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42 days till Halloween [video]

_{[The first thing Johto is treated to is a blurry 'gear-video shot of a book cover. Jack realizes this eventually and pulls it away so that it comes into focus. The cover is black with a single, bold word on it.]

[DIG]}

I bought a copy of this for a friend last year, but I don't think I told anyone else about it. I think this has to be the very best horror story I've come across since arriving in Johto. It's about a man who ventures into Diglett's Cave and becomes horribly lost...which is a feat since that cave is one of the less complicated ones that I've heard off.

_{[His face blanks momentarily as he remembers the horrors of Union cave...then his smile returns.]}

There's more to it than that, but I wouldn't want to give anything away! I know all of you have horror stories where you're from. Tell me about them!

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A horror story, eh? I might know one... except this really happened.

[He makes a brief pause, setting himself comfortably to tell the story and clears his throat before continuing:]

A long, long time ago, a pair of siblings, a boy and a girl, lived alone in a beautiful mansion. The girl got seriously ill and her brother took care of her as much as he could -- he tried so hard, he got sick himself and passed away. As if following him, the girl soon died, too, and the mansion was left untouched for years, thick forest growing around it.

Many, many years later, a strange rumor has been spread across the nearby city: it seemed that whoever went into that forest, vanished into thin air, causing the locals to start calling it the "Spirited Away Forest". That was when two siblings, a boy and a girl -- let's call them Leo and Luna to protect the innocent -- went to the forest to see with their own eyes if it's really haunted. But soon they got separated, and the girl found herself in front of a huge mansion. There, she met a boy around her age, who warned her about evil spirits lingering in the forest, and offered her to stay at his place and play with his sister. Luna agreed, eager to meet the other girl.

Meanwhile, Leo has already made his way to the mansion, looking for his missing sister. The boy left to confront him, but not before locking Ru-- Luna up in the room that used to belong to his sister, who turned out to have died long ago. The boys decided to have a duel, but as Leo soon found out, it wasn't a normal one -- with each Life Point he lost, he also lost his strength... a minute after minute, life was slowly escaping from him and soon, as his Life Points hit zero, he drew his last breath.

On that night, the mansion disappeared, never to be seen again. However, they say that on foggy evenings, the screams of people who had been spirited away can be heard, along with the voice of a young girl desperately calling her brother's name...

... And that's it.

[He drops the dramatic tone he's been upholding while telling the story in favor of casually taking a bite of the sandwich he's holding.]

_{[Jack listened to Crow's tale with a grin. He loved a good ghost story. However, when 'life points' and 'duel' came around, his expression wavered. He'd forgotten the complicated rules of the card game the man had explained to him.]}

What kind of duel was it? Swords or pistols?

[--Oh right. Not everyone identifies "duel" with cards like him... Crow gives Jack a small smile, although he may look a little disappointed.]

... Duel Monsters one. The game, remember?

Oh, right...the game.

_{[CROW THIS IS THE WORST STORY.]}

[um rude THAT IS THE BEST STORY kids back home would have nightmares after hearing this!]

... Oi, where's your enthusiasm?

_{[Jack's brows meet and for a moment he isn't sure what to say...then he rethinks the story a little.]}

Oh! Oh, were they playing for souls?

[MUCH BETTER.]

Yeah, they were.

[The smile that came back briefly to his face fades a little, though, because now that he mentions it... Yeah, they were. And if the story really did end the way he described it...

... Well, better not to think about it.]

Oh! Forgive me, I misunderstood! That is a great story.

[That comment alone is enough to make Crow brighten up again.]

Sure is, huh? 'S been all over the City a few months before I came here.

Ooh, so it's a fresh legend?

Sorta. The house itself must've been there for ages, but dunno if people had been spirited away earlier. Kids in the neighborhood were going crazy 'bout it. [He shrugs, smiling.] Y'know, like kids usually do.

_{[Jack grins and nods.]}

I think if it weren't for children, we'd have no legends at all.

Yeah. Nothing can really match their imagination!

[He would know. Coming up with stories that wouldn't disappoint them has always been quite a challenge!]

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