Antoine turned for his car when Tas came next to him.
"And where are you going my dear friend? To rat us out?" He stared him down. Antoine was starting to get scared.
"N-no. I already told you I wouldn't rat you all out." He replied.
"Good, so then you won't mind staying here?" Antoine was surprised.
"Say what?"
"Well, what do you think? That we're just going to let you waltz free and go to your dear old mum's when you gave us this kind of information?" Antoine looked around.
"Yeah, sort of! Look dude, I'm not a snitch. You can't keep me here, that's kidnapping!" Tas stared at him. He started to laugh.
"Oh, Anty, Anty, Anty. When will you learn?" He rushed up to him and slammed him into the ground. He got close to his face and harshly whispered to him, "This is a very serious matter. I don't care if you are the one who gave us this information or not! You might try to escape, might try to rat us out, who knows what you'll try!" He picked him up and stood him straight. "And we can't trust anything you do unless it's with this case." And glared at him. "And if you try to be uncooperative, well…. let's just say you're family is going to be sure sobbing over some roses perking out of the ground." He laughed and stared at him again. "You do understand now, right?" Antoine nodded. "Good, then you can sleep in bunker 23, it's right over there." He pointed to the left. "And I expect you to be awake by 6." He turned around and looked at him through the corner of his eyes. "Because if you're not…" He laughed as he cocked his gun and walked away. "Good night, soldier."
Meanwhile…
The morning sun arose over the gloomy clouds. Although it was still gloom and gray, there was a little bit of light. Crystal yawned as she hopped out of her bed. She walked down the stairs to see Sally making breakfast. Her stomach growled from not eating last night's meal. If what Sally was making was as gross as last night's, Crystal was about to run off and find her some food. Sunny sat at the table writing something down on a piece of paper. Crystal sat next to him and looked at the paper. She saw the words Halloween and celebration. She wondered to herself then asked,
"What are you writing?" Sunny glanced up at her. He smiled and stopped for a minute.
"My dad thinks it'd be a good idea for me to organize the 1st ever after party celebration of Halloween!" Crystal stared at him.
"I still don't get why Halloween is such a thrill to you guys, or um…monsters?" Sunny laughed.
"It's ok, you can call us whatever you want…besides names." Crystal smiled.
"Halloween is our way of life." Sally exclaimed to her. "We just get excited off of scares and scaring others."
"Even when you're the one who's getting scared?" Sally nodded.
"We think of it as more of a fun game, then rather trying to actually scare each other. We just like to laugh at it; we don't really enjoy you being scared. It's just…funny." Sally looked at Crystal as she sat the meal on the table. "Do you understand now?" She shrugged.
"I guess so, a little." Sally smiled.
"You'll get it one day." Sunny and Crystal looked at the meal to see it wasn't really that bad. It was some sort of meat, Crystal couldn't tell what kind, but it was meat. Suddenly, Jack came in with a grin and held out his arms.
"I got excellent news!" He said. They all stared at him. "The mayor thought it would be an excellent idea if we took our Halloween scare tastic phenomenon, to the living!" Sally and Sunny smiled and celebrated with Jack as Crystal stared at them all and gasped.
"You mean, you're going celebrate Halloween…in the town?" They all looked at her.
"Yes! We thought since you came here and discovered us, then why don't we discover the living world? Give them some real thrills on Halloween night! Something they'll never forget!" Crystal bit her fingernails.
"Oh, sounds great but, have you forgot that where I come from is well…alive?"
"And?"
"And you all are dead."
"And?"
"They'll want to kill you…again!" Jacked looked at her strangely.
"Oh it's Halloween! They'll think we're one of them!" He turned to the others as Crystal was left speechless. "Now come on, the town is waiting for us outside. We're trying to find a good place to set up our after party for tonight. It's going to be somewhere in the forest." Crystal gave up and looked around at all the happy monsters that were excited about giving their first alive human, a real good scare.
"This isn't good." She said to herself. "Not good at all." Sunny ran up next to her and smiled.
"Hey!" She was surprised and gave a fake smile back at him.
"Oh, hey."
"You know, since you're a human and all, what kind of stuff scares you all?" She gulped.
"Well, this whole town scared me when I first came into it."
"So we don't even have to do anything to scare you all?" She nodded. "That's no fun! We have to do something… eccentric!"
"Eccentric? Do you really?"
"Well of course! It's going to be a phenomenon! A Scare Tastic Brawl!" He gasped. "I know! We'll go around and do the creepiest things we can do to everyone! It'll be the best Halloween ever!" The clock boomed 11:00am.
"Gather around everyone!" Jack yelled. Sunny grabbed Crystal's wrist and pulled her over. "I know what we are going to do! Listen carefully!" He started plotting as the fellow town people ooed and awed. Crystal started biting her nails again. She looked around to see if anyone was watching and made a dash to the woods. Sunny saw her and started to follow. Crystal had no idea he was following her. She ran through the woods, she had to get away from this town. Not for her safety, but for there's. Humans and monsters don't mix! She had to do something to keep them in their town. She had sort of came to a liking to that town and would be heart wrenched if something happened to one of them. She finally came upon a spot that seemed to have tire marks in the grass. She followed them to see it lead to a road. Just above she saw a base of some sort. She neared it. Suddenly, she heard a man scream and holler. She dashed behind a tree and some bushes and listened in.
"WE HAVE BEEN PLOTTING THIS FOR 5 HOURS! I SAID TO MAKE OUR MOVE AT NOON! WHERE IS BISMARCK?" Tas yelled.
"It seems he has…escaped." A man replied.
"Escaped? But how?" The man paused and looked around, scratched his nose.
"I don't know." He looked away from him when he said this. Tas stared at him and cocked his gun. He aimed straight at his head.
"Why are you lying to me? You know that's not a good idea." The man hesitated. "Where is he?"
"I-um-I-" Tas put the gun right next to his head.
"Better think twice about lying to me."
"He's-uh-he's hiding sir!"
"Where?"
Antoine scrunched close in the porter potty. He hoped no one would hear and that the man he had paid off would keep his end of the deal. Suddenly, the door was kicked in. He saw Tas standing there.
"That was a bad idea for you to do Detective." He gulped. Tas dragged him out and put him in the head of the marching line. He put his gun right next to the back of his head. "Lead us now or you will be lying on this ground bleeding." Antoine started walking and leading them. Crystal gasped. She turned around and started running back. What was she to do? She had to keep them inside their town, and had to keep these people out? She just started to run as fast as she could. Never looking back.