Hally looked up at her ceiling, so far everything had gone according to plan. Her mother, not understanding the effects of sugar, had insisted Kaitlin stay the night to make sure Hally was ok. Of course Hally had acted a lot worse than she felt, pushing her mom to have this sort of reaction. It was now fairly late at night but Hally fought off her fatigue keeping a close eye on Kaitlin, knowing sooner or later she was going to display some sort of magic. Hally knew from experience that when you were asleep you had less control over your magic than when you were awake. After a while though, Hally's fatigue got the better of her and she drifted off into an uneasy sleep. She awoke instantly, wondering what had awoken her. She looked instinctively toward Kaitlin, who was thrashing around in her sleep. "Kaitlin," Hally whispered getting off the bed and kneeling next to Kaitlin on the floor. "Kaitlin wake up."
"FOURTY TWO!" Kaitlin cried shooting awake. A beam of orange light shot from one of her flailing hands and began to bounce around the room. "Hally get down!" Kaitlin ordered. Hally still stunned from the light appearing at all, dropped obediently to the ground. At last the light hit one of Hally's favorite dead plants making it bloom as if it were the middle of growing season.
"I knew it!" Hally cried happily. She jumped to her feet; at the sudden movement Kaitlin jumped up as well. "You are magic! I knew it all along!"
"Hally I-" Kaitlin began, but she knew very well there was no getting out of this one. "Yes Hally," Kaitlin admitted at last as she sat down on the edge of Hally's bed. "I'm a witch, a chaos witch to be exact."
"Well that's not fair! You didn't loose your powers like the rest of us!" Hally objected instantly. Having a suspicion was one thing but actually hearing Kaitlin confess was different. Why did she get to keep her powers and Hally had to loose hers?
"You're right it isn't fair. I don't like my magic. I wanted to loose it. But unfortunately our magic comes from different places. Holiday magic, what you have, comes from the Holiday plane, Shadow magic comes from the Underworld, and Chaos magic come from the-"
"Chaos world?" Hally guessed. Kaitlin opened her mouth as if to respond but stopped, quickly closing it. She looked thoughtful for a moment and shrugged.
"Your guess is as good as mine." Kaitlin said with a shrug.
"You don't know?" Hally asked sounding amused. Kaitlin glared at her.
"Your power is manipulation of shadows and yet it is classified as Holiday Magic. Explain that one to me then you can get onto me about not knowing where my powers come from." Kaitlin replied irritably. Hally let the subject drop.
"You lied to me!" Hally said all of the sudden. "The entire time you were hear you said you were mortal, now I know that's just a bunch of nonsense!"
"That's not completely false, I'm half mortal on my father's side!" Kaitlin said defensively. Hally glared at her. "Fine. I'm sorry I lied to you Hally, is there any way I can make it up t you?" Kaitlin asked actually sounding as if she meant it.
"Actually yes, since your magic, you can help us get back to normal! We'll let you power up Dr. Finkelstien's invention and turn everyone back to normal!" Hally cried excitedly.
"I would, but I can't." Kaitlin said shaking her head. Hally's face fell.
"What do you mean you can't!?" Hally asked desperately. "I don't care if it's only temporary or something, I can't live like this!"
"Look I'm not supposed to use my powers at all, nevertheless for something that big. There is a very high potential that things could go very wrong. And I mean VERY wrong." Kaitlin said gravely. "And Hally, it's really important that this stays a secret. You can't tell anyone about this. And I mean it. If my mom finds out... let's just say it won't be good."
*
"Did thou hearest that sister?" Double asked turning to face Trouble who was sitting on the ground outside the Skellington house looking very bored. "Was it not I who told thee about the magic in the air?" Trouble glared at him.
"Fine, you win. Someone had magic." Trouble said throwing her hands up in the air in defeat. Double's glowing red orbs continued to remain on her making her very uncomfortable. "What do you want!? A medal or something?" Trouble demanded.
"What thine inferior intellect fails to comprehend, is our dearest chaos witch endangers our plan." Double said angrily his bright ivory fangs glistening in the eerie moonlight. His glowing red orb-like eyes flashing s he spoke.
"Well if I knew what the plan was maybe I could have caught onto that." Trouble retorted. Double sent her a ferocious glare, his shining blood colored eyes were ablaze with fury. Trouble shut her mouth instantly, not wanting to try her brother's patience.
"Toil, Trouble grab thine masks and be ready for a quick capture." Double ordered. He put the black white Scream mask he had been carrying over his midnight black hair and paper white face. Toil put on her demon mask and Trouble put on the green mask with the black cloth face that aloud her to see out but hid her face from those looking in.
"We're kidnapping the witch girl? Isn't that a bit risky?" Trouble asked uncertainly. Though she could not see her brother's face she had a good feeling that it bore that haunting smile. Whatever her brother was planning was not going to have a happy ending for those in Halloween Town.
"Dost thee not trust thine brother?" Double asked with a hint of mocking laughter in his voice. "Trust me dear sister, all shall go well. Or hast thou forgotten that Kaitlin is not the only one in possession of magic?"
"Yeah but..." Trouble began. She shook her head, it was no use once Double had his mind made up there was no hope in changing it. "Let's just get this over with." She said following her brother and wondering what in the Underworld was he planning.
*
"Kaitlin! Please!"
"No! Absolutely not!
"But Kaitlin!"
"That's my final answer Hally, I can't help you."
"Why!?"
"Look Hally, it's dangerous for me to aid you with chaos. Things will -not can- will, go horribly wrong," Kaitlin said with a sigh. "It's just something I don't want to risk. If I could control what I was doing I'd help you, but it's dangerous. You may go back to normal, you may all turn into elves, for all I know you all may end up as flowerpots. I just don't know." There was a noise downstairs that distracted them.
"What's that!?" Hally asked nervously. The faint scratching noise was new to the Pumpkin Princess but Kaitlin new exactly what it was.
"Someone forgot to let Zero in." Kaitlin said calmly. She got up off the bed walking downstairs with Hally close behind. "He's scratching at the door to let you know that he wants to come in. He can't just phase through it anymore." Hally wasn't so sure but followed Kaitlin down the stairs to the front of her house. "Now all you have to do is open the door." Kaitlin said as Hally unlocked the door. Kaitlin looked outside but to her surprise she couldn't see Zero anywhere. "Zero! Here boy!" she called walking down the stairs while Hally waited in the doorway.
"Kaitlin! Look out!" Hally cried making an attempt to run down the stairs after her. Kaitlin turned around but it was too late. Two figures leapt upon her knocking her off her feet, a third figure blasted Hally backward with what appeared to be wind magic. Hally let out a cry that brought her entire family running only moments too late. By the time Jack, Jake, and Sally arrived Kaitlin was nowhere to be found.
