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Today was the day before the bestest day ever for Skid and Pump, Why? Because the next day would be Halloween! He was practically vibrating with excitement as he happily flapped his hands just thinking about it. To top it all off, he and Pump were having a sleepover at his house!

It would be the spookiest sleepover ever! They would stay up and watch horror movies, maybe summon another friend, and they could eat candy all night!

“Hey son, are you excited for your friend to come over?” His mom asked, as she set out a bowl of candy on the table. Skid aggressively nodded his head at her, jumping up from the couch, “I can’t wait to play with him again! It’ll be the spookiest night ever!!”

Lila chuckled a little at that until the doorbell rang, “That must be him now.” She said, as she went to open the door. There stood, Pump, his best friend with his sister Susie. “Hello, Susie, don’t worry Pump is in good care.” She said with a smile. “Thank you, Ms. Lila. Pump you better be good and don’t cause any trouble. If you need me, just call okay?”
She said, as she patted Pump’s head.

“Oh! I almost forgot! Here you go, Will can sometimes get a bit overwhelmed by certain textures...I wanted to give you a list just in case.” She said giving Lila a sheet of paper, on it read, soft/mushy textures, bumpy textures, and anything slimy.

“Oh, don’t worry, he’s just like Skid! I’ll make sure to keep these in mind when I make dinner...Thank you Susie!” She said with a wave, as Susie left the house. Pump practically had ran over to Skid with a bright smile, “SKID!!” He exclaimed, and began to do the spooky month dance.

“PUMP!! Hi!” He said happily as he did the spooky month dance with Pump. “Are you excited for the spookiest day of the spookiest month?!” Skid asked, shaking his fists up and down in excitement. “Yeah! It’ll be the best spooky day ever!!” Pump exclaimed as Skid nodded his head in agreement.

“Alright you two, I’m gonna go finish up a project for work and then I’ll get dinner started. Have fun!” Lila said with a smile as she wandered back to her room. “So, what do we do now?” Pump asked, looking over to his friend curiously. “Hmm...Ooh wait, I know! We could play haunted house!!” Skid exclaimed happily.

“Yeah! Maybe we could make a new friend to play with us..” Pump said with a smile, but Skid looked over at him confused. “But how would we do that? Unless you mean the..” Suddenly, Skid made an ‘ohh’ face. “Let’s go up to attic!” He whisper yelled.

After the incident with Moloch, Skid and Pump weren’t really allowed to use to the Ouija board anymore. But on the plus side, his mom never got rid of it so that meant they could still use it as long as they were sneaky about it.

As they sat down in front of the Ouija board, Pump started to say hello and waited for a response from the board but nothing happened. “Maybe they are sleeping?” Skid suggested, it was starting to get a little late after all.

Suddenly, they started to get a response that read, ‘Hello, can I help you?’ Pump and Skid smiled brightly and gave a response back, asking if they wanted to play haunted house with them. ‘Sure, why not. I’ll be the ghost and you can be the ghost busters..’

“Yay!” They cheered in unison as the demon suddenly, revealed themselves from the Ouija board. “Okay, in order for me to be able to play with you guys, I need you to free me..” They said, giving the two an unnerving smile. Something didn’t feel right to Pump, something was telling him that they shouldn’t free the demon.

“..I don’t know if we should stranger..” He said looking over at the demon skeptically, his eyes suddenly turning cyan. He felt like he had seen this entire situation before, it’s been happening to him quite often now that he thought about it...He didn’t understand why but he thought it was cool!

Skid looked over at Pump confused, “Wait what? Why? They seem nice..” He asked, frowning a bit. Skid felt like he was missing something that completely flew over his head but he couldn’t figure what it was. “I don’t know but something just doesn’t feel right...I think something scary might happen if we do..” Pump explained, still looking at the demon suspiciously.

“Oh, don’t worry, you can trust me! I just wanna play a game..” The demon exclaimed, but Skid backed away from the Ouija board. “I’m sorry but I trust Pump more...It was nice meeting you..” Skid said a little disappointed but he felt relieved at the same time as they went back downstairs.

“Hey Pump, I have a question.” Skid asked looking over at Pump, his eyes had already returned to their normal dark brown color. “Why do your eyes always change color? It had happened around that lame yellow demon remember?” Skid asked curiously, eager for an answer.

“My eyes change? That’s so cool! Oh! But I don’t know why they change color, sometimes I feel weird and a voice in my head keeps on telling me stuff..” Pump said, looking down at his feet. Skid frowned a little, “Hey it’s okay, maybe it’s for the best anyway. Right fella?” He said giving Pump a small smile.

Pump immediately returned the gesture and nodded, feeling a little better than he had before about the situation. “Hey kids, I’m about to start making chicken nuggets and Mac and cheese! Wanna help bake spooky cookies for dessert?” Lila asked, as she came out of her room and put an apron on. Skid and Pump cheered as they sprinted over to the kitchen to help bake cookies.

Soon, nightfall came as Skid and Pump were sprawled out on the couch together watching horror movies. “Hey, Pump?” Skid asked turning his attention over to his friend, who looked over and gave a look that told Skid to carry on. “I’m sorry for asking why your eyes changed, but I think your eyes are cool when they go all cyan! It makes them look spooky!”

Pump smiled widely at this as he started to happily flap his hands, “You think so??” He asked to which Skid aggressively nodded his head. “Yay!!” He exclaimed and started to do the spooky month dance with Skid immediately joining in.

“Let me out of here!! You kids don’t understand!! You need to let me out of here!” The demon started aggressively banging on the floorboards, trying to get the attention of someone, anyone! but to no avail. “Hey, did you hear something?” Pump asked, his eyes tinted with cyan. Skid shook his head, maybe he was just hearing things..
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The mystery of Pump’s eyes may never be known, but a tale is being told through his eyes and up in the night sky...

Something is happening...

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Sunrise came the next day and the two kids practically jumped out of bed in excitement, “Yay! It is the spooky day!!” Skid exclaimed happily as he began to do the spooky dance. “We’re gonna get so much candy! And we can go see that cool vampire at the haunted house again!!” Pump exclaimed and did the spooky dance with Skid, the two couldn’t be happier!

“Hey Kids! Are you excited to go trick or treating?” Lila asked, walking out of her room with a skeleton sweater on. The two aggressively nodded their heads as they smiled brightly, “You two can go get ready while I make a spooky breakfast!” She said with a smile. Skid and Pump’s eyes shimmered as they ran over to the bathroom to put their costumes on.

As Lila cooked breakfast, she began to hear strange noises coming from the attic, “..Do we have another demon..?” She mumbled, her mouth suddenly became dry as she remembered the last encounter with Moloch. She suddenly shook her head, “No..no, something probably just fell over. I’ll go check it out after breakfast.” She said to herself and finished breakfast.

As Lila set out plates of skull shaped waffles and bacon, Skid and Pump walked out with their usual costumes on. “Aw, you two look so cute in your costumes!” Lila gushed with a smile and she, Skid, and Pump sat down to eat a spooky breakfast!

As soon as the two finished eating and thanked Skid’s mom, they went outside to cause some spooky mischief! First they saw Mr. Frank’s ice cream truck and banged on the window to get his attention. “What the he—?! Oh haha, hey kids! What can I do for you?” He asked, giving the two a friendly smile.

“Can we have spooky ice cream for the spooky day??” Pump asked excitedly, “Heheh sure kids, I have just the thing for you!” He said, turning away to prepare an ice cream cone of a Skeleton and Pumpkin. “Here you go kids!” He said handing the two ice cream, “Thank you!!” They exclaimed as he drove away.

“Let’s go visit Kevin!” Skid exclaimed and the two set off to go to the Candy club to see the candy kid. Meanwhile with Lila, she slowly crept up to the attic with a weapon in hand, “Hello?....Is anybody there?” She called out as she began to walk around the attic, the floorboards creaking with each step.

Suddenly, she heard a loud thud behind her and quickly whipped around to attack the possible intruder. It was the mannequin. Lila let a long sigh of relief and walked over to set it back up, “..I was just overreacting, nothings up here.” Just as she said that, a low voice spoke from behind, “Head my warning...something petrifying is going to happen to this town. You nee—“

A scream erupted from Lila and she hit the demon as hard as she possibly could, but that only seemed to anger them. “If you won’t listen and stop this madness, I’ll do it myself.” They said dragging themselves from the Ouija board closer to Lila, backing her into a corner.

Meanwhile with the kids, they walked into the Candy Club and greeted Kevin cheerfully. “Hi Kevin, happy spooky day!!” The two exclaimed in unison. “No, no no no no. Not today, you two almost got me killed last Halloween!” Kevin exclaimed and began to push the two out of the Candy Club. “No more bad luck. Take your ‘candy can’ and get out.” He said forcefully shoving two bags of candy into the kids’ hands and walking away.

“Wait but Kevin, we just wanted to hang out with you!” Skid called out to the Candy kid, a little upset that he wanted nothing to do with them. The two didn’t understand why Kevin hated them so much, they didn’t mean to bring trouble on purpose! The candy kid stopped and looked back at the two, feeling slightly guilty, “Look kids, today’s just not a good day okay? Maybe another time..”

The two sulked a bit as they walked out of Kevin’s shop with their candy cans. “What do we do now?” Pump asked his friend, still a little disappointed. Skid thought for a moment before suddenly, an idea popped into his head! “We could ask Ross and his friends if they want to go trick or treating with us!!” He exclaimed excitedly.

“Wait but I thought they didn’t like us..” Pump said, slightly confused. “Oh! Don’t worry, they’re cool! Sometimes they come over to play with me while my mom is gone!!” Skid explained with a smile. “Oh okay! Let’s go find them!” Pump exclaimed and Skid nodded in agreement as they set off to find the Hatzgang.

Meanwhile with Lila..??? “Finally, now to find the kids. That Pumpkin seemed to know more than he led on...Maybe he saw the truth...” Lila said to herself as she walked downstairs to the front door. Her eyes glowed with a hint of cyan as she walked out, in search of the spooky kids.

Little did she know that from far beyond, someone was watching her every move. From when she was in the attic, up until now, as she made her way across town. “Oh, I don’t think you’ll be doing that, dear...” He spoke, letting a sinister chuckle escape his lips.
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Danger is near, trouble is soon to erupt. Something is happening...

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He saw it all. From the moment Lila came into the attic and he tried to warn her but failed miserably. To now, as he watched a dearest friend sprint away in his wife’s body, using her as a vessel. He was stuck in this stupid mannequin, unable to be heard by anyone but himself. He needed to stop that demon from stopping their plans, if he didn’t than it was over for the group and they’d be sentenced to life time imprisonment or worse...

He needed a vessel and fast.
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Skid and Pump had finally arrived at Ross’s house and knocked on the door, “Coming!” They heard from the other side of the door. Finally, Ross answered the door almost missing the two, “Oh hey dudes, what’s up?” He asked, looking down at the two slightly confused. Ross never really had an issue with the kids unlike Roy, for what reason, he didn’t know.

“We wanted to know if you wanna go trick or treating with us!” Skid exclaimed with a smile and Pump nodded in agreement. “Yeah, we can get a lot of candy and go to the haunted house!” Pump added, throwing his hands in the air excitedly.

Ross looked up in thought before he shrugged his shoulders, “Sure, I’ll tell Robert and Roy you’re coming with us.” He said, walking back inside and motioning for the other two to come in. Ross picked up their home line phone and called Robert and Roy, while Skid and Pump hopped on the couch.

“I wonder what our friend’s doing, I feel bad for leaving them alone...” Skid said, slightly frowning thinking about how lonely their friend was. “Yeah...Oh! Maybe when we come back we can try to play with them!” Pump said with a smile and Skid happily nodded his head in agreement.

Ross came back and was already in his costume, this year he was dressed as Frankenstein. “Woah, you look so cool Ross!” Skid exclaimed, bouncing up from the couch and Pump aggressively nodded his head in agreement. “Oh-! Thanks dudes..” He said with a small smile. “You guys ready?” Ross asked and the two practically jumped up from the couch in excitement.

Ross chuckled at that as they all walked out the door to meet up with Roy and Robert in front of the movie theater. “Hey guys.” He greeted with a small smile, “Hey man! Hey kids!” Robert greeted with a big grin to which they waved backed happily. Robert was dressed as a werewolf and Roy was dressed as a vampire.

“I like your costume Roy, it’s really spooky!” Pump complimented with a bright smile, “Whatever— Ow! Hey!!” Roy had been elbowed in the side by Ross. “Say thank you.” He whispered to him through gritted teeth, “Fine! Geez I was going to...Thank you.” Roy grumbled, crossing his arms.

“You guys ready to go trick or treating??” Robert asked excitedly. He and Ross always loved going out for Halloween, it was always fun! Everyone nodded as they set off to find houses to go trick Or treating.

Meanwhile with Lila ???, “Where are those damn kids?!” She grumbled, clearly annoyed. She needed to hurry or this might end up being their last Halloween alive. As she ran through more neighborhoods, she felt someone’s eyes watching her every move. She turned around and but saw no one there.

Someone’s trying to get to her before she can stop disaster.

Suddenly, she saw the kids with 3 teens. They were hauling bags of candy, now that she thought about it, the streets were littered with kids in costumes. Must be Halloween, but now wasn’t the time for that. She quickly ran over to the two kids and teens, she had to warn them before it was too late.

“Hey mom! Why don’t you have a costume?” Skid asked, titling his head in confusion. Lila sighed and looked down at all the kids, “You need to listen to me, there are scary people that are going to try to hurt people. I need you kids to tell the police, they’ll know what to do...” She said, trying her best to explain in a way Skid and Pump would understand. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Pump’s eyes glowing that same cyan from the day before.

“Woah woah, wait wait wait! The police?? What the hell’s going on?!” Roy exclaimed, somewhat confused. “There’s no time for questions, if we don’t hurry, something unpreventable is going to happen!” She said, slightly annoyed. “Don’t worry, Ms. Lila, we’ll take care of it. Let’s go guys..” Robert said as everyone but Lila followed suit.

“I know you’re following me. You might as well come out now.” She stated, turning around to be met with an empty void. Suddenly, a man with black hair cut into a bob appeared. “You know, I find this silly game funny...You really think you’re going to gain something from possessing my mortal wife? You said it yourself, this phenomenon is inevitable.” He said slightly annoyed, keeping a condescending smirk on his face.

“If it happens it will be. I just don’t get it, what is your issue? You know how bad they are but yet you choose to let it happen, even when they were the reason you are where you are right now.” Lila said, crossing her arms with a sigh. “Oh sweet, dearest, Rowan. You just can’t seem to get it through your thick, dense, skull can you? I simply don’t care about what they did to me, they’re all my puppets whether they like it or not...”

“You’re sick.” Lila spat in shock, suddenly, the man’s smirk grew even more as he began to chuckle. “I’m sick? You’re the one possessing my wife for your own purposes, now that doesn’t seem right does it?” He said, slightly tilting his head. “You know damn well it’s for everyone in this town, I’m trying save people from you maniacs.” She said, glaring at him.

“Oh is it now? What are you going to do next? Kill my wife? Kill my son? You’re no better than me, you know.” He asked, through a gritted smile. “ Don’t ever compare me to you, at least I realized what we were doing was wrong. Now get out of my way, you’re not getting anything from conversation.” She said, pushing him out of the way.

She glared as she walked past him and his face became distorted as he laughed sinisterly. Lila glanced behind her only to find that the man before her was gone, disappeared into thin air.

They needed to hurry before this situation gets any worse.
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คɭฬคฯร ɭ๏๏к คՇ Շђє รՇคгร..

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The 5 kids walked down to the police station together, all of them equally confused. None of them understood exactly what Skid’s mom was talking about, but she seemed genuinely worried. “I hope my mom’s okay, she seemed really nervous..” Skid said, sulking a bit.

He had hated to see his mom so worried, it was scary! “Yeah, maybe we can get her a candy can..” Pump suggested, trying to cheer up his friend. Skid looked over at him and nodded with a small smile, that made him feel a little bit better. “Alright guys, we’re here.” Ross said, as they stopped in front of the police station.

Roy gulped, hoping that they wouldn’t recognize him from stealing candy at the Candy Club. They all walked inside the police station where Sheriff John and Deputy Jack were currently on a coffee break, talking about an ongoing case. The two looked over at the kids and walked over, “Are you kids here to report an emergency?” Jack asked, as John leaned against the front desk.

“Well kinda. There’s a scary group of people that are going to hurt the town..” Ross explained, as Jack wrote everything down. John let out a sigh and hummed in acknowledgment, “Where did you kids hear this from?” He asked.

“We heard it from my mom, she sounded really worried!” Skid explained and Pump nodded, “Yeah and her eyes looked different...They changed color and they were glowing blue..” He added. Now, this grabbed John’s attention and both officers looked at one another, seemingly having silent communication with each other.

Had they actually come back to strike again? First they burned down John’s house, then broke a crazy cannibal out of jail, and now they’re trying to kill everyone?! No way in hell were they gonna let another incident happen again. “You did the right thing telling us this kids. Now, do you know where your mom is?” Jack asked, turning to look at Skid.

Skid tapped his chin as he tried to remember, “Umm...We saw her when we were trick or treating...” Skid explained, feeling slightly disappointed that he couldn’t remember everything. “Do you remember which neighborhood you were trick or treating in?” John asked, looking at all of the kids.

“Well, I’m pretty we were somewhere down Raymond St..” Robert answered and Jack wrote down the name of the street. John let out a sigh as he lit a cigarette, “Alright, we’ll go and check it out...Whats your mom’s name?” He asked and slipped on his brown coat. “Her name is Ms. Lila.” Robert answered as fiddled with the fur on his paws.

“Thanks again kids, you’re free to go.” Jack added and gave them all a friendly smile before walking out with John. They got inside the car and John looked at the deputy with a stern look, “We gotta stop those sick fuckers before they try to kill us all.” John stated and Jack nodded with a hum, starting up the car before driving away.

“What should we do now?” Pump asked as they all walked outside, “You guys wanna go to my house?” Ross suggested. Everyone nodded and they started to walk down the sidewalk to Ross’ house. “I never knew you and my mom’s eyes changed color, it’s so cool!” Skid exclaimed with a bright smile.

“Yeah, they’re almost like Eyes! They had cool spooky blue eyes too!!” Pump said and smiled as he started clap his hands excitedly. Skid nodded in agreement, “I hope we get to see Eyes again, it was fun hanging out with them!”

“Oh don’t worry...You’ll see them a lot sooner than you think, my son..” A man with a bob said, watching the kids from afar with a chuckle. Everything was falling right into place, just as he thought it would. He wasn’t going to let Rowan get in the way of their plans, not again.

Meanwhile with Jack and John, the two had already arrived at the neighborhood. Jack knocked on the door and a lady with curly blonde hair answered, “Evening ma’am, we have a couple questions to ask you, if you don’t mind.” John said as Jack took out a notepad. “No I don’t mind Officers..” She answered, shaking her head.

“Alright...Have you happened to see a woman with blue eyes named Lila?” John asked, taking a drag from his cigarette. The lady looked down trying to think but shook her head, “No Officers, I’m sorry but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone like that..” She said and John sighed. “Alright, thank you for your time ma’am..”

After the door closed shut, the two continued to ask around the neighborhood but found no luck. Until, one of the trick or treaters overheard about their conversation. “Excuse me Officers, I know where that lady went..” They said walking over to the officers.

“Thank you son, we appreciate it.” John said, allowing the kid to continue. “She went up to the spooky house on the hill.” They said, sending shivers down Jack’s spine. They hadn’t been back to that house ever since Jack had killed that damned clown. John nodded in acknowledgment, “Thanks again kid..”

Once the two got into the car, Jack let out a breath he didn’t even know he was holding. “You okay hun?” John asked, placing a gentle hand on the deputy’s shoulder. “Yeah...Yeah, I’m okay. Just started thinking about that damned clown..” Jack responded, placing a hand on top of the Sheriff’s.

“Hey it’s okay, Jack...He’s dead and he’s not coming unlike Velseb.” John said, trying his best try reassure his partner. Jack smiled warmly at the effort and nodded, “Yeah, you’re right. Thanks grumps..” He said, placing a kiss on John’s cheek before starting up the car and driving.

Once they arrived, they slowly opened the door with their hands hovering over their guns just in case. Just as the two came in, Lila walked out of a room, her eyes glowing cyan. “Ms. Lila is it? We’d like to have a word with you.” John said, as the two approached her. “Listen I don’t have time to...talk..” Her talking slowed once she got a better look at the two officers.

“John..? Is that really you?!” She exclaimed making John raise a brow in confusion, “Uhh, yeah, that’s my name. Do I know you...?” He asked. “It’s me, Rowan! Oh my god, I thought they had killed you..” She explained, which gained a gasp out of John. “...What? No no, that can’t be right. You’re not Rowan, they’re long gone...” He mumbled, shaking his head.

“John, it’s me. I’m just..possessing a vessel for now. You remember the plan? The plan that was meant to kill everyone?” They asked and John stiffened. “It really is you...after all these years I’d never think I’d see you again...” John mumbled but quickly shook his head, “Of course I remember that plan. It was nothing but pure insanity....what about it?”

Rowan sighed heavily, “It’s happening today.” They said sternly, making John audibly gasp. “What?! Goddamit we gotta stop them!!” John yelled, stomping out his cigarette. “I know, that’s what I’ve been trying to do this whole time...That motherfucker Vincent is helping them too..” They said and John shook his head, rubbing his temples.

“He just doesn’t know when to stop....Don’t worry, we’re taking those fuckers down for good.” John stated and Jack nodded in agreement. Little did they know, said Vincent was standing outside the window, listening the whole time.

“You two think your so clever, don’t you?” Suddenly, he pulled out a pack of matches out of his pocket. “Time to finish what was started....Goodbye dear friends..” He stood back, lite the match, and tossed it with a disturbing smile creeping onto his face.
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