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As you head down a very familiar route that you frequent one night, you come across someone giving away free candy corn. Whether you love it or hate it, free is free and you decide to take it home, shoving it in your pocket to be forgotten. Eventually you head to bed, only to be woken up but a soft, high - pitched snarling sound near the foot of your bed. You sit up and find that the candy corn is splayed out across the floor, and among it, in the center of what seems to be a sacrificial circle… Is a knee high gremlin shaped like a candy corn. It sees you and bites you, before scampering away. Before you can catch it, it's disappeared. Sans the strange little bite on your leg, there's no evidence this was anything more than a dream, and by morning the marks are almost completely gone. The only lingering effect is an extreme need to consume sugar for the next twenty four hours.
For Etoile, the best part of the holidays always involved the free candy, and Halloween was possibly the ultimate of the… ultimate, the best of the best, when it came to the sweet treats. Of course, people didn’t just normally give out candy to cats, for obvious reasons, or reasons obvious to anyone not Etoile, anyway- supposedly, candy was bad for normal cats, according to something Alise read online once. Etoi, of course, was not a ‘normal cat’, though quite sadly, she wasn’t supposed to let people know that. There were lots of bad people out there, after all, who would love to get their hands on a magical talking cat.
(Though Etoile was confident that Alise would rescue her, should misfortune ever befall the tiny Mauvian. … That, or one of Alise’s senshi friends.)
Despite this, Etoile had picked up a few tricks from observing other cats, both talking and non-talking, and over the years, had found that there were people who wouldn’t think twice about spoiling the cute little kitty. Mostly, they were little kids, though sometimes they were around Alise’s age, but regardless, there was some good in this world, and there were some people who would give her those highly coveted sweets. Today, she found one such person, while taking a stroll along her usual stargazing path, someone handing out free candy corn. It had taken a bit of work at first, because getting her point across was hard when one wasn’t supposed to talk, but with enough meowing and pawing, Etoile had earned her prize soon enough. What fortune! If only everyone else could be this generous, the little cat thought to herself, as she headed back home, carrying a small bag of candy corn with her.
Although Etoile’s normal modus operandi was to consume the sugary delights immediately upon acquisition, she had decided to save it for later, after her nightly shows. Ultimately, it was forgotten all about, as the Mauvian ended up dozing off, falling asleep without eating the candy. Sometime in the middle of the night, however, a strange sound woke the cat up, and looked outside of the dollhouse to find that, on the floor, all the candy corn had been emptied out of the bag. That wasn’t all, though; there was a weird circle on the floor, too, like the kinds Etoile had seen in a book of Alise’s, and some kind of… creature? Gremlin? It was nearly as big as Etoile, in any case, and as Etoile quickly found out, had some sharp teeth, as before she could catch it, it bit her and ran off.
What a mean monster! Etoile was somewhat devastated, but refrained from waking Alise, and instead went back to bed. They could investigate after school tomorrow, together. Surely Alise could figure out where the gremlin went, and make it pay- Alise always knew what to do, after all. The next morning, Etoile noticed that the bite marks had just about already healed, as if the events of the previous night had never happened. Just as quickly as she had been ready to tell her bonded senshi all about her dilemma, it was all forgotten about just as fast, as Etoile had more important things to do.
Like eating more sweets. Lots more sweets.
