It was nightfall at last, laughter and cheers could be heard from outside along with purple lights shining from Mr. Chu's place. (Y/n) was sitting on the kitchen island, fiddling with a fidget cube out of nervousness and fear because of Slappy. Sarah was on her laptop and said that there was a panic and blackout in Madison causing (Y/n) to look up and get up and walked over to the laptop to read as well. "Madison! That's where I'm from!" (Y/n) noted causing them to look at her. "Can you tell us what really happened? We believe it because of that dummy, but do tell us." (Y/n) looked to the side and answered, "I wasn't there when it happened, but I came to Madison the next year and met two boys named Zach and Champion, and a girl named Hannah, the daughter of R.L Stine, the one who made these ghouls, giant insets, and zombies and all of them with his typerwriter,"

"Back to the topic at hand, a Slappy from the book, Night Of The Living Dummy, came out and tried to take over the world, but he was stopped thankfully." "Why do you look like you want to cry?" Sam asked causing (Y/n) to look down and spoke softly, "Because the next year, the year I came in, I had a promise to keep. "Find Slappy and live happy". I wanted to keep it. I wasn't a puppet then, I was human just like you three, in high school, alone, and just ready to leave the nest and take on the world myself and find the Slappy puppet that was in the show, but it changed when I met Hannah who honestly is a caring girl and trusted me quickly. She gave me a box and said it was a gift from her to me. When I got home and opened it, I was jumped by Slappy. He of course was powerless, couldn't teleport or control anything, he was just an actual puppet who could walk, talk, eat, sleep, and breathe. He wanted to get revenge, but I refused to help him," (Y/n) spoke, as Sonny asked, "What happened between you two?"

"That's a bit personal, but I will say this, Slappy became human in due time and changed so much. From a puppet wanting to take over the world to a full grown human male with a tender heart, but still had anger issues when it came to Stine at certain points. He had two brothers whom I helped out as well, but... it all changed when Mary-Ellen, the "bride" of Slappy, came out of her book and started causing trouble. All I know is that I was human until last month when I woke up and was in a shop as a puppet. It was terrifying. I didn't what to do except for leaving that place and going to hunt down Slappy. Knowing him, he's scared of being alone. He doesn't like it at all, not even when he's in a book," (Y/n) spoke causing Sarah to notice something and calling the puppet girl, "You love him." (Y/n) looked up at looked Sarah right in the eyes, if she could blush, she would be right now. "I don't love him! How can I? He's done so much bad for me to!" "And yet you talk about him in a sweet, caring way. Surely there was something between you two," Sarah noted causing (Y/n) to look to the side,

thinking about the time she had with Slappy. Slappy may have betrayed her trust by dancing Mary-Ellen with the same loving look he gave her, but.. he still means the world to her. "There was, I will admit, but I don't want to tell details," her voice was cold and Sarah backed off. "Alright, so how do we put this Slappy away?" Sam as something clicked in Sonny's head. "The book. You said the creatures and Slappy was by R.L Stine, right?" "Yes, I did." "When we unlocked that book that's when Slappy appeared," Sonny noted as Sam replied, "But Tommy took it from us." "Are you sure it was by R.L Stine? This book that housed this evil dummy?" Sarah asked as Sonny took the laptop and looked up R.L Stine before reading out, "From 1979 to 1985 legendary horror author R.L Stine lived in Wardenclyffe, New York. Stine started his writing career with a since-unpublished novel titled Haunted Halloween, a tale of a demonic dummy sets out to create his own family by--" "By bringing Halloween to life," (Y/n) finished reading.

"He's going to bring Halloween to life if we don't do something right now," Sarah spoke as Sonny looked and clicked a link before saying, "There's a number for Richard Shivers for the R.L Stine Appreciation Society." Sarah pulled out her phone and dialed in the number before saying, "Hi Mr. Shivers, this is Sarah Quinn from Wardenclyffe, New York. I desperly need to reach R.L Stine, this is going to sound crazy, but I think one of his stories came to life." With that said, she finished the message before putting away her phone and said, "Come on, let's go find Tommy and get that book." which caused the four of them to get a move on, until (Y/n) called out to the three running teens, "Hey! I can't get down!" Sonny ran back, grabbed (Y/n) and ran back over to the other two. Sarah, Sam, and Sonny ran down the street, looking to find Tommy and his friends. "Tommy and his goons should be toilet papering houses, we should be able to find them in time," Sam noted as they kept running.

Thankfully, they found Tommy. (Y/n) froze up, pretending to just be a doll as the two boys blabbered at the same time, out of breath before Tommy asked, "What book?" "The book you stole from us," Sonny noted as Tommy remembered and said, "Oh, right. I have it with me." "Really?" "No dumbass. Why would I be carrying a book with me on Halloween? Now go home with your babysitter-" Sarah cut him off by stepping up to his face and spoke, "Listen here, you cock sucking asshole, I am not their babysitter, I am Sonny's sister, and you better give us that book or I'll make your lame fucking excuse of a life a fucking living nightmare." "Okay!" He exclaimed, backing up before resuming, "You don't have to be so rude. It's at my house in my room." He went to his bike before smirking and finishing, "But you'll never find it because it's hidden. So good luck with that, losers."

A shrieking came from the distance causing everyone to look and see- "Three witches inbound!" (Y/n) called out as Tommy didn't know if he should be startled by (Y/n) talking or be scared for his life because there are witches! The three said witches came down, heads of green pumpkins, grabbed Tommy and his two friends before taking off with him with their bikes. "Well, that went down like a lead balloon," (Y/n) noted while Sonny, Sam, and Sarah started making a move on towards Tommy's house where he lives with his grandmother. Thankfully, they made it there in time. "You two head in and look for the book, (Y/n) and I will stay out here and keep watch," Sarah said as she took (Y/n) from Sonny and placed her down onto the ground while Sonny and Sam tried to find a way in before going to a window that was open.

"(Y/n)," the howling wind seemed to whispered which caused (Y/n) to shiver and hold herself. Meanwhile, Sonny and Sam were inside, Sam stopped and grabbed some gummy bears and ate them after turning off the bowl that has a hand which caused him to yelp in fear. Sonny went upstairs and into Tommy's room that was  neat surprisingly. Sonny opened drawers, checked under blankets before finally finding it that was waged between a wall and Tommy's lamp. Sonny started heading down with Sam waiting for him. "What were you doing?" "Watching Tommy's grandmother to make sure she doesn't wake up," Sam answered while (Y/n) felt a sudden change in the air. "Let me just get more gummy bears," Sam said as he went to get more and ended up getting grabbed by the same hand, but it was tighter making Sam whimper in fear.

Sam rose the bowl over his head and tried to shake the hand off, Sonny joined in and managed to pray the hand off and flung the bowl away. "Okay, that was creepy," Sam noted, holding his wrist while fear was written all over his face. "Dude," Sonny said as he looked at the floor. Sam followed his eyes and saw it. The gummy bears were alive and walking over to them. "Aw, they're adorable," Sam said as he went down onto the floor and looked at them. "Dude, don't get too close!" Sonny told him as Sam kept talking to them and said, "I'm sorry I ate so many of your family members." That set them off. They started jumping on Sam and he got up and tried to shake them off. Sonny also started to get attacked. Thankfully he managed to shake them off along with Sam, but they started to morph together causing the two to panic.

Sam got jumped and his head went into a gummy bear's mouth. He screamed and tried to get the bear off of his head while Sonny ran to find something to fight them off. He got grabbed by the pant leg which made him trip. He went behind a chair and his phone started ringing. He struggled to not drop his phone, but he managed to hold it and answered, "Hi mom!" Sonny said as his mother heard the wind out of his breath. She started asking questions while he watched his own friend get attacked. Back outside with Sarah and (Y/n), Sarah noticed that the skeleton bride and groom across the street were looking at them strangely.

"I don't like this," Sarah said as (Y/n) replied, "Nor do I. The boys should have been out by now." A crash came from inside causing the two to look before looking at each other and about to head in through the same window they came in, but (Y/n) looked behind Sarah and called out, "Behind you!" Sarah turned around and saw the skeleton groom about to hit her with a shovel. Sarah moved to the left out onto the yard as he was about to swing again, but Sarah caught the shovel and yanked it away from him before using it against him. (Y/n) was about to make a run toward the window, but she got grabbed by the skeleton bride. "No! Get your bony hands off of me!" (Y/n) demanded as a spark of green came from her and sent the skeleton stumbling backwards after dropping (Y/n) back onto the ground. "Thank goodness I'm not glass. Would have been unfortunate that I get broken today," (Y/n) thought to herself as she remembered what just happened.

"Wait, did I just defend myself?!" (Y/n) asked out loud as the skeleton bride got back up, looking more pissed now. "Shit. Tell the Mr I said, "Congrats on the marriage!" Bye!" (Y/n) started running for it towards the window while the skeleton bride was about to go after her, but Sarah hit her head off. When (Y/n) got to the window, she saw Sonny using the book on a huge fucking gummy bear. The huge gummy was turning into small ones and right into the book. "Holy shit," (Y/n) whispered as the gummy bears were gone. Sam saw one on the door and flicked it off and right into the book. "Never eating gummy bears again," Sam said as they opened the door and went outside. (Y/n) dropped down and ran towards the front where Sarah was still facing the skeletons. Sonny opened the book and sucked them both in before going to Sarah and saying, "Got the book." "Great, let's get Slappy," Sarah said as Sonny stopped her, "One problem. Mom thinks we're in danger, soo," Sonny said as Sarah sighed before saying,

"You called her?!" "She called me! I only answered the phone." Sam picked (Y/n) up and followed the two who were bickering on the way towards home. "You will become my bride," the wind whispered again causing (Y/n) to hold onto Sam, not wanting to hear this voice anymore.

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I finally updated. Are y'all happy? I sure am, but not fully. I'm sorry for not updating on time. Life is hell, my sister ran away from home to Georgia for a guy who lied to her about his life and with the coronavirus going around causing people to freak and places starting to run low on almost everything. Along with needing to move the apartment around and needing to finally get rid of things we don't need or want anymore. So, yeah. Life is hectic. I'm not going to say the exact day I'll post the next part, but do know that Slappy, our Slappy, is coming to town for the grand ending which shouldn't be too far. Thank you all for sticking around and reading. It means a lot to me.

And yes, "went down like a lead balloon" came from Good Omens. I said this some time ago on my updates story that I'll write Good Omens(not here really, just the lines we know. Good Omens stories are on my Ao3(InennaTheDUMMY, go check it out).) I couldn't help myself, and it did go down like a lead balloon even though they went up. XD

10/15/2019(I think that's right) - 3/13/2020