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Chapter Two: The Town Meeting

No one knew what to do. By now, everyone had heard that Loki had disappeared and they were searching everywhere for him with no luck. Laufey walked up onto his car to speak on the speaker.

"We've got to find Loki! There's only 365 days left till next Halloween!" Laufey said

"364!" The werewolf corrected.

"Is there anywhere we've forgotten to check?"

"I looked in every mausoleum," the clown said

"We opened the Sarcophagi," The witches said

"I tromped through the Pumpkin Patch," Mr. Hyde said walking up with a pumpkin on his foot.

"I peeked behind the Cyclops' eye. I did! But he wasn't there," A Vampire said

"It's time to sound the alarms!" Laufey said

A mummy kid sounded the alarm. (Y/N) wasn't in town but she knew the sound of the alarm. Loki was missing. But she couldn't worry about that right now. She was making soup for Bruce who was experimenting. The doup was finished, she just needed to add the Deadly Nightshade so Bruce will fall asleep for a few hours. The stuff smelled awful but she had just the thing to cover it up. Frogs Breath. But that wasn't a great smell either. She couldn't stand it anyway. Just to mask that smell, she put in some Worms Wart.

She then brought it up to Bruce who was still at work. (Y/N) arrived with the soup and handed it to him. But he quickly noticed the Frogs Breath. He knows that Frogs Breath can mask the smell of Deadly Nightshade so he wasn't having any unless (Y/N) had some first. She just said she wasn't hungry and knocked the spoon out of his hand. She used that opportunity to take a spoon from her sock that had holes in it so she didn't actually eat it. She proved, with this new spoon, that the soup was perfectly fine. So, he ate it all.

Back in the town, Laufey was asking about any other places they tried to check when they heard the familiar bark of Fenrir. And not far behind, Loki on a snowmobile and some Christmas things in a sack. Everyone was happy to see their King had returned.

"Where have you been?" Laufey asked

"Call a town meeting, and I'll tell everyone all about it," Loki said

"When?"

"Immediately!"

So Laufey called a town meeting. Bruce was asleep so (Y/N) went to see what all the fuss was about. She sat on a branch of the hanging tree as everyone waited for Loki to step on the stage. He stepped on stage as everyone got settled in their seats.

"Listen, everyone! I want to tell you about Christmas Town," Loki said smiling as a light shone on him, 'there were objects so peculiar, they were not to be believed all around, things to tantalize my brain. It's a world unlike anything I've ever seen and as hard as I try, I can't seem to describe like a most improbable dream. But you must believe when I tell you this. It's as real as my skull and it does exist. Here, let me show you."

Loki pulled the curtain back to reveal a tree, Christmas presents, a painted background of Christmas town, and almost everything Loki saw in this new world.

'This is a thing called a present,' Loki picked up a present, 'The whole thing starts with a box.'

"A box?" The Harlequin Demon asked

"Is it steel?" The devil asked

"Are there locks?" The werewolf asked

"Is it filled with a pox?" The Harlequin asked

"A pox. How delightful, a pox," The devil said

"If you please," Loki interrupted, 'Just a box with bright-colored paper and the whole thing's topped with a bow.'

"A bow?" The small witch asked

"But why?" The tall witch asked

"How ugly."

"What's in it?"

"What's in it?" The two asked

'That's the point of the thing, not to know,' Loki said

The Clown took the present from him, "It's a bat!"

"Will it bend?" the Stair Monster asked

"It's a rat!"

"Will it break?"

"Perhaps it's the head that I found in the lake," the Undersea Gal said

"Listen now, you don't understand,' Loki said taking it back, 'That's not the point of Christmas land,' he put it down, "Now, pay attention. We pick up an oversized sock,' he does that, 'And hang it like this on the wall.'

"Oh, yes! Does it still have a foot?" Mr. Hyde asked

"Let me see, let me look," A smaller version of him appeared from his hat

"Is it rotted and covered with gook?" An even smaller version of him appeared too

"Um, let me explain," Loki said, 'There's no foot inside, but there's candy or sometimes it's filled with small toys!'

"Small toys! Do they bite?" A bat child asked

"Do they snap?" A mummy child asked

"Or explode in a sack?"

"Or perhaps they just spring out and scare girls and boys," The corpse kids said

"What a splendid idea! This Christmas sounds fun! I fully endorse it! Let's try it at once!" Laufey said

"Everyone, please now, not so fast. There's something here that you don't quite grasp,' Loki said getting the attention back.

That got everyone talking among themselves. What is Loki meaning by that?

"Well, I may as well give them what they want," Loki said to himself, 'And the best, I must confess, I have saved for the last, for the ruler of this Christmas land is a fearsome king with a deep mighty voice. Least that's what I've come to understand. And I've also heard it told that he's something to behold, like a Peacock, huge and colorful! And he sets out to slay with his rain gear on carting bulging sacks with his big great arms. That is, so I've heard it said. And on a dark, cold night, under full moonlight, he flies into a fog like a vulture in the sky! And they call him Grandmaster!'

Everyone clapped as the lights came back on and Loki went to his Christmas scene and the curtains closed. Everyone loved the idea of this Christmas thing but they don't really understand what Loki has seen.

"Well, at least they're excited but they don't understand that special kind of feeling in Christmas land. Oh, well..."

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