I wanted to check to see if Mom was alright. The slime covering our bodies was sticky and stinky. It covered our faces and body on our clothes. I couldn't be more afraid of what was going to happen to us. Mom was crying and she couldn't get the stickiness of the slime from the comet to come off her face and hands.
The monster children were enjoying themselves. They were dancing and twirling around the edge of the crater where the comet had crashed into the ground. I didn't want to cause their attention to notice something was wrong with glowing slime on us.
Albert the werewolf boy suddenly howled at the purple, glowing sun in the sky. He quickly jumped on top of the surface of the crater. Where he wanted to get the two magicians to make sure they don't interrupt the ritual of the Halloween curse from becoming too real.
There wasn't anything Mom and I could do to protect ourselves. When suddenly, the monster children tossed a fish net over our heads. And pulled us out of the cater, quickly. Mom and I felt a tidal wave of fear and panic over ourselves. We didn't want to become bait for the selfish, ungrateful Halloween monster children. Who weren't giving us a chance to surrender.
Lightning crackled in the sky and made the blotted sun in the sky glow and make their monster shadow's dance in the graveyard. The two magicians quickly grabbed hold of Mom and me behind our back.
"Please–don't hurt us!" Mom cried over the sound of thunder booming in the distance. I tried giving Mom a hug. But she was feeling vulnerable to do anything to keep the Halloween monster kids from getting too personal around us.
Suddenly, dark storm clouds covered the dark sun in the night sky above us. We turned and watched. As everything around us in the graveyard began to glow. I couldn't believe what I was seeing! I watched as undead zombies began crawling out of their graves…! It was unlike anything I've seen before!
Turning back to look at the glowing blotted out sun in the sky, the Halloween cursed monster children quickly shoved us back into the crater. The dead were anxious to get slowly and cautiously crawl out of their graves. They were undead, rotting corpses, looking for trouble. They were growling and groaning as they staggered in the graveyard.
"What is going on here?" Mom yelled at the top of her lungs. It didn't make sense to me either. I wanted to know the answer to the very same question. I looked at where the comet from the sky crashed in the crater, from earlier.
I pointed at it, and Mom turned to look at the broken comet in the crater, next to us. The glowing blue slime in the middle of the comet was moving. Something was swimming in the bloody, glowing blue ooze. And I think it knew we were a threat to it.
Mom and I continued to stare with fascination at the glowing, bubbly slime in the broken comet. Then, Mom gasped! She quickly pushed me aside, out of the way. Just as the glowing ghostly blue blood stretched out of the comet…
And snagged Mom around her neck! The ghostly ooze was choking the life out of my Mom! I wanted to help her. But I was stuck to the muddy slime in the crater in the ground. I did not like watching Mom suddenly become an undead living corpse before my very eyes!
I turned to look up at the crater, where the zombies were all enjoying watching Mom and me suffer from the slime blood trying to make our lives miserable. Then, I watched with horror as the bloody ooze started to rise out of the broken comet in the ground.
I didn't want to believe something so evil could do something to make us wish we weren't alive anymore. It took the form of a ghostly, slimy alien creature before us. Its eyes started to flash and glow bright yellow. And started to open its sick mouth and let out a howl unlike anything I've heard before. I covered my ears and waited for the howl to come to an abrupt stop.
I turned and watched as the ghost alien let go of Mom. She gulped and breathed a heavy sigh of relief. As her undead corpse body slumped to the ground in defeat next to the supernatural alien before. I didn't know how to communicate with this otherworldly alien who had some kind of deadly gifted power. Nobody has a chance to defend themselves against it.
"Boy, you belong to me," I heard the ghostly alien say telepathically inside of my head. He pointed a slimy, glowing finger at me, accusingly. "The world has so much for you to offer. I want to make a promise to you, your gift will make an interesting take on society. I want to help you discover your power. To make it grow and get stronger than anybody's else's. There isn't much time to start your training. I don't want anything to disturb your potential gift unlike the world has to offer you," the ghostly, blue alien said.
I didn't know how to respond. I couldn't stop staring into the glowing alien's yellow eyes at me. Finally, I blinked. And turned and looked away at the alien. I turned to look up at the crater my undead Mom and I were landed inside of.
I watched as I stared at the Halloween monster children in their costumes dancing around the crater. I was looking for the two magician monster hunters nearby. They were busy helping some of the zombies out of their graves. I didn't know what they were up against. But I knew if I wanted to protect myself from supernatural magic from cursing me, I better help my undead Mom and me to get out of this crater, fast!
Suddenly, the glowing, slimy, blue alien quickly became a human being in a flash of lightning from the thunderstorm. He was covered in a silver shiny knight armor. And had long, wavy blond hair, down to his ears. Even though he had a warm smile, I knew he was somebody I shouldn't trust…
His armor, I noticed, was covered in glowing blue slime. As he walked out of the cracked comet in the crater, toward Mom and me. Even though Mom seemed like she wasn't interested in eating my brains, she wanted to protect me from strangers.
Mom growled, and drooled down her chin at the knight in shining armor coming before us. "I want you to walk the earth with the undead with me, Kirk Hopscotch," said the alien knight. "You have it in your blood. The secret to giving others the gift of immortality. Not everybody can do what you have, kid," the alien knight said.
There was a sudden flash of lightning from the store. And I started to glow and float in the cold, windy night air. "Whoa!" I screamed, trying to grab hold of my Mom's dead scaly hands from floating away from them.
"Let go!" the alien knight said. "You can control your flying ability! Concentrate and let your body take flight into the night," he explained. I slowly let go of my Mom's gray, undead hands. I expected to be lighted into the air, without knowing where I was going.
I stayed in the middle of the cool, night air. I laughed, nervously. Then, I watched as the glowing, blue alien knight floated up toward me in the crater. I turned back to look at Mom who suddenly didn't seem to care she noticed me, I was there. She just staggered slowly back and forth in the empty crater in the ground.
"You ready to use your gift, Kirk?" asked the glowing blue, alien knight. "I know you have it in you to control it. You will discover a new ability every time you make one of the living into the walking undead. The more souls walk the earth, the more invisible you will become, Kirk Hopscotch," said the alien knight.
I didn't know if I could handle such responsibility. "What if everybody doesn't want to walk the earth with us?" I asked, suspiciously. "They may have some kind of repellent to use against me. And decide being alive is worth more than getting along with the undead," I said.
The glowing, blue alien knight laughed, shaking his belly. Lightning flashed and made the glowing blotted out sun in the sky sparkle. Making the shadows of the Halloween monster kids in their costumes stretch over the graveyard in front of them. As they danced around the crater, next to some empty graves where some the dead had come back to life.
I watched as my best friend Albert started digging up a spot next to an empty grave. Grabbing some bones in his fanged mouth, the hairy dog boy put some bones in the ground, and covered dirt over them, panting excitedly.
I wanted to go back home, where I would be safe. I couldn't let them get the best of me. I watched, as the two magician monster hunters turned their attention back to us. Their eyes glowed red. And they came after me.