{Who’s the lass who lives next door in the haunted house? No it’s not Ashley, she lives in the haunted mansion. No it’s not King Boo... when did King Boo get the sex change? Do ghosts even care for genders? Do things not alive need to be gendered? Who the peck is responsible!... Yes, it’s Spooky!... This post is a part of @tygertyger’s Electric Dreams contest, 16th edition... Today’s music-aide: "Hallowed Ground" (Project Borealis OST).}

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- A spooky World -

"Fellow ghosts and demons, our time has come where we will no longer be called cute. We will no longer be laughed at, no longer ignored nor will they think us not scary. The time for reconciliation is over, now is the time to rise up and burn the World!"

A hurl of screams bounce around in the arena, the metal vibrating as it struggles to hold the stadium together, the tvs violently shaking along as the metal and cheers rocks them back and forth and yet a lil’ cootie-patootie ghost still floats as her lips crack wider on her pale face. Her lil’ fingers pulling a beret from her dress pockets to which her hands guide that to the top of her head, flicking it to give it an extra slouch. Her dots for eyes continues to relay the ecstasy of the scene still clambering on the metal and tvs, so her hands digs deeper into her pockets and out sings a knife.

"You have everything to gain and nothing to lose but your anonymity. Monsters of the World, scare on!"

The doors screamed their opening, the dæmons of all kinds competed to be noisier than the doors with their exits and a big grin still flashed on Spooky’s face. Floating up, her hands felt her knife slipping her grip.

"Mom!"

"Now, now, sweety. You’ll be with everyone, just got to sharpen this ol’ rusty. Gotta say, real proud of you - go terrorize those humans!"

"Thanks Mom!"

As an ethereal pink glaze covers Spooky’s cheeks, her Mom’s hands grasped Spooky’s head and her lips landed a kiss on Spooky’s forehead. To which her true motherliness came as her arms picked Spooky up and chucked her high into the air, only the noises of a giggling child pervaded that air.

"Now, with all these humans below me, who should be first? Hmm~ Oh! Hi there Carrion."

"What a lovely night ‘tis to purge people, Spooky. I shall be in the wayside watching, spooking was never my cup of tea anyways."

"Aw, but there has to be one soul you like to scare before you harvest them for the growing chain of mass!~"

"Rather specific for a chil- I didn’t mean it like that, Spooky! Please nae look at me like that. Fine, I shall help but only when necessary. Deal?"

"Deal... how in the heck are you still floating?"

"Ate a flying pig, so now I can float slowly to the ground at my own whims!"

"Wait, Carrion, did you ate my experi-"

"Oh look, tasty flesh below. Time to eat these humans named “pigs” - see you soon!"

"-ment... I will have to check later... compliments that rotting chain of flesh."

Her body ghosting along with the flow of wind, her arms swam with the current and her eyes saw her dæmon army ready to spook. Her eyes now catching a glimpse of her old streets made her lips arched down and her arms tried grasping her legs to only swat empty air. Her eyes scanning again, she saw her first, and last, spooked victim as a human, but her heart wondered if she could pull it off again.

Floating right behind, her arms outstretched but her knife ever-ready, her face readied to signal the war with her first victim and oh was her mind flaring up in reliving the ecstasy. Her non-knife arm spider-crawls up her victim’s neck, a breath comes racing out and latches on to the victim’s skin and her voice-box readied her classic line.

"Boo!~"

"He-huh?... oh why he- h-how yah’d survive? I thought I... no, why am I remember this episode again? I’m sorry! Where are my pills?"

"But I’m right here, spooky here. Wait, what a- that capsule looks so foreign..."

"Ah, much better! Feel young again... Sorry, who are you, cute floating lassy?"

"Forget about it..."

As her spirit floated up, her eyes saw the general cute-confusion her army was experiencing. All were experiencing some form of being laughed at, others hugged fervently, others being smooched on and others petted on. They didn’t know what to make of it, to attack or standby or retreat. Her ears hearing a floating sac of flesh above her, she pierced the Carrion and collapsed on top.

"I feel so pecking light, what in the peck."

"That’s just me, Carrion."

"No, I knew you pierced me, and sorta gutted me. But all these humans, my ethereal friend... are so... out there. I feel more hungry but I now know better than that - don’t want my body collapse to a fake sense of hunger."

"Hmph."

"I also noticed the humans are acting funny, especially around the classics! Dunno when that drug came out though... but's it making me so blerrie lost in my head. Are you crying, Spooky?"

"N-no!"

"Shhhh... It's okay, Spooky. Just gonna snatch something... Got it. So what in the hell is all this gibberish on this capsule container?"

"H-here, gimme-"

"Sh-"

"Carrion, gimme."

"Sorry, I am high after all... What's it sayin'?"

"Something about tapping into the youthfulness of life itself, but there's obviously a side effect it mentions not."

"I think it's very clear that the side-effect is very much intended, and that I finally can catch my mind finally."

"When did people start taking this, Carrion?..."

"Spooky?"

"Sorry, didn't mean to actually collapse there. But anyways it says it was manufactured in this town; wanna venture and see this factory?"

"I think it has been staring at us the entire time, not lying."

"Well, I guess it makes sense why a giant smokestack is there. Can you wait a bit, wanna rally the loyal followers... ATTENTION, DIVERT YOUR ATTENTION TO THE FACTORY! IT'S THOSE SMOKESTACKS OVER THERE, THEY'RE THE REASON WE CANNOT WIN THIS WAR!... Alright, I'm ready Carrion."

"I feel a lot better now as well, anyways: LEROY JENKINS!"

Free-floating in the air, she noticed the flailing and loose parts of the Carrion wriggling off; her hands soon playing doctor to keep the bundle of flesh together and having her spirit stretched. However, her eyes seeing a wall, she floated upwards as the Carrion became a bloodied pancake that writhed around intelligently. Getting up to the guard's post, her eyes spotted two employees fixed on a TV; her ears blocked out the TV noise and honed in for any other guards. But her hands were already using the knife and oh sang the shattered glass. The guards cocked their head, their legs quickly approaching but their arms only sweeping away the broken pieces.

"Wait sis. Think about it. If you can fit that into your mouth, you are a miracle worker."

"Lemme take the pill before I consider that, sista'."

"Hee hee hee, I think the bubblies done that enough for us but okay. Why does it feel so cold on my-"

"Boo!"

"GAH! INTRUDER!"

"Gotcha, these two are mines to- Hey, yah finally did it?~"

"Yeah, I guess I did~"

"Mhmm, they tasted great. Anyways, let's see what information they had... Okay the main distribution is in the right-wing, but the electricity is actually in this wing. I shall teach them a lesson in proper engineering, you take it up high. I have no clue what the rest are even doing right now... I see some attacking on every side of the factory, so revel in this hour of confusion!"

Floating up, her eyes hone in on the office above, but not before getting distracted by a slew of flying piglets gracing the air. Her hands scratching her hair, she pressed on but with her mind now wondering if the Carrion consumed one of those piglets. Yet before her mind could realize, she already reached the top and over shot it. Gracefully landing down, all about her ears picked up of the chaos down below; the humming of electricity coming to a halt, the smoky stacks spitting no more smoke, cries loud and pitched enough to scrape the air as it escaped their source and the lights flickering about.

Her eyes then saw the perfect item for the perfect scare, and her hopes perking up high with her ears relaying of a slimy, chunky mass of flesh coming to her vicinity. Her eyes confirming her ears sensation and her lips grew wide as her Carrion doubled in rot, mass and size. Her hands gesturing towards herself, her smile only increased upwards and the Carrion's mass wasted no time to live up to being loyal to her. The rooftop irked in pain, shocking both figures; then a grumble and shouting danced below them, her fingers pressed on her lips as her mouth let out a shh noise. Closing the distance by floating, her voice-box relayed to the Carrion:

"Okay, this is going to be a big scare. The pecker downstairs won't see it coming. So I need yer fleshy tendrils to grip the nail there, when I float down I want you to yank it off and when you hear more grumbles I want you to ram it into the office just down below. Got it?"

"Think so, but anything for Commander Spooky!"

That ethereal pink glaze returning back to her cheeks, her eyes closed softly as she descended downwards and ended up in a closet. Her ears heard the nail being winched off, but what grew louder was the figure standing outside of the closet. Rambling on about a weird force mucking about, the people experiencing true happiness which is making them quit their pills, to then only experience the horror which made them go on the pills and yet now refusing to restart their ingestion. Her ears growing tired of talks about Capital and securing a cornered market, her fingers snapped and the lights exploded. Her hands creaked the closet doors open, but she floated away and appeared on the other side. Her lips cracked that youthful smile that she had before becoming what she is today, for her eyes reveled with the figure facing away from her as the biz person started rummaging through the closet. Playing the same tricks, her hands acting like spiders and cold breath to a neck; now her voice-box was sure to say her classic line with enthusiasm as her knife hand reached for the ceiling!

"Boo!~"

And the figure exploded to a new form, her eyes seeing it as angelic but so deformed and grey-skinned. It crawled on its back inching towards the glass, for which her eyes long saw the nail coming but it still wrecked the place when it landed. The Carrion sliming in, the thing irked its last breath but the Carrion put multiple tendrils on its head and yanked it off clean. Proceeding to ram it all about, yet to Spooky's eyes reveled the sight as her body fluttered and danced in the blood rain. The Carrion chucking the head to the ground, Spooky ceased her dance and twirled around with a childish face with closed eyes to Carrion.

"Ah, the inquisitive look that I know too much of already. That thing was, supposedly to my friends' name-calling, a New Angel - those sick pecknecks. Indeed, I find it funny that I hadn't found this peck and hadn't hunt them down earlier. Guess not all of them are totally coordinated with how they like to screw over this Earth..."

"Oh? Whatcha mean, Carrion? They seem like a threat to our efforts regardless."

"Yer changing the War-"

"More than that Carrion, I finally understand why we've been ridiculed to cuteness. Whatever that biz talk was going on about, it clearly is gonna deject us from our one profession. Indeed, we need to focus our campaign against these... whatever they were, New Angels or something like that... We need to stop them before they control the way we've used to do our only means of having fun nowadays!"

"So.. we're going to be cute but scare the New Angels to death? If so, then I already got a story of how I met them and the rest of these pecknecks and where they are."

"Outstanding work, Carrion! My campaign of World Spookiness was foolish now that we know why we are called cute or adorable. Time for a real mission: to revolt against this drugged World, punish those that let this be and make the conditions that we don't ever have to experience this humiliation ever again!"

"Already relayed it to the others through radio, you sure you wanna fight?"

"If it means I get to spook something like I did here, then it's well worth it!"

"You definitely have a bright future here, Spooky."

Climbing unto the Carrion, Spooky's hands raised her knife and they flew into the sky again. Both seeing the flying piglets and hearing them oinking loudly, her head turned down and her lips turned stern. The Carrion's skin sensing a sudden tension had made the Carrion choke out a response, yelping as her hands squeezed tighter on the flesh.

"Okay, I'm sorry! I ate your experiment!- OW!- OKAY I MADE IT APART OF ME BY SYMBIOSIS! I'LL DETACH YOUR EXPERIMENT WHEN WE GET DONE WITH THIS CRUSADE!"

The burning sensation coming to an abrupt end, a blerrie smile formed on her lips as her body slouched down and her eyes enjoyed the starry sky above. An ethereal pink glaze formed on her cheeks again as she nestled on the Carrion, the Carrion releasing a sigh as she spared another day to continue the functions without trouble. Down below, a rave of dæmons carried by flying or floating dæmons followed hers and the Carrion's lead. Wherever these two went, the frightfest wasn't far behind; now they have something to chase and achieve, even if reeks of an unholy scent.

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Two things: I just rediscovered Spooky and her haunted house of jump scares and I wanna write more of her (but I promised myself to write others because they have their dignity long been over-delayed).

So what's the main cooking point here, Chef @theironfelix? Nothing other than SBD is back in circulation! I repeat: SBD is back in town baby! Yeah, Steemit really needs to tell people when they're rolling out SBD and when they want to issue STEEM. Like no kids on this one, is the Steemit economy rising now or gonna take a deeper fall? If the latter, well the STEEM has been long inflated (in Bourgeois terms) and well guess we shall see an inflation of SBDs now. Curious how there was some SBD issuing out for a good time now, but now they come in full force to replace STEEM entirely. But that's it from Chef @theironfelix...

Hey did you hear about the @bananafish's latest project? No! Well lemme tell yah! It's called "QITR" or "Quest in the Realms." Yah should go and check it out, it's like CYOA (CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE) but better and with a prize! PRIZE! Yeah, we need to live so we're giving a prize out of I think 30+ STEEM now with SBI shares thrown into that lot... So, go check it or I shall get Spooky here to [expunged from record].

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