Chapter 50: Halloween Spooktacular!

Across the world, the spookiest time of the year is fast approaching. For the humans of Earth, Halloween has been a long standing tradition, but for the newly arrived mamono, Halloween is a very new phenomenon.

Now back on their homeworld, there is a holiday somewhat similar to Halloween. Spirits Day was when undead mamono were at their strongest. Zombies have more intelligence, liches, wights and phantoms magics stronger, etc. But usually this holiday was only celebrated by undead mamono and their lovers. Few, except for maybe the Demon Lord herself, celebrated it. So Halloween was something special.

Denver, Colorado, United States

For some, like Tammy the umi osho and her human friends Ginny and Tucker, Halloween was for trick or treating and costumes! As Tammy was putting on her TMNT mask and toy sai weapons, Samantha and Robby were putting on their own costumes. The young girl had expanded her horizons and made friends, ending much of her shyness and abandonment issues the couple had found her with a year ago.

Ding Dong!

"Oh Tammy I think that's your friends!" Robby called out to the upstairs.

"Coming!"

Barreling down the stairs the child leaped off the last stair and into the hallway. She raced down it until she reached the front door, being sure to check the side window to make sure they were her friends. She flung open the door to the smiling faces of Tucker and Ginny, the former wearing a Captain America outfit, the latter a traditional witch costume. The mamono girl smiled before giving the two big hugs!

Samantha and Robby smiled as they followed Tammy out the door and into the neighborhood. They had a feeling Tammy was going to have a great first Halloween!

Vichy, France

For others, Halloween was a time of telling scary stories and frightful tales! In the case of Leon and his bickering sort-of wives, it was a time for him to get the phantom and will-o-the-wisp to put their bickering aside and listen to what their sort-of husband had to say and show them.

What Leon showed them were horror movies, some famous, some not, some French and others not French. The mamono pair were mesmerized and frozen with fear with the movies. Leon made sure to try and avoid movies featuring ghosts as the antagonists so as to not offend his girls. But this didn't ruin the experience in the slightest, by the time the movie marathon was over Louise and Jeanne refused to go anywhere alone for the rest of the night.

Leon rolled his eyes. Scaredy cats he thought, but he went along with it nonetheless. The trio ended up going to bed, with the mamono spirits tightly holding onto Leon the whole night.

Lebanon, Missouri, United States

For others more, Halloween was a time of carving pumpkins and cozying up together. Molly and Marc decided for the holiday season they would set up a nice pumpkin patch for families to carve pumpkins for Halloween! But when it was all said and done the two had leftovers for their own carvings and even pumpkin pie! They spent ours carving out unique designs inspired by both human and mamono culture.

That night the pair snuggled up on their couch to watch some movies as they left a bowl of candy out on the front porch. When they woke the next morning the bowl was empty.

Abandoned warehouse, Warsaw, Poland

But of course, when spooks and specters haunt on All-Hallows-Eve, so do monsters, real ones.

Druella frowned as the man before her fell unconscious from the pain. Another failure, I need to change the spell again. Perhaps a combination of spells could help in this matter? A healing spell and a pain inhibitor spell combined with my blood spell?

"Another failure mistress?" Svetlana asked as she walked over from her little lab. While Druella was committed to solving this problem with magic, she wasn't uninterested in a potential solution by technology. Since the group had arrived in the city a week before, Svetlana had taken to "acquiring" equipment from places across the city. The gremlin had created quite the little laboratory along the way.

Druella levitated the unconscious man back over to the makeshift cell. It was nicely furnished and maintained, Druella was experimenting, not torturing. She had no reason to keep her test subjects confined in terrible conditions.

Druella looked in the three cells she had created, two were occupied, her minions were bringing a third homeless man to fill the final cell.

Allowing their precious men to live on dirty streets hungry and alone! Such disgrace! Even in other worlds humans treat their less fortunate poorly, I'll have to change that once I'm in charge here. The lilim thought as she heard someone using the secret knock on the door.

She waved her hand in that direction, unlocking the physical and magical locks. Hannah, the frighteningly tall bogie and Tara the dark mage dragged in another homeless man. He was in shabby condition, old and torn clothing and a ragged beard. Clearly he had been on the streets for a while.

Druella was fortunate to have found these allies, Tara, Hannah and Svetlana were all living up to their commitments. They were perfect for the tasks at hand. But while they were a little unsure of the experiments at first, Druella gave her word that the men wouldn't be seriously hurt. They quickly listened after that, no other questions asked.

"We checked him mistress," Tara said. "The man's blood type is perfect for the experiments."

Druella smiled. "You two have my thanks, I have no more need to test subjects. You can either relax here or head out. I'll inform you when I will need you next, but please, keep in touch with me and Svetlana."

The two nodded and bowed before their leader before heading back out into the city. With that Druella locked the door once more and turned her attention to the man before her.

The man was shivering in fear before the monument to sex and sin that was Druella. He scooted himself back across the floor as best as he could. Hannah's bogie claws had sapped him of most of his strength. Druella quickly closed the gap between the two and picked up the man by the front of his shirt. Her superior mamono strength made it look like she was picking up a stuffed animal. She quickly casted a translation spell and smiled as her new test subject.

"Now now little man, I'm not going to hurt you. What is your name?"

"J-Jakub. What are you going to do with me?!"

"Jakub, a nice and simple name. Tell me Jakub, do you know that you're special?"

"S-special?"

"Yes Jakub, special. Special in a bad way. You see you have something in your blood, something others don't have, that makes you immune to our more traditional advances. Not to worry though Jakub, I have a plan to rid you and all other men who are special in this way. All I need is your cooperation and time."

With that Druella waves her hand once more. The dirt and grime upon Jakub's body disappeared, his beard and hair were magically trimmed and his clothes replaced with some skimpy attire. Gone was the dirty homeless man, now a clean and quite handsome young man sat in his place.

With another spell Druella placed Jakub in the third cell and locked the door. The man was simply too tired to try and resist in any meaningful way. Druella was glad, less energy spent on trying to escape was energy he needed for her experiments.

With that Druella moved toward her own little lab and library of spellbooks. It was time once again to find a "cure" to this problem of hers.