Holly placed the elaborately carved jack-o lantern on the porch. Halloween was in less than a week and she couldn't wait. She grabbed her wagon of pumpkins and continued on to the neighboring house. She made her way up to the front porch then placed one of her pumpkins there. This one had a wolf design on it. Halloween was Holly's favorite time of the year. Everyone dressed up as whatever they wanted to be most and ran around laughing and collecting candy. But that's not the only reason she enjoyed it so much.

As she walked down the driveway two kids ran up it. They ran right into her. Not into, through her. She put a hand on her chest where they had unknowingly run right through her. She looked back at them as they raced each other to the front door. One of them glanced down at the jack-o lantern that had mysteriously appeared there, but quickly dismissed it. Holly frowned as she entered back onto the sidewalk. The real reason she enjoyed Halloween so much was because that was the one day out of the year that people saw her. Even if it was just a hand full of children it was still enough to make her happy.

Holly wasn't just some normal ghost. She was the spirit of Halloween. It was her job to make it as brilliantly creepy, yet fun, for kids everywhere. She loved her job but it got awfully lonely. But there was nothing she could do about that. The Man in the Moon had chosen her, therefore she must do it.

She glanced up to the sky. It was only the afternoon but she was still able to spot the moon in the sky.

"Would it kill you to answer some of my questions?" She asked audibly. No answer, as usual. She sighed and continued on. She saw a boring old street lamp and snapped her fingers. Spider webs cocooned it making it blend in for the holiday.

350 years ago Holly woke up in a garden. All the plants that had inhabited the garden had since died due to the cold autumn air. She was dazed and confused. She couldn't quite remember anything. She had memories dangly just out of reach. That's when an abnormally bright moon light shone down on her. She was suddenly able to grasp on to one and only one memory. Her name was Holly.

The rest was left for her to figure out on her own. The Moon never spoke to her again. It was quite soon after she woke that she learned people could neither hear, see, or feel her. As the years passed she honed her powers. Over time she learned how to create things. Not just decorations, but creatures. Gargoyles and ghouls. She could craft them out of mud then make them solidify. Her creatures are what make it possible to make Halloween world-wide. And it was such a joy to her when she learned that on October 31st kids could see her. Or at least some. Those that believed in the spirit of Halloween.

She would occasionally run into other beings like her. But they didn't exactly take a liking to her. They thought it was cruel to scare children. Apparently they didn't realize that on Halloween, kids want to be scared. It's all in good fun. Those particular beings would be Santa, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy. She only saw them sometimes but there was always tension in their meetings. But why would they need to be friends with someone like Holly? They didn't have that persistent loneliness that she had. Kids actually saw them all the time because what kid doesn't believe in Santa.

Another one of those beings was the Sandman. She saw him every night, casting dreams upon all of the children. He was kind. He never spoke but he's nice. Nice, but always busy. The four of them make up what they call The Guardians. An elite group chosen by the Man in the Moon to protect the children of the world at any cost. It's been that way for who knows how long. Up until last March that is. They got a new recruit. Jack Frost. The Guardian of "fun" he called himself. Holly only met him once a long, long time ago. After that she steered clear of him. The reason why being that he had caused a massive blizzard on October 31st. And no one wants to go trick-or-treating in a blizzard. The one day that people could see her had been cancelled because of him. Now Jack makes sure not to come in until November, and as soon as Holly senses him she leaves.

Bunny also had a grudge against Jack for the same reason. But they were all friends now that Jack is one of them and helped stopped Pitch earlier in the year. As Pitch was plaguing the kids with horrible nightmares the Guardians stood against him. Holly debated whether or not to help, but decided they wouldn't appreciate it so she just watched from the side-lines. And as she suspected they handled the situation perfectly fine.

Holly finished placing the rest of her jack-o-lanterns. She would add spider webs here and there and place an obedient gargoyle on top of a roof. She was determined to make this a great Halloween.