Secrets Unfold... Memories Become Revealed... Dreams Turn Into Reality...
Let the Game Begin...
Ky opened her eyes and sighed. "Well... time to start..." she muttered as she pushed herself up. She wiped the dirt off her white pants, pulled up her socks and shoved her feet into her Doc Martins (which magically tied themselves).
She wrapped her arms tightly around her and shivered. The desolate town was quite quieter than it was last night. Ky pulled her hood up and gave the town one last look, then started off towards the Hinterlands.
It seemed to be the most obvious place that Oogie and Marcus would be...
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Several hours later, she found herself in a part of the Hinterlands that gave her the creeps. The trees were all deceased and rotted and a strange stench hung in the air. She pulled her Hoodie over her nose and mouth and tightened the strings.
Ky jumped up a tree as she heard someone coming. She pulled the Soul Robber out, incase she needed to go into quick combat. A black kitten jumped from the branches and pounced as fast as he could up the tree. Ky grabbed him as he was about to fall.
The kitten was shaking as though he had just been shocked with a hot wire. Ky looked up as several neon skeletons walked from the shadows. She narrowed her eyes. The kitten gave a small squeal and jumped into one of Ky's Hoodie pockets.
Ky guessed the skeletons had been knocking the kitten around for the fun of it. They probably didn't get many visitors in this part of the Hinterlands.
Ky waited as more and more skeletons came, followed by ghosts and creatures she had never seen.
CRRRREAAAKKKKK....
Ky froze in terror as the rotted branch she was sitting on snapped. She pulled the kitten from her pocket and held him to her chest. She landed on her feet and looked around at all the monsters.
"Heh... Hallo..." she said. The monsters stared at her stupidly and gave Ky the impression of Crabbe and Goyle. The kitten slipped back into her pocket and quivered.
Then, as though they had just realized that she wasn't one of them, they attacked. She pulled out her Soul Robber and swung it around.
CRACK! Gone.
CRACK! Gone.
CRACK! Gone...
It seemed to her as she destroyed one, three more appeared out of nowhere.
"Where are they all coming from!?" she shouted to herself. The kitten peeked from the pocket, squealed and pulled his head back in. Ky felt like she would like to do the same.
Her arm soon became tired and she sank down. Her body aching, she protected the lump in her pocket as the monsters swung their weapons at her. She squeezed her eyes shut and prepared for the worst to come.
SHIIING!!
Ky opened her eyes in time to see a black and steely blue scythe swipe through several monsters. She stared up at a floating craft above her.
"C'mon!" the person driving shouted. He grabbed her wrist and pulled her behind him. "Hold on." Ky nodded and wrapped her fingers around the passenger hand bars. The hover craft shot above the trees and zoomed forward.
"Put this on," he said handing her an air mask.
"Why?" Ky asked.
"The air in this area is venomous... Just put it on!"
Ky, looking extremely confused, slipped it in on then set her hands back around the bars. She tilted her head to look at his face, which she was disappointed to see that he had pulled his hood over and had a mask covering his lower face.
The kitten poked his head out and clawed his way up Ky's shoulder. He sat there hidden in her whipping hair, purring and nuzzling her cheek. Ky looked at the boys face again, his chocolate eyes were narrowed and staring ahead. It didn't feel awkward being with him... in fact, it felt completely normal.
"Ummm... thanks, for saving me," Ky said. The boy straightened and tuned his head to meet her eyes.
"Y-your welcome."
"What were you doing out here, anyways?" Ky asked.
"I live here." These words sent tingles up her spine and made her think hard.
"Oh..." The boy looked back at her.
"What were you doing?" he asked.
"Hm? Oh... I was looking fo- LOOK OUT!!" Ky screamed as one of the wings made contact with a tree.
"Dang it!" The boy began ramming his foot on the gas petal trying to make it fly. Ky tightened her grip as the air craft fell towards the ground. She squeezed her eyes shut as they crashed into the ground. The kitten gave her what was an unmistakable scream.
The three of them rolled away from the burning wreck. Ky sat on the ground, her chest heaving unevenly. "You okay?" she asked the boy as he sat up.
"I'm fine... You?"
"Shocked, but fine."
The kitten jumped back to Ky's pocket, shaking. Ky pulled off her mask and looked at the teenage boy by her.
The two sat for a few minutes, staring at the burning mess of a craft. Ky then turned back to him.
"Aren't you gonna take that off?"
He looked at her then slipped it off his face. He smiled as their eyes met. Then he looked back at the burning wreck of his air craft. He folded his arms behind his head and leaned back into a tree.
"Who are you?" Ky asked. He looked back at her.
"My name's Jer."
"Jer..." Ky repeated then looked back over at the burning mayhem. She closed her eyes and leaned back into the tree. Jer looked at her, then turned back. Ky suddenly shot up and stared at him.
"What?" he asked.
"Pumpkin King12?!" she asked. He looked at her in wonder.
"How do y-?"
"It's me! Ky!" Ky said as she turned towards him. He looked extremely confused. Ky moaned then tackled him. They rolled then Ky pinned him to the ground. He stared at her in shock. "C'mon, Jer! You can't say you forgot ME?!"
He continued staring at her. Ky frowned and rolled off him. "Right..." She folded her arms over her knees and stared at her feet. The kitten jumped from her pocket and landed on the ground. He meowed at her. "Hey!" Ky shouted as Jer tackled her back.
"I so got you!!" he laughed. The two stared at each other, and then burst out laughing. They leaned on each other in uncontrollable laughter. "Y-you actually thought I forgot you!?" Jer laughed elbowing her in the ribs.
"B-buzz off!" Ky said, shoving him back, still laughing. She was suddenly on all fours, pounding her fist into the ground. Jer bit his lip, and snickered.
The kitten tilted his head and stared, confused, at the two of them. It took a few minutes before the two could calm down enough to breathe.
"Where have you been all this time?" Jer asked.
"Halloween Town," Ky answered. Jer stared at her in awe.
"Seriously?! Can we go?!"
Ky suddenly became uncomfortable. "We can't..." Jer's face fell.
"Why not?"
"It's not there anymore. It's been destroyed, everyone and everything's gone."
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Oh YEAH!!! I've been waiting forever to write the first friggin' chapter!!! WHEEEEEEEEE!!!!
