Mystery Halloween in
Category : Challenge – The Halloween Challenge;
Crossover -
Status: In Progress 12/22/2004
- Chapter 2
Ratings: R
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Chapter 2 :
The night had just fallen on the
small island of
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So, Reverend... Do you also have an Halloween story ?
Daniel Cooper, with a mischievous
smile on his face, laughed :
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are you sure you want to listen to my story ?.... It is
founded on real events... and you know me well now... I’m not the kind of
people who tell lies...
A silence established in the group
of young children which were around the camp fire. Dylan began laughing :
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I don’t believe to ghosts stories anyway !! You can tell
whatever you want, but I know that it is not true !!!!
The Reverend Cooper met the kid’s gaze... The latter quivered, as the
gaze was so penetrating that the young boy could not repress a shudder
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It is not a ghost story that I’m going to narrate to you...
It’s a true story and which.... , he paused to take his breath again, .... only
takes place on Halloween’s day if it’s full Moon...
A braided red-haired little girl
quivered :
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But, next Halloween is in one week, and it will be a
full-mooned light !!!!!
The reverend looked at her in a
mysterious way :
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‘It is right.....’ He paused. ‘It might be why I shouldn’t
narrate it to you this year.
He took the water carafe, standing
at his feet and made as if to use it to put the fire out... That’s when all the
children in unison exclamed :
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Yes, do, do, tell us !!! Tell us !!! Please, Reverend !!!!
Daniel then took all his time to sit
down again.
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Are you really sure you want to hear this story ?
The children excitedly nodded
assent.
Daniel looked up then towards the
sky and rose his gaze towards the moon, almost round and shining white and of
beauty in that starry and cold sky of the ending fall. He turned his jacket’s collar up :
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I guess you all know what is said about the full moon ?.....
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It is said that there are more babies !!!! said the little
red-haired girl blushing...
The reverend silently nodded.
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and ?
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My grand-father says we should cut our hair on full moon’s
evenings so they can grow again faster... But I’m sure it’s all baloney !...
He’s almost bald!!! Exclamed a grinning blond little boy, nudging Dylan.
The reverend burst into laugh...
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Anything alse ?
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‘My older brother...’ began shyly the long-braided
brown-haired little girl sitting next to the reverend, ‘ told me one day
that,on the days of Full moon, some people change She looked down. ‘You’re going to make fun of
me...’
Daniel took her gently by the
shoulders and leant towards her :
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What did Peter tell you ? ... Into what would people change
on full moon nights ??
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‘....Into werewolves...’ she whispered, looking down as
ashamed...
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It’s all lies !!! exclaimed Dylan laughing with his blond
friend, Hank.
Daniel
tightened the flushing little girl in his arms...
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I think I might have some things to say to your brother
Peter... Don’t you think you should go back home.... You’re only 9 years old, I
wouldn’t want to scare you with
my story...
The young Amy shook her head with force:
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Nope, Reverend !!! i’m a big girl !! I have enough of being treated like a baby !!
Tears began to sparkle in her big
green eyes.. Daniel, touched, took her on his lap :
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‘All right, my big
girl, but you have to tell yourself that all I’m going to tell you
tonight only occurs when Halloween falls on a full-mooned night... Okay ?....’ Amy nodded silently and
snuggled up in Daniel’s arms.... ‘Moreover, you must all keep in mind a very
important sentence, especially after I have told you my whole story...
The kids, mute, nodded.
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That sentence is “There’s always a way”....
Silently, each of the children
repeated the sentence... Daniel waited then for all the gazes back at him and
with all the deserved attention
for what he was about to reveal to
them ....
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What I’m about to tell you is an old legend spreading by
word of mouth. You’re gonna tell me that a legend is not s story, but if I ask
you, how can a legend have crossed years, even centuries, to end up here, what
are you going to answer ?
The bewildered children were
observing Daniel, who went on :
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If a legend exists, it means that someone lived it to see
what happened. Therefore, if someone has lived what happened, and told it to
his children who then told their children and on... It means that this legend
is not only a story.
Daniel looked at each kid
surrounding him, slowly. He added :
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It means that what I’m about to tell you is much more than a
legend, it’s what really happened on each full-mooned Halloween.....
Daniel fell silent a moment.... It
had succeeded in gaining all the attention of his small entourage.
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The first time I heard about this legend, it was when it
occurred and put in agitation a small city in the
The children hang upon his every
word. This latter glanced sadly at the Moon.
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This full Moon... Everyone in Healdton still remembers it...
He looked down and swept a hair lock
away from the face of the little girl sitting on his lap.
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Everyone agrees to say that it was on the 7th day
before Halloween that all began..
Daniel shook his head, and once
again, looked up towards the radiant Moon...
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According to this story, which resumes the events only from
7 days before Halloween, the priest started to act unusually. A witness said
having seen the man enter in his fishing store asking him a hook.. and when the
witness came back from his back shop with the requested hook, he was scolded by
the priest who swore he had never asked him a hook but some fishing line...
Outright, the witness in question said nothing... He thought he had
misunderstood the man... But when he came back with the line, he was once again
scolded, for the priest affirmed to him to have asked for a hook and not a
fishing line....
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But if he was as old as Father Mac... may be he had gone off
his head, like my grand-father.... bragged
Hank.
Daniel plunged his eyes into those
of the kid. The latter immediately lost
his desire to laugh.
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This priest was not mad... And... still is not !...
Daniel observed in turn the little
heads surrounding him... all mute and already stuck to his story.
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The inhabitants of this town really began to get scared that
day when.... Daniel hold his breath.
When he was seen in 2 places in the same time...
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It’s not possible !!! You are making fun of us !! said Dylan, a bit worried.
Daniel bit his lip in order to avoid
any smile of satisfaction, and went on, pretending he had not heard the boy’s
intervention.
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It was on the 6th day before Halloween... The
priest had organized a game of French soccer behind the Church, and had invited
all the children who desired to come... The afternoon went on quickly : the
children and the parents who had come to encourage them, had not seen the time
go by but...on the next morning.... At the local drugstore, a Mrs Jones, who
had attended the soccer game, was talking about it with the owner, Mrs Lloyd...
That’s when Mrs White, the owner of the Irish pub “The White Swan”, who
happened to be there, joined the conversation.
The latter asserted that the priest had spent his whole afternoon drinking beer
after beer at the counter and chatting with the town’s mayor. Mrs Jones and Mrs
White then started an altercation, which Mrs Lloyd had difficulties to make it
stop. Each of the 2 women insisted on saying that they had both seen the priest
in a different place at the same time. That’s then that Mrs White left the
store slamming the door and came back some minutes later with the first one of
her regular customers which she had met
in the street and who had been in her pub the day before...The latter could
only confirm the pub’s owner’s version. Then, Mrs Jones left the drugstore
running to catch a young boy who had participated to that soccer game... And
the latter, facing Mrs White, could only confirm the version of Mrs Jones...
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But wait a minute ! This thing is not possible !! He could
not be in two different places in the same time and doing two different things
!!!! And, I hardly believe that a priest like Father Mac can spend his
afternoon to the pub drinking
beer !!
Hank shook his head, disconcerted.
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And how ! that’s from there
that the rumor began to spread. Everyone was observing the priest...
concluded Daniel, with a serious
air. But the worst.... is what
happened 5 days before that famous night of Halloween… All the children were
gaping and tuned to Daniel, who went on … Whereas the moon wasn’t
full yet, an image appeared in its circle.... That image was... the devil’s
face...
A shudder ran through the audience,
and Daniel burst into laugh.
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I think that’s enough for tonight, go back home...
Whereas the protestations started to
be heard, he stood up :
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Do not worry, I will tell you the rest tomorrow..unless you will tell me the rest.
He ended his sentence in a low voice
and a wink.
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Reverend ?
Daniel felt a small hand pull his
jacket :
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What’s up, young lady ?
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Could you take me back home ?.... Amy began blushing. She was rather ill at
ease after the story she had just heard.
With a
grin, he
lifted her up and took her in his arms :
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Nothing else could delight me more, Mademoiselle.