“What the hell did you become?!” Sweet looked at what was supposed to be Jasper in a costume. He was a teddy bear, but the strangest thing was that he wore a suit and had a glass bottle with the words ‘beer’ in his left hand. The teddy bear’s face looked depressing like a typical overworked adult. The voice was the same type of a desk-job employee that didn’t want to work.

“Nice to meet you! I am Jasper, a responsible adult. See I have a tie, a watch and a beer!” The teddy-bear transformed Jasper started to gulp his potion with haste, before it ended releasing a satisfied sound. “Puah! The taste of a perfectly fermented beer accompanied with the freedom of being outside working hours is the best!”

“Wait, you work?!” Nick asked Jasper with a flabbergasted expression.

“Obviously, what are you? An idiot? Don’t you see this incredible suit? Look, I have a firetruck driver’s license and a wallet. Inside of it I also have a credit card… Oh! I can even tell you the numbers of the cheapest Chinese restaurants in the neighborhood, teach you how instant ramen works and tastes… Eh! You guys don’t believe me?” The bear paused after seeing their doubtful expressions and started to search something inside its pockets. “Hmm… Wait a bit… Yeah! Found it!” It took out a paper list and showed it to Nick and Sweet. “See this? This is the proof that you are an adult, it’s called DEBTS!”

“I don’t know nick this sounds like fake, right?” Sweet stared at Jasper with annoyance and murmured towards Nick.

“Totally.” Nick affirmed to Sweet’s statement and returned to stare at Jasper. “If you are an adult, tell us… Why aren’t you working right now?”

“Well, I am working.” Jasper shrugged.

“Wait, didn’t you say you were in your free hours?” Nick asked.

“I also am free right now.” Jasper shrugged again.

“That sounds lame, you are like contradicting yourself, what are you really working at Jasper?” Sweet questioned the bear.

“Hmm, took you long to ask. Take this, it’s my presentation card.” Jasper smirked and gave them a colored card with his picture and name. He looked like a businessman attracting potential customers.

Nick took the card and read it aloud. “Jazzbear Mocha. Past-Diseases: Obesity and Alcoholism. Current Work: Unemployed Teddy Bear. Optional Work: Gives hugs and listens to any story (Secrets). Hairy and Brown, wears a blue/white elegant suit, a blue necktie, and has a depressive personality. Recipe: Antidepressant Drugs.

“Oh Damn, that’s my physician’s recipe summary!” Jasper took the cards back and started to hum a strange tune to look innocent.

“What sort of costume did you take Jasper?” Sweet stared wide-eyed towards the idiotic bear and omitted what just happened.

“Well I decided to go towards the adult section after finding out that there wasn’t a true firetruck in the kids costume zone. I can’t believe I couldn’t transform myself into a truck, there were only firefighters there and cardboard trucks. You know, I wanted to be a truck, literally. Still, I actually feel a lot better with this one, like I lost something important, but now I find myself knowing a lot of things I didn’t know. Like insurance and tax… Damn, those things are hell!” Jasper seemed to indulge in a monologue after blabbering incoherent stuff.

While they were discussing, the wolf and red riding hood approached while doing a strange dancing motion. “Hey Jasper! I heard you were working!” Cinna-buns asked Jasper.

“He is, he gives hugs to people or listens to their secrets.” Nick did a hug posture that looked as if someone was hugging him.

“Eh, Jasper you are giving hugs? Come here and give me one!” Cinna-Buns swirled after freeing herself from Wolfie. She came in front of Jasper and exclaimed with a smile.

“Okay.” Jasper mentioned indifferently.

“Shouldn’t you start? Isn’t that your job?” Cinna-Bun impatiently announced.

“Ten bucks.” Jasper moved his fingers and informed.

“Bucks?” Cinna-Buns stared thoughtfully. “That doesn’t sound sweet? Isn’t it just giving hugs?”

“Money!” Jasper became inpatient and raised his voice.

“Wait, you actually ask for something in return for a hug!” Nick looked at Jasper with what seemed a frown in his Spidey-mask.

“What? You expect me to work for free? Impossible!” The Suited-Bear made a tantrum and then added. “Forget it, none of you carry money and even if you did I wouldn’t work for you guys.”

“Eh, wait you are just evading work!” Nick shouted at Jasper with an angry voice.

“Ehm… I am not… You see this tag?” Jasper made everyone see a little tag in his costume that had the words ‘WARNING’ on it. “See? I am R-rated, which means you guys are not able to hug me.”

“Wait, what the hell is R-rated?” Nick exclaimed.

“I think it means restricted? Sweet murmured doubtfully.

“It actually is, which means without an adult present you can play with me. Also you are too old for my tastes.” Jasper mentioned proudly.

“Wait but aren’t you and adult?” Cinna-Buns asked jasper with a puncturing gaze.

“Crap…” Jasper muttered making a gloomy expression.

“Wait, there is also Wolfie, right?” As Nick stated he turned his head around and found the reason why the werewolf didn’t join the conversation earlier. “What in the… It’s marking its territory and drooling all over the place!”

The werewolf was acting like a stupid dog in the room after Cinna-Buns stopped dancing with it. The bunnies looked as the wolf urinated every chandelier in the room, rolled on the ground, wagged its tail, or even chased after it doing circles.

Unlawfully taken from Royal Road, this story should be reported if seen on Amazon.

“Cinna-Buns, what did you do to Wolfie?” Sweet gazed at Cinna-Buns with a serious tone and hoarse voice.

“Nothing much, he said he wanted to let out his instincts and this costume helps him feel alive.” The red-hooded Cinna-Buns expressed. She then removed her hood and clapped. For some reason this movement made the werewolf come back to its senses slowly.

“Howl! Ah, that feels nice. Thank you Cinna-Buns, I finally could left some stress away, it was relieving.” The werewolf stood up as if nothing had happened it while shouting. Afterwards it went towards the exit and added. “Okay bunny heroes, with you guys dressed we can enter the true Halloween town and have some fun!”

“Yay” Cinna-Buns hopped as her red hood and cape moved with her jumps.

“Hurray” Nick descended from the ceiling with a spider web thread.

“Can I like just stay here and watch some TV with some of those caramel popcorn?” Jasper made a lazy expression as if he didn’t care of his mission.

“Nooo!” Nick and Cinna-Buns stared at Jasper with angry eyes.

“I mean I can just follow you guys on facebook, like safety bear you know?” Jasper added but was ignored by the others.

“Wolfie we came here to find the ingredients, not to play in a costume party. We don’t know how much time we have.” Sweet mentioned with his mummy voice.

“I know, I know. Let me explain the current situation then.” Wolfie waved his hand in a nonchalant manner making Sweet calm down. He then explained the reason as to his previous comment. “It all occurred sometime ago, when a brown cloud appeared over the town. For some reason, hot rain started to fall all over us. We became strange following those events, but then the clouds disappeared and everyone became lazy about it. Some of us stopped asking for candies or scaring people. The owner of Halloween town also went missing at such time for an unknown reason. The owner is the only one that can administrate the current problems. At the same time, the owner is the only one that might have the items you need. The thing is, no one knows where to find the owner. Our candy reserves have been diminishing since we lost connection with the Piñata Desert representatives, it was all-”

“Wait who is this owner?” Nick interrupted Wolfie’s discourse.

“The owner is the owner, the most atrocious creature in all of Halloween town.” Wolfie seemed to remember something he was proud of as his eyes drifted towards the windows.

“Is it a male or a woman, like maybe a vampire or similar?” Jasper interjected and then added another question. “I mean if it’s a sexy lady that would be the best, I would like someone loving this hairy exterior…”

“The owner is a nightmare, it takes any type of form it wishes. That’s why we can’t find the owner at the moment…” Wolfie explained after a little remembrance, while the other bunnies never paid attention to Jasper.

“I see…” Sweet lifted his chin while murmuring.

“That’s why I proposed a plan to make the owner come out.” Wolfie shrugged afterwards.

“So what you want to do is something like grabbing the owner’s attention?” Cinna-Buns asked with a piercing stare. She seemed to like to grab attention.

“OMG! I knew the firetruck costume would be the best. Why isn’t there such thing in here?!” Jasper exclaimed but his voice was ‘invisible’ to the discussing crowd.

“Exactly” Wolfie affirmed towards the crowd.

“Then what is the plan?” Sweet questioned Wolfie with expectation.

“We do interesting things in Halloween town, the type of things the owner likes. For example, asking for candy, wearing costumes, scaring people, doing pranks, carving pumpkins…” Wolfie mimicked each action he described with his voice. He also added an energetic howl in between them.

“Wow that’s a lot of things to do…” Sweet stated with a furrowed brow.

“Are you sure the owner can feel us with that?” Nick asked with a doubtful stare.

“Guys I think I need to go to the bathroom to do an adult level ****” Jasper interrupted the conversation when he found no one paying attention to his bear monologue.

“Oh, it’s that way…” Wolfie pointed indifferently without even looking at Jasper.

“Thanks, I’ll be right back.” Jasper shrugged and walked away without even realizing he was given the cold shoulder.

“So where were we at? Oh yeah, the owner sees everything in Halloween Town, but it seems that the owner went to sleep and hasn’t awoken as of yet. We can try to find him or just make a full party to awaken it.” Wolfie seemed to distract himself a little while then informing the bunnies about the situation.

“Wait! Did I just hear you guys mention a PARTY?!” A loud shout came from a hurriedly opened door. A bear walked outside of the bathroom doors with toilet paper in hand and his pants on the floor. The suit looked unstylish now, and he had the worst appearance you can imagine.

“What the hell are you doing you perverted bear pull those pants up!” Sweet exclaimed while covering his eyes with his hands.

“Oh my weeb!” You just destroyed every nice impression I had of teddy bears! Where the hell is the blinding web in this suit! Doesn’t this thing have a memory eraser or polarized googles?!” Nick fell off the web with an ‘ouch, while falling he shouted with a disgusted voice.

“Wait guys! It’s not my fault! It’s not like I asked to have this!” Jasper signaled with both hands towards his lower abdomen. He made a sorry expression when it noticed his pants where on the floor.

“I actually think that thing looks cute!” Cinna-Buns giggled while finding the ‘thing’ interesting.

“No way!” Sweet and Nick refuted at the same time. Nick was the one whose situation looked worst as he was making puking sounds on the floor.

“See Cinna-chan approves!” Jasper lifted his pants proudly with a happy smirk.

“What’s the problem with the pink heart with angel wings and the ‘I love my teddy’ words?” Cinna-Buns questioned the scandalized reaction of Nick and Sweet.

“It’s too girly!” Both bunnies shouted in unison once again.

After they had an interesting event inside the costume house. The crowd of heroes and a werewolf went outside of it and started their entertaining plans.

“Wait a moment this isn’t what I had in mind! This is so infantile!” Jasper gave an adult tantrum towards the bunnies.

“Shut it you perverted bear!” Nick kicked the bear’s back making Jasper’s face to crush on the street.

(More, More, More!) Sounds came from inside Jasper’s belly as the bunnies and the werewolf looked at him with strange eyes.

“Should we kick him more then?” Sweet asked Nick.

“We should!” Nick started walking towards Jasper with an angry look.

Jasper tried to get up off the ground, but fear struck him making him crawl in desperation. Jasper stared towards Nick’s face, while inching backwards slowly as he tried to reason with the superhero.

“W-Wait!” Time out, it wasn’t me! I mean, it was my voice… But it’s a programmed sound for when people hug me!” Jasper shouted while making a defense pose.

(I watch Dora all mornings because she reads my mind!) Nick smacked the bear in the head as it let out another one of those weird phrases.

“Okay Nick you can stop it, we need to start doing the mission. So with what of those ideas should we start Wolfie?” Sweet asked the werewolf with a serious tone.

“Well we need to sing outside houses to get candy, we also need to do pranks to those that don’t look good, and throw toilet paper to those that don’t give us candies. Ah! For the last, we need to scare people.” Wolfie expressed with a meditative face.

With Wolfie expressing what they had to do, they appeared before the first house and started singing a very usual song of the festivities.

“Hey jasper why aren’t you singing!” Cinna-buns smacked Jasper on the back of his head, this time no sound came out.

“Hmph, it’s too childish for me to ask for candies.” Jasper grumped with antipathy.

The door of the house screeched as a skeleton man and a bony dog appeared. The man smiled with clattering teeth as he gave each of the bunnies some candies. It stared at Jasper without giving him any. Afterwards it decided to dismiss the group while closing the door slowly.

“Wait don’t you have a beer?” Jasper asked while the door closed in his face. “**** you **** bones, may you ***** in your void ****.” The shouts made every one of the group to stare at the idiotic bear in surprise. “What? The skeleton guy was rude first!” Jasper snorted afterwards.

They went to another house where they didn’t receive candies and Sweet and Nick showed how their costumes were special. They used their unique ‘abilities’ to cover the whole house in mummy paper and spider webs. Then Cinna-Buns ordered some of the town’s werewolves to add to the paper throwing party. The lazy bear behind them stared lazily, it tried to throw some once, but hurt its back and stopped trying.

'Will we really find the items with Jasper being like this?' Sweet couldn't help but think.