"This earth feels so good...lets rest here for a night..." Jackie O’ lantern said to her husband.
Jack nodded, having transverse nearly all of Toon World’s Halloween Town in the parade, past the towers of mad scientists, haunted mansions, cursed carnivals, forests full of trees that sneered back at anyone who trespassed in their domain, and many other places that embodied the archetypes of western ghost stories both modern and classic. Heck, there was even the pop culture aircraft base with the flying saucer over it. And because this was the part of the Toon World relatively near the entrance back to the human world, the part related to human innocence, they have brought on giggles as observers watched them scared other people silly. Jack and Jackie had been assimilated into this world now, becoming a part of the human desire to tame the darkness, becoming sentient living ideas like all creatures in toon world.
They were not tired, not the least, the haunted cartoon pumpkins didn’t feel exhaustion, or fatigue unless it was part of a fright gag. But the walking Halloween lanterns saw that the moon was slowly beginning to sit, and the sun would soon be arriving to take it’s place.
Jack and Jackie stood side by side each other, and pulled their vines inwards and lowered themselves, easily the biggest pumpkins in the field. Their glowing carved faces cackled one last time as the sun began to rise, and their closed themselves, looking to be nothing more than giant pumpkins in the paint world.
The sun’s wrath felt good, but it simply was not the same as moonlight, and the two pumpkins slept through the day, dreaming dreams of a more subdued world more restricted by rules with more faded colors but greater details. They were certain they had had this dream many times before.
But the day pasted, as all days do, in particular in toon world’s Halloween Town, and the sun began to set, and the moon in turn began to rise.
The moment the moonlight hit the two giant pumpkins in the center of the field, a glowing Jack O’ Lantern burst into being on both of them, a wicked grin on their faces as the candles within glowed brightly, spread their own orange light over the other pumpkins in the field. The two carved rose up from the ground on their vines, which they released from the ground with laughable ease. They mouths jagged, and their eyes slanted triangles. They looked at each other, and cackled.
Weather a year had pasted in the real world, or weather there was a celebration of taming one’s fears happening somewhere in the cosmos at any given time, it didn’t really matter to Halloween Town, it was, what it was.
One of the pumpkins moved foreword, but the second one grabbed its vine that mimic an arm and stopped its motion. It looked at its partner and the second pumpkin tilted its gourd towards the smaller pumpkins around them. The first pumpkin nodded and cackled which was joined quickly by the second, they laugher echoing through out the field.
The pumpkins pranced about the field, touching their various vines to the mundane pumpkins, which instantly grew to their size at their touch. It was like watching a field of balloons in growth. Finally, all the other pumpkins were their size, and the two moving pumpkins leapt on top of the fence facing the rest of the pumpkins.
The first pumpkin raised its ‘arm’ vines, and as one, the other pumpkins began to rise, and like opening eyes and mouths on a human face but with no showing of them being there before hand, they all opened carved faces with candles within. Smiling facing, scowling facing, laughing faces, snarling facing, sick faces, mean faces, happy faces, all looking up at the two lead pumpkins.
Without a word, the first pumpkin leapt down, followed very by the second who lovingly rubbed against its side. Without question the formally normal sized mundane pumpkins followed, forming a half-hazard line behind the two lead pumpkins. They wouldn’t need to be part of the parade tonight, they would be their own parade!