponents branched off into other corridors. "Lord Marcus." Demetri said. "The intruders I sensed outside are getting closer. And one of their auras seemed to increase dramatically."

"Go out there and help dispose of them."

Forest of Darkness

The grounds were filled with all kinds of monster guardians. The vam-spider, Rui had set up several web traps around the trees. "Are we just gonna have to fight our way through everyone?" Erin asked in worry.

"I mean, some people seemed to break in ahead of us, so it shouldn't be too bad." Hank replied.

"If only we brought our snot buckets." Dennis said. "Big Wendy would be a pretty big help here."

"What's Big Wendy?" Laruta asked.

"When I absorb a lot of goop or snot," Wendy replied, "I can get really, really big. Hehe…I don't suppose you have a lot of snot?"

"Actually…" Laruta pulled out a green nasal spray, "this is a special medicine my mom developed. It enhances my nasal drip so I can use more attacks with it. But I'll need lots of water afterward."

"I have some water!" Erin bent some out.

"Can we stop and talk about how gross this sounds?" Spike asked.

"I say we go for it!" Pedro encouraged. "Bring on the snot!"

"Oh, brother." Tanis rolled her eyes.

"Okay… here goes!" Laruta squirted the spray up her nose. No one dared to look as snot overflowed and Wendy devoured it.

"WAAAHOOOOOO!" The monsters of the forest were shock-ridden as the titanic, ponytailed blob began bouncing through the wood. Dozens of guards were flattened and glued under her goop. "BIG WENDY IS BACK! I'm the strongest monster around!"

"Whooooaaaa!" Laruta was tucked right into Wendy's "nose" area, bobbing up and down from the momentum. "Hahaha! This is amazing!"

"And it's all thanks to you! You're the best booger a blob could ask for!"

"I feel the same!"

The band of operatives raced after them while avoiding the goop. "Yo! Looks like I just caught up!" A new voice called.

"Mazu!" Christina beamed, the golden-haired chef skateboarding up on a short cliff.

"Don't forget us!" Above them, Sector RT had flown down via Mika's psychic and Gabriel's Zero-G.

"Hey, you guys all made it!" Erin smiled. "Did any spirit operatives bring you?"

"No. One of the vampires told us how to find this place." Snap replied. "He's…"

…

"AGH!" Dracula was seized in Meier's psychic grip. Alucard managed to land a swift slice before Dracula broke free and scratched his son. He cast Dark Bats at Meier before lunging to tackle him to the floor. "Meier Link! Vhat is the meaning of this?!"

"Since times past, I've believed humans and vampires could live in harmony." Meier pushed him off with a psychic burst. "That dream has already been made possible… and I won't let you ruin it."

"Good heavens, I just finished ironing this." Baron Ghoulish knelt down and patted Meier's outfit. "There's a less messy way of doing this, you know." Meier flew at Dracula and knocked Ghoulish over in the process.

…

"I love me a good double-crosser!" Snap finished.

"So long as he's on our side." Gabriel noted.

The webbing seemed even thicker around a cliff with a dark mansion built in. "AAAH!" Wendy screamed as her blobbish body was sliced to pieces by web whips. "Wendy!" Laruta screamed, dropping to the ground. "Ah!" Some webs took hold and began controlling her like a puppet. "Hey! Let me go!"

"Go on and eat her, Bengé." Rui said coldly.

"Eat trapped prey?" A vampire emerged from the shadows, his ghoulish face white with wide pink eyes and a black cloak. "That's unfair…UNfair…UN-"

Another shadow came and gnashed its teeth at him. "Looks like your exercise ain't helpin' you outta this one." Silica remarked.

"Silly!"

Mika sliced Laruta free of the strings. The gymnast shot a glare up at the vam-spider, chomping a helping of garlic and burping Garlic Gas up at Rui. The other operatives moved in on the mansion entrance, but a group of vampires ambushed them: Demetri, Ban, and the possessed Robi, Kent, Nora, and Mack. Ban splashed waterbending, so Erin naturally countered him, only for Nora to tackle her. "Just let me bite your neck, Erin, you'll be the cutest little vampire!"

"No! Help!"

"HEY, NORA!" Mika drew the attention of the brainwashed girl. With a flash of her camera, Nora grew dizzy. Mika began to focus hypnosis with her psychic. "Nora… you do not wanna bite Erin… you are Erin's friend and you will help her stop the vampires."

"Nnnnn…uh!" Nora shook her head. "E-Erin… I'm so sorry!" She quickly pulled her friend to stand.

"Nora! You're back to normal? Kind of?"

"So, Mika's psychic can reverse the mind-control, too!" Ruby beamed.

Mack had wrestled Laruta to the ground. "Well, can she do it over here real quick?! Burp!"

"Ack!" Mack choked from the Garlic Gas. "And I thought MILK was bad for ya!"

"SHUT UP!" Laruta hissed.

Demetri tried to attack Mika, but Nora kicked him away. Unfortunately, her waterbending was sucked out by Sylistys, same with Mack Erin and Ban engaged each other in waterbending. As she would learn, Ban's bending was actually weaker without his twin brother, whom was killed by Joto. This made him just about even with Erin's bending. With Silica keeping Bengé busy and Laruta going back to gassing Rui, Mika was able to use her anti-hypnosis on Robi, Kent, and Mack. "Robi!" Lily jumped onto his chocolate bear nose.

"Lily! There you are!"

"Tehe, you look delicious, Robi! Do you mind if I take a few bites?"

"Huhu, not at all!"

"I wouldn't." Kent said. "Now let's hurry inside and take out the rest!"

The remaining operatives infiltrated the mansion for Divide and Conquer. Mixing with the chaos already transpiring inside, they each found an ideal opponent. Conker thought Robi looked pretty tasty as well, having used to be a fan of chocolate. Furthermore, Conker recognized Robi's Banjo costume. He used to be racing buddies with the famous bear, but Conker had only developed masked envy for him. Conker gnashed at Robi, who bent the earth of the mansion-cave in defense.

As Mazu skateboarded through the lair, the wheels of his board were snapped off by Joto. When he tumbled on the floor, the bitesize vampire tried to bite his big neck, before Yachiru snatched her in her hands. She began to clash her sword with the Tiny Devil. Gabriel, Rudy, and Snap explored a different corridor when Sawatari emerged from the floor, swallowing the trio in Baura's sub-dimension. Unfortunately, Gabriel's spacebending painted open an exit from the wooden whale. Gabriel offered to fight the whale-bound vampire himself.

Karma Shiota had kicked Necrolai's wand out of her hands and snapped it in half. After another round of kicks, Karma leapt to wrap his legs around Necrolai's neck. A firm twist and crunch was enough to rip Necrolai's head clean off. Then, one last stomp flattened it completely. With Necrolai destroyed, the Sector MG operatives turned back to normal.

"Whoa!" Ness was freed of his petrification. "Hey! I'm—AAH!" But he was immediately bit by Marcus.

"You're not free, yet, boy."

"YOU JERK!" Aria dashed at the Volturi leader, who whooshed down the halls with Ness. Aria chased with her superb speed, but she was swiftly tackled by Jin. "Ready to join us, darling?" He leaned to bite her neck, until a blast of fire forced him off. "Y…Yoshino?!"

"You decided to skip the divorce procedure and vent straight to 'death 'til us part.' Vell, Jin, consider yourself dumped." Her firebending matched with his airbending. Aria stood baffled for a moment, but decided to assist her.

"You know, Sylistys isn't the only one who can drain chi." Jin informed Aria.

"Huh? Have you already used it?!" Yoshino looked around.

"Used what?" Aria asked.

In the midst of Sylistys' battle with Bayonetta, a pair of large mosquito-like bugs latched onto Sy's neck. "?!" She felt the energy be drained as their blue bulbs inflated. "What?! Where did these-" Bayonetta landed a punch and sent her back. The Umbra Witch was curious as the bugs flew away.

Jin leapt away from his foes as the mosquitos returned to him. It pumped him with the chi of Mack, Nora, Kent, and Mali (Jason's chi was left inside Sy). "My Zanpakutō is Bitto! It can suck the chi of others and strengthen me!" His air slices grew steamed and sharp, Yoshino jumping in Aria's way to prevent her from getting cut and burned.

Jolene had encountered Count von Count and challenged him to a counting game. She would hold a mound of clay behind her back and bend it out in various segments. "TWO clay, THREE clay, five clay, six clay, 13 clay, 16 clay, 1 clay, five-and-a-half clay, two-and-two-thirds clay…" But while she was busy with him, Kent was running from a tide of chocolate, Chocula surfing on it.

A Bount named Utagawa sent his snake Zanpakutō, Fried, after Lily. The tiny Kateenian would make a perfect snake for the snack (I mean, vice-versa) but Lily sought solace in the form of the mummy child, Tanis. The Sector GG girl unraveled some bandages to whip the golden snake, but when Fried bit those bandages, they turned into snakes, too. The white snakes turned against their master—that is, until Lily used Animal Telepathy and made them stop. Her power didn't work on Fried itself, but with the snakes on their side, Tanis' bandages made a meal out of Fried.

Koga's Zanpakutō, Dalk, was able to become a metal spider-like lady with green eyes. "Man, I sure wish we had Mack to metalbend for us!" Ralph screamed as he and Shimmy ran from the monster.

"You wish you had Mack?!"

"Please don't tell him I said that!"

A wave of ice froze the spider over. "What's up, guys?!" Juki cheered, surfing an Ice Road with her wooden cane in hand.

"Juki!"

"Dammit! My Dalk can't handle the cold!" Koga cursed.

"Thanks for the tip!" Juki shattered the monster, but Koga was able to reform some of the pieces and mold a metal axe. He slashed it at Juki, who formed her own Ice Axe in defense.

Lucas had met up with Veronica and Charmy, the three searching for Ness together. "Guys! I found you!"

"Porky!" The pudgy bully in question rushed up to them. "You aren't changed. Is that because Necrolai was destroyed?"

"Never mind that! I found Ness in that room over there, but one of the vampires is guarding him."

"We'll save him!" Veronica declared, shooting a spell to burst the door open. The trio raced through a dark corridor, but only came to realize it was a dead end. "?!"

"JOKE'S ON YOU!" Porky shot a laser turret up the passage, missing the kids, but causing the hall to cave in. "Ha ha! Suckers~"

Nezuko tackled the bully, hissing and threatening to bite him… but upon examination that he was a human, Nezuko held back. Marcus jumped her from behind and tugged her up by the neck. "The mages won't stay down. Take care of them, Pokey."

"HEY, BUDDY!" A meteor ball launched from Christina's hands, blasting Marcus in the back as he fell on top of Porky. Marcus pushed up and faced the Uno, her knuckles cracking. "Ready for Round 2? Ugh!" Ness cast Stupefy, stunning her from behind. "Hey, surprise attacks are a low blow!"

Fortunately, the mage trio escaped from the crumbled corridor with Charmy's sheep to push the rubble off. "Ness!" Upon spotting his friend, Lucas had to engage Ness in a magic duel. Veronica healed Christina's stunned state, and the Uno was unhesitant in attacking Marcus. She sent a small amount of Haki to her fist, penetrating Marcus's defense with a sock to the jaw. She then jumped and kicked fire from both feet to send him back.

Aria powered up Yoshino's flames with her bending, but Jin remained tolerant to the fire. "!" Mikaela burst through the wall back-first, panting in exhaust. "Ack-!" Meier took hold of her neck in psychic. "Hey, what gives?!" Snap shouted in the other room. "You decidin' to betray us after all?!"

"Forgive me!" Meier grunted. "I don't know what's come over me!"

Yoshino looked through the hole to see this. She gasped seeing the purple flower in his chest, a rat's head on it. "It's Ritz! Mabashi's Zanpakutō! You have to find him somewhere, he has orange hair with his right eye covered-" Jin sliced air at his ex-wife, but Aria cancelled it with her own air.

"Got ya!" Mika bent the psychic off her neck and shot a Psy-Sphere at Meier. She shut her eyes and used Aura Sense to search for anyone hiding. Most other auras were fighting each other, but she saw a lonesome aura hiding upstairs. She tried to make her way up while wrestling with Meier's psychic.

Isabelle had succeeded in knocking Blodwyn off his feet with her music. Afterwards, she flipped gracefully onto his belly, aimed her bow down, and shot a wooden arrow through his skull. "Nooooooooo!" Blodwyn sung his last song and turned to ash. Isabelle was relieved as she and her friends became normal again. "!" She sensed danger and saw that Trella was writhing in agony. Alec, a Volturi vampire, was using his Zanpakutō to numb Trella's senses. The poor girl was drowning in darkness, unable to sense the colors of her surroundings, unable to hear. "You leave Trella alone!" She strummed music to counter his affect and restore her senses. "Trella! Don't worry, I'm here for you! Let's make a song together!" Trella shared a passionate nod with her best friend, combining her Ghost Whispering with Isabelle's music to summon stronger Rainbow Monkeys.

Leaving Lucas to his battle, Charmy and Veronica were ambushed by Cain, a scrawny young Bount in a gray-blue cap. His Zanpakutō, Waineton, appeared as a small blob of light-green ectoplasm, its bulbous black eyes adorable, until it evolved into a praying mantis-like monster with huge talons. Charmy, thinking it looked like a tasty mass of Jell-O, conjured huge Sheep Cotton to devour the creature. Veronica looked up the hall and saw the Strigoi son rolling his mom's wheelchair, likely searching for Aria. Veronica gave chase and fought both Strigoi.

Jason was assaulted by Felix, the strongest Volturi member. His fists hurt when matched with Felix's, and his face bent in when suffering a punch there and flying back. But when Felix leapt for a crushing punch, a mass of sand bent up to pull him back. Spike attempted to bind Felix in sand, but the vampire fought free and grabbed Spike's neck. Before he could bite, Jason jumped and tried to twist Felix's neck. Spike gouged one of his wristbands, replaced with wood spikes, into Felix's arm to free himself. Felix threw Jason off, Spike surfing to meet with him. "You're gonna seriously owe me for this!"

"Even without lightbending, I'd still kick your butt!"

"Try kicking his first!"

With Ruford distracting Loptr, Hiyuki was able to cut Loki and Lucina down. "Lucinaaa!" Count Spankulot swooped for the attack, Lucina's hand impacting his for a spank-happy shockwave. "You don't understand vhat this means for me!" Their hands flew too fast for the others to keep up. "The Vampire Nobility! It has been my dream for decades! My daughter never understood, nor did my grandchildren, but you can! Ve can join the nobility together!"

"I got my own nobility, gramps! And it's the IC Jesters!"

"We're really going with that?" Hiyuki asked.

"Well, I am named for a prankster." Loki shrugged. "I confess, Loptr: this party was pretty stale at first, but now that it's kicked into high gear, I think I can actually enjoy myself!"

"Hmph." Loptr shot a glare at his opposite. Ruford stood down to let them face each other. "Can't say I feel the same. I was hoping we could be friends, but with all these uninvited guests in the picture, that seems nigh impossible."

"What, we can still hit it off! If you help me kick your father's arse."

"What was your goal, anyway?" Hiyuki asked. "What was your father's goal? He couldn't have thought you'd agree to be part of this whole thing?"

"True, we thought we might have to add a touch of hypnosis." Loptr said. "But we had a more promising goal in mind: Collision. The fusion between Positive and Negative."

"Oh, I've heard of that." Ruford said. "The Avatar and Negatar could do it. I've heard of a couple others pulling it off, but…"

"Very difficult, indeed. The two sides need the right compatibility. The Avatars were connected by Arceus, but you and I are related by our father's blood. Er, your grandpa, that is. If we were to fuse, imagine the power we could unlock! That's all I mainly care about. Conquering the Mortal World would just be a fun way to exert that power."

"Yeah, but problem is… my parents would kill me if I tried to do that. So, I'll just beat you up."

Loptr whacked them away with a skelecle, leaping backward. "You'll have a hard time doing that without-" He raised Loki's wand- "Hey!" but it was swiped by a frizzy-haired bat.

Dennis dropped the wand in Loki's hands, reverting to his human self. "Couldn't help but overhear! So, you're another grandson, huh?"

"Another?"

"Haha, I'll tell ya later! Lemme help you out!" Dennis flew at Loptr, evading his skelecles and throwing Scare Bombs at him. Loki threw explosive cards at the bones to destroy them.

"I say we just about got this mission in the bag, don't you?" Ruford asked with a smile.

"Yeah, my head's starting to hurt with all these battles." Hiyuki scratched her head. "I estimate probably 10 minutes before we're all done."

"Let's speed that timer up!"

"You bet~"

Yoshino jumped Jin's back, clinging tight to him as she set them both aflame. Jin stirred a whirlwind in attempt to blow her off, but it only stirred the fire around. Both former spouses tried to tear each other's heads off, while Aria had gotten hold of a Cross. She spun and hurdled the Cross with wind to enhance its speed and aim. She pierced Jin up the brain, but he had already torn Yoshino's head off before it hit. Aria watched in remorse as they both turned to ash. Balls of Element Chi flew from Jin and returned to their owners. When Nora got her waterbending back, she could help Misery finish off Demetri, the combined attacks of Water Slices and banshee screaming overwhelming him. Kent got his lavabending back and melted some of the surrounding area. Count Chocula inevitably melted against the magma.

"16-and-three-quarters clay, 18-and-one-third, 34 small clay fragments, 32 and one-half fragments, 23-and-two-thirds…"

"Nuh-uh. I made 22-and-one-third." Jolene corrected.

"B-But, but…" Count Count realized that another clay fragment was missing one-third of a piece. "I… miscounted… I-I-I-I-I-" The Count levitated in the air, twisted, and a flash of light exploded from his eyes and mouth. He collapsed on the floor as a puppet. Mikaela found Mabashi's hiding place and had little trouble finishing the Bount off. Meier Link was freed of his control.

Bayonetta caught Sylistys in the jaws of a Dark Dragon. Sy tried to grab her in a dino's skull, but it was Stopped by Ruford. The dragon chomped and squeezed her several times before Sy spewed out a ball of Light Chi.

Jason's hands were being squeezed by Felix's by the time the light returned. "AGH!" As soon as Jason's hands lit up, Felix released. Spike pulled him back over to his side. "You okay, dude?"

"Yeh, my hands'll hold!" Jason flexed his fingers.

"You got enough for a Unison?"

"You bet!" Jason and Spike locked hands and began spinning the arms, amassing a circle of sand that lit up with Jason's light. The boys had one foot propped up, but when they were ready to fire, they stomped down and sent their giant Sunny Sand hand at Felix. The bright sand squeezed the darkness out of him, the combined strength of the wrestling buddies crunching him to dust. "Ha HA! Nice work, Bowser!"

"I'm a Spiny, you dingus."

"Heehee, then you need to get smaller!"

"You're just jealous 'cause it makes me look bigger than you~"

The misdirected slashes of Dracula and Alucard's blades left clean cuts in the mansion structure. Otherwise, both men were riddled with an equal amount of cuts. "AH!" Dracula yelped when a scythe cut his back. Before his eyes stood a vampire woman, holding the infant form of Mavis. "M-Martha? DAH!" Alucard stabbed through the illusion and pierced his stomach.

"You have my thanks." Alucard said to Hiyuki.

Dracula hissed at the albino girl, lunging to bite her neck, but Alucard jumped to pin him down. Dracula rolled and slammed Alucard beneath his back, leaving Hiyuki to cut his belly. Her Memory Meister projected the illusion of an African-American woman, shouting something incoherent that made Dracula wince back awkwardly. "T-Tanya, please calm down. I know American schools do not take Mon, but there's the thing vith the sunlight and—OW!" Alucard sliced off his father's sword arm.

The dhampir tugged the other arm behind him and pinned Dracula down. "You've lost, Father. But at least you've given these kids a night to remember."

A skeleton serpent burst up from the floor, pushing Loki up and throwing him off. Loptr surfed up on the serpent and went for the bite, but Loki dove right for it and became a squirrel. Safe inside the skull's mouth, he re-expanded and cast Reducto to explode the rest of the inner body, knocking Loptr off. Dennis swooped by and caught his hood in his bat talons, dragging him over to Loki for a swift kick to the face. "And… scene."

…

Ichigo was on his hands after reverting to normal. He opened his eyes to Mazu, the cousin's spirited smile restoring his spirits. Juki was allowed to spank Spankulot, turning herself back to normal. All the outside operatives met up inside, viewing the cuffed forms of Dracula, Sy, and Loptr. The crowd moved aside to let Mavis Dracula through. The slender, stripe-socked woman shook her head with disapproval. "You can't go a Halloween without causing trouble, can ya, Dad?"

"Ah, my little Mavey-Wavey! You need to do something about Dennis. He's been very rude to his half-uncle." Dennis ran to kick him in the nuts. "Oof! And me."

"I guess this is the part where we go back to Underworld Prison." Sy sighed.

"We were considering that, but… we'd hate to separate you guys from your kid. So, we decided a special punishment: community service at Hotel Transylvania!"

"Und I vill be your supervisor."

Dracula gasped! "NO! Not HER!"

"Whuh? Who her?" Jason asked. "Another ex-wife?"

"No, worse!" Dennis exclaimed. "A vampire Darkrai II created ages ago! To help manage Dracula!"

"It is about time I found you, little brother." A woman in a black gown, a scepter with a purple orb, and a ball of purple and white hair between a black widow's peak. "You have MUCH to answer to."

"Dracula's 'older' sister, Lydia! Also known as… Dragula!"

"VHAT did you call me?!" The woman shot a deathly glare to the frizzy-haired dhampir.

"Uh, I said… Dragonula! 'Cause you're as fierce as a dragon!"

"Hm…I like it." Her haughty, but strict expression straightened itself. "Now, let's get moving, brother. In the portal. Now!"

Lydia opened a dark portal and dragged Dracula in with magical chains. "NO!" Dracula clung the floor, carving trails with the claws of his remaining hand. "I don't vant to! You always ruin my parties, Lydia! And you're embarrassing me in front of my family! Curse yoooouuu…!"

Another set of chains reached out to grab Sylistys and Loptr. The Negative shared a cold glare with his opposite before he was gone from view. "Might have to keep an eye on that one." Bayonetta said. "Like it or not, you're connected."

"Don't remind me. At least have the DNK keep an eye on him."

"I wouldn't say that's a good idea either, now that he already hates the Positives. We'll figure out what to do with him hopefully."

With no more reason to stay in this cave, left in ruins from the chaotic battle, the operatives piled outside. "This is where we part ways." Meier said to Sector RT.

"Thanks for helping us, Mr. Link!" Mika grinned. "Where will you go?"

"I shall return to my beloved. My spaceship is docked nearby."

"His people need him~" Snap joked.

"Well, you have fun with that." Von Ghoulish said. "I, however, have lots of work on my plate." His cleaning equipment ready, the tidy vampire returned inside the ruined gala. "It'll be a miracle to get this place ready by next Halloween!" And so, he began to sweep the first row of dust.

"Before you go, can I get a picture?" Mika asked, raising a camera.

"You know that won't…" Meier said.

"Kiddiiiing! Gabriel took care of it!" The shorter artist held up a drawing of Meier, with sharp and sleek shades of black.

"It… captures me very well. Marvelous."

"Hey, hey! Looks like everything's worked out over here!"

A certain freckled, black-haired boy descended on a parachute boat sail. "Perry?!" Christina shouted. "What gives?! You were totally late for the massacre!"

"Sorry! Moonbase was attacked by an assassin named Vamp. He gave us a hell of a fight; knew Rokushiki and everything. He was sure stubborn! We had to wait until Tiffi and Star destroyed that Dark Moon and let the sun in. That's when we gave him the dicing he deserved!" Perry swung his sword proudly.

"There was a what?"

"Didn't you guys know? Apparently, the vampires set up some kind of Dark Moon somehow to make the other side of the world nighttime."

"I was wondering why it got nighttime a little too early." Mika scratched her head.

"Yeah, but no harm done. All the other sectors seem A-OK, too. I guess the only problem is we're gonna have to cancel the contest!"

"No worries, kids!" Mavis smiled. "I had a certain Scary Godmother bring tons of spare candy to your Moonbase! The night's still young, so why don't we all head up and PARTYYYY!"

"YEAH!" Perry cheered. "In celebration of the new friends we made! Kids Next Door Forevermore!"

"KIDS NEXT DOOR FOREVERMOOOORE!"

"It was great meeting you, Wendy." Laruta said to the blob. "I hope we can hang out sometime after Halloween."

"Oh, sure! Feel free to visit Transylvania anytime! But, before this night's over, I wanna give you a piece of me to remember me by." Wendy pulled a piece of herself off, sticking it to Laruta's finger. The piece grew tiny Wendy features and repeated, "Hi! Hi! Hi! Hi!"

Laruta curiously raised it to her eyes. The tiny leapt at her nose and squeezed itself in. "Ohhhh! Tehehehe! I like her!"

"Tahahahaha!" Mack laughed. "A talking booger really fits you, Lar!"

"Grrr! Boogwendy! Attack!" Laruta shot the booger at Mack, squeezing into his own nose.

"AAAAH! AAAAAAHH! SHE'S BITING THE BACK OF MY EYES!"

"Hah, suck it, nerd!" Spike retorted.

"That's a cool costume, Miss Frankenteen!" Robi praised the Sector GHOUL leader.

"No costume. Me real monster! But call me Elsa."

"Pretty dope monsters though." Spike smiled, scratching Winnie's chin. The werewolf gave a growl of satisfaction. "And… you said you're Dracula's daughter, too?"

"I'm afraid it's true." Sibella sighed. "But as soon as a cuter woman caught his eyes, Mother took me and left."

"Hah! 'Guess Lily's folks ain't the only ones."

"Don't say that, Spike…" Robi frowned.

"What? I'm a bastard, too, I'm allowed to call 'em out." Spike put his hands behind his head in assuredness.

"It's still pretty rude though…" Kent said.

"Um, where is Lily, anyway?" Jolene asked. "Tanis, you were with her, do you know?"

"Uh…I dunno?" The mummy pulled her thumb out of her mouth to give a shrug.

"Oh, I bet you do!" Phantasma phased through her from behind. "Aha! I found her!"

"Tehehe!" Lily peeped out from one of Tanis' bandages. "It's pretty cozy under here! Try to catch me, Tanis!"

Tanis put her hand to her belly, but Lily had already shifted through to the underarm. Tanis giggled, grabbing that spot, but Lily moved to the spine, to the toes, back up to the forehead, then the ponytail, all the while both friends giggled delightfully.

"You'll come with us to the party, right, Nezuko?" Lucas asked. The muzzled vampire sported a perky nod.

"Hey, hey!" Sector MG's moods were made dour again, hearing Porky's snobby voice. "You managed to get my brother back!" He hugged a dizzy Picky to himself with one arm. "You dorks ain't so bad!"

"DON'T PLAY COY!" Veronica shouted. "You led us into a trap, you jerk!"

"He did?!" Ness glared.

"Come on, guys, I was brainwashed by them or something! You believe me, don't ya, Nessy?"

"Mm-mmm!" Nezuko glared and shook her head.

"I think she says she couldn't sense any hypnosis in you." Lucas said.

"Hey, it was a matter of survival! So, can I come to the party or what?"

"No way!" Ness shouted. "Go ruin your own party, Porky."

"Yeah, well who needs you, anyway?! Later, suckers." Porky dragged his brother away and left.

"Dumbass." Karma scoffed.

"You owe me for crushing my stomach." Aria told him.

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Phew, so this story got pretty chaotic! XD I mean, I thought I would make it more Loki centered, but I wound up going into more detail for the other Third Genners' scenes! Couldn't help that inspiration struck! Sylistys is Sarstar98's character, by the way, and she was set up with Dracula back in Spiritverse. That eventually led to the idea of their kid being Bayo and Alucard's kid's opposite. Besides, the whole point of this story was "a ton of vampire crossovers fight the KND," it was too good an idea to pass up! There are better ways I could've approached it, like maybe have the vampires try to target the survivors and lead to more focused fights, instead of having them all duke it out at the climax, maybe try to set up some survival scenarios as they try to make their way to regroup with the others… but eh, just about everyone got a dose of the action.

My other serious Third Gen ficlets should certainly be more focused on one sector, but with this scenario and all the vampires involved, I had to involve almost all the KND. There's even a chance I'll make a follow-up chapter just having them play and bond with these new Nightmare sectors… okay, the main one I wanna use more is Tanis. She's just… such a cute mummy girl! I love mummies now thanks to her!