Well here is my first-ever attempt at the whole reactions to what they will be watching. Now I may not be very good with them but as they chapters continue on I promise that they will get better as I learn how they will go. I hope you enjoy this chapter since its more for Halloween, but I didn't start writing this story until a week after but what can I say? Better late than never. So enjoy.
The screen slowly flickered to life as the lights dimmed for them to see better as whatever they were going to see began. As it started they began hearing music starting to play as leaves began to blow past the screen while the wind howled. As it continued a scarecrow began to slowly emerge coming into view dressed in a torn up red shirt that blew in the wind while it's pumpkin head glow from within as a face was carved onto it with evil eyes and smile.
On the top of the scarecrow was an old wooden sign that had the words 'Halloween Town' painted with black paint.
"I guess we are going to see some kind of song," Ren said as he pushed himself up from the floor sitting down now as he was beginning to feel his legs again. Next, to him, Nora was smiling as she watched the screen loving thing like this with music or songs.
"Hey sis that scarecrow reminds me of the ones that you used to use for target practice back when you were in your first year at Signal," Yang remembered as her sister began remembering the scarecrows that Yang was talking about. They were the ones that their dad made on her birthday during Halloween so she could fire her weapon without damaging something around the house. They were to scare kids that came around, but after that he just let her use them since they would just sit there otherwise.
"Yea, you're right. Too bad I couldn't use it after burning it down with fire dust." Even though Yang was the one who gave her the dust ammo she still got in trouble for almost burning down half the forest. Near her, both Blake and Weiss watched not interested since they were basically trapped her and had nothing better to do. Pyrrha was still worried about what happened to Jaune.
The scarecrow spun around as the wind kept blowing and they began seeing a gate that was slowly pushed open by the wind and they could see a whole graveyard. Suddenly they saw a shadow appear on the headstone that was on screen.
"Boys and girls of every age! Wouldn't you like to see something strange?" The shadows asked while they could see more of them on each headstone as the camera seemed to pass by them heading for the gate while a somewhat feminine voice began singing.
"Come with us and you will see. This, our town of Halloween." The gates opened up as they saw a town in the distance while Ghosts suddenly appeared singing before pumpkins with carved faces began falling from the sky and landing on the spear tips of the old iron fence.
"This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Pumpkins scream in the dead of night."
"WHOA! Ren look at all that!" Nora said excitedly as she saw all the new thing appearing on the screen like the shadows and ghosts that flew around the pumpkins leading them closer towards the town. Ren kept watching he began getting interested in everything that he was also seeing. The music was even starting to become much faster.
"Ghost!" Ruby yelled out while Yang just patted her head making her puff out her cheeks annoyed while the others continued starting to like the song that they were singing.
"It seems pretty interesting, must be some kind of play that they are putting on," Pyrrha said enjoying what they watched.
"Probably some kind of film that was made with special effects. There is no such thing as ghosts." Weiss stated as she was finding this childish.
The ghosts flew through the large gate at the front of the town while gathering all around each other.
"This is Halloween, everybody make a scene. Trick or treat till the neighbors gonna die of fright! It's our town, everybody scream. In this town of Halloween!" They screamed out before flying through a broken window and into an old bedroom that was covered in dust and cobwebs. It began to slowly move towards the old bed looking at it as a single person began to sing alone.
"I am the one hiding under your bed. Teeth ground sharp and eyes glowing red!" The voice yelled as a pair of sharp yellow teeth appeared followed by glowing red eyes that looked like Grimm as a black hand slowly came out and began scratching the old floor leaving claw marks. It then showed stairs that had darkness blow them as snakes began to slither out into the light.
"I am the one hiding under your stairs. Fingers like snakes and spiders in my hair." The creature revealed itself to show a black skinned creature that resembled a snake while its hands had snakes and fingers and the eight-legged creatures crawled all around its head.
"I told you that there was something under the bed and stairs!" Ruby yelled at Yang as both she and Tai used to say that monsters didn't exist and that she had nothing to be afraid of. Mostly Tiayang as he wanted to get some sleep at three in the morning while his six-year-old daughter woke him up frighten.
"Ruby there is no such thing as monsters, that's just a guy inside of a suit!" Yang said as this was all too cheesy to be remotely real. None of the thing that they were seeing even existed, the only thing that was scary was the Grimm.
"She is right Ruby, monsters don't exist," Pyrrha said helping out Yang while Ruby just ignored them as she knew that they were real.
The monster underneath the stairs began pulled itself out more before the camera moved out leaving the building and ending up inside of another room with four different coffins as the candles began slowly going out leaving the room dark except moonlight. Once every candle was out the coffins began to open one at a time revealing men wearing cloaks and pale as if dead.
"This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! In this town, we call home. Everyone hail to the pumpkin song." The vampires sang out in unison as they exited their home together into the night and flew off and revealed a large man standing on a car. He was dressed up in a suit with a large top hat and a spider tie. On his suit was a ribbon that said 'Mayor' as his head suddenly began spinning around revealing a happy and sad face that was grey. It seemed to be sleeping while the happy one was smiling brightly while he sang out.
"In this town, don't we love it now? Everybody's waiting for the next surprise!" He yelled out ecstatic while they saw a staircase with a black cat jumping down them landing on the ground.
"I like this song!"Nora said as it reminded her of all the things that she used to fear about when she was little and growing up before meeting Ren. Everyone was seeing things that used to scare them as kids while it now just made them smile until they started seeing some disturbing creatures.
As the cat continued walking along the ground the singing continued while it hopped up onto a trash can.
"'Round that corner, man hiding in the trash can. Something's waiting now to pounce, and how you'll, Scream! This is Halloween. Red 'n' black and slimy green," A large creature covered in feathers and claws yelled a sit jumped out from the trash making the cat run off afraid as the wall next to the trash broke down and a large man that looked like a Beowulf covered in a red substance. Then what looked like a man came up from the drain pipe as his body looked to be melting while parts of him dropped off landing back down into the sewer.
"Aren't you scared?" The Beowulf creature asked growling.
"No!" Nora yelled as everyone else agreed with her except Yang who suddenly had a flashback to years ago when she had taken Ruby with her through the woods to find a clue. About her mother. The red stuff that covered the things claws and muzzle made her mind imagine what would have happened if her uncle hadn't shown up due to her own stupidity.
"Yang?" Ruby asked tapping her shoulder making the blonde blink and looked back to see her baby sis. She calmed down and smiled patting her baby sis on the back as they kept watching the screen.
"I'm fine Ruby just thinking is all."
"Well, that's just fine. Say it once, say it twice. Take a chance and roll the dice. Ride with the moon in the dead of night." Witches sang as they passed by the creatures in the alley and began flying through a tunnel on broomsticks. One witch was short while riding on the broom while the other was significantly taller than her. Their outfits were the stereotypical type that most people dressed up as while they flew out the end of the tunnel coming out of a well and flying into the sky while they saw a tree with a sinister expression.
"Everybody scream, everybody scream!" The tree yelled as it walked through the street with skeletons hanging from nooses on its branches. They all suddenly began moving as they began singing.
"In our town of Halloween!" All five said as the camera flew into the tree's mouth showing them nothing but darkness until a clown on a unicycle appeared moving around keeping himself balanced. He began singing as his arms flailed around.
"I am the clown with the tear-away face!" He reached up grabbing his head and suddenly ripping the flesh away from his head and revealing nothing but a hollow skull while he continued singing in a much deeper tone.
"Here in a flash and gone without a trace!"He yelled as he tossed down a smoke bomb and was gone when it cleared.
"That's creepy," Blake said as there was suddenly a scream and they looked to see that Nora was gone and was now instead of hiding behind the row of chairs that were behind them. Weiss looked over to Ren pointing at the orange haired girl.
"What is wrong with her?"
"She...is scared of clowns, always has been." He answered remembering when she first broke a clown's legs due to her fear.
"Hey, she can walk!" Ruby yelled as she stood up now feeling her legs. Once she did everyone else began standing up while some were still feeling the numb feeling in their legs. They took their seats while the screen continued.
A woman with red hair was coming it while standing out in the wind. As the woman did the wind began to sing itself.
"I am the "who" when you call, 'Who's there?' I am the wind blowing through your hair." It said as the woman turned revealing her face.
"Hey, it's you!" Ruby said as she pointed as Pyrrha who saw herself up on the screen covered in stitches while wearing a dress that looked sewn together while the leaves passed by her.
"I never heard about you being in a film," Weiss noted while Pyrrha looked back at her and shook her head.
"I've never been in a film. I've had offers to do them but I never did any of them." She said making them go wide eyes looking back up at the screen remembering everything that they just saw.
"P-money, you telling us that if you haven't done any movies that this is real?" She asked as some began remembering what the man had told them.
"This is a whole other world," Blake said as they began looking back at the screen.
"I am the shadow of the moon at night. Filling your dreams to the brim with fright!" A shadow on the moon sang out before disappearing and becoming a swarm of bats that flew past the camera and then saw a gate slowly rising as more monsters began walking through singing the song.
"This is Halloween, this is Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!" They chanted while marching into the center of town surrounding a fountain while a guillotine suddenly fell and chopped a pumpkin into pieces.
"Tender lumplings everywhere, life's no fun without a good scare!" Two small monsters sang out while one looked like an obese child that had thor eyes sewn shut dead, the other was a type of bat that walked using its wings as legs. Then two people appeared looking dead while smiling as they sang.
"That's our job, but we're not mean. In our town of Halloween." They sang walking off heading towards the center of town.
"They actually seem more nice than scary," Ruby said after hearing the man and woman singing about how it was their job but weren't mean.
"Yea, you're right Ruby," Yang said.
"NO CLOWNS ARE EVIL!" Nora yelled still hiding behind the seat peaking over wanting the clown gone
"She'll be fine." Ren simply stated.
"In this town. Don't we love it now? Everybody's waiting for the next surprise!" The mayor sang out as a man with an ax in the back of his skull was pulling a wooden horse that has the scarecrow from the beginning riding on the back of it.
"Hey, wait a minute if we are supposed to be watching Vomit boy then where is he? I ain't seen anything that looks remotely like him." Yang said as the others agreed with her. They haven't seen a single hint of Jaune throughout the whole thing. The only person they have seen is Pyrrha who was some kind of rag doll.
"Skeleton Jack might catch you in the back, and scream like a banshee make you jump out of your skin!" The monsters all sang out as they looked at the scarecrow making a path for it while holding out torches.
"This is Halloween, everybody scream! Won't ya please make way for a very special guy?" The scarecrow suddenly began moving around as it reached down and snatched a torch from one of the monsters. It then stood up on the horse as it leaned back and stuck the torch in its mouth and light up in flames all around its body.
"Whoa, he's on fire!" Yang yelled as everyone ignored her used to her terrible puns by now.
"Our man Jack is King of the Pumpkin patch! Everyone hail to the Pumpkin King, now!" The monster all shouted as the scarecrow began spinning around on the back of the horse before leaning down and spewing flames from its mouth surprising them as they continued to chant in the song.
"This is Halloween, this is Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween! Halloween!" They watched as the scarecrow crouched on the wooden horse and hopped off diving into the fountain as the smoke rose up from the water. The monster children looked into the fountain as they sang out waiting.
"In this town, we call home. Everyone hail to the pumpkin song!" They sang as the water began to slowly move as something was rising up. They then began watching as someone with snow-white hair was slowly rising up from the water wearing a black suit covered in white stripes all around. The necktie was in the shape of a bat as it began to slowly open up as if spreading its wings. Then the man began slowly turning around while the monsters all sung out waving their arms side to side in excitement as they could see his face which was white as bone while stitches covered the edges of his mouth reaching very far. His neck also had stitches going all the way around as if he had been decapitated and put back onto his body.
The man then opened his eyes showing that they were pitch black while his irises were glowing a pure white color with black pupils. Then both of his hands had absolutely no skin or muscle as he smiled out holding his skeleton hand up to the sky as the other stayed over his empty undead chest.
"Is that Jaune!?" Pyrrha yelled out seeing her crush is such a state as if he was dead, his hands were missing the skin and muscle leaving only bone while his once blond hair was now a completely snow white color. He looked so different yet there was the Jaune that they had been seeing since the first day of Beacon.
"Oooooh, I wanna be like that!" Nora yelled forgetting about the clown that scared her as she sat down in her seat crouching instead of actually sitting down.
"La la la la la la la la la la (Halloween! Halloween!). La la la la la la la la la la (Halloween! Halloween!)" The monsters all sang out while the screen shut off.
"Wow, I guess what that guy said was true we really are going to see versions of Juane," Blake said as she looked back to see that the projector has shut off.
"So Jaune was the king of that place, and why was his name, Jack?" Ruby asked as she was kind of confused.
"I would say so since they all seemed to respect and look up to him, and we are watching an alternate world. It's certain to say that Jaune may not have his own name when we are watching certain worlds." Ren said while he looked at Nora who was humming what she remembered to herself.
"Well if he is the king then I bet P-money here is the Queen with how she was looking at him." Yang teased making the spartan blush darker than Ruby's cloak. Said person was laughing at Pyrrha seeing her look of embarrassment while the laughing made her blush darker.
"Wait a minute if we saw a version of Pyrrha in that place just like Jaune, does that mean that we will see different versions of ourselves?" Weiss asked out as they all stopped and began thinking about that. What would they see in every new world that they saw, but then the man said they would see the future of Juane with his life.
Then a sudden thought came across some of the women in the room. He said that they would see his romances. What and who would they see?
While they were all thinking they suddenly heard the sound of dice and saw that the dice were sitting on a table in front of them. They sat there ready to be cast.
"I call next throw!" Yang said as she got up and grabbed the dice shaking them in her hand before tossing them for a roll.
As they waited for the dice to stop there was suddenly the sound of some people yelling as they all looked up and saw the ceiling opened up and people fell through landing on the ground groaning in slight pain.