Here is a collaboration story between Redbat132 and myself. Enjoy and no flames.

It was a dark and stormy night. New York City was going through a thunderstorm with the rain pouring hard and the winds howling loud.

Lea Carolina Thompson was in her Pjs and laying on her bed reading a book she got from her hometown library called 'Tales To Haunt Your Nights'. She thought this was the perfect night to read it.

She wore a soft gray nightshirt dress with black bold words 'HOCKEY GAL' in the center and two matching colored hockey sticks crossing each other plus tiny puck images between the two words, blue-white snowflake printed cotton flannel pajama pants that have front pockets and an elastic waist with drawstring enclosure.

"Wow, Nightlight. This book is full of scary stories," Lea said to her wooden companion, whom was sitting next to her. "Good thing we've faced fear and danger before. Otherwise, this would keep me awake all night in terror."

But as Lea read, the more scared she was becoming. Sure, the ghosts in these stories weren't real, but in her head, she imagined what ghosts would look like if they actually were.

Were they white and see-through? Did they look like skeletons or have missing limbs? Can they really fly, walk through walls and turn invisible? And did they haunt people with wails and moans and eerie laughter?

Lea shuddered at the thought with Nightlight noticing. "On second thought, this is way more terrifying than Pitch Black and his Nightmare creatures."

Nightlight stood up with pride, telling her that Lea is brave and shouldn't let a silly ghost book scare her.

That made Lea smile and scooped Nightlight up for a gentle hug. "What would I do without a great friend like you? Thanks, buddy."

Suddenly, a tap came to Lea's window.

"YIPE!" Lea looked over her shoulder and saw that it was just a tree branch. Lea chuckled nervously as she put a book marker in between the pages before putting it on her nightstand to continue later. "Maybe I should call it a night." She turned off her lamp and cuddled up in her blankets.

"Goodnight, Nightlight," Lea said, already falling asleep.

Nightlight went close to Lea, this time. Figuring she might need some close company to stand guard, just in case.

Meanwhile, in her cozy home in another realm, Katherine was in her night robe sitting in her plush arm chair enjoying a cup of hot cocoa, deep in thought.

"Another day, another story saved. Might as well enjoy another good book to make my break worthwhile," Katherine talked to her goose friend Kailash.

The Himalayan Snow Goose honked in agreement, already sitting down to nap.

"Okay, Man in Moon. What's good tonight?" Katherine asked from above, seeing the clear full moon.

Normally, Kate lets the Ganderly choose something for her. But this time, she wanted the very first Guardian and her mentor to pick one.

The moonlight began forming a shadow, a shadow that became the silhouette of a figure Katherine recognized right away.

"Impossible...It couldn't be..." Katherine muttered.

Kailash honked in surprise.

Showing before Katherine was a strange shadow figure of a man with slightly spiky hair, a goatee, a long jacket, and scarf.

The Guardian of Imagination felt her mind flashing different memories that nearly made her cry. All she could do was cover her mouth in utter shock.

"Man in Moon, with all due respect...he is only in the series I cannot access to. You know that I can't unlock anything from the Forbidden Section unless it was absolutely necessary," she reasoned.

But to her amazement, the silhouette changed into an arrow. An arrow that pointed directly to the Forbidden Section.

"What?!" Katherine hissed. Was this happening for...a reason?!

Normally, the Guardian of Imagination would protest about this. But she knew that the Guardian of Wishes wouldn't request Katherine to check on a book from the Forbidden Section unless there was a very good explanation.

And deep down, she did want to read about this particular character again.

"...Okay, MiM. I'll do it," Katherine got up and followed the arrow. "Only because you requested this."

Kate proceeded until she reached the deepest, darkest bookcase in the Ganderly. It was an entire wall filled with old, aged books. The only light provided was a dimly lit lightbulb dangling above Katherine's head. The auburn girl was having a hard time believing what she was about to read, after so long.

She reached out and took the first book that caught her eye. The one she wanted to read ever since the Man in the Moon hinted her: 'The Tale of Ghost Writer'. Its cover was blood red. And the text appeared to be spelled in drippy black letters,

Magically, after grabbing the book, Kate heard the book's lock click. As if it didn't need a key to unlock. She knew that this was the Man in the Moon's doing. He let the Guardian of Imagination have access to this book, but only for one night.

With a nervous hand, Katherine opened the book to chapter 1.

"Here it goes..." Katherine took a deep breath and slowly let it out before reading it while returning to her plush arm chair. "'Once upon a time, in a world where the departed goes and haunts the human world, there lived a talented writer who spent his time writing stories and poems at his mansion-like library. He had black shaggy-like hair, green eyes underneath his purple glasses, a sharp nose, pointy ears, razor sharp white teeth, a black goatee, and pale gray skin. His clothes were a long gray shirt, a long amethyst trench coat, a dark gray scarf, dark gray pants, and black pointy shoes. His name...is Ghost Writer,'"

As Katherine read, she felt the air around her turn cold.

"Strange. It wasn't cold a minute ago," Katherine said out loud, pausing from her storytelling. She was getting a weird vibe that she wasn't alone. "Could it be...?"

"Wooooooo!" A ghostly voice moaned in Katherine's ear.

"A GHOST!" Katherine jumped to the side, falling to the floor. "I knew reading from the Forbidden Section was a bad idea!"

Kate grabbed her dagger and looked around for the intruder as she got back up. "Who sent you?! Vlad Plasmius? Nocturn? Walker? Answer me!"

"Whoa! Whoa! Chill out, will ya?" A cloaked figure floated down from the ceiling. The hood was removed, revealing Jack Frost underneath.

"Jackson Overland Frost!? What in the name of all things Winter are you doing here?!" Katherine demanded, clearly not amused while putting her dagger away back inside her robe. "Don't you know better than to scare a trained Guardian like that?!"

"Sorry! Sorry!" Jack landed his feet on the floor. "I was just in the neighborhood and I thought I'd drop by." He picked up the book Katherine was reading off the floor she dropped when being spooked. "So, what's with this book, anyway?"

"It's from a series I use to write about. Another dimensional world where ghosts exists and sometimes cause trouble," Katherine explained. "Man in Moon requested this of me to read about the Ghost Writer tonight. Which I find odd because he can only be found in the Forbidden Section. Where all the books that are not yet to be revealed, finished, nor told. They will only be accessed when the time is right."

"That's weird." said Jack. "What do you think Manny is up to?"

"I honestly don't know. And, strange as it may seem, I actually do miss reading about this character," Katherine sheepishly admitted, looking down at the book. "Along with the rest of this series. Although a spooky ghost and became one because of work related stress, Stephen really isn't that bad,"

That made Jack raise an eyebrow. "Who?"

Katherine immediately covered her mouth on that when realizing what she just finished saying. "Uh, no one, Jack. It's nothing," she calmly answered, taking back the book from Jack's grasp. "I think I had enough excitement for tonight. Best to put it back where it belongs and have it locked up with the others."

Jack shrugged. "Alright, maybe I can use my ghost scare on Bunny. That'll give him a jolt."

Katherine sighed in relief, as Jack left. She looked at the book, unsure if she should keep reading or not.

"...I'm sorry, MiM. Those days with Stephen and the other ghosts are way behind me. I can't read back the reminder of abandoning such good friends. I just can't,"

Kate walked back to the Forbidden Section and returned the book back on the shelf. She decided to head back to her private quarters in sadness, already imagining MiM shaking his head down on her in disappointment.

Little did she knew, that this was only the start of a new ghost story. Especially when the book Kate put back began to glow an anonymous shade green aura...

Back at Lea's house, the storm had passed. Lea and Nightlight were fast asleep, the last thing on their minds were ghosts…Well, technically, Nightlight can't sleep. But he was still staying on guard in protecting Lea. The wooden toy was happy to see that his best friend wasn't having any bad dreams after reading those spooky stories.

However, something was occurring. And it wasn't a bad dream. A cloud of green smoke swirled above Lea.

Nightlight, who could see that mysterious cloud, quickly stood up and took out his staff. Whatever it was, he is not going to let it hurt Lea.

Two huge arms wearing flaming gray gauntlets appeared out of the green mist and grabbed Lea, pulling her inside.

If he had a voice, Nightlight would be screaming in shock! Instead, he quickly grabbed on to Lea's pajama pants and joined her in going through that strange doorway by who knows what's on the other side.

Whatever danger Lea and Nightlight were heading now, it could not be good.