Weeping Willow Ch.1 Spirit of Halloween

I don't quite remember what happened to me... All I remember is running... running as fast as I could...

Then... I remember red flames engulfing my body... I was so scared... I was being burned alive I guess... and I couldn't move at the time...

But when I opened my eyes I was leaned against a burned wooden cross... and the moon was shining down on me as people walked away... I felt alive... but so hallow at the same time... because when I called out to the people and tried to touch them... they fazed through me... and they couldn't hear or see me...

My name? I guess its Willow, Weeping Willow, at least that's what the moon told me... the night I woke up...

I'm suppose to be the spirit of Halloween... No one believes in me though, no one knows I exist...

And all the other spirits avoid me... being alone hurts... I don't want to be alone any more...

A girl with long wazy raven black hair hopped from tree branch to tree branch through a forest with leafless trees and twisted branches, her skin was as white as snow, she had dark rings around her eyes, which made her look depressed, the part of her eyes that were suppose to be white were black, and her eyes where purple with red around the pupils.

She was dressed in a long sleeved black dress that was ripped at the bottom, and the sleeves had purple vertical stripes. On her legs she wore black and white stripes stalking with black dress up shoes tied with red ribbons. Her nails were long and claw-like and were painted black, She was a scary looking child of the age 16, but nonetheless a spirit.

She came to a halt when she reached a huge tree with hundreds of bats hanging from its branches fast asleep. "Time to wake up!" she said kicking the tree waking up the hundreds of bats from their year longs slumber.

"Halloween is in a matter of weeks, which means its time for the dark clouds and harsh winds... tell the spirits of fall its time to change the color of the leaves... and prepare every town for Halloween..." she said to her bats as the opened their purple and red eyes. They nodded and did as told, and as the flew off into the night, the girl leaned against the black tree and sighed.

She brought the autumn colors, and the spookiness of Halloween... Yet no one knew it was her doing, she traveled the world as other spirits did, to Japan for the bon festival, and to Mexico for the day of the dead. She worked every fall and every time there was a day humans dedicated to the dead, and every other time she'd goof off or just sleep in a bed of leaves.

Didn't matter how hard she worked, or how much she dreamed, it seemed no one would believe in her...

"Why so glum Willow?"

The dark voice sent a chill down the girl's spine, the pail spirit turned around to see who had spoken to her. "P-pitch..." she said to the dark figure. Pitch smiled at the mention of his name, "Good evening Weeping Willow" he said coming closer to the girl, "What is it that you want...? Come to try and fill Halloween with fear again...?" she said crossing her arms This had been the 6th time he had come to her forest, and it was getting annoying, she was desperate for a companion... but not that desperate... most of the time...

"Your so cold towards me..." he said sounding wounded by her harsh tone. "And why do you think that is...?" she responded facing away from the darker spirit. "Why do you treat me in such a way? When we're so much alike..." he grinned as he places a hand on either one of her shoulders. She didn't dare turn around, chance being she'd look him in the eye.

"We are not a like Pitch Black, I bring joy, while you bring fear..." she spat harshly try to hide her fear,"We shall never be alike, not now, not ever..." Pitch just smiled and gently tucked a lock of black hair behind the young spirits pail ear. "If you bring Joy... then why is it no one believes in you... as they do not me...?"

"I wouldn't know..." she hissed at him getting mad. "That is how we are alike though... we are both alone... no one believes in us... and no one sees us..." he said walking in front of her, but she looked away.

"All I want is a friend Willow, as you do... someone I can talk to, someone who will listen and understand the words I say..." he leaned down and gently cupped her face with both hands," Someone like you... my dear..."

"You have a slick tongue Pitch..." she said slapping away his hands, "But I will never buy into such rubbish... so I'll have to ask you to leave my forest..."

Pitch clinched his fists at his side, but chose to smile instead of threaten her,"As you wish, but I know you'll see the darkness sooner or later..." he said disappearing.

Else where...

Thanks to a certain winter spirit it was another snow day and yet another snowball fight had broken out. And of course it wasn't time for winter, but the people in the town where use to snow days when it was still warm out, thanks to one white haired teen. The kids kept throwing snow balls at the winter spirit as he dodged with ease and returned fire on them. "Jack Your Not Playing Fair!" Jamie laughed trying to hit him. "Hey, not my fault you can't fly!" he said flying above the kids and landing on the other side throwing more snow balls.

It had been a year since the guardians had defeated Pitch and everything had been pretty peaceful. Or at least Jack had thought that until he saw the northern lights flash through the sky, as they did a year ago. Jack frowned and gripped his staff, north was calling everyone to the North poll. "What's wrong Jack?" Jamie said noticing something was wrong.

"I... I gotta go..." he said to the kids, "Later..." he flew up and waved goodbye to the kids and they waved back. He flew high above the clouds and towards the North pole, he sighed to himself, but then something caught his as it flew by, Jack stopped for a moment and turned around, but by that time it was gone, he shrugged his shoulders assuming it was a bird and kept going.

How ever it wasn't a bird, but a black bat with purple eyes with red around the pupils, the bat turned around to look at Jack then kept flying in the opposite direction.

On the way to the North pole Jack saw tooth and flew up to her, "Hey Tooth, how've ya been?" he asked getting her attention, "Oh Hey Jack!" she said happily,"I've been fine, you?"

"I've been good, so what do you think North's calling us for?" he asked frowning, Tooth frowned as well, but smiled soon after,"I'm sure its nothing too serious" she reassured him.

They both landed at the workshop window and a yeti let them in,"Glad you could make it!" North said hugging Jack,"Long time no see Jack!"

"What's up north?" Jack chuckled. North set him down and smiled, "Been good!" he said slapping Jack on the back. "So what's this meetin about Mate?" Bunny said popping out of his rabbit hole. "I would not know, Manny's the one who called forth for it" he said as the moon light shined into the work shop. "Old friend, now that we are all here what is emergency?" North asked the man in the moon, in the moon light a shadow resembling pitch appeared.

"What!? I Thought We Stopped Pitch!" Jack shouted nervously and angerly. "What do you think he had planned now?" Tooth asked her friends scared. The shadow transformed into someone else, someone Jack didn't recognize. Sandy made a "!?" with his sand and looked to the others.

"Whats The Weepin Willow got to do with this!?" Bunny shouted, the others agreeing. Next to Willow's shadow Pitch's appeared, then it showed that Pitch had been visiting Willow for the past few days. Then the moon light disappeared leaving them all puzzled. "Why do you think Pitch would visit Weeping Willow for? "Tooth asked north.

"Halloween... the time of the year children are both happy and frightened at the same time..." North said coldly, 'Who's Weeping Willow?" Jack asked.

"Weepin Willow's the Spirit of Halloween, though, no one knows that..." Bunny said scratching his ear, "So no one believes in her, her and her bats bring Autumn and gives everyone the Halloween spirit" Tooth finished.

Sandy nodded and showed images of bats candy and jack-o-lanterns with his sand. "I use to love Halloween, but if Pitch keeps visiting her when its only a few weeks away..." Jack said thinking.

"He's trying to make himself stronger, children get scared more easily on Halloween, give him good chance to scare them completely" North said crossing his arms,"And if he gets Willow on his side, there's no telling how back this could get..."

"Then the answer is simple, we keep Willow on our side and we kick Pitch back to the shadows where he belongs!" Jack said happily. "It wont be that easy Frostbite... Willow isn't one to do ask told, nor does she trust any of the other spirits easily."

"Then I'll just convince her to stay on the path of good"

"Jack it wont be that easy, Willow's been alone so long I doubt convincing her is enough..." Tooth said worried. "I can do it, don't worry, we defeated Pitch once, we'll do it again, and I'll make sure Willow will be on our side"

"I hope your right Frostbite" Bunny sighed,"If not... we're gonna have a lot of nightmares to deal with..." nightmares to deal with..."