Halloween 2022

DARKNEZZ: Hello and a warm welcome to our Halloween Special! It’s gonna get creepy today and whats better than a few creepy stories to get in the mood? I think we all have some stories where we got goosebumps or just simply shook in fear. And today we’ll listen to some of those stories. We have here Cheyenne, Glaczio, Xaver and Sasha – and of course Adocaz, we mustn’t miss out on him – and they will be sharing their creepiest Halloween stories with us!

CHEYENNE: Yeah, so Adocaz is probably not gonna say too much on this topic, but yeah.

EVERYONE: *amused smiling and laughing*

DARKNEZZ: Yeah you might just be right with that, hihi.

XAVER: But it would be interesting what he would tell us.

DARKNEZZ: Yeah of course, but he seems to be camera shy and I think we shouldn’t trouble him any further. So – who wants to begin?

EVERYONE: *look at themselves and remain silent*

DARKNEZZ: Yeah, I thought so, so I prepared some papers with numbers on them for you to pick. Everyone – please draw a paper and whoever’s got number 1 begins.

EVERYONE: *draws a number, Sasha takes a relaxed breather, Xaver smiles with a stare look on his paper and takes a breather as well*

DARKNEZZ: Ah, alright, I already know who’s beginning. Xaver?

DARKNEZZ AND CHEYENNE: *smile*

XAVER: Yeah, yeah, I drew number 1, so I begin. So. It was the Halloween 6 years ago, when my grandpa came to visit us. He’s a merchant and he’s not coming home very often, so we were really looking forward to see him. The guards almost hadn’t let him through the gate, but after a long discussion he could convince them with his wares. So he was going to sleep at our house for Halloween and after we ate dinner and Cheyenne and I had been out playing trick or treat we went to sleep. And then the spook began. I gotta say I am not easily startled and I am not so easily frightened but at that night… Yeah, heh, it was different. I woke up at midnight, because I heard strange noises. At first I thought I was still dreaming or imagining things, or there were still people outside, but after a while I listened closely and I became wide awake so I couldn’t go back to sleep. The noise was just so unsettling… It sounded scratchy and was very loud in the silence of night, like some sort of growling, but not quite. At first I thought it was gonna be a burglar, who is trying to get into the house through the door or the window, so I got up and picked up my wooden sword back then.

CHEYENNE: Yeah, I’m sure he would have ran away in fear if he saw you with that *smiles*

XAVER: Psht shut up *smiles* Well, anyways, I wanted to go down to the ground floor with it – you see my room is on the first floor – but when I arrived at the door. It was pitch black by the way and I was really really scared at that moment and I would have rather just gone back to bed and hid under my blanket, but I wouldn’t be able to just forget about it and I was worried about my mother, so I wanted to go down and have a look. So once I arrived at the door and opened it a little the noise was suddenly getting really loud and it reminded me of the growling of a bear – I was pretty sure then that it wasn’t a burglar anymore. There had to be a wild animal in the undercity and it would try to get into our house right at the moment! I was scared that It would attack my grandpa and my mom, so I ran down to the front door and stood there holding my sword with shaking hands, ready for attack. Until I realised a while later in my excitement that the noise wasn’t coming from the door… No, it came directly from the living room! The wild animal or whatever it was must have already came in somehow and would already prepare for eating grandpa! And after that me! So I thought and without thinking for a long time I wanted to help grandpa and stumbled through the darkness to him, to wake him up, so he could sneak oput together with me and didn’t have to die. So I stumbled as quiet as possible through the pitch black room, still holding my sword, shaking, and once I arrived at my grandpas sleeping place the noise was incredible loud. I though that when I would light a chroma candle now I would look the beast right in the eyes. So I woke up grandpa and whispered to him that he had to get up as quick as possible and had to escape. Grandpa though was too sleepy and just asked what where why and I didn’t have the nerve to explain him what was going on, when the beast was right in front of us and so I just said that he’s gonna die if he didn’t get up now. That said he was getting more awake and asked again what’s going on. I was already totally crying and lost my nerves *smiles* very embarrassing story. Then I noticed that it was dead silent and I got even more scared. But gandpa just stood up, slowly, and lit a chroma candle. The he saw me, how much I was crying and stood there shaking, holding my wooden sword in my arms and looked around. No beast in sight… Gandpa took me into his arms and calmed me down, but I couldn’t rest at ease and was still cared. My mom woke up too and after she heard my story she smiled and said that the beast was probably gandpa because he snores so loud when sleeping!

EVERYONE: *smiling and laughing*

SASHA: Hahaha, you’re such a scaredy cat! Haha, how cute.

XAVER: Pff shut up, I usually don’t get scared.

SASHA: Ha, yeah right *smiles*

GLACZIO: *looks at Cheyenne, who evaded his look* Angel…

CHEYENNE: *closes her eyes and smiles*

DARKNEZZ: Hey Xaver, thanks for the story, I gotta say it was very funny and its good to know that the brave, strong Xaver was afraid of something at some point in his life.

XAVER: *his eyebrows twitch and he looks embarrassed aside*

DARKNEZZ: So, who is next…

GLACZIO: Here, my angel dies to tell her story next!

CHEYENNE: Stop that *looks at him smiling* But yeah, he’s right, I’ve got number 2.

DARKNEZZ: Ah, nice, then you may start, Angel.

DARKNEZZ and GLACZIO: *high five and laugh*

CHEYENNE: Oh man… *sigh* Well, my story resembles Xavers, but has nothing to do with him. So, back then I was 10 years old and I hadn’t got Adocaz at that time *pats Adocaz* So I had no guardian to protect me shen I was afraid. *she smiles* And I was outside with Xaver at Halloweens Eve too, playing trick or treat and it was really cold for that time of the year, a few days after that it had already snowed. So we hadn’t played too much outside and we got home pretty early. We didn’t get much treats as always, because the people in the undercity just don’t have much to give, but most of the treats were homemade cookies, Rosis Pumpkin Cookies were among them. Those are such great cookies, there is pumpkin inside and a pumpkin on the outside.

GLACZIO: *smiles* Pumpkin inside and a pumpkin on the outside, huh?

CHEYENNE: *rolls with eyes and smiles* Ugh, yeah, well … Pumpkin Cookies! Jeez. Rosi always makes such delicious cookies. But now back to the story – so I went home and we ate dinner too – Pumkin Soup *smiles, Glaczio smiles too* and after that I went to bed, since I was tired. I fell asleep pretty quick. Some time inmidst the night I woke up because I was thirsty and saw through the gap by the door, because I left the door open a little at night, some sort of fog coming into the room… I didn’t know what it was, but it grew more and more and I thought at first that the house is on fire, but then a silent, high noise sounded and I was getting scared because I thought it was a ghost… I was 10, okay? I hid under my blanket and closed my eyes, but the noise became louder and louder and at some point it started hurting my ears. So I decided to get up and try to exorcise the ghost, since it seemed to do me no harm, I was still alive after all. So I got up carefully and then suddenly I waved my arms around wildly and stepped with closed eyes into the fog and I did that until it was gone. But through the gap by the door there came more and more fog and then I heard footsteps coming from downstairs… I started crying and called out for my grandmother *she smiles* I was 10, guys, 10… so embarrassing. And my grandmother… she just called back if I was okay and what had happened. And then I thought that the footsteps must have come from her, but it could have also been a ghost that was just imitating her voice… But I was brave at that moment and opened the door fully and looked down just to see my grandmother in the kitchen standing by the stove. I was confused and asked her what she was doing and if she didn’t hear the noise. She just laughed at me and stepped aside and said tadaa a kettle!

DARKNEZZ: *facepalm*

CHEYENNE: Yeah and she presented it proudly and said she got it from Rosi, but it was a very old kettle and it had made the loud high noise, since my grandmother was preparing some tea because she was cold… Well yeah and then we drank some tea and ate a few pumpkin cookies. But I’m not finished yet… When I got back to bed I saw through the gap by the door two glowing red dots down by the front door window… I blinked and they were gone… I thought it must have been my imagination but I couldn’t sleep any more that night because I was so afraid…

SASHA: Uuh…

DARKNEZZ: Did you ever find out what it was?

CHEYENNE: No, not until this day… But maybe I don’t wanna know or it really might have been my imagination.

GLACZIO: Hm, maybe I can help…

CHEYENNE: Huh? What do you mean you can help? Do you know something about it?

SASHA: Oh, that story, yeah…

CHEYENNE: *seems confused*

GLACZIO: Well, then I will be the next one to tell the tale of a creepy Halloween. I think the same story goes for Sasha-cutie here, since we experienced it together, right?

SASHA: Shut up, idiot… but yeah, I don’t have a better story for Halloween anyways.

GLACZIO: Right, so back then I was 13 and Sasha-cutie here was sweet 12 years old. We played trick or treat in the uppercity as well and I think we got a lot more than you did down there in the undercity… But well, that a thing we can’t change for now, sadly. So we ran around, scaring people, and we had really creepy outfits too, I’d say for children we really looked scary.

SASHA: Yeah, that’s right.

GLACZIO: and my little sister Genevieve was with us too, she got the most treats of course. She was going as cute little kitty, I was a Zombie-Sorcerer and Sasha-cutie was a bloody nun. Don’t ask why we decided to pick those, hehe. At some point we got bored of collecting treats and so we chased after other children whose costumes we were fond of and we wanted to know why they chose that outfit and if they wanted to accompany us to collect together. After a while we were a little group of children and we met a really big child, who had the best costume of us all. He was going as werewolf, the head was so real, like the one of a real wolf, buit the body was obviously human. But instead of hands he had paws with big claws. We wanted to know who he was and how he made his costume, especially there glowing red eyes…

CHEYENNE: Oh…

DARKNEZZ: Ah, that’s gonna be exciting.

GLACZIO: Yeah… The boy or girl didn’t want to talk to us and just growled, showing us its big claws, but we actually found that really impressive. Genevieve though was going to be impatient and wanted the werewolf to take off its mask. She was still so little and didn’t understand that since every other kid took off their mask for her, the cute little kitty. So she went to the werewolf and pulled on its mask and that really wildly… And the werewolf reacted with a jump backwards and growling. I was walking up to Genevieve and thought she was going to cry since she didn’t get what she wanted, but she just stood there and gazed at the werewolf who growled louder and louder… She whispered “That’s not a mask” and and she took my hand. She then started crying and seemed to be super scared. Sasha-cutie noticed that all and she grabbed Genevieve by the hand and they started running away, all other children with them. When I looked at the werewolf again, it was gone… Then I ran after those two, since I am the big brother and had to take care of them, but at that eve I really wanted to look for the werewolf to check myself if it was real or just a mask. But if Cheyenne also had seen two glowing red eyes… and it could be fitting with the time, if he went down to the undercity after he had ran away…

SASHA: Yeah and now here it comes – the next day there was an article in the newspaper that an experiment from the human ranch had escaped whilst a transport and everyone in the uppercity should take care and tell the knights whenever someone sees something noticeable and especially to take care when seeing a wild wolf running around. Glaczios parents didn’t know what an escaped experiment had to do with a wolf but Genevieve, me and Glaczio looked at each other and we knew… what we had seen yesterday was real and it was dangerous and we were super lucky that we had made it out alive.

DARKNEZZ: Oh wow…

CHEYENNE: *sits there with an open mouth and is obviously shocked*

XAVER: *seems worried* Good, that nothing happened back then… But we in the undercity had never got the news. Well I think you up there don’t give a damn about if we live or die.

CHEYENNE: Xaver…

SASHA: Hey, watch your mouth, don’t you dare compare me to those upper city people and even worse that guy *points her finger at Glaczio*

GLACZIO: *smiles, then becomes serious* The sad truth is that it really is not of interest for the people in the upper city how you are doing down there…

DARKNEZZ: Alright, keep that topic for later, okay? But that was a really interesting story and funny that its connected that way.

GLACZIO: Now please don’t act as if you hadn’t known.

DARKNEZZ: Hehe.

SASHA: And now you, beloved goddess. What was your creepiest experience?

DARKNEZZ: Mine? Oh, really now? Well fine, I guess its just fair if I tell a story too, but it’s not a Halloween story. Nothing creepy had ever happened to me at Halloween. So as you know I am currently living in another world and I am undercover there, so no one knows me as a goddess. I am disguising as a normal human there. So I was little there too and lived with my mom back then and she had a new partner at that time. It was a quiet evening and we sat in the living room. Then I had to go to the bathroom and while I washed my hands I saw a weird shadow outside… a human shadow. So I looked closely and could make out a person in dark clothes, smoking under a lamp post behind our garden. So I hadn’t wasted much thought about it and went back to the living room eventhough I knew that something weird was going on. Then it got later and later and my mom and her boyfriend readied themselves for going to bed and I was all alone in the living room. Then suddenly I saw the shadow through the window! The person was inside our garden! I ran up to my mom and told her what I had seen, since I was worried and I needed her in the other world, you know as part of my disguise. Then her boyfriend went outside to have a look whilst me and my mom were watching from the bathroom window. Then the man fled when he saw my moms boyfriend and she was shocked and pale, saying: That was my ex… He’s stalking us…

CHEYENNE: Woa… that’s really creepy.

GLACZIO: Hey, beauty its nice to get to know your past a little better since we don’t know nothing about you. You have my utmost gratitude for sharing these informations with us, Your Highness.

DARKNEZZ: Ah you, be quiet *sighs*

GLACZIO: Hehe.

SASHA: Did someone punish that guy?

XAVER: Haven’t you got your sword somewhere? I would have shown this guy!

DARKNEZZ: Haha, the idea with the sword sounds nice and all, but that’s not allowed in the world where I come from now, there are people similar to the knights called the police, but their nicer and they have different weapons, but enough to that. But yeah, he was punished.

SASHA: *nods*

DARKNEZZ: So, I have to say that were a few really creepy stories to put us in the mood. Thank you for telling and thanks Adocaz for being here and being cute *pats Adocaz* And then I’d say I wish you all a nice Halloween!

EVERYONE: HAPPY HALLOWEEN!